"Father, what do you think about creating a new title for the big barbarian? The Fourth Glory of the Empire, allowing him to do it freely in Asia Minor, and also to contain the pilgrims who monitored the rest of the Franks. Gawain is absolutely loyal to his daughter, and I think you misunderstood him before. After softly soothing her mother, Anna got up and resumed her former charm and loveliness, and made a strange elf request to Alexios.

It's a daughter after all, and she just doesn't want me to act aggressively towards her mother, Irene.

"It's easy, now the right to confer titles and medals, the right to appoint official positions, is completely in the palm of my hand." The emperor, who made this promise, then lowered his posture, supported his daughter, and persuaded Erin who was lying on the ground, "Erin, you and I are both parents and control this empire together, my sister is your brother's wife, and you are my wife, is it so important whether this empire is surnamed Komnenos or Dukas?" There is no need to be so extreme, I will often visit you during your recuperation, and I will continue to have better children with you, for the sake of the two families and the country. ”

"Your so-called love for me is the punishment of God and the devil for me," replied the queen, whose temples were scattered and her crown was rolling to the ground, sobbing in a low voice, helplessly and desperately.

At this time, a eunuch suddenly got up and pointed to the sundial platform outside the palace building, "Your Majesty, it seems that there is a major situation coming from afar. ”

Looking at the red beacon fire rising from the sundial, Alexios. Komnenos paced to the fence of the palace, and after a while he spoke. "Anna, this flame signs. Stephen. Gawain has already crossed the city of Sophia and is approaching my imperial capital. Still failed to trap him? Isaac, this guy is a real disappointment. But you don't need to worry, I promised you that I would reconcile with Gawain, a brute, and I will do what I say. ”

Anna also looked into the past, and the billowing fireworks shone on the fire tunnel of Salabria, and one after the other, not from Xiaoya, but from the west.

Outside Adrianople. The Turkic servant Muzafi Ardin, leading Gawain's war horse, shouting war songs, walked in the direction of the east, straddling Gawain on the saddle, wearing a hat and helmet with red hand feathers, and his eyes squinted at the trembling Byzantine defenders on the city wall, slowly holding onto the bridle, and behind him were 6,000 Red Hand Dalian soldiers.

Wesat. Merlot. The rest of the men had already arrived to rendezvous, and as for the Iron Gate, Gawain and Godfrey generously handed over to the Hungarian counsellor to take over.

Then. Gawain and Godfrey marched not only on land, but many of the pilgrims automatically became boatmen and oarsmen. Fortify and raise the ships that come from the Plivensus. It was pushed into the Thracian River, which was connected to it. It's a mighty way to pass by Adrianople.

And Andronicus, who was lucky enough to escape from Sofia. Branas was also very uneasy, and looked down at the thousands of pilgrim horses passing by below him, "Your Excellency Sebastoprat is in the hands of the enemy, and has received his own letter, although I have learned that Your Excellency should be safe, but what is the case, it is really worrying! ”

"It's the banner of Grand Duke Gawain!" At this moment, out of the grass of the Thracian bay, a few pilgrims in ragged clothes leaped forth, and then more and more, as if they had come out of the ground, and soon there were thousands of them, swarming towards the procession of the Red Hand Brigade, all of Got Schalke's men.

But the innumerable cavalry poured out of the Dalian army, raising dust, carrying bows and arrows and spears, and the characteristic cries of terror, which frightened the group of pilgrims into rushing backwards, and then these cavalry kept changing formations, like shepherds driving out their own cattle, and after a short minute, they surrounded the civilian pilgrims who had been going to come close to each other in the open field by the river, and prevented them from crossing the marching array close to the Dalian team at will.

Under the banner of the Red Cross Sword, Gawain pointed to the crowd over there, "Tell them to line up behind the baggage team and the company of craftsmen and follow me, and if possible, some of the frail can sail down the river and camp on time at sunset, and also call Gottschalke to come to my camp and report the movements of Constantinople." ”

In this way, more than 30,000 pilgrims became more disciplined, and they obediently followed the Dalian army and Godfrey's army with their belongings, and when the appointed time came, they set up camp by themselves, chopped wood and made fires, and rested and fed.

"Are you saying that after my brother entered the imperial capital, he never returned? Also, in the capital of the Greek emperor, there must have been infighting and fighting" After nightfall, Gawain, who was sitting in the camp, after receiving the report of the fanatical monk Got Schalke, almost confirmed his prediction, "The Normans also hurried towards the capital, and since there is no letter from Yudosia yet, the result is almost certain - Empress Irene and the imperial Caesar have been defeated." The two pig-like stupid Folcher and Rainold also crossed the sea with 70,000 pilgrims. ”

Saying this, Gao Wen froze his imposing eyebrows, obviously thinking about something, and then analyzed to the secretary beside him, "Now, the situation we are facing is very complicated. Emperor Komnenos, Bohemond of Norman, and Brenus could be friends and foes at us, and the Dalian army could be attacked by them at any moment. And the 70,000 pilgrims who crossed the ocean in the past, when facing the Sultan of Konya, were afraid that they would turn into bloody cannon fodder, which was the trick of the bastard Alexios. In addition, it is said that the royal brother of France, the 'noble Hugh', and the army of Robert and Raymond, are also behind us, and whether they will accept Alexios's instigation to attack my brother Peter, as well as the safety of the queen and the eldest princess, is all related to the overall situation. And in my hands, there is only Isaac. Komnenos is a powerful bargaining chip. But then, Gawain touched his chin, "No, Godfrey and Baldwin are one, too. ”

Gawain's fingers pressed Anderodat's record scroll, and the secretary suddenly became more focused, and he understood that this was the habit of the Grand Duke, and that there were important and crucial speeches and directives to be issued.

"The best strategy now is to resolutely contact Godfrey and Baldwin, stabilize Bohemond, fight Alexios to the end, not release Isaac for the time being, observe the situation after that, and then make a decision. The whole army, advance to the wilderness of Sarabria, and threaten to set up camp on the west side of the Brachna Palace in Constantinople! ”

The next day, Godfrey walked up the hill by the camp, and watched in astonishment at the Red Hand Brigade, which formed a formation to resist the battle, beating the thunderous drums, and pressed towards the moat of the capital of the Greek emperor, "Your Excellency, Bohemond of Norman, has already set up camp with his army near the palace of Juquintina and the Mausoleum of St. Basil, south of Constantinople. ”

"What the hell is going on now?" Godfrey was puzzled. (To be continued.) )