In late December 1453, a mutiny broke out in the city of Bursa, and the leader of the hardline main war faction, Turahan Pasha, was brazenly assassinated by the main peace faction. The remaining Turks accepted the terms of peace talks with the Eastern Roman Empire, peacefully withdrew from the city, returning to the Anatolian plateau by land and sea, respectively.

However, although the Turks left, the fighting in the city of Bursa did not end.

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After the remnants of the Turks withdrew from the city, Emperor Constantine XI was relieved to finally be able to ride his horse into the city.

Near the gates, which had long been blackened by fire and smoke, the few representatives of Jews and Greek Christians cowered in two rows down the street, offering bread and salt according to ancient customs, to welcome the arrival of the Eastern Roman Emperor, or the arrival of another conqueror.

At first glance, the city of Bursa is a very multicultural city, with Islamic, ancient Greek and Orthodox places of interest, countless traces of historical rise and fall, and the joys and sorrows of the changing times.

But if you look closely, the most prosperous city in Asia Minor is already miserable - after this period of fierce fighting, more than half of the neighborhoods of Bursa have been burned to blackened ruins, and the once wide and clean roads are in shambles. Most of the Sultan's palace was also demolished to collect materials to repair the walls. The cistern near the opening of the city wall was full of white, swollen corpses......

The mercenaries and militiamen of the Eastern Roman Empire dispersed in a hurry after entering the city. Like vultures and crows, they rummage around, trying to find some possessions from the rubble. It is a pity that due to the peaceful surrender of the city. So the Turks looted cleanly before withdrawing, leaving nothing of value except for some food that could not be eaten, much to the disappointment of the soldiers who wanted to loot the booty.

Then, the soldiers encountered an unexpected situation - there were still people in the city who resisted!

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“…… Praise be to Allah! The Most High Lord! He gives us true faith, and blesses his weak servants with the joy and peace that faith brings; May Allah bless the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), who is the unending pride of all mankind. It was He who brought humanity from darkness to light!

The students of the Prophet Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) led the believers to the right path. In their vast spiritual homeland, great spiritual wealth is hidden in it. The colorful spring breeze ripples in the meantime. May Allah let this beautiful spring breeze blow in our hearts, and may Allah let our hearts receive sublime spiritual wealth from this great spiritual home!

Even though the great wise men have passed away, their hearts will not decay, and the immortal minds will continue to influence our spirits. He who has an immortal heart will also continue to live among us. The human body quickly decays and turns to ashes in the dirt. But the works created with an immortal mind are far beyond the longevity of a person, and they exude an eternal fragrance until the day of judgment of Zuihou...... Only those who reject the world from the depths of their hearts, who are not moved by false names, and who fully obey the will of Allah, will be able to approach the throne of Allah......"

In the square in front of one of the largest mosques in Bursa, fierce street fighting is on the verge of breaking out.

Listening to the fanatical preaching of the worshippers inside the temple, watching their humble barricades made of furniture, stones, debris and mud outside the mosque gates, and the spears and prisoners of war standing behind the barricades, Emperor Constantine XI thought he would be able to receive the city peacefully. I couldn't help but feel a deep headache, "...... The Turks are gone. What are these two-devil Muslims going to do? ”

-- After the Turks withdrew from the city, the local Muslim converts insisted on staying.

These men were also Orthodox Greeks, and their ancestors had been loyal subjects of the Eastern Roman Empire for generations, but after being conquered by the Ottoman Turks, they gradually abandoned their original faith and converted to Islam in order to gain a way up in the Muslim land.

According to the original historical development, these Muslimized Greeks should have been gradually assimilated by the Turks after a few generations, and Zuihou was integrated into the Turks. But at this moment when the Turks were about to return to the steppe to herd sheep, these converts were suddenly a little blind.

As city dwellers, they refused to go to the steppe to herd sheep, nor did they know how to be a nomad, but they could not renounce the Islamic faith, could not accept the rule of the Orthodox Greek emperor, and refused to leave their homeland and give up their hard-earned family business to their Greek compatriots from Europe.

As a result, unable to convince the Turks to change their decision, they gathered the largest mosque in the city, gathered weapons, built barricades, stored large quantities of food and water, chanted prayers of praise to Allah, and prepared to fight to the death against the invading Eastern Roman army.

- It's funny to say that the royal family of Ottoman Turkey is gone, the country is gone, the Turkish imams and imams in the temple have fled, but these Greek believers are fighting to the death with their own people...... God knows who they're fighting for!

When he saw that these people were trying to resist stubbornly, Emperor Constantine XI, in the spirit of his compatriots, sent an envoy to ask them what they wanted. Who knows whether they have taken the wrong medicine, or who see themselves as some omnipotent gods, actually demand that the troops of the Eastern Roman Empire immediately get out of this "city of Allah" and let them establish an Islamic autonomous city-state here!

