1226, August 24th.

The capital of the Xiliao Empire, Brusa.

This city by the Marmara Sea has lost all hope.Unlike previous Brusa sieges, this time the Mongols surrounded Brusa not only from land but also from the Marmara Sea.

This has turned Brussa into a truly lonely city!

Khan’s navy began construction about a decade ago, but progressed quickly.

Because of the rule of Persia, the iron wood that became the king of Persia really got sailors from the sea-savvy Persians.

In addition, the Queen of Egypt secretly exported a number of Calais battleships that could be fitted with artillery to the Mongols.So now Tiemu really has a more powerful navy.

The Dardanelles, south of the Marmara Sea, was also controlled by Mongol artillery after Tiemu Zhen captured Dardanilla (on the narrowest east coast of the Dardanelles).

Therefore, the Romans on the other side of the Dardanelles did not dare to block the passage of the Mongolian Navy.Brusa Castle is also caught in the trap of two seas and land.

Long before the Mongol Navy entered the Marmara Sea through the Dardanelles.The last emperor of the West Liao Dynasty in despair sent people to Rome, the old enemy on the other side of the sea, for help.

Everyone knows that once the Silica is destroyed, East Rome will become the real target of Tiemu!

But the Eastern Roman Emperor Alexius, who had long ago been frightened by the Mongols, did not dare to send troops.Not only did not save the soldiers, but in order to please the great sweat of Mongolia, he sent a messenger to Tabolis and put forward the request for an alliance between the two sides.

So in the camp that besieged Brusa, there are still several Calais ships of the Roman Empire.

The giant siege cannons cast under the city of Brussa had been placed in place, and the huge guns were all aimed at the city of Brussa.The stone bomb was tucked into the mug.The gunners inserted the lead in the fire door, holding the torch in their hands, and holding their breath and waiting for the sweat of the army.

The iron wood really strode up a civilly constructed command line.This command station is located on a hill east of Brusa, not just six or seven miles from the city of Brussa, and there is no cover in the middle.The entire situation of the battlefield can also be seen with the naked eye.

Brussa Castle is a huge multi-storey bunker that was rebuilt on the basis of the old town of Brussa.

Because there are many stones here in Asia Minor, the material for the construction of the bastion is stone.It is also bonded with mud and mortar imported from Egypt, and it is unusually strong.

However, this strong bastion still has a lot of flaws in the eyes of Tiemuzhen, a master of siege.Because it is a rebuilt bastion, it is inevitable that there are many shooting dead ends.

In the previous sieges, Tie Muzhen found these dead ends, only because the walls were too strong to break the city with artillery.

This time, Tie Muzhen has more than ten large-caliber guns, which should be able to break the solid stone wall of Brussa.

The bright holy woman Moxie was a step ahead of the iron wood, and now she was standing on the commanding table.When he saw the iron tree coming, he bowed down to salute.

The old sweat smiled and nodded, “Holy girl, did your people come into the city?”

Did he ask the messenger who came into the city?

Tiemu really did not want to destroy the city of Brusa too much, because he was also preparing to use Brusa as the new capital of the Greater Mongolia.

In this city by the sea of Marmara, Tiemu can really direct the war against the Eastern Roman Empire!

In addition, the total number of Mongolian troops gathered around the city of Brussa has reached 150,000!There are also dozens of Calais ships equipped with artillery.

Moreover, the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus in the north were blocked by the ironwoods in the name of "surrounding the city of Brusa", with large-caliber bronze guns produced by the Xuzhou Gun Factory in the Great Zhou Republic.

In the Sea of Marmara, the naval power of Eastern Rome had long been weakened.

Since Emperor Alexius married the Queen of Egypt, Eastern Rome has no intention of maintaining a strong navy and relying instead on the rich Egyptian navy.

But now that the Dardanelles have been completely cordoned off, even if the Queen of Egypt is willing to offend the demon king of Tiemu for her long-lost husband, there is no way to send the navy to the Sea of Marmara.

