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"Okay, aunt, I have no ill will towards you. I just had no choice before. Now let's start the second round of conversation."

Aenarion restarted the negotiations. His control spell could only last for twenty-four hours. Unless he could stay by her side the whole time, he would not be able to continue to control her from inciting and destroying the Ottoman court.

As for taking in pets, the Mark of Slaanesh, the God of War, was the limit. She could control at most twelve pets, which she repeated with Astariel.

"Aunt, your vision is too small, too small!"

Aenarion persuaded earnestly.

"Why do we insist on the Ottoman and Eastern Roman

Are we betting on the Roman Empire? Weren't our family the legitimate Roman emperors two hundred years ago? How can a man be born in this world and live under someone else for a long time? You have already said a lot of bad things about Constantine, so I will say bad things about Muhammad too. "

Although he has the blood of the ogre royal family flowing in his veins, he is an elf, an elf conquered by the ogres! You, the Janissary slave legion, are also elves, and you can barely obey him, but the Ottoman Empire was founded by the ogres, and few of those Turkic ogre nobles obey him. This is the root cause of the unrest, and he does not have the prestige to rule the entire Ottoman Empire!

Moreover, we have established another Ottoman Sultan in Constantinople, Orhan I, who is a pure-blooded ogre royal family and Muhammad's fourth uncle. If you, as the commander-in-chief, call on the army of the world to support him to take the throne, the Ottoman Empire will be divided into two in an instant. You will personally establish a second empire and a second central government. At that time, your emperor will no longer be Muhammad, the real monarch, but a puppet at your mercy.

Think about it, aunt. By then, the power of the Eastern Roman Empire will be almost in my hands, and you will support a puppet to establish a second empire and call on other Janissary legion leaders to join you! The real rulers of the two empires are the Angelos family. When the situation stabilizes, it will be easy to refuse and give up the throne three times, just like the story of Yao and Shun in Zhendan. According to your method, the Angelos family can only survive in this chaotic world, but according to my method, our family can sit on the throne of the emperor again, just like two hundred years ago!

Gilliman was controlled by the Domination Technique, her body was completely unable to move, but her mind was still normal. Aenarion found a crack called ambition in her indestructible armor and pierced deeply into it, causing Gilliman's loyalty to gradually waver.

"By then, the family you've been dreaming of will reach unprecedented heights! As long as you are willing to join forces with me as the warmaster of the Ottoman Empire, this plan is very feasible."

After saying the nice things, Aenarion began to say the unpleasant things.

"You see, your Thirteenth Legion originally had 20,000 men, twice or even three times the number of other legions, but what about now? Muhammad forcibly split your legion into two! Half of the Ultramarines and half of the Anglos formed the 21st Legion, the Scythe of the Sultan.

To put it nicely, the Sultan you are loyal to is afraid of your excessive power. You hold the position of war commander and command the largest Janissary Corps.

To put it bluntly, he thinks our family is too powerful. He not only wants to split the Thirteenth Legion in half, but also wants to split our family in half!!! The story you told me before, "When the rabbit dies, the running dog is cooked", can also happen to you. Only when the power is in your own hands can you feel truly at ease."

From the perspective of a member of the Angelos family, Aenarion spoke out his heart-piercing words without hesitation, and with his increasingly skilled performance and tearful face, he hit Gilman's soft spot hard.

Aenarion relaxed his control over his head, and after Gilman regained the ability to speak, she did not call the Ever-Victorious Army in, but instead really seriously considered her relationship with the Ottoman Empire.

"What if I don't agree?"

"Then I will have to maintain the control for a long time and make you my puppet instead of my partner. I am talking to you now out of respect for my elders, love for Estarielle, and responsibility as a member of the Angelos family. These things will only benefit you and will not cause any harm."

"So, what you mean is that you want me to join forces with you and build a new empire headed by the Angelos family?"

Jiliman frowned.

"So, in this new empire, will you be the leader, or will I be the leader?"

"You are the elder and the patriarch of the Anglos. Naturally, you should be the emperor. I only want the position of war commander."

Aenarion said very respectfully and humbly. Anyway, now we have to persuade people to surrender, win over allies, and promise anything. We can wait until things develop to the point where we can establish a country.

"Yes, but this is a very dangerous matter. We must sign a covenant and swear an oath with blood. Only in this way can we trust each other."

Jiliman pondered for a long time. Perhaps it was her distrust of Muhammad, her ambition and desire for the throne, her fear of the end of her life, or her obsession with reviving her family. All these reasons made her decide to embark on this extremely dangerous but extremely profitable path. She chose the empire that was loyal to her and started a rebellion.

