As for the main force of Gawain's two brigades, in midsummer they crossed the mountain pass thousands of feet high and really attacked the plains west of Kutai. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Gawain kept his promise and returned the territory southwest of Kutaiy to the Liparitis family, and gave Ratty the title of "Grand Duke of Georgia" as a sign of his equal glory as Brenus. Ratti was grateful for this, and returned to his ancestral land, and in this way, the "Kingdom of Greater Georgia", which had tended to be unified in the hands of the builder David, repeated the earlier days of division and separation.

At this time, in front of the altar of the royal monastery in the city of Kutaisi, the dejected king knelt down in a messy beard, with tears in his eyes, and he had lost the courage to resist any longer, so he said to his mentor, "In order to save the nobles and commoners of the whole country and city, I have decided to go out and surrender to Gawain." Now that I have no army to fight and no glory to bear, I am willing to surrender all my castle and power to your monastery as a claustrophobic monk. ”

Such a plea was basically a fixed routine - the losing side of the battle could be spared a more severe punishment if he promised to enter the monastery and give up all his strength.

Soon after, a row of high-ranking envoys stood proudly in the halls of the palace of Kutaisi, begging the king and queen to leave the city in person, for the patron "cordially invited him and his noble wife to the feast."

Now the builder David understood everything, his face was withered and haggard, and his heart felt more uncomfortable than dead, and his eyes were fixed on the wardrobe in the corner of the palace, where the former Anna . A "gift" from Ducasse......

Outside the city, the candles in the tent were flickering, Gawain was draped in silver armor, sitting on the bearskin blanket given to him by the holy sister, holding a cup in his hand, and the one-handed sleeping officer Wen Ruomina, the prince of Haddadi, Manushihel, the Grand Duke of Georgia, and the Turkic army servant Muzafiadin were all accompanied by light shirts.

The guards around them only saw two Georgian noblewomen in full costume, supporting each other, one of them weeping and the other without saying a word, and walked into the tent of the great patron.

Weeping was the wife of the builder David, Russoani, a woman of Armenian royal blood.

And without saying a word, it was David in women's clothing.

In order to beg for forgiveness, he literally shaved off his beard and bear hair, and put on pink and false eyelashes, and wore high shoes like a dancing girl, and wore a dress sent by Anna, and a cloak and veil to cover his eyes.

In the scarlet tent, he shook his hands and held a silver cup filled with cheese juice and handed it to Gawain.

There was a sound of locks on his handmail, and Gawain stretched out his arm, took the silver cup that David had offered, and after holding it firmly, he said to him, "I want more than a glass of wine, or a glass of cheese juice. ”

"This is what we agreed in the letter, since I lost the war, I will keep my promise." The king of women's clothes replied in a low voice of embarrassment, "If the victor needs anything more, he can ask for it." If I had won before, I would have done the same to you. ”

King David, who said this, had his lips covered in iron-blue after shaving, but his lips themselves were smeared with fiery rouge, which made his appearance full of strangeness and humiliation.

Russoani, who was next to her, cried even louder, because she thought that Gawain's words, "I want more than a glass of wine or a glass of cheese juice", maybe the Varyag barbarian was about to abuse his husband's backyard on this bearskin blanket, imitating the Muhammad followers? Or do you want to leave her behind, to leave in her body the stigma of the conqueror, and even the heirs?

But Gawain had a "woman you think too much" expression on his face, he placed the silver cup on the plate held by Wen Ruomina with his head bowed in one hand, and then hooked his finger at David, "You should understand what I mean." ”

David understood, so he took out a model of the city from the box he brought with him, and put it in front of Gawain's boots, "This is Kutaisi, and I hereby dedicate it to you, His Highness, the invincible Grand Patron of the Seleucian Hospital." ”

But Gawain hooked his finger again.

So David gave a model of the fortress, "This is Tbilisi." ”

So Gawain is satisfied.

For in the whole kingdom of Georgia the geography is such that to the north is the Great Caucasus Mountains, and further north is the endless steppe; to the south is the Lesser Caucasus, and further south is the Greater Armenian Plateau; In the middle, the Daukahtiria Mountains (now the Kaltlisky Mountains in Georgia) run through them, forming a "Z" shape with the Greater and Lesser Caucasus Mountains, and Georgia is located on the west side of the "Z", with well-irrigated valley plains; Alain and Hilvan, on the east side of the "Z", are also very rich. As for the tripartite key to the "Z", it is naturally the city of Tbilisi, so Gawain must be willing to obtain this extremely important fortress.

Now, in the presence of King David, Gawain gave his first opinion on punishment against him and the Kingdom of Georgia:

David and all his royal families confiscated their land and exiled them to the Monastery of the Cave of the Peaks of Calleadeo on the Seleucian border, where they lived for the rest of their lives.

When they heard this, King David and his wife burst into tears.

"Allow me to enter the Convent of Holy Oaks in Kutaisi, and my wife to the Convent of Nuns." The king pleaded, because if this is the death of the kingdom, and the people will have to migrate for thousands of years, sooner or later they will die in Seleucia in the south, which is really the most miserable end.

But Gawain politely refused, "Since we are also going to the monastery, of course it is better to renew the monastery of the Caleadeo Caves." ”

The builder, David, lay on the ground of the tent in despair and agony, and almost fainted and died.

Gawain did not show any sympathy, and he continued to disciplinary:

The city of Kutaisi and its surrounding lands were owned by the Kingdom of Haddadi as promised;

The land south of the Mukvalli River was all owned by Lathi, and the "Grand Duchy of Georgia" was restored, and his family also took the crown of the Davidic royal family in a grand manner;

The city of Tbilisi became a "frontier territory" under the direct administration of the Tarsus royal family, and was garrisoned by Diognis and his brigade, which had the right to levy local supplies and taxes, and the Haddadi Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Georgia, as vassals, also had to pay a fixed annual tribute to support this brigade - and Diognis's task was also very clear, to attack eastward to suppress the kingdoms of Alan and Hilvanpasha, which were highly Persian Saracen kingdoms - Diognis was to "go as far as the Iron Gate of Alexandria as far as possible", That is, today's Derbent, a fortress bordering the Great Caucasus in the west and the Khazar Sea (Caspian Sea) in the east, has been a supreme pass to guard the invasion of the steppe barbarians since ancient times (the Greater Caucasus has three passages from west to east, the westernmost is called Colchis Gate, which is guarded by Kutaisi; In the middle is called the Iberian Gate, which is guarded by Tbilisi; The easternmost point is the Iron Gate, which is also the only place suitable for large troops to pass through);

In the end, of course, Gawain announced that the port of Fascis was allocated to the Armenians as a port for their trade.

This made Mahshinur both surprised and sad, but also helpless.