"The fleet Venice has already negotiated? Because Henry, the fisherman, is helping Raymond to besiege Tripoli. "Bohemond fully agrees with this package, but is concerned about sea power.www.biquge.info

"The Venetian question is well settled, and they have recently been very angry that the Emperor has sold two alum mines to the Relaya people, and has given the Pisas the right to trade and tax exemptions. They once again elected the scheming hawk Fellaier. Mochenigo became consul and vowed to gather all the Venetian ships on all the seas and wage a trade war against the Duck. For once the roots of the interests of the Venetians and Amalfis in Egypt were replaced by their new rivals in the East, the roots of their maritime city-states were tantamount to being gouged up. Gawain said that we are completely in the same league as the Venetians, and there is no need to worry about this.

Aptsomatus jaw head (x6), in agreement.

The next two drew up a well-thought-out plan to deal with Raymond.

Finally, Gawain mentioned Cyprus again, "Since everyone is on a ship in a secret room, there is no need to restrict economic and trade exchanges." I suggest that the fleets and pack caravans of Tarsus, Adana, Cyprus and Antioch should not be subject to high customs duties on each other, but only a reasonable surcharge on the boxes of goods when they enter the port. The saffron, salt, wood, pottery, leather, and honey of Tarsus, the apples, grains, and smoked fish of Adana, the wine, lime, and copper nuggets of Cyprus, and the sulphur and bitumen of Antioch could be freely moved in large quantities, and ships and vehicles could help each other to mend them, so that within three years the military would be rich. ”

Apsomatus jaw head (x7), in agreement.

So the secret discussion went very smoothly, and Gawain said: "The Gimagis Brigade is under your command, and I will temporarily return to the city of Tarsus to command the construction of the fortress of Milio Sephalon, and monitor the movements in the direction of Marash--after a month and a half, I will personally command the Red Hand Army as your rear refusal.

"By the way, Bartholomew's matter, don't be too aggressive. After all, the Holy Spear was a great merit in the Battle of Antioch, and we need not waste it, I have declared the city of Rome to canonize the dead blind priest, and erect a glorious tombstone for him in the church in the city of Antioch. Before leaving, Gawain finally made such a request to Bohemond.

Aptsomatus (x8) in agreement.

And Bohemond did not deny that a mere Xibei holy spear was not worthy of his excessive care.

Gawain and the Grand Duke of Cyprus had been gone for a minute, and then the Lord of Antioch had come out, where Ridwan's envoy was still waiting in the outer chamber.

"I have given the clerk an order, and you only need to convey to Ridwan what I have to say, that he should prepare three thousand soldiers, eight hundred of whom are cavalry, to follow me immediately for my military campaign from Latakia to Tripoli." Bohemond said to the envoys representing the Sultanate of Aleppo as he did his own slaves.

In the city of Aleppo, where the chimneys of workshops, shops, and watchtowers smoke rose in the sunset, and in the midst of the annex of the Roman Baths, Reed stood in the chapel with great annoyance, because he heard the secret envoy's arrogant and arrogant behavior and merciless insult to the Seljuk royal family, "Suleiman of Roma was defeated at my hands, and a Norman tyrant turned into a horse bandit dared to treat me like this!" ”

"Please bear with me for the time being, this time may as well be an opportunity to train the Brotherhood of Wakov legion, and I will personally lead it." The Esi next to him took the initiative to ask for help.

"But doesn't Bohemond recognize you?"

"That's fine, as long as Tancred isn't in front of me, he's the one who has a deep grudge against me." Esidu continued, "In addition, I will give up my name for the time being, and the whole army will call me Jiang Mo, which can also cover people's eyes and ears. ”

Ridwan was pleased, but then he thought to himself, "It's too thin for you to go alone, and I'll send another Ataberg Ma Polo to assist you." ”

At this time, Estu was not a fool, and naturally heard Ridwan's voice, but he couldn't defend anything under the fence, and he could only accept the "prison army" of Ma Polo, who was killed halfway.

At the castle of Medens, after Gawain's departure, the sea breeze brought several days of early summer rain, but to Bohemound's shock, when he gave the order to march to Latakia, all the Norman knights and Calabrian light soldiers, as well as the light cavalry recruited from all over the fort, were sheltered in the canopies on the edge of the fort - only the two thousand Varkov Brotherhood spearmen from Aleppo, whose mark was that they carried recurve bows and quivers behind their backs, and covered with rain-covered leather, Neatly lined up in the rain, motionless.

Elsewhere, about 6,000 soldiers of the Gemmageis Brigade, some with light spears and some with small round shields and swords, were also formed in eight detachments under the command of Gregor and Pragit, all standing in the rain and wind.

So Bohemond was shocked and annoyed, "When did the Apulians become so weak and so inferior to the armies of other peoples?" ”

Then he suddenly saw a long-haired woman sitting on a wicker chair by the corridor embedded in the stone pillar opposite, surrounded by rain-watered flowers, and the woman had a gloomy expression and eyes looking at him--Bohemond felt a chill in his heart, and asked the attendant beside him, "Is this my nephew's woman, the remnant of Ani?" ”

After receiving an affirmative answer, Bohemond felt even more restless, he looked at the rain curtain outside, and then at the terrible woman who had been staring at him, "She is a ghostly fire, she is a witch, she will harm the whole cause, I really don't know why my nephew would die for such a woman, all I can do is to get her away as soon as possible, as far away as possible." ”

Soon after the rare rain stopped, Bohemond immediately commanded all his troops: six thousand soldiers of the Gimagis Brigade, three thousand Aleppo servants, and four thousand five hundred men recruited by himself, and more than seventy Norman knights, a total of 14,000 men, under various banners, quickly marched towards the port of Latakia.

Latakia was in turmoil at the end of the day, with the remaining soldiers of Tetisius insisting on resisting to the end, while the city's chambers of commerce demanded spending money to avert the disaster and exchanging a tribute of 10,000 Byzantian coins for the peace of Bohemond.

In the end, the peacemakers gained the upper hand, as the next military tun and city belonging to the emperor were still hundreds of guru away from this seaport city.

If a large sum of money can be exchanged for a bypass by Bohemond, it is still worth it in general.

The peace talks went "well", and when Bohemond received the three thousand gold coins delivered in advance, he suddenly turned his face and secretly sent forty knights to attack and capture a tower near the sea in Latakia, then kill the guards and open the gates: then all the Antioch troops swarmed in, and the whole of Latakia was in flames. (To be continued.) )