Europe, Constantinople.

For Zhu Zhanyan, what happened to Daming is actually not very important, for him now, as long as his family is fine, it is fine.

The current Zhu Zhanyan has actually changed a lot in his mentality, and he still focuses more on places other than Daming, firstly, because Daming is already in his bag, and there is no possibility of any mistakes.

The second is because he doesn't care.

Just as the Empress Dowager Zhang felt, Zhu Zhan Yan just regarded Daming as a place where fallen leaves returned to their roots, and it would be good to have a place for him to enter the soil after a hundred years.

Of course, Zhu Zhanyan doesn't care about himself, but he will definitely let his father be buried in the imperial mausoleum, and it is justified.

Moreover, now he doesn't want this.

The twenty-fifth day of the lunar month (Note 1).

For the Central Plains, this day actually has no special meaning, and there may be it in some places, but it is estimated that most of the Central Plains will not feel that the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month has any special meaning.

But today is an extraordinary day for Europe.

Christmas, a holiday that began in the Roman Church in 336 AD, is actually not recorded in the Bible, because this festival, which was originally called the Christmas feast of Jesus by the Catholic Church and later called Christmas, originated from the birth of the sun god in the Roman Empire.

However, Christmas, which is considered to be the day of the birth of Jesus, was a holiday that the Roman Church began in 336 and evolved into an important holiday after the middle of the fifth century, and its significance is equivalent to the New Year in the Central Plains.

On this special holiday, even if it was only a short time ago that the haze of war was experienced, the land of Europe was still jubilant, because the Ming army had not moved for half a month.

In other words, they haven't lost a battle for half a month.

But.

This festival of great significance to them has no meaning to the Ming army, and if they insist on saying that there is, there is only one.

Hurry up and win the battle before Chinese New Year's Eve and have a good year.

Duchy of Athens, Athens.

With another round of shelling, Mu Sheng raised his hand and waved it in front of him, driving away the smoke generated by the firing of the artillery, took out the telescope in his arms, and looked at the Parthenon, which was actually not far away.

"Well done." Putting away the binoculars, Mu Sheng patted his son on the shoulder and turned to leave.

This battle of landing on the shallows and attacking Athens was commanded by Mu Bin, just as Zhu Zhanyan said before departure, Mu Sheng gave his son the opportunity to train.

Although the Duchy of Athens is very weak, although the Duchy of Athens has no strength because it has been pressed by the Duchy of Venice, and although the Duchy of Athens has no desire to resist, for Mu Bin, this command is still a good experience.

However, if Zhu Zhanyan was here, he would definitely scold Mu Sheng for being perverted!

In fact, all along, whether he was in Yunnan or later moved to the Suez area, Mu Sheng has always had a characteristic, that is, there is an order that he will never give it.

Massacre of prisoners, civilians, and cities.

In other words, what Zhu Zhanyan often does, Mu Sheng can't do.

When he was in Yunnan at the beginning, Mu Sheng was afraid of taking the blame, after all, no one dared to do this at that time, and Zhu Zhanyan, an outlier, was killing wherever he went, and he didn't care about the world's eyes at all.

Later, he moved to the Suez area, and it stands to reason that Mu Sheng doesn't have to care about those worldly eyes, and since he has made up his mind to follow Zhu Zhanyan, it is a better choice to integrate.

But Mu Sheng still would not give the order for the massacre.

This is different from when he was in Yunnan, Mu Sheng didn't know the plot in Zhu Zhan's heart, he didn't know who to kill and who couldn't be killed, although there was a practice of screening circumcision before, but Mu Sheng would still wait for Zhu Zhanyan to make a decision for the sake of insurance.

Now he doesn't care about any reputation, just because of the language barrier, and he doesn't know Zhu Zhanyan's thoughts, he is worried that killing the wrong person will ruin Zhu Zhanyan's plan.

Such a cautious and cautious person forcibly gave his son an order to kill indiscriminately when he was taking his own son and training him in the war.

From landing on the seashore to Athens, all the people I saw along the way, whether Europeans or Arabs, were killed by the sword of the Ming army, and there was not a single one left.

If there is a living mouth, it must have escaped the search of the Ming army.

Not only that, but before arriving in Athens, it was the same on the islands of the Aegean Sea, where the Ming army crossed like locusts, leaving no one behind.

The news of the destruction of the capital of the Duchy of Athens soon spread, not only to Zhu Zhan in Constantinople, but also to the Holy See and the Holy Roman Empire through the Duchy of Achaia.

Zhu Zhanyan didn't think there was anything, but he felt that Mu Bin, this kid, didn't know if he was lucky or unlucky.

