The Battle for the Siege of Al Harbor came to a successful conclusion.

Before many people could react to the news that "the Count of Lothar had once again won a big victory with less", they were shocked by a new bombshell news.

Count Lothar, conscript all the vassals of Transjordan and prepare to attack the Impaler Rauf in Sinai!

The fighting, which has just been subsided for a few months, seems to be rekindling.

in the royal palace of Jerusalem.

Baldwin IV was convening a Council of the Kingdom.

When he heard the news that "Count Lothar had conscripted all the vassals of Transjordania to attack the Sinai Peninsula", he couldn't help frowning.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem also occupied North Sinai for a period of time during the reign of King Amarric, and Baldwin IV was still very impressed by that place.

The most extensive area in the central part is desert.

However, the north and south, especially in the north, have very good plain arable land, backed by Mediterranean trade, and the land trade linking the Levant and Egypt is still relatively developed.

But hasn't Lothar just regained the Porto Ella and the Bishopric of Aramdelor? With such blind expansion, can he afford it?

Inside the main hall.

Amarric, the governor of the court, was the first to strike: "The Count of Lothar is provoking a war, and by breaking the peace treaty, he is flouting the authority of the king, and we should call him back for questioning!"

Lothar is not a gold coin, and not everyone in the kingdom looks at him well.

Even if Lothar is now with the Jue Party, the Queen Mother's Party has been temporarily reconciled.

But that doesn't mean that no one is looking at Herosa's fortune selling new armor and GWENT cards.

Many aristocrats privately referred to Lothar as an upstart from the backwoods.

"I'm against it!"

Baron Gofrey was the first to speak, "There is a legal basis for the Count of Lothar to recover the Porto of Ayla and the Bishopric of Alandreux, and the defense of the Port of Ayra is also a defensive war."

He righteously said, "Even if the peace treaty is torn up, it should be the Saracen lord named Rauf the Impaler."

"Indeed, if this is the case, no one can fault the Count of Lothar, but he wants to counterattack!"

"If Saladin sees this as a declaration of war by the kingdom against him, shall we start another great war for his own selfish desires?"

"Bastard, can't we fight back in the face of the enemy's attack? Is such a cowardly act the duty of the Father's warriors?"

"But this is clearly the conflict that the Count of Lothar took the lead in provoking! We should consult with Saladin diplomatically, and we must not destroy this hard-won peace."

"But the Count of Lothar is only regaining lost ground."

The car turned back and forth.

The people on both sides quarreled so much that no one could convince anyone.

Because this matter is that the public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable.

Nisaya, who was standing beside Baldwin IV, lowered her voice and smiled, "Your Majesty, your court is really lively, and this kind of scene will not occur in the Empire."

Baldwin IV smiled wryly, the power of the crown was declining, and it was becoming more and more difficult to reclaim it, except in wartime - which is why many nobles feared another war. ….

One stone stirs up a thousand waves.

The reaction within the Kingdom of Jerusalem did not surprise Lothar.

But Lothar didn't really care, and from a legal point of view, there was nothing wrong with his approach.

The war, theoretically, was between Lothar and Rauf the Impaler, not between the Ayyubids and the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Historically, this kind of war between lower lords has been common.

Moreover, the Ayyubid dynasty is currently in a period of turmoil.

In the last war, Saladin did not achieve results, but suffered heavy losses, which has already caused many resistance forces in the country to rise.

There was a conflict with the neighboring Sassanid Dynasty, although the war has not directly broken out, but there is already tension on the border, most likely

He didn't have the energy to start a war with Jerusalem again.

Moreover, only the territory in the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula is not so sensitive, and if it is the coastal area of northern Sinai, it will definitely attract the intervention of the Egyptian governor Adil.

for it has reached the gates of Egypt.

Although Damascus was more important to Saladin than Egypt in Saladin's mind, this still did not change the fact that Egypt was the foundation of his dynasty.

Within the Earldom of Transjordan, there was unanimous agreement that Lothar would take the initiative to attack and carry out the Sinai Raid.