Aenarion breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he was persuaded, and the two cut their fingers on the spot and used blood instead of ink to write the alliance letter in duplicate. After stamping them with bloody handprints, they kept them separately, and then held each other's vital points and swore an oath of blood.

"Well, then please make way for me and my army to return. This matter cannot be rushed, and we need to plan slowly."

Gilman returned to her previous elegant state, her brain spinning rapidly, thinking about how to optimize and improve Aenarion's plan so that the Angros family could return to the pinnacle of power.

"No, aunt, you gave us such a big gift, as the younger generation, we naturally have to return the favor."

Aenarion politely released the control of the Domination spell and unfolded his fleet deployment map next to Gilman.

"The Genoese betrayal was not premeditated. I captured the Genoese governor alive during the naval battle and forced them to defect.

The governor is still a guest on my ship.

Many of the current Genoese fleets have been destroyed by my fierce artillery fire, and the rest are leaderless and in disarray. They are my gift to my aunt.

You should immediately assemble all your fleets and storm the Genoese defenses. I will also cooperate, nominally assisting the Genoese, but in fact helping you bomb the ships and open up the road. When you return, you can say that this defeat was due to the Genoese defection, and that you completely annihilated the Genoese fleet with your inferior navy and broke through safely. Not only will you not be at fault, but you will be credited - you completely annihilated the Genoese navy!"

Aenarion was trying to gain an advantage by borrowing someone else's money. The Genoese navy must be defeated. The alliance between him and Venice was built on the corpses of the Genoese. If he didn't defeat their navy in one battle, the Venetians would no longer be his allies.

After defeating the Genoese navy, their islands and colonies will be completely divided up. At that time, half of the Aegean Sea and the entire Black Sea will be under their control, allowing their power to further grow.

"Humph, you're trying to kill someone with a borrowed knife, huh?"

Gilman saw through Aenarion's plot at a glance, but this was indeed the best excuse for her to return innocent. The warmaster of the Ottoman Empire could not be defeated. If he fled back in disgrace, his title of warmaster would be in jeopardy, and it would probably be given to that guy Horus.

"I admire you, boy. No Angelos is more cunning than you. Whose child are you? Why have I never seen you before?"

Ji Liman asked curiously.

"I don't know either. Maybe he's someone's illegitimate child."

Aenarion evaded the topic. After all, his dual profession was shared with him from Astariel.

After the two men had discussed it, Aenarion withdrew with his men first. After a while, when it was the darkest hour of the night, the entire Ottoman fleet went out and launched a desperate attack on the disorganized Genoese fleet!

Chapter 275: The Spoils Division Meeting

Before the Genoese could react, they suffered a head-on blow. The desperate Ultramarines burst out with unprecedented fighting power. All the ships sneaked into the range of the Genoese artillery in the dark, and launched an extremely fierce and sudden offensive when the opponent was caught off guard. Some small boats responsible for assault and decapitation even easily bypassed the fleet and rushed directly to the remaining Genoese leaders according to the information provided by Aenarion!

The presidents of the Genoa Chamber of Commerce and the admirals of the naval aviation, who were originally immersed in the sweet dream of victory, were awakened by the clanging of blades, the fighting of soldiers, and the explosion of gunpowder. They crawled out of bed and had just picked up their weapons when the blood-soaked Ever-Victorious Army kicked open the door and defeated them in an instant with their numerical advantage and superb martial arts.

The decapitation operation of the Extreme Marines was carried out very beautifully, but they were seasick after all, so they could only concentrate their elite forces to quickly complete the decapitation operation. They were unable to quickly eliminate the Genoese soldiers and break out of the encirclement. They only tore a hole in the encirclement that was only big enough for one galley to pass through.

At this moment, the Roman and Venetian navies had already arrived to provide support.

Aenarion would not betray his wife's family and his aunt. The whole army said they were going to fight the Ottomans, but the artillery fire fell on the Genoese ships like raindrops, further destroying their will to resist. The Varyag, who was walking on the bumpy sea as if it were flat ground, roared and rushed into the Genoese fleet, killing friendly forces and seizing ships.

The Venetians would not show mercy to the Genoese, who had been competing with them for maritime hegemony for hundreds of years, and also joined in the scramble for the fleet, allowing Gilliman's fleet to leave safely. Aenarion even released the imprisoned Gallywix back to the Genoese fleet.

