August 24, 1226 A.D.

The capital of the Western Liao Empire, Brusa.

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

This makes Brusa a real lonely city!

The Great Khan's navy had only begun construction about a decade earlier, but progress had been rapid.

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

In addition, the queen of Egypt secretly exported many Galesa ships that could be equipped with artillery to the Mongols. So now Temujin already had a relatively strong navy.

The Dardanelles, south of the Sea of Marmara, were also controlled by Mongol artillery 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 no longer dared to block the passage of the Mongol navy. Brusa Castle is also caught in the dilemma of being caught between land and sea.

Long before the Mongolian Navy entered the Sea of Marmara through the Dardanelles. In desperation, the last emperor of Western Liao, Zhilugu, sent people to ask for help from Eastern Rome, an old enemy on the other side of the sea.

Everyone knew that once the Western Liao was destroyed, Eastern Rome would become the target of Temujin's attack!

But Alexios, the Eastern Roman Emperor who had long been frightened by the Mongols, did not dare to send troops at all. Not only did he not send a rescue army, but in order to curry favor with the Mongol Great Khan, he sent an envoy to Tabriz and asked for an alliance between the two sides.

So in the camp besieging Brusa, several Calais ships of the Roman Empire have now appeared.

The giant siege cannon forged under the city of Brusa has been placed in place, and the huge muzzles are all aimed at the city of Brusa. Stone projectiles polished into a round shape were stuffed into the muzzle of the gun. The gunners had their fuses in their fire gates, torches in their hands, and waited with bated breath for the Khan's orders.

Temujin strode onto a civil command platform. This podium was located on a hill to the east of Brusa, only six or seven miles away from Brusa in a straight line, and there was no shelter in between. You can also see the full situation of the battlefield with the naked eye.

Brusa Castle is a large, multi-storey bastion that was rebuilt from the old town of Brusa.

Since there are many stones in Asia Minor, the material used to construct the fortress is stone. It is also bonded with marl imported from Egypt, which is exceptionally strong.

However, this strong fortress still has many flaws in the eyes of Temujin, who can be called a master siege city. Because it is a rebuilt fortress, it is inevitable that there will be many blind spots for shooting.

In previous sieges, Temujin had discovered these blind spots, but the walls were too strong to be broken with artillery.

This time, Temujin had more than a dozen oversized guns, which should be able to break through Brusa's solid stone walls in one fell swoop.

The Holy Maiden of Light, Mokisi, arrived one step ahead of Temujin, and was already standing on the podium. Seeing Temujin coming, he hurriedly bent down and saluted.

The already aged Great Khan nodded at Mo Qisi with a smile, "Holy Maiden, have your people entered the city?" ”

Did he ask the messenger to enter the city?

Temujin did not wish to destroy the city of Brusa excessively, as he was also preparing to make Brusa the new capital of the Great Mongol State.

In this city by the Sea of Marmara, Temujin could command the war against the Eastern Roman Empire at close proximity!

In addition, the total number of Mongol troops currently assembled around the city of Brusa has reached 150,000! And there were also dozens of Calais warships armed with artillery.

Moreover, the Dardanelles Strait and the Bosphorus Strait to the north were also blocked by Temujin in the name of "besieging the city of Brusa" with large-caliber bronze cannons produced by the Xuzhou Artillery Factory of the Great Zhou Republic.

And in the Sea of Marmara, the naval power of the Eastern Rome had long since weakened.

Ever since Emperor Alexios married the queen of Egypt, the Eastern Romans had no intention of maintaining a strong navy and relied instead on the rich Egyptian navy.

But now that the Dardanelles Strait has been completely blocked, even if the queen of Egypt is willing to offend the demon king Temujin for the sake of her husband, whom she has not seen for a long time, there is no way to send the navy to the Sea of Marmara.

If the city of Brusa could be surrendered without standing, then the fleet and army besieging Brusa would not suffer losses, and could be diverted to crossing the sea and capturing the Gallipoli Peninsula.

And once Gallipoli is in his hands, it is possible that Temujin will become the master of Constantinople in his lifetime!

He is 65 years old this year, and he is definitely an old man who is about to die in this era, and half of his body is in the ground. But he still has one last wish that has not been fulfilled, not to conquer Brusa, who has long been called the turtle in the urn, but to capture Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire!

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

And in order to achieve his dream of capturing Constantinople in his lifetime, Temujin was willing to forgive the Khitans and the soldiers of the Great Stone Guard in the city of Brusa, who were also believers in the god of light!

Moreover, those soldiers of the Oshishi Guards were strictly Temujin's comrades.

Therefore, as long as Jeruzilugu was willing to surrender and surrender the castle of Brusa and the Great Stone Guard, Temujin was willing to give him the throne of the king of Jerusalem in his old age.

"Great Khan," replied Mosis with a smile, "the envoy of the slave family has entered the city, and Zhilugu is nothing but a cowardly king. It is believed that as long as the Great Khan's artillery can blast through a section of the wall of Brusa. The city and the Big Stone Guards within it are yours! ”

Temujin sat down on his throne, waved his hand lightly, and said to his brother Buictier, "Bektier, you can begin!" ”

Buick Tier is the unlucky guy who died because of a fish in history, and he also likes to eat fish in this time and space. However, Temujin did not like fish, he liked beef. So when the two brothers fought together in the Oishi Guards, they never clashed over food - the Oishi Guards were not so miserable, and eating and drinking were not a problem. Occupy the rich land of Persia, what do you want to eat?

