eastern european eagle

Chapter 544 Königsberg
Vittorio came to the commerce and trade department to report the next day, and everyone held a small welcome ceremony for him. Then I started to get involved in intense work.

Vittorio saw a huge map here, with everything from Europe to India drawn on it. There are also various dots, all of which are important ports and commercial cities in Europe.

As the person in charge of Western Europe, his responsibility is to find ways to expand Rome's trade in Western Europe. But as someone who grew up in Florence, he felt it was not an easy task.

Because the growth of Rome's economy in recent years has caused trade losses in other countries. Therefore, tariffs were increased on Roman goods, but they were inseparable from Eastern spices and silks, and they continued to purchase them. Now the increased tariffs became Roman gold coins.

Now Rome is beginning to invest in Spain and Sardinia, and is discussing a trade treaty with England, preparing to completely complete the closed loop from the Mediterranean to the Baltic Sea. Other countries can only passively join rather than proactively creating new trade routes.

For him, now he not only needs to open up the markets of Western European countries, but also needs to find new countries or colonies to activate trade. It is best that there should be a country across the endless sea to trade with them.

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In Königsberg, after two or three months of preparation, Vlad was finally ready to attack.

Facing the Teutonic turtle tactics, Vlad changed his strategy and instead of attacking Marienburg, he directly bypassed and attacked Königsberg in the east.

In 1255, the Teutonic Knights conquered the ancient Prussian Sambia tribe, and a new fortress was built on the site, called Königsberg, meaning King's Mountain, in memory of King Przemysl of Bohemia. Ottokar II.

His words reassured the soldiers a little.

The Königsberg soldiers looked nervously on the city wall as they looked at the dark enemy below. Behind them was the pro-Teutonic populace, who were even more nervous.

If Vlad captured Königsberg, it would not only greatly expand his own territory and strength, but also cause the Knights to lose their largest stronghold in the east, thereby losing control of the entire Teutonia. Therefore, the importance of Königsberg is comparable to that of Mariensburg.

The garrison officer Kruger saw an old man who had been shaking and the shield in his hand fell to the ground many times. He hurriedly stepped forward to comfort him: "Don't be afraid, the enemy can't attack! Since the establishment of this city, it has never been attacked." It has never been breached by the enemy!”

In 1340, Königsberg became a member of the Hanseatic League, and the city quickly developed into an important port in the southeastern Baltic Sea, where goods from Prussia, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were traded.

When he followed the walkway at the top of the city, inspecting the entire defense situation from west to east, and saw that there were enough soldiers everywhere, he also gained confidence in himself.

Woo~~~~~
When the attack bugle sounded, the attacking soldiers were like hungry wild wolves, howling loudly and rushing towards Königsberg like a tide.

They quickly arrived at the moat, and the soldiers who were running at the front quickly put their wooden rafts on the moat; then the soldiers carrying the ladders stepped on the wooden rafts, crossed the moat, and went straight to the city wall; and then Followed by soldiers holding sabers... At this time, the attacks on the city wall began to become fierce. Arrows, javelins, and stones rained down. The casualties of Berlin Union soldiers suddenly increased...

Their ladder was overturned by a push rod and was quickly put up again. The soldiers climbed up the ladder one by one. The first one was knocked down, and the next one accelerated upward without hesitation. The soldiers of the Alliance were not afraid of arrows and also fired arrows at the defenders on the city...

Their ferocious offensive soon achieved results. The defense of the city wall was breached many times, and Kruger had to mobilize the people to the city wall many times. He knew that the enemy could not always maintain such a fierce offensive momentum. As long as they could withstand this wave, they would be powerless. Therefore, while sending all the defenders on board, he shouted loudly to the soldiers, encouraging them to fight bravely.

When the sun went down, they finally held Königsberg and only needed to wait for the reinforcements from Marienburg to arrive to solve the siege problem.

As more and more people joined the war between the Alliance and the Teutons, Vlad issued an order to the members of the Hanseatic League headed by Lübeck, requiring them to immediately form a large fleet to guard the security of the Baltic Sea.

At the same time, he also issued an order to each alliance member: In addition to closing the city, all other troops in the alliance began to assemble. Prevent the Polish army from attacking.

The issuance of these orders means that major military operations will take place, but the alliance still has a calm picture on the surface. While the Conference of Constance is still in session, attack the Teutons as soon as possible.

When the Teutons requested reinforcements from Denmark, Eric tactfully argued that both the Teutons and the Berlin Alliance were important partners of the Kalmar Alliance. Because of this, they had to remain neutral to avoid hurting the friendship of one party. If Agreeing to the Teutonic request might cause the Berlin Alliance to misunderstand and mistakenly believe that Denmark has joined the Teutonic side, so they have to refuse.

When requesting Poland, Wladyslaw did not even see him. Just let him go, he was in no mood to help them.

Now they are alone and can only save themselves through peace talks.

So outside the city of Königsberg, Grand Commander Jungingen held peace talks with Vlad. Regarding the Pomerania region and Danzig, the delegation leader did not want to give up. The developed local commerce and fishery were one of their main sources of tax revenue. The delegation leader was willing to reduce their taxes, but he did not want to think about independence.

However, the Prussian Alliance and Vlad must get this place out. They spent 10,000 gold coins to acquire this place, so they are willing to spend 20,000 gold coins to buy it back.

The leader saw this as an insult to him, an insult to the territory of God that the Knights had finally gained. Can't agree.

But he also knew that the war could not continue. Rome and Moscow joined forces to take away 70% of Lithuania's land and paid a ransom. Now the Knights are no longer capable of carrying out a protracted war, and the war must end immediately.

As a compromise, the leader proposed to cede the land west of Danzig. And the local area was exempted from taxes, but Vlad still vetoed it, because without Danzig, the land here would be meaningless. They needed the port city of Danzig to boost their economy, so the Teutonic move was completely disingenuous.

(End of this chapter)