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On the ocean, he created a naval fleet of unprecedented scale, absorbed a large number of Genoese naval elites and ships, and completely mastered the sea power of the Black Sea and the North Aegean Sea. If a real war broke out, the Ottoman Empire's navy would not be able to sail on land, and it would be very difficult for them to blockade the Golden Horn!

In terms of diplomacy, Albania restored the entire kingdom, Skanderbeg and Aenarion became brothers, and a force of gold dwarves equipped with a large number of firearms and heavy armor was ready to counterattack the Ottoman homeland at any time.

The Knights Hospitaller were always at the forefront of the fight against infidels, and they would lend a hand to anyone who wanted to fight Muslims.

Although Venice was blinded by interests, it was now a grasshopper on the same line with himself. The two of them joined forces to destroy the Ottoman fleet and paralyze the Genoese. In the Battle of Constantinople, they had no reason to stand on the side of the Ottomans.

Serbia, the most vicious dog of the Ottoman Empire, after marrying Princess Mara to Aenarion, the entire kingdom is in a wait-and-see state, wanting to see who will be the final winner between Rome and the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire had nine legions deployed in Europe, but it had also messed up two of them. One of them was lurking within the empire. Gilman was corrupting the empire as a war commander and persuading other brothers and sisters to rebel against the Sultan. His only vassal state in Europe was Wallachia on the north bank of the Danube, where the vampires and ghouls remained loyal to the Sultan.

After this calculation, Aenarion's nervousness calmed down. Historically, Constantinople had nothing but the aid of Giovanni's few hundred men, and still managed to defend the entire city. In the end, it fell because someone forgot to close the door.

Now, Constantinople has the most powerful fleet in the Aegean Sea, two Janissary Corps, three thousand Varangians, six thousand phalanx soldiers, more than three thousand colored Salian Elf cavalry, and hundreds of artillery pieces. The Urban Cannon forged by Urban is as powerful as the Muhammad Cannon! Add to that the towering triple walls...

Aenarion's confidence gradually grew. This time, he would definitely be able to change history!

While Muhammad was making final preparations for the capture of Constantinople, Aenarion also began to prepare food and fodder. He transported large amounts of food, pickled meat, smoked fish and other easy-to-store foods to the warehouses of Constantinople for storage. At the same time, he mobilized soldiers to defend the city. The fleet also came to the Golden Horn to jointly garrison Constantinople and the Outer City of Galatia.

The only drawback is that Constantinople's defense system is too perfect, with one link connected to another. If one wants to change the walls of Constantinople into a bastion system, or even build another layer of bastions on the outside, the amount of materials, money and time required would be astronomical. One can only make some improvements on the original basis to enhance the power of the city defense artillery.

The four leaders of the Varangian garrison transformed themselves into 15-meter-tall giants and worked together to carry one Urban cannon after another to the top of the city wall. The black muzzles of the cannons were aimed at the empty plain outside the city.

After completing the mobilization of the army, Aenarion began to concentrate on studying and honing his skills.

With the power of Angelos's two-headed eagle, he is not only a demon hunter and psyker, but also a death knight and spellcaster. Multiplying the two, he can challenge enemies four levels higher than him and even win. Even when facing a ceiling-level guy like Ryan, he can hold on for a while with his strong defense.

But, this is far from enough.

There is no room for improvement for Demon Hunter and Psion for the time being. These two are charm casters, and their spells will be automatically awakened when their levels increase.

However, the Death Knight casts spells with the intelligence, and will not automatically learn spells when leveling up. You need to find and learn them one by one. Now I only have a high level of Death Knight. In theory, I can learn the fourth-ring Undead, conjuration, transmutation, and three series of spells, but in reality, I can only learn the third-ring Undead at most, and I haven't learned the rest.

This winter, go to the White Tower of Constantinople. The external power is already strong enough. Learn more spells of the Death Knight, take some silver from the treasury to buy some equipment, enhance your own strength, and make final preparations for the upcoming fierce battle.

