Diplomats from the Holy Roman Empire and the Ming Empire met outside Kiev, and the two sides agreed on bilateral cooperation, agreeing on a peace period of 24 months. And the HRE Empire provided a certain amount of food to the Ming Empire on time. The representatives of both sides returned to their respective camps with satisfactory answers.

A few days ago in the evening, Li Long came to the Persian land, the battle hall of Baghdad, and Li Long was intently observing the huge map in front of him. Although Baghdad had been occupied by the Ming army, there were still many places in Western Asia that were in the hands of the enemy. Li Long deployed two armies of 360,000 troops in Vilnius and Thorne. They were Zhu Fulei, commander of the Fourth Army of the Xijing Military Region, and Fan Qing, commander of the Fifth Army. These two groups have not fought a decent battle since the beginning of the westward expedition. is saying that these two people are Li Long's confidants and favorite generals, why don't they exercise their combat command ability. So Li Long handed over the western front of the Ming Empire to them. Zhuvre guards Vilnius, and Fanqing guards the city of Thorne.

At this time, the battle hall was crowded, looking at the stars on the uniforms, all of them were senior commanders with the rank of general, and the youngest officer was also with the rank of lieutenant general. There are the four major commanders of the Beijing Military Region, Li Jiantai, Li Jiankang, ***. There were only three of the five army commanders of the Xijing Military Region, Zhang Cheng, Li Shutai, and Liu Shupei. There are 10 commanders of the Japanese army of the Tokyo Military Region. Commander Masayuki Hoshina, Deputy Commander Tadashi Sakai. Kong Yutoku, Shinna Tadayao, Amakusa Shiro, Sun Long, Sun Yanling, Matsuura Hizen, Jozu Satsuma, Fujiwara Yoshimasa, Matsudaira Nobutsuna, Abe Tadaaki,. The two commanders of the Korean Wing Army, Wei Daheng and Ai Nengqi, as well as many senior officers at the level of division commanders and brigade commanders were present. At this time, a total of 630,000 troops from the Beijing Military Region, 540,000 troops from the Xijing Military Region, 2 million troops from the Japanese Coercive Army, and 300,000 troops from the Korean Coercive Army were gathered outside Baghdad. The army stretched for hundreds of miles outside Baghdad. A total of 3.47 million troops were assembled outside Baghdad.

300,000 people are working overtime to dig the Suez Canal, Zheng Zhilong's huge fleet is frequently successful in the Indian Ocean, and the huge naval guns are almost no match for them. Four 50,000-ton giant ships of the four major fleets galloped across the vast ocean. In view of Li Long's opinion, Zheng Zhilong also considered "transferring the four main fleets to the Mediterranean, dismantling all the small and medium-sized warships, melting steel, and rebuilding giant warships, which means that Li Long is ready to keep only one fleet in the future." Which is the Ming fleet, the main force of the fleet is dominated by giant warships. Only ten were left, and then ten airships were configured to form a ten-dozen fleet.

This is the reason why Zheng Zhilong's Nanjing Military Region did not come to the meeting this time, and many warships returned to the ports of Qingzhou and Yantai in Shandong. Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai was rebuilt. And the four main warships continued to advance into the deep sea. 、

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have come all the way to Baghdad today, not for the sake of a ball, but at present, our army has gathered more than 3 million troops in Baghdad, and the battle for Asian hegemony is about to begin. Let's see," Li Long said, pointing at the giant map on the wall with his baton.

"On the battlefields of Europe. Sakr, Bolgar, Moscow, Kiev, Kaffa. Vilnius, Thorne, Smoling, Galich, Iasi, and Novgorod have all fallen into the hands of our army, the situation is relatively stable, and our army has reached an agreement with the Holy Roman Empire, the Western overlord, and the European side can temporarily draw troops to support West Asia. Commander Zhuvre, Commander Fanqing was ordered to guard the checkpoints of Vilnius and Thorne in Europe......"

