General Wallace was a brave warrior and a reasonable gentleman, and he thought that the defeat of the previous raid had left his blood all over the rivers of Durazo, and that the war of faith had paid a precious and heavy price. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, in the city his opinion was not immediately recognized: the Venetians had to get the approval of the Senate, the Sicilians were at a loss for what to do without the command of Count Duane, the Lombards had to wait for the Duchess's orders, and only the Hungarians had nothing to worry about, since they had all surrendered to Emperor Gawain.

The new Roman Empire was clear about the current situation, and Gawain had the right to completely clean the battlefield - all the soldiers collected and counted 6,000 enemy bodies, of which 1,000 fell on the front line of the battlefield under the Imperial Camp Hill and the Guardian Brigade Platform, and the remaining 5,000 fell all on the steep banks and sandbars of the Ishmi River, the sacrifice of the rout.

The strongest were the five hundred Norman knights, and an even more impressive number of Sicilian Brown soldiers, who fought to the last breath, even on the banks of the Ishmi River.

It can be said that half of the essence of the Kingdom of Sicily withered in the dark sands and wilderness of Durazo.

About 2,500 Hungarians also bowed down to the Emperor's palace to perform a surrender ceremony, and the male and female emperors under the banner and icon jointly issued an edict:

"You are all the royal guards of the Coroman King, and I will not influence your stay or stay, in order to respect the friendship with the Coroman King, but if you are willing to serve my empire, you can settle the holy land on the banks of the Sava River and in the Mosya region."

As a result, there were nearly 700 Hungarian nobles, most of whom were disgusted with the meager fiefdoms of their country, some of whom served the prosperous empress's city like Constantinople, and some of whom had no inheritance rights at home and wanted to come here.

In fact, not only this group of people was co-opted by Gawain, but the Slavic tribes loyal to Gawain in Epirus, Serbia, Peloponnese, Thessalonica and other places, while their autonomy was guaranteed, young and handsome people were also promoted and sent to military academies, law schools, and rhetoric schools for further study, learning Greek, mathematics, astronomy, physics, etc., and accepting "Romanization", and then the emperor promised that in three to five years, they would be sent to Bulgaria and Serbia in the north to be granted holy fiefs. Serve as the backbone of the local military, religion and governance.

In general, Gawain and Anna were to be "washed away", with the Slavic tribes of the south going to the north and the north moving to the south or Asia Minor—and at the same time, Gawain planned to relocate 4,000 Armenians to settle in the Meisembria region to bolster their defenses.

In addition to this, Gawain approved a large amount of money from the state treasury to establish Greek language schools in the newly conquered Slavic cities of Ohrid, Skopje, Larissa, and Trvono, in order to wash away the already semi-independent "Slavic culture".

"In the schools, churches, and books of all these lands are no longer allowed to use Slavonic, but the noblest and clearest Greek language." When Gawain promulgated this golden edict, he also thought it funny, the language he was familiar with did not have Greek at all, but he did not expect that now he would use sword and fire to promote Greek in the whole world.

During this month, three new brigades, including the Paulese regiment brought by Atami, joined forces and began to sweep through the northern part of Bulgaria, eventually capturing Nicopolis on the left and Silistra on the right, and finally pacifying the whole of Mosia and officially extending the territory to the south bank of the Danube.

At this time, Gawain once again issued an ultimatum to the city of Durazo, demanding that the whole city surrender unconditionally, or that all the soldiers of the city should retreat by boat, "It is better not to wait for my siege cannon to wait for your final arguments." ”

At the same time as the Emperor's ultimatum arrived, a delegation of the Holy See came to the city of Bari and claimed to be exploring Rome. Tuscany. The reunification of Barry will bring the church back together.

This was the beginning of the relenting of the city of Rome, and their cardinal bishopric, after a fierce quarrel, reached such terms of negotiation:

After the disastrous results of this holy war, the Holy See has realized that it is simply impossible to defeat the rising Stephen in a short period of time. Gawain and Anna. Gawain, so the Holy See is willing to revoke the holy war against Gawain and recognize the religious legitimacy of the Convertitarian Church, which can be placed under any of the churches appointed by the emperor of Constantinople.

But the corresponding Holy See also has a condition, that is, the church in the city of Bari will return to the jurisdiction of the Holy See, and Anselm can no longer retain the status of the Pope - the tripartite meeting will be convened to confirm the new pope.

However, the crux of the matter is this.

That was Uncle Anselm, who was now too comfortable and comfortable in the newly built "Papal Palace" in Bari, and for him, "If I can't be the master of Fort St. Angelo and the Lateran Palace, then what am I going to do back?" I will also have supreme power in the rich and great city of Bari. ”

So Anselm's conditions were unacceptable to the city of Rome; And the benefits of the city of Rome, Anselm did not look down on - in the end the negotiations broke up unhappily, and even Gawain could not reach an agreement with the city of Rome.

Just as the city of Rome was preparing to send the envoys across the sea by boat to negotiate with Gawain in Durazo, the emperor had lost patience to settle the dispute peacefully.

The city of Durazzo had lost its river and bridge barriers, and a brigade of General Bramson had been delivered, and five brigades had blocked all its external roads, and after the completion of the southern base of the monastery of St. Michael's in the north, Barcelus and Baselisa moved to the city, and personally demanded that two siege cannons be placed on the southern base.

These two siege cannons were deeply loved by Barcelissa, who played a powerful role in the siege of Prusa and were also a symbol of the power of the Gawain Empire, so Barcelisa Anna requested that the two cannons be engraved with words begging for protection on the barrels and doors, and also named them, one called "Lion" and the other called "Bear".

On April 11, in the sound of the trumpet, all the elite cavalry of the empire were in strict armor, all on horseback, lined up on both sides of the road, drew their swords and sabers, and erected them in front of their eyebrows, and in the cheers of a group of oxen pulled the separated barrels of the siege cannons, and went to the south base, and then the Serbian prisoners of war coolies, barebacked, tied the barrels with ropes, and with rhythmic and shocking shouts along the slope of the fort, dragged them up one by one, and assembled them by the soldiers of the artillery regiment on them.

"The Lion" by Nexus. Sanzabal is specifically responsible;

The "bear" is in the hands of Stalianus.

The duty of the two young officers was to shoot the huge cannonballs skillfully, accurately, and safely to destroy the city defenses north of Durazo.