European modulation mode

The Holy Roman Empire was the first to fail. A well-trained soldier and a poor old farmer with a matchlock gun had the same destructive power. The Ottomans ignited a religious upsurge and had a steady supply of soldiers to fight against them, while the Holy Roman Empire only had an expeditionary force.

Maximilian had no choice but to give up a large amount of land he had just conquered. He returned to Portugal with the Holy Roman Army, which suffered heavy casualties, and ordered the Portuguese nobles to transport more reserve troops for him. At the same time, he tried to learn from the Ottomans and in turn ignite the jihad enthusiasm of Christians throughout Iberia, using jihad to fight jihad. It took Alauddin three months to recapture the entire territory of Granada and achieved a preliminary victory.

The son of the caliph breathed a sigh of relief and resumed negotiations with the Holy Roman Empire, intending to peacefully resolve the Iberian issue. We are only here to protect our Muslim brothers, and we have no intention of aggression. Except for the land issue of Granada, we can discuss everything, even compensation, technology and scientific personnel.

However, he was willing to negotiate, but his jihadist soldiers were not. When they heard that their commander wanted to negotiate, the entire army was furious.

"Ottomans! What do you mean? We said at the beginning that we would launch a holy war and expel those Christians, leaving no one alive! What about now??? My hometown is in Cordoba. All my property and land were ruthlessly taken away by the Christians after the fall of my hometown. My two sons were both killed in the battle, and my daughter was captured alive by those pagans and humiliated to death in front of me! I followed you to fight until today, just to kill a few more Christians and avenge my children. Now you say you want to negotiate? I don't agree!!!"

An elderly Gisyanki, his hands shaking with anger, was demonstrating at the door with a matchlock rifle issued by the Ottomans, and was about to shoot.

"Those perfidious Christians took away my land and property, and locked me and my family in a cage like dogs for ten years! Now they are committing the same evil deeds against my fellow countrymen in Granada. They are courting death! I want to fight back my territory! Save my blood relatives and servants!"

A former Iberian noble raised his ancestral silver blade with a roar, and a large number of his followers also roared, and their momentum reached the sky.

"Didn't you see the tragic situation in the occupied areas of Granada? The Christians confiscated all the Muslims' property without any reason and expelled all non-Catholics! Hundreds of thousands of compatriots were displaced and forced to migrate south. Many people starved to death or died of exhaustion on the way to migrate. Whenever one person fell, other hungry victims would rush over and eat their compatriots until nothing was left. Their relatives even shed tears of blood and ate the flesh and blood of their loved ones just to survive.

Such tragic situations have been happening over the past hundred years! A large number of compatriots were expelled from the northernmost part of the Iberian Peninsula all the way to North Africa! Do you know how many people died because of Christians? In this land, we and Christians cannot coexist. Either they or I, or I or they!!!"

Many Muslim refugees, with tears in their eyes, denounced Christ's atrocities.

"That's right! We will expel all Christians from our homeland, leaving no one behind! This holy war will never end until the last Christian in the Iberian Peninsula dies! Allah! Hu Akbar!!!"

"Didn't the Caliph promise to protect the interests and property of every Muslim?! Have you Ottomans been lying from the beginning? Do you Turks think that the interests of us Arabs don't matter at all? We respect Selim as the new Caliph, but is this how he protects his people? What right does he have to claim to be the shadow cast by Allah on the earth? Allah never abandons his people!!!"

Thousands of Muslims who were tortured by Christians stormed Alaud in anger

In Ding's Governor's Office, Lorca was too successful. He relied on religious hatred to ignite the anger in the hearts of all Muslims and attracted a steady stream of soldiers for the Ottoman Empire. But now, facing the anger of the refugee army, Lorca could only sigh.

I lit this fire, but I can't control it, let alone extinguish it.

On the Iberian Peninsula, the hatred between Christianity and Islam was far more serious than the Ottomans had imagined. In the Ottoman Empire, Muslims and Christians lived in peace. Both sides just thought that the other side was very tasteless and actually believed in other gods.

On this side, the hands and bodies of both sides were covered in blood. When the ancestors of these Githyanki occupied Iberia, they committed many massacres. A large number of Christians also fled north, and thousands starved to death or died of exhaustion on the way of migration. This kind of thing lasted for hundreds of years.

