Chapter 281: Facing the Attack (I)
"No, I just want to tell you that this thing didn't end so easily. The www.biquge.info world is fair, and even you, the Knight King, have to pay for the sins you have committed. You don't want me to make any concessions. Now you have only one choice, and that is to atone for your sins and fight for us. You can choose to refuse, but Belthes and Vivien are going to die. Imagine that they are now in the Western Theater of Operations, and it only takes me to give the troops there an order and they may die on the battlefield. It doesn't even have to be bloodied with our people's knives. Andopoules whispered, like the devil whispering in his ear, so that Constance Dante couldn't help but shiver.
Constance Dante jerked his head up, and the veins at the base of his neck flare. He never expected that this man would actually use such a despicable method. The other party is threatening himself, and he is using such explicit means.
"Coward!"
At that moment, he wanted to pounce on the man again and beat him severely, but this time the chains that bound the beast tightened suddenly, and the furious appearance of Constance Dante was extremely hideous, and his roar echoed in the elders' house: "What do you want to do?" ”
"Do I need to repeat this?" Andopolis sneered.
The eyes that were always lowered lowered burst out with a terrifying fierce light. There seemed to be a whirlpool in the blue pupils of the lake, and people were to suck it in and smash it. But even this will not help, even if it is a knight king, he is useless if he is not sitting in a mecha.
Anglos could only look at Constance Dante like this, he still underestimated his enemy too much, he didn't expect the other party to use such extraordinary means. More importantly, however, Constance Dante's performance was equally disappointing.
"You coward!" Constance Dante looked at Andopulis and roared, if it hadn't been for the guards beside him holding him down, Cons. Dante would have pounced.
But Andopulis was unmoved, and just said lightly: "The so-called superior is to ask for favor and not be surprised, if His Royal Highness the Knight King thinks that this can provoke me, it is too naïve." Also, if you don't obey, not just the two of them, but everyone who is with you will be buried together. Your Highness, I now ask you a second time, will you be loyal to the kingdom to repel the invasion of the Seljuks to atone for your sins? The man's shallow smile made Constance Dante shudder, he understood that such a person would do whatever it took to do anything, even if it was to make his hands dirty in order to achieve his goals. This kind of person is often regarded as a despicable villain, but in troubled times, he can also be called a hero. It is often the people who can influence the situation in the world.
Now it was not only Vivien and Berthes who were in danger, but all those who had set foot on the land of the East with him.
Constance Dante had promised not to hesitate, but now he felt that he was back to square one.
Grief and anger were like a tidal wave that drowned him, but he still couldn't break free......
Justinian This is your fate, resign yourself to your fate!
The voice was recalled in his ears again, and at this time he could not afford to lift any Poland in his heart, and Cons-Dante only felt more physically and mentally exhausted.
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And at the same time outside the city of Trebizond.
The setting sun falls towards the majestic cliffs, overlooking the rushing waves, and the sea beats with a golden light like fish scales. This was the most dangerous part of the city, but it was precisely because the terrain was so steep that Herod's skilled craftsmen could not use it, so the Seljuks could reach the top of the mountain, but the path on the mountain could only accommodate a small number of guards. If it weren't for the elite guards, the horses they sat on would not have set foot on this land at all.
The mountain road was cut off at this point, and the cavalry dismounted en masse and led their horses for the rest of the road. Although it is already a new era, the culture on horseback of the Seljuks has not completely died out, and the complex terrain of Anatolia still has a great effect on the cavalry charge, so the cavalry force still retains a large size compared to the Western Turks. The cavalry was undoubtedly a whirlwind on the battlefield when charging on the plains, but the trail of such a mountain was painful for the cavalry's mounts. But at the forefront was their princess Pasha Serena, a woman who led her horse to the front, so that no one dared to complain.
Although the war horses of the Turks are good at trekking through the mountains, such terrain is still a bit reluctant. At this moment, they could only helplessly continue to follow Amen's Pasha to the top of the cliff.
In fact, from the beginning, the Turks' target was the city of Trabizon, although they didn't know the purpose of Sudan, but they had already started preparations a month ago, and Serena had also obtained her husband's authorization early.
But she had been preparing, and it had been a whole month.
Along the way, she passed through various subjects and provinces of the empire. The Seljuk Empire was so vast that even they themselves had forgotten the origins of the country, and they came from the east to sweep the entire fertile Crescent, and even the caliphs had to submit to them. The territory established by the Seljuks was far from being comparable to that of the West, with not only the various frontiers and provinces, but also a large number of vassal states, especially in the far east, in Khorasan, where the governor was already a true king. And the Sudan of the past generations had no more demands than their nominal submission. After all, some subject countries are located in remote areas, and it seems too expensive to even maintain the communication and connection between the two places, and sometimes even if the local governor dies, more often it is not appointed by the Empire's Sudan but elected by the local imams and nobles, and the Empire can only acquiesce in this situation.
However, this situation is not something that everyone is willing to accept, the so-called balance is just a compromise under the stalemate of the strength of the two sides, and sooner or later one side will finally be dissatisfied and the seesaw will break.
And the person who broke the balance is now Su Dan.
Because of his youth, the Sudan did not shock the whole West as Saladin did, but the monarchs of the West and the big names of the Holy See did not think so.
Over the years, the man had built the Seljuk army into a rival to the West, and he was gradually reassembling the fragmented Seljuk Khanate into his own hands.