"On the Asian battlefield, our army has occupied an area of thousands of miles around Baghdad, the population has been wiped out by our army, and Antioch, Acre, Jerusalem, and Damascus on the West Asian side have all fallen into the hands of the Egyptians. Edessa is under the onslaught of Egypt, and the number of troops in the city of Edessa is less than 20,000, and it is estimated that the city will be broken. In the west, Byzantium began to emerge continuously, and Byzantium sent troops from Nicaea to attack the Ottoman Empire all the way east, breaking Ikan, capturing Adana, Ketrabizon, and conquering Tbilisi. Byzantium pushed its territory all the way to the east, and to the north it was already enchanted with our country. The province of Sakhr in our country will face a million-strong army of Byzantium in a very grim form. And Ottoman Turkey, under the attack of our army and Byzantium, has retreated to the two large cities of Mosul and Caesarea, let's see whether to attack Byzantium first, or conquer Mosul first, and deal a fatal blow to Turkey. After Li Long introduced the latest information, he sat down and took a sip of tea. Waiting for the opinion of numerous generals.

The commander-in-chief of the Tokyo Military Region, Masayuki Hoshina, was the first commander to come to Asia to fight, and he had an unstoppable right over the entire Asian war situation.

Zhang Cheng, commander-in-chief of the Xijing Military Region, had a different opinion and said: "Your Excellency Hoshina Masayuki, although General Yamamoto's offensive in Asia is very smooth. But I think that the current Byzantine opinion threatens the interests of the empire, and that Byzantium should be taught a lesson. “

"That's it, that's it...... What Commander Zhang said is not unreasonable. At present, our army has gained a foothold in Baghdad, and there are still millions of troops to support it. I also think that a large army should move north to attack Tbilisi. Eliminate the threat of the army in Tbilisi to our army as soon as possible" The person who spoke was Li Jiantai, commander of the Beijing Military Region.

Li Long once again fixed his eyes on the huge map of Qiangshang, observing the map and thinking about the problem. Suddenly, Li Long clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "Transfer the Beijing Military Region, all the troops of the Korean Coercion Army will go north to attack Tbilisi ......, all the troops of the Xijing Military Region and all the troops of the Japanese Coercive Army will start to attack Mosul, and our army will have the capital to carry out a two-front battle." The order can be given. Generals go back and prepare."

Wei Daheng and Ainengqi, the two Korean commanders, were very happy, and they could finally break away from the Japanese dogs and command the battle alone. Before leaving, he also glanced at Baozheng's eyes with his eyes. I saw Masayuki Hoshina's eyes glow with anger. I didn't get a combat mission, and I was particularly annoyed.

The 22nd year of the Ming Chongzhen calendar, summer. Li Long flew to the Sack military base in an airship. Subsequently, the commander of the Air Force of the Fourth Army of the Beijing Military Region and 5,000 airships took up the task of mobilizing soldiers, weapons and ammunition. As Baghdad and Tbilisi saw Mosul and Yerevan still aside. So it had to be transported by air to get to the base in Sack. By the time the 930,000 troops were delivered, it was already the autumn of 22......

At this time, the sky of Mosul was already full of war clouds, and the Japanese coerced army of 2 million Hoshina Masayuki led the south gate, west gate, and east gate of Mosul to surround it. Zhang Cheng, commander-in-chief of the Xijing Military Region, led a total of 540,000 troops from the First, Second, and Third Armies to encircle the north gate of Mosul.

Before leaving, Li Long specifically told Zhang Chenghe to protect Kezhengzhi that at present, 99 percent of the Ottoman troops are in Mosul, and according to intelligence, Mosul has 1.2 million troops. A strong attack can cause a lot of casualties, so it can be surrounded without attacking. and other opportunities.

Sakr Military Battalion. Li Long, commander-in-chief of the Beijing Military Region, Li Long, commander of the First Army, Li Jiantai, commander of the Second Army, and Li Jianxian, commander of the Third Army. The commanders of the Fourth Army have already counted their troops. The army was waiting to go. The battle plan was divided into two steps. The commander of the First Army, Li Long, the commander of the Second Army, Yi Jiantai, and the commander of the First Korean Army, Wei Dahu, formed the First Army and began to attack Tbilisi.