Chapter 286: Final Preparations

Aenarion entered the White Tower of Constantinople for the second time. The mages inside were no longer as arrogant as they were the last time. They looked at Aenarion with only respect and enthusiasm. Some mages

The apprentice even shouted Aenarion's name, thanking him for saving the Roman Empire, but someone beside him covered his mouth - call him Warmaster! He now wears a sword and shoes when entering the palace, does not need to bow, and does not need to use his name when praising or worshipping. Except for the emperor, no one can call him by his name, but only by the respectful name of Warmaster. Are you crazy to call him by his name?

"I want to buy some powerful magic equipment and learn the magic of the three schools of [Necromancy], [Spell], and [Transmutation]. Do you have any recommendations?"

Aenarion held Sisina, the little snake that had been clinging to him, with a black Mysterious Shadow wrapped around her neck, and took the two little monsters that he raised as daughters to browse the magnificent White Tower. Sisina was not very interested in this, but Mysterious Shadow's eyes were twinkling with little stars. There were so many books, it would be great if they could all be stuffed into his treasure house.

"Yes, of course!"

The mages of the White Tower immediately went to the treasury where thousands of years of treasures were stored, and after some selection, they found three pieces of equipment that were most suitable for the dual professions of the Psion and the Death Knight.

The first is a dragon scale armor. This item is very ancient in style, with a strong mix of the fifth century Roman Empire and Persia. It is made of the leather and scales of a silver dragon and is enchanted. It is long to the wrists and knees. The whole piece of silver is decorated with a gold frame and gold tassels, which makes this dragon scale armor shine under the magic light source.

The second item was a belt, an extremely luxurious golden belt inlaid with six dazzling gems of red, cyan, green, blue, yellow and purple. Aenarion had seen this thing before, and Mahmoud also wore it around his waist. It was a luxurious belt that could increase all attributes by +6.

The third piece of equipment is a scepter, about one meter and two meters long, made of yew wood. The end of the scepter is an eight-leaf hammer made of refined gold, an extremely hard metal. The whole scepter, or war hammer, exudes extremely terrifying magic power.

Aenarion used identification magic to check the three pieces of equipment one by one.

[Silver Dragon Scale Armor] (Purple): +13 natural armor, 10 points of damage reduction, cold immunity, 33% chance to deflect all physical attacks such as sword slashes, arrows and javelins.

[Luxury Belt] (Purple): Strength, Agility, Constitution, Intelligence, Perception, Charisma +6.

[War Staff] (Purple): Extra +5 to hit, 6~13 points of physical damage, +25 points of spell damage.

"nice one."

Aenarion praised it repeatedly. This war staff looked like something Duskblade would use. It increased physical damage and stacked magical damage. It was very suitable for a mage like Duskblade, and was also very useful for a warlock + death knight combination like himself.

Needless to say, a luxurious belt is a must. Who would complain that their own attributes are low?

The silver dragon scale armor is even more powerful. Dragons are flying creatures, and their bones are hollow like birds. Dragon scales are not heavy, otherwise they would not be able to fly. However, they are extremely strong, far better than steel, and truly combine lightness and hardness. Although its defensive capabilities are comparable to full body plate armor, it is as light as a chain mail shirt.

A 33% chance to deflect physical attacks, combined with the Demon Hunter's 33% chance to dodge any attack, takes his already exaggerated defense capabilities to a higher level, with 10 points of damage reduction. Any damage that hits him will be weakened by 10 points. This amount of damage is nothing to high-level professionals, but it is an overwhelming advantage against low-level professionals. An ordinary person holding a spear with 1 to 8 damage will no longer be able to hurt himself, further enhancing his own defense capabilities!

"I am very satisfied. How much are these three?"

The total value of these three pieces of equipment is estimated to be 300,000 to 400,000 silver coins, which is almost a month's output of the Lorien Silver Mine, and there is no market for them.

"No, I don't want money. In the past few years, the Warmaster has worked hard for the Empire to recover Thessaly, the expedition to Crimea, and the recovery of the northern islands of the Aegean Sea, making the Roman Empire great again! However, we mages are guarding the White Tower and cannot go out to help you conquer the world. This set of things is our reward for your hard work in recovering the Roman homeland. Please wear this equipment! This is our honor! I hope you can wear this armor, restore Rome, and return to the old capital!"