Of course, autonomy is self-government, and the plague spreading in the city, the lack of supplies, and the blocked elevated canals, these troubles still have to be solved by the emperor.

As a result, the Eastern Roman Emperor immediately exploded his lungs - even their Turkish masters, who meowed, did not dare to speak so arrogantly and treat the emperor as free labor! In the eyes of this gang of undisciplined madmen, everyone in the world owes them a debt. Is everything in the world supposed to revolve around them? If there really is such a self-respecting majesty, why didn't you show it in front of the Turks in the first place?

It is clear that these madmen are trying to split the country. It is absolutely unacceptable...... Constantine XI was deeply depressed by these Greek Muslims who were driven and oppressed by the Turkish nomads, but turned against their own compatriots, and did not know how to complain.

“…… What's the solution? I can understand their situation. The Turks do not consider them their own, they pride themselves on their nobility, and do not think of themselves as Greeks. refuses to give up the Islamic faith, and now it ends up in a dead end......" Former Prime Minister Yori Yu, who followed Emperor Constantine XI into the city to watch the battle, shrugged his shoulders and complained. “…… This is the sad thing about those who betray the nation! ”

“…… When your country lost World War II, it seems that it also left a lot of such guys in China and North Korea! Wang Qiu glanced at her.

“…… However, the education of the imperial people in China at that time was not as powerful as Islam. Birdie Yu sighed, "...... Islam assimilated almost all the inhabitants of North Africa and Western Asia into Arabs. However, Japan has not been able to train many new Japanese people overseas! ”

on this. Wang Qiu felt the same way deeply -- it was really a bit difficult for the Japanese, who had always been closed, conservative and xenophobic, to assimilate any kind of nationality -- as far as he knew, there was once such a paragraph on the Internet that quite vividly described the assimilation work of the Taiwan colonies during the imperial Japanese era:

Taiwan: Don't do it! I don't want a Japanese person anymore!

Japan: Want to rebel? Don't you dare! Dead, dead, dead!

Taiwan: Okay! I'm afraid of you, so from today onwards, people will be Japanese.

Japan: Phew! Slut! You deserve a Japanese thing, too?

――It's just an Internet joke, but you can see it. How entangled and failed the Japanese have been in terms of national assimilation.

In comparison. The assimilation ability of Islam is so amazing that both Christianity and Buddhism have only the power to parry in front of it, and rarely fight back...... But in any case, since these converts were as smelly and hard as stones in a pit, and even more incommunicado than true Turkish Muslims, the Eastern Roman Empire had no choice but to send them all to heaven and ask Allah for the seventy-two virgins.

Therefore, the emperor raised the sword in his hand, slashed it down, and gave the order to attack the mercenaries who were already eager to try.

“…… Attack this pagan temple! Cut down all these traitors who have turned their backs on God, and not one of them will be left! ”

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An hour later, with bursts of cheers, wisps of black smoke rose above the mosque, and the screams of battle were low.

While there is no doubt about the fighting zeal of these Muslim converts, wars are never won by enthusiasm alone.

-- Solid shells fired from siege artillery easily destroyed haphazard fortifications, while shotguns from small artillery and arrows from crossbows tore through fragile human bodies. The mercenaries in full-body armor, with bloodthirsty and hideous smiles, quickly broke through the front of the mosque like a sharp blade cutting through butter. The Greek zeatic militia, which was also imbued with fanatical struggle, carried out a brutal sweep against the remaining converts of the Muslims - although the swordsmanship of both sides was as bad as the swordsmanship and the disorganization of the disciplinary orders, thanks to the "generous gifts" of Sultan Mehmed II, the armor and axes of the Greeks were obviously much better.

And the Turks, who evacuated the city, apparently did not leave much good equipment for their loyal converts.

Then, before the remnants of the mosque had been wiped out, dozens of the most devout Christians risked their lives to climb the smooth dome of the mosque, remove the huge crescent moon sign from the mosque's top with chisels and other tools, throw them to the ground, shatter them, and install improvised wooden crosses. The plaster wall panels inside the mosque that are engraved with Qur'an texts are also plastered with thick plaster, and then pasted with Christian icons such as Jesus, Our Lady, St. John, St. Paul, and Seraph, and arranged with bells, altars, holy cisterns and other sacrificial objects, turning the place from a mosque into a church.

Looking at the crescent moon sign at the top of the mosque and falling to the ground, it shattered. Constantine XI couldn't help but exhale softly.

-- The Ottoman Turkish Empire, the fateful nightmare that plagued the Eastern Roman Empire for a century and a half, has finally disappeared from history completely.

In the original history. The Ottoman Turkish Empire would hold high the banner of the Islamic crescent, "like a growing flame that clung to and burned further whatever it encountered" until it annexed most of the Mediterranean, overriding the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa.