The commander of the Third Army, Li Jiankang, the commander of the Fourth Army, and the commander of the Second Korean Army, Ai Nengqi, formed the Second Army and launched an attack on Trebizond.

From Tbilisi to Tbilisi and Trebizond, Sakr saw a high mountain that stretched for hundreds of miles, and the airship scouts detected a gorge due north of Tbilisi, from which troops could pass. And in this canyon there are countless armies stationed. It is clear that the Byzantine army had already occupied this strategic point first. If you want to attack the valley of Tbilisi, you have to be the first battlefield.

After reconnaissance, the commander of Byzantium was called Volgalotus, a member of the Byzantine royal family. There were also officers of the rank of generals such as Wells Os, Barrenos, Constantine, Alvenitis, Cholos, and Nikitas. According to incomplete statistics, the Byzantine army in the Arar Valley was about 400,000. Among them, the members of the royal family personally led an army of 100,000, and the main generals under them also had the strength of one army each. Of course, the Byzantine army had only 50,000 men.

That night, outside the Arar Valley, 180,000 troops were assembled, and the 10,000 troops turned off the fire. groping their way to the Arar Valley. The commander of the army was Li Jiantai, commander of the Third Army. 18v400,000, it's not difficult to say, but if you can surprise a surprise attack, you will reduce casualties.

Commander Dolgon's 1st Division attacked from the valley of the right flank of the Alar Valley, and Division Commander Daishan led the army to attack from the left flank of the Arar Valley. Chi Fengcheng 'Zhu Jianguo' Jin Fu, and Jiang Zhongzheng assaulted from the middle.

On the fifth day of October in the 22nd year of Chongzhen, the Ming and Byzantium saw an undeclared war, and the Ming army attacked the Byzantine defenders in the valley in three ways.

"What, Shinra actually dares to betray" Li Long took the information that had just come from Vilnius, and smashed the table of the two chapters in a rage.

Hu Zongxian, the director of the Intelligence Bureau, trembled with fright, he had never seen Li Long so angry......

On the second day of the first month of October, the Pope of Rome positioned Vilnius as the city of the Crusades, and recruited the Western European powers to form a crusade to begin the crusade against Vilnius. Portugal, Spain's forces are still on the way. Hudwisk of France led 100,000 troops to the Crusades, King Henry of England joined the Crusades with 100,000 troops, King Christok of Milan joined the Crusaders with 100,000 troops, and Tu** of the Holy Roman Empire also joined the Crusaders with 10 troops. On the second day of the first lunar month, an army of 400,000 surrounded Vilnius, which was defended by only 180,000 troops of the Zhuvre Army. In addition, reinforcements from Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Venice, and Sicily are coming one after another.

Li Long still calmed down, he knew that this was a big war that would decide the pattern of the world. , the Ming Dynasty won, and the European countries declined. The Ming Dynasty was defeated, and it was necessary to retreat to Kyiv (Ukraine 0

The only hope now is that Zhuvlei can hold Vilnius, and I hope that Liu Shupei can reinforce Zhuvlei at a critical time. At the moment, the main focus is still on the upcoming Byzantine War.

In the early morning of October 6, Li Jiantai's army and the Byzantine army encountered each other, and when it was too late to set up a formation, the Byzantine army retreated after a burst of artillery bombardment. Li Jiantai ordered the army to pursue, and at three o'clock in the morning, again pursued the Byzantine army northwest of the Alar Pass. By this time the Byzantine army had been deployed.

Li Jiantai ordered all units to quickly establish defensive positions, digging trenches and tunnels, the first row of light and heavy cavalry guns and rifles, the second row of rocket artillery, the third row of fast-gun dragoons for pursuit and shooting, and the fourth row of rear-loading guns. 130 large-caliber guns lined up and waited for the Byzantine army to come into range. Light and heavy machine guns and fast guns were loaded with bullets, butts resting on their shoulders and aiming forward.

