"Yes, it's settled. Amfrosi will fully cooperate with us to enter Tbilisi. He said that he will act in full accordance with the plan."
"Okay, everyone, you have heard it, let us start taking action."
Three days after the meeting between Anton and Amvrosi, in the capital of the original Kakheti Kingdom, Monomakh issued an order, and everyone who obeyed the order immediately became active and began their work.
After conquering the Shirvan Emir Kingdom, Monomakh originally changed his permanent residence there to deal with the pagan riots and local noble rebellions, but now with the launch of the Tbilisi strategy, he naturally
He also returned to the land he first conquered.
Monomakh has always had his ambitions for Tbilisi. His giving up back then was just a helpless act forced by the situation, but he never gave up his thoughts on this city.
Monomach has been preparing to retake the city that once belonged to him, and now, as he has such a foundation in the east, his actions can begin.
However, some people will always have doubts about new actions. Now the Georgian nobles below are asking, isn't Monomach breaking the previous agreement with the Kingdom of Georgia by doing this?
Yes, as this person said, Monomakh was breaking the agreement with the King of Georgia by doing this. He exchanged the city for help from Georgia. It was these help that allowed him to conquer the Kingdom of Kakheti and Greece.
The Emirate of Erfan.
"So what? The king's power in Tbilisi has long been crumbling. It is only a matter of time before it collapses. If we do not accept these powers, then we will be sorry for ourselves."
Monomakh's words caused a murmur among the crowd. Many of his subordinates had a strong background in the Kingdom of Georgia, and they had their strong concerns.
Prince Ross smiled when he saw this. He knew this would happen, but he had a way to appease these people.
"Everyone, calm down. I will not be an enemy of King George. Absolutely not. He is my benefactor. How could I backstab my benefactor? Our actions in Tbilisi will not harm anyone.
Someone from the royal family.”
Monomacher's tone was full of certainty, and it was this certainty that made people gradually quiet down, and then someone asked again, "How can you guarantee this?"
Come on, this is exactly the question Monomakh wants to hear. The corners of his mouth raised, "Because the royal government in Tbilisi has been overthrown today."
Tbilisi, although this city has become increasingly chaotic in recent years, with towers being built everywhere and vendettas taking place on the streets, everyone still guarantees a bottom line, that is, they will not do these things in front of the government.
Although the current government in Tbilisi is essentially a hybrid product of the royal family and aristocratic forces, it represents the Kingdom of Georgia after all, and the consensus among all parties in Tbilisi is that, in any case, it cannot be compared with the official
People make mistakes.
But as unrestrained vendetta and fear continued to increase, this rule was broken.
First of all, the patriarch of a defeated family has been hiding in the city hall in the past few days and wants to take refuge in the Kingdom of Georgia. However, the enemy family is determined to eradicate it.
They sent assassins into the city hall, not just one or two, but dozens. They said it was an assassination, but the actual execution was no different from attacking the city hall.
How could the city hall, which has always been focused on making money, resist the professional killers who were tested in the street vendettas in Tbilisi? The entire city hall was killed, and what's more, what's more, those who were against the city hall were killed.
The dissatisfied people in the city hall gathered together today. Seeing what happened to the city hall, they decisively went in with knives and killed everyone inside.
The Kingdom of Georgia's jurisdiction over Tbilisi has become a thing of the past. Now it can be said that Tbilisi has separated from the Kingdom of Georgia. The biggest impact of the collapse of the government is that all parties have no concern for it.
Tbilisi has literally turned into a battlefield. The teams of each family have grown to the point where they are pushing ballistas and crash carts onto the streets. Moreover, a large number of thugs from all sides have come out from God knows where and flooded the families.
's army.
Just as Monomakh was telling his subordinates what happened in the city, the war inside the walls of Tbilisi was in full swing. Almost everyone felt a sense of impending doom, and they put all their strength into it.
I smashed it out, thinking that I would kill my opponent no matter what.
Only a handful of people are still standing still, and most people have joined the carnival. This is also the inevitable path this city will take.
Monomakh's conquest destroyed the original regime that ruled this land, but the Russians not only failed to establish a new system, but also smashed the old system to pieces, leaving the Kingdom of Georgia unable to clean up the mess.
What is reflected is that the originally quite tacit understanding and bottom-line fighting between the various forces in the city has turned into a bottom-less struggle that overwhelms everything, and finally developed into the current all-out street war.
War horses are rampaging in the streets, heavily armed family thugs are fighting each other, arrows are constantly flashing across the sky, and the city has turned into a war zone.
Faced with Georgia like this, the Georgians who were a large part of Monomakh's men naturally had no worries about sending troops. They were just going to fight against the rebel forces in Tbilisi, not against the kingdom.
As this group of people nodded in agreement, the issue of sending troops was solved. Other groups of people had already nodded in agreement. Those military adventurers and mercenaries were originally the stalwarts of Monomach, and they would be very concerned about everything Prince Ross did.
obedience.
So just like that, Monomakh's war machine, which had been operating and adjusting at low efficiency in recent years, started to move.
The results of the launch also made Monomakh very satisfied. In less than a month, he had tens of thousands of people under his command. The roads in Kakheti were filled with travelers who came to apply for the army.
They were soldiers speaking different languages and wearing different styles of clothing.
The greatest advantage and efficiency of a new military group are clearly reflected here. If it were the original Caucasus princes, it would have taken at least two or three months for them to assemble so many troops, but Monomach only took less than a month.
That solved the problem.
Monomakh was very proud of this. His strength had unknowingly surpassed that of his father Vsevolod.
This is an extremely mixed army, from the conquering military group of Monomach to the defeated who were forced to submit, to the strong men from all over the country to the desperadoes attracted by the spoils of war, it can be said that there is everything.
The quality of the army is extremely uneven, and the proportions are very unbalanced. There are a lot of soldiers who can be regarded as cannon fodder, and too many of them were forcibly recruited.
Moreover, there are also big problems among various ethnic groups and believers in the army. Christians and Muslims hate each other, Georgians do not like Turks, and there are also long and ancient hatreds among various mountain peoples. If it were not for Mo
Due to Nomacher's prestige, these guys have already started fighting.
Monomakh's army is like a powder keg, which can be ignited with any fire, but Monomakh has no fear. This is not the first time he has led such an army to fight.
In other words, his great cause of conquest was achieved through such an army - it was even worse than this at that time, there were not many cannon fodder at that time - why does he need to be afraid? Just continue to win with such an army.
Next, this army has only one goal, and that is the huge city Tbilisi among the mountains. It is in chaos and is extremely suitable for capture.
Under the order of Prince Rus, the army began to advance towards Tbilisi, the city that Monomakh had left long ago.