Today, Christians are just doing it the other way around. Muslims also feel wronged. They say that the massacre of you was something that happened during my great-great-great-grandfather's generation. I had no idea about it. In addition, the rulers of Iberia have been practicing a policy of religious tolerance for hundreds of years. We are extremely friendly to Christians. Now you want to massacre us?! And the massacre has been going on for hundreds of years?

The crimes and hatred of both sides have been intertwined and entangled over the long course of history to the point where they cannot be resolved.

Alauddin had a splitting headache. His mission was to protect Granada. Now that he had completed the mission, he could not end the expedition.

Tens of thousands of people who were instigated and armed by themselves were in a posture of "If you don't do it, we will overthrow you, replace a leader, and continue to launch jihad." We also don't recognize the Ottoman Caliph. A caliph who made peace with an executioner and a massacrer is not worthy of being the emperor of the Islamic world.

However, these Gisyanki people did not dare to really turn against Alauddin for the time being. They had a large number of people and a lot of anger, but lacked funds, equipment, and even more so, these outstanding Ottoman officers to lead them to victory.

Just when the two sides were in a stalemate, the Sultan of Granada asked to see the Caliph's son.

Alauddin waved his hand and asked his men to bring the man in. A Githyanki dressed in silk and satin looked up at Alauddin in awe: this giant meat mountain was four meters tall, covered with fat and muscles.

"Respected son of the Caliph, I am somewhat curious as to why you are unwilling to continue this holy war? Can you tell me about your difficulties? Perhaps I can help?"

The Sultan asked cautiously. He could not afford to offend Alauddin. It was possible that a hundred years after Selim, the ogre in front of him would become the new caliph.

"I'll tell you the truth. Father doesn't want to completely break up with the Holy Roman Empire right now. Even if we do, we can't start a war in Iberia. I was able to evade the Venetian Navy this time and transport 2,000 Janissaries to Iberia by relying on a sneak attack to catch the enemy off guard.

But now the Venetian navy has increased its patrols to the maximum. For every five sailing ships that set sail from the Ottoman Empire, the sailors will eat up one ship of supplies on the way there and back. Venice will then plunder and destroy three ships of supplies, leaving only one ship of supplies that can reach Iberia, or even worse.

Alauddin made it clear that the Ottomans did not have the ability to join the battle across the Mediterranean Sea, and that fighting the jihad to this extent was already the limit.

"I see. I understand your difficulty."

The Sultan nodded. He was of course also a proponent of war. He was at the forefront of all Islamic countries in the fight against Christians. He had finally gained Ottoman sponsorship. How could he let him go back so easily?

"However, you have incited Muslims throughout North Africa and Iberia to join the jihad, with a number of hundreds of thousands. I am also wealthy and can go to northern Italy and Rome to purchase armaments. The two thousand Janissaries and the commander of the Abaddon Legion are all outstanding talents. If we treat them as instructors and teach these jihadists how to fight, we can quickly train a large army in half a month, or even less.

And you see our enemy, Portugal is too far away from the Holy Roman Empire. Their main force is conquering northern Italy. They are fighting on two fronts and can provide limited support. The Portuguese throne has just been usurped by the Habsburgs, and the whole kingdom is restless. The power of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon is even less worth mentioning compared with the Holy Roman Empire.

Even without Ottoman aid, we have the advantage of location and people, so we may have a chance to defeat the enemy."

Alauddin calculated that, considering the religious fanaticism of Lorgar, it was indeed possible. However, why should I risk my life to do such a dangerous thing? What good would this do to the Ottomans? The conquered land might be swallowed up by the Kingdom of Granada, or other small Muslim countries might be established. The Ottomans could not rule such a distant land.

Looking at the silent ogre meat mountain in front of him, the Sultan of Granada naturally knew what he was thinking, so he threw out the final temptation.

"I am willing to marry you my only daughter, my only heir, and I am willing to give my kingdom to you, the son of the Caliph, a hundred years later."

The Sultan began to bet on his future, and Alauddin also looked surprised.

"As far as I know, Selim Khali had twenty children, and except for a few infants, each of them is very outstanding, and the most outstanding among them are you and Suleiman. Your brother Suleiman is now in the Ottoman capital.