It's closer...... The first Byzantine attack was pressed on all fronts.

"2000 meters, the enemy enters 2000 meters" signalmen began to measure the enemy's distance.

"1800 meters, the enemy enters 1800 meters" the signal corps reported again

Tang Zheng, the commander of the artillery regiment, raised the red flag in his right hand and shouted: "Gunners prepare, load shells"

"1000 meters, the enemy enters 1000 meters"

The artillery commander suddenly roared: "Fire"

"Boom, boom,,,," 130 125mm caliber cannons suddenly fired, and the shells fired at a rapid speed were not visible to the naked eye at all. I saw the Byzantine army splashing sand and rocks, and pieces of enemy falling from the sky. The sound of a huge artillery bombardment shook the hearts of every Byzantine soldier. They had never seen such powerful artillery. Although they also had artillery, they could not imagine that the enemy could shoot at such a distance......

As soon as a 125mm howitzer fires out, it can immediately blow up a large crater with a diameter of 15m in the ground. With the big pit as the center, there are no living people within 30 meters. A powerful wave of air shock, impacting a hundred meters away from the enemy fell a large piece. Although I can still stand up, my eardrums are probably shattered.

The second wave of shelling began, and the Volgalots, mounted on their horses in the rear, immediately rushed to a ** that was even more terrible than the Mongols. Suddenly there was a human shudder. This man who thinks he is God.

Seeing that the artillery fire of the Ming army was too strong, Wallagarotes immediately ordered the soldiers to disperse. Don't group together. However, the heavy artillery fire still posed a great threat to the 400,000 Byzantine troops who rushed up. Vast swaths of the enemy have fallen forever. And those who fall from the sky are all severed limbs and arms. There are also human heads, intestines and other internal organs.

The artillery bombardment began until the free fire was cut off, and the artillery commander was not in command of the artillery fire, allowing the artillery to kill the enemy freely.

"800 meters,,, the enemy is 800 meters closer," the signalman continued to shout from the high mountains in the distance

At this time, countless missiles were fired out of the rocket artillery, and the whistling sound was like a flute flower released during the New Year, and thousands of rockets were fired at the enemy ,,, "whoosh,,,, whoosh...... Already close.

Qingzhou-made rifles began to fire intensively, and the Makqin heavy machine gun began to "da-da-da,,-da-da, The heavy fish scale armor was immediately pierced by the rapid bullets, and the single piece of the shell exploded with the same power, and the shattered steel was just as into the corpse of the enemy, instantly cutting off all the organs of the body.

The cavalry of Byzantium was numerous, the Scythian archers, the Turkmen archers, the Byzantine archers, the Byzantine lancers. These powerful cavalry, which had once swept through West Asia, were powerless in the face of the powerful firepower of the Ming Dynasty at this time. Many of the Scythian archers fled in rout before they could reach the edge of the trenches. The Byzantine lancers were quite valiant, and despite heavy losses, they still rushed forward violently, rushed to the trenches and began to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the riflemen.

Wang Qinghan, the commander of the "upper bayonet" brigade, was the first to put bayonets on his own weapons, and then assassinated, stabbing to death a Byzantine lancer. The Byzantine cavalry originally thought that the Ming army was powerful in firearms, and it must not be able to advance. The result was unexpected, and the Ming army's hand-to-hand combat ability was just as amazing. After stabbing several hundred Byzantine lancers, the Byzantine lancers began to retreat. At this time, the dragoons of the Ming Empire had already entered the firing range, and the advantage of the short gun was that it was fast and could shoot on a horse. At this time, the dragoons did not begin to pursue the enemy, but stood behind the trenches and fired at the Byzantine swordsmen.

Wollegarotes was quick to find out and ordered the archers to fire a ringer to lower the firing surface of the Great Flames. Suddenly, the Scythian archers, the Byzantine archers, and the Turkmen archers joined the formation of a circular salvo.

