August 24, 1226, the Western calendar.

The capital of the Western Liao Empire, Brusa.

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

This move has turned Brusa into a truly lonely city!

The Khan's navy started to build about ten years ago, but it made rapid progress.

Because he ruled Persia and became the Persian king, Temujin could get sailors from the Persians who were proficient in navigation.

In addition, the Queen of Egypt also secretly exported many Calais warships that could be installed with artillery to the Mongols. So now Temujin has a relatively powerful navy.

The Dardanelles, south of the Marmara Sea, were also controlled by the Mongol cannon after Temujin captured Dardanelles (located on the eastern shore of the narrowest part of the Dardanelles).

Therefore, the Romans on the other side of the Dardanelles did not dare to stop the passage of the Mongolian navy. The Castle of Brusa was also trapped in a dilemma of attacking the sea and land.

Long before the Mongolian Navy entered the Marmara Sea through the Dardanelles, Zhilugu, the last emperor of the Western Liao Dynasty, sent people to seek help from his old enemy, Eastern Rome, on the other side of the sea.

Everyone knows that once the Western Liao Dynasty perishes, Eastern Rome will become Temujin's target of offensive!

However, the Eastern Roman emperor Alexus, who had been scared by the Mongols, did not dare to send troops at all. Not only did he not send out reinforcements, but he also sent envoys to Tabriz to please the Great Khan of the Mongolian Republic and demanded an alliance between the two sides.

So in the camp that besieged Brusa, several Calais regattas of the Roman Empire appeared.

The giant siege cannons cast under the city of Brusa have been placed in place, and the huge muzzles are all aimed at the city of Brusa. The stone bullets polished into rounds are stuffed into the muzzle. The gunners inserted the leads into the fire door, held the torch in their hands, and waited for the soldiers' orders.

Temujin strode to a civil-built podium. This podium is located on a hill east of Brusa City, only six or seven miles away from Brusa City, with no obstruction in the middle. You can also see the entire situation of the battlefield with your naked eyes.

Brusa Castle is a giant multi-story castle that was rebuilt on the basis of the old city of Brusa.

Since there are many stones here in Asia Minor, the material for building the bastion is stone. It is also bonded with mud imported from Egypt, which is extremely strong.

However, in the eyes of Temujin, a person who can be called a siege master, this solid bastion still has many flaws. Because it is a rebuilt bastion, there are inevitably many blind spots for shooting.

During the past few sieges, Temujin discovered these dead corners, but because the city walls were too strong, they could not use artillery to break the city.

This time, Temujin had more than ten super-caliber cannons, which should be able to break through Brusa's solid stone wall in one fell swoop.

The saint of light Mo Qisi was one step earlier than Temujin, and now she was already standing on the podium. Seeing Temujin coming, she quickly bent down to salute.

The elderly Khan smiled and nodded at Mo Qisi, "Saint, has your people entered the city?"

He asked if the envoy to surrender had entered the city?

Temujin did not want to over-destroy the city of Brusa, because he was also preparing to use Brusa as the new capital of the Great Mongolian Kingdom.

In this city located by the Marmara Sea, Temujin can command the war against the Eastern Roman Empire nearby!

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

Moreover, the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus Strait to the north were blocked by Temujin in the name of "surrounding the City of Brusa" with the large-caliber bronze cannons produced by the Xuzhou artillery factory where the Great Zhou Republic were traveling.

And in the Marmara Sea, the naval power of Eastern Rome has long been weakened.

Since Emperor Alexus married the Queen of Egypt, Eastern Rome had no intention of maintaining a powerful navy and relied on the wealthy Egyptian navy.

But now, the Dardanelles have been completely blocked. Even if the Queen of Egypt is willing to offend the demon king Temujin for her husband whom she has not met for a long time, she will not be able to send the navy to the Marmara Sea.

If Brusa City could surrender without standing, the fleet and army that besieged Brusa would not suffer any losses, and they could be used to cross the sea to occupy the Gallipoli Peninsula.