The Jewish flower was in full bloom, and he thought he was forgiven, but before he could even get comfortable on his flagship, the Janissaries rushed over and hacked him into pieces, allowing Aenarion to perfectly execute a borrowed knife to kill someone.

The next day, the Battle of Salamis ended, with the Ottomans and the Christian coalition claiming victory for each other.

According to the official Ottoman statement, even when the friendly army Genoa rebelled, their war general still fought one against three, turned the tide, broke through the encirclement, and even killed the Genoese governor Gallywix. This was the second Christian monarch beheaded on the spot by the Ottomans after the Battle of Varna! An undisputed victory!

In the official Christian discourse, this was also a victory. Orthodox Christians and Catholics united without any grudges, bravely and fearlessly defeated the Ottoman navy and firmly controlled the naval power of the Aegean Sea.

One of the six Ottoman caravels was sunk and two were captured, and seven of the twenty-one galleys were sunk and four were captured. More than half of the navy they had worked so hard to put together was destroyed in one battle, and it would be difficult for them to shake the Christians' control of the sea in a short period of time.

The nine caravels and forty-four galleys of the Genoese were also damaged by two consecutive heavy blows. The remaining ships and sailors all became spoils of war for Aenarion and the Doge of Venice. The Ottoman navy only lost more than half of its fleet, while the main force of the Genoese navy that had been accumulated for a hundred years was completely destroyed in one battle! It was good enough for the remaining fleet to be able to keep the waters of the homeland.

A gathering to divide the spoils hidden under the glorious victory

,here we go.

As the initiators of this battle that dealt a heavy blow to the Ottoman Empire and Genoa, Aenarion and Dandolo began to devour the corpses of the defeated. They divided the captured ships. The artillery power of the caravel deeply shocked Governor Dandolo. He understood that times have changed, and the rules of naval warfare are also changing. Therefore, he took away the seven captured caravels and hundreds of small boats, preparing to replicate a powerful firepower fleet equipped with hundreds of cannons.

And Aenarion was also deeply aware of his own shortcomings. The power and firing rate of artillery with current technology could not compare with those in the Age of Discovery. Moreover, there were too many extraordinary beings in this world. Artillery salvos could not stop them from scattering and charging like mad dogs. To board the enemy ship, he needed a large ship to hold the line. Small boats would not be enough and would be easily smashed by the enemy's large ships. The Galleon was a good choice.

The most crucial thing is that the Mediterranean Sea is relatively calm, and the maneuverability of sailing ships is not as good as that of galleys here. Therefore, he took away the 33 captured galleys and all the captured Genoese sailors, preparing to transform these people into the Roman navy. The Venetians had no shortage of sailors, so they generously gave them all to Aenarion. Both sides felt that they had won.

After obtaining the ships and sailors, Aenarion immediately dispersed and reorganized the captives, and put them into his own fleet in batches. He taught them lessons and integrated them into the military system of the Athenian autocracy.

Most of these people were elven sailors recruited by the Genoese in mainland Greece, so they had no psychological barriers to believing in Aenarion's teachings. In addition, they were outnumbered and all of them were scattered and disrupted. It didn't take long before these people began clamoring to restore Rome and return to the old capital, or they planned to kill a few people to become noble officers.

With the overthrow of Genoa's naval power, the foundation they had established in the Aegean Sea was instantly shattered. The four islands of Thassos, Samothrace, Lesvos and Chios in the north were returned to Rome. Constantinople's most prosperous commercial district, Galatia north of the Golden Horn was also taken back by Constantine XI. Their colonial outposts in Dongbao on the Black Sea were also uprooted by the Black Sea Fleet.

The four southern islands of Samos, Ikaria, Cos and Amolvos were ceded to the Venetians, while the Knights Hospitaller, who had contributed the least and had the smallest number of people, took the Tilos Islands, which were closest to Rhodes.

At this point, Genoa completely withdrew from the Mediterranean stage and could only retreat back to mainland Italy to survive.

And Aenarion's fleet received an unprecedented upgrade: in recognition of his victory in the Battle of Salamis, Constantine XI, facing the situation where there was no title or reward to be given, gave Aenarion a precious technology that had been sealed up in the empire for a long time: Greek fire.

This is an extremely powerful and expensive naval weapon. It is made by mixing special oil, sugar, alcohol and other flammable materials in a certain proportion to create a special liquid that is extremely flammable and can float on the water.

Then, they forged a water pump out of high-temperature heat-resistant metal. After igniting the flammable liquid, it would be sprayed dozens of meters away, which could instantly ignite a ship and turn an area of ​​sea into a sea of ​​fire. Except that the raw materials were too expensive, there were no other disadvantages. Constantine could hardly even form a fleet, so naturally he had no money to do this.

