When he took the note from Count Bunonius, Gafras finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Finally cheated on this old fox.

All of this was a trap planned by Farachenko Gavras. He had already chosen to surrender to Emperor Mikhail Ducas, and had been waiting for this opportunity to capture all the forces that Thessaly still tried to resist the throne. The so-called siege trap was just a disguise made by the army sent by his command. He could have done a long time ago to deal with the two nobles Merinos and Bononius on his territory, but his covetousness of Trikara still made Farachenko Gavras decide to take the risk of acting a play, so that he could have tricked the letter from the old earl of the Bononius family.

From beginning to end, when the nobles of Thesali were planning how to deal with the Agrignon rebellion, the new nobles of Thesali did not have the same heart as the others. After learning that Prince Theodor had encountered an unexpected accident, the fence-bearing count immediately found a new master. As for what fell under the bloody temple of Agrignon, it was just one of the many tribes of Farachenko, all of which were left by the father who was forced to step down by him. Farachenko has always been good at judging the situation.

Now the key to Trikara's door was tightly held in his hands, and the excitement was beyond words. The Earl of Gavras, who had quickly calmed down, reminded himself not to expose any flaws to the two in front of him.

On the other hand, the two counts of Bonnius and Merinosen were now focusing on the encirclement of the army outside the city. Thousands of soldiers and horses lined up in a horizontal array, relying on the plains outside the city of Larissa, blocking all the roads leading to other places. Strong bows and crossbows were arranged in key and dangerous places, and the defense was unscathed.

"Now I can only hope that Trikara's cavalry can defeat the enemy inside and outside before the city breaks." Merinosen had been through the battle formation for a long time, and he could see at a glance that the only weakness of the enemy's formation was that behind the scenes, the winding front could not flexibly respond to the attacks launched from the rear. Therefore, the Earl of Gavras, who was carrying the mission of seeking assistance, was undoubtedly their last hope.

But what he didn't know was that the young parent who was given high hopes in front of him was the poisonous snake hidden among them.

"I hope so!" Compared to Merinos' concern, Earl Buronius seemed indifferent and his eyes fell down the city tower. At this moment, the cavalry team preparing to assault the encirclement was ready to go.

Farachenko Gavras had already put on his armor and stood at the front of the queue. The Pronia beside him followed him with a flag. He held a kite shield and a spear in his right hand. Behind Farachenko were the cavalrymen who had finished preparing their troops - only more than 30 people, but each of them was elite one in a hundred, riding Saracen's steed, armed with his teeth, only two holes in his eyes were exposed, and he just waited for the order to go out to meet the enemy with the Earl of Gavras.

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On the plains of Thessaly, covered by autumn, there were only a few crows flapping their wings and undulating. In front of the quiet army, Larissa's city gate slowly opened.

A cavalry team slowly emerged from the city gate on the east side, and the guards of the Merinosen family took the initiative to attack to cover them. Earl Farachenko looked up at the sky. It was noon, and then he turned around and gestured to the Pronian rider who was following behind him. The other party nodded and raised the military flag.

The next moment, with the direction pointed by the military flag, Farachenko and his cavalry pressed over toward the weakest direction of the encirclement outside the city with "no fear" in the direction of the weakest encirclement outside the city. Of course, he didn't need to be afraid of anything, because the "enemy" outside the city were just pretending to be his men. This seemingly brave and fearless assault was just a hilarious drama from the beginning.

"Assault, follow my spear, don't hesitate like a crawling ant!" I wonder if it was self-deprecating, Farachenko chose a very exciting order.

As Farachenko's cavalry team spread out from a wedge-shaped formation, the "enemy troops" outside the city also began to set up formations to meet the enemy. When they saw this, Farachenko was slightly stunned, but they saw that they were using the traditional Roman border defense army combat method, with shields covering the spearmen on the front line, the second line was a mix of militias carrying short swords and javelins and archers, and then a triangular formation composed of horse militias on both wings was responsible for covering the alert. With the cooperation of this formation, general offense was obviously unable to defeat an army with normal morale.

But Earl of Galfras was not worried about this, even though he had only dozens of elite cavalry, because the military flag in the hands of the Pronian rider behind him was not only used to command the attack but also a "signal" to the army outside the city. Farachenko ordered his subordinates from the beginning. When he saw the flag appearing on the battlefield, he would cooperate with him to engage in a heroic blocking and breaking through.

The conceited Farachenko wrote the script for his next appearance early—just as the people after dinner would like to see, the volunteer warriors, with the hope of everyone, and with the determination to do nothing, stepped into danger and finally broke through the siege and reversed the balance of the situation. It seemed to be an ancient heroic hymn sung by the bard wandering between the Peloponnese countryside. However, no matter how beautiful the ending was, it needed several sad melodies to embellish. In this regard, Farachenko had long thoughtfully prepared the two counts of Bunonius and Merinosen in the city.

When the Earl of Sarien led the bloody battle and finally broke out of the siege, he arrived in Trikala with difficulty to seek the assistance of the Thesali cavalry and returned to Larissa to rescue, the entire city had already fallen. It turned out that shortly after Farachenko's breakthrough, the traitors in the city secretly opened the city gate, and the rebels in the city killed the two counts, Merinos and Bononius. Under the influence of the same hatred of the enemy, the two nobles did not take any advice.

The only remaining Saisalian in the foreign land chose to support Thesali, and he would unify the entire Thesali to eliminate the betrayers as much as possible, and eventually reached a decent agreement with Emperor Mikhail who came south to allow all nobles to accept. From then on, from the Macedonian plains to the Pilates hills, people would sing the future of this autocratic monarch of Thesali, who lived up to honor and courage. Perhaps the elegy of heroes has been born from scratch since ancient times!

Just as the young count was still imagining the days ahead, suddenly, the reminder of the Plonian rider behind him pulled him back to reality from his dream - in front of him, the encirclement of the army that should have collapsed at once did split like the waves as previewed before, but it was not the frontal arrangements of Farachenko that was arranged to be broken!
Chapter completed!