The fast-moving archers immediately made it very difficult for the warriors in the trenches to shoot, and many soldiers could not shoot the archers. And the archers began to return fire, and a dense array of bows and arrows came from the circle. Because our army is good at using rifles and machine guns, the soldiers do not have good protective armor, and the military uniforms made of thick cloth cannot defend against the shooting of bows and arrows, and the continuous shooting of Ali's bows and arrows caused great casualties to the Ming army. Many soldiers were killed and injured by arrows, and some zombies lost their combat effectiveness.

At this time, the Byzantine swordsmen and spearmen also took advantage of the attack of the Ming army of the archers and began to charge. Countless Byzantine swordsmen ran with their swords held high.

Although the dense firepower of the Ming army smashed the charge of many Byzantine spearmen and swordsmen, there were still quite a few Byzantine soldiers who rushed up.

Li Longbu did not admire the courage of Byzantium, a country that could make Western European countries fearful. Even though he fought to the last man, he still charged bravely.

"Herod," the horse neighed. A group of heavy cavalry, covered in battle armor, led by a man who looked like a general, charged on the flanks of the Ming position.

The "100 meters, 50 meters ,,,,," machine guns immediately reached 50 meters into the city after firing hundreds of heavy cavalry. Such a close distance, under the charge of the cavalry, in an instant. The Byzantine heavy cavalry laid their 4-meter spears flat with the tips pointing downward. The assault on the fighters on the position began.

"Boom,,,boom" The huge sound of horses' hooves approached step by step.

"Ah,,,,h After hundreds of soldiers were stabbed in the body by the spears of the heavy cavalry, they lifted the Ming warriors high with the help of horses, and then fell heavily to the ground. Immediately there was no life.

The dragoons came from the flanks at this time, and the dense bullets hit the plate armor of the heavy cavalry, which immediately pierced the plate armor and penetrated the body. Although plate armor was an invincible existence in the era of black powder, it was so unlucky in front of yellow explosives.

Wallegarotes was terrified, his most elite general guards were killed in less than a minute, and "retreating" Wallagarotes took the lead in turning his horse's head and retreating...... The general guards of Wallegarotes were not the elite of the elite, and they could have a rhythm during the retreat, and then the comrades around them fell one after another, but they did not break the psychological defense of these heavy cavalry.

Seeing that this elite wanted to escape, Li Jiantai immediately ordered the dragoons to pursue, and the dragoons rode European-made war horses, shooting and running...... After a while, there were not many heavy cavalry left in Wallegalots...... At this time, a bullet suddenly hit Wallagarotes in the back, and Wallagarotes suffered pain in the back and fell heavily from his horse. Then he was trampled into a pulp by the heavy cavalry that rushed from behind.

The Byzantine Prob infantry did not know when they suddenly assaulted the artillery position, and the artillery guards immediately raised their guns and fired, "Da Da Da," a burst of gunfire immediately shot countless Prob, and when the guards were pulling the bolt, Prob had already rushed up, and the spears came up and stabbed, and the guards were too late to block, and thirty or fifty artillery soldiers were pierced on the spot. By this time, the bolts of the artillery guards had been drawn, and the guns continued to fire.

"On the bayonet,,, fight with the red-haired devils," the captain of the artillery guard yelled

Thousands of artillery guards brushed their bayonets, and they didn't have time to listen to the command, so they immediately met the Probe soldiers of Upper Byzantium, and the two sides fought together. The artillery guards used Qingzhou-made rifles, and with the addition of a 40-centimeter-long bayonet, the length of the gun was 175, which was enough to be used as a spear. In the battle with Prob's bayonet, he didn't suffer at all. You shoot, I stab. , the two sides fought to a draw, and suddenly a stalemate. At this time, there was a sound of a submachine gun from behind. When the artillery commander saw it, it turned out that it was Commander Li Jiantai who personally led his guards to rush up. Everyone has a light machine gun in their hands.

The artillery captain shouted: "The commander personally went into battle, do you dare not die?" With the addition of the commander-in-chief, the morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted, and they rushed to tens of thousands of Probs without their lives, and some people were very heavy with three knives, still gritting their teeth and rushing up to kill other enemies. The losses of the Prob soldiers were increasing, and the morale of the Ming army was getting higher, plus the addition of machine guns. Prob began to rout, and the beating was terrifying. They retreated to the south.

