Before Gawain could answer clearly, the little sunfish from the entrance of the hall ran in on the revolving staircase, with an excited tone, "Prince Reuben's vault cellar has been discovered!" ”

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"It was cleverly built between the palace attic and the cistern of the castle, and there was no road to the palace, not even a secret room." Agnes pressed her hand to her heaving chest and spoke quickly, "Several soldiers have seized the castle's designer and forced him to tell the secret, which is that the entrance to the vault can only be revealed by draining the cistern through a small sluice into the backup pool. ”

"It's so hard to hide some gold, it's worthy of a hyena, and you will only miss carrion in your cold den." Although with a sarcastic tone, it could be seen that Gawain was still very excited, and he soon took the little sunfish and the heraldic officer, and stood on the edge of the cold wind on the top of the cistern, after the sluice gate was opened, the water in the cistern was mixed with ice and snow, and roared down the "fishtail canal" into the lower dark pool, and sure enough, the walls of the vault were exposed, and it was difficult for ordinary people to notice after the water was stored.

"The little sunfish, this technology is more valuable than gold, and if you use it, you can design multiple sections of sluice gates throughout the river to reconcile shipping and hydraulics." Gawain keenly saw the magic of this fishtail canal and sluice, and said to the little sunfish.

"Oh, it seems so." Agnes frowned beautifully, and couldn't help but be fascinated by this design, and when she felt the figure next to her raise her head, Gawain had already laughed, jumped into the cistern, and swayed a few times on the slippery residual water, stabilizing the bear-like body, and then the captured designer was also escorted down, and used the key to open the "convex lock" that almost merged with the wall, and Gawain entered with the guards in an instant.

"A brown bear that is greedy and shameless and dares to preach!" Annoyed, Agnes pointed at Gawain's back and scolded......

There were actually four hundred pounds of gold in the vault, which was the prince's emergency reserve, which was about equal to the annual salary of ten Temachi generals of the Byzantine Empire in the previous era, and it was not unreasonable for Gawain to be happy, which was equivalent to making a small windfall, at least enough to support the cost of three months of military operations, "I'll see, I'll see." Agnes also approached with interest, and looked at the big brown bear holding the gold nugget, but found that his expression had changed from the original comfort to solemnity.

"With the mark of the Imperial Property......" Agnes touched the gold nugget in Gawain's hand, also very surprised.

"Half of the gold was secretly given to Ruben by the Emperor, and it was brought in by sea from Trabzon and the Sivas Plateau. This means that the Armenians already have more or less collusion with Constantinople, Danishmond and Trabzon. Gawain put the nugget back on the ladder and said in a heavy tone, "Then now that the rebellion of Fair and Parkade father and son must have the support of these people behind them, the situation is getting more and more complicated, little sunfish...... What we are about to face is not a single anti-party, but some kind of anti-pilgrim coalition. ”

When Gawain came out, his face was solemn, and he instructed Androdat and Diem, who were standing in front of the door of the vault and waiting, "This matter is strictly forbidden except for those present." Also, the gold is not allowed to be used if it is printed with the Imperial Property. ”

"Yes."

"Wait Ander Odart......" Gawain raised his hand and called his heraldic officer, "I have approved your plan just now, and we will face a very difficult and brutal battle for the next year or more." There will be a steady stream of enemies, so take some thunder tricks, you are right, you can't be a woman, get the map. The heraldic officer nodded, and then took out the rolled up "Seleucian Paper Map" from the leather case he was carrying, and unfolded it before the Grand Duke's eyes, and several people studied it in the cistern.

"The distribution of armed regiments is light in the front and heavy in the rear, sparse in the front and dense in the rear, so that the enemy's front-line attack is easier for us to capture." Hearing this order, Wright hurriedly used a pen painted with mineral pigments to mark three horizontal lines along the eastern perimeter of Vanka, Corgison, and Trangzak, "Six armed regiments on the first line, fifteen on the second, and nine on the third. "Then I will station the Red Hand Cavalry and the Chilician Genat Cavalry in shifts on the inner line, and if there is an alarm, they will divide and attack together, and kill the enemy without a piece of armor!" It's a long battle, and I'm going to distribute 1,200 red-handed cavalry like this......"

"Grand Duke, perhaps you've been too tired lately to forget that half of the Red Hand Cavalry has been assigned to Lord Merlot's task force." Wright pressed the corners of the drawings and reminded.

"That's right!" Gawain's hand shook suddenly, and then his eyes were raised, looking at the gray sky and clouds, "Now it seems that Merrick will definitely garrison Melitene Fort in order to fight against us, and the opportunity for a surprise attack has been lost, so you can't let Merlot throw herself into the net." In addition, the kingdom of the Emirate of Danishmond is actually supported by the 'iron triangle' composed of three core fortresses: Amasia (northwest), Melitene (southeast) and Caisia (southwest), and Merlot's task force now happens to be marching on the route between Catia and Melitane, which means that if the enemy in the Kesia fortress is dispatched, it is easy to cut off the rear route of the task force...... Urgently told Branas to light the flames of the retreating army, and sent a fast horse to Cappadocia, so that Anna could dispatch an order to send a false army to contain Catia. Then I personally commanded the Red Hand Brigade and all the rest of the cavalry to meet the task force! ”

"Your Highness!"

In the evening, at the sound of the trumpet, the city of Vanka was lit with a special color of fire, and the smoke carried along the wind of the valley, which soon made the garrison of Fort Corquisson visible.

"We also light the beacon." In the fort, Branath waved his sword and ordered the soldiers and servants to move the firewood back and forth, "Send another detachment of the brigade to Vanka City, one detachment led by Bramson to stay here, and the remaining two detachments with all the light cavalry and archers, all of them will follow me and Count Decius to set out at night, and go north along the Sanus River to rescue Lord Merlot." ”

Soon at the northern end of the fort Corquisson, the soldiers began to lead their horses and push carts, lined up in a line, ready to march. In the darkness of the night, a series of eye-catching beacon fires were rising at intervals, this was the "warning route" arranged by Gawain in advance, and the light passed over one mountain peak after another, heading straight for the upper canyon of the Sanus River. (To be continued.) )