Félayer's sons looked at each other, and they felt in their hearts that their father was a little too worried: from Pierrot. Judging by the inauguration of Conna, the fleet of the Venetian city-state was so majestic, the citizens were so rich and enterprising, and the Senate was so united. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

So the voice of the father at this moment is so discordant.

So much so that some people openly commented in front of the mansion, "An old man like Fellaier has a greed for power that burns with age, and even does not hesitate to seek fame by slandering the right policies." ”

Yes, as long as the rights and interests of Crete are seized, the Venetian city-state is equivalent to officially breaking through the constraints of the Adriatic Sea and truly moving towards a commercial empire, which is an out-and-out good thing. Why bother tossing in the wind and waves, risking nine deaths, risking constant wars with the infidels to fight for the Levant? Just doing transit trade in the Adriatic and Aegean Seas, wealth is inexhaustible.

"All the ships that capsize go out in search of gold." Félaille said no more, and paced himself into the round pavilion on the terrace and poured himself a drink.

A few days later, the new consul passed a major resolution in the Senate: Venice was willing to send a fleet and mercenary regiments to help the Holy Emperor John put down the rebellion, and for this reason the Senate re-recruited Gonletto. Sargimons's "Razor Brigade" was also equipped with a strong auxiliary army, with 2,000 Bohemian miners as engineering troops, as well as 1,000 Magyar light cavalry, and 800 fierce Epirus militias, a total of 5,000 men, escorted by forty galleys, to ascend to the surface of Crete in early August and begin to join the Byzantine garrisons there for a counterinsurgency war.

In addition, Pierrot purchased four bronze cannons equipped with trolleys and solid wheels from the city of Ragusa, accompanied by dozens of craftsmen and the Cretan expeditionary force.

The city-state of Venice was a large arsenal in its own right, and it also maintained a keen sense of innovation in military technology - at this time, the whole Mediterranean world began to cast copper and iron artillery on a large scale of three main powers, Tarsus, Constantinople and Ragusa. Although Ragusa is based on the imitation of the first two, it has a tendency of latecomers to prevail, and now it has been able to produce dozens of light and heavy cannons of various regulations every year, which makes Venice amazed.

Not to be outdone, the city of San Marco bought the use of others first, and once it had accumulated enough experience, it was ready to be built in the "Arsenal Arsenal" and set up on a warship that showed off its might.

The efficiency of the Venetians was terrible, and it only took a week from the time Pierrot was elected to the time when Gonletto led the troops.

During this period, the Cretan rebellious nobleman Kurtatzis again sent a "representative of the people" to ask Anna to fulfill the promise of 4,000 soldiers in advance. This was because the rebels had received constant rumors that the huge fleet and army of Venice would join Emperor John's side and carry out a brutal and bloody suppression of them.

Before the representatives entered the tent, Anna was receiving other figures from the various islands of the Holy Sea, and now the islands of Samos and Caios had been pacified by the troops she had sent, and most of the island of Lespos had been captured, including the island of Patmos, where Gawain had stayed when he had crossed. In addition, the encirclement of Rhodes by the sailor fleet in the Atalia Frontier area was also quite successful, so Anna, as a genuine Caesar, asked the group to "select capable sailors and boatmen on each island as soon as possible to join the city of Atalia, and I will give them a license to cut down and use it to build our fleet ships with all our might!" "Anna had a grand plan to set up a large number of salmon estates in the counties of Atalya and Samos, to recruit 6,000 to 10,000 sailors and shipwrights, to give priority to the manufacture of a large number of light ships, and to buy 5,000 more slaves from Adigai and the Crimea in order to prepare sufficient oarsmen, and now the little tyrant had no moral burden to do so, but the latter plan was not realized because the sea route was blocked by the hostile Trabzon and Georgia.

"A quarter of the light warships are already in order, and six ships have been launched in Seleucia, so that the blockade of the Prussian sea channel can be carried out immediately." After finally expounding on the grand plan, Caesarana raised the scepter of golden wheat taller than her own delicate body, waved it, and spoke to the delegates with great momentum.

Then, when the Cretan delegates were given the opportunity to meet in person, Anna, who sat back in her chair, was a little embarrassed.

"Supreme Queen Caesar, please send the team you promised to cross the sea to reinforce us as soon as possible, for we have received news that the Venetian fleet is about to sail over to help the puppet emperor John against the rebels."

"Ahem." Anna coughed crisply twice, and quickly covered up the abnormality of her face before, she was very smart, and understood that it was completely impossible to draw four thousand elite soldiers to help Kurtatzis on the spot now, but she couldn't make them feel hopeless, that would damage the credibility and majesty of the royal family of Tarsus, so Anna said to the representative calmly, "Everyone, please come with me." ”

Caesar was accompanied by the ladies and the palace guards guarded by the lotus halberd, and the Cretan representative followed her respectfully, walked out of the scarlet tent with various flags, and walked to the north cliff of the mountain overlooking the entire siege position, where there was a small jungle, in which there was a slender miscellaneous tree, the upper part of which was shaken and bent and fell to the ground, and the branches and leaves were scattered all over the ground.

Anna was mentally strong, pointing to the huge turtle barrier lying in front of her like a nobody, and said to the Cretan representative, "That fortress is where my husband commanded the siege, so I'm sorry he couldn't come to receive you in person." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the two huge cannons behind the gun emplacements of the Great Turtle Fortress shook the ground and roared, and two comet-like stone pellets flew over the ground full of trenches in front of the Cretan delegates' astonishment, and struck the walls of Prussa, and the white gravel exploded in the sky, and now the section of the walls and towers in the southeast corner of Prusa was almost flattened.

"Oh, that's amazing, it's like a giant throwing stone balls and playing a game." The Cretan delegates rubbed their hands together and couldn't help admiring the powerful weapon of the Tarsus Guards, and said in a local accent.

Immediately before the fortification, and even further ahead, a long blockade of vans and vans was followed by a rain of small gun emplacements, which shook the whole of Prusa and buried it in a thick cloud of gunfire.

"It's just routine artillery fire." With a confident smile, Anna puffed up her small chest and held her staff in one hand and her waist with one hand, and showed off to the delegates.