"Please ask Your Majesty for approval no later than tomorrow, otherwise Your Majesty's Long Don army on the other side of the swamp will not be a good long-term strategy for the Empire, and the relationship with his servants will not be improved, so that after the capture of Alalmanburg, Gawain is likely to continue to advance, and if he offends His Majesty's prestige at that time, it will really make people sigh. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Gao Wen was impatient, and threatened the old man Mao Pros with a hot speech.

And Maupoulos did not have any rebuttal, because before he left, the emperor only gave him the task of negotiation, and did not grant him any power to negotiate, "just set out Gawain's more detailed conditions", which is what the emperor said to him.

Sure enough, what Gawain said was different from the original peace agreement. This should be the purple-clothed princess Anna behind him. Ducasse, the carefully planned "enhanced version". However, Gawain then added his own clause to Anna's peace proposal to show his "loyalty" to the empire and His Majesty, that is, until June of the following year, Gawain would take out a full 6,000 gold Byzantian coins as compensation, which was also the "tribute" that the whole of Seleucia should pay to His Majesty the Emperor, and then he and Anna continued to govern South Cappadocia for three years, and would pay a tribute of 3,500 gold coins to His Majesty every year (which is also regarded as rent for the legal territory of the Empire). Until they captured the city of Melitane, they continued to return South Cappadocia to the Emperor.

Stacks of peace papers, locked in lead boxes, were more like an errand runner, and Maupulos carried them to the boat, and sailed back to the Emperor's camp to the cheers of the unexplained guards of Alalmanburg.

Everyone saw that after the emperor asked everyone else to retreat, he opened the lead seal box in the tent alone, and studied it silently, no one knew what kind of reaction and mood the emperor had after seeing this, and it was not until the afternoon of the same day that the emperor finally summoned his henchman and imperial ink official in. Then it is said that in the middle of the night, the Imperial Imperial Ink Officer, Myles, secretly rowed to the other side of the swamp in an even more humble boat, carrying the agreed torch as a signal, and talked with Gao Wenmi in the tent for nearly an hour.

The content of the secret conversation was almost unknown to everyone except the Grand Duke's most trusted heraldic officer, Ander Odart, but the deputy heraldic officer Wright was able to stand outside the scarlet tent, and vaguely heard some words, such as "Antioch and Bohemond", "Hugh's murder", etc., and the others could not be heard clearly even by the astute Wright.

But what is certain is that when the sun rose in the east the next day, the emperor's army on the other side of the swamp suddenly left in large numbers without any warning, and even Tetisius, who was in charge of the broken off, withdrew with the five thousand men and horses left behind, and withdrew a full twenty or thirty romans in the direction of the coastal road of the city of Atalia, and set up a camp on the other side of the Alarman headland, which was tantamount to completely abandoning Alalman.

When the unkempt guards of the city climbed to the battlement, they saw that behind the two deep trenches surrounding their field of vision, Gawain's camp of more than 7,000 military horses was like an iron wall, and the military flag was unmiscellaneous, and it was not moving......

"What the hell is going on?" In the central tower, the old Dawen couldn't hold his breath and took the lead in pacing and roaring. Ace, on the other hand, turned pale, slowly crouched down against the wall, and even said that we had been betrayed by the emperor, Alarman had become a Jedi, and our family was going to be wiped out by this ocean.

"Isn't there still three months of food reserves?" The boss was naturally quite optimistic, he walked over and grabbed the third child's arm to cheer him up.

Who thought of Ace. Callegos cried with a sad face, "That's me deceiving the soldiers and the people, in fact, the food in the cellar can last for a month at most." ”

Now the two brothers clenched their heads in horror, and they looked up at the central tower where the family base was located, with its airtight walls made of high masonry, narrow and curved stairways, crisscrossed by reinforced wooden frames, and black bats hovering and flying above from time to time. What's more, the real coffin of the second Tai Luo was lying in front of their eyes, and it was also in the corner next to their father's chair.

Nika lay in his chair, as if he had not moved for a long time, and although he was covered with a splendid robe, his white hair was scattered, and several of the servants in charge of the service told him that the old general drank only wheat porridge twice a day, and nothing else touched it, and then the old voice sounded, "The grave of our Callegos has been identified a long time ago......

"Father!" The last two Callegos pounced on Nika's feet.

"Don't talk about it, when the time comes, you will take all your personal soldiers and defend this tower, maybe there will be a glimmer of life." That was Nika's answer.

"Break through, there are still a few small boats in the dockyard of Ayutthaya, father, we break through ......"

"Shut up, Sith City is gone, Fort Mut is gone, if Alalmanburg is discarded again, then what are you calling Callegos for?" Nika shouted angrily, "Leave this seashore and plateau, do you think there will be our seat in Constantinople?" The roots of Callegos are only here after all, and there is nothing wrong with the painting painted by that princess, and the emperor can abandon us without any scruples today, and he will never have mercy on us in the future. ”

"Then what are we going to do, father."

"Dissipate gloriously in this land, with the last bow and arrow, and fight unto death." Nika raised her cloudy eyes, stroked the heads of her two sons with both hands, one left and one right, "Those two are no longer members of our family, and the fourth and fifth are also uncertain about their futures, so we here simply let us abandon all hope and happily play an elegy for Callegos and erect a monument." ”

A few days later, the Emperor's men and horses were no longer visible, and on the waters of Alamanburg there was a fleet of ships whose decks and sails were full of stinking sailors with wine jars, Greeks, Syrians, Flanders and Antwerps, but their identities were the same, that of the murderous and shameless pirates, commanded by Winmoha, who had been released from the prison of Latakia. Eustace, the other Italian city-states did not dare to intervene openly in the war with Alarman, but the notorious pirate Winmoha, who had no scruples, let alone a personal enmity against the Emperor, took with him a full twelve oars, and countless light ships, and in Seleucia joined several galleys of Andreev and Jalguba, and was now riding the rolling waves towards Alarman. (To be continued.) )