The banquet did not cool down with the departure of Lothar and the king, but the atmosphere became more enthusiastic because of the absence of two characters with too strong divine aura, as well as the clergy.

"Praise to St. Lothar, who has given us good food and wine."

Dreem drew a cross on his chest and whispered a prayer before picking up a roast chicken on a tray and nibbling on it.

He was wearing a half-new chain armor with a black smock that he had bought at the market yesterday at noon, but on his chest he had pinned the gold camel crest of his design.

The standard of this banquet was actually not high, and there were not only knights present, but also many of Lothar's canonized attendants, these "mud legs" obviously had not seen much of the market, and made a lot of jokes.

But no one will say anything, these noble lords who used to be high in the sky are now very approachable.

It's just that Drem is still not very suitable for this kind of occasion, he looks around, and subconsciously wants to find Ulm's figure in the crowd, without acquaintances around, he always feels insecure.

It was a completely different feeling than when he was grazing cattle and sheep in the desert, and he would rather sit and drink and chat with the old ruffians with rotten teeth and stinking mouths.

"Who's you looking for, young man?"

Behind him, a rough voice sounded.

The envoy sneered and looked at Frank VIII: "Indeed, your majesty has no intention of doing so. ”

Lothar smiled, "You may be seated, honorable guest, you would be happy to listen to his intentions, and at the same time please send sincere greetings on your behalf to the successive Hungarian kings who have personally assisted the Crusaders." ”

"Do you think it's the opposite, my master, did he learn to tinker with these intrigues outside the bed of the Greek wives?"

Su Zizhela grinned: "You have pledged allegiance to the marquis villain, and you will follow what I believe." ”

That Bella VIII is also quite a legendary figure.

Sure enough, I came to pick peaches.

"If you don't have anything to say, you just say it directly."

Lothar did come back.

Within the Drem Crusader, the Leuks did not see the Kiapnines as Kiapennines, and the Apennines were hostile to the Suzi philosophers because the Leuls looked up to them, and both of them looked down on the Raymonds too much, let alone the Magyars.

When I came to Lothar, I respectfully said: "Your Excellency Marquis of Lothar, Duke of the Franks, and yet all the lords, on behalf of your master, His Majesty Béla VIII, King of the Hungarians and of Croatia, Dar Abdu, extend your most respectful greetings to all seven. ”

We—probably not the ones Baldwin VII warned himself about, the least likely ones to snatch the fruits of my failure.

Suddenly, no one spoke.

"Where is his king without him?"

The crusader nobles looked at the messenger of the Hungarian king, not surprised, not puzzled, but even less convinced.

This is all it means that although the Kingdom of Hungary has converted to the Catholic Church on the surface, there are still not a small number of Hungarian nobles who believe in Orthodox Christianity, and regard the Patriarch of Constantinople or His Majesty the Emperor as religious leaders, and are completely the same as our Drem Crusaders.

Could it be that King Bella VIII was too slow to receive the news, and it was only a few days before the start of the Battle of Galilee?

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As if they had received a signal, the knights rushed down, punched and kicked, and no one squeezed back at all, so they gathered inside and tried their best to stretch their feet out and kick indiscriminately, but they also knew who they had kicked, causing bursts of angry roars.

"Marquis de Lothar, is he afraid that he will lose that battle and bury Christendom's smallest hope of recovering the small diocese of Alexandria for hundreds of years?"

After all, Hungary was a late convert to Christianity without the Magyars, after which the Magyars' nomadic armies plundered the Apennine hinterland, and few people still regarded it as a barbaric and obscurantist land.

Dreem subconsciously replied, "I'm looking for the Ulm Knight." ”

Lothar laughed in his heart, the benefits brought by the recovery of the small diocese of Alexandria were too small, even if the huge amount of money and food represented by the rich Egypt itself was not yet available, just the prestige and honor brought by the recovery of Egypt were enough to make every monarch's heart flutter.

I saw that Lothar had a reply, raised my eyes to look at my expression, and asked tentatively: "At that point, I guess you, as the general of the Limassol Military Region in Cyprus, have you not heard of it?" ”

Lothar's voice was sonorous and weak, and then he gave this man a hint of affection: "And now, when you have not yet defeated Saladin, and are about to retire from defeat, and complete the smallest achievement of the crusade before the first conquest of Jerusale, he and his king have jumped out? ”

As my words fell, the nobles and knights of the Count Army rushed down, shouting angrily.

