Chapter 87: Partial Division
This made Gawain greatly appreciated, knowing that Anderodat led only more than 2,000 people's troops, and after crossing the sea to Kyrenia, he joined up with a detachment of the Guardian Brigade left behind, and then recruited some colonies, and the total strength was more than 3,000 people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The weapons carried by this team were not very good, the cavalry was almost none, there were three or four hundred fire-firing handcuffs that had been replaced by the first-line brigades, and more than twenty light artillery wagons that threw fire, and thirty caravans with vans were the latest equipment.
However, although Anderodat was originally only a trainee friar, and was also engaged in copywriting after being "recruited" by Gawain Friendly, he did not let go of his successive positions as a confidential officer, heraldic officer, and county magistrate, and learned many stories of military strategy.
Anderodat then reported in his book that he had met with the envoy of Marshal Conrad in front of the temple of Paphosme, and that neither the marshal nor his soldiers wanted to return to the kingdom of Salyan, and that they wanted to occupy the city of Salamis on the eastern side of the island and only fifty cures of the Levantine sea, and to establish an independent city-state of their own.
So the shrewd magistrate of Tarsus temporarily agreed to the other party's demand, and demanded that the two sides divide the entire island of Cyprus equally by the river, hoping that Conrad would send Guillaume, Duke of Aquitaine, and Welf, Duke of Bavaria (Matilda's young husband), who had been held hostage by him, and asked Conrad and his nephew Bruno, and His Excellency Bisser, Archbishop of Milan, to command the "poor army of Germany" (Conrad's regular army under the jurisdiction of the Second Crusade was only two or three thousand, The rest were all poor men who helped the peasants) came to join him and besiege Nicosia.
Seeing that the conditions were good, the generalissimo Conrad readily agreed to Androdart's invitation, and he went out with an army of about 3,000 poor men to the outskirts of the castle of Nicosia.
As a result, during a private peace ceremony, when Guillaume and Welf rode to Anderodart's barracks, the county magistrate's crossbowman, who had been in ambush beforehand, suddenly appeared from the bushes and shot the unsuspecting Conrad and his nephew Bruno off their horses.
Frightened, the Archbishop of Milan, Bice, was about to turn around and flee on horseback when he was captured by the militia soldiers who rushed in all directions, and then the camp of the poor Han army was trampled and attacked by the troops commanded by Andero Dart, and a small number of people were killed, and most of them were captured without a leader.
"Conrad had committed robbery while in the Imperial Capital's palace of Juquintina, and had killed one of the former Emperor's kinsmen, the 'Count of Simon' (see above), so Caesar, the Imperial Empire of Tarsus, ordered me to remove it, which is in full accordance with the spirit of the Code." In front of the two dukes, Guillaume and Welf, who were also dumbfounded, the young magistrate of Tarsus, in a flat and cold tone, announced his reason for ambushing and killing Conrad.
The subtext is clear—the rising kingdom of Tarsus now sees itself as the rightful successor to all of Rome, but has not stormed Constantinople for the time being, "Our Caesar and the Patron of the Lord certainly have the right to punish Conrad for his crimes in the legal territory of the Empire." ”
Then the bold magistrate came to the camp of the poor men who had just been taken, and rode on horseback to all the Germans, and told them in a fluent language the benefits of the "sacred estate," "though this island is under the jurisdiction of the Seleucian county, I have every right to distribute to you the lands of Salamis, Paphos, and Kyrenia, and that's all—now you take a good look at the captain of this hundred-man team with me." ”
After saying this, the captain of the hundred-member detachment of the People's Army stood up and encouraged all the poor men to tell them how attractive his holy squirrel was: he had been a scoundrel in his hometown of Mainz, but now he had not only married a beautiful and virtuous Greek wife, but had also saved enough money to buy a house in the ring road of "St. Paul's New Town", and "in the future the great patron and Caesar's guard of honor would pass through the street in front of my house, and I could even see the veil on Caesar's face in the garden window." He boasted so grandly.
Soon all the poor soldiers roared, joined the magistrate, and took the lead to return to Salamis in the east, handing over this important seaport to the great guarantor.
In this way, before and after the message was delivered, Andedat pacified most of Cyprus with lightning speed, and the only stubborn resistance on the island was the Fort of Nicosia in the center of the island, where Apsomatus was located.
Gawain and Anna, who are very happy, immediately stamped their seals together, and replied to Androdart, saying, "The offensive and defensive and government affairs of the island of Cyprus are all handled by yourself, and there is no need to report everything." ”
Andero Dart, who had been given cheap power, took the captive Archbishop of Milan to Paphos, where he received a papal legate from Rome, who had been appointed to arbitrate the dispute between Bohemond and Tancred.
"I am the Bishop of Milan appointed by Emperor Henry of Holy Rome, and even if Emperor Henry is your enemy, you must let me go back in the spirit of peace." After seeing the Pope's legations, Besser protested angrily, "In addition, the generalissimo of the emperor's court was assassinated by one of Gawain's pawns, and you are all responsible for any deviation caused by this situation in the future!" ”
But the representative of the legation coldly told Biser that the son of Emperor Henry (Henry IV) had now accepted the rebellion of the Holy See and rebelled against his father in Salion, and that Henry himself was riddled with evil because of his previous misdeeds (referring to the exile of the former Pope Gregory VII and the establishment of a false pope), "This butcher and antichrist in Italy is about to die, and the city of Milan will soon return to the patronage of the Holy See, so you cannot be let go back." ”
Desperate, Bisher continued to protest, and was tied to a heavy stone and thrown into the current, "hoping that this will allow him to go back without much effort." ”
Soon, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Sulbeli, Cardinal Maurice, and the Patriarch of Tarsus, Anselm, all came by boat and gathered in the beautiful summer scenery of Paphos to add color to the city (frequent reunions after a long absence), and the papal envoys negotiated frankly for several days (spent all day drinking), and a "Antioch Arbitration Resolution" was issued.
Naturally, it was full of unwarranted harshness on Tank Red.