"Xiaguan Shaanxi political envoy...... Meet His Royal Highness the King of Qin and His Royal Highness the King of Huainan."

Xijing Chang'an, heard that the King of Qin and the King of Huainan drove through Tongguan, including the six departments of Xijing and Shaanxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, according to the inspection of the envoy and the commander of the envoy and other officials are lined up outside the Chang'an City Gate waiting, after the car arrived, they were headed by a provincial official, and saluted the car driver.

Su Ci, who was riding his horse, looked at these officials with respectful faces, turned over and dismounted, and the subordinates in the convoy also opened the door curtain of the carriage in which the King of Qin was riding in time to assist the King of Qin to get off, and then Su Ci said: "According to the edict of the Son of Heaven, this king will follow the king of Qin to inspect Xijing and the northwest provinces, and in the days to come, I will disturb all my lords."

"Don't dare to bother." Xie Kan, the political envoy of Shaanxi, said: "It is an honor for the two princes to be able to inspect Xijing, and the lower officials have ordered someone to clean up the palace of the Qin Dynasty in the former dynasty, and the two princes can move in directly."

"The former Qin Palace?" Su Chen, the king of Qin, interjected and said, "Didn't you destroy the army after breaking through Xi'an?"

Xie Kan was slightly stunned, and quickly reacted, he said with a smile: "Back to the words of the King of Qin, the Qin Palaces were indeed burned by the invasion army, but they were not completely destroyed, when the traitor Wu Sangui rebelled and seized Shaanxi, he rebuilt the Qin Palace, and used the Qin Palaces as the palace of the so-called Zhaowu Puppet Dynasty."

Su Chenan nodded, indicating that he understood, this incident happened before he could remember, and it was normal for him not to know.

"Two princes, this city gate is not a place to speak, the lower officials have ordered someone to set up a banquet for the two of them, please follow the lower officials into the city." Xie Kan said.

Su Ci nodded in response, turned over and got on the horse, and then the car drove slowly into Xijing City again, through the wide city gate, Su Chen'an saw the bustling streets, the streets were bustling with pedestrians, perhaps because of the fact that in Xijing, the people lived a rich life, and their clothes were better than the people he saw in the countryside all the way.

In addition, he also saw many people of different races who were dressed in foreign costumes and looked different from the Han people, some of them spoke with a little accent but were quite proficient in the official dialect of the Han people, and some of them muttered a lot of words that others could not understand.

As the car drove into the city, the people in the streets spontaneously moved out of the way and stood on both sides of the street, looking curiously and awe-inspiring at the drivers and the flag-waving sergeants walking in front.

"Mother, whose car is this?"

A little girl in her arms looked curiously at the beautiful carriage and asked her mother.

"That's the car of His Royal Highness King Qin." The little girl's mother looked at the car and Su Ci who was walking in front, with a bit of reverence in her eyes: "Walking in front is His Royal Highness the King of Huainan, our hero, he led the Great Xia King to expel ***, and your father has served under him before."

"Really?" When the little girl heard that her father had followed him to fight on the battlefield, she suddenly came to her senses, and said again and again: "Mother, tell me more about my father's deeds, he has fought with the big hero, he must also be a hero!"

"yes, he's a hero too." The mother muttered to herself, her eyes gradually moistened, and the majestic figure of her husband seemed to appear in front of her eyes again, he survived the battle with ***, but died in the battle with the Rakshasas.

"King Huainan! His Royal Highness the King of Huainan!"

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in front, and some people standing along the street cheered loudly for Su Ci's title, Su Ci and the officials surrounding him all looked at the cheering people in surprise, and one of the people shouted loudly: "Your Royal Highness the King of Huainan, you expel the Tartars and rescue my whole family from the hands of ***, you are our benefactor!"

"Your Highness, we've always missed you, and after all these years, we're finally seeing you again."

A white-haired old man cried even more, he violently pushed away the official who was blocking in front of him, rushed to the street and knelt down in front of Su Ci's horse, and shouted: "His Royal Highness the King of Huainan, you may not have an impression of the old man, but you rescued the old man and me from the knife of ***, the old man's family was killed by ***, and the old man has always wanted to say thank you in person."