Ankara, when your father was leading troops abroad to fight, he was doing the work of the Grand Vizier, and all national affairs went through his hands. There were few civil servants in the Ottoman Empire who were better than him.

And what about you? You are an excellent commander, but Osman has no shortage of generals, whether it is Abaddon, Lorgar, or the long-renowned Warmaster Horus, Lord of Iron Perturabo, can you compare with these generals? Your importance to the empire is completely different from that of your brother, Suleiman. After Selim Caliph is summoned by God, can you defeat your brother Suleiman and inherit the throne of Caliph? ? ? "

The Sultan's series of questions made Alauddin a little confused.

"But if you win this holy war, you will become a hero of the entire Islamic world! The entire Iberian Peninsula will become your strongest backing. At that time, why would your brother Suleiman compete with you for the position of Caliph?! A great opportunity is right in front of you!

To put it another way, even if you still cannot compete with your brother, the entire Iberia and North Africa will respect you as their leader and become your strongest backing. The Islamic Jihad Army tempered in the flames of war will become your biggest trump card. Your father and your Roman uncle have already proved a truth: the one with the strongest soldiers and horses should be the caliph. "

Chapter 484: Total War

The Sultan's words really touched Alauddin's heart and ignited the fire of his desire. His brother Suleiman was always a lingering shadow over his head, and now he had the opportunity to surpass his brother, which was to use the jihad army in his hands to offer the entire Iberian Peninsula to his father - by then, no brother could surpass his achievements.

That night, Alauddin stayed up all night, and drew on the map with the Sultan, planning the route of the counterattack and the time of the battle. The next day, the incited Jihad Army continued to block the door and make trouble, and they were just one step away from mutiny. Lorgar had no choice but to take the Word Bearers and earnestly persuade those fanatical Jihad Army. Just as the words between the two sides became more and more intense, this huge ogre appeared in front of everyone and slowly opened his arms.

"Brothers and sisters of Islam, what are you doing here? You should be training in the military camp at this time! Remember! You are just a group of farmers, miners, businessmen, and even refugees who have lofty ambitions but no combat experience! Can you kill Christians by making trouble here? Go back to training!!! For every extra minute you train, you can kill one more Christian on the battlefield to avenge your dead family members and brothers! Instead of letting your brothers cry while holding your corpses on the battlefield!"

The jihadists looked at the huge meat mountain of Alauddin in bewilderment, and some of them didn't react. "Don't you want to fight?" Several people asked in confusion, which immediately caused the ogre to curse.

"Stop fighting? Who said we shouldn't fight?! My father, the Caliph of the Islamic world, the shadow cast by God on the world, sent me to save all of you!"

Alauddin roared in anger.

"We will make the Christians pay for their crimes! We will take back Cordoba, tear down every Catholic church, and rebuild every mosque and minaret with bricks stained with the blood of Christ!

We will recapture Lisbon, slaughter their children in front of the Christian army, insult their beloved wives, and let those Christian soldiers drown in the blood of their own relatives and loved ones!

We must take back Madrid! We must return the pain that the Christians have inflicted on us tenfold and a hundredfold! I will lead you to reconquer all of Iberia! This holy war will never stop until the last Christian on the peninsula is killed and until all of your homes are taken back! If anyone wants to end this holy war, let him step over my dead body!!!"

After listening to Alauddin's speech, everyone present was shocked. The entire square was silent. After a short silence, it fell into crazy cheers. Everyone shouted Alauddin's name and even knelt on the ground, swearing to Allah that all Christians would be expelled from Iberia, leaving no one behind!

In the extremely noisy and crazy crowd, Lorca was the most sober one. She looked at her prince in confusion, stunned by his declaration of jihad to everyone, in violation of the Caliph's order.

No, are you crazy? With only 2,000 Janissaries and 100,000 displaced refugees, you want to conquer all of Iberia? ? ?

Lorgar opened his mouth, wanting to dissuade them, but he didn't know what to say. This expeditionary force had been swept up in the craze of the holy war to the point where it could not be stopped, and the commander had said such words in front of everyone. No matter what he said now, the war would not be stopped.

