At the end of the summer, the Guardian Brigade landed on the shores of Kyrenia as scheduled in a fleet and took over the castle on the seafront, while the Cypriot army retreated in humiliation to the castle of Nicosia on the other side of the river. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Gawain and Anna immediately appointed Polybi, the governor of Seleucia, to cooperate with General Branas in the administration of the government, and said that "then the civil affairs of Kyrenia and the Seleucian county will be the same." ”

Four thousand immigrants and a thousand Slavic and Adigai slaves soon flocked to the island, building dwellings, forts, and roads around the castle and the mountains. Branass then proclaimed to the natives of all Kyrenia, "You were originally self-governing inhabitants of the Roman Empire, and all life should be the same as before." Tarsus Caesar and the Grand Patron will be exempt from your taxes for one year, minus three years. ”

So the surname is Huan.

However, Gawain soon revealed his true intentions: immigrants and slave laborers began to take over the copper deposits in the Trudos Mountains, repaired and added copper furnaces, and began to forge them on a large scale.

It doesn't matter what the land is in an environment like Cyprus, it's all about copper, copper and copper!

Polibi, who obeyed the order, soon instructed his officials to contract one-third of the copper mines to the merchants of Amalfi or Rela. The other two-thirds remained, and "all the copper obtained was at the disposal of the great foundry of Santa Barbara in the city of Tarsus, and was used to mint coins and to cast guns and cannons." ”

Soon Bohemond also went ashore in Paphos, standing in front of the monuments of the famous Temple of the Beauty, and erected his signature white flag of Phnom Penh, where all the soldiers who followed his adventure were encamped with excitement and forced the local population to donate food and wine to them, the most famous of which was the wine of Cyprus, and many of the soldiers drank without pity.

"Prepare the horse, I'm going to Kyrenia to meet Gawain."

During this time, Gawain met with the messenger of Brenus, and the messenger of Raymond, who warmly received the former and expelled the latter.

"I've said before that there will be no big war this year, but that doesn't mean there won't be a small war. In the name of reinforcing the brothers-in-law, let the Red Hand Brigade and the Komaroi Cavalry Regiment stationed in Afyon attack the valley and border area of Laudisia, and then the two new brigades of Philo Melellon and Hierapolis also joined in, plus the Nikitas Party, took turns to attack Raymond's territory, didn't he claim that the fortress was towering and invincible? I made it impossible for him to financially support the castle in the coming year. ”

Then the Red Hand Brigade and the two new brigades stayed in Afyon every once in a while to rest, and the other sent elite detachments to Laurisia to engage in scorched earth raids with the cooperation of the mountain bandits and the cavalry regiment, and fought a big fight.

The one-eyed Raymond was made to scream in pain - he couldn't be beaten head-on, and it was safe to retreat into the castle, but Gawain's soldiers packed up the crops and livestock outside the castle and took them away. Many of the subjects couldn't stand it, and the opposite country of Tarsus was lightly paid, so they simply didn't wait for the Gawain army to come, so they crossed the border with their children and property in groups to defect to the "country of hope", and the other subjects also climbed to the top of the mountains and built camps to protect themselves. In short, Raymond was immediately broken.

When John passed the crusade order against him in the imperial capital, he and Dedo not only did not have any intention of surrendering and confessing their sins, but denounced John as a traitor who killed his father and seized the throne, and began to send troops to attack Prusa continuously, and occupied the alum mines of Smyrna and the frankincense of Caius, and forced the Rewax Duck and the Pisa Chamber of Commerce to pay him the rent and dividends here, cutting off Constantinople's trade routes in the Holy Sea, "The proceeds were used to build a fleet, and after capturing Prusa, we would crusade against the traitors!" ”

Enraged, John leased Corfu and other Adriatic gateway islands to Venice, and asked the other party to send a fleet to attack Smyrna. and gave Theodoro the title of Grand Head of the Imperial Administration. Gabrias, deposing the old general Harold, who was still loyal to the emperor and questioning the emperor's death, announced that all the forces of Bithynia and Paphragonia would be merged and placed under the control of Tetisius, and that they would approach the territory of the Brenus and General Xhosa, and constitute a "centripetal offensive" against them.

"The rebellion in Brenus must be put down in the coming year." John announced.

Therefore, Raymond has actually become a fireproof brick wall that isolates the projection of Gawain's military power, and the only value of existence is to "go around with Gawain for a while and then collapse".

After the death of Alexios, the East and West of the entire empire became even more chaotic, and it returned to the original situation of the "Four Caesars Civil War".

Many supervisors and tax collectors cried, "Now let alone the peasants, even we can't live happily." ”

On the other hand, Gawain took the opportunity to expand his influence to the east, and the occupation of a corner of Cyprus was just a "firerope" that he lit.

In Fort Kyrenia, Gawain and Baldwin, who had crossed the sea, shook hands with Bohemond, and a new joint agreement was reached:

At the beginning of the following year, Gawain and Bohemond helped Baldwin to build public opinion and go to the Holy City to inherit the throne of David from his late brother Godfrey;

After Baldwin became king, he made an excuse to declare war on Tancrede, and Bohemond and Gawain marched together by land and sea to defeat Tancrede, and Bohemond would restore the status of the lord of Antioch;

The restored Duchy of Bohemond and Antioch will be vassal to Jerusalem and provide reinforcements in battle;

Thereafter, the three sides marched and retreated, and the boundaries of the subsequent attack were not to be crossed - Aleppo and Edessa to Bohemond, Marash, Cyprus, and Tripoli to Gawain, and Damascus and Azouf to Baldwin.

As for Aptsomatus, he still had the power to nod his head in the previous Meydens Secret Meeting, and now even this is denied, and the three at the "Kyrenia Conference" have merely regarded him as meat to the slaughter on the chopping block.

Over the next few months, all three parties were heavily harvesting and building ships in their respective territories to prepare plans for the coming year.

When the news reached Antioch, Tancreed, who was wearing an Armenian robe and a crown, was in pain, and he first angrily denounced Apsomatus for his cowardice and incompetence, and actually made a foolish act of opening the door and stealing it, "Uncle, you finally came back, you want to take back what you think belongs to you, right?" But I will not be like the weak Greeks, deceived by your and Gawain's diplomatic blackmail, and come to take Antioch with dignity! How long did it take more than 100,000 soldiers to besiege the city and take the city, and I wanted to carry forward the Biagi. Siyan's more courageous power. ”

After saying that, Tanfred summoned the envoys, "First go to the Holy City, and warn the Patriarch, Lord Sambel, that Gawain, Baldwin, and Bohemond are plotting against him and me, and that he must be careful in all affairs of the Holy City, and not give the other side a handle." ”

Soon Sambel's secret letter arrived, "Rest assured, I will keep this place in an impregnable iron barrel, and if Baldwin dares to make any foolish moves, I will impeach and depose him directly before the Holy See." (To be continued.) )