If the city of Brussa could fall without a stand, the fleet and army that besieged Brusa would not suffer, and it would have been transferred to the sea to occupy the Gallipoli peninsula.

And once Gallipoli has arrived, it is really possible that Tiemu will become the owner of Constantinople in his lifetime!

He is 65 years old this year, in this era is definitely an old man who will be on the wood, half of the body into the soil.But he still has one last wish, not to conquer Brusa, which has long been in the urn, but to capture Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire!

In his view, only by taking Constantinople can the Great Mongolia have a truly brilliant future.

And in order to achieve the dream of capturing Constantinople in his lifetime, Timo was very willing to forgive the Khitans and the soldiers of the Great Stone Guards in the city of Brusa, who were, after all, believers in the Light!

And those big stone guards are strictly speaking, they are really the same robes.

So as long as Jericho was willing to surrender and surrender the castle of Brusa and the Great Stone Guard, Tiemu was willing to give him the throne of the king of Jerusalem to his old age.

"The great sweat," answered Moxus with a smile, "the messenger of the slave has entered the city, and the straight-rut is but a cowardly king."It is believed that as long as the cannons of the Khan can blow away a section of the wall of Brusa.The big stone guard in this city and the city belongs to you!”

Tie Mu really sat down on his throne, gently waved his hand, and said to his brother Buickthe, "Bicket, you can start!"

Buickel is the unlucky man who died because of a fish in history, and he especially likes to eat fish in this time and space.But Tie Mu really does not like to eat fish, he likes to eat beef.So the brothers never clashed over food when the Big Stone Guards fought together—the Big Stone Guards were not so bad, and it was not a problem to eat and drink.What do you want to eat in the rich land of Persia?

Buektsel served as an artillery officer in the Great Stone Guard and is now the artillery director of the Great Mongolia.

After a military salute to the brother, Buickel stepped off the command post, and then ran to the artillery position.When he reached the artillery position, he jerked the reins, and the croked big valor horse raised its hooves, and stood on his hind legs, making a hissing.

Everyone turned their heads and saw Buickel holding the flag high, and then jerked down: "Fire!"Great Mongol warriors, the great sweat is waiting for your cannons to destroy the castle of the dark Khitan!God bless Mongolia!”

The cannons composed of twelve giant siege guns shook at the same time, the fire spewed out first, and then it was like thunder, the smoke was also diffused, and in a blink of an eye, all over the wall on the outskirts of the city of Brusa, it rose up dust!

When the gunfire sounded, Jeru Rugu was also trembling.

He was on the tower in the middle of the royal city in the center of Brusa, the highest point of the city.The line of sight here is very wide, not only to see the Mongolians outside the city, but also to see the Marmara Sea of the Mongolian fleet.

"Your Majesty, stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood!"

A bishop of the Catholic Church alone, standing behind the straight-ruts, is persuading each other.

“The conditions of the great sweat are very favorable ... if you wait until the bastion of the city of Brusa is broken, you will not have the final chips.”Even the holy woman can say good things to you in front of the sweat.”

The bombarded...

Another round of shelling, huge stone bombs slammed into the walls of the city of Brussa, and another burst of smoke and dust.

Although Jerui Rugu is cowardly, he is also a long-standing battle.Seeing more shelling of the city, naturally had experience, knowing that the walls of the city of Brusa could not withstand this level of shelling.

Now there are not many Khitan warriors in the city of Brusa who can fight and the soldiers of the Great Stone Guards.Once the walls are broken, the end of Khitan is reached.

Rugu sighed, “Well, hurry out of the city and say to Timo, as long as he is willing to give us a way to live, I am willing to be his courtier...”

The surrender of the city of Brusa was only the beginning of what later historians called the "Great Triumph of 1226"!

According to the later famous Egyptian political scientist Nicolo Machiavelli in his famous book On the Last Decade of the Ironwoods, the act of the European-born conqueror in the Great Conquest of 1226 shows how a truly great monarch can swap roles between the fox and the lion.