Once Gallipoli gets it, Temujin may become the master of Constantinople in his lifetime!

He is 65 years old this year, and in this era he can definitely be regarded as an old man who is about to die, half of his body has been buried. But he still has one last wish that he has not fulfilled. He is definitely not conquered Brusa, who has long been a turtle in the jar, but conquered Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire!

In his opinion, only by taking Constantinople can the Great Mongolian Kingdom have a truly brilliant future.

In order to achieve the dream of seizing Constantinople in his lifetime, Temujin is willing to forgive the Khitans and the Dashiguard soldiers in Brusa, who are also believers of the God of Light after all!

Moreover, those Oshishi Guard soldiers were strictly speaking Temujin's comrades.

So as long as Yelu Zhilugu was willing to surrender and hand over Brusa Castle and the Dashiguards, Temujin was willing to reward the throne of the king of Jerusalem for his elderly care.

"Great Khan," Mo Qisi replied with a smile, "The envoy of my family has entered the city, and Zhilugu is just a cowardly king. I believe that as long as the artillery of the Khan cannon can blow a section of the walls of Brusa, this city and the Dashiguards in the city belong to you!"

Temujin sat down on his throne, waved his hand gently, and said to his younger brother Buick Tier: "Buick Tier, you can start!"

Buick Tier is an unlucky man who died of a fish in history. He also likes to eat fish in this time and space. However, Temujin doesn't like fish, he likes to eat beef. So when the two brothers fought together in the Oshima Guards, they never had a conflict over food. The Oshima Guards were not that miserable, and eating and drinking was not a problem. They occupied this rich land of Persia, what do you want to eat?

Buick Teller served as an artillery officer in the Dashigu Army and is now the artillery director of the Great Mongolian Kingdom.

After saluting his brother, Buick Tier quickly got off the command platform, then rode his horse toward the artillery position. When he arrived at the artillery position, he suddenly tied the reins, raised the front hooves of the big food horse under his crotch, stood up with his back legs, and made a neigh.

Everyone turned their heads and saw Buick Thiel holding up the flag and then suddenly under his command: "Fire! Warriors of Great Mongolia, Khan is waiting for your cannon to destroy the castle of the Dark Khitan! Heavenly bless Great Mongolia!"

The cannon group composed of twelve giant siege cannons trembled at the same time. The fire first spit out, then the roar of thunder, and the smoke of gunpowder spread. In a blink of an eye, dust and gravel rose everywhere on the outer walls of Brusa City!

When the cannon sounded, Yelu Zhilugu also shook all over.

He was at this time on the tower in the center of the royal city in the highest point of Brusa City. The sight here is very wide, and you can not only see the layered joint camps of the Mongolians outside the city, but also the Mongolian fleet on the Marmara Sea.

"Your Majesty, keep the green mountains here, don't be afraid of burning firewood!"

A bishop of the Guangming Heavenly Principle was standing behind Zhilugu and trying hard to persuade him.

"The Khan's conditions are very generous... If you wait until the bastion of Brusa City is broken, you will have no last bargaining chips. Even the Saint will not be able to say good things to you in front of the Khan."

Boom...

Another round of artillery bombs hit the walls of Brusa City again, and another chaotic smoke and dust.

Although Yelu Zhilugu was cowardly, he had been through the battle formation for a long time. After seeing the fact that the cannons bombarded the city, he naturally had experience and knew that the walls of Brusa City could not withstand this level of artillery bombardment.

There are now not many Khitan warriors and Dashi Guard soldiers in Brusa City. Once the city wall is broken, the end of the Khitan will come.

Naolugu sighed: "Okay, hurry up and go out of the city and tell Temujin that as long as he is willing to give us Khitans a way out, I am willing to be his subject..."

The surrender of Brusa was only the beginning of the "1226 Great Conquest" by later historians!

According to the later famous Egyptian political scientist Nicolo Machiavelli's narration in his famous book "On the Last Ten Years of Temujin": The European-born conquerors' behavior during the Great Conquest of 1226 fully demonstrates how a truly great monarch exchanged roles between foxes and lions.

