"Attack! We must take this monastery!"

Outside the Ghislian Monastery in the Brachne district, Li Xinrui, a grenadier officer, looked at the enemy who was hiding behind the barricades and occasionally raised his gun and shot at him, and said to his men.

Not far from them, groups of foreign soldiers shouted and attacked the barrage of Turkish troops, but they had just run out of cover when they were quickly shot by projectiles from front of them, and fell to the ground in wailing.

Located in the heart of the Brachne district, the Ghislian Monastery is an ancient building in the Eastern Roman style, surrounded by a wide square surrounded by dense buildings and radiating streets.

While the Xia army advanced into the city and advanced towards the monastery, the Turkish army built a relatively tight defensive line here, and they carried a large amount of debris to the streets, forming one barricade after another, and deployed several artillery pieces around the monastery on all sides, and the muzzles of the cannons were directly aimed at the street leading to the monastery.

After two days of fighting, the Turkish garrison in the Brachne district was rapidly reduced, and most of the soldiers retreated to defend the headquarters, except for those who were scattered and still resisting stubbornly on the terrain of the streets.

"Onward! Onward!"

While Li Xinrui was observing the enemy's fortifications, more foreign soldiers shouted and went into the attack, and they ran towards the enemy's defense line with their weapons under the orders of the officer.

As they ran, a volley of projectiles shot out from behind the fortifications, directly knocking several soldiers who rushed to the front to the ground, and the soldiers behind did not stop the pace of attack because of the death of the robe, they shouted and straddled the body of the robe and continued to run forward.

The Turkish troops in the defense line quickly fired a second volley after a volley, and their barrage caused the Xia army to fall one after another, and the foreign infantry of the Xia army, with high morale, finally approached the defense line in the face of increasing casualties.

They then shouted angrily, and the soldiers who rushed to the front lit the fuse of the grenade, and threw the grenade into the fortification, and after a few seconds the fortification exploded, and the soldiers hiding inside were blown over.

The foreign infantry hurriedly took the opportunity to rush forward, and the soldiers at the front had just turned over the fortifications, and before they could land on their feet, they saw that there were still many muskets aimed at them in the fortifications, and before they had time to react, there was another burst of gunfire, and these brave soldiers fell one after another.

The Xia army attacked the last line of defense of the Turkish army from many directions, but they were all blocked by the Turkish army with stubborn resistance, and a large number of foreign soldiers fell in front of the Turkish army's defense line, which made the Xia army top brass quite annoyed.

What annoyed them even more was that Daniel Zhang's operation in charge of hunting down the Ottoman Sultan *** IV has not made more progress until now, *** IV seems to have evaporated from the world, even if Daniel Zhang expanded the search area, he did not find them.

However, it is said that *** IV fled to Macedonia, where they met a man who looked like the Sultan in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, and was accompanied by many men of extraordinary force.

This clue inspired Daniel Zhang Daniel Zhang to personally lead his army to Macedonia, intending to capture the Sultan alive and bring down Macedonia, the last region loyal to the Sultan.

Although Macedonia still belongs to the empire and is loyal to the Sultan on the surface, but in the face of the menacing Xia army, the Macedonian local Pasha's will to resist is not strong, Pasha personally led the Macedonian provincial garrison to fight an encounter with the Anxi army, but after being completely defeated by the Xia army, he did not have the courage to continue to resist, but opened the gate of the capital Thessaloniki and surrendered to the Xia army.

Daniel Zhang immediately conquered Thessaloniki, after the fall of the capital, Macedonia also had no intention of fighting, quickly fell, Daniel Zhang also began a large-scale search in his territory for the whereabouts of the fourth Sultan, but at this time the Sultan was no longer on the European continent, but fled to the Aegean Sea by boat.

Although the Sultan fled in disarray, he still carried a great deal of wealth with him, and the so-called money can make the devil grind, and the Sultan rented a merchant ship in Thessaloniki through an intermediary, and sailed out of the port with a large amount of goods and his guards through the merchant ship.

The sea of the Aegean Sea

The face is full of warships flying the flags of the alliance, although they have not completely eliminated the maritime trade, but they will still search the passing ships and take the opportunity to extort.