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

After saluting his brother, Bektier hurried down from the command platform, and then galloped towards the artillery position. When he reached the artillery position, he slammed the reins, and the front hooves of the big food steed under his crotch were raised, and his hind legs stood with a neigh.

Everyone turned their heads to look, only to see Buick Tier holding the order flag high, and then slammed down: "Fire!" Warriors of the Great Mongols, the Great Khan is waiting for your cannons to destroy the castles of the Dark Khitan! Heaven bless the Great Mongolia! ”

The cannon group of twelve giant siege guns shook at the same time, the fire first spewed out, then the thunderous roar, and the smoke of gunpowder also spread, and in the blink of an eye, dust and rubble rose all over the outer walls of Brusa City!

When the cannon rang out, Yelu Zhilugu also trembled.

He was at the top of the city, the highest point in Brusa, on the tower in the middle of the royal city in the center of Brusa. The view here is very open, not only can you see the Mongol alliances outside the city, but also the Mongol fleet on the Sea of Marmara.

"Your Majesty, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood!"

A bishop of the Bright Heavens Church was standing behind Naoluku, trying to persuade him.

"The conditions of the Great Khan are very favorable...... If you wait until the fortress of Brusa is breached, you won't have the last leverage. Even a holy woman has no way to say good things for you in front of the Great Khan. ”

Boom......

Another round of artillery bombardment, huge stone projectiles slammed into the walls of the city of Brusa, and another burst of smoke and dust.

Although Jelu Zhilugu is cowardly, he is also a battle-hardened battle. After seeing a lot of artillery bombardments, I naturally have experience and know that the walls of Brusa City cannot withstand this level of shelling.

Now there are not many Khitan warriors and Dashi Guards soldiers who can fight in Brusa City. Once the city walls were breached, the end of the Khitan came.

Zhilugu sighed: "Okay, you hurry out of the city and tell Temujin that as long as he is willing to give us Khitans 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 Conquest of 1226"!

According to the later famous Egyptian political scientist Niccolò. Machiavelli, in his famous book On the Last Decade of Temujin, states that the actions of the conqueror, who was born in Europe, during the Great Conquest of 1226, show us how a truly great monarch switched roles between a fox and a lion.

At the same time, the incident of Temujin's use of deception and fraud to seize the Eastern Roman fleet also shows us the stupidity of Emperor Alexios. And stupidity is the greatest sin for a monarch in power...... And those of us are the descendants of the victims of his stupid sins.

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By Niccolò. Machiavelli criticized Alexios, who had committed the crime of stupidity, at this time standing on the tall and strong walls of Constantinople, looking with the most desperate eyes at the Mongol navy on the Sea of Marmara.

The Mongol navy was not a powerful navy in any respect, and it was no match for 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 on the Sea of Marmara...... If they're in the Sea of Marmara!

Even if they weren't, the Mongol navy, which was much larger but not yet able to use its ships well, could have relied on the small navy of the Eastern Roman Empire alone.

However, Emperor Alexios wishfully believed that he could become a friend of the Great Khan of Mongolia like the Queen of Egypt.

And in order to prove that he was a trustworthy friend, the emperor not only allowed the Mongol navy to enter the Sea of Marmara, but also watched the Mongols deploy heavy artillery in Dardanellelia. Even more stupidly, the emperor also ordered his Roman fleet to join the army besieging Brusa as a friendly force, not expecting that the Khitan emperor in Brusa would surrender at the last moment. I didn't expect that the Mongols would attack the Roman fleet in the bay as soon as the city of Brusa surrendered!

Having lost its fleet, Rome certainly had no way to stop the Mongol army from crossing the Sea of Marmara and landing on the most heartfelt territory of the Eastern Roman Empire.

The Mongol army that crossed the Sea of Marmara quickly cleared the perimeter of Constantinople, and in October 1226 conquered Hadrian's Fort (Adrianople), another important stronghold of the Eastern Roman Empire near Constantinople, isolating Constantinople from the rest of the Eastern Roman Empire and turning it into a solitary castle.

The Emperor Alexios was helpless against the Mongols' overwhelming offensive, except for the dangerous Constantinople, which sent emissaries to his titular wife, Sophia I, the Queen of Egypt, and the Pope of Rome.

He hoped that a new crusader army could come to the rescue of the precarious Second Rome.

If the Queen of Egypt and the Pope of the Western Universal Church fail to send reinforcements in time, Constantinople, the guardian city of Western civilization, may fall in the next one to two years.

Second, Rome, most likely will also fall!

It's a pity that Emperor Alexios, who committed a stupid crime, would never have thought that the Pope of Rome and the Queen of Egypt had been waiting for the sunset of the Second Rome for a long time.

I'm a little impatient to wait!

Because both the Pope and the Queen consider themselves the first heirs to the Roman Empire's legacy.

In the Pope's view, as soon as Constantinople fell, it was only natural that the legal system of the Roman Empire would return to Rome.

In this way, the suzerains of the universal church and the Roman emperor should become one.

In the opinion of Sophia I, the queen of Egypt, after the fall of the Second Rome, the rule of law in Rome should have been inherited by Egypt.

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

Moreover, the queen herself also had the honorific title of Augusta of the Roman Empire and was the wife of the Roman Emperor Alexios I.

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

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

The legal 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 also Greeks.

Greece was also the economic foundation of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the silk produced in Greece and the olive oil from Crete were extremely valuable trade goods.

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

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