Chapter 86: Anderodat's Spring Offensive

After entering the city, Androdat took charge of the three hundred Saracen, Turkic, and Greek leaders who occupied the castle and beheaded them, and ordered the Pisidian border army to stay in the city and garrison, while the rest of the army rested. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

During this period, Anderodat suddenly complained at a military meeting that Birel, the infantry commander of the Pisidian Frontier People's Army, had secretly corresponded with the Duchess of Tuscany, and was suspected of accepting her instigation to rebel.

As soon as he finished speaking, several "postmen" wearing patterned cloaks, soft hats and sharp swords walked in and escorted Billel under house arrest.

This seems to be the first time that the postman has taken away a high-ranking commander in the army as a secret policeman, and none of the people present, including General Monomarcus, dare not say a word for his subordinates, and everyone is in a cold sweat, because Anderodat, who has a mushroom head, just said coldly, "You don't need to be alarmed, General Birel's deeds will naturally come to light immediately, and I personally believe that he is loyal to His Majesty Gawain." The postman would scrutinize his letters and actions to ensure a fair outcome. ”

Then Andodat went on in a loud voice: "On the Western Front, Your Majesty will soon reign in the imperial capital of the Roman Empire, and our goal on the Eastern Front is to take all of Tripoli completely!" After saying that, he turned to the map and said, "At once the Pisidian Border Army and the County People's Army will defend the castles of Tripoli, Belitus, and Jubail, and I will lead all the main forces south to attack Sidon and Tyre - yes, the Pope had previously asked us to limit our objectives to Tripoli, but now the Pope is orthodox in Bari, the new Holy See Anselm. His Majesty Bonifaccius has issued a new decree entrusting His Majesty Gawain to be the leader of the entire Crusade and to have suzerainty over the whole of Tripoli, so we do not have to fear Sigur at all when we go to Sidon. Magnusson's Norwegian army did not have to be bound by the old edicts. That is, we openly said that we were going to attack the city, and after taking the castle we gave the other party a proper reward, and then sent him away. ”

Further south, on the Tyre front, Raymond's bastard son, Portland, besieged the rich city with the support of a Venetian fleet. Now, in the eyes of Anderodat, Gawain's agent, Tyre is of course an indispensable part of the entire "Tripoli Raiders Plan", and Anderodat has long formulated in his private military orders the policy of "a diplomatic settlement for Magnusson in Norway and a military settlement for Portland".

But Androdat was not reckless, and he divided the spoils of Tripoli into three parts, an additional reward for all the soldiers, a gift to Bohemond in Antioch, and a gift to Baldwin in Jerusalem.

Bohemond was in ruins in the city of Antioch, and Baldwin, because of the siege of Acre and the strategy of an imminent expedition to Egypt, was desperate for money and military supplies. Therefore, they both sent secret envoys, and to Androdat was tantamount to a promise to Gawain, "We will not interfere with the whole territory of Tripoli that you are seeking." ”

In addition, when the "Rebellion in Sutri" broke out, Baldwin's Patriarch Sambel and Bohemond's Patriarch Maurice were both frightened and made their own calculations: it would not be wise to support the Pope of Tuscany and the new Pope of Rome now, and there would be no practical benefit......

As for Ravenna, who was favored by Henry fifth, he was like a dead man, and never spoke up.

In the end, only Anselm of Bari was willing to make friends, and he sent envoys to Sambel and Maurice respectively, saying that they fully respected their "patriarchal authority" in the dioceses of Jerusalem and Antioch, and recognized their sovereignty and personnel rights over all the churches and congregations in both places.

What's more, at this time, Baldwin also intends to win over Sambel, hoping that the Holy City Kingdom can get rid of the dictates of the Holy See and thus attach itself to the royal power of the Eustace family.

So both Sambell and Morris privately acquiesced to the existing order.

In the spring of the following year, Anderodat's Eastern Front was reinforced by the Samosata and Marash Border People's Army, and in addition, Anderodat also hired about 4,000 Lebanese archers on the condition of respecting the beliefs and lands of the nomadic heretical (whether Christian or Crescent) tribes in the eastern part of the territory, together with the previous 3,000 Maronite mercenaries, and the same number of poor German army, to form an army of no less than 30,000 and began to advance towards the city of Sidon.

The whole Levant shuddered.

At the same time, Gawain in Gallipoli decreed that the tax revenues of the whole eastern part of the country should be fully supported by Anderodat's military activities without any compromise, and this order was addressed to the county governors, Shepherds, Wright, Polibi, and Reinstein.

Magnusson, who had been besieging Sidon, was still in wonder, when he saw the overwhelming array of troops that did not know whether they were friends or foes, and he was greatly alarmed, and sent to Anderodat's camp to ask him what his plans were.

Didn't you say that each side would attack a city?

But Androdart was very cold, and he replied bluntly that the Pope, who had issued such an edict, had been deposed, and that the leader of the Crusade approved by the new Pope was my Majesty, and that he had shown the Pope's edict to Magnusson's messenger.

When the messenger saw that the signature and seal belonged to Bari's Bonifagius, he protested that he did not recognize his legal system at all.

As a result, Androdart said that it was impossible not to admit it: there were 30,000 troops to admit it, and you only had 5,000 men, and if you were from a monastery and you were not my opponent in doctrinal debate, then you should use weapons to argue with each other.

The Norwegian expeditionary force under the city of Sidon collapsed in an instant. Magnusson was so angry that he left the shore with only a few hundred men on board a ship, and he didn't know where to go, and went to Antioch to join Bohemond in a circle. Most of the remaining Norwegian soldiers were leaderless, and they were all taken in by Anderodat at the cost of each receiving a very high amount of "leather coins".

When the news reached Tyre, Portland and Jordan were stunned, begging Jerusalem to mediate the arbitration, but there was no reply.

A few days later, the Pisan fleet of six large ships set sail for Androdat in the light of Androdart, a fleet of six large ships.

The Pisan people hated the previous ambush by the Venetians on Rhodes. Therefore, he was willing to act as the vanguard of Gawain, and behind them were four large ships, twelve Panphelian light warships, six sunfish ships, and dozens of skua clippers led by Gawain's pirate Winmoha, which were densely packed all over the sea.

The unprepared Venetian warships suffered a great disaster, one was immediately sunk, the other was burned by the fire skuas, and two were caught by the ships of Pisa with iron hooks, and the last two were unable to do anything, so they rushed to the sea walls of Tyre and begged the original enemy to contain them!