"Yes, but all the baggage and goods in the whole camp belong to the victors, and all the captives, except the knights and nobles, are reduced to prisoners of war and slaves, and distributed to the victors......"

"I must remind you, Your Highness the Grand Duke, that Christianity does not allow fellow brothers and followers to be reduced to slavery, let alone enslave them like you!" When Anselm heard this, he immediately corrected it angrily. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, Gawain was not angry, he laughed, shrugged his shoulders, and corrected Fang Cai's words, "I am wrong, thank Your Excellency the Patriarch for your accusation - all prisoners of war will not be reduced to slavery, but will be incorporated into the 'Logistics Corps' by me." Anselm was furious, because this "logistics legion" was just a variant of the barracks slave.

But before the patriarch could continue to entangle, the group of nobles unexpectedly, unexpectedly, readily agreed, "All the soldiers of the people's army are at the disposal of His Excellency the Grand Duke, anyway, they were all tenant farmers or serfs in the past, and it is undoubtedly natural to use them to protect the safety and interests of the nobles. ”

Gawain nodded with satisfaction, "As for you, you still need to be grieved here for a while. When the forts in Kastabara up to the ridge have promised to give up resistance, I will naturally release you back. I promise that I will keep the original property of all the Arnies intact, except for a few garrisons of the forts of Trangzak, Vanka, Corquison, and so on. ”

More than 70 nobles who surrendered immediately overjoyed, much to the patriarch's surprise - how could this group of martial arts nobles and gentry be so unscrupulous, and the prince's bones were not cold, they all collectively turned back, not only laid down their arms and gave up resistance, but also saddled up the victory before and after the saddle to offer a vital fortress......

But what made the patriarch cry out even more was that the nobles really didn't do anything afterwards, but went straight to the tent arranged by the victors and got up in peace. The rest of the captured Armenian soldiers sat together, all with dull expressions, and more than 4,000 prisoners of war were guarded by less than 50 Red Hand cavalry, and when the servants brought in the food, the group could still line up in an orderly manner, and then numbly next to the mud puddle or the side of the baggage cart, and gathered in groups to eat.

"Your Majesty, I must report back to you. Whatever the causes of this war and what the outcome will be, there is no doubt that Constantine, who is on the hill of Cilicia. Prince Reuben, with his mighty army of 10,000 infantry, cavalry, and archers, was surrounded and wiped out in a narrow camp of about 3,500 feet long and less than 1,500 feet wide in an open and low-lying plain, and only ten days after the outbreak of the beacon fire, Gawain used my seal to send a deceptive letter, and succeeded in luring Ruben out, and what was even more terrifying was that Gawain had worked without moral guilt or omission—because a few days ago, At the meeting in Antioch, Lord Bohemond presented the secret letters between Reuben's nobles Taprenz and Edessa, Laverdra, Tubersena, Armenia, and the Greek lords, as well as the correspondence between Taprenz and Ruben himself, in which Ruben's crime of 'endangering the cause of pilgrimage' was so clear that it was fatal, and it was a heavy blow to the diplomatic cause of His Majesty and the Armenians, and I could not help but lament it. These were the mournful words that Anselm recorded in his tent in the letters, "Ten thousand Armenian soldiers, frantically besieged by Gawain's cavalry and new catapults, held out in a few days before they completely collapsed, the prince himself died, and the army of Gawain and Bohemond captured all the surviving nobles and soldiers. It is appalling that the Grand Duke of Seleucia has openly declared before me that he is going to turn all his captives into barracks slaves—I mean, these soldiers are very disciplined and brave, and I can't imagine what a miserable scene they would have been when they became slaves, and perhaps Gawain would have sent them to death in the iron mines. ”

After thinking for a while, the patriarch leaning in front of the book sighed, dipped his pen again, and continued to write. Urban described the current development of the situation, "Gawain's army has easily accepted many of the easily defended fortresses on the ridges since the nobles surrendered, but on closer consideration, perhaps all the armed elite of the Armenians were destroyed in this lightning siege, and the fundamental reason was that there was no resistance. Today, news came that even Vanka, the capital of Reuben's kingdom, had handed over the key to the gate, and three hundred of the most ferocious and loyal cavalry under Gawain had entered the glorious and dangerous castle...... Reuben's dynasty was destroyed. Holy See, I must tell you frankly that Gawain, whom you had trusted, had now become a ferocious beast of war, and that the castle where he lived had become the mouth of the blood lion of Nineveh, devouring everything around him, and that the former Greek princess who lived with him behind him was, as the Bible depicted, like the terrible enchantress riding on a gigantic monster with seven heads and ten horns. Gawain was the scarlet monster with a blasphemous font all over his body, and Anna. Ducasse was even more dangerous, she rode in the saddle of the beast, very beautiful and dangerous, she was dressed in scarlet or purple, she wore a golden crown, and held a golden wine glass, which was full of greed and ****, and she indulged in it with the monsters under her crotch, roaring in the wilderness, hurting innocent lives, and on her forehead wrote the abominable blasphemy 'Babylon the Great'. Yes, believe me, sooner or later, the two of them will marry and become the ...... of the emperor and queen of Babylon."

However, when he was done, Anselm trembled and took the letterhead, and he wrote all his resentment, but he did not have the courage to send it. In the end, he made a choice: he placed the scroll of paper full of words on the candlestick, and held it up to watch it burn to ashes. I just felt that the mood was uplifted, and the rest of Anselm didn't think much about it.

However, the city of Castabara, still resisted, and even after learning that the prince was dead, Gawain did not pay much attention to the fortress for the time being: he was busy dividing the "cake" after the victory with everyone, and all the soldiers of the Seleucian side withdrew from the Syrian gate according to the previous agreement, and handed over to Bohemond to take over, which made Bohemond smile; At the same time, Gawain divided the main force and occupied almost all the fortresses in the plains and mountains of the Armenians, and with the help of the nobles' joint letters of advice, there was almost no resistance along the way, and only the northernmost fortress of Corquisson remained hostile.

Almost overnight, the entire map of Cilicia underwent a staggering change.

"Increase the number of large prani cannons to seven." Gawain looked at the Kastabara Fort, which was still standing, and said to the little sunfish next to him, "In addition, install a large water wheel between the boats in the river, and solve the army's grinding problem first." (To be continued.) )