"There are no thirty warships, only five merchant ships have entered the port, and it looks like they are going ashore to do business!" Hamid said with a strange face, and he was secretly relieved in his heart.

Don't look at what he said in front of Sitarama that day, he was holding the Tao and Zhizhu, but when he really got the news that the Ming fleet was going to land, he was almost not scared!

Hamid also thought that he had secretly instructed the shark tooth to rob the Ming merchant ships before, and that someone had come to take revenge.

Fortunately, the entourage saw that something was wrong with the prince, and quickly made it clear that five merchant ships had entered the port, and the others had not come, which could be regarded as stabilizing Hamid's mind.

On the throne, Sitarama finally relented: "Five merchant ships? What the hell is going on! ”

Hamid coughed lightly, and then slowly arrived: "According to the official guarding the port, this morning, the twenty-five armed warships in the Ming fleet slowly sailed away from this sea area, and then, just now, the remaining five merchant ships are ready to land in Maradi!" ”

There has never been a time when Sitarama feels like today, and the ups and downs of life are so fast.

He froze his mind, and then said tentatively: "In other words, your previous speculations were all right?" Is this huge fleet really just for these merchant ships? ”

Speaking of this, Hamid's face involuntarily showed a look of self-satisfaction: "It looks like this! ”

Hamid's heart was full of luck, that day he just wanted to appease his father and get the lake over, who knew that he had really guessed correctly by mistake.

"Whew!" Sitarama let out a long sigh and sat down on his throne a little tiredly.

"Merchant ships are good, merchant ships are good!"

Sitarama muttered to himself, and he looked at his eldest son, who had a smug face.

A thought suddenly occurred in my heart, otherwise, from now on, the pirate force of Shark Tooth would not be used again?

Sitarama felt more and more that the calamity brought by this unseen force far outweighed the benefits it bringed!

Constantinople.

In the majestic Cathedral of Sophia, Patriarch Alexios is baptizing an infant in Orthodox Christianity.

Alexios was baptizing as he recited words in his mouth.

"May the glory of God be with you forever."

After the baptism, Patriarch Alexius handed over the baby in his hand to a woman dressed in the robes of a Mongolian noble.

This woman, the mother of the official baby, the Empress Dowager of Dayuan, the Empress Dowager Qi.

As for this newborn baby, it is another son of Wang Baobao and Qi's family.

Not long ago, Wang Baobao led the Mongol army to defeat the armies of John V and the Catholic Emperor, consolidating the orthodox position of Orthodox Rome.

In order to express his gratitude to Wang Baobao, Patriarch Alexios personally offered to baptize the newborn baby.

"Oh! Oh God, look at his beautiful black hair! ”

"A true Roman!"

"Only the barbarians of Europe are red-haired!"

。。。

The Eastern Roman nobles in the Cathedral of Sophia began to whisper praises to their newly baptized children.

These Eastern Roman citizens had already regarded Wang Baobao and the Mongols under him as their great benefactors!

The Eastern Roman Empire, which was originally in danger, was immediately transformed from a sheep beaten on all sides to a mighty warrior because of the arrival of 100,000 Mongols.

In the Battle of Adrianople, the Mongols led by Wang Baobao killed and wounded tens of thousands of Catholic troops.

The original Roman emperor, John V, was completely reduced to the waste of the Roman citizens.

As a result of this victory, the Eastern Roman Empire regained its commercial privileges with the Venetians, Genoese, and Pisa, and many taxes were reinstated.

In just three months, the finances of the Eastern Roman Empire improved dramatically.

Roman citizens throughout Constantinople were also treated better.

And all of this was brought by Wang Baobao, that is, John Timur.

Therefore, a few words of praise for the son of John Timur are simply the minimum courtesy of a human being.

After the baptism of Sophia Cathedral, the top magnates of the Eastern Roman Empire left the church and went to the palace together.

They will continue to discuss the next strategic steps of 'Golden Rome'.

Yes, the current Eastern Roman Empire has a new nickname, that is, the Roman Empire, which is fused with the blood of the golden family.

That is, 'Golden Rome'.

