Child, the day you were born, the whole Anatolian plateau whispered your name:

Muhammad? Root? Murad? Root? Muhammad? Root? Bayezid.\\

Child, I proudly watch you grow day by day and become the sword of Allah.

You have to remember that we have always ruled this country with wisdom and liliang.

I also believe that you will be cautious in using the liliang that Allah has given you.

But, child, the real secret of victory is to inspire passion and fighting spirit in the hearts of all subjects.

I'm tired of these turbulent times, and I just want to retire in the scenery of my hometown.

And you, in my place, will pick up the scimitar and conquer this shijie for Allah...... Pay for your sin of killing your brother!

……

“…… Ah-father-"

With a rapid scream, a young man woke up in a cold sweat, then tilted and slipped from his chair onto the carpet.

Through the sunlight shining through the narrow window, it was clear that this richly dressed young man had a pair of slender eyes with a slightly melancholy appearance, and a pointed nose with well-defined lines. Although he deliberately wore a beard on his lips and chin to look older, it was still evident that he was not very old, and the signs of age had not yet appeared on his smooth cheeks.

Next, after repulsing the servants who had broken in, the seventh sultan of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, twenty-three-year-old Mehmed II. While rubbing his somewhat sore buttocks, he climbed up from the soft Persian carpet.

In the dream just now, the voice and smile of his father, Sultan Serrad II, who died four years ago, appeared. and the whispered teachings of Mehmed II when he first ascended the throne as sultan at the age of 12 - except for the words of zuihou!

(Immediately after his father's death, Mehmed II killed his own younger brother and many relatives to sweep away their threat to the throne.) ）

Then. Still a little confused, Mohammed II looked up and found himself in a huge tent, sitting next to a large table. The table was littered with layers of maps, sand tables, and models, soaked with sweat and saliva from his naps.

Looking at this seemingly humiliating scene, I touched the saliva on the corner of my mouth. Mehmed II couldn't help but smile wryly.

-- For most of the last six months, he has been studying the plan for attacking Constantinople almost day and night, drawing countless sketches, trying to find out the weak points of Constantinople, almost to the point of forgetting to sleep and eat.

In general, Sultan Mehmed II was a man of a violent temperament and a great deal of vanity, as well as excellent military and diplomatic talents. Moreover, unlike the traditional image of a nomadic leader, the young sultan was highly literate and spoke five foreign languages. Proficient in philosophy, theology, and astrology, he was an avid in experimental science, astronomy, and military strategy, as well as Persian poetry and art, and a tireless reader of the biographies of great empire builders, such as Alexander the Great and Julius? Caesar. and Cyrus and Constantine.

According to Venice diplomats, the Turkish sultan, like many of history's great figures, was a combination of contradictory qualities: a tireless worker, a fierce and courageous warrior, and a brazen diplomat. He was both pious and brutal; Both passionate and insidious; He is educated and loves art. At the same time, he is a barbarian who kills people without blinking.

At this time, Sultan Mehmed II, although still young, had great ambitions, and was determined to create a great feat far beyond all previous sultans, and proved his ability with the most brilliant victory: the previous suppression of the rebellion in Asia Minor was only a small fight, and the war that really belonged to him did not begin until now, that is, to seize the only remaining jewel in the crown of the Eastern Roman Empire - Constantinople!

Although he had seized almost all of the former Eastern Roman Empire, without Constantinople, his Turkish empire would not be complete, lacking one of the most critical economic and defense cores.

For the Sultan himself, if there was anything in the world that he wanted at all costs, it was Constantinople.

- In the time of Constantine the Great and Justinian the Great, this great city was the center of the Mediterranean. Today, although the majesty of the double-headed eagle has withered, the city is still like a graceful lady full of mature charm, which is even more seductive and reverie.

In the eyes of Mehmed II, Constantinople, the "most beautiful jewel in the world", was already close at hand, and it was only one step away from Zuihou...... And he is extremely firm in his belief that now is the best time to take this step and completely annex the Eastern Roman Empire!

-- The Palaiologos dynasty of the Eastern Roman Empire is currently in the midst of another round of civil strife. The three brothers of the Palaiologos royal family are fighting each other, and one of them has defected to himself, thus further weakening the remnants of this doomed dynasty.

-- Turkey's old rivals in the Balkans, Hungary, Romania, and Albania, although with the financial aid of Venice, exerted their extraordinary fighting strength and desperately blocked the way for the Turks to invade Europe further. Mehmed II, with his overwhelmingly large army, could not completely defeat these annoying little flies in one fell swoop. But in the final analysis, they are just the lone army of some small and thin countries, and it may be okay to conduct a defensive war at home, but it is estimated that they are far beyond their ability to take the initiative to attack and relieve the siege of Constantinople.

-- With regard to Venice and Genoa, which controlled the sea routes, Mehmed II skillfully used a series of diplomatic tricks, coupled with empty promises full of sweet words, to successfully delay their support for Constantinople. Among them, the main battle faction of the Republic of Venice and the main peace faction are still in dispute, and the first wave of reinforcements from Genoa has been repulsed...... Organizing a vast expedition across the Mediterranean would take a long time from preparation to departure - and the Sultan thought he was confident that he would win the final victory before the next wave of reinforcements arrived.

-- The Turkic chieftains and Arabs of Asia Minor, though unruly and unruly, were not fools who did not know how to advance or retreat. Shortly after the last rebellion had been put down by him, and the Ottoman Crescent was still in place, these chieftains should not have jumped out again in a short period of time unless there was a major reversal in the tide of Constantinople and the Sultan's army was mortally defeated.

In this isolated situation, with neither foreign nor internal assistance, Mehmed II's opponent, the Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine XI, was left with only one bargaining chip that could be used to defend against foreign invasion - the tall walls surrounding Constantinople.

This is also the legacy of the Eastern Roman Empire in the Golden Age, leaving behind these incompetent descendants ......)

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