The White Tower wizards spoke excitedly one by one, saying that after more than two hundred years of decline, the empire that was in decline finally had hope of revival.

"I will definitely not let you down."

Aenarion looked at their faces which were either adoring or excited, and saluted them solemnly. Then, in full view of everyone, he put on the silver dragon scale armor, dragon armor and phoenix helmet, making this man with unique beauty look even taller and more handsome, as if he had walked out of an ancient scroll, a general who was conquering the world.

After putting on the luxurious belt, a wonderful feeling spread throughout the body, and endless power surged out from the belt. The body felt lighter, the brain became more flexible, the six attributes grew synchronously, and the war scepter was flashing with a heart-pounding magical halo.

After updating his equipment, Aenarion began to learn spells under the company and guidance of Astarielle. He was an excellent, even very powerful psychic, but an unqualified Death Knight. His arcane spellcasting ability was not strong, and he did not use it much in actual combat. The only thing he used well was the single-target long-range spell Death Coil, and he could create hundreds of Fertility Corpses and control them perfectly.

Thus, a long spell training began, with Astariel and several great wizards from the White Tower who were good at necromancy, spells, and transmutation schools appearing in person.

, teach Aenarion the knowledge that he lacks, and provide him with rapid training, so that he can learn several very practical magics first and be able to use them skillfully on the battlefield.

The first is the fourth-ring transformation magic [Swift Burst], which is one of the most powerful spells of the mage. It borrows time from the future. Others feel that only a moment has passed, but you can move for a full three seconds in this moment. During these three seconds, your time flow is extremely fast, so fast that to others it seems that time has stopped.

And three seconds is exactly the time required to cast a spell.

However, this spell that is powerful enough to distort time is often accompanied by great risks and costs. This magic can only borrow three seconds from the future, but the price to pay is a full six seconds, which is doubled. After the swift burst ends, the caster will quickly fall into a six-second dizzy state.

Borrow in three seconds and return in six seconds, whatever time you use Huabei.

Aenarion complained about the spell, but the three extra seconds in the critical moment were still very important and could mean the difference between life and death.

Then comes the fourth ring of the Conjuration Magic [Black Tentacles]

Astarielle had also used this magic, which summoned a large number of pitch-black tentacles in an area with a radius of seven meters, binding and restraining everything in the area. It was a very effective control magic. With this spell, combined with the druid's entanglement spell and the wizard's spider web spell, Astarielle was able to control even Gillian.

Although the bigger reason is that Jiriman's magic resistance is almost zero.

The last one is the fourth-ring necromancy magic [Corpse Explosion], which consumes 7 points of magic power, detonates a corpse, and causes 7 to 7 points of damage to all creatures within a radius of 42 meters. For every additional point of magic power consumed, the damage increases by 1 to 1 points.

This spell looks very weak. Its damage and range are the same as Fireball. However, Fireball can hit whatever it points at, while this spell can only blow up corpses and nearby areas. It is very limited.

However, this spell has another use: it can be used on a living person, and if the living person does not die within 24 hours, the spell will dissipate.

However, if a living person dies within 24 hours, the Corpse Explosion will be activated immediately! If several living people who were hit by the Corpse Explosion died in the same area, the effect would be very explosive.

According to Astariel, this was a tactic often used by the Fourteenth Legion, the Death Guard. Their legion was rich in necromancy, and they would often perform corpse explosions on a large number of slaves and captives, then load those guys into catapults and throw them out, causing horrific flesh and blood explosions.

This legion liked to use poison gas warfare, plague warfare, and extermination warfare. It was the only legion in the Ottoman Empire that still retained ancient siege weapons such as catapults. After all, the new artillery could not throw out their plague toxins. Many poison containers exploded in the barrel at the moment of firing, making their own artillery positions full of plague toxins. Trebuchets were safer.

Chapter 287: Farming and Nomadism

While Aenarion was studying his own magical skills, he also searched through the vast sea of ​​books in Constantinople and the history of the Ottoman Empire to study and learn about his enemy more thoroughly.

