Eagle Byzantium

This made Gawain greatly appreciated. You must know that Andodat led only more than 2,000 civilian troops. After crossing the sea and arriving in Kyrenia, he met up with a detachment of the Guardian Brigade left there to recruit some colonists. , the total military strength is only more than 3,000 people.

The weapons carried by this team are not very good. There is almost no cavalry. There are three to four hundred handguns that fire arrows that were replaced by the first-line brigade, and more than twenty light artillery vehicles that throw firebolts. There are also three The ten caravans with panels are the latest equipment.

But although Andodat was originally just a novice monk, and was engaged in desk work after being "recruited" by Gawain, he still held the positions of confidential officer, heraldry officer and county chief, and learned a lot of military knowledge. Tao Luo's story is that this time he led a branch division and actually won many battles in Cyprus. Not only did he force Apsomatos back to Nicosia to be trapped, but he also occupied the fertile Paphos in the southwest.

Then Andodat reported in the tablet that he met with Marshal Conrad's envoy in front of the Temple of Beauty in Paphos. Neither the marshal nor his soldiers wanted to return to Salian. They wanted to occupy the island. The city of Salamis, which was only fifty miles away from the Levant sea route to the east, wanted to establish its own independent city-state.

So the shrewd Sheriff of Tarsus temporarily expressed his full consent to the other party's request and asked both sides to use the river as the boundary to divide the entire island of Cyprus equally. He hoped that Conrad would bring Guillaume, Duke of Aquitaine and Bavaria, who had been swayed by him, Duke Welf (Matilda’s younger husband) also gave it as a gift came and asked Conrad, his nephew Bruno, and the Archbishop of Milan, His Excellency Bisser, to command the "Poor Han Army of Germany" (Conrad's regular army when he participated in the Second Eastern Expedition was only two to three thousand, and the rest were all Helping farmers and poor men) came to join him and besieged Nicosia together.

Conrad, the Grand Marshal of the Palace, saw that the conditions were favorable, so he readily agreed to Andodat's invitation. He led a poor Chinese army of about 3,000 people to the countryside under the Nicosia Castle.

As a result, during the private peace treaty ceremony, when Guillaume and Welf rode to Andodat's military camp, the crossbowman who had been ambushed by the Sheriff suddenly appeared from the bushes and killed them all. The defenseless Conrad and his nephew Bruno shot down their horses, and then the Sheriff's civilian guards rushed up and beheaded them both in public!

The shocked and trembling Archbishop Bisser of Milan was just about to turn around and escape on horseback when he was captured by civilian soldiers who rushed from all directions. Then the camp of the poor Han army was trampled and attacked by Andodat's command, and a small number of people were killed. Death, most of them were captured without a leader.

"Conrad had committed a crime of robbery when he was in the Palace of Giucentina in the imperial capital, and had killed a relative of the former emperor, Count Simen (see above). Therefore, the Imperial Caesar of Tarsus Order me to remove it, which is completely in line with the spirit of the code." Facing the equally stunned Dukes Guillaume and Welf, the young Sheriff of Tarsus announced his ambush in a calm and cold tone. Reasons for killing Conrad.

The subtext is very clear - the rising Kingdom of Tarsus has regarded itself as the orthodox successor of the entire Rome, but it has not yet invaded Constantinople. "Our Caesar and great patron, of course, Have the power to retroactively punish Conrad for crimes he had committed in the empire’s legal territory.”

Then the bold Sheriff led a small number of guards to the newly captured poor man's camp. He rode on horseback and faced all the Germans, telling them in fluent language the benefits of "sacred land", "This Although the island is under the jurisdiction of Seleucia County, I have every right to allocate to you the lands of Salamis, Paphos and Kyrenia. That's it - now you, take a good look at this centurion next to me. team leader."

After saying that, the captain of the centurion of the civilian army stood up and encouraged all the poor men to say how tempting his salary was: before, he was just a scoundrel in his hometown in Mainz, but now he has passed the military merit and not only married I got a beautiful and virtuous Greek wife and still saved enough If you have enough money, you can buy a house in the ring road of "New Town of Sao Paulo". "In the future, the honor guard of the Patron and Caesar will pass by the street in front of my house. I can even see Caesar's face covered in the garden window." The veil." He boasted grandly.

Soon all the poor soldiers howled and joined the Sheriff's command. They volunteered to be the vanguard and quickly returned to Salamis in the east, handing over this important seaport to the great patron.

In this way, before and after Andodat sent the message, he pacified most of the territory of Cyprus at lightning speed. The only one on the island who resisted was the Neon in the center of the island where Apsomatus was located. Fort Kosia.

The overjoyed Gawain and Anna immediately stamped their seals together and replied to Andodat, "You will handle all the offensive, defensive and government affairs of Cyprus Island by yourself, and there is no need to report anything again."

Andodat, who then gained cheap power, took the captured Archbishop of Milan, Bisser, to Paphos, where he received the papal envoys from Rome who were appointed to arbitrate the Antiochian Empire. of the dispute between Hemond and Tancred.

"I am the Bishop of Milan conferred by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry. Even if Emperor Henry is your enemy, he must uphold the spirit of peace and let me go back." After seeing the Pope's envoy, Bisser protested angrily, "Otherwise, dignified The Emperor's Grand Marshal was actually assassinated by one of Gawain's lackeys. You will all be responsible for any deviations caused by this situation in the future! "

But the representative of the mission coldly told Bither that the son of Emperor Henry IV had accepted the instigation of the Holy See in Salian and rebelled against his father. (referring to the fact that he had flown (who had spared his predecessor, Pope Gregory VII, and established a false pope) and was plagued by serious illnesses, "This butcher and anti-Christ in Italy is about to die in a foreign country, and the city of Milan will soon return to the protection of the Holy See, so I can’t let you go back.”

The desperate Bither continued to protest, but was tied up with heavy stones and thrown into the current. "I hope this will allow him to go back without any effort."

Soon, Patriarch Sambel of Jerusalem, Cardinal Maurice, and Patriarch Anselm of Tarsus all came by boat and gathered in the beautiful summer scenery of Paphos, adding a lot of color to the city (frequent* ***Everyone reunited after a long absence (colluding), and after a few days of candid discussions (liquing and drinking) with the papal mission, the Antioch Arbitration Resolution was released.

It was naturally full of unwarranted harshness towards Tancred.