It was with the greed of the coalition that the Sultan used money to open the way for all the allied warships that tried to board and search on the way, and smashed them one after another with golden coins, and came all the way to the port of Sura on the other side of the Aegean Sea.

Sulla, who was still under Ottoman rule, and after escaping here, the Sultan revealed his identity and ordered garrisons from all over Anatolia to assemble here in an attempt to counterattack Konstantiniye.

The public appearance of the IV was almost a direct slap in the face to the Holy Alliance, which controlled the control of the Aegean Sea, and when the news reached Galatia, José was furious, and he demanded a satisfactory explanation from the Venetians, who were mainly deployed in the Aegean Sea.

Now that the Aegean Sea is under their control, it is obvious what it means that *** IV is still able to quietly escape through their blockade to Anatolia.

This incident also greatly affected the international prestige of the Venetians, and the Venetian commander immediately ordered a strict investigation and arrested and severely punished the officers involved, but no matter what they did, *** IV had already fled to the other side, like a fish returning to the sea, uncontrolled.

The Holy Alliance's life was not easy, in addition to letting *** IV escape, their attack on Konstantinniye was not smooth, since the siege began, the coalition forces were met with stubborn resistance from the defenders in the streets and alleys that extended in all directions, and suffered heavy losses, losing nearly a thousand soldiers almost every day, and after a few days, the Holy Alliance could no longer afford to continue the offensive, so it could only suspend the offensive.

Fu Xinghua was very dissatisfied with the Holy Alliance's crotch pulling, and after the news reached his tent, the commander of Great Xia with the highest authority in Taixi directly lost his temper, and he scolded in front of his lieutenants:

"These damned Tessie barbarians are so greedy and visionless, they really deserve to be killed, if they were my subordinates, I would definitely show them to the public as an example!"

Not only Fu Xinghua was angry, but the lieutenants were also indignant, they thought that these Taixi allies were quite reliable at first, at least they helped them make up for the shortcomings of the sea power, but now it seems that the sea power of this ally has played a role at the beginning, and it is like a decoration later.

In order to express their anger at the Holy Alliance, both the Xia army and the Polish-Lithuanian Federation sent emissaries to condemn the Venetians for their dereliction of duty and demanded a satisfactory answer from the Holy Alliance.

Faced with the condemnation of the two allies, José said that he was under a bit of pressure and could only leave the pressure to the Venetians, while trying to reassure the allies, promising them that he would definitely give them a satisfactory answer.

There were internal contradictions on the side of the coalition forces, which gave the Ottoman Empire a chance to breathe, and the Grand Vizier once again sent envoys to secretly negotiate peace with the Xia Army and the Polish-Lithuanian Federation, hoping to persuade the two countries to withdraw from the war and ease the crisis of the empire.

It turned out that the Grand Vizier had found the right direction, and after the two sides made secret contacts, the Polish-Lithuanian Federation quickly gave its willingness to negotiate peace - King Michau I of Poland was not a staunch warlord, and he led his army on expeditions abroad for a long time, and his control over the domestic political situation would gradually decay due to the passage of time.

The unique system of government of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth proved that it was never possible for the king to hold all the power of the state in his own hands, and many kings spent their lives fighting against the nobility of the country.

Michau I was not a capable and courageous monarch, he stayed in the king for a long time, and after a long time he began to worry about his position in the country, he feared that if he stayed abroad, the nobles of the country would take advantage of this opportunity to unite and empty themselves, and even elect other nobles to overthrow their own rule.

This fear was not unfounded, and only recently Mihau I had received some rumors from the country, and some of the nobles who remained in the country began to stir up, as if they wanted to put up another claimant to the throne to take their place.

This news filled the king's heart with unease, and made him even more eager to return to the country.

In this case, face O

King Mihau I did not refuse the peace proposal proposed by the Smans, but appointed his own henchmen to negotiate with the Ottoman envoys.

The Ottomans originally wanted to do something about the terms of the peace talks, such as ceding some territories that were known to be under the control of the Xia army to the Polish-Lithuanian Federation, and encouraging them to go to war with the Xia army, but although King Mihau I was not capable, this did not mean that his IQ was problematic.