Aenarion was overjoyed and immediately ordered everyone to install Greek fire in front of the galleys.

As he had expected, the huge and bulky sailing ships fired at the back, and the flexible and high-speed galleys intercepted the enemy ships to prevent them from approaching the sailing ships, and at the same time burned and destroyed everything with Greek fire! As long as he could build such a navy, not to mention the Ottomans, the Venetian navy would no longer be his opponent!

Chapter 276: I am your father

After a period of time, Aenarion's navy was reorganized. The admiral of the Black Sea Fleet was Giovanni, who had three caravels equipped with hundreds of cannons and ten galleys equipped with Greek fire. His task was not heavy, and there were really no enemies in the Black Sea who had fleets, let alone large fleets.

The admiral of the Aegean Fleet was Artemisia, the deputy admiral was Mariana, and they had two of their own familiars, six caravels with a hundred cannons, and thirty galleys also equipped with Greek fire.

The Varyag amphibious special forces, which had 2 Viking longships and soldiers, were directly assigned to Aenarion. This army was too versatile. They could fight in naval and land battles, and were good at long-range and close combat with crescent axes and heavy matchlocks. Moreover, they were generally -

A level 4 warrior, commanded by four giants, is second only to the Janissaries in terms of elite strength.

During this period, after controlling Crimea and then radiating to the whole of Eastern Europe, Aenarion recruited soldiers in Eastern Europe, expanded the Varyag Guard from 2,000 to 3,000 people, and granted land to a large number of Slavs who had become slaves in Genoa, allowing them to cultivate and work on the fertile land of Crimea. It is preliminarily estimated that the size of this group of people is more than 100,000, and they are all young and middle-aged people and children.

Aenarion began to try to have two systems in one country, using a professional military system in the Greek world and recruiting the most capable elves as soldiers. They did not engage in production and had only one task for 365 days a year, which was to train, train, and train rigorously. The advantage of this military system was that it could train an extremely brave and combative professional army, and the Janissaries were also trained in this way.

However, there is a disadvantage of this military system, that is, it is impossible to build an army of large scale with barely adequate quality. By doing so, only a small number of elites can be trained. Now the population of Greece under Aenarion's rule is close to two million, but there are only 6,000 dark angels, 8,000 phalanx soldiers, 2,000 Thessalian cavalry, and more than 3,000 navy professional soldiers, which is less than one percent of the total.

And he wanted to implement the system of local soldiers in the Tatar and Slavic world.

These Slavs and Tatars usually farm or herd, and when they have free time, they gather together for combat training. The state supplies food, and once a war breaks out, this group of people can be directly pulled into the battlefield to join the army and fight. Of course, they will only be paid when they are conscripted to fight.

The army trained by this policy is certainly not as elite as the professional army, but it can quickly recruit a large number of legions to fill the line, and it saves money. After all, they are only paid when fighting. When not fighting, they are all herdsmen and farmers, and do not need to be paid. I have experimented with it in Thessaly before, and recruited 80,000 farmers in a short period of time to drown the Dark Angels.

However, the military system naturally has its shortcomings, which is that it will affect the development of farming. Thessaly is their most important base, so they would not do so if they can avoid it. They should do so in the Crimean enclave first, and then restore the professional soldier system when the number of their soldiers increases.

What's even more amazing is that because of the evolution of firearms, they can always have spears and muskets for these soldiers, greatly shortening the huge gap between these people and the regular army. Moreover, the Tatars have been using this system for hundreds of years. They are soldiers in wartime and shepherds in peacetime, so they are more adapted to this system.

It was already September when Aenarion took over the Genoese's legacy in the Aegean and the Black Sea. The Roman Empire was thriving under his transformation. Almost all of the ancient Greek world was recovered, and half of the Aegean Sea became the empire's territory. On land, he had Skanderbeg, and on the sea, he had two powerful allies, Dandolo, and inside he had two extremely powerful naval fleets.

Aenarion looked at the approaching year 1453. This time, with so many trump cards he had worked so hard to accumulate, he would surely be able to avoid the fate of the destruction of Constantinople!

A butterfly named Aenarion flapped its wings gently, and the entire course of history changed. Since the Battle of Ankara, the Ottoman Empire has never been in such a bad situation. The Timurid Empire is eyeing it covetously in the east, and Aenarion and Skanderbeg are two great enemies in the west. The slave trade in Crimea has also been cut off! Now he can only collect blood taxes from the European part of the empire and capture children to fill the empire's manpower.