Even Renard didn't jump out and say anything.

As soon as Lothar's conscription order was issued, the lord of Petra, Baron Argonne, was the first to respond.

He led 50 knights under his command, including the standing army, nearly 1,000 soldiers, accounting for almost 70% of the strength under his command.

On the one hand, Baron Argon's basic favorability towards Lothar is very high, which is due to the statue of an angel, and also because the two are compatible and very compatible.

On the other hand, also because it is profitable.

Along with Lothar's conscription order, there was also a non-euphemistic statute for the distribution of spoils.

There is no way, many of these vassals in Lothar are illiterate, and if the wording is too elegant, they will probably not understand.

Since Rauf has already lost the main force, the next attack on the Sinai Peninsula is actually not much different from the spoils conference in the eyes of many vassals.

They took it as an offer from Lothar to woo them.

One by one, they were overjoyed, and they praised the Earl's generosity, although the benefits that could be shared were limited, and the fief was relatively barren, but it was better than nothing.

They haven't expanded in a long time.

Many second sons of the family can either devote themselves to the monastery or can only be a landless knight, and these people are very unwilling.

And their elder brother is also worried that these people will stay in the territory and will worry about the position of the heir under their ass.

Hearing that Lothar had the intention of knighting and giving land to the second sons of these nobles, the whole family was overjoyed and strongly supported.

On the other hand, Lothar, except for Philaoun, that is, Dahab, the rest of the small cities and dozens of villages he did not bother to include in his direct domain.

I can't look down on it, and I can't control it.

As for the Bedouin nomads in the great desert of the central Sinai Peninsula, it is still the same sentence, there is no national concept in this era, they are just a plate of scattered sand. ….

In this case, the Apennine Peninsula is an example of the Lombards, the Latins, the Greeks from the imperial period, the Saracens, the Moors, and the Normans in the south.

Think of them all as Italians?

Phew, who's from the same race as you!

Win over one tribe, fight another, and when both sides are defeated, even if they don't clean them all up, the rest will be easier to control.

Or leave them alone and let them continue to eat sand in the desert, as a lord, Lothar only needs to master a road to North Sinai, and no one wants to rule a group of nomads.

The situation was similar in Egypt, where Zoroastrianism had been practiced for a long time, but it was not stable.

The Abbasids before Ayubid believed in Zoroastrianism in Yezong, which is not the same thing as Zoroastrianism in the current main sect.

There are also a large number of Christians in Egypt, but most of them are Orthodox and Coptical.

There was little resistance here, and it was ruled by Alexander and his Diadochi, then by the Empire, and later, by the Arabs, and then by the Franks.

Lothar was in the city's workshop, watching the craftsmen build siege engines.

If the siege equipment is complete, the defender will not have much advantage at all if he does not prepare hot oil, enough bows and arrows, and various city defense facilities.

[Stable operation for many years, comparable to the old version of the book-chasing artifact, the old bookworm all.]

In use,.]

Mueller asked in a low voice:

"My lord, have you considered the issue of inheritance?"

Lothar frowned, a little surprised, "Not yet... I have Dragonborn blood, so it's not so easy to die."

In this era, the problem of the heir is a problem that many great nobles have to face.

Because of the limited sanitary conditions and the emphasis on monogamy, the population is not thriving enough.

Illegitimate children often do not have the right to inherit.

but the ruler of Arabia, because he had many wives and many children.

But this often leads to a situation where brothers are fighting for power and power.

"But without an heir, it will lead to instability in people's hearts."

"Your Excellency, you should know that the reason why Renard is in such a hurry to marry a new wife is to find an heir for himself to stabilize the situation," Mueller reminded.

"Even if I marry, I am destined to have a difficult heir."

Lothar sighed, "It's too early to worry about this kind of problem, but you were right, and I'll take it to heart."

His foundation lies in hundreds of soldiers converted by the system, who are unconditionally loyal to Lothar, and as long as they are there, Lothar does not have to worry about an unstable foundation.

And to be honest, the future kingdom of Lothar may not necessarily live as long as Lothar.

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