"What, are you still an Ani warrior?" Parkade was furious. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Father!" Hercules was ready to say something again.

"Bastard, you are simply insulting our reputation as descendants of the ancient royal family, and you are going to sacrifice the castle and surrender without resistance?" The green tendons on Pak Ade's bald head burst out one by one, like a flowing little snake.

"In that case, my father will stay in the castle and resist to the end. I decided I was going out and submitting. Hercules bowed his head and said to his father's shiny saber dangling.

"You! You brute. ”

"Please don't insult yourself, father."

The Thubesena guards, who were carrying quivers and holding battle flags, also looked at the father and son in a daze.

"Father, I have already made a private agreement with Gawain that if we hand over the castle of Thubesena, he will give us twice as much land and pastures in Greater Armenia as we have now, and give us a higher position, and also give us five thousand Byzantian gold coins. In the future, he promises to revive the kingdom of Armenia, and then we will be the chief saber noble. ”

Under the battlements and walls, Pak Ard blew his beard and listened to his son's constant conditions, pacing back and forth, his eyes watching the reactions of the soldiers around him from time to time.

With the eye of this old fox who had been roaming Anatolia for many years, in fact, most of the defenders did not have the idea of resisting to the death. In the past two years, Marash has ravaged Gawain's army back and forth twice, and so far farming and animal husbandry have not recovered, and the Armenian Chamber of Commerce is a group of people with a lot of backbones, and they all rush to cling to the "Iconium Trading Company", and it is said that Gawain secretly promised to give Armenian merchants special privileges in the future, and if the future sphere of influence of the local Chamber of Commerce in Tarsus is the shipping routes facing the Mediterranean and the Levant, then they will be granted a charter for trade between the Black Sea and the Danube. As a result, the merchant groups were full of opinions about the payment of military funds, and often encouraged the peasants to flee to Tarsus, or simply poison the horses in the noble pastures or burn the haystacks to wreak havoc.

"The hearts of the people are really scattered, what are they fighting for?" Pak Ad was also a little depressed, believing that the mood of ordinary soldiers and lords would only be more depressed than he was.

"Father, five thousand gold Byzantis." At this time, Hercules looked up and continued to report the tempting amount, "Please make a decision as soon as possible, otherwise the longer it drags on, the more the price in our hands will shrink." ”

Pak Ade furrowed his eyebrows, put the saber back in its sheath, strode forward and grabbed his son by the collar, and pushed him to the corner of the stone wall, where several of the milking sheep bleated in fright, and then stared bald, and his voice was low, "It's a little small, and I and the castle of Thubessena are more than that." ”

"I'm sorry father, I'm not an intermediary, and my words won't have any effect on the Tarsus siege army below."

"You, you sold it all silently, and it's useless to talk to you?" Parkade viciously.

"You can quote the ideal price." Hercules looked at the soldiers who were still dazed.

"At least six thousand five hundred ......," my father cheerfully reported.

"Okay, I'll go and negotiate." The son agreed.

Gawain's Belus Task Force had by this time arrived and set up camp in the wilderness beneath the city of Tubosena, and soon 800 Armenian frontier troops arrived at Haarlem (Orsin's cousin) to join them. The whole task force was based on eighty caravans armed with muskets, barrels and arrows, and perfume bottles, and with dug trenches and earthen walls, and set up camp at the central point of the tripartite communication road of Samosata, Meritane, and Marash, facing the castle of Tubersena on the hill.

At this point, Marash has been surrounded on three sides, leaving only the isolated Azazadze corridor in the south, which connects the Aleppo area.

On the same day, Hercules walked out of the hill fort and rode to the fortress of the Gauvin Bellu task force, bowed his head and expressed his willingness to give in and hand over the keys to the gates and towers of Tuposena.

Walter, Ryanstein, and Hallam received him together in the tent, and in order to show goodwill, it was the herdsman officer Ryanstein who served as the receiving envoy to dilute the original confrontation between the two sides, "The great guarantor has always been magnanimous, and the conditions promised to you before will never change. In the future, after the fall of the 'Marash Armenian Empire', all the remaining units will be under your control, and the Grand Guarantor will promise you a new brigade formation. ”

"From now on, you and I, as the squirrels of the future true kingdom of Armenia, will do our best to assist Your Excellency the Great Lord and Guarantor." General Haarlem also took the opportunity to curry favor with the young Armenian nobleman.

"I am a descendant of the orthodox royal family of Bagladioni, I don't know who Your Excellency is?" Hercules replied somewhat arrogantly.

Harlem. Herthomiston was embarrassed, he and his brother Orson were both real Roman military nobles, and they had only been appointed as "Armenians" by the great patron a few days ago.

"Are there any additional difficulties?" Ryanstein digressed abruptly.

"My father asked for fifteen hundred gold coins more."

The three generals looked at each other for a while, "There is nothing difficult about this matter, I can make a decision instead." "But the Grand Patron wants you to take Ravardra Castle for him as a guarantee of good faith on both sides." ”

"Yes." Hercules bowed his head and said.

That night, Hercules took 200 of his subordinates, crossed the mountain road to the castle of Ravadra, and said to the gate tower that he was coming to reinforce, Saliki opened the small door on the side of the castle without any vigilance, after all, they were all of the same race, and let Hercules in, and then the elite soldiers of the Caesarea border army lurking around swarmed in, and soon seized the outer wall of the castle and the fort field, and set fire to kill everywhere.

Half an hour later, the stragglers of the Red Hand Brigade who were besieging them climbed up and smashed open the gate with their iron-clad battering rams, and soon the castle of Ravodra was easily breached.

The die-hard general Saliki, with a curse against the "traitor", received no forgiveness, was dragged directly under the eastern wall and beheaded, and then his head was hung on the city's bell tower for public display.

The defense of the northern front, which was pinned on by the regent Fell, the two core castles of Laverdra and Tubesena, did not support even a day, and were broken under the operation of Neiying.

On 2 July, after a short two-day recuperation at Laverdra, the Red Hand Brigade left the Grand Earl Merlot to recuperate from his wounds in the fort, while the rest of the troops, led by Chief Centurion Colonna, went directly around the eastern side of Marlash Castle.

On the 4th, Gawain's banner suddenly appeared on the peak of Mount Alabashi directly west of Marash, but this time the main guarantor was surrounded by red hand cavalry and the Praetorian Corps, and the Naji Maggis Brigade still did not move, but was stationed at Corquisson, west of Vanka City, against the Taurus Mountains.