People in the Middle Ages, draw cards to get promoted

Chapter 236 Sinai Raiders
The defense of Port Ella ended successfully.

Many people were shocked by a new blockbuster news before they could react to the news that "Count Lothar once again won a big victory with less."

Earl Lothar, recruit all the vassals of Transjordan, and prepare to attack Rauf the Impaler's territory in the Sinai Peninsula!

The flames of war that have just subsided for a few months seem to be rekindled again.

in the palace of the king in Jerusalem.

Baldwin IV is holding a council of kingdoms.

Hearing the news that "Earl Lothar recruited all the vassals of Transjordan to attack the Sinai Peninsula", he couldn't help frowning.

During the reign of King Amalric, the Kingdom of Jerusalem also occupied North Sinai for a period of time. Baldwin IV was still very impressed with that place.

The widest part of the central part is desert.

However, the north and the south, especially the north, have very good plain arable land, backed by the Mediterranean trade, linking the land trade between the Levant and Egypt, which is still relatively developed.

But didn't Lothar just recover the Port of Ella and the Bishopric of Alandelle?Can he bear such blind expansion?

Inside the hall.

The chief of the court, Amalric, took the lead in launching an attack: "Count Lothar is instigating a war. If he breaks the peace treaty, he is flouting the king's authority. We should recall him for questioning!"

Lothar is not a gold coin, and not everyone in the kingdom likes him.

Even if Lothar is now with the Jue Party, the Queen Mother Party has temporarily reconciled.

But it doesn't mean that no one is envious of Lothar, who makes a lot of money by selling new armor and Gwent cards.

Many nobles privately called Lothar an upstart from the backcountry.

"I object!"

Baron Godfrey was the first to speak: "The Earl of Lothar has a legal basis for recovering Port Ella and the Bishopric of Alandre, and the defense of Port Ella is also a defensive war."

He said righteously: "Even if the peace treaty is torn up, it should be the Saracens lord named Rauf the Impaler."

Amalric argued rationally: "Indeed, if it ends here, no one will be able to find out the fault of Earl Lothar, but he wants to counterattack!"

"If Saladin regards this as the kingdom's declaration of war against him, are we going to start another big war for his own selfish desires?"

"You bastard, can't we fight back in the face of the enemy's attack? Is such a cowardly act what a soldier of the Heavenly Father should do?"

"But this is clearly the first conflict provoked by Earl Lothar! We should negotiate with Saladin through diplomatic means and not destroy this hard-won peace."

"But Earl Lothar is only regaining lost ground."

The wheels of the car turned back and forth.

People on both sides quarreled fiercely, and no one could persuade the other.

Because in this matter, the public says that the public is right, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is right.

Nishaya, who was standing beside Baldwin IV, lowered her voice and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, your court is really lively. This kind of scene will never happen in the empire."

Baldwin IV smiled wryly, the royal power was declining, and it was becoming more and more difficult to take it back, unless it was during a war—this was why many nobles were worried about another war.

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

The reaction within the Kingdom of Jerusalem did not exceed Lothar's expectations.

But Lothar doesn't really care. From a legal point of view, there are no omissions in his actions.

In theory, this war is limited to Lothar and Rauf the Impaler, not between Ayyub and the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Historically, this kind of war between lower-level lords has not been uncommon.

Moreover, the Ayyubid dynasty is currently in a period of turmoil.

In the last war, Saladin did not achieve results, but suffered heavy losses, which has already caused many resistance forces in the country to rise up.

There was another conflict with the neighboring Sasanian dynasty. Although the war has not yet broken out directly, the border is already tense, and there is a high probability that they will not have the energy to start a war with Jerusalem.

Moreover, the territory in the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula is not so sensitive. If it is the coastal area in the northern part of Sinai, it will definitely attract the intervention of the Egyptian Governor Adil.

For that has hit the gates of Egypt.

Although in Saladin's mind, Damascus is more important than Egypt, this still does not change the fact that Egypt is the foundation of his dynasty.

...

In the Earl of Transjordan, Lothar's initiative to attack Sinai was unanimously recognized.

Even Leonard didn't jump out and say something.

