eastern european eagle

Chapter 214 Vacuum
The Khan of the Golden Horde proposed peace talks, but Vytautas disagreed, so he had to send troops to fight. However, Khan was also a smart man, and he knew that looking for foreign aid would attract Lithuania's attention.

He focused on Crimea. Although he didn't know how many soldiers there were, it was okay to harass him at the border.The Khan sent people to Veruga, offering to send troops from Crimea in exchange for part of the land on the left bank.

Crimea needs to spread the news to Constantinople, but the local church and Cossacks cannot wait so long. The local chief directly led 5000 Cossacks to attack the north, and the Orthodox Christians in the southern region also joined in and jointly Squeeze Lithuania.

"Brother, I beg you, you are already the governor of Anatolia, isn't it just a matter of letting me go to the battlefield?"

"No, mother will tell me if she finds out. Also, you are already married, so talk to your wife more."

Mihai didn't want to live a stable life anymore. He came to Kizikus to find Peter and asked for a chance to fight.

"If you are too free, you can arrange a position in Smyrna"

"No, I don't want civil servants."

Peter had no choice but to deal with this younger brother. It was not so easy to fight a war. He was afraid that he would be gone before he went to the battlefield. At that time, his parents would blame him for not stopping Mikhail.

But facing his younger brother's request, Peter couldn't forcefully refuse.It's better to go somewhere to brush up the experience.

"It seems that you like fighting very much. Do you want to make a bet with me? If you win, I will persuade my father not to stop you. If you lose, you will obediently go back to Constantinople to study law."

As soon as he heard about the bet, Mihai immediately became interested.As for the content, he was even more excited. Peter asked him to join an army to go to Cyprus to overthrow the Luzinan dynasty that had ruled for hundreds of years.

In 1191, the governor of Cyprus, Isaac Komnenos, became independent from Byzantium.Later, King Richard I of England occupied Cyprus during the Third Crusade, plundered and plundered Cyprus and sold it to Guy of Lusignan, the former king of Jerusalem and the Franks, through the Knights Templar in Jerusalem.Gay then ruled the island and established the first independent kingdom in the history of Cyprus.

With the prosperity of Cyprus, the Genoese began to immigrate to Cyprus in large numbers, and they had a great impact on the lord system of Cyprus. Therefore, the contradiction between the Cypriots and the Italians became increasingly prominent after that.

Peter felt that he could take the opportunity to swallow it and try it. If he succeeded, he would be one step closer to controlling the Eastern Mediterranean.Mihai can also accumulate some experience and prepare to expand the territory for the country somewhere in the future.

The Principality of the Aegean Islands has completely surrendered to Wallachia, and the duke was forced to sell it to Wallachia for 3000 ducats.Without the Aegean Islands, Crete was directly exposed to Wallachia's navy.The Venice Parliament quarreled again over Wallachia's policy, and finally decided to send someone to sign a ten-year peace agreement with Wallachia, which could temporarily avoid war and trade interruption.

As for Timur, he deserved to be buoyant.With such lightning speed, the army entered northern Syria.After dispersing some invincible Turkic tribes, they surrounded Aleppo, an important transit station.After the city was quickly captured, it suffered Timur's iconic massacre of the city.Except for a small number of craftsmen who were considered useful, most of the heads were cut off by the enemy and piled up into appalling pyramids of human heads.

After the fall of Aleppo, the Mamluk Sultan organized an army to counterattack, but was defeated by Timur.Then the army gathered in Damascus, and it took Timur a full year to capture the city.

In view of Damascus' tenacious resistance, Timur once again resorted to the method of massacring the city.More than 20000 heads were sent to the barren fields in the northeast corner of the city, piled up into a pyramid of human heads that made Syrians lament.A large number of famous buildings were destroyed, including the famous Umayyad Mosque.Timur's soldiers went door-to-door to search residents and property, and even gathered Islamic jurists to kill.The only survivors are craftsmen of various trades, who will be escorted back to Samarkand to settle down when Timur withdraws his troops.

After fleeing back to Egypt from Syria, the Sudan sent a large peace negotiating delegation to Damascus to persuade Timur to give up his conquest of Syria.But in the end, it was not the eloquence of scholars that made Timur withdraw from the local area, but a rebellion in the rear.Baghdad, the two-river city that had not been conquered for a long time, launched a rebellion when Timur besieged Damascus.After the furious Timur completed the massacre, he led his army to rush eastward.The turmoil was quelled as quickly as possible, and bloody punishment was imposed on the Baghdadians.

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In Buda, the capital of Hungary, the Transylvanian army has finally reached the capital city. This is the closest time for Mary to go home, and she will not let go of this opportunity.

In the past two years, Mary has overcome various difficulties and continuously expanded the scope of her control.Coupled with the support of Wallachia, the combat effectiveness of the Transylvanian army surpassed that of Sigismund's army.

Last year, Marie's army defeated Sigismund in Pécs, retaking Hungary's cultural center.Then continue to advance to Buda. Seeing this, Sigismund transferred most of his property and government to Sekshbai Castle, and he himself ran to the territory of Shinra to wait for the final result.

There were only 2000 troops left in Buda, and most of them were militias. Facing the Transylvanian troops, they surrendered after only two weeks of resistance.Mary guarantees the safety of their lives and property.

Buda was retaken, and Mary could finally go home.She asked people to prepare quickly to enter the capital in style.

Sigismund is miserable, even lost the capital, can he still let the Hungarian nobles support him.What would the princes in Shinra think? The future successor of Shinra couldn't even keep his own capital, so why choose him.

Now he still has land in the west and north of Hungary, and he still has the opportunity to counterattack, but his funds cannot support his military operations, because his arrears have reached 19 ducats.If I don't change my extravagant habits, I will naturally have no money.

Sigismund wished that his brother would die immediately so that he could inherit Bohemia and use the local minerals to pay off his debts.

But this time, Austria was still on his side. Albrecht offered [-] gold coins to help Sigismund, which made Sigismund firm in his determination to support Austria as his heir.

Because just two months ago, Barbara gave birth to a daughter for him, and Sigismund named Elizabeth.And after he was born, he announced his marriage contract with the future heir of Austria, which undoubtedly proves that the Austrian Habsburg family is about to ascend the throne of the emperor again in a few decades.

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