Chapter 28: The Fall of Trabzon

Gawain comforted the prince and said, "I will soon form a new special district in the port of Fahis, imitating the Samos of the West, and let the Armenian Chamber of Commerce settle in there, and do the trade business in the four directions of the Yukchen Sea, the Khazar Sea, the Taulis and the northern steppes, and integrate it with Trabzon in terms of economy and trade." Mr. Zhao Zhao, my royal merchant, was in charge of the marketing director of the www.biquge.info Special Administrative Region, and in the days that followed, he continued to send merchant groups and expeditions to get in touch with more political kingdoms in the East. ”

After announcing this, Gawain looked at the woman who was lying on the ground in pain, sighed a few times, and said to him, "You have lacked the spirit of aggressiveness in this battle, and you have looked down on my army and neglected my new firearms, and you have concentrated your forces in Karls in an attempt to fight me, and then you have become hesitant to throw in the heavy cavalry of the Ani to raid Haddadi on the east side of Kars. The Sylvan coalition tried to open the way, but when I entered the Cathedral of the Holy Apostles, I failed to make up my mind to commit the main force to fight me there. As a result, I was able to gain an advantageous position, while you kept the hedgehog on Chakmak Hill doing nothing, and finally the army was captured and routed by me. ”

At this time, the builder David's face was even more pale and embarrassed.

"There's no point in saying that now, I've heard that there's an eagle-shaped birthmark on your shoulder, a mark that has been passed down from generation to generation by the kings of Georgia. But this era is mine, and the great vulture that flew over the peaks of the Caucasus on the day of the decisive battle has already said it all. Gawain then made a forgiving gesture to each of the couple's heads, "Depart for the Cave Monastery of Calleadio today, and wish you eternal well-being and tranquility there." ”

David the Builder choked in his throat, but could not say a word, and suddenly he began to hold back his grief to the peak, and he lowered his head and retched violently.

But Gawain waved his hand, and several guards walked in and carried the couple away.

On this night, the Barationi dynasty, which had ruled the Kingdom of Georgia for many years, came to an end.

Gawain, who was holding the Golden Eagle Staff, also looked at the back of the builder David who was led out with a little sadness and sympathy, and the other party's dream of creating a great cause was completely terminated at this time, and the deposed king was dragged out with his feet hanging on the blanket.

Seventeen years later, as the new Roman Emperor Stephen . After Gao Wenyan's death, his wife was also the "regent of Brachna Palace" Anna. The first order signed by Gawain, the son of Fubi, when he was in power, was to send eunuchs carrying strong poison to the Cave Monastery of Caleadeo, and to put to death David, the builder who had been under house arrest for many years, for ...... The follow-up of this case also had a subtle impact on the political situation of the empire, and became a famous public case of the Varyag dynasty.

The most famous historian and the later Keeper of the Seals, Ander Odart. In his book, Nisitas flatly denied that the Empress Regent's move had been instructed by Emperor Galvan on his deathbed. His views were supported by the Imperial Patriarch Gottschalke and the purple-clothed Grand Priest of the Empire, Roland, and became the unified voice of official history books.

However, many monks and writers of the Cave Abbey School attacked the late Gawain the Great in their private secret histories, saying that he was in cahoots with the Empress on his deathbed, and it was at his request that Empress Anna get rid of the poor builder David, lest this one might harm the empire in the future.

This long-debated case is a matter of later story, so let's put it aside for the time being.

At the end of summer, the city of Trabzon, which stood by the Black Sea, stood surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on the other, and was surrounded by the armies of the Grand Earl Merlot and Theognes: among them, the Sebastian border troops of Orson and Haarlem were stationed on Yogneros Hill, southeast of the city, and attacked the city's water gate; The Philomeron's brigade of Earl Merlot and Bramson and part of the Caesarea frontier army were stationed on the southeast Zagros hill and besieged the city's stone bridges and lower gates; Diognis's brigade approached the Angia Gate, the easternmost part of the lower city of Trabzon, while General Monomachus' Pisidian Frontier Army attacked the Moonte Gate on the western wall.

The Upper City of Trabzon is a long, narrow fortress protruding further south along the southern wall of the Lower City, and the Monastery of Our Lady is built against the hill of Yogneros.

Theodoro's body had been brought to the city by the besieging army, and his wife, Marianne, was so grief-stricken that she cried out in mourning and wailed, and tore her clothes madly, and lay on top of her husband's cold body, regretting that her sister had been so devastated that she had fallen to such a state.

And Theodoro's armoured attendant, who had foretold dreams, also felt guilty that he had inadvertently brought disaster to his master, and jumped from the high platform of the palace by the convent of Our Lady, and fell to pieces.

Later, Theodoro's eldest son, Monsang, and eldest daughter, Gabriaxia, who were not from Marian, took the opportunity to join forces and collude with the chambers and Jews in the city, who were not willing to resist at all, to arm a group of henchmen in an attempt to storm the palace and depose Marian and her son Dimitri.

At the critical moment, Marianne, the suzerain's mother of Trab, had to take Dimitri to take the lead, and escaped from the twin gate towers in the upper city at night to Yogneros Hill and surrender to General Orson.

General Orson took in and protected the desperate mother and son, and then, under the guidance of Marianne's guards, seized the twin gate towers at the entrance of the upper city - at midnight on the third of July, 2,000 Sebastian border soldiers shouted and carried torches and black flags with middle fingers, and burst into the upper city of Trabzon, and they could not help but say that they killed the two siblings Monsanke and Gabuyahia, who had surrendered late, on the steps of the palace, and slaughtered almost all the relatives and staff associated with the Gabuyas family.

Smoke and fire flew to obscure the high walls of the Abbey of Our Lady, who had saved the suffering of the world, and after dawn the besieging armies rushed in, and they fought to the highest cave of the monastery, and the high steps of the hill were littered with corpses, and finally stood in front of the bloodstained shrine of the statue of Our Lady of the Black before stopping, and knelt down to worship the Virgin Mary with their swords in hand.

So far, Trabzon, a foreign place that used to survive tenaciously in the cracks, has also ushered in its miserable sunset.

"Please rest assured that when you go to the city of Tarsus, Caesar and the Patron will promise to protect your mother and son." Then the Earl Merlot said this to Marianne very kindly, and revised a letter of his own handwriting, reporting the merits of this place to Gawain.

While the letter was on the way, Gawain had completely settled the old Georgian land, and temporarily left Haddadi's servants and soldiers to defend the city of Tbilisi, from which he himself had marched eastward, seemingly targeting the kingdoms of Alan and Hilvanpasha.