Chapter 6: Wreckage and Steles

The administration of the original "Frontier Fortress District" of the autonomous region was divided into three levels by Gao Wen, namely the "Captain of the Hundred Captains", the "Fortress District" and the "Governor's Military Region". Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Similar to the county district, the Captain District of the Hundred is the most basic unit, they are mostly the townships surrounding the synagogue or the castle, they are the smallest administrative districts for conscription and taxation, and they are also independent border hundreds, with their own battle flags and vehicles.

The fortified area is composed of several hundred-man captains, whose commanders are both military and civilian, and are called "general chariots". Each general commanded about five to ten hundred-man troops, which were formed on the battlefield in units similar to brigade detachments.

Eventually, an unequal number of fortified districts from each region were combined with independent (under the direct jurisdiction of the Overseers) of 100 troops to form the entire "Overseer".

Therefore, the Governor's District can be regarded as an improved version of the original Eastern Roman Empire Military Region, all the soldiers who assume the role of border people, enjoy the rights and interests of tax exemption on part of the field, tax reduction, possession of war spoils, and the same can be upgraded, and weapons, horses and armor They can take the form of "loan" and receive them from the designated military station, but vehicles, bows and arrows need to be brought by themselves, and the equipment received is of course worse than that of regular brigades, most of which are reserved by the latter, such as when the brigade wears ring armor, they are chain mail, old armor, In this way, the pressure on the border people to serve is reduced in every possible way (the border people's 100-man area bears a lower tax, and Gawain wants to exchange the tax for military service), which can drive them to be loyal to the border fortress or key pass, not only can they guard the guard tower or fortress when a large number of enemies are coming, but also can search and eliminate small groups of enemies or bandits alone, and protect the surrounding security.

Such as Walter. The "Samosata Governor's District" under Sanzabal's command is under the jurisdiction of four "fortress areas" such as Amida and Mardin, plus the seventeen centurions under Samosata's own command, and the entire Governor's District can dispatch forty-five hundred-man regiments to fight. Even according to Roman practice (a quarter or a third of the soldiers were missing, and a hundred-man corps might be sixty or eighty), three thousand frontier soldiers could be drawn into battle at any time.

This three-tier subdivision also avoids the situation of the Overseers separating their powers, which were appointed by the Imperial Government, and the Superintendents were also set up to supervise the Overseers. Prevents Overseers from expanding their powers.

Among the Governorates, Samosata, Marash, Erez, Iberia (the capital of Tortomi), and Alan (the capital of Tbilisi, which was also the cantonment of the Bellerophon Brigade), relied on the eastern part of the Taurus Mountains, the Greater and Lesser Caucasus Mountains, and the Pontus Mountains, and the revived Armenia to form the "Eastern Front Defense Line"; The three places of Angras, Pisidia, and Dolila Aim constitute the "Anatolian Plateau Defense Line" with a deeper core, arching the second line of defense.

Of course, in the future, in the western border, more governors will be established.

The original sailor border area has also automatically become the "fleet superintendent district", and now there are three places in Cyprus, Atalia and Mysia, most of which are seafaring autonomous cities, and provide docks and timber for fleet training and manufacturing.

"Immediately three governorates were established in northern Thrace: the Macedonian Governorate, with Adrianople as its capital; Governor of the Fleet of Meisembria, with the capital of Meisembria; There is also the Bolgar Governor's Military District, whose capital is Fort Philip. At this moment, facing the large map table, Gawain said calmly, pushing out the slender scepter of the golden eagle, pushing a few wooden blocks marked with words, and stretching them out to the various areas he pointed to, "When I lead the Guardian Brigade and the Red Hand Brigade to attack the Holy Mountain, on the north side I need the cover provided by these three Governors along the Evros River to the Yukchen Sea, of which the Bulgarian Governorate controls the border between Macedonia and Ancient Bulgaria, and the Macedonian Governorate guards the imperial capital, and Meisembria maintains the shipping of the Yukchenhai, Get supplies from Asia Minor at any time. ”

In the end, Gawain also made a point to announce that these three overarching districts had been created in a hurry, and the border militia might be lacking, so he began to send ships to Moldavia, Wallachia and other regions, using the name of Yasin Khan, who was "secluded" in Iconium, to recruit the steppe barbarians of Komaloy (Cuman) and Pecheneg to supplement the light cavalry ranks, and recruited 4,000 strong believers from many Pauline synagogues in the east under the jurisdiction of the Holy Sister, and cooperated with the originally dormant Paulines and Bogmüllers in Thrace and Macedonia. Temporary reinforcement of the military forces of the three new districts.

The original Plonian landlords, who had previously been concentrated in Constantinople, were unified in the imperial capital and granted real estate, and they themselves began to defend Vizer and other castles, and began to form a new "Bulgarian brigade".

In June, the entire Gyeonggi region fell into its most difficult stage, with many farmers living on goat's milk, milk, vegetables, and berries, and only officials, artisans, and military dependents living in the imperial capital were able to eat fish and meat from the Yukexing Sea and the Marimara Sea, as well as a small amount of salt. Gao Wen had already hurriedly instructed Zhao Zhao, the director of the Oriental Business District, to urgently purchase and transport grain from Armenia and Sylvan to come to the rescue.

At this time, I can only go out to rob, ah no, the expedition.

The scorching sun, after a day of might, was now shrunk in the evening like the bright heart of a lover, pulsating slightly, and its light arrows pierced through all the trees on both sides of the avenue of Egnandia, and threw themselves on the armor of the endless stream of soldiers, as if to burn a flame, and the golden red hand and golden citrus flags shook under the high aloft of the flag bearers, and the commander Gawain, who was on his horse, was a little parched by the shaking of his mouth.

The sunlit trees were turquoise and turquoise, but the sky was a low grayish-blue, and the same gray clouds were like long lines, lying overhead, boring and languid.

Three days later, the army arrived in Philippi.

Gawain saw the corpse of Tetisius in the wilderness by the street, bitten by wild dogs and left only a pile of broken skeletons lying in the grass, and the rotten cloak that covered it, miraculously not swept away by the wind and rain, but its weapons and money bags had long since become the trophies of the killing of his soldiers.

Seeing this, Gawain was quite sentimental, and he said to Muzafiadin in a hoarse voice, "Burn his remains, bury the ashes in a clay pot, and set up a stone tablet." ”

Soon Muzafiadin stood in the twilight with a torch, and the bones of Tetisius were lit with a vigorous fire...... The erected stele simply reads "Philippi, the burial place of a slave who betrayed his master."

At nightfall, the envoy sent by Zezes crouched in the purple camp, kissed Gawain's boots, and said that his master was willing to sacrifice the whole of Thessalonica, including the city of Thessaloniki, but hoped that "Your Majesty would grant me the rank of Caesar, and the rank of commander of a brigade, and grant myself a special allowance one-fifth of the annual income of the city of Thessaloniki." ”

"Cetzus can only be attributed to the rank of the illustrious." Gawain was full of disgust for this guy who was on the verge of extinction and did not forget to bargain.