"His Royal Highness is willing to cede all the land and pastures within the fifty guli of Kastabara and the surrounding area, and to surrender his crown to the Grand Duke. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info "Gorpan came to the tent and pleaded.

Gawain sat upright in his chair, with an eagle standing in the crook of his arm, constantly pecking and tearing at the meat on the plate next to him, "Castabara Castle I have promised to be given to Baldwin, Earl of Adana. Eustace, if you would like to speak to Ruben on behalf of this region, please go and consult with him, who is near Antioch at the moment, and I can give you a mule, a horse, and a wenguan. ”

Golpan didn't expect that the Armenian kingdom had already been divided up by this group of gluttonous tables, but now he could only negotiate with his head, "In this case, whatever conditions you have, Your Royal Highness the Grand Duke, you can negotiate." ”

At this moment, the eagle suddenly opened its brown beak and screamed sharply, which made Golpan tremble in fright, and then Gawain lowered his head and smiled, and blatantly put forward the condition, "I want Vanka City, can I talk?" ”

"This is the capital city of His Royal Highness the Prince, and it is absolutely impossible to talk about it." Gorpan was careful and a little indignant.

"Then don't talk about it, I'll take it myself. Anyway, the whole of Cilicia has never been the territory of your Ani, and as for your prince, your prince has already committed a great deal of crimes against the pilgrims, and I think such a punishment is very reasonable. Gawain's hand rested a little lazily on the armrest.

"Then please do not attack the prince's camp and army during this time, I will go back as soon as possible to ask the prince for more conditions, and come to negotiate peace with His Royal Highness the Grand Duke." Gorpan retreated, pleading.

Gawain nodded, his voice soft, "Within three days, our army will keep its promise and never attack the camping of His Royal Highness the Prince, and we will also bother to reply to the new peace terms as soon as possible." With that, he sent for the monk to be sent back.

As a result, Gorpan returned, which provoked a large-scale quarrel and quarrel in Reuben's camp: the prince asked the great nobles to give up their anointed land, or their mineral territories, to satisfy Gawain and save the entire army, but none of these great nobles refused to "rush the country's urgency", and there was even a tragedy of sword fighting and death and injury at the meeting.

Time passed quickly, with some Armenian nobles agitating for a decisive breakout, while others demanding that letters be sent out, drawing rebuke from Constantinople or Rome for Gawain's brutality. At the same time, in the tent of the camp surrounding the position, Gawain was in front of his desk, with a sundial board on one corner and a leaky pot in the corner, waiting quietly.

It wasn't until the second day that the little sunfish opened the curtain in high spirits, and she walked in without hesitation, she had come from the construction site of the water wheel workshop: it was also after hearing that the battle had begun, and she took the initiative to run immediately, sitting on the seat under Gawain and shaking her skirt,

"You brought the Big Plani Cannon?" Gawain asked easily.

"Three, dismantled and transported in separate vehicles." Agnes said, tilting her head sideways.

"How did the entire barracks react when it arrived?"

"Of course it was a sensational cheer, and I realized that I had a nickname—certainly not the insulting nickname you had chosen."

"Oh?"

"The gray-haired Grim Reaper." Agnes triumphantly said this nickname, which directly made Gawain laugh out loud.

"But to deal with the stone shooting cannon of Ruben camp, in addition to the big Prani cannon, the kind you need, have you drawn the drawings?"

"Of course - but that kind of stone cannon, it needs more manpower to control."

"That's not a problem." After Gao Wen finished speaking, he pointed to the document held up by the heraldic officer next to him, "I will send three thousand additional people from the land of Sicili Qiya to serve as military servants. ”

"This group of people, in addition to the need to build fortifications and transport food, is there not enough to serve as temporary artillery crews?"

"Then send my cavalry to the city of Castabara, to capture the people belonging to Reuben, and to hide a lot in the mountains and countryside in order to escape the war—as long as you don't kill them, give them some food, and persuade them patiently, of course many will 'voluntarily cooperate' with our glorious and just cause." Gawain was not in the least embarrassed by this question - soon the whole army drew three hundred cavalry, carrying lassoes, and captured Armenians on a large scale within fifty guilla of the city of Kastabara, and in one day captured four or five thousand men—and then the brotherhood in the barracks gave them a brief "mobilization", and each of them was stuffed with a burlap robe for military servants, and a jar for receiving food, and the corresponding improvised tools, and began to work under supervision......

"I didn't expect you Armenians to have so many people." In the scarlet tent, Gawain, accompanied by the little sunfish, said to General Orson in a mocking tone.

"Forgive me, Your Highness the Grand Duke, I am by no means an Arni, I am a standard Roman, I was born in a relatively remote place, in the fortress adjacent to Alania, but I escaped with the Arni to escape the tide of Turkic invasion, and I fled to Cilicia." Orson hurriedly stroked his chest and bowed in defense.

"Peace of mind, peace of mind. After that, everyone was Roman. Gawain hurriedly apologized for his gaffe, but he then said that tomorrow he would send cavalry along the entire Sanus and Phelamis rivers to capture more Armenians, "These people are not only trophies for me, but also my subjects who will be treated equally in the future, and will in the future migrate en masse to Alalmanburg in the west to open up new lands." ”

Then, Gawain looked at the little sunfish standing beside him, "Very good, there will be no shortage of manpower this time, I will allocate another five hundred soldiers to you as new shooter gunners and trainers, anyway, you don't need so many swords to deal with Ruben." ”

"Then I'll go and prepare." Agnes nodded sharply.

At this moment, in the field under the castle of Babalen, Gawain was appointed by Gauwen and was also the son-in-law of the Orson family, Dorus. Lambert, in the company of the Brotherhood and the Guard, gathered the peasants after the autumn harvest, "There is still some time before the replanting of loose soil, and your time and wealth should not be wasted on idle gambling and frolic, so as to earn more money for your wife and children, and now is a good opportunity to transport grain for the Grand Duke to the front, and give each of you an extra 'ration' (for your own enjoyment) during the working day, and then the New Society will give you another 'ration' (for family members) when you return from the work?" Those who did not want food could be converted into 'crocflowers' or silk cloth like soldiers. ”

"We want rations!"

"We want copper crocus!" Such shouts suddenly came and went.

Countless peasants, tying bags of grain or lumber and other supplies, some to simple mule carts or donkey carts, others directly to wheelbarrows (a technique that did not exist in Western Europe at the time, Byzantium and Persia) marched mightily towards the camp ahead.

But in the procession, mixed with the faceless Anselm and riding a donkey, he went to persuade Gawain to turn back, "because your attack on Ruben is unjustified and cannot be approved by the Pope." (To be continued.) )