After issuing the jihad declaration, Alauddin also knew his own weakness, after all, he only had a small number of elite troops and hundreds of thousands of refugees. He also knew that Osman was not capable of directly ruling Iberia, so he relied on the profound knowledge he learned from history books and issued the latest jihad order to the Muslim countries in North Africa in the title of the son of the caliph.

Every time I take back a piece of land from the Christians, I will give it to the person who has made the greatest contribution in the war, and the title will be inherited by the next generation! If I am the one with the greatest contribution, I will give all the land to the King of Granada to make up for his casualties and losses in the holy war.

Lost.

The Ottomans did not take any of the farmland and land they won from the war, but distributed them equally to all the warriors who participated in the war! The looted money and treasures were divided equally among everyone, but I took this wealth. Not to keep it for myself, but to go to Rome and Italy to buy more weapons to support this holy war!

Since the Ottomans could not directly manage this land, it would be better to distribute all the land as bait and reward, so that all the North African countries would help them fight. The Muslim lords who got the land would recognize themselves as their master and Selim as the caliph.

Anyway, I am not pursuing the land of Iberia. What I am pursuing is the reputation of an Islamic hero and the position of my father, the Caliph. What's wrong with dividing all these lands?

After this statement was made, those who participated in the jihad were not limited to the Muslim refugees who had lost their land and were driven away by the Christians. The Muslim nobles in North Africa also coveted a piece of the pie. Some noble heirs who had no inheritance rights but were well-educated and had a full set of equipment also wanted to become lords and spontaneously joined Alauddin's jihad army.

Even some North African merchants, pirates, and wealthy people, after learning that Alauddin lacked money to buy weapons and equipment, spontaneously spent all their wealth to buy weapons, recruit private soldiers, and join the holy war, just to become the lord of Iberia, climb up the ladder of war and chaos, and complete the class leap.

Another month passed, and Maximilian completed the conscription in Portugal and waited for an aid army from the Holy Roman Empire. However, the jihad army under Alauddin was already ridiculously large. Not only did they have refugees with good equipment, training, and quality, but they also had regular troops and noble children from North Africa. They even used money to hire a large group of Githzerai nomadic cavalry and Berber nomadic troops in the Sahara Desert, persuading them to come to help for the sake of their beliefs and their brothers of the same clan.

Alauddin even drew a trump card on the coastline of North Africa: a pirate leader named Hayreddin called on the North African pirates to gather together and formed a sizable Muslim navy. These pirates were extremely rampant in the western Mediterranean. When they gathered together and formed a scale, they looked quite capable. In a small-scale naval battle, they even sank two giant Galeri galleys of Venice and captured a caravel, allowing an intact Ottoman transport fleet to arrive in Iberia.

Originally, the war in Iberia was just a small-scale battle between the two small countries of Portugal and Granada.

However, fueled by religious hatred and racial feuds, fueled by the blazing fire of ambition, and driven by the growing desire and greed of all classes, the Iberian War gradually evolved into a full-scale war between the Habsburgs and the North African Muslims.

Chapter 485: Sacrilegious Alliance

After the Muslims launched a storm in North Africa and declared war on the Spanish countries, Castile and Aragon were forced to join the Habsburg alliance. They knew that they could not defeat the Muslim jihad army without relying on the power of the Habsburgs. All Iberian Christians had only one choice in the surging tide of jihad: jump on the Habsburg chariot and go to war with the Ottomans.

At this point, the war turned into a protracted war, which the Holy Roman Emperor least wanted to see. He was forced to maintain two fronts, Iberia and Northern Italy, at the same time and fight on two fronts.

The Muslims in Iberia were terrifying and rampant, needless to say. The city-states in northern Italy were even more powerful. Aenarion's bastion technology had long been borrowed by various countries. Even if they copied the templates of border fortresses such as Belgrade, they could have done a pretty good job. The Roman Empire was highly centralized, and the country deployed manpower to build bastion defense systems in various border fortresses, so that the best steel could be used on the blade.

But the situation was different in Western Europe, especially in the Holy Roman Empire. The most precious property of each noble and knight was his own castle. The family's savings of dozens of generations were stored in the sturdy castle. Therefore, all the noble lords wanted to make their own territories impregnable.

