Chapter 27: Crisis
Anna was also a little annoyed and guilty, she stretched out the head of the scepter in her hand and gently tapped the forehead of the little sunfish, "Don't cry, we made the closest sisterly pledge to help each other in the Great Salt Lake, to punish the greedy brown bear who controlled the big barbarian." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info I was the first to break my oath and cause you to go to Gawain's bed, and if there is a first time, there will definitely be a second time. That's it, what does your grandfather think. ”
He was very angry, and waved his hand angrily at the big guarantor...... "The little sunfish did not let go of the hand covering his cheeks and eyebrows, and he said it weakly.
"Tell the truth."
"Yes, in fact, he secretly frowned, and said to the slave next to him that the proverb was right, parents should set their daughter's room to the most remote corner when she becomes an adult, and pretend to be deaf and dumb in order to hold her offspring as soon as possible. Knowing this, he was anxious to determine the name of the child in my womb, and kept saying 'perfect'—and he went so far as to say that a true emperor should find a considerate and beautiful mistress from all the classes of society—the great nobles, the military class, the burghers, the merchants, the peasants, and the craftsmen, because then every class would be proud of it......"
"Alright, alright." Anna raised her palm to interrupt the other party and continued to talk about Maglendius's "elder experience", "Agnes, you can rest assured that you will be in the court study of Tarsus during this time, rest assured, I will give your future child a noble name." Now my question is, what about the Gawains? ”
"He did not dare to return to the court of Tarsus, so he fled, saying that he had gone to the Sith county to dispatch all his troops and would go out in the spring of the following year."
"Slipped away again, cunning bear!" Anna clenched her scepter.
By the time spring arrived, the canal between the Komahes and Sanus rivers was completed on time. When the gates were opened, small Latin flat-bottomed boats loaded the iron ore and charcoal from the mountains of Melitene and Elbistan and transported them along the rolling river to the center of iron smelting and forging in the whole country: the city of Tranzak in the county of Sith, where in the same erected pits, the vertically excavated tunnels and the sloped mines were intertwined like spider webs, and mules and horses pulled the heavy carts loaded with ore along the slopes to breathe. In the sound of the whip swinging, there were clusters of eye-catching white gas, and they kept climbing up. In the open field under the ladders, fires were built to burn the sky and clouds of the entire castle and county, and beyond the streets facing the city of Tarsus, there were clear "ruts"—roads on which the load-bearing carriages and ox-carts were most effective.
When the convoys and fleets were carrying the products to the cities of Tarsus and Seleucia, the chimneys of the Ordnance Division's workshops began to smoke again, and the craftsmen of the long fire hammers rolled the iron sheets into the red-hot iron rods, shaped them, and then slowly chiseled them through the front ends, and on the walls behind them were lined up with sharp and huge infantry spears, as well as many wooden carriages of firearms, and some fine workshops made torching hooks and triggers in the shape of dog heads, snake heads, and fish dragon heads.
In the Atalia Bay, five wet and dry docks have been put into operation, and 4,000 shipwrights are supported by 4,000 boatmen in the 50,000 sailors' border area. The local lumberjacks cut down the fine oaks and ash from Phrygia, Pisidia, Hardy, etc., and floated them in bundles from the tributaries of the various mountain ranges, and sent them to the wooden fences at the docks at the mouth of the sea, where they were used as hulls that had been built by the boatmen, and in the large ladder workshops in Alanya and Alaman, long perfume bottles with Persian perfume were made, and a third of them had longer barrels, and cardinals and wheels were installed according to the regulations of the Battle of Philomeron. Sails from Provence and Aquitaine were also made there to strengthen the maritime armament.
Now, Gawain has transformed the corps: the original pyradenalists and firecrackers in it have all been scattered and strengthened into five brigades, so far the auxiliary pyrophers in the brigade are all called "affiliated shooting teams", and the personnel have been expanded to 900 people, a total of 15 companies, and continue to cooperate with 300 archers to serve as the long-range firepower of the brigade and regiment, and the weapons are light long firearms, fork frame heavy firearms and light handguns, as well as many "shrimp mustaches". The Grenadiers Regiment that originally belonged directly to Gawain was renamed the "Artillery Regiment", and they were unified as artillery troops, using medium and heavy artillery, the former was mainly based on elongated perfume bottle cannons with wheels and light siege mortars, and the latter was mainly based on large Prani stone-throwing cannons and fire bear cannons, and was equipped with an exclusive fleet of baggage ammunition.
Now the "artillery regiment" is all assembled in the city of Sith, the camp tents, military flags are distinct, and the gunners and soldiers have eye-catching military uniforms, they not only wear helmets with umbrella crowns, but also wear special sea blue blouses and brass insignia, which is the color of the sailors' uniforms in the ancient Roman imperial era.
At the beginning of spring, the Brenus and his wife's urgent paperwork flew to Tarsus like snowflakes: under the city of Prusa their army was no match for Tetisius, and was defeated one after another. Now the new Emperor John, who has no worries, has basically taken control of the battlefield of the city of Prussia, and has begun to press on the city of South Fihon and the city of Filadofiam.
"It is proposed that General Bramson's Hierapolis Brigade and General Gaia's Comaloy Cavalry Regiment be sent from the Cadmus Pass (a rugged mountain road between Atalya and Ephesus) to the plains of the Millidus Headland, to serve as a backup for the ally Brenus, and to continue the battle with John and Raymond; As for General Decius's Philomeron Brigade, it was also sent to Afyon Castle to replace the strongest Red Hand Brigade, and to cooperate with the border army in the local border area, and continue to bite and entangle Raymond's territory in the front. At this moment, the Red Hand Brigade, the Gimagis Brigade, the Caesar Mounted Cavalry Regiment, the Oghuz Cavalry Regiment, and the Red Hand Twin Cavalry Regiment had finished their winter camp and galloped from all directions to the Sith City to assemble and prepare to support Lord Baldwin on his way to the Holy City to be crowned. ”
When the secret letter containing these contents was approved by Anna and sent to the city of Sith, Gawain also stamped it, "However, you must complete the assembly by March, and then march with the Adana army to the Syrian Gate." In addition, the Defender Brigade was to assemble from the port of Salamis, on the island of Cyprus, alongside Bohemond's army, except for a detachment to be stationed at Fort Kyrenia, under the command of General Branas, to prepare for the landing from Tartus or Latakia by boat at the right time from the flank. ”
This completely formed a "pincer offensive" on land and sea against the state of Antioch.
At the same time, the cavalry was ordered to send another urgent letter from Jerusalem to Gawain and Baldwin, "The Egyptian pagan army has begun to march towards the holy city like the white locusts depicted in the Bible!" ”