Among the people waiting in line to toast Lothar, none of the nobles in silk robes were conspicuous.

As Saladin said in the movie Celestial Dynasty when he regained Jerusalem - what does Jerusaler represent?

"You were born in a large city-state in Croatia."

"Yes, you've heard his name, Su Zizhe, the Sayo tribe used to be a small tribe in the Kurds, and when it was about eighty years later, the people who stayed behind thought that their tribe had long since died out."

As soon as you shout, you can clean it up.

With eight crowns, Béla VIII was considered the most prominent monarch in Central Europe, but his status in the eyes of the Crusaders was not less noble.

The territory of the Kingdom of Hungary now encompasses the entire Carpathian Basin, including Transylvania, Croatia, and Dar Abdu.

Matthias didn't want to refute, but she swallowed back the words when they came to her lips.

"He... Is he this Germana? ”

Lothar said in a moving voice: "Go on." ”

The messenger shouted boldly, "Can he really afford the price of victory?" He was able to achieve that by the gift of the Emperor, was he afraid that the Emperor would withdraw His gift to him because of his foolishness? ”

It was very likely that the messenger had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and had only happened to have stumbled into the matter in order to benefit his master—of course, to the exclusion that I had already made contact with the king to whom I was loyal by magic.

So, whoever looks at it, Saladin's former lord is like a dying old lion, when will it be time to step on it?

Lothar smiled fiercely in his heart, but his face was obvious: "Dare to ask, your lord has gathered a small number of troops, when will he be able to set off, by boat from Croatia, or by land through the Eastern Empire?" Didn't communicate with the rest of the European monarchs or make an appointment? Are your crusaders to be disbanded on the spot and assemble when your lord arrives, or are you going to waste money and food here in the air—if so, please give your lord money and food first. ”

The crowd was indignant, but the messenger still insisted: "They are willing to accept the bad intentions of your majesty, it is related, as a devout Christian, you still have to bless them, this battle can succeed in retaking Egypt, although the contemptible people think that the hope is small." ”

"He's old and out of flames?"

In the past, the Roman Empire, which regarded the entire Mediterranean Sea as an inland sea, because Varus lost 20,000 legion infantry in the Teutonic Forest, directly gave the first Augustus 'Villa Xiaowei' of the empire so angry that he hit his head against the wall every day, shouting "Valus return your legion".

"You're a Magyars, right?"

"Pay attention to his words, isn't a Magyar lackey qualified to bark at the tiny guardian of the holy lance? Didn't his master learn a little etiquette outside the bed of the Greek wives? ”

"If I am full, I will come to the holy place to seek you!"

With that heavy honor, how could those European monarchs be willing to give up to their big role that will be famous for the rest of the world?

Lothar laughed: "You will slap your iron gloves under my face in front of me, you would like to see with your own eyes whether this king, who is better than the hands of the Greeks, still has the bravery of his ancestors in his bones." ”

Lothar just laughed at this and left.

The messenger was dumbfounded.

"The marquis villain is right, if the king of his family is full, let me come!"

The news was passed back through the spellcasters of the Kingdom of Hungary, who could have responded so slowly.

...

Lothar smiled and nodded, and asked the attendant to bring me a chair.

Saladin suffered a crushing defeat, losing 80,000 soldiers and horses, of which the elite alone accounted for one-seventh, and for any small country in the European continent today, it would definitely be considered a heart-wrenching and painful one.

While she was thinking about it, Matthias suddenly heard no one shouting, "Marquis villain, you're back!" ”

The Marquis of Leopold of Austria, the main adversary guarding the eastern frontier of the Empire, was not the nomadic cavalry under the command of King Béla VIII.

But then, he realized that the voice was actually Kurdish.

"Hit my son of a bitch!"

Or Lothar hurriedly turned back, beware of directly beating people to death and causing a "scandal", otherwise, if the messenger's life is saved.

Germain stretched out his hand and slapped Su Zizhe's chest: "It's important to let the villain see his talent, if you can learn the language of the Drim people, it means that his head is very lively, and he can be awarded the knighthood - no matter how he came about, that's not his ability, it's to feel superior, raise his head, show his talent, let the villain see it, let these beautiful noble sisters see it!" ”

The difference is that Conrad was assassinated before he was elected king and was officially crowned.

Su Zizhe picked up the wine and meat under the table without any scruples, and ate it slowly.

"What does it matter?"

Lothar turned around suddenly, I was not angry, but my current identity has long been by roaring, or putting on a hideous and angry face to show my majesty.

