Merrick fled with a few slaves into the mountains of Kastamonu, and after a few days entered Gangara in great terror, lamenting the destruction of his army: four and a half thousand men were killed, almost the same number were captured, and only a few of the Sagitus cavalry broke free from the lower reaches of the river and fled, and were completely scattered and difficult to retract. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Sadly, it is still unclear how the thunder and fire that defeated him came out of the hands of Gawain's soldiers......

However, Gawain did not give him room to calm down, and after a great victory, he easily captured the fort of Germanico and obtained the key to Paphlagonia (the ancient capital of Paphlagonia), and the Guardian Brigade seized from the camp of the Grand Emir and seized 50,000 Byzantian gold coins, most of which had been given to the pilgrims by the emperor, and was captured by Merrick, and now all went to Gawain, "30,000 gold coins were given to the soldiers who participated in the battle." The remaining 20,000 yuan was sent to Sith County and handed over to the magistrate of Wright County for the investment and development of subsequent iron mines. ”

Gawain then ordered the selection of three hundred heads of the Danishmond Turkic soldiers who had died in battle, choked on Cypriot lime, and "sent them to the city of Castamonu, so as to ask His Majesty for merit and invite all men to launch a counterattack against Danishmund!" ”

When the chiefs were densely lined up on the felt, spread out on the castel of Castamonu, and were inspected by Mikhail, the chief of the palace guards, with this as a marker, the soldiers and horses of all walks of life really launched a counter-offensive like a tide of rage:

Conrad and Guillaume, anxious to wash away the shame and suspicion of their previous "escape", continued their advance towards Gangara, where they swept away the remnants of the enemy in southern Paphragonia, then joined up with Mikhail's army from Castamonu, and after two weeks took Gangara, which was virtually ungarrisoned, and then seized the area of Calabi, across the river from the city of Amasya;

Raymond of Sinop, after recovering and recruiting a new army with money from the Duck and Pisa caravans, also conquered Fort Peverard almost simultaneously, and besieged Fort Mercivan in the northeastern corner of Amasia;

Theodoro and Harold's troops had also reached the mountain passes north of Amasya, where they began to build siege barracks and uproot several outlying Turkic strongholds.

The Great Emir, who had fled back to the palace of Amasya, was at a loss and saw that the enemy was returning from all directions, and that the Bey and Ghazi, whom he had relied on, had been half killed in the previous defeat, and that he really did not have the strength to break any of the enemy armies any longer, and even if they did, Gawain's army would follow one after another—the Great Emir, who was a little desperate, was determined to give full play to the nomadic prowess of the Turkic people, abandon the city and retreat in great strides, and retreat to the Sivas Plateau, There he was also supported by many Turkic tribes of Greater Armenia.

On the last Wednesday of July, General Theodoro marched into Amasya with 4,000 Trabzon troops, holding high the banner of the Black Lady.

When the news reached the other side of the strait, Alexios burst into tears and ordered a solemn prayer ceremony to be held in the Cathedral of the Holy Age, for the castles of Castamonu and Amasia were of special importance to the Emperor.

Needless to say, the former is the place where the Alexios family arose, and it was a shame for him to fall into the hands of the enemy for a long time, but now it has finally snowed;

Amassia was the starting point for Alexios, who was a front-line commander of the Empire and used clever diplomacy to bribe Merrick's father to tie up Lusail and hand him over to the war (although Lusail later rebelled).

So now the recovery of Amasya has made the emperor feel very good, and he faintly feels that it was there that he captured Lusail's greedy wolf, and it will be smooth sailing to deal with Gawain, who is very similar to Lusail, in the future.

"It's going to be smooth sailing, too." The Emperor continued to recite these words.

However, although Amasya recovered, there was a series of nonsense: the Emperor was very annoyed (or at least pretended to be annoyed) at Raymond's previous command error, and was very dissatisfied with the one-eyed lord's performance in Gangara, and was ready not to fulfill his previous promise of reward;

But Raymond didn't buy it at all, and he presented a lengthy and fierce report to the emperor, not only saying that "Gangara failed, the Duke of Aquitaine was the first to flee, His Majesty's Tekopo cavalry was the first to flee, and His Majesty's chief of guard, Mikhail, would not be saved when he saw death", but also threatened that "Mikhail deliberately shot to death Vallo, the general counselor of the French palace, using a piece of arrow, and the servants have collected a lot of ironclad evidence, I am afraid that it will be helpful to the previous case of Hugh's tragic death, if Your Majesty is unwilling to accept it, The servants will send the complaint and the evidence to the Holy See";

Theodorus also sent a letter asking for merit, in which he claimed that he was the greatest contributor to the reconquest, and asked the emperor to give him a more honorable title and the power of governor of the Chaldian region;

Conrad and Guillaume, on the other hand, joined forces to lash out at Raymond, arguing that his previous actions were not desertions, but "resentment of the arbitrary and righteous actions of the Marquis de Provence", and described in detail how Raymond had delayed the fighter and risked the destruction of his previous expedition;

At the same time, during the siege of Anglas, a conflict broke out between Tetisius and Brenus - Brenus began to reduce the food supply to the new army and withdrew all his servants and cavalry, on the pretext that Tetisius was "always under his control", while Tetisius called this "interfering with his siege plan and attempting to annex the prince's army", and the two sides fought fiercely - after reaching the imperial capital, the great nobles and bureaucracy began to support Brenus, The military nobles and the old and new nobles (most of them are tax collectors, they have a large investment in the prince's estate, and they also enjoy dividends) support John, and the conflict soon extends to the court, Marlena naturally supports her beloved adopted son, while Queen Irene loves her son-in-law more (the mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more she looks at it, the happier she becomes, Erin's biggest regret is that Gawain and Anna can't meet her, and the child in the eldest daughter's womb makes her even more worried), and the rift between the parties deepens;

And Mikhail's explanatory document was also sent to the emperor, "Even Mikhail has learned the cunning of the Pavlaconian peasantry, and I should not have let him out in the first place!" "The emperor, who had not yet enjoyed the joy of victory for a few days, was soon turned into a pot of porridge, and he was angry.

Then the emperor could only summon the imperial ink officer, and urgently summoned the bird from the border area, and discussed in detail how to place this group of noisy "meritorious people", of course, the most surprising thing for the emperor was that after the great victory, Gawain who had always been entrenched in Germanico - he was fine, but if he did not move now, the emperor's worries deepened. (To be continued.) )