At the same time, the incident of Temujin using deception and fraud to seize the Eastern Roman fleet also shows us the stupidity of Emperor Alexus. For the monarch who is in power, it is the greatest sin... and we are all descendants of the victims of his stupid sins.

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Alexus, who was criticized by Nicolo Machiavelli for committing stupid crimes, was standing on the tall and strong walls of Constantinople, and looked at the Mongolian navy on the Marmara Sea with the most desperate eyes.

The Mongolian Navy cannot be considered powerful in any aspect. It is not an opponent of the Egyptian Navy or Venice or Genoa Navy. Even the fleets of Pisa and the Almafi Republic are enough to destroy the Mongols on the Marmara Sea...if they are in the Marmara Sea!

Even if they were not there, relying solely on the small navy of the Eastern Roman Empire could make the number larger, but the Mongolian navy, which could not use warships well, suffered heavy losses.

However, Emperor Alexus wished to think that he could become a friend of the Great Khan of Mongolia like the Queen of Egypt.

In order to prove that he is a trustworthy friend, the emperor not only allowed the Mongolian Navy to enter the Marmara Sea, but also watched the Mongolians deploy heavy artillery in Dardanirlia. What's even more stupid is that the emperor also ordered his Roman fleet to join the army besieging Brusa as a friendly force. He did not expect that the Khitan emperor in Brusa would kneel and surrender at the last moment. He did not expect that the Mongols would attack the Roman fleet in the bay as soon as possible after surrendering Brusa City!

Of course, Rome, who had lost its fleet, could not stop the tide-like Mongolian army from crossing the Marmara Sea and ascending to the most confidant territory of the Eastern Roman Empire.

The Mongolian army crossed the Marmara Sea quickly cleared the periphery of Constantinople, and in October 1226, conquered Hadrian's Fort (Adria Fort), another important stronghold in the Eastern Roman Empire near Constantinople, isolated Constantinople from the rest of the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire, turning it into a lonely castle of existence.

He was not prepared for the Mongols' overwhelming offensive and did not have much strength. Emperor Alexus was helpless. In addition to defending the vital Constantinople, he sent an envoy to ask for help from his nominal wife, Queen of Egypt, and the pope in the city of Rome.

He hopes that a new crusader can come to save the precarious Second Rome.

If the Queen of Egypt and the Pope of the Western Universal Church cannot send reinforcements in time, Constantinople, the guardian city of Western civilization, may fall within the next one to two years.

The Second Rome will most likely die!

Unfortunately, Emperor Alexus, who committed a stupid crime, would never have thought that the Pope and the Queen of Egypt were actually waiting for the sunset in the Second Rome.

I was a little impatient when I waited!

Because the Pope and the Queen both considered themselves the first heirs to the Roman Empire's heritage.

In the Pope's view, as long as Constantinople fell, the Roman Empire's legal system would naturally return to the city of Rome.

In this way, the suzerain of the universal church and the Roman emperor should be combined into one.

In the view of Queen Sophia I of Egypt, after the fall of the Second Rome, the Roman rule of law should have been inherited by Egypt.

Because the Egyptian Kingdom is originally established by the royal family of the Roman Empire, and the Romans (actually Greeks) are also the backbone of Egyptian society.

Moreover, the queen herself possesses the title of Augusta, the Roman Empire, and is also the wife of Roman Emperor Alexus I.

Who else in this world is more qualified to become the ruler of the Roman Empire after Alexus?

Of course, what Sophia I really valued was not the title of Roman emperor, but the basis for Greece that supported the Roman Empire after the fall of Italy!

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

Greek was long ago the common language of the Eastern Roman Empire, and most of the residents in Constantinople were Greeks.

Greece is also the economic foundation of the Eastern Roman Empire. The silk produced by Greece and the olive oil on Crete are all extremely valuable trade goods.

Finally, Greece can also provide the most valuable resources for the Kingdom of Egypt to believe in Christianity!
Chapter completed!