Gawain neatly put away the sword of phosphorus fire and inserted it back into the ring, and then a member of the Brotherhood beside him walked over and made an inviting gesture, "Come to the camp of Iron Gate Fort, I will not kill your followers wantonly, but I need you to sign a peace treaty." On the other hand, if your attitude does not satisfy me, there is no guarantee that my subordinates will not act excessively. ”

After being surprised and flustered, the female archon calmed down, and still looked at Gawain's departing figure with hostility

Inside the Iron Gate, the sun was shining, the white smoke in the forge and the kitchen yard were full of cheers, craftsmen and military servants running around, carts pulling carts, trophies carrying booty, and strings of Paulineans tied their hands with ropes, and they were escorted into the empty fort of the camp.

In the crimson tent of the Grand Duke, Gao Wen sat on the chair, untied the silk rope wrapped around the hand armor layer by layer, and then knelt down in front of him Mu Zafei Adin, respectfully held the hand armor he had taken off, and turned around to keep it, "Sit down, what's your name?" Gawain squeezed his left and right wrists back and forth and asked.

"Gawain, you've forgotten my name until now." Kabeamiya had suffered such humiliation that she was immediately filled with anger and refused to take her seat.

"I'm sorry, I just remember after I was captured by the Imperial Guards, back then"

"Shut up!" Kabeamiya was embarrassed, her cheeks flushed, and she scolded Gawain that she really didn't want to mention the nightmarish truth, "My name is Kabeamia. Helly Socher. The current Archon of the Golden Hand of the Republic of Tevris, a great saint. The apostle of the God of the White Light on earth, the sword and flame of the punishment of heretics and unbelievers. ”

"Very good Cabeamia. I'll remember your name! After listening politely to her identity, Gawain replied solemnly.

"Actually, she is just a Paulicist heretic, and you must not get too close to her, Your Excellency, for His Majesty must be opposed to their teachings." The confidential secretary who took the transcript on the side reminded him.

"I understand, that's why I didn't call all the priests and priests of the Brotherhood." Gawain bowed, then turned to the female consul and said, "What else do you have to say about this defeat?" ”

Kabeamia closed her eyes and bowed her head slightly. With an unwilling attitude, "Your belief in the black evil God has succeeded again, and this Archon has nothing to say." ”

"No, not because of faith. My cavalry company has strong horse armor, sharp spears and arrows, tight banners and formations, while your troops are unaware of the enemy and have no rules. Crossing the river in a hurry, as the commander of an army, you cannot escape the blame. Gawain said sternly, and then he pretended to take the scroll from the confidential secretary. More than 200 years ago, your ancestor Helly Socher went to war with the Roman Emperor Vasily the Great, and the other side sent envoys to negotiate peace with great sincerity. But your ancestors are arrogant and say, All I want to do is to push the heretical emperor off his throne. As a result, the city of Tevris was captured by Great Vasily, and your ancestors were beheaded. It seems that this bad habit has not been eradicated until now, which is why your group of believers is getting weaker and weaker. These words made Kabeamia blush, and she really had no words to refute it, so she could only grit her teeth and not look at Gawain, thinking in her heart how to take revenge, but she really didn't know if she could get out alive today.

But then Gawain stood up and changed his tone to a softer tone, "If you want to save your followers, there is no way, that is, as a captive and hostage, I will make peace with King Cuman Khan in the name of capturing you, and sacrifice you to Constantinople." ”

"What." Cabeamia thinks the bastard is a cat, playing a game of killing rats.

"Why, I repeat, only nominally, as long as I enter Fort Sophia safely, cross the strait under the emperor's nose, and gain a firm foothold on the road of the Eastern Crusade, I promise to let you go."

"Do you think you can fool the emperor in this way? Or rather, can fool me. Not only did Cabeamia not trust enough, but she also thought that Gawain was ridiculously naïve at the moment.

Gawain chuckled, "I won't think about deceiving Alexios, and there's no need for that - the wrestling between high-level figures relies on their own wisdom and strength, but the lower-level ones are different, in fact, what I want to do is to give all the soldiers of the Red Hand Dalian Brigade a certificate, and it is also a banner, and I will not hesitate to use weapons against the emperor for this." ”

These words made Kabeamia's eyes widen in fright, and the confidential secretary next to him, Lu Guanpen, subconsciously wrote these words on the record book, gasped twice, slapped his head hard, and scribbled them.

"You mean, you're 'escorting' me to Constantinople to ask for merit, if the Imperial army does anything to stop you"

"The Red Hand Brigade will then attack the Imperial Army, and then your value will be fulfilled, and I will keep my promise to release you. However, if you continue to fight against me in Asia Minor, I will still annihilate you. Gawain continued to speak a great rebellion, more than the head of the George Warden with whom Cabeamia had been in contact with her.