However, the Holy Roman Empire has not achieved centralization, and almost every county is an independent property. Even a cold swamp far away from the front line, with barren land and even birds not going there to shit, will have its defenses frantically strengthened by its lord, and a bastion defense system will be built around the small castle.

The situation of thousands of castles in the Holy Roman Empire has turned into thousands of bastions in just a few decades. All nobles want to build a few layers of bastions outside their castles, and they are all recruiting farmers in their territories to work, so as to make the people suffer temporarily. After all, the artillery of the new era is too scary, and protecting their own property is the most important thing.

Places like Northern Italy, which had abundant craftsmen and wealth, were the first to complete the bastionization. Every time the Queen of the Holy Roman Empire took down a bastion, she had to pay a horrific cost in time and money. Without a force several times greater than the enemy's, a huge reserve of artillery and ammunition, or a huge logistical reserve that could wait until the food inside the bastion was exhausted, the attackers would not even be worthy of looking at the bastion.

As for why these castles did not surrender? Venice, one of the nine electors, naturally did not want to see the expansion of central power, because it meant that its own local power would be damaged and restricted, so it secretly supported the princes of northern Italy and provided them with mercenaries and money services.

And those princes who were invaded

It's also very smart - now that the Holy Roman Empire has been mired in the quagmire of war in northern Italy, their food logistics must be transported from Austria across the Alps, and the daily military expenditure is an astronomical figure.

Not only that, the Queen of Holy Roman Empire also has to maintain the war in Portugal, where the supply lines are longer and cost more money. As a queen wearing three crowns of Bohemia, Austria and Hungary, it is impossible for you to fight on two fronts for a long time even if you have money. Now it seems that she must choose between giving up the Iberian Peninsula and giving up northern Italy.

The Holy Roman Queen cannot give up Portugal. Not only is there a ticket to the New World, but there is also the moral pressure of the religious holy war. If she gives in to religion, the Protestant princes of North Germany will set off even greater storms in the religious confrontation. Brothers, take the subsidies from Venice and hold on! The Holy Roman Empire is under more pressure than us! She may cease fire at any time!

Faced with the dilemma of fighting on two fronts, the Queen of the Holy Roman Empire had no choice but to start the Holy Roman Heavenly Crusade, demanding that all the princes of the Holy Roman Empire participate in the holy war, march south to Iberia, and expel all Muslims without leaving a single one alive. Hundreds of princes of the Holy Roman Empire responded in unison, declaring war on the Islamic world one after another, and symbolically sending some cannon fodder and supplies to support the emperor's expedition... and nothing happened afterwards.

The Iberian pie has been divided up, with only a small Granada left. The majority of it is probably for the Habsburgs. The enemy we face is the Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire and the large number of jihadists trained by them. The risk is not proportional to the benefit. Am I crazy or stupid to accompany you to fight a jihad in Iberia? Why don't you let us go on an expedition to northern Italy? You take the rich northern Italy for yourself, and let us go to Iberia to die? What a joke!

The Queen of Holy Rai was so angry that she was at a loss as to what to do. She had attacked the wealthy Northern Italy and Iberia at the same time simply because she was short of money. It was already very difficult to maintain the current front line. Faced with these disobedient vassals, she could only give them verbal condemnations.

At this moment, France also started to think: 1453 was not only the day when the Eastern Roman Empire was reborn from the ashes, but also the time when France won the Hundred Years' War. He spent fifteen years working hard to govern the country, and had led France out of the trauma of war, trying to lead his motherland to become the overlord of the European continent.

However, if you look closely, there is no room for hegemony on the European continent. The Iberian countries in the south have divided Spain and are tied to the chariot of the Habsburgs. In the east, the Kingdom of Burgundy is becoming increasingly powerful, and behind it is the Habsburgs. How can you build an anti-French encirclement network? The conflict of interests between France and the Holy Roman Empire has become so great that it is a matter of one side or the other. At this moment, the Holy Roman Empire is at its weakest as it is fighting on two fronts.

France began to seek allies everywhere. A group of envoys went to the Kalmar Union, North Germany, Poland, and Rome, seeking to form an anti-Habsburg siege and dismember this behemoth. However, there were few responses. The Kalmar Union composed of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden had come to an end. Internal strife continued, and the Swedish nobles were dissatisfied with Denmark's dominant position and were unable to take care of themselves.

