Chapter 50: Zhelan
In the tower of Hadabmen, in front of the "prophet's window" where the caliph had been seen by his subjects, amid the screams of the servants and the distorted movement of his military boots, Evdler fell to the wall by the stairway with a pale face and a chest full of blood, and several Armenian guards surrounded him with cold and ruthless faces, one of whom was carrying a saber with the blood of the Grand Vizier. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Before the incident, Ashot and the other officers of the palace guard of various tribes had completed the tandem, and he deceived everyone, "Evdler has a hundred warships and tens of thousands of soldiers in the port of Ashkelon, and this time he has come to meet the caliph in an attempt to lure his cronies into the palace to lead his army into the palace to replace you. ”
As a result, many of the caliphate's sword-bearers or captains of the guard—mostly aliens or pagans from Ethiopia, Sudan, the Maghreb, or Syria—were particularly fond of bringing in outsiders to serve and serve as officials in order to subdue the majority of Egypt's Sunni orthodox (Shiites), who were particularly fond of bringing in outsiders to serve and serve as officials—they soon joined forces with Asaut in a plan to assassinate the Grand Vizier.
"Teacher, teacher!" Caliph Musta Ali, who was at the scene, jumped off his shoulders and ran down the upper steps, crying out.
Unexpectedly, really unexpectedly, he and the vizier had gathered with many imams and subjects in the Great Mosque of Ezhar, because the ruler of Fatima was a Shiite believer, so the Great Mosque used to preach Shia doctrine first, and then preach Sunni: the caliph who finished the ceremony first came here in advance, and the Sunni Evdler was one step later and was suddenly assassinated at the entrance under the gatetower.
Who wants to be separated by only half an hour......
In front of the wall, the Grand Vizier, sitting cross-legged, gasped, shook his beard and tried his best to hold the caliph to his chest like his own child, and whispered to him, "Leave me alone, leave me alone...... Don't look back, wipe away your tears, go up to the window, and face all your subjects as if nothing happened, and they won't dare to kill you in public...... Live, you have to live without me! ”
The Caliph raised his blue eyes, but still wept and did not want to leave, although he was twenty-three years old, in the lonely palace, in the face of the palace maids, eunuchs and forbidden soldiers, he did not know how to trust others except teachers.
"Please go to the windowsill, the vizier has received the punishment he deserves." Many Armenian and Turkic soldiers in armor stood in a queue, bowing their heads and carrying the sound of the swaying of armor, and pleaded to the caliph.
"You sinners, butchers!" Eventually, Mustahali turned back and cried out, "I curse you all to go to Hellfire, and you will bring this capital and this country to a state from which it will never be recovered." ”
"The national thief is Everdler." All the forbidden soldiers shouted in unison.
"Yes, I am a thief, but ......," Everdler cried, his hand still pushing the caliph to the ledge.
But the caliph screamed, drew his diamond-encrusted sword, and slashed at the murderous forbidden soldiers, the blade snapped, and he gasped and swung his fist at it. Until the air suddenly fell silent, a sword pierced deep into the caliph's abdomen, his beautiful blue eyes were wide open, his eyelashes trembled, and the blood gushed from the corners of his mouth, and he trembled as he looked at the soldier in front of him with a little trepidation......
"Egypt, Cairo is finished, the foundation laying crow flies away before my eyes!" Everdeller slammed the back of his head against the wall in pain.
About an hour later, the caliph's five-year-old brother, dressed in an emerald green silk robe and a wrap around his head, twitched his back in fright—in the bloody slaughter he had just had, he had been stuffed into the empty stove of the bathroom by the eunuchs, and then he had been found and pulled out by a group of forbidden soldiers, and was proclaimed a new honorific name, "the Longevity," and pulled to the window of the Hadab Gate Tower, facing the thousands of believers below.
At the entrance to the gatehouse, the "long-lived man" saw the bloody corpses of his mentor Vizier and his brother lying there.
Thinking back to that scene, the five-year-old long-lived caliph was so frightened that he wanted to cry.
But his shoulder was soon pressed by a large hand, the hand of Aschott, whose face was expressionless under the iron helmet.
The news was later released in the Raven Palace, "Originally, the Caliph was violently killed, and the Grand Vizier attempted to usurp the throne, and was killed by the loyal Praetorian Guards. ”
Ashot then sent a detachment of Berber cavalry to Alexandria to trap the fleet commander Al. Rumi, Rumi had a premonition that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered the fleet to pull anchor and flee towards the port of Ashkelon.
Soon after, the whole of Egypt was plunged into a great fight, and the legions at the port of Ashkelon were torn apart: some of the ships and soldiers were led by Ar. Rumi and the sons of Everdler led them into exile to the kingdom of Jerusalem; Others simply escaped into the desert of Arabya and became horse bandits, while others accepted the call of the new regime and continued to be stationed in Ashkelon to protect the eastern gate of the country, but their strength had been greatly lost.
In the royal palace of Jerusalem, the high-spirited King Baldwin cordially received the old army of Evdler who had come to surrender, and immediately launched a denunciation to the Cairo side, saying that the palace forbidden army killed the caliph and the Grand Vizier for no reason, and was about to face my righteous punishment.
So Baldwin continued to besiege the city of Acre with the help of the Rewax Duck and Pisa fleets, and on the other hand, he asked the whole country, including Adana, to actively prepare for the future conquest of Egypt.
The whole Levant region resumed fighting, but the Seljuk states stayed out of the situation, mainly the Gawain side attacked Tripoli, and the Baldwin side attacked Acre, which was basically a contest with Fatima, while Bohemond surrounded the city of Antioch, which was a Norman internal strife.
However, in the court of Tarsus, Gawain and his wife and children rarely enjoyed a period of peace and no conquest.
In the early autumn garden, the air was humid, and rows of neat branches and leaves hung on the flower wall, Gawain stood under the shadow of the trees, and the sleeping officer and the bartender were accompanying him, and he smiled and encouraged Caleadios and Hristopher, "Seize the opportunity and get it!" ”
The two children, dressed in close-fitting hunting clothes, stood ten feet away from Gawain, lying behind a large rock in the woods, and Hristopher seemed to be a little frightened, and looked back at his father from time to time, as if he could draw strength.
There was a cry of deer, and there was a sound on the other side of the stone: it was a "Zheran" buck bought from India, and this deer had a black back, so it was also called "black deer" in India, but the belly was pure white, and the branches on the antlers were more and larger than the rest of the species, which was very eye-catching.
Now the Jeran had a rope wrapped around his feet, and at the end of the rope was hung an iron ingot, which made it unable to move freely, and it was so anxious that it let out a cry.