On the appointed date, Prince John and Gawain marched at the same time, from different directions and roads, towards the city of Milio Sepharon. Their purpose is the same, "to mediate the murder of the brother of the French king", in fact, at the beginning, John also sent a letter accusing Gawain of being a potential murderer.

But he was neatly vetoed by his sister Anna in the court with pen and paper.

Outside the city of Miriosephalon, the two teams set up their respective camps, and Gawain was accompanied by thirty heavily armored Saxons and Danish warriors, and two hundred red cavalrymen armed with bows and sabers, who were in charge of the guard of the camp, and where Prince John and a group of servants and officials were also facing the enemy—and finally the two sides agreed that they would not invade each other, and the camps were separated by a quarter of a guill, and a trench was dug around them, and defensive walls were erected, Gawain also ordered a dense layer of dog's foot wood to be erected on the earthen wall, and then every morning at the first hour of the afternoon, a crimson tent was erected by the woods in the middle of the camp road, and each side brought ten attachés to talk. Among them, John's deputy was the famous grammarian Maupoulos from the capital, while Gawain's deputy was his own heraldic officer, Ander Odart, and Vallo, the general counselor of the royal palace representing Île-de-France.

John, who had been instructed by his father to do so, was well prepared for the negotiation, and when Gawain presented physical evidence, he always wittily refuted it.

On the first day, Gawain raised a possible motive for Constantinople's murder, but John said that his document clearly stated that he welcomed Hugh warmly, and that both his father and himself could give a reasonable explanation for the failure of the previous empire to send troops to the battlefield of Antioch, and there was no reason to cause trouble and kill Hugh to add to the annoyance.

"Ander Odart, record." Gao Wen, who sat across from the scarlet tent, lowered his eyebrows, failed to make a strong refutation of the views and opinions put forward by the prince, so he only asked the heraldic officer to make a record.

But Vallo, the general counselor of the royal palace, could not hold back, and he loudly criticized such an investigative meeting, saying that the prosecution was the Grand Duke of the Empire, and the defense was the prince of the Empire, so how could it be possible to make a fair and just verdict on Hugh's tragic death?

"But His Excellency Gawain is also the priesthood of the city of Rome, and he has full authority to rule on this matter. Or is it that your Kingdom pilgrims are in a situation where they are acting separately and suspicious of each other? Then I have to remind everyone here that anyone has a motive to kill Hugh. John's words, now tempered, were markedly much more refined than they had been in his youth, and under his eloquent remarks, Vallo kept his mouth shut, and then Gawain suggested that the city of Rome should send another plenipotentiary representative, preferably a bishop of France.

The next day, Gao Wenfang presented physical evidence: the carriage carriage brackets scattered at the site of Hugh's tragic death, as well as pieces of arrows, the most powerful of which was pieces of arrows.

Gawain held the tablet and said to John, "As far as I know, this weapon is only used by the Roman army. With that, Androdart immediately took notes.

John laughed, his hair was unkempt, and his face was still dark and ugly, like a swamp overgrown with weeds, and then he waved his hand and said to the Turkic slave Aksaipokaus beside him: Do you see this so-called piece of arrow clearly?

In about a short time, Axepocaus nodded, and said in Greek to all the people in the tent, I saw it clearly.

"Give you the utensils, and you can make one on the spot." John immediately ordered, and then had the little hourglass removed, "If you can't do it, cut off your head with an axe." ”

In front of everyone's eyes, Axepocus sat cross-legged on the central carpet of the tent, erected a slender wooden tube with both hands, then pulled out a light saber, followed the top of the wooden tube, quickly and flexibly split a double line groove, and then stopped abruptly two or three inches from the tail end, then took out the hemp rope, twisted it with saliva, cut a hole in the side of the wooden tube and tied it with a rope, then he got up, bowed around, took the short arrow from the quiver of an ordinary Roman warrior, and poured it into the barrel he had made. Then he hung up the bowstring, and after it was full, he shot it calmly, and after a slight sound, the barrel was withdrawn by Axepocos, and the cluster of arrows flew far away, and a small hole was pierced in the target in front of the tent.

"Your Excellency the Grand Duke, and Your Excellency the Counsellor General of the Gallic Chiefs - now you have also seen that a Turkic slave beside me who was a little skilled in archery, who had previously served the Sultan of Konya, had never seen a single arrow, and had made such a weapon in a matter of a minute, and even if I had prepared for it, I could clearly see that the opinion that the noble Hugh had been killed by the Empire was utterly untenable by 'the arrows were used by the Imperial army.' After speaking, John looked at Gawain, who was leaning against the back of the seat, and said angrily.

"But, after all, no other pilgrim has used such weapons." Gawain was still pleading.

"Grand Duke, everyone knows that you have the most miscellaneous military weapons, with the spears of the ancient conqueror Alexander, the Norman heavy cavalry, the Magyar Turks with light mounted archers, and the more traditional foot sword and shield bearers. I'm just saying that maybe, there's no reason why all your armouries can't make such an unskilled piece of arrow, and you must know that the Latin bows you produce there are so good that even the Franks want to get their hands on Seleucian crossbows. "It seems that John was very familiar with the situation in Seleucia.

"Anderodart, take notes." The sweat on Gao Wen's forehead was dripping, and there was one word to describe his current situation, that is, "resignation poverty".

But John pursued him so hard that he suddenly raised a cluster of arrows, "For example, this one, the quadrangular head of the arrow, the standard weapon of the Roman army, pulled out of the corpse of the slain." Then he gave another one, and everyone saw that there was an inscription from the Seleucian Ordnance Division on it, "Exactly the same, isn't it?" In other words, this kind of arrow cluster can be made by Feladofim, Seleucia, and even the Konyan Turks can make it without difficulty, and it is too rash to use this to slander the imperial army as murderers, let alone accept it. ”

In this way, it was unimaginable that all the accusations were resolved by the young prince, and Vallo gasped and stood up, and continued to complain loudly, saying that no one could provide a real answer to Hugh's death, and that he had lost patience with such simple verbal sophistry.

Gawain could only announce the end of the next day's physical evidence, and then returned to camp with Vallow, only to find that Richard, another Norman earl, had arrived.

This Richard is also very interesting, the first thing he said when he saw Gawain was menacing, "Why are you still negotiating?" A war should be waged, a war against the Kingdom of Greece! (To be continued.) )