After speaking, his head knocked three times on the hard bluestone pavement, and said, "King Huainan is above, please bow to the old man!"

"Your Highness,

Please wait for me!"

With the old man taking the lead, the cheering people also knelt down, Su Ci hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and personally went to help the old man with a red and swollen forehead, he looked at the sincere gaze in the old man's eyes, and his heart was full of emotion, his eyes looked at the people who knelt on the ground, clasped his hands into fists, and said: "Su Ci can be supported by the people, it is really my great luck, let my Han family children get rid of the war, live and work in peace and contentment for the grand wish of the country, and it is also my Daxia soldiers with fire and sword to kill, how dare Su Ci take all the credit, Please get up, folks, Su Ci will not dare to take it."

After speaking, he looked at the old man and asked softly, "Old man, where do you live now?"

"Your Royal Highness, the old man and I are alone, I can only live in a thatched house in the south of the city, the old man's family has been killed, and it is all thanks to the help of the villagers that he can migrate here from Hebei, and he makes a living by writing to people on weekdays." The old man said tremblingly.

Su Ci pondered for a moment, ordered someone to take a hundred taels of silver, handed it to the old man with his own hands, and said solemnly: "This is a little bit of my heart, the old man must work hard to live, I will lead the army to fight against the Tartars, in order to see that you can live and work in peace and contentment, but don't let me down."

"Old man, remember it, even if it is for His Highness, I will work hard to survive." The old man said with tears in his eyes, and was about to kneel down again, Su Ci hurriedly grabbed his arm to prevent him from kneeling, and then called one of his close attendants and asked him to take the old man home.

After seeing off the old man, Xie Kan, who was watching from the sidelines, couldn't help but give up his hand and said with emotion: "Your Highness is noble, even after so many years, the people still remember His Highness's heroism and kindness in the past, and the officials admire it."

"It's just a matter for the general." Su Ci waved his hand, not taking this matter to heart, he said, "What's more, if there is no strong support from His Majesty, and the soldiers of the three armies share the same hatred and hatred, how can this king do this?"

"Your Highness is truly humble." Xie Kan said with a smile.

The car continued to move forward, and Su Chen'an, who was sitting in the carriage, kept everything that had just happened in mind, and this scene was deeply imprinted in his heart like a soldering iron, bringing a huge impact to the sixteen-year-old boy's heart.

"That's how the husband should be."

After a while, he muttered to himself.

……

At the same time as King Qin's westward tour, the war was finally coming to an end in West Asia, thousands of miles away.

Go back a few months.

The upheavals and social unrest in Egypt, Syria and elsewhere not only affected the ruling base of the entire eastern part of the Ottoman Empire, but also affected the morale of the Empire's standing field army in Asia Minor when news reached the Anatolian Legions, which were still fighting in the mountains of Pontus.

After months of confrontation and confrontation, the Anxi Army of Great Xia, under the command of Daniel Zhang, finally broke the Anatolian Army led by Kara Mustafa outside Trabzon and conquered Trabzon, an important town in the northeast of the empire.

Trabzon, the capital of the Trabzon Empire, which split from the Roman Empire since the Fourth Crusade in 1204, was built by generations of Trabzon kings to become a bustling city on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea.

Trabzon was known for its wealth and beauty, so after the Xia army entered the city, the Anxi army, whose military discipline remained at the average level of the Ming and Qing armies, plundered the city with Daniel Zhang's tacit consent.

In addition to looting jewelry, Xia Jun also stretched out his claws to the beautiful women in the city, although they have never looked down on blonde and blue-eyed Western devils, but they still have great admiration for Western beauties, Daniel Zhang did not stop the actions of the soldiers, but instead ordered some beautiful Trabzon women to be sent back to Jiangning as gifts to the emperor.

The sack of Trabzon by the Xia army gave the defeated Kara Mustafa time to regroup his army, and after fleeing a long distance, seeing that the Xia army was not pursuing, he stopped and waved his banner to collect the rout that had been routed in the battle.

Many of the scattered soldiers regrouped under his retraction, but their situation was clearly not good, Ann

Before the battle, the Natolian Legion had a total of 50,000 soldiers, but now, there were less than 30,000 left around him, and most of them had lost their weapons in the flight, and their morale was low, and everyone still had fear of the Xia army in their hearts.

