There were few soldiers in the Tarsus Guardian system who were still afraid of the Assasin followers after storming the walled fortress and confronting them face-to-face. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Once the frontier and Oghuz had taken possession of the stronghold, they used their bows and arrows and crossbows to cover their shots, while the brigade stragglers marched in a neat formation, stacked in a wall of shields, waving their arms and killing the "poor poisoned patients" with their weapons—an almost one-sided massacre, and the weapons of the Assasin could not destroy the fine armor of the stragglers at the front.

"Hallelujah!" After a brief assault, the sound of battle shook the spire of the monastery in the corner, and dozens of stragglers slashed down all the Assasin believers in front of them and rushed into the inner courtyard of the monastery. There, Zhigata was already riding a horse and holding a sword, chasing and killing the remnants of the Assasin who were running around - their medicine had worn off, and seeing the shocking corpses of his own on the walls and snow in front of him, he finally understood the truth that "if you are killed, you will die".

Two hundred and ninety believers were killed in less than an hour, but their leader, Elder Gabu Zuk, fled on horseback.

At dusk, the whole castle continued to be covered with wind and snow, and the bodies of all the believers were thrown to the center of the fort for public display, and blazing torches were erected around it, and the corpses were covered with snow foam, and became black and purple, and many of them became ice mounds.

The former envoy of Constantinople, Potrufis was in front of the altar of the monastery, shouting his identity and surrendering, and he was the only survivor, "I am the person behind the assassination of your Maharaja, don't kill me, I have something to tell him." ”

On the road leading to the gate in front of the monastery, Potrufis was escorted out with a shudder, and looked at the soldiers with torches and helmets of various colors, most of whom had their cloaks completely white: the Oghuz and Anatolians had mustaches, the Italians had no beards, and the Cumans or Magyars had a rough beard, and many eyes stared at him viciously, "I wonder what fate awaits me?" ”

The scarlet tent where Gawain lived at the foot of the mountain was surrounded by white cavalrymen, many of whom had frozen their iron armor and still insisted on riding in their saddles, and the small jagged flags and flame-tongued flags on the mounted spears they held shook in the wind.

Portrufes was quick to accept Gawain's "treat", and his nostrils and ten fingers were entwined with the silk threads and iron hooks of Fort Calleadio, which could be used as bowstrings, and several ends of the threads were pulled and creaked by the guards a few feet away, so that the blood in the face and arms of the adult would explode, the urine in the crotch of his pants would fall, and the snow beneath it would be red and fall between his trembling boots.

The envoy could not even scream, for then his nose would be completely destroyed, and he could only tremble and whisper, and in front of him stood a military judge, Algilli, armed with an axe and a scarlet cloak, ready to put him to death.

Under the brazier hanging from the scarlet tent, Gawain sat in front of the two-sided grille screen, with a slightly flickering tapestry behind him, and he was furious at Potrufis, "What makes you have the guts to collude with Assasin to assassinate me, and also harm the right wrist of my loyal sleeping officer?" Please answer me! ”

The Forbidden Warrior loosened the thread slightly, and Potrufis was like a fish re-entering the water, "You, you are the murderer of the Emperor, the traitor, ah! As soon as he had finished speaking, his terrible cry resumed, and the thin thread and iron hook were tightened again, and the dripping blood stained his breast, mixed with the ice and snow.

"I didn't kill the emperor, but my wife and I are still the legitimate heirs of the Holy Apostle Emperor. If you don't have anything of value to say, then Algilli can compensate for Winjominna's disability by beheading you. Gawain waved his hand.

"There's an even bigger murderer......" Potrufis cried out in pain as he didn't want to die.

"Bang", Gawain threw the sword heavily on the low table in front of his knees, "Say, I can spare you from dying." I don't think you're a mere secret envoy, and you don't have the ability and money to use so many people against me. ”

"Yes, it was the king of Georgia (Georgia) who instructed ...... behind the scenes" After the envoy explained this sentence, Gawain immediately waved his hand, and the forbidden warriors removed the thin thread, and the envoy who was covered in scars and blood was only half a life, lying on the blanket at Gawain's feet, panting.

"Go on."

"It's the young king of Georgia, 'David' the Builder, who wants your life, hehe......" The half-dead envoy on the carpet raised his bloody face, spat out two broken teeth, and said to Gawain, "He's no less heroic than yours, no, he's younger than you, and has the same great ambitions." ”

"Young people are like this, forever mistaking their ambition for their own ability." Gawain scoffed.

But then Gawain did not take it lightly, and he now began to understand that colluding with the mountain sect to assassinate his opponent was the "King David" in the mouth of the secret envoy, the king of the South Caucasus.

Previously, the Kingdom of Georgia and Gawain had almost no contact and conflict, at best the Trabzon general Theodoro. Gabrias's backers, but now Gawain feels that a "new powerful alliance" is emerging, which wants to kill him.

In fact, King David was named the "co-crown prince" of his father George II as early as 15 years ago to handle domestic affairs, so although he is only 30 years old, he is a talented man in many aspects of military and foreign affairs. And his grandfather, Vallatiane IV, had two daughters, Marlena and Marian, one was the vice-empress of Constantinople and the other was the wife of Theodoro.

In other words, at the moment when the two empires of Eastern Rome and Seljuk were falling apart, King David longed to form a new alliance of powers around him, and he wanted to unite the forces of Theodorus and Emperor John, not only to launch a "war of reconquista" against the Seljuks and Kurdish princes of Greater Armenia, but also to secretly collude with the Assasin heretics on the Persian plateau to kill Gawain - especially the latter, who had slowly become a thorn in the side and old enemy of King David.

In this way, King David's dream is to establish a Georgia in his lifetime. Sylvan . The powerful empire of Greater Armenia could even replace Constantinople as the new "axis of the world".

"We have succeeded in annexing the Marash, Artuki and Sassoon regions, and soon heavy snow will cover the entire Greater Armenian Plateau, so we must withdraw the soldiers and horses of the brigade to the pastures of Samosata and Amida for the winter, and then we will use diplomatic means. Philatos, we now know who we're going to deal against, and you can't afford to be idle this winter! Gawain announced that he had spared Portrufis's life, and then summoned the confidential officer to his side and admonished him earnestly.

Note: King David IV (reigned 1089-1125), the "builder" of Georgia (Georgia), was the Ming monarch who built the Golden Age of the Kingdom of Georgia, who defeated 400,000 (exaggerated) Seljuk Mujahideen in 1121, not only reunited Georgia, but also extended his power to Armenia and the Sylvan region.