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Gawain demanded that Haarlem take command of the border army in Meritene while Orson defended Sebastian, and that "the Red Hand Brigade and all cavalry regiments shall be under my direct jurisdiction, and shall be moved to Caesarea from now on, not to the city of Tarsus, as a general reserve to support all sides." ”

With the hurried arrival of the patron, the vast triangle of Elbistan, Sebastian, and Meritane, all people, regardless of their status and ethnicity, were mobilized, and the Crescentists who had been forced to dig the canal were also suspended, and began to turn around or tear down the fortress that Gawain did not need, or build the fortress that Gawain needed, ox carts, mule carts, carts or wheelbarrows shuttled from mountain road to place, and half of the people were harvesting wheat and other crops, except for some of their own, The rest were all hoarded in the granaries of the nearby military station; The rest of the people are doing this kind of labor.

At the same time, the mosques that had been preserved outside the Orthodox monasteries and cave monasteries on this plateau were found by Gawain's civil army: the Patron now claims to be not only the Patron of the Seleucian Hospital, but also "the Patron of the churches, monasteries and mosques of the entire Anatolian Plateau, from the Black Sea to the Cyprus Sea", "I have the priesthood and the ranks, and I have the approval of the Patriarch of Antioch, and I have the right to appoint the patriarchs of the whole region, no matter how you have fled from Constantinople before, and the jurisdiction of Antioch shall henceforth expropriate seventy percent of the labor of your serfs, and fifty percent of your cellar goods. Eventually, for every fifty households of monastic property, a qualified caravan was obtained, plus the equipment of a frontier army, which could be replaced with money and grain if there was no physical goods. ”

When the Orthodox monasteries expressed fierce discontent and revolt, what awaited them was the extreme barbarism of the expropriation party.

In front of the Holy Trinity Monastery in the mountains outside Sebastian, three expropriation teams rushed to the brick and stone courtyard wall, and after reading the "expropriation notice", the soldier who took the lead raised the long-handled crescent axe, and with a few "bang" slashing sounds, the wooden bolt fragments of the heavy door flew wildly, and when it made a cracking sound, the two soldiers behind held the iron-clad beam unloaded from the cart, "By the edict of Caesar and the great protector, the expropriation and search are all right!" With this command, the beam shook violently twice, and struck the heavy door, and the latch was smashed, and a dozen soldiers shouted and pushed open the ruined door, and rushed in, and they tied up the people of the monastery who were hiding in the hall with ropes, and knelt down on the corridor, and then the soldiers began to carry torches, and split the door of the cellar, and stepped on the dark staircase, and dragged them with their arms, and took out the silver candlesticks, gold-filled icons, utensils, coins, etc., with the sound of splitting and smashing. There are also hymns of praise chanted by monasteries with their heads bowed. 【】

The rest of the soldiers, also carrying ropes, went around capturing serfs and livestock belonging to the monastery of the Holy Trinity. Then the monastery, who was trying to raise his head, suddenly strode in with his head held high and walked in the middle of the ruined heavy door, and the knight rode in directly, this one wore a ruffled mink hat, a white heron feather stuck in it, a neck and gloves around chain mail, a face full of twisted scars, a bright smock on the outside, a fire sickle, a Khitan snow paper tube, and a short sword hanging on the shoulder straps, and wore Cuman-style breeches on the lower body, and cashmere trousers under the knees, tied with ropes, and the famous man behind him held an extremely long riding spear, Pour a little before following in through the doorway.

"I'm the new chief deacon of the Holy Trinity Monastery, my name is Sigma, and now everyone who has nothing to do with this monastery get out of here!" The knight shouted roughly, then showed the ring and scepter to those present.

When he had said this, his servants rushed up to the corridor with shouts, cut the ropes of the clergy of the monastery who had been bound, and then struck them with spears and iron rods to drive them out of the monastery, "because the new chief deacon had taken office", and the original clergy were disqualified from continuing to stay there.

As a result, more and more monasteries were occupied by doves, and by the rough soldiers of Gawain's army.

The manpower that originally belonged to the monastery, including many masonry, joiners, carpenters, and coachmen, was forcibly stripped from their original places of service, and many of them, who had sworn to devote their lives to the Lord and would not serve the blood-stained and filthy soldiers, now began to harm themselves in order to escape the labor of the army: cutting off their fingers, cutting off their ears, stabbing their tongues, and so on. But to no avail, groups of requisitioned soldiers came to them with ropes—those with their fingers cut off to pull the ropes, those who did not have ears to carry masonry and wood, and those with stabbed tongues to drive the carts. And Gawain sternly ordered, "If the skilled person dares to harm himself, then he must be blinded and made more completely disabled." ”

Soon in the wilderness outside the city of Meritane, a wooden platform was erected, and twenty monastic laborers who still disobeyed the order to cut off their fingers were beheaded by the soldiers in front of many people, including the Crescents who dug the canal.

Under such frenzied oppression and mobilization, first a road across Erbistan was paved in an instant, connecting Caesarea and Meritene traffic, and then the seven fortresses originally planned by Gawain were also repaired in order, and each fortress built a core military station granary, occupied key passes and water sources, and formed a defensive network on the plateau. As for the northernmost city of Sebastian, Paulians sent believers, armed immigrants, and forcibly recruited men to fortify and raise its walls, and built many multi-faceted fortresses around the city.

Forty hundred-man detachments of the frontier army were formed, of which twelve were stationed in Sebastian, fourteen were scattered among the seven forts, six were stationed in the city of Meritane, and the remaining eight cavalry hundred-man detachments were assigned to Orson's brother Haarlem as mobile forces. After discussing with the Holy Sister, Gawain still suspected that the garrison was not strong enough, "Anyway, it is not used for expeditions, once there is a war, the more people who are recruited to guard the city and fortress, the better." In this way, the Holy Sister immediately issued the consul's order—30,000 Paulians were to be guarded at the border, and all the old and weak, women, and children were to go into the fortresses to defend themselves, and about 6,000 able-bodied men were to enter Sebastian to help defend them.

More of the Crescent armed regiments were "settled" in the area on the banks of the Sanus River, camped on their own, and would send trucks from Melitene to deliver food to supply them every once in a while, and if they dared to flee or resist, they could starve to death directly without the need for troops to dispatch at all, and the surrounding wasteland and highlands would be dozens of miles away. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.