Although the current Mongol Great Khan and Great Yuan Emperor Bayan Timur has neither the blood of the Golden Family nor the blood of the Roman Empire, he was still supported by Wang Baobao to ascend to the throne of the emperor.

Of course, all the power is still firmly in the hands of Wang Baobao.

Inside the Roman Palace.

Wang Baobao sat on the most noble throne, and the two rows on the left and right were his Mongol generals, Han generals of the Praetorian Guard, Han officials, generals of the Slavic vassal army, and of course, the local patriarch of Constantinople, bishops, senators and nobles.

These people from different places are now gathered under the name of the Roman Empire.

"The king of Hungary, the king of Bulgaria, and the king of Serbia have all sent people to ask for peace talks, I don't know what you mean, continue the war, or peace talks?" Wang Baobao said to a group of people.

Today, there are three official languages spoken in the Roman court: Greek, Mongolian, and Chinese.

Therefore, after Wang Baobao said a word, the busiest people were those translators.

Now the big guys have just gotten on a boat, and the languages have not yet been integrated, so they can only rely on these translations.

"The Hungarians are the most cunning, they are peace talks, and they will definitely betray in the future, but we are too far away from Hungary to teach them a lesson." Patriarch Alexios said.

"As for the Serbs and the Bolgars, they are all brothers of our Orthodox Church, and they can forgive their mistakes and accept their peace talks."

Wang Baobao did not have a good comprehensive understanding of the current situation in European countries, so he naturally accepted the suggestion of Patriarch Alexios.

"Okay, then I will immediately order that the Hungarians will not accept the peace talks, unless they compensate me for the loss of Dayuan!" Wang Baobao said to his officials.

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Now 100,000 Mongols, and about the same number of Slavs, have poured into Constantinople, causing the entire Eastern Roman Empire to skyrocket in strength and humiliate the Kingdom of Hungary.

In the first battle of Adrianople, the Mongols became famous and the Catholic Church collapsed.

I heard that not long ago, Innocent VI, the Catholic Emperor of Rome, was to death, causing chaos in the Catholic world.

This made the Romans crazy with joy.

Many Romans wanted an all-out war against Catholicism and restore the Roman Empire to its former borders.

"It's a holy war!"

"There must be an all-out war against heresy, to retake the Apennines, to retake the city of Rome, to retake Gaul!"

Patriarch Alexios said excitedly.

Many of the Roman nobles in the palace were very supportive of this proposal.

However, Wang Baobao did not immediately express his position, but put forward his own opinions.

"The forces of Catholicism are still far away, and now the enemy under our noses, I think we should be the first to deal with it."

Everyone understands that the enemy under Wang Baobao's nose refers to the Ottomans on the other side of the strait, the Ottomans were originally a small tribe under the Sultanate of Rum, and then developed rapidly, not only got rid of the control of the Sultanate of Rum, but also waged frequent wars against the Eastern Roman Empire, and almost ate all the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire in Anatolia.

"Venerable Caesar, the Ottomans have a large number of troops, I'm afraid they are not so easy to deal with." Patriarch Alexios said with some concern.

In recent decades, the Eastern Roman Empire was so feared by the Ottomans that it was bound to lose almost every battle.

"Hehe, we Dayuan warriors have never been afraid of many people!" Wang Baobao said proudly.

After such a long period of fighting, Wang Baobao has already seen that these countries and forces in the West, no matter what kind of prestige they have, once they encounter the army of the Great Yuan Empire, they are simply vulnerable.

Back then, under the Ming army, every battle was defeated, and Wang Baobao almost lost confidence, but now all of them are back.

At last.

After a day of deliberation, Caesar of the Eastern Roman Empire and the auxiliary prince of the Great Yuan Empire, Wang Baobao, made a decision!

Defeat the Ottomans to the east, and then go all out against the Catholic nations.

The great changes in the Eastern Roman Empire were naturally already perceived by the Ottomans, as neighbors.

Anatolia, Bursa city.

As the capital of the Ottoman Empire, the city of Bursa is a bit unimpressive.

A small city can't set off the majesty of this powerful rising empire at all.

The Ottoman Sultan Murad I doubled the territory of the Ottoman Empire in two decades.

Originally, according to the course of history, Sultan Murad I was going to march into Thrace and advance to the core of the Eastern Roman Empire to conquer the city.