At this moment, Muhammad put aside his thoughts on Constantinople and focused all his attention on Aenarion.

It took only three years for this guy to rise to power. He united with the Christian countries to fight against the Ottoman Empire and defeated two war generals of the Empire! He even captured one and brought an entire Janissary Legion to Christ.

He has achieved such achievements in just three years. If he is given another three years, he will definitely rebel. This extremely dangerous enemy must be killed at the source!

Muhammad was furious and began to summon all the high lords to plan how to kill Aenarion, retake the Thessaly Basin, and break the united Roman states into pieces again. At the meeting, although Gilman, the Ottoman Empire's war general, wanted to protect his nephew-in-law, he could not do it too obviously in public, so he had to tell some plans and participate in the discussion.

Then, after the meeting, Sultan Muhammad's plan was immediately sent to Aenarion as soon as possible.

Aenarion unfolded the letter and frowned deeply. Muhammad had planned an extremely crazy plan. He planned to mobilize all the Janissary Corps that were not responsible for border defense, or even important border defense, about six to seven legions in size, plus a large number of slave troops and servant troops, to achieve the goal in one battle. Just like he eliminated Karaman, he would use absolute strength to crush himself directly.

The specific strategy included dividing the troops into two groups and attacking Albania and Thessaly at the same time in order to break the alliance between the two countries. As long as one of the passes was broken through, the mighty Janissary Corps would be able to form a double-sided encirclement situation against the empire's enemy.

Not to mention six or seven Janissary Legions, his current strength is only about two legions at most - 1453 hasn't even arrived yet, and it seems that he will be destroyed before Constantinople???

Aenarion frowned slightly, and fell into anxiety, frantically thinking of ways to break the deadlock. Ji Liman's suggestion was to

He had to give up Crimea or all the islands in the Aegean Sea, pay one or two million silver coins, apologize, and call himself a puppet emperor like the Eastern Roman Empire, with the Ottoman Empire as his overlord, and pay annual tribute. After he had made some operations in the Ottoman Empire, he could turn the page and then wait and see what would happen. Now the world had not yet reached the point where chaos broke out and his family could take the opportunity to rise to power.

Although assembling six or seven legions to attack Thessaly is a very low-cost and low-return thing, if the new sultan really goes crazy, no one can stop him.

Aenarion thought about it and realized that this would indeed prevent the Ottoman Empire from attacking him, but since he started his army, his slogan has been to expel the Turks and restore Rome. If he really did something like forcing the Ottoman Empire to surrender, his legitimacy would be greatly reduced, and his generals and soldiers would probably not obey him.

So how can I get through this difficult time???

Aenarion summoned his staff overnight, and they discussed from the afternoon until the early morning, but they still could not come up with a reliable solution.

Suddenly, a high elf said weakly.

"Warmaster, I remember that when Murad II died and Muhammad had just ascended the throne, Emperor Constantine was worried that Muhammad would bear a grudge against him and seek revenge. Therefore, he thought of a way out for himself, but he didn't use it."

"What retreat?"

Aenarion looked at him gravely.

"According to the tradition of the Sultan, Murad took his strongest and most ferocious kung fu, Princess Mara of the Kingdom of Serbia, as his concubine. However, he was afraid that this concubine would give birth to a pro-Serbian Sultan, so he never favored her, resulting in Mara still being a virgin.

The mother of Sultan Muhammad was a sex slave of an elf and a plaything, and was not worthy of raising the Sultan's son, so Muhammad's adoptive mother was the virgin princess. "

The staff officer became excited and talked eloquently.

"When Murad died, Muhammad ascended the throne and respected her as the Queen Mother. He was considerate of his adoptive mother in every way. When she wanted to go home, he let her return to her hometown after many years. At that time, our Emperor wanted to marry her and become Muhammad's father. By the way, he would keep the Sultan's most respected mother by his side as a hostage.

Unfortunately, the plan failed. Although Princess Mara was a devout Christian, she doted on and loved her adopted son Muhammad. She saw through the emperor's plan at a glance and chose to become a nun and serve God all her life to avoid marriage.

So, how about you use your invincible charm, Warmaster? Marry Princess Mara? Become Muhammad's father? Even if this Sultan has a thousand faults, his filial piety is absolutely flawless. If we can get Princess Mara, it is equivalent to having an indulgence for the Ottoman Empire, at least for the Sultan Muhammad."

Aenarion considered the counsellor's suggestion carefully and found it feasible.