Chapter 35: Tacit Understanding
What's more, who can beat the bear-like emperor in front of him!
You must know that he had previously stabbed Assasin who dared to assassinate him, and he also slaughtered the entire Assassin stronghold of the Eagle Fortress. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Think about the numbness of the scalp, okay?
After a moment of silence, Giovanni stepped out, lowered down and picked up the sword of phosphorus and fire thrown by Gawain, and then half-knelt on the floor, respectfully returning it to His Majesty the Emperor, "This true sword of St. George can only be held by Barcelus. ”
The Emperor froze with a murderous look in his eyes, retrieved his sword, and hung it on a diamond-encrusted belt.
"Whether it is the Catholic Church or the Orthodox Church, as long as we are enemies of the Empire, we will fight all kinds of enemies to the end!" With Giovanni's action, all the generals made a generous statement in unison to express their determination.
In any case, as long as the military class can make glory and wealth from the war, they will not care who the enemy is, or what kind of radical means are used to deal with it.
In fact, even the clergy class had such an attitude, and Gawain had gathered many clergy in Adrianople, including members of the Orthodox Church who had taken refuge, Catholic priests brought by Anselm in the past, and a considerable number of Protestant officers. The emperor also asked them clearly, "The deposed pope of Tuscany is against me, and the patriarch is fighting against me everywhere, and now you are free to decide to stay, and continue to stay side by side with me, and if you want to fight to the death with me, you will not be reluctant." For those who have departed, I have also given three measures of grain and fifty tassos of silver. ”
The Emperor's words rang loudly, and the priests looked at each other, "Look at my feet, I look at your feet, but no one left for a long time."
Because no one is a fool, the clergy who now serve in the synagogues in various places, as long as they are loyal to Baselius and Baselisa, have a fixed salary every year, and when supervising the holy peasants to open up the land and build workshops, they can also get an additional share of the new land and property, and when sorting out and examining civil cases, they can also draw a fixed part of the litigation money as an additional allowance. In addition, it is said that the chief secretary Roland. Lord Bandinelli is working on a new church hierarchy to give all the clergy in the empire a way to continue to ascend.
"For the sake of three sheaves of wheat and fifty pieces of silver, you have to give up everything and be faithful to your faith? It's too naïve, it's better to make a fortune in a muffled voice! That's what the vast majority of clergy think.
This was achieved in such silence, or rather by tacit understanding, that all the members of the Orthodox or Catholic Churches present were transferred to the system of the New Church and swore allegiance to the Lord and the Emperor, recognizing the basic creed that "the Church has the sword of spirit, and Your Majesty has the sword of the world". Many were even organized by the "Imperial Archpatriarch" Gottschalke to prepare for the future Adrianople's assembly of believers.
Now the spiritual battle is ready, just waiting for His Majesty the Emperor to achieve a great victory on the real battlefield to complement each other!
"Giovanni still commanded the frontier army (with the exception of Atami's Paulo's legion and the reorganized Alemanni brigade), swept and attacked the coastal cities and ports of Deltuves, Sozopolis, Meisembria, and Antobo, looked at the coast of Yukchen on the coast, and expanded the territory and taxes. Offering a reward to the Pierre Forbidden Army of Adrianople, Merlot's troops were required to continue to hold Fort Philip, form a chain of defenses along the Evros River, echo Trajan's camp, and defend the imperial capital. I took the lead in the main army - straight to Versiginia. ”
If Trajan's Gate is to connect Thrace with North Macedonia. The gateway to Greater Serbia was the gateway to Bulgaria (i.e., Mosya). In those years, the ancient Bulgarian kingdom invaded many times, and fierce offensive and defensive battles broke out here. The most famous of these is the 300-year-old Bulgarian Khan Korum, who took advantage of the victory of the stricken Emperor Nikephoros (802-811) to make a decisive battle against the succeeding Emperor Mikhail.
The final result of the battle was that General Leo, the "iconoclaster" from Asia Minor, once again played the fine traditions of the Byzantine kingdom, defected and deposed Emperor Mikhail before the battle, and retreated without a fight...... He was succeeded by Leo V.
Then the Khan of Korum nearly stormed Constantinople, if he hadn't died of a cerebral hemorrhage, like the Hun Attia.
However, Gawain carried out a stern purge of the ranks before leaving the battle, and the disobedient Imperial Tomb Forbidden Army, the Alemanni Brigade and the Dorila Aim Border People's Army were punished, and all the soldiers were supervised and supervised by the veterans sent by Gawain, and swore an oath in front of the station to be loyal to and obey any orders of His Majesty the Supreme Emperor, and if they were required to stand in front of the enemy's formation, they would die in battle, and if they were required to advance in a roundabout way, they would not be allowed to patrol even if the arrows flew in front of them.
After Gawain's army marched from the direction of Fort Vikron, the speed could be described as "lightning", and the emperor abandoned the tactics of advancing at the base, and instead demanded that "the vehicles of the 2nd Field Brigade, all cavalry teams, and forbidden army teams be used to carry weapons, grain, large guns, and shrimp whisker cannons, and the convoy and artillery team accompanied the field troops to advance at the back three guli." All infantry and cavalry carried with them three days' rations, half for marching and half for food before going to the enemy, and the shooters carried a day's worth of ammunition and lead pellets, which meant that the winner must be decided within one day after the battle! ”
With such momentum, the 20,000-strong army arrived fifteen gi a day later at a distance of fifteen girders from Versiginia, with their backs to the peaks of Gugbal.
Unable to respond, his scouts had just been out of the camp for miles, their backs were full of arrows from the enemy, and they rushed back to the camp in Versiginia, and before he could take his last breath, he told the commander: "Many, many enemies are coming against us......
General Kadam was shocked, he didn't expect Gawain to recover so quickly after the bloody battle on the battlefield of Viklon!
This man's sustenance is simply inexhaustible, and Kadam doesn't know the real answer. What he knew, however, was that his supplies had been exhausted in the previous series of battles, and that many of the cavalry had gone to Vibo, further northeast of the Gebal Peak, to gather grain and grain, and had not yet returned. Some of the cavalry went to Tervono in the northwest to recruit provisions.
This is the "weakness" of Kadam and all the Mosian armies, in the final analysis, they are just a medieval army, and there is no institutional logistics system.
As a result, Kadam now had only 6,000 cavalry and 4,000 infantry at his disposal, and it was the "cart camp" of Vilsiginia that could provide him with a defensive advantage.
Gawain wouldn't give the other side a chance - he galloped up the slope of Mount Gebal facing the enemy's camp, and hurriedly ordered all his soldiers to attack it!