Perhaps because gods and magic really exist, the history of this place is somewhat different from that of the previous life.

The Ottoman Empire was a huge empire built by ogres, but he seemed to have never seen an organized ogre army. When the Ottoman Empire was just established, their Sultan dared to declare independence with two thousand ogres, punching the Eastern Roman Empire and kicking the Roma Sultanate. Just two or three thousand fat ogres, more than three or four meters tall and weighing nearly a ton, broke through the Asia Minor defense line of the Eastern Roman Empire and defeated the Romans. The elves even said in fear that if the ogres were less than ten thousand, they would be invincible.

And now, where are those extremely terrifying ogres in the legend? Why are there only elven slaves left in their army? Even the Sultan is an elf now?

Aenarion searched through the books and found what he wanted. At that time, the ogres who helped the Ottoman sultans to conquer the world had been dividing the spoils after they occupied half of Asia Minor and even invaded Europe, taking large tracts of fertile land in Thrace into their pockets. All the ogres who participated in the war were able to obtain large amounts of land, manors, and slaves.

And then...and then this group of ferocious dogs became unwilling to fight because they ate too much, and quickly became corrupt and degenerate in their luxurious and joyful life. The Janissary system was created by the second Ottoman Sultan. At that time, he just wanted to train some slaves who had no status or power in the Ottoman Empire to be his personal soldiers and imperial guards to protect the Sultan.

Because they were like a drop in the ocean in the empire, without power or connections, and were lowly slaves with no status. Everything they had could only be granted by the Sultan, so they could only follow the Sultan wholeheartedly and be extremely loyal to him.

However, by the time of the fourth Ottoman Sultan, almost all the ogres had become big landlords and nobles. At that time, the organized ogre army was almost gone, and the number of Janissaries swelled rapidly to 20 legions. By the time of the seventh Sultan, Muhammad, who was the surviving force of the sixth Sultan, the remaining 18 Janissary legion leaders even became military governors, like warlords.

Now, the only Ogre troop that still has combat effectiveness is the Sipahi cavalry. Fortunately, the Ottoman sultans of all generations have adhered to the principle that "land cannot be inherited".

The army was corrupt, but if their sons wanted to become big landowners like their fathers, they still had to participate in the war and fight to earn land.

However, land cannot be inherited, but money and treasures can be inherited, and there are plenty of loopholes to circumvent this rule. For example, a father sells the land to someone else at a very high price, and that person then resells it to his son... Anyway, by the time of Muhammad and his father, the number of ogres that could be drawn out was becoming increasingly limited. The cavalry that tore through the Christian Line of Defense and killed the Polish and Hungarian kings a few years ago were fucking Serbs, not ogre cavalry at all.

Then, what about those ogre herders who did not become noble lords? It is impossible that one or two million Turks became lords, right?

These Turkic nomads who entered the agricultural civilization were quite interesting. They talked about how to balance the conflicts between the nomadic armed groups on the grasslands and the huge farming population of foreign ethnic groups in the occupied areas, and how to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army. After the Mongols entered the Pass, they chose to indulge themselves and do whatever they wanted, even capturing Han people to be serfs in the northern border grasslands. After the Qing Dynasty entered the Pass, they chose to use the Eight Banners to restrain them, and the Eight Banners soldiers were not allowed to do a lot of things.

The Ottomans were very strange. After they transformed themselves into an empire that inherited agricultural culture, the targets of looting by the Turkic nomads in eastern Asia Minor changed from the Roman Empire to the Ottoman Empire.

The successive sultans had two policies for these poor relatives who were plundering on the grasslands and unwilling to switch to farming - either kill them all directly, or capture them all and send them to the western battlefield as cannon fodder to charge against the Christians. This led to the fact that the people who suffered the most population decline during the Ottoman rule were not the conquered and enslaved elves,

But it was the Turks. Not to mention that the elves who had just been conquered didn't like the Ottoman Empire very much, even the Turks in Asia Minor were afraid of this empire. Perhaps there was some united front value.

