Soon on the beach in the Gulf of Issus, Bohemond and Richard, Rainold, and forty or so knights of the Devil's End set up a circle of tents, and stayed there - it is said that Bohemond also found a pottery bowl and put it on his head, and then told Richard to cut off all the hair and beard that appeared outside the pottery bowl with scissors, and after the time Bohemond became a pottery bowl, more regular than Andero Dart's mushroom head. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Expressing his determination to cut his head and shave his head, Bohemond pointed to the mighty bay and swore by the rushing waves, "How my father Guiscutt fought back then, and so do I do today." ”

On the other side, in the city of Castabara, about a hundred miles from the bay, Gawain heard that Bohemond was there, and his subordinates asked if they wanted to see the other party, Gawain shook his head, "No need to see me, I am not the kind of philistine who sells favors for two hundred pounds of gold." In the near future I will return to the Sebastian Plateau to check the adequacy of the defence system, and then return to Tarsus with the Red Hand Brigade. I fear that in the coming year there will be an even more dire situation, when Bohemond will do whatever he wants—now send me fifty horses to his camp, plus thirty pounds of gold and grain, and nothing else. ”

At this time, news from the Levant also came: Godfrey had successfully driven out Ducaq. The 10,000 soldiers and horses of Tutush helped the border militias in Jubail and Beirut to relieve their predicament, and Gawain also sent 20,000 Byzantian gold coins as a reward, but Godfrey refused, and there was only one sentence in his letter to Gawain:

"Stubbornly hold the plateau and help my younger brother Baldwin at a critical moment."

It is said that after the triumph of Jerusalem, Patriarch Sambel continued to demand, and his appetite was so greedy that he demanded that both Jerusalem and Jaffa be brought under the scepter of the Holy See (in fact, himself) and united into an independent "diocese of Jerusalem", and claimed that he must exercise the "right of appointment of kings", that is, that both Godfrey and Tancred should be anointed and consecrated by him in order to retain royal power over Jerusalem and Antioch.

As soon as he had said this, Tancred hurried to the Holy City, accepted Sambel's anointing, and became the de facto ruler of the Duchy of Antioch, where he took possession of his uncle's palace, and took in the Armenian woman Mesander, whom she favored as if she were his own queen, and promoted many Armenian, Turkic, and Persian people in the country.

In the Holy City, the quarrel between the army and the church became more and more fierce, attacking each other and framing each other, and the deacon of the Holy Sepulchre Hospital Gerard and the hermit Peter were caught in the middle, and the persuasion was to no avail, and finally Godfrey made a concession and handed over a quarter of the city of Jerusalem, together with the taxes and tributes, to the Catholic priests led by Sambel, and the other party was considered to have stopped.

After this had come to an end, Godfrey, who had worked tirelessly, conducted a complete survey of his villages, and found that he had only five hundred and eighteen knights to mobilize, 5,700 mounted soldiers and infantry with his retinues, and that Ashkelon, Azuf, Acre, Tyre, Sidon, Tripoli, Damascus, and other powerful and hostile fortress cities were all around.

After another month, Peter, the equally disheartened monk, remounted his donkey, wrapped in a tattered robe and carried the cross, left Jerusalem, which had once symbolized the glory of all the Crusades, and came to Jaffa and boarded a ship and sailed away, behind him the quarrels of the people in the Great Mosque continued endlessly.

"Solomon's temple, you have seen how your brother fell apart and brought you to ruin. Perhaps in the near future, you will see again that people are the stupidest race that will never grow up, and they will only exhaust their efforts and financial resources to build another ruin. ”

Coincidentally, when Peter disembarked in the port of Malrus, he met the Patriarch of Antioch, John. Ochilte, who had just been expelled from Tancred, "now enshrined the Church of Ani in the city of Antioch, and the newly enthroned Norman prince and his wife wore Ani-style attire and formed an Armenian guard. We Orthodox members were exiled and expelled, and they said that I would either help Gawain or the Greek emperor in the future, and that I could not trust or condone it. ”

Two days later, in the palace of Tarsus, Anna warmly received them, "O hermit, where are you going, my brother and mentor of Gawain?" ”

"After the success of the holy war, we should be gradually forgotten characters, and I want to return to my hometown of Amiens, to retire in a monastery."

"Go to the Valley of the Mut River to revive the Monastery of Alahan and I will give you the land that surrounds it." Anna generously said, "Why travel thousands of miles to do the same thing? Then Caesar asked about the future of the Patriarch of Antiochus, and when he said that he wanted to go back to the imperial capital, Anna said, "St. Paul's Cathedral, which is about to be completed, is lacking an old and virtuous elder like you to take on the responsibility of ruling over the entire plateau Orthodox Christians." ”

In this way, both were retained and settled by Anna.

Peter was given the monastery of Arahan at the northern end of the valley of the Mut River, where there was a hazel forest, and a vegetable garden and wheat field on the hill, mixed with many beautiful flowers, and the monastery was once stationed in the Seleucian army of three hundreds, who brought in bricks and stones to repair it, forming a small fortress overlooking the mountains of Taurus, Peter stayed here, and began to isolate himself from the fanatical work of his original life, and began to meditate on the religious manuscripts and texts - the times are developing, but some people may be abrupt, Forever silent to the bottom of the long river

But Gawain still had to float in the river, the whole kingdom was running wildly, and for the greater and more terrible war to come, the recovery of Meritene and Sebastian was not the end, but only the beginning, and the greater challenge came from the West, from the hostile Constantinople - when Peter left Jerusalem, Gawain said goodbye to his wife and daughter, and returned to the plateau as planned. In autumn, the noise and dust of the horse caravans stood out in the separated wheat fields outside the city, and when the frontier people at the head of the city opened the fortified gates, the great patron and the armoured cavalry appeared in the welcoming crowd at the sound of screeching trumpets and barking dogs, and the hooves of the horses were constantly beating on the paved pavement.

"What's the situation at the border?" Gawain walked to the city's palace, followed by the brigade generals, led by Bramson and Walter. Sanzabal.

"There was a lot of peace between Melitene and Marlash, but Sebastian had been fighting a border battle with Merrick, with General Orson and the Archon of the Golden Hand involved, and there were almost daily battles." Bramson replied. (To be continued)). If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote, your support is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to read. )