At the same time, the Tiemu really used deception and fraud to seize the Eastern Roman fleet, and also let us see the stupidity of Emperor Alexius.Stupidity is the greatest sin to the sovereign in power...and we are all descendants of the victims of his stupid sins.

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Alexius, who had been criticized by Nicolo Machiavelli for committing the foolish crime, was standing on the high and fortified walls of Constantinople, looking with the most desperate eyes at the Mongol navy of the Marmara Sea.

The Mongolian Navy is not strong in any way, and it is not an opponent of the Egyptian Navy or the Venetian and Genoese navies.Even the fleets of the Republic of Pisa and Almafi were enough to destroy the Mongols at the Marmara Sea... if they were in the Marmara Sea!

Even if they were not, relying solely on the small navy of the Eastern Roman Empire could have made a larger number, but the Mongol navy, which was not yet able to use the ships well, suffered heavy losses.

But Emperor Alexius thought he could be the friend of the Mongols, like the Queen of Egypt.

In order to prove that he was a trustworthy friend, the emperor not only allowed the Mongolian navy to enter the Marmara Sea, but also watched the Mongols deployed heavy artillery in Dardanilla.Even more foolishly, the emperor also ordered his Roman fleet to join the siege of Brusa as a friendly army, without any idea that Emperor Khitan in the city of Brussa would bend his knees at the last moment.It was not thought that the Mongols would first attack the Roman fleet in the Gulf after the surrender of Brusa City!

Rome, which had lost its fleet, certainly had no way to prevent the tide of Mongol troops from crossing the Sea of Marmara and ascending to the most bosom of the Eastern Roman Empire.

The Mongols who crossed the Marmara Sea quickly cleared the periphery of Constantinople, and in October 1226 captured the Eastern Roman Empire at Fort Hadrian (Fort Adyria), another important stronghold near Constantinople, to isolate Constantinople from the rest of the Eastern Roman Empire and turn it into a castle of solitary existence.

For the Mongols' offensive as the mountains and seas, they were not prepared enough, and there was not much strength for Emperor Alexius, who was helpless, except for the dangerous Constantinople, that is, sent messengers to his nominal wife, Queen of Egypt, Sophia I, and the Pope of Rome, for help.

He hoped that a new crusade would come to save the precarious Second Rome.

If the Queen of Egypt and the Pope of the West do not send reinforcements in time, Constantinople, the patron city of Western civilization, may fall within the next one to two years.

Rome, for the most part, will fall!

It is a pity that Emperor Alexios, who committed stupid crimes, would not have thought that the Pope of Rome and the Queen of Egypt had already been waiting for the sunset of the Second Rome.

They are a little impatient!

Both the Pope and the Queen consider themselves to be the first heirs of the Roman Empire.

In the Pope’s view, as long as Constantinople falls, the Roman system will naturally return to Rome.

In this way, the patriarch of the universal Church and the Roman emperor should be united.

In the view of the Queen of Egypt, after the fall of the Second Rome, the Roman law should be inherited by Egypt.

Because the present kingdom of Egypt was originally established by the royal family of the Roman Empire, and the Romans (actually the Greeks) were also the backbone of Egyptian society.

The Queen herself also holds the honor of Augusta, the Roman Empire, and the wife of the Roman Emperor Alexius I.

Who in the world is more qualified to be ruler of the Roman Empire after Alexios than Sophia I?

Of course, Sophia I really valued not the title of the Roman emperor, but really supported the foundation of the Roman Empire after the fall of Italy - Greece!

The Roman system of the Eastern Roman Empire undoubtedly came from the Roman Empire, but its core was Greece.

Greek has long been the lingua franca of the Eastern Roman Empire, and most of the inhabitants of Constantinople are Greeks.

Greece was also the economic foundation of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the silk produced in Greece and the olive oil on the island of Crete were valuable trades.

Finally, Greece can also provide the Kingdom of Egypt with its most valuable resource – the Christian population!