"My teacher, what's the news coming from Amasya City?" After laughing, the king turned around and asked the question. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Mentor George was also puzzled, "Gawain gathered two brigades on the northern front, and used two brigades to attack Ladisia from the western front, and then he and an ominous number of troops were detected by our spy network and assembled in Iconium. So where exactly will he throw his main force? ”

"If we guess and move, we will fall into Gawain's hands. In this way, he is firmly in the most central position, and can change his battle plan at any time - we don't care, carry out the original strategy, and storm the city of Tbilisi with all our strength to the east, and then outflank and attack the Haddadi kingdom, and strive to seize the castles of Ani and other castles on the southern front! The king raised his finger unhurriedly, "If we do this, we will not only expand the land endowment and the source of troops, but Gawain will not interfere with us at all." As long as the whole of Georgia is united, then with the huge mountains of 'Z' (the Greater and Lesser Caucasus) and the northern plateau of Greater Armenia to fight a defensive war, in a few years you will be able to wear down Gawain's spirit, and then contact the emperor of Constantinople to attack him on both fronts, and grind out his military strength and money! ”

Raymond's new castle under the siege of iron pincers, the base is located in the valley where the two steep streams called "Athoppes" and "Caplos" are cut, and the ruins of the ancient city of Laudisia are far away, it is the work and pride of the one-eyed Earl, it has been repaired for two or three years, but it is only to build a core main tower and a stone wall ten feet thick on the periphery, because Raymond's original completion period is scheduled to be five years later, so now it is less than one-third complete, It was fiercely besieged by the Left Army of the Tarsus Guardian Army.

Even so, Gawain also alluded to his commanders before the war, such as Gregor, Decius, Monomarcus, Birrell and Leotius, "The circular 'Raymond Eagle Tower' towering over the independent hill is difficult to completely break, and we must make better use of the internal and political offensive that Anna has bought." ”

Gawain's words were right, when Raymond was given the title of Laudisia, Emperor Alexios gave him a number of 40,000 people, and Raymond subdivided it into two hundred and fifty "knightly fiefs", which were used to support the knights of Toulouse, the cavalry of Tecopo and the Callegos, and could levy men and ox carts to continue to build their castles. In the last year, Gawain's brigades have ravaged Lauteria's territory, and with Anna's bribery policy (after all, she is a legitimate Roman royalty), many of Laudisia's lords have fled in large numbers. Raymond's economic power was dealt a fatal blow, and he was increasingly strapped by the encirclement, and of course he could not build more towers and stone walls.

In fact, when the Gimagis Brigade and the Hierapolis Brigade besieged it, there were only a thousand people left in the Eagle Tower, most of whom were Callegos, because they had no chance of being pardoned by Gawain's army.

At the beginning of March, Robert, Count of Flanders, who was returning home from this place, was invited by the Guardians to observe the spectacular siege:

"Gawain's Guardians crossed the stream and braved the crossbows from the Eagle Tower to build an arched stone bridge, yes, it was made of stone and Marash lime (Gawain's realm could already produce lime in large quantities), and it was unusually strong, and then the Guardians carried a large amount of timber from oxen and mules along the stone bridge, and built a terrible siege machine under the outer wall of the Eagle Tower, which was a combination of a ladder and a siege tower, and a counterweight box that could only be found by heavy stone throwers, and its main body was a reinforced ladder surrounded by wooden frames and leather, Eighty feet long, the top of the weight box filled with stones could be easily lifted when it sank, and then it could be pushed by wheels over the horse-repellent walls, wooden fences, and deep moats to the top of the wall, and the commando soldiers would enter from the bottom of the other side and rush up to the top easily through the inner passage of the ladder, without being threatened by rockets, spears, or stones. The outer walls of the Eagle Tower were breached about a day later, and the fortifications of the castle proved to be of little use to Count Raymond, and the besieging troops began to build a tighter blockade, using artillery to fire stone and iron pellets from all sides, bombarding the Eagle Tower...... There were also miners digging the foundations under the Eagle Tower, which was supposed to be mostly built on indestructible limestone, but the skilled miners from Tranzak, encouraged by a generous reward, found a relatively soft and damp area, which is said to be the source of a stream, and the tunnel then extended like a poisonous snake, and each section of the excavation was supported by solid wood......"

"I, I've done my best." In the central hall of the Eagle Tower, at the center of the stone arches on all sides, outside was the sound of thundering stone pills, and smoke and dust were constantly rushing into the narrow perforations, and Raymond, the one-eyed Earl, looked on his back unwillingly and painfully, his beard was dirty and messy, and said to his henchman, Baron Burns, "This, this empire, all, all the people have failed me, only one, one, the Greek Emperor Alexios, but, but he has, is dead." ”

"Although the army of the Greek emperor has suffered heavy losses, it will not be so many days without any decent aid!" Burns clenched his fists in resentment and replied, "Laudisia is also a central area, could it be that this place has fallen, and that emperor's Prussa and Nicaea will have a good life?" ”

Raymond raised his hand to stop him from continuing to complain, "The soldiers of the Kingdom of Greece, the power of the army is in the hands of that, that warden master. I, I slept with his wife, and all of them were, all of them. I, I am atoning for this, this sin, then in the future, in the future, the little emperor will also get even more and greater sin. ”

"And what about submissions?"

"The Callegosians, no, are not willing to submit." Raymond also felt that he had been held hostage by this group of Greek bandits.

Soon after, Robert of Flanders, who was allowed to act as an intermediary messenger, stood on the outer wall of the west side of the Tower and loudly begged Raymond to come out and submit as soon as possible, so that his men's lives could be spared. The border people and brigade shooters around Robert were crouching on the wall around the main tower, using earthen baskets to build a "temporary pheasant moat" inside, setting up various shrimp whiskers and fire rings to shoot endlessly, and groups of soldiers preparing for a white-knuckle assault under the wall were checking their weapons and armor.

In the midst of the tidal noise, Raymond leaned out at the top of the Eagle Tower, stepped on the perforated platform with one leg, and the lead shot thumped all around, shouting at Robert opposite, "I, I'm just because it's too right, too upright." Being squeezed out by Gawain, Bohemond, each, all kinds of calculations, that is, since Gawain does not want to come and come to talk to me personally, then I, too, must maintain the most and last dignity and not surrender! ”