In the midst of the military council, Gawain, who was somewhat tired, returned to the dormitory, and the Holy Sister told him with a sad look on her face, "The most famous Persian physician around Melitane, Nath. Root. Malik came to see him and had surgery......"

When Gawain heard this, he immediately understood, and his face sank, "Still haven't been able to save that girl's right wrist?" ”

The holy sister nodded, "But my life was finally saved." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

He gave the great physician a great reward and asked him to serve in the army in the future. Holy Sister you and the female officers stayed in Melitene to take care of the sleeping officer, and to assist Dorus who stayed behind. Lambert dealt with the affairs of the newly acquired Maras, mainly by establishing the synagogues of the Paulines and the Converts, building the holy farms, and emancipating the local serfs, and changing the salaries of the newly annexed Armenian noble cavalry and infantry archers from the original fiefdom system to the holy figurine system. When Gawain had finished speaking, he summoned the confidential officer Philaktos, "Let the news of my assassination go, but not that I am dead or unharmed, and I will use this to confuse the five kingdoms and the cults of the mountains on the plateau of Greater Armenia - and Philaktos, and immediately draft a provocative war letter and send it to Erezburg for Merrick to read." ”

Immediately afterwards, the palace of the great lord of Melitene immediately strengthened the guards, and this group of elite warriors armed with halberds and swords surrounded the mansion and the forest garden, and strictly forbade any idle people to enter.

At the same time, many doctors in and around the city were summoned to enter, but they were never released. As a result, in various markets and city gates, there is news that "the assassination of the chief guarantor seems to be dangerous, and life and death are uncertain".

The news spread rapidly, and soon became known to all the powers on the Greater Armenian Plateau. Finally it flowed to the west, which greatly frightened and worried Anna in the court of Tarsus, and it was not until the very dense letter came that reported Gawain's safety and the injury of the sleeping officer that Anna was relieved a little.

Soon in the Erez Castle, Merrick, the great emir of the original Danishmond Kingdom, looked through the pheasant moat, looked at the goats all over the hill under it, and unfolded Gawain's challenge with suspicion:

"The Marash thieves have been trodden by me, and the prince of Aleppo has surrendered before my horse's hooves. Therefore, at this moment you must know this verse, 'After the sun rises, the moon begins to have light', since the beginning of the army, those who dare to obstruct it will not die and the country will be destroyed, and I will tell you not to regard the sun as a candle, otherwise you will regret it. Thou shalt level the trenches of the city and come and surrender in person, otherwise you will not be able to escape even if you hide in the belly ......of the sky and the earth."

Merrick tore up the letter of challenge before he could finish it, "It doesn't matter if Gawain is dead or alive now, if he is still alive, he will definitely go north from Melitene to find my bad luck!" Send fast horses to ask the emir of Sagitus (Sartuk. Ali led a large army to help, and we set up a strong army in the mountains and deep valleys, resisting layer by layer, and Gawain could not be proud of this even though he was strong. ”

Soon the information that "the Tarsus Guardian Army was about to move north to attack and sweep the Erez and Erzurum regions" spread throughout Greater Armenia.

Just as Merrick was seriously preparing for war in the mountains south of Erez. By the beginning of October, the Red Hand Brigade had arrived in the city of Meritane, where all the soldiers of the Guards were arrayed in the plains of the Mahes River outside the city, and they were ready to march after the reading was complete.

Almost all of them were the battle-hardened armies of the Tarsus: with the exception of the Vanka Frontier People's Army who remained in Marash, the Red Hand Brigade, the Guardian Brigade, and the Gemmageis Brigade, the "three ace wings", were all in formation, and the spearmen and sergeants in the front row painted the large infantry spears in scarlet, and wore new sophisticated armor: it was a combination of three styles, and the soldiers' chests and backs were Persian-style "mirror armor", the two pieces were round or square, and they were dazzling and dazzling, and they were fastened and stabilized by belts; On the shoulders and shin of these soldiers, there are cast Roman ring stripes, layered on top of each other, which can effectively defend against sword slashing; The inside is also wrapped in traditional Frankish chainlink chain mail to protect against arrows. When these heavily armored spearmen and miscellaneous stragglers lined up in front of the formation, from a distance, they looked as majestic and mighty as silver silk waves, and the enemy was terrified to see them!

To the right of the three-wing brigade was the newly formed Yefandouni Brigade holding the lion banner, which still retained the style of the Armenian army for the time being, with the heavily armored infantry standing at the forefront, armed with six-bladed hammers and saddle axes as the front, followed by light infantry and mountain archers wrapped in robes and cloaks carrying halberds, and at the end was the elite of the whole army - 200 horse-armored cavalry, personally commanded by Hercules, the commander-in-chief of the royal cavalry and also the brigade general.

Where is the bald Parker, you ask? The answer is that he was "squeezed out" by his son Hercules himself, and Hercules gave his father 1,500 gold coins that he had bought from Thubesena Gaven, and let him buy a manor directly in Marash for retirement...... In the immediate war for the liberation of Greater Armenia, this eager young man did not even want to share the glory of the war with his own father.

On the left, there are the fierce Red Hand Cavalry, the selected border cavalry and the Oghuz Warrior Cavalry, especially the more than 700 cavalry of the latter, all of whom are Oghuz people who shoulder the orthodox Sunni faith, and the only thing they want now is to carry sharp sabers and slaughter the group of "heretics of the Ismaili Mountain Sect who can only assassinate despicably".

In the rear, there is the camp of the artillery regiment and the baggage vehicles, densely packed with various siege firearms and chariots, like a strict chessboard.

The trumpet sounded, and the gates of the river in Mélitene were opened, and thousands of soldiers focused their eyes on it.

When the bell of the black horse rang, all conjectures and rumors dissipated, and Gawain rode intact on Sabina's back, surrounded by the guards, out of the city gates, over the bridge, and then galloped back and forth in front of all the formations.

"Hooray, hooray!" Countless soldiers roared feverishly, shaking their spears in their hands.

"I was assassinated before, but the Almighty Lord has blessed me!" Gawain raised his arms high, "These pagan scum and rats can't help me, but my loyal sleeping officer has lost a wrist, how do you say you should deal with it, soldiers?" ”

"Kill all these rats and avenge the sleeping officer!" Centurions, sergeants, and rank-and-file brigade soldiers all scrambled to shout.

"I have made it clear that the Assassins are hiding in the castle of Diarbakir."

With the words of the great lord's patron, the soldiers fell silent for a moment, because they had originally received the order to go north to attack Erezburg and Danishmund. The Sagitus Alliance fights.