readx;?“ Hooray, hooray! Amid the sound of trumpets and cheers, in the center of the Salabrean field, a huge wooden frame was erected fifteen feet high and fifty-two feet wide, which was filled with straw bales and earthen baskets, forming a striking wall that could be seen by the spectators on the towers of the city wall. Lusail", the head was like a bared tooth, like an unkempt beast facing the emperor on his side. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Emperor's newly formed "New Immortal Legion" carried bronze guns, and marched towards this wooden wall, all of them were excellent soldiers from the imperial capital and Thrace, who had been conscripted into the Immortal Army, about fifteen hundred, three hundred of whom had been selected by Alexios' court officials to form ten rows, and then a great fire and noise arose—they walked up to the wooden wall in rows, and then shouted "Die, devil in Hell", and then they all set off arrows from the firearms, and shot the linen painting with Gawain's head, When one row is cast, it retreats into two sides, and then the next row continues to approach and fire fiercely.

Many of the citizens of Constantinople and the inhabitants of the camp came in large numbers to see this terrible and strange weapon, and the people were so frightened by the discipline of the Emperor's immortal army and the horror of the weapons that some women were immediately frightened by the roar and miscarried.

The cry of "Long live the emperor" also rose wave after wave, almost covering the sound of the firing gun, and the emperor on the horse saw that the portrait of his hated old enemy was pierced and burned by the fire arrows, and his face was even more distorted, and half of it was scorched, "Gawain, sooner or later, you will die so miserably." Alexios muttered in his mind.

Then, under the introduction of the Imperial Ink Officer and the Grand Administrator of the Imperial Court, the two young officers half-knelt in front of the Emperor's horse, "Matthew, Selilarus, you two are my palace guards, and you have shown excellent professionalism in the previous counterinsurgency battles, and now I want to promote you both." Matthew, you are in charge of my orphaned bow and arrow forbidden army; Selilarus, you are in charge of my new Immortal Army. Once I have crossed the channel, Matthew will take over the region of South Opshkin, which means that from then on you will be the viceroy and nobleman with the sword, and Selilarus will be the region of Blasilon. ”

Hearing this, the chief administrator Nikdemia lowered his head and sighed slightly, his aging eyes opened, and he saw his nephew Mikhail riding a horse absentmindedly in front of the guards of the Varangian Outer Palace on the other side of the shooting range-his armor was so-so, and his mental state was also very bad, such a dress and shape, compared with these two young heroes promoted by the emperor, what kind of bright future could he talk about?

While the city of Constantinople was still basking in the joy of victory, the Emperor returned to the Brachna Palace with all his guards, but he would only stay in this magnificent palace for a short time, and for only one reason: it would take me some time to deploy a new offensive against Anatolia and Antioch.

Wearing a golden crown, a purple cloak and tasseled armor, Alexios stood in front of the throne of the River Hall, flanked by generals, guards, and court officials, and in the center was a huge silver map, "Bohemond has attacked my protectorate of Marrakech Armenia, and I will declare war on this unknown Norman bandit and restore Antioch, the most traditional de jure territory of the Roman Empire, and will not allow the defilement of barbarians!" ”

"As Your Majesty wishes!" All the generals of the Roman Empire raised their fists in response, and the guards behind kept pulling out the hilts of their swords on their shoulders and sending them back, making an agitated concussive sound.

Then the Emperor pointed his finger and said, "I am going from Cilicia to Antioch, which country do you say I will pass through along the way?" ”

"The self-reliant kingdom of Tarsus!" The answer is so.

"Then I will first sweep away this den of bandits, and order my vassals Raymond, Stephen, and Robert to mobilize, and order my Grand Duke and General Harold and Brenus to mobilize me to build a fortress for me, and pave roads and bridges for me, and I will concentrate all my forces to march from the plateau and besiege Galvan's Iconium and Miriosephalon, and at the same time tell Theodoro to attack from the north. At the same time, he rebelled against Apsomates on the island of Cyprus and made him block the sea routes of Cilicia from the south, saying that I would grant him the official title of Grand Governor and guarantee him all his power on the island. In addition, he ordered all the Italian city-states to sever their trade relations with Gawain and instead provide me with fleets, and I was willing to give them more islands as bases for supply to their warehouses, as well as greater tax exemptions. ”

After hearing the latter words, the silent Imperial Zaifu Beriel, who was silent behind the pillars, was even more depressed: Now that more than half of the trade in the entire empire is in the hands of Italians, what do you need bureaucrats and customs to do?

"This expedition is inevitable, and the fortunes of the empire will henceforth never set again like the rising sun. In order to do a good job in the logistics of the army, and to continue to subdue Dalmatia, Epirus, and Tesuram, and destroy Gawain's path to obtain the Khitan snow from the sea route of Bari City, I now bestow on the crown prince John He a new title, the former representing his now almost equal to my co-emperor and sole heir, and the latter representing his unhindered power in the imperial government, I ask my Imperial Ink Officer to register these two titles in the official office book to renew them. So the government that remained was arranged in such a way that John was in charge, Lord Berriel was in charge of his affairs, and my brother Isaac was in charge of it. Sebastoprat, on the other hand, commanded all the armies of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Moria, and Thessaly, and continued to advance towards the city of Ragusa, demanding that the city-state submit to it, and then cutting down mountain timber to strengthen the fleet, and bribing Ancona to prepare for the siege of Gawain's city of Bari. ”

Beriel's face was like ashes, and in this way, the imperial power was the confinement of the Komnenos.

Rome's millennia of electoral system and the "public office" of the supreme emperor were about to come to an end, and although it was previously an empty wreck, at least the emperor still retained the chessboard of the bureaucracy (marked by the imperial government, customs, courts, etc.), the great nobility (the senate), the military aristocracy (the heavy cavalry landlords everywhere), and the civic curia (the Curia assembly was abolished by Leo VI, but the civic power of Eastern Rome existed through the athletic party). Now it is completely different, the emperor is personally responsible for the entire eastern theater of the empire, his younger brother is in charge of the western theater, and his son is in charge of the affairs of the capital, and the emperor has recently added a large number of Komnenos kinship titles, which ...... It was really intimidating and painful for Buriel.

After that, the empire is the Komunist, and the Komnenos is the empire.

After the dissolution of the Imperial Council, Zaisuke was displeased and returned to the mansion.

Alexios, on the other hand, first went to a monastery on the outskirts of the capital to visit his mother, Daracena, who had been re-veiled because the situation had stabilized.

"I think it's better for you to take John with you on the expedition, and let him command the army in all directions, which will be good for his experience and prestige." Daracena sat in her chair and slowly suggested. (To be continued.) )