As the former Governor of Cyprus sat in his seat with his head in his hands, his feet suddenly churned, and the stone walls and stone floors around him seemed to be violently swept away in the waves, and the attendants staggered, and the stucco and sand from the ceilings of the towers fell in clusters, accompanied by a suffocating deafening crackling sound, and the wheels of ten horse-loaded carriages seemed to be suddenly crushed outside. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"The Western Wall has been blown down, a breach!" Soon the guards outside the tower shouted bitterly.

"What the hell is going on......" Apsomatus, whose hair was covered with dust, struggled to get up from where he had fallen, and got up on the leg of his chair, frightened and inexplicable.

He remembered that the siege guns had been concentrated on the southern wall by the enemy commanders.

The western wall of the castle of Nicosia connected to the mountain peak, and the wall of about twenty feet was cracked and collapsed, and there were splashes of fire and thick black smoke, and the surrounding defenders were in chaos.

It turned out that in the past ten days, the miners and soldiers of Trangzak took advantage of the cover of the collapsed siege tower, dug a tunnel under it that drove directly to the west wall, supported it with a wooden frame, and pulled in many Khitan snow barrels and stacked them, covered with flax, sulfur, and felt cloth on the outside, and wound a special rope for ignition, and then the miners drove several Chilician long-haired pigs, poured light oil, and set them on fire at the entrance.

Then all the soldiers and border people outside the west wall saw that section of the city wall suddenly arched, and then brilliant fireworks sprayed out from the cracks, and the Khitan snow explosion power at this time was still incomparable with modern times, so it looked like a big firework from the outside, but the burning inside was very violent, and the wooden frames fell one after another, and as a result, the wall on the cave chamber lost its support and collapsed one by one.

The western wall of Nicosia was quickly lost, and Androdat calmly dispatched a succession of attacks, using ladders and zipline hooks to carry the commandos over the trenches and climb the walls or towers, and the inhabitants of the city and the Cretan mercenaries gave up resistance and surrendered.

Finally, a hundred members of the Nationalist Army who stormed the main tower in Tarsus captured Apsomatus, who was lying there against the wall, and the governor did not run away or resist, threw his sword in front of his boots, and was erected by the Nationalist soldiers, "I want to see your commander." ”

In the tent in front of the gates, Androdat the Mushroom-headed saw the captive Apsomatus and said to him, "Go now to the palace of Tarsus and see His Majesty the Emperor, and kiss his boots or his left breast, and show complete submission, so that Your Majesty will give you a house and a house and a pension." ”

"Can I kiss your boots before?" Apsomatus immediately bent his knees, prostrated himself at the feet of Androdart, and kissed humbly, despite the dirty dust, "The contemptible man is willing to submit all his subordinates now, and hand over all the provisions and weapons in the secret warehouse of the city—the great Emperor Gawain is eternal, equal to the sun and the moon, eternal, eternal!" Empress Anna will always be healthy and beautiful! - John, bastard, he should have perished sooner, he would have perished soon. He saluted hoarsely.

The soldiers shackled Aptsomatus and escorted him to the harbor of Kyrenia, but Gawain and Anna decided to forgive the old man who had danced on eggs for half his life. Like that Cuman Khan Yasen, the former governor of Cyprus lived under house arrest in a monastery on a small island in the middle of the Black Lake of Servan in Great Armenia, which had fertile orchards and fields for Apsomatus to farm, study, and retreat.

After completing his goal, Androdat reported the victory to the city of Tarsus, and at the same time sent a letter to the counties and the army council, asking for more supplies to be allocated to him: he was to oversee all the men and horses on the island and cross the sea to besiege Tripoli.

For this reason, Androdat had planned beforehand, he asked the Atalya sailors to build him ten "Husher ships" that could transport troops and horses, and urged the locals to build a group of "skuas" light ships in the conquered places of Paphos and Salamis, which had been conquered on the island, and finally he asked the former pirate Winmohar, who was named "Count of the Fleet" by Gawain, to lead an escort fleet in preparation for landing on the coast of Tripoli before the onset of winter.

So the list of these supplies was sent to the court of Tarsus.

At that time, Gawain and Anna were sitting side by side on a seat in the courtyard, watching the young generation of warriors such as Zangi and Massoud study their archery skills and use Turkic light arrows.

And Calle Adios, Helena, Xiya, Hristopher, Alemania, etc., are all four or five or six years old, and they are all in second place.

The older Zangi has more power and a longer range, while Massoud shoots significantly more accurately.

After that, Anna and her many children applauded, and gave the two official "Golden Patriarchs of Oghuz", along with the corresponding fiefdom documents, and encouraged them to serve the new Roman Empire more diligently when they became adults. Then Anna began to ask for an investigation of the "Seven Arts" of the two.

As a result, Zangi is clearly not an opponent of Massoud in this regard.

And the little prince of the Sultan of Rôme, now under the tutelage of the imperial ink officer Hetomia, is obviously more like an out-and-out "Roman", he is dressed in a Persian-style hunting robe, but the ornaments on his body are Constantinople court style, and he does not wear a felt hat, but has shaved short Roman hair, is fluent in Greek, and admires Plato, Aristotle and other sages in his heart.

In the dialogue with Anna, the palace mistress, Massoud's beautiful black eyes, from time to time looked sideways at Helena, who was sitting in a small purple robe on the seat, her hair was like her father, a pale brown, but her eyebrows and eyes were very similar to her mother's, elegant and wise brown eyes, flickering, without the inattention of children of this age, and she was always listening carefully to the questions and answers between her mother and Massoud.

And the younger Khlistopher, who was even younger, fell asleep directly in the chair due to sleepiness.

Caleadios, on the other hand, was full of energy, and was not at all satisfied with these trivial and profound knowledge, and moved around in his chair as if he were sitting on a piece of pins and needles, and his eyes were fixed on the slingshot under the robe of the fat eunuch Stauracos beside him, because the "fat man in the white hat" (the eunuch's hat was white) promised him that he would give him the slingshot at once, and go to the woods to hunt birds.

After the refinement of the Seven Arts, Zangi, carrying a bow and arrow feathers, walked out around the courtyard wall and met his father Hajib at the edge of the forest garden.

Hajib had sent a list to Cyprus, and had brought his son with him to seek a prestigious military position for Zangi at the court.