"But, ridiculous, your Dalian team doesn't even have 10,000 people, why should you fight that emperor." Kabeamia still didn't believe her ears.

"I am the prefect of the Holy Priesthood of the Pope, theoretically all the gods in the armies of the Eastern Crusade are under me, even if those commanders and lords are not willing to respect me, it doesn't matter, I will naturally win allies, and nothing is monolithic. With Frankish allies, it was not easy to deal with Komnenos - not to mention, there was also an undercurrent and infighting under the Komnenos throne. ”

"What the hell are you going to do, Stephen. Gawain, the throne of the Roman emperors? The status of the Komnenos family? It's just a Varyag brute. The consul could no longer contain her curiosity and asked.

"That's right! Now the Roman Empire, there is nothing to fear, it is in decline, no matter how hard the emperors try to remedy it, can he abandon his lavish court and calm the selfish rivalries between the great families? My ideal, like Bohemond, is to establish a kingdom of my own in a distant land, but my ideal is different from Bohemond, he just wants to make somewhere his own Norman kingdom. But my kingdom of Gawain is to make all the people of the world envious of the happiness of the people of my country, to regard my kingdom in songs as a better existence than the holy land, that the tax collectors and customs officials can use the money they get for real state affairs and armies, that the young people are vigorous and uplifting, that philosophy and science are prosper, that all people hate darkness and barbarism, that they are good at learning from other peoples, that armies are brave and good at fighting to defend their lands, and that the bells and prayers of churches are sounded for those who really need them. In short, everything seems to be very different from this world. I have done some experiments in Barry, but they are only experiments, and on the whole they are the same as those of the Venetian state, to gain experience, to cross the river by feeling the stones, and in the future, when the real kingdom is formed, its cry will be more deafening than the trumpet of a giant's battle; And its smile will be as comforting as God's caressing. ”

"One-pie-nonsense." Kabeamia chirped.

"Dare to compete with the devil and not give an inch to Satan." This is Gawain's final reply, "There are very few female dependents in the Dalian team, only a few female doctors, and they are not pilgrims, so you don't have to worry about being criticized and attacked, I will allocate your residence to them, and Giovanni, the military judge in the camp, will arrange it immediately, he is an upright and strict gentleman, you don't have to worry at all." ”

Before the consuless could reply, Giovanni appeared, and after saluting the Great Proclamation, he brought in several emissaries of the Cuman Khan, who came in and bowed down before Gawain with a huge and luxurious blanket in their hands, "The Khan has seen the power of the Grand Duke, and thinks that you are the only hero in the whole world who can match him, and from the black sea, all the end of the mountains, across the whole of Wallachia, there is no hero like you and him, so the Khan wants to be a brother of mutual help and love with you." ”

"Then this is a gift from the Khan?"

"That's right, it's made of the whole fur of a huge black bear hunted in the mountains, and people can be wrapped in warm fur when they lie in it, and they can lay it in this magnificent crimson tent, which is really the most magnificent!" The messenger was skilful.

And Kabeamiya over there was almost fainting in anger, the bull's tongue sword and dagger had been confiscated, and the grooves on it were coated with poison, if it was still in her hands, she would be desperate to kill and poison these messengers on the spot! She struggled to assemble an army of believers and came to fight against the Iron Gate Fort, and the king of Yasin Khan, seeing that the situation was not right, betrayed everyone cleanly.

At this time, Gawain expressed his willingness to accept this gift with a smile, and quickly signed a peace treaty with the Khan, "I will set up a field in the Iron Gate Fort, and arrange for the Venetians and Barians to come here to trade with your tribe in friendship, and the Grand Duke will not receive the gift of his brother Khan in vain, and there are still twenty pounds of gold in the treasury, so I will give it back to the Khan!" ”

The messenger was very pleased and said that on auspicious days, the two sides could meet on the river by boat, make a vow to each other, and open the market to trade.

In the afternoon, in the Iron Gate Fort, the soldiers of the Dalian army chanted all kinds of hymns, and the Grand Duke Gawain reported to them the whole battle situation and achievements, "The Cumans will soon retreat, the heretical army will be annihilated by our Dalian army, and their consuls will also be imprisoned by me." Some petty ones, fearing our merits and abilities, tried to throw us into this wilderness, but their ambitions and plots were ruined—I now declare that I will present the Pauline consuls to His Majesty the Imperial Capital, and that the rest of the faithful will not be guilty of death, and that after taking an oath to serve in the Dalian Army, they will all be punished as servants in the army, and they will be cut down and shipwed on the four sides! (To be continued.) )