"It's the Grand Priest!"

"Why is the Grand Priest here?"

Under the city wall, not only the attacking Macedonian refugees, but also the Epirus army pressing the rear were stunned. No one knew beforehand that there was actually the Constant who had been missing for several years hiding in Thessaloniki.

Patriarch of Dimburg. The shock brought by this scene is no less than that of running into the Al-Aqsa Mosque on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

The frightened refugees suddenly lost their ideas. If it was really the patriarch of Constantinople on top of the city, then what they had done before would be enough to be punished with excommunication. Similarly, the soldiers of Epirus looked at

The Orthodox cross erected high in the sky above Thessaloniki also became restless. They originally received orders from the emperor to put down the rebellion, but at this time, in the words of the Holy See in front of them, they became the minions of the rebels.

"This...how could this happen?!"

The sudden change also surprised the Macedonian Patriarch who was present. His eloquent words of incitement just now were at a loss for words. Seeing this, others would doubt whether the identity of the Grand Priest above was true or false, but Yossi

Tasius had met John X in Constantinople, and he would not have mistakenly recognized that the cross on top of the city was the sacred object of the church—the legendary True Cross.

Eustasius anxiously looked at the livid Emperor Mikhail not far behind him. At this moment, although there was no other action, the cold expression of His Majesty Dukas still made the Patriarch shudder.

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On the Epirus side, the attack of the vanguard suddenly came to a halt, and the Bulgars on the flanks who discovered that something was wrong also did not move their troops at this time.

"What's going on?" Tsar Boril asked his uncle on the side in confusion as he watched the Epirus army stop attacking while riding on his horse.

Duke Connotin, the palace minister, shook his head and was equally puzzled. Although they had reached an alliance with Epirus, neither party trusted them. Now that the Epirus army has stopped attacking the city, there is no need for them to attack this vanguard.

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"Let's take another look, Your Highness! The Greeks have always been very cunning. Maybe they want to play some tricks."

"Yes." Tsar Boril, who had always relied on the other party to assist the government, fully agreed. He immediately ordered the Bulgarian cavalry in front to move back to guard him, and sent envoys to the military formations in Epirus to find out what was true.

At this time, on the sea, the Venetian fleet began to wait impatiently in the face of the lack of movement in Thessaloniki.

"What's going on? Didn't we agree to attack the city together? Why is there no signal yet!" Ranieri Dandolo said angrily while looking at the heavily guarded sea wall in front of him on the deck. It was clear that Ducasse last night

The messenger at home vowed to him that they would attack Thessaloniki together the next day, but as soon as there was some noise from the front, it suddenly stopped, and Thessaloniki did not look like it was being attacked from three sides.

Sure enough, the Greeks and Bulgarians are not trustworthy at all, and those guys in the Senate are simply wasting the inheritance left by my father. Thinking of this, Ranieri hated the culprit who caused all this, Justinian. If

Had it not been for the disastrous defeat in Moria that gave his political opponents in Venice an excuse to attack, and the candidate he supported had become the new Venetian ruler at this time, how could he have fallen into this state.

"We must capture Thessaloniki this time!" Looking at the distant city wall in front of him, Ranieri murmured. This was not only about his return to the political situation, but also what he had to do to avenge his anger.

At this time, news came from the subordinates on the side, "Lord Dandolo, Giovanni and the others are back. They said they have something important to report to you."

After learning about this, Ranieri, who was in a bad mood, snorted coldly, "Huh, let them track down the Genoese, and they didn't come back until now. As expected, none of the Navegagiosso family is decent."

"Let him come over!" He didn't want to talk to the other party, but there was no movement from Thessalonica, so he decided to see what information Giovanni who was sent out brought back.

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Under the city of Thessaloniki, the Macedonian refugees stopped attacking, and one after another devout believers knelt down at the foot of the True Cross. In an era of despair, people believed in gods even more. When they learned about Constantinople's

The Grand Priest was in the city, and the peasants who had been gripped by the fanaticism just now put down their weapons one after another.

Seeing that this scene really worked, the soldiers responsible for the defense on the city finally breathed a sigh of relief. They had reached the end of their continuous high-intensity fighting. If they continued to fight, Thessaloniki would inevitably fall.

On the side, Princess Eudocia looked at King John

She is a saint, pious and fair. But she can't let go of it no matter what. It was because of the other party's strong instigation that her father Alexei III married her away from Serbia, not to mention that the dignified patriarch disappeared after the fall of Constantinople.

There is no integrity at all.

"It seems to have really worked. This Grand Priest is much more effective than an army." Antonia, standing next to the princess, joked. As the first person in the Universal Patriarchate, she really has a lot of prestige.

Now, at least it won't be so easy for the other side to incite the refugees to attack the city.

"The first step of the plan is completed!"

"Has this been planned by Justinian and you before?" Eudocia murmured to the elusive Genoese girl in front of her. She had the same "no" as the Justinian she knew.

Qing's mystery, you never know what they are thinking. The only thing you can know is that they are indeed helping themselves. Now that it is known that they were able to make plans in advance, even if they were surprised many times, Odosia

The princess still felt like she was in a dream.

But Antonia shook her head and replied: "Of course it is impossible. No one can predict the changes in this year. They have only prepared for the worst. But Your Highness, you know that the big power that holds Constantinople in hand is

With the imam in hand, apart from making the mob below calm down, what other use is there?"

Under the Genoese girl's straightforward hint, Odosia vaguely guessed what the other party meant, but before she had time to think about it, the sound of commotion in the city and the galloping horseshoes interrupted their conversation.

I saw the Epirus and Bulgarian heavy cavalry suddenly burst into the crowd, stampeding them violently, and dispersed the refugees who were kneeling devoutly to the True Cross under the city. It seemed that the other party was finally angry and impatient. On the city, everyone's hearts were filled with excitement.

There was a click, and they knew what this meant. At the same time, the Epirus and Bulgarian armies that had completed their assembly from two directions simultaneously advanced toward Thessaloniki.

At this critical moment, suddenly, the coalition forces that were preparing to attack Thessaloniki stopped again. People were confused about what happened. At this time, someone on the city of Thessaloniki pointed at

There was an exclamation of joy from the distance.

"Look, there!"

People looked in the direction they pointed, and on the vast mountainous plain in the southwest, some figures appeared sporadically. At first glance, they were not very conspicuous, but immediately one person took the lead and strolled onto a low

Looking down at the movements of the entire Macedonian plain from the hillside, he could be seen casually waving his arms behind him, and a row of solemn cavalry slowly appeared from behind the ridge, neatly arranged in people's sight like a moving iron wall.

At this moment, a frightening aura filled the plain below the city of Thessaloniki, especially when the red black fox war flag was raised high behind the leader, and all the people in the city who were extremely familiar with it seemed to

After living in darkness for a long time, I feel extremely excited when I see the rising sun.

"Lord Justinian!" The excited Turkic mercenaries, Vadaritai, and Moria's new army couldn't believe their eyes.

Justinian was looking up at the scorching midday sun above his head, as if waiting for something. Behind him, tens of thousands of dysprosium blades from Moria's newly formed army were flowing with cold blue light. They had already
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