king of ros

As discussed by everyone in Ross, it is very difficult for Monomacher to control the city. It can be said that the difficulty is extremely difficult, and their judgment is extremely correct.

Tbilisi is a city with a long history, and a long history means that the forces of all parties are intertwined. A series of ethnic groups such as Georgians, Armenians, Arabs, Persians, and Turks have their own local snakes here. These local snakes They also have a very strong influence in their respective communities.

The blows against the heretics after Monomakh entered the city were actually just to clean up the emir's power, and he only collected a sum of money from other big powers, and even so made him a lot of money, he couldn't imagine The resources owned by those local snakes are gone.

If he insisted on controlling this city, with Monomakh's current resources, he estimated that he would have to live here for the rest of his life, and at most he would be at the level of the Emir of Tbilisi, which was not what he wanted.

And there is also pressure from Georgia and Seljuk. Ambitious guys want to take the city from Monomakh, and they are now preparing their troops and eager to try.

So after realizing how uncontrollable the city actually was, and having failed several times to gather power, Monomakh made a difficult decision. He wrote to King George and various Georgian nobles, expressing his desire to turn the city into a Dedicated to them.

Monomakh has realized that this city is a hot potato for him. Various internal forces are intertwined, and the outside is facing pressure from Georgia and Seljuk. As a normal person, his actions should be to turn this hot potato Throw it away, which he did.

And he didn't give up Tbilisi for free. In fact, he asked the king and the nobles for a huge sum of money, and then sold a series of privileges represented by autonomy to various local snakes in the city. big money.

Coupled with his previous seizures, it can be said without hesitation that Monomakh's wealth has been strengthened again.

Monomakh, who held the money, did not use it for pleasure, but recruited mercenaries and gathered troops around. Although it was difficult to gain a firm foothold in Tbilisi, he could make profits in other directions.

His actions have received strong support from Georgia. They can be said to have given the green light all the way for Monomakh to move. It is good for everyone that this military adventurer leaves early. If he does not leave, no matter who goes to Tbilisi, he will not feel at ease.

When Monomakh convened the army, he also married a woman from the Bagration family, but this line of Bagration was not the royal family of Georgia. Bagration was a deep-rooted family in Georgia. are very numerous.

Although it is said that the marriage is only an inconspicuous branch of the Bagration family, it is enough to give Monomakh the legitimacy to rule Georgia, and it also dissipates the hostility and disbelief of many Georgians towards him. Recruiting troops is even more important. smoothly.

Due to various factors, Monomakh was able to gather a real army. This army included Georgians, Armenians, and even residents of the Kipchak grassland in the north. In addition, many Ross people also came. …

In a short period of time, Monomacher used gold and silver to gather an army with a strength of [-]. The vast majority of this army were mercenaries, and there were refugees who had nowhere to go. Gold and silver come, and the reliability is very low.

The only thing he can rely on is his headquarters. Although he said he gave up Tbilisi, the loyalty of these people is still unmatched. His loyalty has reached the extreme, and they firmly believe that Monomach can perform miracles again.

But Monomacher is also very good at driving such a mixed army. Since he came to the south, he has been dealing with troublesome mercenaries all the time, and has accumulated a lot of experience in dealing with these people.

Experience gave him the confidence to master such an army, and Monomakh's goal was the Kakheti Kingdom north of Tbilisi, and he intended to conquer that land.

Compared with Tbilisi, Kakheti is undoubtedly much easier to conquer. The Georgian Orthodox Kingdom is not big, and the conversion of its monarch in exchange for the asylum of Seljuk is also an excellent reason for conquest. The war is picking a problem, and Monomach has full confidence in conquering this place.

However, others are not optimistic about Monomakh's conquest. Although Kakheti is not big, he is also a strong man who has been active in the land of the Caucasus for a long time. It is not so easy to be conquered.

But then, Monomakh's conquest went smoother than everyone expected. At first, everyone thought that he would be frustrated for a while, but it turned out that in just one month, he took down the capital of the Kakheti Kingdom. Even the converted king himself was taken prisoner by him.

Capturing the king basically established the victory, but the failure of Kakheti attracted new hunters. The emir of Shirvan (that is, the Azerbaijan region) living on the coast of the Caspian Sea led an army to snatch the territory of Kakheti.

Seeing the arrival of Shirvan's army, many Yin believers and former kings living in this kingdom stood up against Monomakh and led Shirvan's army to enter, and those Turkic tribes and Armenian lords in the south were also ready to move. For a while, Monomakh The situation in front of him became extremely bad.

And just when everyone thought that Monomakh would lose to this veteran power in the Caucasus, another unexpected news came that Shirvan Emir's army was defeated by Monomakh.

The emir was "sent off" by Monomach all the way out of Kakheti, leaving behind countless corpses, and then the prince of Ross seized the Georgian settlement occupied by Shirvan and expanded his territory enough twice as much.

The victory brought Monomakh fame and glory. It can be said that Monomakh has firmly established himself in Kakheti since then.

Those who thought that Monomakh was just a flash in the pan are now discovering that the person who they thought was a flash in the pan now seems to be really going to become a heavyweight player in the Caucasus.

More people came to Monomakh, adventurers, mercenaries, and even nomadic tribes poured in one after another. Everyone wanted to get a share of the career of this newly rising military adventurer. Everyone Clearly, with the adventurous nature of the Monomakh regime, there will certainly be no shortage of battles to come, with opportunities for glory and estates everywhere.

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