As soon as Lothar's call was issued, Petra's lord, Baron Argonne, was the first to respond.

He led a total of fifty knights under his command, including the standing army, and dispatched nearly a thousand soldiers, accounting for almost 70.00% of his forces.

On the one hand, Baron Argonne has a high degree of basic affection for Lothar. This is due to the statue of an angel, and also due to the fact that the two are compatible in nature and are very close.

On the other hand, it is also because it is profitable.

Along with Lothar's call-up order, there is also a not-so-tactful distribution of spoils in the hands of the lords everywhere.

There is no way, many of Lothar's vassals are illiterate, and if the wording is too elegant, they may not be able to understand it.

Since Rauf's main force has been exhausted, the next attack on the Sinai Peninsula, in the eyes of many vassals, is actually not much different from the spoils conference.

They regarded this as the price offered by Losala to win them over.

Everyone was overjoyed and praised the generosity of the earl. Although the benefits that can be shared are limited and the fiefdom is relatively poor, it is better than nothing.

They haven't expanded in a long time.

Many second sons of the family can only devote themselves to the monastery, or can only be a landless knight. These people are very unwilling.

And their elder brother was also worried that if these people stayed in the territory, they would think about the position of their heirs.

Hearing that Lothar intended to confer titles and grant land to the second sons of the nobles, the whole family rejoiced and strongly supported them.

On the other hand, Lothar, except for Fir Orn, which is Dahab, he didn't even bother to include the other small cities and dozens of villages in his own territory.

I can't look down on it, and I can't control it.

As for the Bedouin nomads in the great desert in the central part of the Sinai Peninsula, it is still the same sentence. There is no national concept in this era, and they are just a mess.

Taking the Apennine Peninsula as an example this time, there are Lombards, Latins with Germanic kinship, Greeks left over from the imperial rule, Saracens in the south, Moors, and Normans.

Think of them all as Italian?

Bah, who is in the same group as you!

Win over one tribe, attack another tribe, and when both sides are hurt, even if they don't clean up all of them, the rest will be easier to control.

Or just ignore them and let them continue to eat sand in the desert. As a lord, Lothar only needs to master a road to North Sinai, and no one wants to rule a group of nomads.

Egypt is also in a similar situation. Although Zoroastrianism has been civilized for a long time, it is actually not stable.

The Abbas before Ayyub believed in Ye Zong's Zoroastrian Cult, which is not the same as the current Zoroastrian Cult.

There are also a large number of Christians in Egypt, but most of them are Orthodox and Coptic.

The people here have no spirit of resistance. Before that, they were ruled by the Alexander Empire and his successors, then they were ruled by the empires, and later they were ruled by the Arabs. It was nothing if they were replaced by the Franks.

Lothar is currently in the workshop in the city, observing the craftsmen building siege equipment.

If the siege equipment is complete, and the defenders do not have hot oil, enough bows and arrows, and various city defense facilities, the defenders actually have little advantage at all.

Mueller asked in a low voice:
"My lord, have you considered the issue of inheritance?"

Lothar frowned, and said with some surprise: "Not yet... I have dragon blood, so it's not easy to die."

In this era, the issue of extinct heirs is a difficult problem that many great nobles have to face.

Due to the limited sanitary conditions and the emphasis on monogamy, the population is not prosperous enough.

Bastards often do not have inheritance rights.

It is the ruler of the Arab region, because there are many wives and many children.

But this often leads to a situation where brothers fight against each other and fight for power.

"But without an heir, it will lead to instability of people's hearts."

Muller reminded: "My lord, you should know that the reason why Leonard is so anxious to marry a new wife is to find an heir for himself to stabilize the situation."

"Even if I get married, my offspring are doomed to be difficult."

Lothar sighed lightly: "It's too early to worry about this kind of problem, but you are right in reminding me, I will take it to heart."

His foundation lies in the hundreds of soldiers transformed from the system, who are unconditionally loyal to Lothar. As long as they are there, Lothar does not have to worry about the instability of the foundation.

And to be honest, I am afraid that Lothar's future kingdom may not be able to live as long as Lothar.

(End of this chapter)