The strength of the Duchy of Athens was not very strong, and it was even more of a rookie for the Ming army, but because of the Holy See and the Holy Roman Empire, the Duchy of Venice withdrew the fleet of the expedition to the Duchy of Athens.

Therefore, let's say that Mu Bin is unlucky, in this naval battle commanded for the first time, he did not encounter the expected enemy.

Let's say that he is lucky, this naval battle is his training journey, and he did not encounter the expected enemy, and the effect of the experience is naturally much weaker.

But compared to the indifferent Zhu Zhanyan, the Holy See and the Holy Roman Empire could not sit still.

Compared to Aachen, Rome is closer to the Adriatic Sea and gets news faster.

You must know that the fleet of the Duchy of Venice has all returned to port, waiting for the general attack in the spring after the year, so the news is transmitted from the Duchy of Achaia, and such a transmission route is destined to have no secrecy at all.

So, when the news reached Rome, the whole of Rome blew up in an instant.

Receiving such news on this Christmasday was undoubtedly a great blow to all the Romans, whose rulers and the Holy See had just had a strategy, and before they had time to reverse the decline of the defeat at Fort Nico, the enemy took the opportunity to go further.

As the first pope elected after the Sixty Years' Schism, Martin V should have unparalleled appeal, but in reality he was just a puppet of the Holy Roman Empire to put an end to the chaos in the Holy See.

As a pope, he was nothing more than a puppet in front of the Holy Roman Empire, and in front of the commoners, he didn't have much prestige, and he was not even as good as the three popes who were deposed side by side before him.

All of a sudden, the voice of dissatisfaction with the pope became louder and louder, and for a time the special city of Rome rioted during the special holiday of Christmas.

But, again, the class gap is huge.

Plebeians are only plebeians after all, although after sixty years of division, the Holy See no longer has the same dominance as in the early Middle Ages, let alone the abolition of a monarch of a country, I am afraid that even the most ordinary appeal is a little difficult.

But for the common people, the Holy See still ruled over them, both mentally and physically.

What's more, this is Rome, the capital of the Papal States, how could the Holy See lose control of this place?

Churches in Rome.

On this special day, the church in Rome should have been overcrowded, but Martin V drove everyone away and sat here alone.

He had to find a way out of the situation.

However, as a puppet pushed out by the Holy Roman Empire, who can he rely on?

The southern part of Europe was already occupied by the Ming army, France and England in the west were pulling each other's hair, and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Mosk states were spitting on each other in the east.

The only thing he could rely on seemed to be the Holy Roman Empire.

But if you continue to rely on the Holy Roman Empire, will it really work?

Unbeknownst to Martin V, his contemplative attempt to find a few allies with the last faint appeal of the Pope was in fact nothing more than wishful thinking.

Because except for Rome, the whole of Europe was in chaos.

Western Europe.

Although the gunpowder of the English and the French was temporarily suspended because of Christmas, the people in charge of the rear never stopped thinking about it, and were still thinking about ways to annex each other.

The English did not know that Charles VII was dead, and even in all of Western Europe no one knew that Charles VII was dead, except for Yolanda of Aragon and Mary, Queen of the Kingdom of France.

But through the propaganda of the Kingdom of Aragon and the Kingdom of France, news spread that Charles VII had found a strong ally and was about to blockade the English Channel.

Will this news cause any difficulties for the Ming army to occupy the LinkedIn Channel in the future? Yolanda didn't care, and even hoped that the Ming army's troubles would be as big as possible, because she was planning to do all of France.

Although the Ming army was an ally, it was only temporary, and when the war was won, this ally was also the enemy who carved up the cake of France.

Therefore, as long as the Ming army can contain the English, it has already achieved Yolanda's goal, and as for what kind of effort and cost the Ming army has, it has nothing to do with Yolanda.

Eastern Europe.

Qian Yong withdrew from the heights along the Volga and, when retreating to the corner of the Volga, turned east, in the direction of Astrakhan.

As the former capital of the Golden Horde, Astrakhan is a very sensitive place, so Qian Yong's move instantly made the Golden Horde nervous.

And just when the Golden Horde focused all its attention on the Ming army, Yuri, who had returned to Mosk, finally made a move.

The historical Yuri won the battle for the throne and drove Vasily II to the Golden Horde to take refuge.

At this special time of Christmas, the whole of Europe is in chaos.

Note 1: I don't know much about the Eastern and Western calendars, and I don't know the difference between the Eastern and Western calendars before and after the 15th century, and there are different calendars in Europe alone.

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