king of ros

Chapter 563 A Great Victory
The Ross people went back on the Ross fleet that was active in the Eastern Mediterranean. They were happy to serve these warriors who had opened up another trade route for them, and they didn't even charge them money.

And when these people returned to Ross, they were treated like heroes. This is the Crusader heroes of Ross. They not only defended the cause of God, but also kept many people's jobs.

However, the departure of the Ross people did not cause any waves in this land. The fanatical jihad is still in full swing, Christians and Muslims are still fighting each other, and the east is still full of blood and death.

Aleppo and Damascus both fell in late 1102, and after more than a year and a half of siege, the two cities were running out of supplies, and running out of supplies meant nothing but famine.

Aleppo and Damascus still had large populations even after the expulsion of the local Christians, so the effect of the famine was particularly large.

After all the food that could be eaten was eaten up, a large number of citizens starved to death, and some people were killed because they wanted to rob food, and even those who were still alive became emaciated. Human appearance is simply a walking dead.

Even the soldiers and nobles who enjoyed abundant food had less and less food available under such circumstances. The Crusaders made up their minds to destroy these two cities with hunger, so the situation of the defenders was getting worse and worse.

As for the outside of the city, the Crusaders have sufficient supplies, but even so, it is difficult to keep the restless Crusaders nobles and knights in the city. Many people left the camp during the siege and went to Egypt in the west. Add under his command.

After confirming the situation in the city, the Crusaders launched an attack on the city, and the defenders who had been tortured and weakened by hunger were easily defeated. Even many Muslim soldiers felt relieved when they saw the Christians coming in. Because it's finally over.

According to the usual practice, after the Crusaders break through such a huge city, they will massacre the city, but the tragedy in the city frightened many people, and there are few living people in the city. Even the survivors are like walking dead, and the number is pitifully small. It doesn't make people interested in killing at all, let alone rape.

So a scene that can be regarded as a miracle appeared, the crusaders who had been besieging the city for a long time not only did not kill people, but even saved people - because it was too miserable, some crusaders were willing to give food to the survivors.

In the entire city, only the Emir's fortress can see normal people, but although they have a fortress, it is still difficult to resist the attack of the Crusaders. The battle has reached this point, so what is the need to stick to it?

So these fortresses were quickly taken down. Since then, the siege of Aleppo and Damascus has been completed, which also means that the goals of the Crusaders in 1101 have been successfully achieved, and the Crusaders won an unprecedented victory.

In Aleppo and Damascus, just like the previous cities captured by the Crusaders, first the local oriental believers returned to the cities, and then many civilians from the Crusaders settled here.

But when it comes to settling down, the settlers go to Jerusalem the most. After all, that city is extremely attractive to Christians.

As for Aleppo and Damascus, a city belonged to Tancred, the Norman adventurer who had at last acquired the land of his heart in the West, and now called himself Count Aleppo.

The other city belonged to the church, to be precise, it belonged to the crusaders. As for why it belonged to them, that's a long story.

After the Crusaders took Damascus, since the most Crusaders participated in the conquest of Damascus, it was inevitable that they would fight each other, and the final result became that no one could accept anyone.

Faced with such an embarrassing situation, Baldwin proposed a solution. Since it has been a long time since no one can be elected to rule this place, then simply dedicate this land to the church.

The current situation in the church has changed dramatically. Dimbert has been dealt with according to King Baldwin's established script, and then war monk Peter has naturally become the leader of the church and is Baldwin's own person.

This proposal was approved by everyone. Since you can’t choose, then give the land to the church. This is the most suitable. As for those who want to get land in the Holy Land, the Emir of Damascus is very large, and it is a rich land. The land is enough to settle them down - they just need to conquer it themselves.

After Peter took Damascus into his hands, he decided to dedicate the city to the crusaders and make this place the headquarters of the crusaders. It's just right to hand them over.

Just like that, the crusaders marched into the city, Damascus hung the crusader's flag, and a monk led many civilians on the road to the east—it was too obvious what this was referring to.

And since the Crusaders are loyal to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Damascus can also be regarded as being included under the rule of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and so will the Emir Kingdom centered on Damascus. After all, for those adventurers, defecting The king of Jerusalem is the most reliable.

After solving the problem of the distribution of the two cities, the crusaders returned to their hometowns. Although the king of Jerusalem was already mentally prepared, he couldn't help being amazed when that scene happened.

Tens of thousands of crusaders filled the various ports of the Holy Land. If they wanted to leave by boat, those who were impatient would go back directly by land. For a while, the Holy Land was full of scenes of returning home.

The manpower available to the Kingdom of Jerusalem declined rapidly, and Baldwin could only be thankful that at least there were more people left this time, and a full [-] Christians were enriched into the city of Jerusalem.

As for the number of Christians accommodated in the coastal cities of Palestine, it directly exceeds 3, and this does not include those who have established their own villages near the Holy Land.

Many people from the Crusaders came to settle in the Holy Land this time, which made Baldwin happy. The Holy Land lacked Latins. After enjoying this wave of compensation, the Latin population of the Kingdom of Jerusalem may be close to 10,000. If you add other overseas regimes, you will get [-]+.

King Baldwin is planning to count these people. In the Holy Land, every Latin is precious, and these manpower must not be wasted like in the West. They must be counted and managed so that Jerusalem needs Time to mobilize them.

The overseas regimes can really feel at ease with these immigrants from the Christian world, so every manpower is precious and the foundation of the overseas regime.

However, there is still a lot of work for the overseas regimes. The fall of Aleppo and Damascus does not mean that these lands have been wiped out. In fact, those towns and fortresses still need to be conquered.

And just as the Crusaders began to mop up, in the Eastern Round City, the great battle that attracted a lot of firepower for the Crusaders finally came to an end...

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