readx;?It turns out that this Leo. Jeff Glevich claimed to be the son of the former emperor Romanus, whose father was liquidated by political enemies after the crushing defeat at the Battle of Manchiket, and died in exile after suffering brutal corporal punishment. Pen, Fun, and Pavilion www.biquge.info and Leo, the son of Romanus, were also executed.

However, while it was officially recognized that Leo had been punished, the Empire's enemies of all stripes did not. Soon all sorts of "sons of Romanus" came out, of all colors and languages - even Cabeamia had a shepherd to impersonate, and this Leo. Jeff Glevich also appeared in the Kherson region (southern Crimea) six years ago, and was recruited by Monomach as his son-in-law, and at first Alexios ordered Theodoro in Kherson, and put this guy in prison for pretending to be the son of the former emperor - but soon Leo escaped from prison, claiming to be the son of Emperor Romanus, claiming the throne of Constantinople by force, gathering a large number of Pechenegs who coveted the wealth of Constantinople, and with the covert support of the princes of Rus', and the defection of the Bulgarian Paulicians, Overwhelming attack on Constantinople.

Alexios used his power to entrap the Kipchaks (also known as the Cumans in the Saracen language, the Kipchaks in the Celestial Empire, the Komaroi in Byzantium, and the Polovtsi in the Rus' as the Popotsi, which is indeed so chaotic) to cut off the back path of the Leo and Pechenegs, and then the Emperor resolutely attacked, and a great battle broke out with the invading enemy at the Rila Mountains. The battle was the most glorious achievement of Alexios' life, when Gawain was fighting in Italy, and Anna had snuck to the Cathedral of the Prophet to observe how horses were used to divinate the good fortune of war.

Leo. Jeff Glevich was captured after the war, and the emperor blinded him and exiled him to an island in the Aegean Sea, where he was secretly executed two years later.

But the resentment was born: the Emperor was very dissatisfied with Kievan Rus', who had instigated Leo's support, and was also suspicious of Theodoro, who was the ambitious veteran who had deliberately released Leo from prison. In the eyes of the emperor, Trabzon, Kiev, and Georgia were almost an "axis of evil", and the danger to the empire was comparable to that of Gawain.

Therefore, the emperor has always been friendly to the Kipchaks, because this group has been constantly at war with the Rus' kingdom, among which the former Kipchak Khan Itari was treacherously assassinated by the Rus', which was Alexios' weight to defeat the enemy.

Now the emperor has adopted this strategy - to win over the most powerful leader of the Kipchaks, Bonyak, and let him storm the area around Kyiv and Kherson, "and then I will naturally make Theodoro doppelganger." ”

When the Emperor's envoy crossed the strait by boat and set out for the other side of the black sea, Gawain hurried to the city of Castabara, where the Baldwins waited nervously and anxiously, and when Gawain had just dismounted and entered the hall, they told him the shocking news:

"Bohemond suffered a heavy defeat in front of Marlashburg. Bohemond, Richard, Reinold, and other army leaders were all captured, and his army disintegrated and collapsed, and half of the nearly 500 knights of Apulia were killed in battle, and the other half were also prisoners along with Bohemond. ”

"What!" Even Gawain was shocked, he was just about to come here for reinforcements, who would have thought that Bohemond would be defeated so quickly - how rash was he?

"Aleppo's Ridwan is backwatering?" This was Gawain's second eagerly answer.

Baldwin nodded, indicating that Gawain was right.

When Bohemond assembled at Samosata, he began to advance along the valley at the end of the Euphrates towards Marash. Although he did not follow Gawain's advice, he listened to Gregor's suggestion to have the Gimagis brigade cross to the left bank of the river to defend Tubosena and Laverdra.

Sure enough, according to the battlefield set by Hercules, that is, on the plain southeast of Marash, Bohemond stationed his army here, and the Armenian army lined up to meet the battle, which was broken by Bohemond with skillful use of infantry several times. Reinolds then strongly advised the Duke of Antioch to move his camp to a gentle hill on the west side: that would allow the Norman knights to overlook and control the entire battlefield.

But Bohemond was so aggressive, believing that "if I had followed Reinold's plan, I would have delayed the siege of Marashburg, and would have made it easier to camp on flat ground." ”

Immediately, the main force of the whole Armenia retreated to the fortress, and the triumphant Bohemond set up camp on the flat land where the water source and meadow were abundant, began to prepare equipment, erected five cannons (the monkey version of the stone) to throw stone projectiles, and let the Aleppo general Ma Polo set up camp to protect the food routes.

Two days later, in front of the camp erected by the Gimagith brigade, the soldiers patrolling the guard arrested several spies who were heading in the direction of Aleppo, and after severe torture, one of them confessed that they were Ma Polo's subordinates and were about to contact Ridwan to discuss the matter of sending troops to cut off Bohemond's rear route.

Gregor, who did not dare to slacken, immediately took his cavalry and galloped to the foot of Marash to report the incident to Bohemond, and that night Marpol led all the horses into rebellion, burning baggage everywhere, and engaged in a fierce battle with the arriving Gregor cavalry in the valley. Gregor's army was outnumbered, so he hurriedly withdrew to the camp, and the next morning the Norman camp was in disarray, when Bohemond mounted his horse to maintain order himself, and at this moment the enemy with whom he had "fought the map", the Great Emir Merrick of Danishmund, with 4,000 cavalry, suddenly appeared on the flank of the mountain.

It turned out that Merrick had also accepted the invitation of the Armenians, understood the necessity of uniting against the enemy, and after repelling Theodoro's attack, he gathered all the elites at hand and galloped south day and night in the direction of Lake Van to rush to this battlefield.

And in Marash Fort, Pak Ad, Hercules and his son also took the opportunity to stand out with a thousand selected dead soldiers, and the arrows fired by Armenians, Turks and Kurds in the valleys densely darkened the entire sky, and the servant armies on the left and right flanks of Bohemond, who had been negligent in the enemy, were crushed and scurried.

At the same time, Fira and Saliki also appeared around the camp of the Gimagith Brigade with the rest of the army, and fierce fighting was raging everywhere. Gregor held the fort with one detachment, and the two detachments set up ambushes on both sides of the fortification, and routed the invading men of Ferra and Saliki, who fought to escape back to Laverdra, and then Gregor led the other two detachments to the north to take Bohemond out of the predicament.

After all, Bohemond can't be finished at this time, once it is finished, the middle waist of the Holy Alliance will be cut off, and the fate of several newborn countries will be lost! (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.