At this moment, the Sylvan servants in the entire hall were shouting and screaming, waving their arms and running outside. Writing%Fun%Pavilion www.biquge.info Gawain's Praetorian Guards, under the command of Muzafi Adin, surrounded all the exits in front of the door, lined up in a double row, all armed with shining halberds, and rushed in with a cajoling voice, "Don't let anyone go!" Muzafiadin shouted.

The halberd blade thrust into the thorn, and many of the envoys and servants who were caught off guard were pierced through the chest, and the corpses fell to the ground, and the rest of the people and the boys and girls who had performed hurriedly crouched on the floor with their heads in their hands, not daring to make any movements.

"Stop!" The Great Patron of Neri put his boots on the head of the fallen Assassin and drew the sword of phosphorus fire with his hand, "Take them into custody and interrogate them in detail—there must be an Assassin stronghold between Melitene and Greater Armenia." ”

After speaking, Gao Wen turned around and squatted down, helped the sleeping officer who was hit by the arrow to his feet, and the holy sister also leaned over, "How do you feel, Wen Ruominna?" ”

The sleeping officer's face and lips were pale, her hair was scattered, and half-coagulated black blood flowed from the wound on her right arm, and the meridians on her lower wrist also turned black, "Gawain, she was hit by a poisoned arrow." With that, Cabeamia tore off the corner of her coat and wrapped her arms around Wen Ruomina's wrist, trying to prevent the toxin from spreading to her whole body and heart, which would be completely hopeless.

"Your Royal Highness, I have finally repaid you...... the sleeping officer's breath was very weak, and Gawain hurriedly asked her not to speak again, "But please heal me, even if I amputate my right wrist, I can continue to serve you with my left wrist......"

Gawain hurriedly asked the Holy Sister and the rest of the female officials who knew how to heal to help Wen Ruominna into the inner room for treatment, and the most important thing now was to control her poisonous injuries. "In addition, spend a lot of money on Persian doctors or Saracens who can know how to operate in the whole region, and if Winromina really needs to have her leg amputated, they are the only ones who can do it, and it is important to save this girl's life."

On the other hand, the Brotherhood officials and the postmen who accompanied the Tarsus accompanied them began to interrogate the Hilvan envoys, "The focus is on which route and when the Assassins got in!" Gawain instructed, "And don't just look at the distant mountain sects, but dig out the suspicious accomplices entrenched in Greater Armenia!" ”

After careful analysis and harsh cross-examination, the answer was not difficult to come to terms - the Assassins of the Order of the Mountains could not have traveled that far alone from the Persian border to the city of Melitane, where, as Gawain had predicted, they must have a secret stronghold in Greater Armenia for infiltration and transit.

Eventually, several of the lieutenants in the legation admitted that they had been greedy for bribes and had accepted a bribe from a Greek in the middle of the way, and the Greek had then stuffed the three Assassins into the legation under the guise of "helper procurement", without even knowing that the hapless envoy had just been assassinated.

The lieutenants also confessed where the Assassins had infiltrated.

The answer is: in the city of Diarbakir.

It turned out that Ahmadi, the chief of the Sylvan Kingdom, had sent an envoy from his capital Taulis, bypassing the mountainous region of Erzurum (the northern front of Greater Armenia), where the two forces of Danishmond and Sagitus were at war with Zhenggovin, and instead followed the trade routes of the relatively peaceful kingdoms of Kirat Pasha and the Emirate of Artuki (the southern line of Greater Armenia, bordering the Mosul region), and the city of Diarbakir happened to be the capital fortress of Artuki.

The truth seemed to be slightly clear, and then the enraged Gawain summoned Gregor, Leotius, Parni, Branas, and other middle and high-ranking generals to the palace chamber to analyze the matter of marching into the kingdom of Greater Armenia in front of the sand table.

After the Battle of Manchikert, the defeated Eastern Roman Empire withdrew from Greater Armenia and Anatolia, and the Seljuk Turkic chieftains and generals established many small kingdoms here.

And now Greater Armenia has five secession Turkic emirates. One was the remnants of Danishmond Merrick's party, whose forces were defeated and withdrew from the surrounding area after the fall of Marash, and retreated to Erez Castle in the northern plateau (now Erzincan in eastern Turkey), so it can only be called the "defeated dog remnant party";

The neighbor and ally of the defeated dog Merrick was the Emirate of Sagetus in the mountains of Erzurum, whose founder was named Saltuk. Ali, who was an officer in the Seljuk Empire;

The third is the "Haddadi Kingdom", which occupies the northern homeland of Greater Armenia in the cities of Ani and Duin (only thirty-five kilometers from the current Armenian capital Yerevan), which was originally a Kurdish state like Syrvan, and intermarried with the original Armenian royal family in the previous generations, and is now reduced to a vassal state within the Seljuk system, with the ruler named Manukhhr. Ibn . Sawur;

The fourth was the kingdom of Kirat Pasha (Pasha is shah, meaning king of Persia, that is, later Pasha in Turkic language, equal to the status of the emir) that occupied the homeland of the elite in southern Armenia, which was entrenched around the rich Lake Van and had powerful fortresses such as Kirat, Manchikt and Van City, and the prince was Zagredin. Ibrahim;

There was also a small emirate, Artuki, sandwiched between the kingdom of Kirat Pasha and Gawain's Meritane, with three fortresses, namely Diyar Bakir, Mardin, and Dunayasr, whose sheikh was an unexpected man - he was Sokhman, the former commander of the holy city of Jerusalem. Later, after the fall of the city, Sokhman was pardoned, ran back to the Seljuk court, and was appointed by the Great Sultan to be the emir of this place.

"I'm going to march into Diarbakir, and there will definitely be more scum of the Mountain Sect entrenched there. I don't need to give me an excuse to declare war on Sokman, this time we are going to fight lightning and take this fortress directly, I want to succeed and destroy this small country of Altuki before winter, tie Sokman with ropes and dog chains, and give the old man of the mountains Hassan some color to see if I can dig up more truth and excuses by the way. At the same time, it promotes the powerful martial arts of our army, coupled with clever diplomatic skills, to subdue and win over small Kurdish countries such as Shirfan and Haddadi, and expand and stabilize our eastern border. Moreover, that John and Theodoro have retreated, and the northern front of our country has been turned into safety. Ordered the Seleucian Hospital to give the best treatment to the captors, and to send the Red Hand Brigade to the Eastern Front with rapid reinforcements along Caesarea's military route! On the basis of following the plan of his mentor Magrundius, Gawain waved his horse-headed silver scepter and laid out a more detailed and feasible war plan for the generals in front of him before midwinter.

And all the generals couldn't help but hold their breath nervously:

In the three months of autumn and winter, it is really necessary to walk on thin ice to achieve such a goal between these five countries (as well as Shirvan, the Kingdom of Georgia, Kobha in Mosul, etc., which are also peripheral forces that can exert influence on the situation of the war).