The Protestant princes in North Germany had suffered from the Habsburgs for a long time, but they were too scattered. The French envoys went to make friends with them with several carriages full of gifts and goods, but they ended up paying entry tariffs for thirteen fiefdoms in seven different currencies in a distance of just one hundred kilometers. This level of dispersion made the French envoys look confused.

Poland was deeply immersed in the land of Eastern Europe, competing with the Roman Empire for the position of the common leader of the Slavic world. Its army was also competing with the Margrave of Brandenburg for the coastline of the North Sea, and it had no energy to fight a war on two fronts.

As for Rome, Aenarion now spent every penny of Rome's money on the reform of the conscription system and the excavation of the Suez Canal. Before completely digesting Egypt and completing the military reform, the empire was unwilling to conduct any combat operations. Moreover, France could not provide any benefits to itself. The Ottomans felt that they were far away and could not rule Iberia. Am I close? What's the point of dragging me into the fire pit without being able to give any benefits?

France could not get any support and could not attack the Holy Roman Empire together with its allies, so it began to feel angry and panic. Several bloody battles broke out between the Ottoman army and the Habsburg coalition in Iberia, with the casualties in each battle reaching five figures - this was the best opportunity to weaken the Habsburgs, and if missed, it would be lost forever.

After much consideration, Charles VII made a decision that went against his ancestors. Under the stunned gaze of many Christians, the French envoy personally met with the son of the Caliph. In order to fight the Habsburgs, the two sides signed the Holy Sacrilege Alliance. France decided to lend a large amount of money and food aid to Alauddin, and the two sides became brother countries.

When the once powerful Habsburgs were struggling to make progress on two fronts in northern Italy and Iberia, and even showed signs of weakness, the time for the emergence of a third front was not far away.

Three days later, France ordered a large number of knights, musketeers, and phalanx spearmen modeled after the Holy Roman Empire, to march towards Provence and Marseille, the disputed territories sandwiched between the Holy Roman Empire and France, in an attempt to cut off the land connection between the Holy Roman Empire and Spain, establish an outlet to the Mediterranean for France, and force the Holy Roman Empire to go to war on three fronts.

This war between the two small countries of Portugal and Granada was successfully escalated into a bloody three-way war between the Habsburg Dynasty, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of France four months after it started.

Chapter 486: Mercenary War

In the Ottoman Empire, when Caliph Selim received the news of the battle in Iberia more than ten days late, he almost fainted. Damn it, I just asked you to protect the Kingdom of Granada, but you incited the Muslims in North Africa and Iberia to counterattack and take back the whole Iberia? And in the name of the son of the Caliph, you formed an alliance with the King of France? Are you crazy? ? ?

Selim was furious and wanted to issue an order to transfer his son and Lorgar back. Then he saw Alauddin's tearful letter. He said that he was faithfully carrying out all his father's orders, but he was now caught up in the surging tide of jihad and could not stop. These Muslims thought that you, their father, could help them regain everything they had lost! If I leave now, the Ottoman Empire will immediately lose the support of the people in Iberia and North Africa, and the universal empire you want to build will collapse.

Every step my son takes now is like walking on thin ice, but it doesn't matter. I don't need your additional troops. I just need some small material assistance. I just need to integrate the resources of Spain and North Africa, and I can continue the holy war in Iberia!

If you are lucky, your son will dedicate the whole of Iberia to his father, and your name will resound throughout the western coast of the Mediterranean.

If I am unlucky, then all these incited people will die in the holy war, and I will not be swept away by the surging name, and I will have reason and qualifications to negotiate peace with the Habsburgs and achieve our original goal - regardless of victory or defeat, the Ottoman Empire will not suffer, it's just that this battlefield will continue for a while.

Selim calmed down and analyzed the situation carefully. He found that he had no better choice. He could only hold his nose and let the boy continue to struggle in Spain while providing more help.

Now, the pressure came to the Habsburgs. The sea route to Iberia was crazily harassed by the Muslim pirate leader Hayreddin, and the transportation route on the road was cut off by the French Knights of the Imperial Order. Maximilian could not get any help for a while.