And it was undoubtedly Serena who helped Su Dan accomplish all this, and the woman had not left for Anatolia in the previous month, where the war was imminent, but had patrolled the provinces of the East.
The unprecedented visit of the female Pasha made the subject monarch and the governor of the province tremble. There are also many discussions within the Khanate about this rapidly rising female Pasha, some people say that this woman is Su Dan's right-hand man, but some people are very dissatisfied with women's interference in politics. But what is common is that no one is not in awe of it. What's more, at the beginning, Su Dan's position was vacant, the princes competed with each other, and the princes of all parties were also watching, some people were waiting for the opportunity to become independent, and some people supported their favorite princes, but the most embarrassing thing was that the people they supported did not ascend to Su Dan's position, but the originally ordinary man became the master of the empire.
This naturally made those princes tremble, for fear that Su Dan would come to liquidate.
It's not that there is no one who doesn't try to fight to the death......
A few years earlier, Atabok, who had been stationed in Damascus, had made a comeback, undoubtedly the biggest gamble of the nobles in Seljuk history. They took advantage of the instability of the Sudan's newly enthroned dynasty and called in the most elite garrison regiments in the southern part of the khanate, who had come to deal with the aggressive crusaders, who were well-trained and well-equipped, but who had become sharp blades in the hands of the rebels. At that time, the new Su Dan had no troops that could be mobilized except for the Central Army under the direct jurisdiction of the royal family, and the other nobles were watching from the sidelines, ready to accept the change of course of the empire. But everything was unexpected.
The Khanate's armies and rebels fought a decisive battle outside the city of Mosul.
Everyone looked at their Sudan as if they were dead. If it weren't for the loyalty of the palace guards, the coup might have killed that Sudan. The disadvantage is obvious, although they are fighting at home, with the strong walls of Mosul, it is still too difficult and difficult to shake the southern army armed with steel, in the previous war with the Rastins, these proud soldiers already have strong combat experience, their equipment is also Western, the so-called high walls are nothing more than this in front of the cannons. If it weren't for the fact that the new Rome had intervened in realizing that the Holy See was weakening itself, the Seljuks would have been a thing of the past, and the power of the West would have killed them.
At that moment, everyone thought that a change of dynasty would become a settlement.
It seems that the proud new Su Dan will definitely die, die for his stubbornness. That's how it should have been, but if he wants to upset the balance that was good, he has to pay the price.
And on that day, Su Dan did not hold on to the city as people think, but led the Praetorian Guard to take the initiative, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the man would not harm the pond fish if he stayed away from here and sent him to death.
But who would have thought that there would be a change on the battlefield, and the nobles thought that the true god had abandoned their Su Dan, but they actually turned the situation around.
On that day, the woman suddenly appeared with a large army, a brand new army, an army that no one had ever seen. Not only the Janissaries of the Khanate, but even the corps of the Southern Military District were nothing more than chickens and dogs in front of them.
The battle was over in half a day, it was a massacre, no one could resist the army, and the new mech legion was like a dagger that pierced the heart of the rebels, causing it to crumble. When they came back to their senses, people saw the true face of those terrifying armies, new Western-style weapons and powerful mechs, which the Seljuks did not have in the past, and it was because of these that they were defeated by the Westerners. For a moment, everyone cheered, the Praetorian Guards shouted long live, and the rebels gave up their resistance and bowed their heads.
A rebellion was thus suppressed with lightning speed.
But the ministers who gambled on Su Dan's death were panicked, and those who watched from the sidelines were also panicked, hesitating how to stand in line next, and in the end they could only choose to let Xin Su Dan successfully sit in his position.
This situation lasted for a long time, and during the years of Su Dan's reign, the princes and ministers walked on thin ice, and the exclusion of dissidents was something that every Su Dan would do. But in the past few years, the man has not made a big move, so that the nobles can't help but forget and slack off on their own.
As a result, when they realized that the time had come for reckoning, they were at a loss.
Serena, who patrolled the East, carried with a large army.
After a moment of hesitation, all the monarchs and governors made the right decision, and they personally led the guard of honor to greet the princess who had come from afar, not because they really loved this woman, but because they feared that her great power would leave them with no place to die.
And in fact, the woman did just that, and in the East, her hands were covered in blood, and countless princes with disobedient hearts were guillotined.
The important ministers who opposed the conservatives had nothing to say, and they were ready to make a fuss about the Sutan sitting back and watching the women interfere in politics, but the news of the resubmission of the local separatists who had once disobeyed the central government was constantly transmitted back to Mosul through telegrams, and this feeling was that the entire khanate was once again united, and thousands of people were running for Sudan's great achievements. It seems that "blaming" is useless, because the credit for all this is done by a woman.
It is a great shame that some of those ministers could not accomplish in their lifetime were finally done by a woman.
No one even knew Serena's intended route, and she led the Seljuk elite new army around, and the princes and governors everywhere were terrified, not knowing when disaster would strike.
Although terror permeated the entire eastern part of the empire, it was undoubtedly successful.
The Seljuks, who had taken complete control of the eastern frontiers, were finally able to concentrate their efforts on the invasion of the Western Crusaders.
But before that, it was time for those remnants of the new Roman Empire to let them out of the stage.
Eventually, the cavalry reached the top of the hill, from which the Seljuks could look down on the city in the distance.
"It's time to put an end to all this, Su Dan, the things I promised you have finally been completed for the most part, and this final undertaking is undoubtedly to be careful step by step." Serena muttered to herself.
(To be continued.) )