"This is the original covenant, and all of you promised to return the cities and lands recovered along the way to me!" Alexios gritted his teeth and offered the peace he had signed.

Gawain put his hand to his ear, and after hearing the Emperor's long shout, he continued to shout back, "But strictly speaking, I have not made a covenant oath to Your Majesty, because when Godfrey and Bohemond swore to you at the Grand Palace, I had already crossed the channel with Anna."

"Shut up, no mention of Apat is allowed!" The emperor also put his hand to his ear, and when he heard Gawain actually mention the eldest princess, his anger was even more uncontrollable.

Gawain grew his mouth, tilted his head sideways and frowned, and after listening to the emperor's protest from a long distance, he nodded and shouted with great force, "So I am not bound by the covenant, but I am still helping the pilgrims to attack Antioch." What do you think, Your Majesty? When the city of Antioch is obtained, I will hand over this great city into your own hands. ”

"I don't trust you at all, you bastard!"

"Why bother? Anna is going to have a wedding with me soon."

"No more mention of Apatta!"

The two of them went back and forth like this, and in front of thousands of soldiers, they continued to fight a lawsuit across the deep canyon and wilderness.

"Do you want to give the city of Antioch to Bohemond? He's not trustworthy, he's worse than me. Gawain shouted nakedly, "Your Majesty, please consider it, there is no need to make such a big move, and I will join forces with your friend Lord Raymond when the time comes." Advocate for the return of Antioch to the Empire - and at the same time, a year later. I will give you back West Cilicia and even Seleucia. ”

"You liar who abducts women, your words are not even credible to the devil. Unless you make an oath! It's not that I'm afraid that you'll break the contract, but I'm going to make it clear to the world that it's you who should be punished. The emperor demanded.

"Wow~~~" Gao Wen's righteous and awe-inspiring voice came for a long time, and soon his heraldic officer and the emperor's imperial ink officer both walked out and handed over the oath, Emperor Alexios looked at it carefully, and then wrote his name in purple ink, and whispered to the imperial ink officer. "This time, I temporarily let go of Galvan Dalmatia, and the news came that Berdin actually accepted the crown given by the city of Rome, declared his conversion to the Catholic Church, and established himself as king."

The hand holding the writing object trembled slightly, and he was first amazed at the Emperor's intelligence, and then he could not help but admire the Emperor's shrewdness: His Majesty may have known the news of Berdin's rebellion beforehand, and the direction of Berdin's possible invasion would be Thrace, Bulgaria, or Macedonia. It was difficult for the emperor to be so calm that he knew that an attack on Seleucia was impossible, but he still firmly commanded the army. Coming to Mirio Sephalon is to first obtain Gawain's oath, and then go to the other side of the empire to impeach Berdin. Then he will deal with Gawain in the opposite hand, so that there will be both faith and righteousness and practical gain—no matter what he does. We must maximize our interests, and this is where Your Majesty's skill lies.

And Prince John, who previously accused questioning His Majesty. After all, it's still too young.

"By this oath, from now on Gawain shall not be allowed to occupy or plunder the interests of the Empire outside Seleucia, nor to occupy any additional land, but only to receive the Danish pilgrims. And the holy Roman emperor, the holy apostle of the earth, Alexios. Komnenos was also willing to withdraw his troops.

From this date onwards, after the expiration of a year of property taxation, the empire will take over all the military towns and ports in Seleucia and Cilicia, and Gawain must surrender unconditionally, which is his own oath, and the violation of which will be punished with the severest punishment by God, and the emperor may not have any mercy, and shall carry on any military action against him and his army, and destroy and ravage any men and goods who follow Gawain. ”

After making this vow, Gawain dismounted, solemnly took the document with the emperor's seal from the heraldic officer, bowed and saluted, and prepared to put it into the hanging bag under the saddle.

The cloud-like imperial army under the mountain, the rear team became the front team, the infantry and the chariots began to take the lead in turning, towards Panphilia, the wheels were sparkling, the shouts of the soldiers came and went, all the Pronian cavalry and the Cuman cavalry were behind the palace, accompanied by the armored Varangian guards, around the emperor, Alexios stared at Gawain, at this time Gawain was stunned,

"Where will you and Apat go after handing over these two lands?" It was a sticky note attached to the oath by the Emperor, which was noticed by Gawain at the moment, fluttering in the wind.

Gawain took off the reed pen handed by the heraldic officer, quickly wrote some Greek on it, and then sent it to Muzafiadin, who tied it to the feathers of the arrows, galloped down the hillside, and shot it into the trunk of an isolated cedar tree about 200 feet before the emperor's chariot, and then departed.

When it was returned to the Emperor, he unfolded the list, and inside it was Gawain's reply:

"I think I'll still go to the Holy Land, or some island, and become a merchant, trying to earn money to support myself and Anna."

"Let's go," the Emperor bowed his head, tossed the note into the wind, and then, without seeing any expression, reined in the reins, and called for the horse's head to swing back, followed by the long guards, and turned back towards the long plateau, "Send fast horses to tell Tetisius to increase the number of troops that had gone to the city of Antioch to assist to eight thousand, lest the pilgrim lords have any complaints against the Empire." ”

The fast horse, carrying the Emperor's urgent message, also galloped in the opposite direction, galloping into the noisy military camp on the edge of the city of Philadofiam, where the swarthy Prince John had put on his armor for the first time and was ready to go to Milio Sephalon in the name of escorting the Danish pilgrims to help his father attack Gawain's army, but now his father had received news that he had temporarily ceased fire with Gawain and was going to hurry back to Dalmatia and Epirus to suppress Berdin's rebellion.

"What are you kidding? If my father had thought about it beforehand, he shouldn't have decided to do it, but now that the army has arrived on the plateau, he has so much to worry about what to do! When John opened the letter, he was full of disapproval, "Since there is now a gap between him and the Catholic Church pilgrims, then simply destroy Gawain, and Berdin is only suffering from ringworm." ”

But he did not say these words, but put the letter away, got up from his seat, and faced the Danish prince Sven, his fiancée Florina, and Count Ryanstein the "madman" standing before him. (To be continued.) )