The 20,000 soldiers he recruited in Portugal fought two direct battles with Abaddon, and more than half of them were killed or wounded. Tens of thousands of corpses torn apart by firearms densely covered the grasslands of Granada. The remaining soldiers were frightened and fled in all directions. There were only a few soldiers left after a month of recruitment. The reinforcements from the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon were also held back and even defeated by the large number of Muslim jihad troops.

These two countries were still at the most basic stage of feudal fiefdom. At the king's command, a large number of nobles and their private soldiers gathered together to fight. The Janissaries beat them like their grandsons, and it was even easier than killing the Mamluks.

It only takes a hundred Janissaries and an excellent commander to lead tens of thousands of jihad cannon fodder to fight independently on the battlefield in Iberia. The regular soldiers of the North African countries are no pushovers either. They are proficient in maritime trade and are also the first countries to benefit from firearms after Rome and the Ottoman Empire. The only problem is that they are too small. Now, they have been unified by Alauddin.

When the new Shinra army tried a three-stage attack, the mighty holy war cannon fodder held the front line with muskets and spears, and a large number of North African camel cavalry detoured to the flanks, using the camel's humps as gun mounts, setting up extremely light one-pound cannons and bombarding the left side of the Shinra phalanx.

After the Shinra cavalry rushed out, a large number of desert herdsmen also raised their scimitars and fought bloody battles with the Shinra knights on the battlefield. The extremely elite and brave Janissaries served as the spearhead of the assault, and with the mighty jihad cannon fodder, they seized the opportunity to launch bloody and brutal assaults to tear apart the enemy's positions. The names of God and Allah resounded through the sky on the battlefield littered with corpses!

When the battle entered its sixth month, Alauddin suppressed the three Iberian kingdoms on his own. He not only recovered the entire territory of the Kingdom of Granada, but also counterattacked and recaptured a large amount of land. After Maximilian retreated to Portugal, he pushed the front line towards Lisbon. A large number of Muslim wealthy people became local lords in the war, and their success was the best recruitment advertisement for Alauddin, allowing more Muslims to come from North Africa and join the glorious holy war.

In the occupied areas, Muslims also began to rob Christians' shops, seize their farmland, wives and daughters, and drive farmers off the land they had cultivated for generations, making them also taste the feeling of fleeing. They did exactly the same things that the Christians had done to themselves over the past hundred years.

When things developed to this point, the Queen of Holy Roman Empire had no choice but to admit defeat and hastily ceased fire with the Italian city-states. The two sides took three days to sign an agreement: the Habsburgs must return all the Italian territory they had taken in this war, and all the soldiers from our northern Italian city-states will go to the Iberian Peninsula to help you win the holy war there.

The Holy Roman Emperor took advantage of the situation and agreed. If she wanted to go to war with an enemy of the size of France, she would not have the troops to garrison in northern Italy, and she could not defend it anyway, so she might as well send it back. After she agreed, she immediately led her army to Provence to confront and fight with the French army.

The merchants of the northern Italian city-states showed the world for the first time what capital was. This was the most developed handicraft business area in Western Europe. The merchants, who made a lot of money but had no political status, began to mortgage all their assets, borrow a large amount of money from banks, and then buy

Buy muskets and cannons, and then take these equipment to the front line of the battlefield.

In this holy war, hundreds of thousands of Christians were expelled from their homelands, left impoverished, displaced, and without any power for revenge. The Iberian countries, with extremely weak local control, could not solve the refugee problem at all. They could not even resolve the dilemma of their own knights being slaughtered by the Janissaries. The Ottoman army was like a devil, making them tremble in nightmares.

Night attack, group 6; 94 93' 61' 35 Then, in desperation, these people saw a group of northern Italian merchants offering them a helping hand - come, sign this mercenary contract, from today on, you are a member of our mercenary group, take this musket, start training, and take revenge on the Muslims! I can provide you with sufficient food and fresh water every day, and you can also get a Spanish silver coin of eight lire every month.

The eyes of the Christian refugees lit up and they accepted the terms without hesitation. The price was low, but they would really starve to death if they didn't do it. Moreover, joining would allow them to take revenge on the Muslims. There was no better choice.