The king saw at a glance the vile intentions of the Ottomans, and he instructed his henchmen to severely reprimand the Ottoman envoys, warning them to stop the peace talks and let the war continue if they dared to be careful.

The intransigence of the Polish-Lithuanian Confederation forced the Ottoman envoys to put their minds away and offer another treaty that would cause the Empire to relinquish its influence in the Duchy of Transylvania, transfer it to the Polish-Lithuanian Confederation, and pay the latter a war reparation of one million.

King Mihau I knew that it was unwise for the Polish-Lithuanian Federation to take over Moldavia and Wallachia, and it was very likely that Bactria would claim the Sect of these two small countries, and even if Bactria did not do so, these two small countries should serve as a buffer line between the two countries to avoid direct conflict.

Thus, after reading the new treaty, the king decided that it was in their interest, that Transylvania could become a bridgehead for their southward expansion, and that as long as the country was under the control of the Confederation, the Confederation could threaten the fragile Holy Roman Empire in the south, which had been greatly weakened by the Ottoman defeat.

On the other hand, Fu Xinghua also agreed to hold talks with the Ottoman envoys, and the reason why he refused the previous peace talks was to be able to fight under the enemy's capital, strive for greater benefits, and force the Ottomans to sign an alliance under the city.

And now that his pre-set goal has been achieved, the Xia army's daily attacks have crumbled the defense line of the Brachne district, and it seems that it will be destroyed at any time, and if the Ottomans do not agree to sign an alliance with Great Xia, then they will suffer even greater losses than they do now.

After the two sides began to negotiate, they began to discuss the content of the treaty, the Ottoman Empire was willing to take the initiative to withdraw its forces in Moldavia and Wallachia, transfer them to Bactria as a protectorate, cede the area north of the Danube, and in the east, they will cede the area of the two river basins east of Mosul, including part of the territory in the Arabian Peninsula, recognize the independence of Egypt, and pay 10 million war reparations.

The Xia army then added some new treaties, and they did not increase the conditions for the Ottoman Empire to cede land, but asked the Ottoman Empire to allow Bactria to set up trading ports in the two important ports of Antioch and Jaffa in the Eastern Mediterranean, and maintain the trading routes from these two ports to Baghdad.

In addition, they demanded that the Ottoman Empire be a vassal to Bactria and pay annual tribute to the Son of Heaven, and send protons to the East.

The opening of trade routes was of great help to the Xia army to expand its influence in the Mediterranean, and it could also promote economic and trade development and increase the financial revenue of the Persian protectorate, which was why they supplemented this requirement.

And the last one ...... I don't need to explain much about this.

In the face of the conditions put forward by the Xia army, after some fierce debate within the Ottoman Empire, it was decided to agree that they needed Great Xia to withdraw from this war as soon as possible, so that they could concentrate all their forces against the Holy Alliance.

On January 1, 1674, the first day of the new year, the Great Xia and the Ottoman Empire formally signed a peace agreement, and the Xia army ignored the angry condemnation of the Holy Alliance, and Fu Xinghua personally signed the peace agreement with the Grand Vizier Koprulu in the new palace.

With the names of the two falling on the agreement, and the seal of the general of Zhengxi was also changed to Fu Xinghua's name, this war across three continents finally came to an end.

On the third day after the signing of the Treaty of Constantinier in the Summer, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth also signed a peace agreement with the Ottoman Empire, announcing its withdrawal from the war.

The armistice between the two Allied forces had taken a heavy toll on the morale of the Holy Alliance, and the coalition soldiers looked at the complicated city streets

Filled with fear of war, José also saw that the morale of the army was unstable, and he let out a long sigh and had to order the attack to be halted and withdrawn to Galatia.

Standing on the Galatian Tower, José looked out at the dome of Hagia Sophia, knowing that with this retreat, he would never have the opportunity to see this great building again, and on the other side, a large number of allied soldiers began to board their ships one after another, and they all knew that the war would not continue any longer, so they were all ready to embark on the road home with regret.