After the army's feast in the wilderness, more than a thousand Armenian "logisticians", including those brought by Gawain's department, were asked to line up, and Gawain stood in front of them and took the opportunity to speak loudly to them, "Recently, someone has spread a shameful lie in my realm that it is the Grand Duke who treats you prisoners of war as slaves. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info you can tell you frankly, did I do this, did I do it! Saying that, Gawain's emotions looked more excited, and several logistics soldiers in the queue raised their eyes slightly, and when they saw the fierce warrior guards holding battle axes and iron spears beside the Grand Duke, they lowered their heads again, and the entire ranks of more than 1,000 people were silent in the face of the Grand Duke's inquiry.

"Then you say, apart from the difference in position, does the Grand Duke treat you as his own children?" Gawain continued to ask, and at this moment, Merlot, the camping manager next to him, raised his arms and shouted first, "Treat us as children!" ”

"We are treated as children!" When the entire logistician corps saw their previous supreme commander shouting this, they all responded in Greek or Armenian.

Gawain then nodded to Merlot and said, "I have a briefing on the battle of Ashlon, and my task force has fought very bravely, but you should have been affected by Hector's defection, and you will inevitably play as hard as the soldiers of the Guardian Brigade. I know very well how Milutin, the excellent flag officer, was martyred, he was a true warrior of the Lord, a holy apostle who came down to this world, and a true Roman. Now I'm going to award his family a gold medal, as well as a pension and a shade ......" Just as the logistician in the queue wondered what this had to do with us, Gawain choked up twice and continued to say that these are related to this group of logisticians, "You all have to look up to Milutin, no, there are already some of you who are equal to his glory, Lord Merlot, please put your book in my hands." Then Gawain counted out the thirty soldiers who had been wounded or heroically wounded in the previous Battle of Ashlon and the subsequent retreat, and took a series of gold and silver medals, and pinned them to the leather armor or inlaid iron plate armor of the logistics soldiers one by one to the sound of the military band's horn, and the Grand Duke did not go to the Guardian Brigade and the Red Hand Cavalry to confer the medals, but came here to confer the medals in person--this made many of the logisticians really excited and moved.

Now the Seleucian medals are still relatively simple, there is no system, and it is impossible to distinguish between individual medals and group medals, let alone military attachés and civilian medals (Gawain's kingdom has not even formed a civilian system), but the sincerity is full: the gold medal is a small disc, while the silver medal is a large disc (can be used as a dinner plate), with the name and place of the battle engraved on it, and the inscription "Valor, Obedience, Honor".

After the award was completed, Gawain drew the sword of phosphorus and fire, slapped the shoulders of the thirty honored logistics soldiers one by one, and announced, "At this moment, these thirty people are incorporated into my Praetorian Guard, and the food and lodging camps are all around me, and they are organized into the 'Milutin Detachment', and enjoy high salaries and holy estates. Subsequently, Gawain personally handed over a gold-rimmed flame tongue flag to this group of soldiers, and officially upgraded them to the "Grand Duke's Tooth Army Milutin Detachment", fighting side by side with the "Farov Detachment" composed of Saxon and Varangian soldiers to protect the Grand Duke's thoroughness.

On the way back to Vanka, there was not a single case of logistics soldiers fleeing, and Gawain completely controlled the hearts of the prisoners of war through decorations and promotions. In the prince's castle palace, Gawain, who had returned from exhaustion, urgently summoned the generals of the three brigades, and first frankly admitted to them, "The original plan of the task force to capture Meritene has failed, and now the political situation in the whole plateau up to the plain of Edessa has changed drastically, which is the root cause of the disadvantage of the division, and it is not the business of any commander or soldier." Now that the Emirate of Danishmond and the newly established traitor state are colluding, and our army is fighting side by side with Bohemond and Godfrey, the war will be long and arduous, so please be aware of it as soon as possible. ”

Then, with the scepter of the horse's head in his hand, Gawain announced the battle plan for the year, "As spring and summer come, the cries of most of the pilgrims to go to Jerusalem will surely rise, and we must not ignore them, and we will fulfill our promise to send the Gimagith brigade there." Therefore, the implementation of the heraldic officer's 'plan for law and order in the eastern part of Minor Armenia' must be accelerated, and we will adopt the method of cavalry detachments to monitor the patrol posts and infantry detachments to gather around, and first migrate 40,000 Arni from the mountains there! ”

Gawain did what he said he would, and after only three days he left only the Defenders Brigade of Branas, which was stationed in various forts in the Taurus Mountains, and his own military towns in South Cappadocia were the horns of each other, forming a line of defense against the fortress of Catia. The remaining two elite brigades, divided into seventeen infantry detachments (eight of which were of the Red Hand Brigade and nine of which were of the Gemagis Brigade), swept under banners and carried the flames of destruction into the area east of Vanka to clear and deter the restless Armenian villages and market towns.

Gawain's cavalry went further, and he put all the Genat cavalry of Monomachus back, because the service time was full, but he rotated the cavalry of Orson and Polybi, together with the Red Hand Cavalry and the Armenian logistics cavalry, and also divided into thirteen detachments, cut off all the passages between the eastern mountains and Marash and Tubersena, and "carried them out behind closed doors" - this was Gawain's cold and decisive order.

The scene below was extremely cruel, all the villages were forced to hand over most of their livestock and farm implements to confiscate, and the ringleaders who had previously led the collusion with Saliki were arrested by soldiers and hounds even in the cellars and even deep in the mountains, and dragged to their respective villages, where they were immediately executed.

Then, with the exception of the "armed regiment villages" which had been prescribed, all the remaining villages were set on fire by armed soldiers, and the populace was chained in chains, as had happened to the Seleucian Genate nobles before, and the soldiers of the Germans and Slavs were escorted on either side with terrible weapons in their hands, and the expressionless mushroom-headed heraldic officer stood in the crowd of soldiers with various registers of case files, and tirelessly counted and checked the number of people passing in front of his eyes. "The former Ani nobles and the populace were too lazy to settle down in the castle, some doing business, some as mercenaries, and now you should join the Romans in using plowshares and sickles to contribute to the agricultural enrichment of the Grand Duke and the Purple Princess!" (To be continued.) )