"Rush, everyone, kill me with me" Li Jiantai was the first to rush out with a machine gun and strafe at the back of the Prob soldiers, and the Byzantine Probu fell one by one......

The Byzantine soldiers only realized at this time that the main general, Wallagalotus, was dead, and everyone had no desire to fight and retreated. The Byzantine town militia, the town pikemen could not pose a threat to the Ming army at all. At this time, the soldiers in the trenches of the Ming army saw that the commander had personally charged, and they ran out of the trenches one after another, chasing behind the defeated Byzantine soldiers. Shooting while running, those who ran full were immediately shot to death, and those who fell were stabbed to death with bayonets by the fighters who caught up.

The battle is over...... A fierce battle. The strength of Li Jiantai's four divisions, 120,000 people, finally defeated the Byzantine enemy.

"Staff Officer Hu, count the casualties of our army, as well as the deaths of the enemy," Li Jiantai commanded

After about half an hour, the soldiers piled up the dead enemy as high as a mountain, and the Ming dead soldiers were carried back on stretchers, packed in wooden coffins, and placed sandalwood and embalming materials. Wait for the arrival of the airship and send the fallen soldiers home.

"Commander, the results came out, our army lost 1,766 killed and 1,300 seriously wounded. Few were lightly wounded, and the Paused army lost 213,400 men, 6,300 light cavalry, 5,100 swordsmen, and 3,100 Prob heavy infantry. Captains? What to do? "Staff Officer Hu's eyes were red, the Ming army had never suffered such a large number of casualties. My implication was to tell Li Jiantai that these captives should be killed.

Li Jiantai thought about it, and immediately flew the pigeon legend to Commander-in-Chief Li of the big battalion, which was less than 10 kilometers away from the battlefield, and arrived from time to time...... When Li Long saw how old the fallen soldiers were, 1,766 people, after smashing four teacups and five benches, he ordered Li Jiantai to ...... four words, "Leave no one"

The Ming army captured 14,500 people, all of whom were killed and still on the mountain of corpses. The fire was lit, and the fire burned for three days and three nights before the mountain of corpses was burned......

On the battlefield of the Eastern and Western Fronts, Dolgon and Daishan encountered the main Byzantine army, and the strength of the two armies was only 90,000, while the Byzantine army was about 600,000 according to preliminary statistics, and there were 180,000 troops who had just retreated after the defeat after the battle with Li Jiantai. 200,000 troops have already arrived from Tbilisi. In the entire Eastern Front, Byzantium invested a total of 1.04 million troops...... The black battle banner obscured the sun in the entire sky...... The army of millions shook the earth when it walked. The most important thing is that this time Byzantium fought against the Ming army with all the strength of the whole country, using all men over 16 years old and under 40 years old. There were also 100,000 elite Warangi guards, 100,000 Ouadaret archers, and 100,000 Byzantine ironclad archers......

After a battle with this army, Dorgon and Daishan learned that the wrong leader of the army was the Byzantine king Kyriakos and the crown prince Gili Wanfukus. There were also seven or eight members of the royal family. Dorgon knew that if he could completely annihilate these enemies, he would deal a fatal blow to Byzantium and even destroy his country. Therefore, after consulting with Daishan, Dolgon agreed not to fight these enemies, but to report to Li Long for a decision.

After receiving Dolgon's letter, Li Long was shocked, and he could not imagine that Byzantium could mobilize so many warriors, and that the king and crown prince were there. If you can kill the king and crown prince of Byzantium, won't Byzantium perish...... Li Long snickered in his heart as he mobilized his army to go to the Alar Mountains region for a decisive battle with Byzantium.

The mobilized troops were all the troops outside Li Jiantai's army at the beginning of the Beijing Military Region, and all the troops of the Korean Corps went to participate in the battle. A total of 750,000 troops, known as one million to the outside world. The army marched to the Byzantine base in Mount Aral......

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