Ayujie Khan sighed: "I chose a good time! It is not terrible to have the strength of the terror, what is terrible is to dare to seize the opportunity, seize the opportunity to attack the whole army, this kind of courage is awe-inspiring, this battle is our loss, the whole army retreated. ”

Ayujie Khan turned around and left the battlefield without looking back, and the guards around him also left without saying a word, leaving a few people to look at each other, seeing that their own army was losing and retreating, and the Celtic army was fully superior, and after consulting with each other, they no longer hesitated, and sent messengers to order a retreat.

In fact, after seeing the banner of Ayujie Khan disappear from the battlefield, the nomads took possession of it, but the centaur warriors could not raise the will to fight, and after hearing that the order was given to retreat, they fled like a mountain in defeat.

The first battle with the centaur nomads was won by Artoria's personal efforts, and according to the post-war statistics, the Celtic Norman army suffered nearly 5,000 casualties, the enemy coalition lost nearly 10,000 people, and the centaurs lost more than 2,000 people, and the rest were nomads.

After this battle, Artoria figured out the opponent's combat strength, and the Qingbao showed that the number of centaurs on the other side was at least three times that of what he saw today, and he did not dare to go deeper, but ordered the soldiers to set up camp, just like the camp made by Randy on the outskirts of Smolensk, prepare for defense, and wait for Randy's main force.

At the same time, Randy, who was unable to ride a horse because of a shoulder injury, was lying on a huge palanquin carried by forty-eight people, and although it was cold outside, the inside of the palanquin with the stove burning was as warm as spring.

The year 1105 was still an eventful year, with a very strong war with Eastern Europe.

The Cumans and the Centaurs vs the Celts and the Grand Duchy of Moscow

But now the mainstream of Europe is still the Nth Crusade announced by the Holy See, hoping to take this opportunity to defeat the Egyptian heresy and recover the Holy Land of Jerusalem.

However, this kind of behavior is very difficult in Randy's opinion, after all, Jerusalem is far away from thousands of mountains and rivers, and it is difficult to supply, and Saladin, the king of the desert, is not easy to mess with, and the princes of the European continent have conquered so many times, and they absolutely cannot trust each other, and this kind of army can win the battle before there are ghosts, according to Randy's budget, most of them were wiped out by Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean, and the rest barely went ashore, and a group died because of the lack of adaptation to the water and soil, and the last people were led into the desert Gobi by the Egyptians because of unfamiliar roads, and the whole army was wiped out.

Even if the final result was very different from what Randy had imagined, the entire continent worked together, and the 100,000-strong army arrived in the Crescent Land intact, and inexplicably ignored the imbalance caused by the water and soil, and there was no non-combat attrition, even so, Randy was still optimistic about Saladin.

According to Norman spy network intelligence, although Saladin is not the most powerful of the four major countries, it completely occupies the two river basins and the Arabian Peninsula, plus the huge territory of Upper and Lower Egypt and the land of the two river basins that have not been exhausted, as well as the abundant irrigation water brought by the great power of the Nile, so that this region can support a large number of agricultural population.

In addition, the sword of the sword, the trade brought by the port of Alexandria, the religious cohesion brought by the holy cities of Jerusalem, Mecca, Medi, etc., Saladin can even gather more than 200,000 troops, which does not include the reinforcements of other * countries, such as Ottoman Turkey in the north, Barbary states in the west, and Timurid Khanate in the east, plus Ethiopia in the upper Nile region of North Africa, a large number of warriors of black tribes in North Africa will also be happy to accept Saladin's employment.

But turn around and look at the European continents......

Excluding the Norman Empire, how many troops would they be able to send?

The Iberian Peninsula, the Triple Alliance, led by the Kingdom of Leon Castile, is still in an endless war with the Eastern Roman Empire, and the boss of Cid is currently kicked away by King Alfonso because of his high achievements, so he led his followers to go alone, and after taking refuge in the army of the Eastern Roman Empire, Cid also has his own power and army, so he kicked the Eastern Roman Empire away, and occupied Valencia on the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula with more than 4,000 soldiers, claiming to be the Duke of Valencia, And again threw an olive branch to King Alfonso.