Winter passed and spring came, and in the blink of an eye it was March 1453, 3. The months in the West are different from those in China. They are not distinguished by numbers 1 to 1, but by twelve names. March is also called Mars, the Roman god of war, also known as Ares, the divine dog Mastiff, and Khorne.

The reason why March was given the title of God of War is because of the strange climate in the Mediterranean world. The busy farming season is basically over in March, and a large number of farmers can be mobilized to assist the soldiers in going to war. The entire Ottoman Empire is ready to move, and storms are imminent on both sides of the Aegean Sea. The whole world is filled with the breath of war and death.

And Aenarion also completed the training of the Death Knight's [Necromancer], [Spell], and [Transmutation] in the past six months, and reached level ten. He unlocked two more skills as a Demon Hunter. He wore a Phoenix Helmet, dragon scale armor, and held the Spear of Dionysus, the Sword of Khaine, the Scepter of War, and three Transmutation Blades. He looked at his current attributes with satisfaction - it was time to start defending Constantinople.

[Aenarion] (High Elf) (Demon Form)

Level 10 (4th level Psion + 6st level Demon Hunter)

Level 10 (Level 10 Death Knight)

Health 100, Mana 281

Spear of Dionysus +24 hits, physical damage 17~24

防护42（巨龙鳞甲+13、敏捷+6、惰性护甲+9、优雅绝伦+14）

Strength 20, Agility 28, Constitution 16

Intelligence 22, Wisdom 16, Charisma 38

Melee damage +10

Spell damage +61

[Demon Transformation]: Agility +4, Charisma +4. Increase your arms to six, each of which is your dominant hand. When you initiate melee combat, agility replaces strength to determine attack hits and combat damage, and the damage type becomes chaos damage (for every 1 point of chaos magic consumed, the demon form lasts for 1 minute).

[Demon Dodge]: There is a 33% chance to dodge enemy attacks.

[Demon Eyes]: Two laser beams are fired from both eyes, damaging all targets in a 10-meter linear area. The beams move with your gaze, causing 1 to 24 points of chaos damage to all targets within six seconds. (Each additional mana consumed increases chaos damage by 1 to 1 points.)

【恶魔献祭】：每六秒消耗1点法力，对半径五米所有目标每六秒造成1~6点混乱伤害（每额外消耗1点法力，每六秒提高1~6点混乱伤害）

[Broken Soul]: Whenever you kill a target with a soul, you will tear apart, rip off, and devour their soul fragments. For each class level of the devoured soul fragment, you will recover 1 to 6 health points. When the health is full, you will recover 1 to 6 mana points.

【狱火撞击】：你好似流星一般腾空而起，又宛若烈焰陨石一般，重重落在30米之内的任意一个地点，每消耗1点魔力，对该地半径10米范围的所有目标造成1~4点物理伤害+1~4点烈焰伤害。（每额外消耗1点魔力，额外增加1~4点物理伤害+1~4点烈焰伤害）

Volume 5: The Gillimane Rebellion

Chapter 288: Uncle’s Kindness and Nephew’s Filial Piety

Emperors Muhammad and Constantine began to frantically mobilize troops around Constantinople and engage in offensive and defensive battles. The battlefields of both sides were not only in Constantinople, but also in the entire Rumelia and Asia Minor.

In the city of Constantinople, there were a total of 5,000 elite soldiers under the direct command of the Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine, Thomas the Despot of Morea, and Francesca the Despot of Epirus, as well as a full 20,000 militiamen recruited from Constantinople. Although these 20,000 citizens had almost no training,

Thanks to the ridiculously large capital of the Roman Empire, they rummaged through warehouses and distributed armor and weapons to citizens, and the armor rate of these conscripts was as high as 70%.

In addition, there were also palace soldiers mobilized by Aenarion from Crimea, including 5,000 Tatar archers and 10,000 Slavs, which increased the city's defense strength to 40,000, more than five times the historical garrison of Constantinople.

Outside the city, Aenarion's Aegean fleet added three new caravels built by himself. The entire fleet consisted of nine caravels, thirty galleys equipped with Greek fire, thirty Viking longships that could sail on the sea and inland rivers, and the remaining various small boats and transport ships were too numerous to count.

