After thinking about it, the emperor did not come to any worthy conclusions, so he could only go out of the imperial camp in a depressed manner, looking at the beautiful and precipitous plateau mountains, and then at the rebel camps on the opposite side, each side had its own route for supplies—the emperor took the Roma plateau, and Gawain took South Cappadocia. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

A heartfelt remorse welled up in the emperor's heart, and he wished he could return to the past, when Gawain's soldiers and horses were far from so many, and they were not so powerful, but there was only a red-handed team, and at that time, how could he believe the other party's rhetoric in Mirio Sephaloon? Instead of directly destroying and killing the other party.

Now Alexios' heart is dead, Anna can never come back, she has become a barbarian woman, accustomed to a filthy and barbaric life, and is pregnant with the offspring of a barbarian.

"I don't like that child......" The emperor was very sad, facing the wind howling on the plateau, "No, my heart is not dead, but calm......"

However, in the next ten days, the situation in the entire area from Milio Sepharon to Konya once again entered a static stalemate, and the emperor's army neither continued to storm the Seleucian Guardian army, nor accepted Gawain's peace talks, at least the emperor did not express his position directly.

The whole plateau bloomed again, foggy again, and cold rain again.

"Anna, are you okay? Leave the affairs of the front line to me, you don't have to work too hard in Seleucia, and I will send the same letter to Inglana, I hope you will not be surprised, and sometimes you should be as optimistic and confused as she is. Say hello to the girl of the Orson family for me, to the little sunfish for me, and to care for our eagles and cats for me. Under the silent candlelight of the camp, the high diploma leaned on the table, and wrote carefully on the letter paper with a reed pen, and after a while the candle was extinguished, Gawain grabbed the candle with some annoyance, but found that it was very thin, but the core was very thick, and when the Turkic servant re-lit the other candlestick, Gawain said to him angrily, "The profiteer in the bazaar of Aqum sells such a crude and inferior candle, I must hang him." ”

"Then you have to break free from the emperor's noose first." Muzafi Adin said nonchalantly.

"The noose of death...... He has ever let anyone go. Gawain looked at the flickering fire and muttered to himself.

Far away in Rome, in the Papal Palace, in the rich and elegant bedchambers, Urban lay on his couch with a sick face, his eyes had darkened, his face was horribly speckled and golden in the snow-white light of the candlestick, and the cardinals sang lamentations, weeping at the bedside in turn, kissing the ring of the dying Holy See. His Excellency Owenceth, the deacon of the Abbey of Cassino, walked through one dome after another with a sad expression, and several young friars led the way with candles in front of him, and walked out of the sickbed in Urban, and he looked out of the narrow window, full of cold night and starlight.

But in the square outside the Papal Palace, there was a different scene, fanatical believers were holding starry torches, singing hymns, receiving cloak and gowns dyed with crosses, about 10,000 people, leading the way, holding various reliquaries, praying for the recovery of the Holy See, and the whole solemn singing was all night long.

"I hadn't seen anything like this for about two hundred and fifty years, the last time it was when the Saracens invaded the outer coast of Rome." Owenceth caged the Dharma Phi and held the rosary in his hand, and said with a light smile to the handsome woman sitting alone outside the porch.

"I'm sorry that I didn't get the summons of the Holy See to do my best." Grana, the Seleucian physicianess, smiled sadly and stood up to salute Owen Seth.

"No, it's not your fault at all, the world will always be prejudiced against women, and I'm no exception. Because the thought that you would cross such a dangerous ocean and fulfill a manly mission made me feel that this was not what a woman should do. His Excellency Owenseth kindly put his arm around the female physician's shoulder, "Go back quickly, and be reunited with your distant husband." The self-righteous male physicians of the city of Rome will hardly accommodate you, and they will go around the couch of the Holy See, and all day and night they will roast the Holy See with red-hot wormwood, bleed him, and find him strange and useless herbs and animal meat. We're all going to die at the hands of this group of quacks, aren't we? ”

"But I just want to see the Holy See."

Owen Seth squeezed the female physician's hand, and then lovingly kissed her on the cheek, drawing a blessing with his fingers, "Go back, my child...... It's useless. ”

Then a mournful bell rang out under the night sky, and then the bells of the whole city of Rome rang out from near and far, and the people in the square wept bitterly, and they poured out of the palace like a tidal wave, hearing the heart-wrenching news, "Our Holy Father, the helmsman of Pope Peter, has ascended to heaven." ”

"May the Lord forgive us all our sins!" The crowd shouted back and forth, and mourned in silence with tears in their eyes.

"I hope that His Excellency Got Schalke of Seleucia will pay tribute to the Holy See of Ascension on behalf of all people." Grana, too, burst into tears, clasped Owen Seth's hand tightly and let go, "I hope you can take care and I hope you can continue to lead the people of Christ." Then she wrapped herself in a headscarf and, surrounded by several civilian guards, descended the steps under the bell tower, and soon disappeared into the crowd.

"Of course, of course I will continue to lead this world of great spirits." Owen Seth looked at the back of the female physician leaving, and whispered, exhaling bursts of white breath from his mouth, after all, the early morning of spring is still relatively cold. He couldn't help but think of Fang Cai, and on his deathbed, Urban pulled everyone else out of the screen, and said to him in a hoarse voice, "The meeting of the Privy Chamber has decided, and you will succeed me in my seat." ”

"Say what you want...... I'll pay you back when I get there. Owenseth grabbed the dying Urban's wizened hand.

"To continue the pilgrimage, it would be better to bring the whole of Jerusalem to Pope Peter, so that we can lead the whole world. And I know that you have dealt with Stephen for mediating the war between Amalfi and Pisa and the Normans. Gawain is very fond of it, and so am I, but I must not abandon the duty and judgment of the Holy See for this - all the secular kingdoms established by the pilgrims must be under our ropes and rings, including Gawain's, understand? Urban exerted the last of his strength, and as he had spoken, his eye sockets were sunken, and his snort was getting weaker and weaker, and it seemed that this last bitter admonition had cost him his life.

But what Urban didn't know was that Owenseth had been able to gain an advantage in the Chamber of Secrets by receiving large sums of money and goods from the city of Barry in the months leading up to his illness, and bribing other powerful cardinals.

Therefore, when the new pope put on the crown and walked out to the terrace facing the cheering crowd, the first thing he said was, "The great pilgrims of the past have made their way to the holy city, and I need you who are equally great, to go to the Anatolian plateau to the great Khorasan region, and what we need is to fill the sun with the cross!" (To be continued.) )