Of course, Bramson did this because Gawain had instructed him in advance: before the battle, the emperor told all the generals that in the next battle, you should not hesitate to capture the Sicilians or the Venetians, or turn them into slaves, or execute them, but the Hungarians will be in the realm of our foreign policy in the future, and they will have a share in everything to facilitate their future actions. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In this way, Gellert, the Hungarian palace minister, was left as a hostage, while Almosh continued to march quickly along the Sava River towards the mother country with the group of baros and the troops.

Along the way he met Zavida again. Naimanga's "Hum regime", but the other side was too weak to fight him, so the two sides signed a peace treaty - Almosh quickly passed through the Hum region, and then Almoche went to the border of Zara and Split on the north side of the Adriatic Sea, and extorted a large sum of money from these two maritime trading cities, in the name of the "Kingdom of Hungary"; Then Almosh rushed to the kingdom of Carinthia occupied by Little Roger, and the other party was not polite, and Little Roger thought that it was a great shame for Almosh to bend his knees and beg for mercy in front of Gawain's army, so he pulled out the Norman knights to completely defeat him in the wilderness!

Almosh immediately told little Roger to spare him, and gave him half of the money he had received from Zara and Split as "road money". Only then did Roger Jr. withdraw his troops back to Fort Zagreb and let Almosh cross the border.

In the early winter, the half-dead Almosh finally arrived at the border fortress with about 3,000 Hungarian soldiers, who were also half-alive, in the region of Lower Pannonia, which was all his fiefdoms, so the nobles stationed here visited him and told him: "The archbishop has entrusted me to tell you that everything must be done quickly." The king's health has deteriorated since you went on the expedition, and now that he is dying, he must want to pass the throne to his son Istvani! Good thing you came back in time. ”

Instead of returning to the palace, he contacted all the nobles of Barrow, promising to give them all the estates (less than one-sixth of the country's land) as soon as he was put on the throne, and Almosh encouraged his comrades and said: "I have the support of the archbishop, and I have a large estate, so you will each return to your territory and mobilize your followers, and in three days you will follow me into the palace of Panonharma and take the throne." ”

With this in order, Almosh quickly mobilized three hundred able-bodied servants in his own territory and sent diplomatic letters everywhere, including to Archbishop Shimara Goethe, to the Roman Emperor Gawain, to the Kingdom of Poland, and to Henry V of Germany, in short, to gather legitimacy.

Three days later, when the weather was gloomy, Almosh led a huge army of servants from his castle of Essec to the palace, because he had received a secret letter from the archbishop, which said that he was preparing for the king's deathbed confession, and told Almosh to come to the palace as soon as possible, and he himself would do the subsequent coronation ceremony for the royal brother, "The royal army will remain in the city of Durazo, and you can control the whole palace with the army." ”

In the field in front of Fort Essex, the brute kicked the ground and wailed as Almosh's servants yoked the mules of the flag-pulling carts.

Almosh had a vague premonition in his heart, and at the same moment he heard in the tower that his wife, whom he had taken from Kievan Rus, was holding his son, Bella, who also seemed to be frightened and wept.

Just as Almosh was about to inquire about the learned steward (who also used pagan sorcery for divination), several eagles suddenly circled and flew on the back of the mule beside his chariot, and clung at the beast so fiercely that the mules and horses were jumping and screaming, and the servants kept beating and beating the vicious flat-feathered birds with their spears.

When the falcons were finally driven away, Almosh turned pale with fright, and asked the steward what kind of omen it was.

The steward replied in a deep and hoarse voice, and held up two fingers, "Two hundred years ago, the ancestors of the Magyars formed seven alliances to serve as mercenaries for the Khazar Khan, but the valley of the Etekz River where they lived was invaded by the Pecheneg bandits, and it was impossible to settle down at all, so at that time there was an omen in the sky, and countless falcons flew in, and they stopped on the trees like flies, pecking at the Magyars' cattle and the Magyars' horses, and our ancestors couldn't stay any longer, so they came here with cows and horses. This is God's will, to drive His Highness to take what belongs to him like his ancestors. ”

Almosh, overjoyed at this explanation, thought it to be a great omen, and no longer hesitated, and went to the palace with his own private soldiers.

The palace is surrounded by moats and simple barriers, and still retains the nomadic style, in front of the gate there is a large cart pulled by four sturdy white oxen, on top of which is a crimson tent, on each side of the carriage is an axe with a cow's skull, tied to a black horsetail, this is immediately the king's "coffin", which will pull the king's body to the cemetery of the white castle to be buried.

A drawbridge was lowered, and many of the great Barrow nobles who had come to support Almosh brought their soldiers with them, dismounted, greeted and exchanged pleasantries with Almosh, and then walked into the three floors of the palace in groups.

Behind a screen of bird feathers, Almosh saw his brother lying on a couch, his face sallow, his breath heavy, his white totes beard undulating, and several court servants sucking thick phlegm out of his throat with tubular instruments bought from Egypt, each time subjecting the king to a subhellish cycle of suffering.

When the archbishop saw Almosh enter, he got up and took his hand, and whispered, "Don't be afraid, too much phlegm has hurt his head and organs, and he won't survive these three ......days."

Tears welled up in the eyes of Almosh and all the Barrows, and the royal brother even knelt down in front of his brother's couch, took his dry hand, and touched Coroman's wrinkled forehead, "For God's sake, I feel sorry for you, my dear brother. ”

"You're here, Tonuzoba......" Coroman looked at his brother with his eyes wide open, his head tilted struggling on the pillow, his mouth drooling.

"No, I'm not Tonuzoba, I'm your most loyal brother Almosh."

This old man's time is really running out, and he can't even recognize people.

"Send my son Istevani to Tonuzoba, or someone will harm him!" Coroman's eyes were suddenly frightened, and he squeezed his brother's hand and pleaded loudly.

The archbishop immediately approached, and in a tone of reminder and warning, "You are here again, no one here will harm your son." But it was inopportune for Istevani to ascend the throne, and in that case someone would indeed harm him. So you have to give up your throne to your brother Almosh, so that you can be recognized by the Pope. Hungary can survive, don't you understand? ”