Eagle Byzantium
Chapter 38 Defection
"What, are you still an Ani warrior like this?" Park Ade was furious.
"Father!" Hercules was ready to say something again.
"Asshole, you are simply insulting our reputation as descendants of the ancient royal family. Are you going to surrender the castle without any resistance?" The veins on Park's bald head popped out one by one, like flowing little snake.
"Then let my father stay in the castle and resist until the end. I have decided to go out and surrender." Hercules lowered his head and said to his father's shining saber.
"You! You beast."
"Please don't insult yourself, father."
The surrounding Tubersaina guardsmen, who carried quivers on their backs and held battle flags, also looked at the father and son at a loss.
"Father, I have already made a private agreement with Gawain. As long as we hand over Tubersena Castle, he is willing to grant us twice the current land and pasture in Greater Armenia, and let us take on higher-level positions. He also gave us five thousand Byzantine gold coins as a gift and promised to restore the Kingdom of Armenia in the future, and we would then become the chief swordsman."
Under the battlements and walls, Pacoad blew his beard and listened to his son's continuous offers, pacing back and forth, his eyes watching the reactions of the soldiers around him from time to time.
With the eyesight of this old fox who has been in Anatolia for many years, most of the guards actually have no intention of resisting to the death. In the past two years, Marash has been ravaged twice by Gawain's army. So far, farming and animal husbandry have not recovered. The Armenian Chamber of Commerce is all a group of people with skulls on their heads, and they are all rushing to cling to "Ikonium." It is said that Gawain secretly promised to give Armenian merchants special privileges in the future. If the future sphere of influence of the local Chamber of Commerce in Tarsus is the routes oriented to the Mediterranean and the Levant, then they will be granted Black Sea and Danube trade. of charter. Therefore, the merchant group was full of objections to the payment of military funds, and often encouraged farmers to flee to Tarsus, or simply poisoned the horses in the noble pastures or burned the haystacks, causing widespread destruction.
"The people's hearts are really broken. Why are we fighting?" Park Ad was also a little depressed. He believed that ordinary soldiers and citizens would be even more depressed than him.
"Father, five thousand Byzantine gold coins." At this time, Hercules raised his head and continued to report this attractive amount. "Please make a decision as soon as possible, otherwise the longer the time drags on, the greater the price in our hands will be." Hair shrinks.”
Packard frowned, put his saber back into its sheath, strode forward, grabbed his son by the collar, and pushed him to the corner of the stone wall, where several milking sheep bleated in fear and hid there. He went, and then his bald head stared, and his voice was low, "The number is a bit small. Tubosaina Castle and I are more than this price."
"I'm sorry, father. I'm not an intermediary. I'm afraid my words will have no effect on the Tarsus siege army below."
"You bastard, you sold the whole place without a word, and you still have no effect on talking to you?" Park Ade said viciously.
"You can quote an ideal price." Hercules looked at the soldiers who were still confused around him.
"At least six thousand five hundred..." Father reported the number cheerfully.
"Okay, I'll go negotiate." The son agreed.
At this time, Gawain's separate task force had arrived and set up camp in the wilderness below the city of Tubersena. Soon, 800 Armenian border troops brought by Haarlem (Ossen's concubine) came to join them. The entire task force used eighty caravans equipped with muskets, fire barrel arrows and perfume bottle artillery as its base, equipped with dug trenches and earthen walls, in the center of the three traffic roads of Samosata, Melitene and Maras. The camp was set up at the strategic point, facing the Tubosaina Castle on the mountain.
At this point, Marash has been surrounded on three sides, leaving only the lonely Azazi corridor in the south, connecting to the Aleppo area.
On the same day, Hercules walked out of the mountain fortress, rode to the chariots of the task force on Gowanbye Road, bowed his head and expressed his willingness to surrender and handed over the keys to the gate and tower of Tubesena.
In the camp, Walter, Reinstein, and Hallam received him together. In order to show goodwill, the herdsman officer Reinstein was the one to receive the envoy to dilute the original confrontation between the two parties. "The great patron has always been magnanimous. Before, I promise you that the conditions will never change. After the demise of the Marash Armenian Empire, all the remaining troops will be under your control, and the great patron promises to give you a new brigade. "
"From now on, as members of the future true Kingdom of Armenia, you and I must fully assist Your Excellency the Patron." General Hallam also took the opportunity to please the young Armenian noble.
"I am a descendant of the orthodox Bagradioni royal family. I wonder who you are?" Hercules replied somewhat arrogantly.
Harlem Hertomis was immediately embarrassed. He and his younger brother Orson were both real Roman military nobles, but they were forcibly appointed as "Armenians" by the patronage a few days ago.
"Are there any additional difficulties?" Reinstein changed the topic hurriedly.
"My father asked for an extra fifteen hundred gold coins."
The three generals looked at each other for a while, "There is no difficulty in this matter, I can make the decision on your behalf." Reinstein agreed happily, "But the chief patron hopes that you will take down Lavodela Castle for him as a Guarantee of good faith from both parties.”
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"Yes." Hercules lowered his head and said.
That night, Hercules led 200 men through the mountain road to the foot of Lavodela Castle, and told the gate tower that he was coming for reinforcement. Saliki opened the small door on the side of the castle without any vigilance. After all, they were of the same race, so he let Hercules in. Then the elite soldiers of the Caesarea Border Army lurking around rushed in, quickly seized the outer wall and the fortress, and set fire and killed everywhere.
Half an hour later, the scattered soldiers of the Red Hand Brigade who were besieging the front also climbed up and knocked open the gate with an iron-clad battering ram. Soon, Lavodela Castle was easily broken.
The stubborn General Saliki, with the curse of "traitor", was not forgiven and was directly dragged to the east side of the city wall and beheaded. Then his head was hung on the bell tower in the city for public display.
The two core castles of Lavodela and Tubercena, the northern defense line that Regent Fell had high hopes for, did not even last for a day before being broken by the operation of the insider.
On July 2, after a short rest in Lavodela for two days, the Red Hand Brigade left the Great Earl Melo to recuperate in the castle, and the rest of the troops, led by Chief Centurion Colonna, went directly to the east side of Marash Castle to set up their formation.
On the 4th, Gawain's flag suddenly appeared at the peak of Alabash Mountain, just west of Marash, but this time the Grand Patron was surrounded by Red Hand Cavalry and Guards, and the Nagimagis Brigade still did not move, but was stationed in Kokisong, west of Vanka City, close to the Taurus Mountains. Perhaps Gawain thought that it was not necessary to send three field brigades at once to deal with Marash.
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