The Eastern Roman Empire's military strength in the Iberian Peninsula is about 30,000, and the Iberian Triple Alliance has almost this number, because the two sides contain each other and can't free up their hands at all.

And Philip II of France is also a wise monarch.

After a period of détente, France once again surpassed the Kingdom of Burgundy in power, and Philip II was able to send more than 30,000 troops.

The Kingdom of Burgundy is probably able to send 25,000 men!

After the military reform of the Holy Roman Empire, Duke Albert II of Austria had about 40,000 elite troops, plus other equally militaristic vassal states, as well as the Duke of Brandenburg and the Duke of Hesse in the north, the Holy Roman Empire mobilized to send at least 100,000 troops.

Italian Peninsula ......

You can also send about 30,000 or 40,000 troops in the Papal States, the Duchy of Milan and the Republic of Venice, and about 10,000 troops in Eastern Europe and Hungary.

Pieced together, the entire continent can muster together more than 200,000 troops.

But the question is, will these countries really go bankrupt for a holy place thousands of miles away, take out all their armies, and go on a thankless expedition?

"The crusading holy war in Jerusalem should end in a farce, and the authority of the Church will be weakened by it, and it will be more convenient for me to act next, of course, I will not mind gaining some benefits from such a war."

On the islands of the Mediterranean, have the things I needed delivered to my door......

"Hahaha......"

Now that the preparations for the Black Sea Fleet have been carried out in an orderly manner, if the situation requires it, Randy can also send more transports and warships from the Baltic Sea further north, and at the same time can order the offshore fleet stationed on the island of Malta to cooperate and cooperate in the operation, and the goal chosen by Randy this time is to attack Cyprus like a paradise after the fall of the entire Kingdom of Jerusalem.

The island of Cyprus! The throat of the Mediterranean, the sharp dagger of Catholic power extending beyond the sphere of influence of the Arab heresy, is equivalent to having the best springboard for attacking the Golden Crescent, the most important large island in the entire Mediterranean, Cyprus!

This place is not overlooked like the island of Malta, which can be picked up by Randy.

In fact, thousands of years ago, when the civilization of the two river basins began to develop, adventurers took oars, starting from various ports, starting from the contours of the Mediterranean Sea to explore, reclaim and develop colonies, Cyprus began to develop at that time, with the prosperity of Mediterranean trade, the importance of Cyprus began to become more and more obvious, thousands of years with the rise and fall of dynasties, this mountainous, scarce island, almost never controlled its own destiny, conquered countless times, After that, there will be another conqueror.

Just like it is now, Randy is sure! The Fatimid Empire of Egypt, the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the Byzantine Empire of Eastern Rome, and the three powerful empires of the Eastern Mediterranean, after the fall of Jerusalem, will certainly raise the idea of this important island, and the enthusiastic Crusaders may make Cyprus a battleground for soldiers.

Randy had a slight headache and felt that the wound was itching, and although he knew that it was the feeling of wound healing, he still couldn't help but want to scratch it.

"This may cause an infection, Your Majesty!" Before Randy could grab it, Nightingale's hand was grabbed.

"But it's itchy!" Randy grumbled.

"Bear with me! Your Majesty! ”

"Okay......"

Just as Randy was itching from the healing of his wound, a panicked roar suddenly came from ahead.

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Is Randy really the kind of person who is making money and pretending to save face, thus delaying the fighter?

Of course not! Removing the factor that Randy himself was injured and therefore unable to ride a horse, there was a reason why Randy put on such an unenterprising appearance and kept his army about a hundred kilometers away from Moscow, advancing three to five kilometers a day at a turtle speed.

Randy threatens again, or rather, he's bargaining!

This principle is very simple, standing on the city wall every day and looking into the distance, muttering to himself, why don't reinforcements always come? Why does the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which does not always come with reinforcements, pay for its own lives? Randy uses his own army, human psychology, warfare, and the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Moscow as variables to list such a formula......

The slower the coalition goes, the more people die in Moscow, and the more panicked the Moscow royal family becomes, the more they can give.

In the face of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, who finally broke out of the siege, several bloodstained messengers asking for help, Randy didn't even see him, and the knight of the guard said directly:

"His Majesty the Emperor was seriously injured in the previous battle and needs to recuperate with peace of mind."