Looking at the frightened soldiers around him, Kara Mustafa was also powerless, so he could only lead them to retreat to Sinop, the capital of Pontium, while writing a letter to Konstantiniye to report the defeat here and ask for reinforcements.

By the time the Xia army had stopped sacking Trabzon, the Ottoman army had retreated to Sinop, fortified the city under the orders of Kara Mustafa, and prepared for the Xia attack.

Daniel Zhang couldn't help but laugh at this news, and with a wave of his hand, he left only a small number of soldiers to sit in Trabzon to guard the spoils they had looted, and the main force followed him westward, over the rugged hills, and finally landed under Sinop on June 23.

Immediately, the Xia army launched a fierce attack on the city, Sinop, as an important port and naval fortress of the Ottoman Empire in the Black Sea, the city defense is naturally strong and difficult to attack, not to mention that the city also has fortresses built by the Eastern Roman Empire and the Seljuk Empire, and it is not easy for the Xia army to conquer this place for a while.

Not only that, the "atrocities" of the Xia army in Trabzon also spread with the flight of some survivors, which quickly caused panic among the people throughout Anatolia, and a large number of refugees fled to Konstantinye in terror to escape this terrible war.

In this case, Daniel Zhang did not pay attention to the fleeing civilians, he learned the importance of Sinop from the captives, and he also knew that as long as he could take Sinop, he would be able to drive straight into the Ottoman capital Konstantiniye and end the war.

Therefore, under his order, the Xia army gathered most of the artillery and launched a fierce artillery bombardment on Sinop for several days, and the high-intensity shelling caused serious damage to the artillery, and several artillery pieces even overheated and exploded on the way to open the artillery, killing and wounding several artillerymen.

Under such a high-intensity artillery bombardment, Sinop City Wall was finally blasted out of a gap by the Xia army, and the Xia soldiers immediately launched a fierce attack with shouts.

The fierce battle lasted for more than a week, and the Xia army paid a lot of casualties before finally taking Sinop and almost completely annihilating the Ottoman Anatolian legion, and Kara Mustafa was wounded and captured in the battle.

Sinop fell, and the Ottomans shook!

When the news reached Konstantiniye, the whole empire was in a panic, and the Grand Vizier didn't care to curse his hapless brother-in-law, and hurriedly held a meeting to discuss the next countermeasures.

At this time, although the Sultan had defeated the forces of the Holy Roman Empire, the threat from the north bank of the Danube in the north was still there, and the coalition forces could break through the Danube defense line and move south at any time, and after the fall of Sinop, the Xia army could also drive straight to the opposite bank of Konstantiniye.

Under the great threat, the Grand Vizier decided to negotiate peace with the Xia Dynasty at any cost, no matter what the cost, as long as they could get the Xia army out of this war, they still had a chance to turn the tables.

Without the threat of the Xia army, wouldn't the Holy Roman Empire, which had already been defeated by the Sultan, be manipulated by them at will? The Polish-Lithuanian Federation in the north could not achieve any results by fighting alone, and the empire could completely make up for what was lost in the Xia army and take back what was lost from the Holy Roman Empire.

Of course, in order to prevent the Xia people from refusing to negotiate peace, he sent an envoy to Sinop at the same time, and also ordered people to ask the Sultan to prepare to return to Thrace, if the Xia army refused to negotiate peace, then they could only hold on to the capital with all their might, relying on Konstantinniye to resist the attack of the coalition army.

The Ottoman envoys set out from Constantinniye and crossed the narrow Bosphorus Strait to land in the port city of Kocaeli, across the sea from the capital.

After landing, the emissary was shocked by the scene, the streets of Kocaeli were filled with refugees of all nationalities who had fled from the East, crowded on both sides of the streets, either sitting or lying, each with a filthy body and a face with uncertainty about the future and fear of war.

The port of Kocaeli is also very crowded and you can see trying to squeeze everywhere

The refugees who boarded the ships to the capital, who tried by all means to squeeze into the boats, either took out all their possessions just to buy a ticket, or simply took advantage of the crowd to blend in, were then found by the sailors and thrown into the sea, and the shouts, cries and curses of the people resounded throughout the port.