Chapter 232: General Elgin

"I heard that the generals of the empire have won a battle recently?" In the Byzantine tavern, people from all over the world talked to each other about what they had seen and heard on the road.

The Byzantine crackdown on commerce was not as severe as the other empires on the continent of Roland, and could even be called lenient. Therefore, it is common to hear merchants and mercenaries from all over the world talking in the tavern, and it is a good place to gather information.

The premise is naturally that the tavern you go to is a large tavern, not a tavern in a street alley. Otherwise, all you hear is that the husky of the old Wang's family at the gate of the street is dead, and I hear that he fell into the water and drowned when he was coming-what? Isn't a dog a dog that can swim? This is a husky......

"Isn't it, the Empire hasn't won a battle for a long time since the Seljuk bastards unleashed their nightmarish weapons, and this time Lord Elgin taught them a hard lesson and recaptured several cities...... A lot of artillery was also captured, and the emperor ordered it to be sent back to the capital, and guess what......" A well-informed man deliberately used words to attract the attention of others.

At this time, many people in the tavern posted it, anxiously asking what happened next.

On the Roland continent, where entertainment is lacking, the news and some of the gold caves are people's favorite forms of entertainment.

Elgin ignored the orders of the army emperor and declared that he had not received them. But on the frontal battlefield, many people claimed to have seen Elgin's artillery. That power, tsk......"

The royal family of the Byzantine Empire, uh, the emperor of the Byzantine Empire...... Well. It's a strange thing. It's like the five dynasties and ten kingdoms between the Tang and Song dynasties in China, and all kinds of people can become emperors. The emperors of the Byzantine Empire had not been able to survive more than five generations of royalty since the palace rebellion more than a thousand years ago. The general has been emperor - this is normal, the magician has been emperor - this is acceptable. The coachman was emperor - this, this ...... Zhu Yuanzhang was still a beggar, illiterate and an emperor - understandable, hairdresser, primary school teacher......

They became emperors of the Byzantine Empire by chance through the upheavals in their politics again and again, and they also became emperors strangely again and again, making every emperor pay special attention to the control of his own personnel, the most important of which was the Byzantine generals!

Whether Elgin expelled the Seljuks from the Byzantine Empire or for himself, it was a great irritation to the Byzantine Emperor. It was no longer possible to convince the Emperor to trust Elgin as much as he had before. No matter how capable Elgin is, no matter how outstanding his command talent is!

Even if he desperately didn't care about the owner of Serge, the Byzantine emperor wanted to eradicate Elgin!

"General Elgin is in danger. Someone in the crowd spoke.

"Yes, it's all to blame on the damned Seljuks, their invasion has forced me to suspend trade with the eastern peninsula of the empire, and I don't know who will pay for this loss!"

The Byzantine Empire was divided into two parts, bounded by the Byzantine Strait, the eastern part was a peninsular region, which was somewhat backward in terms of economy and society due to long-term wars and harsh environmental reasons, and the western part was economically prosperous due to relatively peaceful conditions. The Seljuks though had the upper hand on land. But in the ocean, you have to be tortured to death by the Byzantine navy.

Chu Nan was dressed in a black robe, threw a generic silver coin on the bar and left here, and no one noticed Chu Nan's departure except for the waiter at the bar.

The Byzantine Empire became interesting. Chu Nan stood in the most prosperous city in the Roland Continent and looked at the flags fluttering on the Byzantine Palace.

It was the flag of the Double-Headed Eagle, the famous Double-Headed Eagle on the Roland Continent. The Byzantine double-headed eagle symbolizes his desperate desire for both eastern and western lands. But such an empire that takes pleasure in aggression has also consumed its national strength in internal strife and foreign wars again and again, although it still has the title of empire that makes people intoxicated. But this title is more like a chronic poison that announces the death sentence of the Empire.

From a thousand years ago, he announced that he wanted to restore the glory of the empire, conquer the entire Roland continent, and conquer again. And then he was just asking for the land he was supposed to inherit, and then then - a sad story. The Byzantine Empire began to demand to regain the territory it had lost, and now the Byzantine Empire is only maintaining its own territory.

But now it seems that this idea is also somewhat difficult.

Chunan has been waiting in the Byzantine capital for many days, judging from the war coming from the north, Shalama's journey is smooth, and he has conquered one-fifth of the territory of the HRE Empire, and the remaining two-fifths is in the west, the Valois army is in the midst of the alliance of the nobles of the HRE Empire, and the other two-fifths are the private land of the Habsburgs, which is a difficult bone to gnaw.

Dealing with the Habsburgs is a matter of affecting the whole body, and the strength of the Habsburgs is all over the Roland continent.

Salama was now preparing for the final war - a war with the Varois over the remaining two-fifths of the country.

The HRE Imperial Kingdom, which had already lost most of its territory, obviously could not stop the Valois Dynasty, which was pouring all its strength into attacking, and could only survive and get a chance to breathe. But this respite disappeared after the victory of the Shalama dynasty.

The emperors and commanders of the Valois dynasty were not stupid, and they knew very well what the integrated and prepared Shalama dynasty would have to do once they had no worries. By that time, the results of the encounter between the Salama army, which had been ready to recuperate, and the Valois army, which had been fighting continuously, were obvious. Therefore, in order to prevent this from happening, the Valois dynasty had to step up its support for the HRE Empire, win as much as possible, and then launch a general attack while the Shalama dynasty had not yet won.

The stalemate between the two sides is time, one side wants to win as much as possible, and the other side must fight for its own survival.

Very insidious - Shalama sent a small but absolutely elite army into the forces of the HRE and Valois to help the HRE Empire against the Valuais. Greatly increased the number of days of fighting between the Valois and the HRE Empire.

政zhì is to do everything to the extreme, and war is an extension of 政zhì. As long as victory can be achieved, what means cannot be used?

And surprising were the battlefields in the eastern part of the Byzantine Empire......

Elgin is like a shining new star rising above this decaying empire, and does he also represent the end of this empire......?