eastern european eagle

Chapter 222 The Vacuum in the North

In Cyprus, facing the threat of Wallachia’s army and artillery, King Janus offered a manor and an annuity of 7000 ducats in exchange for his position. Peter agreed. After more than a month, Nicosia finally opened the city gate.

After the surrender of Nicosia, other places surrendered one after another.The Luzinan Dynasty, which ruled Cyprus for nearly 300 years, perished, and the Orthodox Church recovered here.

Mihai recovered from the excitement. Compared with the excitement of killing the enemy, the casualties after the battle and the tragedy on the battlefield were more eye-catching.The stream of dead bodies and blood made him vomit, and the glorious deeds of those people came from here.

This is also a process of growth. After this battle, Mihai has matured a lot.He admitted his recklessness and inadequacy in his letters to Peter, but he was also unwilling to return to Constantinople to learn those boring stripes, begging his brother to give him a piece of land or an official position.

"It seems that he has learned a lot."

After reading Mikhail's letter, Peter felt that this younger brother had really grown a lot.In response to his request, Peter tentatively intended to let him study in Cyprus and then transfer him to the North.

The situation in Anatolia has been fairly stable recently, and the Ottoman civil war has entered a brief calm.The orthodox Sultan Suleiman has recently been addicted to opium and beauties, while Muhammad, the farthest east, is recharging his energy and preparing to push him over in one go.

Peter was also preparing to push eastward, for which the Anatolian Legion began to form.The legion is initially set at 4 people, mainly infantry, supplemented by cavalry, equipped with 170 artillery pieces, 1 muskets, and the artifact that Peter claimed to have obtained from the East: the rocket car.

Peter was also the first to imitate this. It was something that was hundreds of years ago.We can only keep on trial and error, using the later generations of Sky-Changing Monkey as a prototype, turning the front end into an iron arrow and putting it into the compartment.A rocket car has 64 so-called rockets with a range of up to 120 meters, which has a certain deterrent effect on cavalry.

An army of 4 people, plus weapons, firearms, horses, and food, all add up to a very high cost.At present, more than 28000 people have been recruited and are stepping up training. In addition, the surrendered tribes can also provide some light cavalry.Defense is definitely no problem, only offense remains.

The news of the recovery of Cyprus also spread to Constantinople, and Mircea felt that the co-emperor was too good to be.Planning to monopolize the power, the little emperor should go to the monastery to practice.

Successive campaigns to recover lost lands have brought the Orthodox Church to a collective peak, which is no more efficient than Iberia.In just ten years, large tracts of land in the Balkans and Anatolia were recovered, and it took Iberia more than 600 years to have Granada left, which is really impossible to see.

Mircea met with Polish envoys, who said that the attack on Suceava was entirely the initiative of those 1000 people and had nothing to do with the king.But Mircea knew that Wladyslaw was jealous of his acquisition of large tracts of land, and feared the rapid rise of Wallachia and the dangers of southern Poland.Only then did he release these three indiscriminate tricks.

But Mircea didn't want to turn against Poland for the time being. Enduring the discomfort, he calmly said that he was willing to live in peace with Poland, and gave the other party a gift to show his sincerity.After the interview, he sponsored the Cossack Emirate 20000 gold coins to let them gain a firm foothold, and then attacked Lithuania.

For the two towns established by the Ross Company in Lithuania, Mircea followed the example of Central Europe and granted them city charters.Gain some autonomy and expand around while securing control of the central government.This is how to maintain contact with Moscow.

At this time, the Golden Horde took advantage of the situation to attack south after defeating Lithuania, with the goal of Crimea.Under the call of the local church and government, many freedmen took up arms and assembled in Veruga, preparing to live and die with the city.People living in the suburbs burned their homes, killed or moved their livestock, diverted food, poisoned water wells, and used all tricks that could consume each other.And the army of the Golden Horde, like the Mongolian army, came as fast as the wind.

This time the army did not bring siege weapons, and they had no choice but to face Veruga City. They began to shout that as long as the city gate was opened, the residents in the city would not be killed.Some timid souls tried to heed their words, but the majority stopped them.Bishop Veluga directly said that this was a pagan conspiracy, and they would rather die than see the pagan costumes.

Seeing that the opponent was not fooled, Jinzhang Khan directly ordered an attack.But the lightly armed cavalry had no choice but to face the city wall, not to mention the town that had been built for several years.After being unable to attack for a week, they had to order a retreat.Because their food has run out, there is a long section between Veruga and Sarai that they will not be provided with food, and they will not get better until they cross the Don River.

Neither Lithuania nor the Golden Horde gained any benefits from this expedition. Lithuania suffered heavy losses, and the Golden Horde could not control the land west of the Don River.Wallachia's chance came again.

A peasant crusade composed of the Church and the government of Crimea set out northward along the Dnieper River in an effort to open up an overland passage between the two cities of the Rus Company.This operation was sponsored entirely by the church and the local people, and it was a crusade acting privately.

They quickly occupied many places, because they were all burned and killed by the army of the Golden Horde.The only local threats remained were disease and sparse population, with the occasional Tartar presence.

Despite the difficult situation, they pushed all the way to the Dnieper.And along the north to the first Ross town, the caravan along the way found them, not only gave them food, but also brought news to their destination.Because the Orthodox Church has regained confidence, they can do what the Catholic Church does.

Moscow, thousands of miles away, also heard about what happened in Lithuania. Grand Duke Vasily I took the opportunity to seize a lot of land in Novgorod to the north, and planned to annex other Rus duchies.Local religious orthodoxy has also increased due to the elevation of the Bishop of Moscow to the Patriarchate.The appointment of the Orthodox head of the Lithuanian Church became outlawed, which made Vasily feel worthy of his ally.

That being the case, he has to start working.Since last year, Moscow has continuously annexed small nearby countries, first the Second Principality of Rostov, and then the Principality of Yaroslav in the north.The Principality of Ryazan in the south is also in danger, and a unified Rus country is about to emerge.

Lithuania, a Catholic country, is about to face a double attack, and it's time to test Vytautas.What tricks the famous ruler of Lithuania will use in Vilnius to face this different situation in Eastern Europe is really exciting.

(End of this chapter)