Unfortunately, just like the Aztec Empire at its peak. Just as it was easily destroyed by a few hundred Spanish adventurers with firearms and swords, the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which was supposed to flourish like a fire, was also sprayed by the trouble-travelers with super fire extinguishers called nuclear waste, poison gas and plague. Bloom like a firework, and extinguish it like a firework......

By the same token, the destruction of the Ottoman Turkish Empire meant the survival of the Eastern Roman Empire, albeit in terms of territory, population, military power, and international status. It's not an "empire" anymore!

But. Emperor Constantine XI was not particularly worried about the country's future, and the great empire that has been inherited for thousands of years has its own rich heritage. In the past history, the Eastern Roman Empire has also experienced many ups and downs, has been repeatedly beaten to pieces, and is only a line away from the collapse of the country, but it has always been able to rebound strongly on the edge of desperation, gradually restore its homeland, and once again realize the grand blueprint of the empire's rejuvenation.

Although this time, the Eastern Roman Empire has declined particularly badly. With the exception of the capital, Constantinople, almost all other territories were lost. directly degenerated the empire from a giant to a baby, but fortunately, the nearby enemies were almost dead, and there was finally a chance to recuperate.

Of course, the work of recuperating and recuperating and weakening the enemy's life by sowing plague must not be put down, and it would be wonderful if the Black Death could continue to break out for a century and degrade Western civilization to the ancient times before the ancient Roman Empire.

After conquering Bursa, the Eastern Roman Empire finally encompassed the entire coast of the Sea of Marmara, the smallest sea in the whole world. According to the emperor's estimate on the map, the total area of the territory he could actually control should have increased from 1,000 square kilometers to about 20,000 square kilometers, which is slightly smaller than China's Hainan Island, but in this era, the western shijie, which was full of small states, was barely a medium-sized country.

Such a degree of external expansion, not to mention in ancient China, which had a vast territory, and even in Japan's relatively narrow land Warring States, could only be regarded as average, but for the Eastern Roman Empire, which had long since degenerated into a city-state, it was already like a small snake swallowing an elephant -- therefore, after this round of overeating, the Eastern Roman Empire had to take a break and fully digest the existing territory before it could further expand externally. Otherwise, this country is like a fat and bloated little fat dun, although the size is huge, but the liliang that can really be used effectively is very pitiful.

In order to quickly convert fat into muscle, Emperor Constantine XI prepared to introduce a whole set of economic, political, and military reforms. Perhaps the most immediate measure was to "crack down on the local tyrants and divide the land" -- after hundreds of years of Turkish rule, the aristocratic landlords in Asia Minor had been largely assimilated into Muslims, while the peasants who were not taken seriously were still Christians.

In the feudal dynasties of ancient China, any move made by the emperors to eliminate the landlord class would cause the death of the landlords in their own camp, which would lead to unpredictable and bad consequences. In medieval Europe, however, Christian kings could justifiably raise their butcher's knives and exterminate all infidels, and no one could say good things for Muslims, otherwise they would be suspected of betraying the faith, which was the worst sin to hell!

Theoretically, it seems that these Muslim landowners could also convert their faith and become Christian aristocrats again. But the problem is that Islam is not something that can be separated from it, and those who blatantly apostate will end up quite tragically even in the 21st century.

Therefore, the emperor felt that there should be no pressure to carry out land reform and divide the land at present, and if any nobleman still chirped crookedly when he killed Muslims, it means that there must be a problem with his faith, and he can directly tie it to the pyre and burn it, and the church can only applaud.

Of course, the actual slogan of land reform cannot be "fight the local tyrants and divide the land", but can only be "holy war" and "exterminate all infidels......

However, when Emperor Bixia was imagining the future, another unpredictable mutation had quietly arrived.

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A few hours after another shijie, a well-known infectious disease hospital in Tokyo, Japan

With a shrill whistle, an ambulance braked sharply on the hospital floor. Then, Wang Qiu's sister, Wang Yao, a special urban management commissioner based in Japan, was pushed down by medical staff on a roller bed. The eldest sister Wang Yao on the hospital bed had a flushed face, messy hair, and a heart-rending cough erupted from time to time, and the whole person looked sluggish, and she couldn't see that she was full of vitality in the past, comparable to the handsome appearance of a Bond girl.

“…… What disease does my sister have? Seizures so fast?! Wang Qiu watched anxiously as his sister was pushed into the hospital, and muttered worriedly, "...... In the past, she was stronger than a bear, she had never been sick, and she had never even taken a cold medicine! ”

“…… It may be some kind of new viral flu, but the results will definitely be available after examination. Little Bird You Zhenbai sighed, stood on tiptoe and patted Wang Qiu's shoulder, "...... Rest assured, your sister will definitely get the most haode treatment ......" (To be continued.) )