But.

The layout of all this seems to have encountered a very big obstacle now.

A group of Mongols from the east actually entered the Eastern Roman Empire, making this weak thousand-year-old empire instantly stronger.

"The great Sultan, our secret agent, has just sent back news that John Timur, the Mongol who has entered Constantinople, is ready to go to war against us!"

A wise old man in a silk green robe and a large bun on his head knelt on the ground and said to Sultan Murad I on the golden throne.

This old man was Ahmed, the court chancellor of the Ottoman Empire, and a well-known scholar of the Ottoman Empire.

"These hateful Mongols are simply devils from hell!"

Murad I grimaced and let out a curse.

The appearance of these Mongols seemed so sudden and unsettling.

First, news of the fall of the Golden Horde came from the Rus' steppe.

Then the Mongols crossed the sea to Constantinople, and finally the Catholic coalition of more than 100,000 men was defeated by the Mongols.

Everything shows that this Mongol detachment was strong.

"What is the relationship between these Mongolians and those Mongolians back then?" Murad I hurriedly asked.

Ahmet replied: "I heard from the merchants who went to Rus' that these Mongols were the direct descendants of those Mongols, but their rule in Taohuashi was not effective, and they were expelled by the local Taohuashi people, and then they fled all the way to the Rus' steppe, and then destroyed the Golden Horde. ”

The Ottomans once lived in the Amu Darya area, where China has always been known as Peach Blossom Stone.

It's just that Central Asians can't distinguish the various dynasties of China, whether it is the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, or the Liao State and the Jin Kingdom, they have been treated as peach blossom stones.

"So, the terrible Mongols have really returned?!" Murad I couldn't help but get nervous.

The Ottomans migrated here from the Amu Darya River because the Mongols drove them away on their first expedition to the west.

"Yes, the terrible Mongols are here again, and they are very hostile to us, after all, they have converted to Roman Orthodoxy, and this John Timur, who has always been hostile to our Celestial Sect, heard that he once slaughtered 100,000 Muslims at once!" Ahmed said.

Murad I was nervous about the hostility of these Mongols, but he was not terrified.

After all, today's Ottoman Empire is no longer the small tribe that fled from the desert back then.

The current Ottoman Empire has most of the Anatolian Peninsula, a population of millions, and an army of 300,000 people!

Moreover, among the 300,000 troops, there are about 100,000 cavalry!

And those Mongols in Constantinople, I heard that the combined number of men, women, old and weak is only 100,000, and the real army may not exceed 30,000!

30,000 against 300,000, no matter what, the advantage is in my big Ottoman!

"Immediately order the tribes to gather their forces to Bursa!"

"Send the navy to guard the Sea of Marmara again, and if there are Mongol transport ships, attack them immediately!"

Murad I gave the order to prepare for battle.

The Ottoman Empire not only had a strong combination of infantry and cavalry, but also a sizable navy, which was not as strong as the naval powers of Venice and Genoa, but was strong enough to keep an eye on the coast.

The Ottoman navy, which was in charge of guarding, soon discovered the attack of the Eastern Roman Empire navy.

These Mongol-Roman navies were small in number, with only twenty ships, far less than the sixty of the Ottoman Empire.

In the face of the enemy's fleet, which was smaller than its own, the Ottoman navy was naturally undaunted and rushed directly to kill it.

Countless slaves paddled desperately with oars, increasing the speed of the Ottoman galleys to the highest speed, preparing to use the high-speed collision to send the Mongol-Roman navy on the opposite side into the rough waters.

But.

While the Ottoman ships approached, the Mongol navy suddenly turned the direction of the ships and headed towards the Ottoman ships with a weak side.

Then, before the Ottoman navy could react, a roar rang out on the battleship.

Boom Boom!

The artillery installed by Wang Baobao on the battleship once again had a surprising effect.

In less than half an hour of fighting, most of the Ottoman fleet was lost, and nearly 10,000 people were buried at the bottom of the sea.

The entire Ottoman navy ceased to exist.

This naval battle was beyond the expectations of everyone in the Ottoman Empire.

Sultan Murad I also did not expect that his own navy would be so vulnerable.