Using this sentence as an excuse to send them away, no matter how sad the messengers wept and shouted, Randy was still hard-hearted and cold.

In history, Shen Baoxu cried Qin Ting, which must be the interests of the Qin people, so he agreed to send troops to help, otherwise, even if that stupid boy cried to death in front of Qin Shihuang and his ancestors, the Qin army would not take a step forward, just like now.

Of course, it would not be correct to say that Randy did nothing, and when the Rus' people returned to Moscow with tears and swollen eyes, and had no choice but to leave, they still brought a copy of the terms that Randy had already drawn up, which were very harsh, and could be called puffer fish.

The content of the treaty is as follows:

The first is some nonsense, or what seems to be very dark humor in nature.

Randy wishes the Grand Duchy of Moscow to be eternal and the emperor will be long, I wonder if Catherine II, who is now on the verge of the country's ruin, will see this, and directly tear the entire document to pieces, Randy's scientific research institute has now given birth to a great invention, modern papermaking, is not Cai Lun's kind of trash paper made of rags, but purely made of wood pulp, easy to write tough paper, now the Norman Empire correspondence, at least official documents have all used this kind of paper.

Then comes Randy's first condition:

In the future, the Duke of Moscow will succeed to the throne, and he must accept the canonization of the Norman Emperor, if he does not get the canonization of the Norman Emperor, the title of Duke of Moscow is illegal, here Randy does not know whether intentionally or unintentionally, deliberately changed the title of the Grand Duke to Duke, of course, this is not the most important, the most important thing is this canonization and the claim of rights, if the Grand Duchy of Moscow promises this article, the Norman Empire can interfere in the selection of the prince of Moscow, as well as the appointment of the Grand Duke, then all the heirs who want to take the position of Grand Duke, all of them had to put down their bodies to tie up the Norman Empire.

Compared with the first condition, the second condition is even more naked greed and ambition.

Randy announced that in order to better protect the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Norman Empire needed an additional military expenditure, and this additional military expenditure had to be paid by the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and from 1105 AD, the Grand Duchy of Moscow needed to pay 1/3 of their financial revenue as military expenses and tribute to the Norman Empire, ensuring that the Norman army was strong enough to protect the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

In addition, Randy makes demands on Smolensk, the city he has coveted for a long time.

Randy didn't say directly, please cede this territory directly to me, but hope to establish a free and equal zero-tariff trade zone here, and at the same time hope that the Grand Duchy of Moscow will allow the Norman Empire to garrison troops in this place, draw a lease area, and let the Norman Empire carry out commercial immigration, and the laws and regulations within the concession need to be implemented in accordance with the Norman Empire.

In the treaty, Randy imagined that such a special status would allow Smolensk to grow much faster and become a regional trading center, and at the same time, convenient transportation and superior laws would attract more people to settle here, and the Grand Duchy of Moscow would gain a very large city, and the Norman Empire would be well paid.

Fourthly, the Grand Duchy of Moscow shall not make unauthorized representations to other countries in the future, and must be in line with the Norman Empire in foreign affairs.

The first four were almost entirely favorable to the Norman Empire, while the last few appeared to be favorable to the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

Fifth, the Norman Empire will send a group of officers to help the Grand Duchy of Moscow carry out military reforms and train the army.

As for the cost of hiring the officer corps, training the army, and purchasing armaments, the Grand Duchy of Moscow must pay for it itself, and the final training of the army will be subject to whose orders will be discussed later.

Sixth, the Norman Empire will build a communication road between Smolensk and Moscow, and between Smolensk and Minsk, the capital of the Belarusian region, the former will demand the full payment from the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and the latter, Randy hopes that the Grand Duchy of Moscow will pay one-third of the money, and if the Grand Duchy of Moscow can't get the money together, it doesn't matter, the Norman Empire can provide a paid loan.

In addition, there was an additional item to these terms, if the Grand Duchy of Moscow was willing to build roads between its own territory and other cities, it could also ask for help from the Norman Empire, which of course had to be paid.

Seventh, if the Grand Duchy of Moscow wishes, the Norman Empire will send a team of experts to help the Grand Duchy of Moscow carry out extensive political and legal reforms, and help the Grand Duchy of Moscow as soon as possible to become a centralized imperialist state.

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