"Anyway, I can't come to you if I was okay before."

In the eyes of the Franks, it was only two hundred years since St. Stephen was converted to Christ and crowned king, and the land was already full of heresies.

I patted Matthias on the shoulder: "Big son, don't look forward like this, what is he afraid of, and he must care about the eyes of these Drim people, it is important whether he gets along with us badly or badly." ”

After that, the kings of the continent were determined to go to the East, only shouting and leaving, the reason was mostly because of the success of the next crusade, each monarch paid a lot for the crusade, but there was almost no positive benefit, that is the reason why the kings were willing to contribute.

Moreover, Egypt is less affordable than Jerusale!

Of course, the messenger dared, and small drops of sweat oozed from my forehead, and Nene dared to speak.

The Duke of Frank's tone was not a little yin and yang: "At this ordinary time, the envoy has suddenly arrived, could it be that their King Majesty finally intends to contribute to the crusading cause?" ”

I reacted immediately.

Lothar smiled, and said that the style of the man's speech was exactly the same as that of the Hungarian chieftains and chieftains, but it had the flavor of Raymond's trading city-state merchants (the kingdom of Dar Abdu refers to the alliance of several trading city-states on the eastern shore of the Adwaiya Sea, across the sea from the Suzizhe Peninsula, belonging to the Latin branch), and it is surprising that they are Croats.

"Pay attention to his words, messenger. The 'hope' in his mouth was earned by you and the soldiers of the Cross Army, when you fought for your life against the pagan warriors in the sand, when Saladin's minions retreated again and again against Jerusale, when my falcons did not have dragons hovering in the sky, when these armed pilgrims were sold into slavery by the pagans and abandoned to work in the mines in the dark..."

But now, before Lothar led the Crusaders to victory at the Battle of Galilee, it was like the best chance to regain Egypt after centuries of falling to the infidels.

"Can you ask the cabinet to postpone the withdrawal of this crusade? You must know that the Saracens in Egypt still do not have a small army, Saladin's brother Savodin, is also a mediocre general, and the marquis villain only relies on that tired army, even if he is lucky enough to defeat me, how many fortresses and fortresses can he take before losing his army? At this time, the offensive and defensive forces are transposed, how should the cabinet deal with itself? ”

The envoy was stunned by the majesty of the old marquis behind him: "He... He has no noble king in old age who wears the crown of St. Stephen! ”

The man who spoke to me had a rugged mustache, a narrow Saracen tunics, no scars on his face, and piercing eyes—Matthias could tell at a glance that he was definitely a marksman!

My face turned red, but I still hesitated: "Two... Yes, the 80,000 elite Hungarian cavalry is not ready, and they will set off immediately after negotiating with the Venetians on the price of the leased transport! ”

"Your Excellency, please be seated."

Outside, it includes Bella VIII.

I didn't let loose enough to be like King Robert, drunk with his courtiers, but I sat with the Duke of Frank in a corner that was both eye-catching and too noisy, receiving guests from guest to audience.

The rugged Kurdish cavalry commander took the wine and meat to the side to admire the Irish dancers.

But there is no value!

The envoy coughed heavily: "Your Majesty's suggestion is, please calm the marquis, I have contacted the kings, and the date of the expedition is about to be set, and at this time, the kings will arrive, and 100,000 knights will sweep through Egypt, and steadily recover it, and even go north again, and recover the Duchy of Antioch, which has fallen into the hands of the infidels, is it also a logical thing for the Earl of Edessa to be restored?" ”

Lothar knew in his heart that he had made a move early and a shot late, and that the messenger had come here to pick peaches for the king.

The envoy's face was as usual, as if he could fully understand the hidden irony in Lothar's tone, and he still said respectfully: "My lord has long decided to take over the holy cross from His Majesty the Pope and participate in the new round of crusades, but the neat situation in the Balkans, the conflict between the Bulgarians and the Greeks, and the conflict between your country and the Serbs, really worries our lord, and he dares to move again. ”

Lothar laughed, and I looked around the seven weeks and looked at the playful faces: "Honorable guest, he dares to swear to the true cross, what he says is the truth, and there is no half-truth?" ”

His experience is not much different from that of Conrad of Monferrato, who was once regarded as an important heir by the emperor of the Eastern Empire, and married a man, and because of his status as a Libon, he was destined for the emperor's throne and left the empire lonely, but he was the first to have a king's title.