This huge fleet carried phalanx infantry expanded to 8,000, 2,000 Thessalian cavalry, 3,000 Varangian Guards, and a full 20,000 Tatar nomadic cavalry reorganized into the form of household soldiers.

Placing this 33,000-man army in Constantinople was just to strengthen the already very strong city defense. However, if this large army stayed at sea and could be deployed to any coast at any time, it would be a great psychological deterrent to the Ottomans. They could not concentrate on attacking Constantinople, and had to separate a large army of more than 30,000 people to protect their rear, flanks, and artillery positions, greatly reducing the defensive pressure on Constantinople.

If they failed to defend themselves, Aenarion would charge his camp with his swift-moving Tatars.

The slightly smaller Black Sea Fleet was locked in the Black Sea by Rumelia Fort and Anatolia Fort. They had only one mission, which was to use their naval advantage to destroy, plunder, and burn the Ottoman Empire's coastline as much as possible. The bigger the chaos, the better!

Outside the city of Constantinople, the four staunch allies of the Knights Hospitaller, Venice, Albania and Trebizond joined the war without hesitation and were ready to make a move in the four corners of the Ottoman Empire. Aenarion ordered the First Legion to be stationed in Thessaly and did not let them participate in the war in Constantinople. The reason was still the same - going to Constantinople would only strengthen the already too strong defense. The three city walls were almost full of people, and even three Urban cannons were deployed.

If the First Legion stayed in Thessaly, Muhammad would have to deploy one or even two legions in Macedonia to take countermeasures against these fallen angels. He would have even less forces to mobilize to attack Constantinople. After all, the combat effectiveness of the First Legion was at the top in the entire Janissary Legion, and the legion commander ranked in the top three in combat effectiveness. It was possible that he would not be able to defeat them with just one legion.

Aenarion also asked the Pope for support for the Crusades, and requested military assistance from the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Poland. In the letter, he explained the pros and cons and offered a very high stakes for sending troops. He asked himself that he had done his best and now that he had done everything he could, it was time to accept his fate.

And destiny, it seems, is on Muhammad's side at the end of the timeline.

In March, two rebellions broke out in Poland. The Patriarch questioned the status of the Snow Queen Katalina and tried to support a new Tsar. The Cossacks living in the Zaporizhia region also began to resist the tyrannical rule of the Poles, causing Poland, which had just taken a breath, to fall into the cloud of civil war again. No matter how much Aenarion boasted, he had no intention or strength to move south.

In the Holy Roman Empire, the Protestants in Prague once again launched the Throwing Out the Window Incident. The numerous silver mines in Bohemia were the cornerstone of the Habsburg family's rule over the empire. Daenerys Habsburg was leading her troops to fight the Hussite War and had no time to take care of other things. She didn't care much about the life and death of the Eastern Roman Empire.

As for other Western European countries, France and Britain were fighting the final battle of the Hundred Years' War. The ambitious King of France led his royal knights to sweep across France, removing the last few thorns of England on the European continent one by one. The people of the two kingdoms were so stupid that they didn't care about what was happening thousands of miles away.

Italy hasn't even sorted out its own affairs. The entire Italian peninsula is divided into dozens of city-states and kingdoms, so there is basically no hope.

As for Spain, things in Spain are always so bad. They are determined to expel the last Muslims from Spain, leaving no one behind, and they are persecuting Muslims, Jews and all other non-Catholics on a large scale in the ruled areas. They have no time to care about you.

Seeing that he could not get any support from Western Europe, Aenarion turned his attention to the East. What about the Timurid Empire? The old cripple could crush the Ottoman Empire once, so why couldn't he crush it a second time?

But a few days later, Aenarion received bad news: the old cripple, who had lived more than fifty years longer than in the real world, finally died of old age. The Timurid Empire was handed over to his good grandson Halil, and Timur's fourth son, Halil's fourth uncle Shah Rukh, was very angry. He openly usurped power and fought with his eldest nephew for control of the empire.

Now, the Timurid Empire could not even help to crush the Ottoman Empire, and they had no way to contain the nine legions deployed by the Ottoman Empire in Asia Minor!