Chapter 705: The Soldiers Approaching Rome, The West Is Shocked
After Saifudin Gazi returned, he told his father that the Orientals were very arrogant and wanted to attack them.
This caused dissatisfaction among many generals in Mosul.
But Zanji did not want to go to war with the Song army. He also wanted to attack Constantinople westward and force the Roman emperor to give money.
In his eyes, the Song army was not as important as Rome, nor was it as important as the holy city of Jerusalem.
Therefore, he must maintain a non-aggressive relationship with the Song army.
But this aroused the dissatisfaction of other generals below him.
Especially under the instigation of his son Saifudin Gazi, the voices of Mosul fighting the Song army appeared one after another, and it became higher and higher.
In December of the 18th year of Jingkang, at another banquet, Saifudin Gazi took advantage of his father's drunk and launched a coup.
Almost half of the generals participated and supported Saifudin Gazi as Sultan.
In fact, Zanji is already old, he is sixty years old this year.
In history, he died of illness in one year.
At the age of sixty, West Asia is a long-lived age.
But in this world where the strong prey on the weak and without ethical principles, aging and weakness are original sins.
The generals supported a young, ambitious Sultan who was in line with their ideas. In their eyes, Baghdad and Isfahan had been captured by the enemy, but the enemy was running long distances and was now very weak, which was a good time to attack.
December 10, 18th year of Jingkang.
Saifudin Gazi led 30,000 cavalry, set out from Mosul, heading south all the way, and heading to Baghdad.
Looking down from the walls of Baghdad, the endless black cavalry gave people a sense of oppression from the explosion of mountain torrents. The cold light reflected by the bright swords makes people dare not look directly at it.
Saifudin Gazi sent an envoy to tell Yue Fei that as long as he sacrificed his city of Baghdad, he could spare their lives and incorporate them.
As a result, the messenger's head was quickly thrown off the city gate.
The angry Saifudin Gazi ordered the siege, and he said to his generals: Kill all these Orientals.
Begin mobilization and begin preparing for a passionate siege.
As a result, a sound of earth-shaking sound suddenly sounded on the city tower, as if the gods were angry.
More than a dozen cannons cut through the sky and smashed the Iron Cavalry Legion hundreds of meters away with a long light of fire.
Every cannon cannon can kill a large piece, and blood and blood will suddenly scatter.
It hit the ground, pulling out long marks of more than ten meters and plowing out a bloody path.
Before everyone could react, the second wave of artillery that had arrived one after another on the city tower had arrived.
At this moment, countless people looked up at the sky in horror.
It seemed as if I saw the gods surrendered the punishment of heaven because of their anger.
Every cannon cannon can smash one piece, with more than a dozen casualties.
In front of the city wall, the muskets of the Musket Battalion were also ready.
I soon remembered the sound of the musket.
Although Saifudin Gazi's army was experienced in many battles, their equipment was indeed very poor. Apart from the good sword, they basically had no armor on them.
As long as the musket hits them, they will basically be seriously injured.
The musketeers at the city wall were also moving smoothly. As soon as the wave was finished, the ones behind immediately followed, and it was simply continuous.
The vanguard of the cavalry legion below immediately appeared in chaos.
Saifudin Gazzi was shocked and saw the cannons hit, so scared that they were both heartbroken.
Just as he was ecstatic, a cannon had already smashed towards him.
I don’t know if it was lucky, so I didn’t hit him, but I crossed two meters away from him and hit a general next to him.
He saw with his own eyes that the general who was loyal to him yesterday was smashed to his head and was covered in blood.
Saifudin Gazi was completely stunned.
He led his subordinates to run around, no longer thinking of siege the city, and the moment just now completely shocked him.
What can you do now?
Of course it's escape!
The cannons on the city tower kept firing out more than a hundred.
Musketeers have one wave after another.
The big collapse has begun.
The sound of Song army drums sounded from the city tower, and the city gate opened wide, and teams of iron cavalry rushed out of the city gate.
It is the Beiwei Army!
He held an iron bone in his hand and a saber at his waist, rushing into the already messy enemy ahead like a rushing torrent of steel.
The massacre began to harvest life like a meat grinder.
Until the sunset slowly sinks into the horizon, half of the sky in the west completely turns red.
The most powerful force in the Mesopotamia collapsed in an instant.
On December 25, 18th year of Jingkang, the Song army led their troops to surround Mosul, and Mosul opened the door to surrender.
Both the Tigris River were captured by the Song army.
At this time, hearing that the Turks were defeated by enemies from the East, the crusaders of the Holy Holy Church began to move again.
The crusaders led by King Louis VII of France and King Condra III of the Holy Roman Empire were already on the way to the Eastern Expedition.
Their first goal was to defeat Edessa who had lost his backyard, then quickly head south to drive the pagans from Jerusalem, and threaten the Damacus, the core of the enemy.
This is the second Crusade in history.
In March of the 19th year of Jingkang, Zhao Huan received Yue Fei's memorial.
This memorial clearly explains the details of the past year.
Zhao Huan was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Yue Fei was so capable. After fighting the Tigris River, he had reached the Euphrates River and was called to the Crusaders.
After reading the memorial, Zhao Huan suddenly laughed loudly, feeling that the direction of history was completely different.
How could the Crusaders be the opponent of the Song army today?
Not to mention the invincible cavalry corps of the Song army, even the Infantry Armor can defeat the Crusaders so much that they don’t even know him.
Not to mention muskets and cannons.
In May of the 19th year of Jingkang, Zhao Huan received another war report: King Louis VI of France and King Condra III of the Holy Roman Empire were captured and the Crusaders were defeated.
The two kings are already on their way back to Middle-earth.
The Second Crusade, which had lasted for two years in history, ended in half a year, and all military forces in the West Asia region were wiped out by Yue Fei.
In September of the 19th year of Jingkang, Yue Fei's legion was already facing Constantinople across the sea.
This caused shock to the entire Western world, and then people realized that a very terrible enemy came.
The Pope of the Holy Holy Church wrote a letter to the Emperor Manuel of the Roman Empire, implying that both sides would unite to fight against the enemy together.
The Roman emperor of Constantinople and the ministers of the empire unanimously felt that the Pope was shameless and began to be a cannon fodder again.
If this matter was put before, it would be fine. The emperors and imperial ministers of Constantinople would think that the Holy See was justified.
But after two crusades, everyone knows what the charlatans in Rome and the savage kings in rural Western Europe want to do.
In this era, the richest place in Europa was of course Constantinople, the capital of the Roman Empire.
Hundreds of years ago, the Western Roman Empire was ravaged by the barbarian cavalry. The imperial emperor died amid the barbarian whistling, and the Roman city changed its ownership.
As a continuation of the orthodox Roman Empire, the emperors of Constantinople and the sacred Holy See in the city of Rome have always been opposite each other.
One is the secular empire that unites the divine religion, and the other is the supreme divine kingdom that controls everything and has absolute control over Western Europe.
The two sides have been fighting for a long time.
But Constantinople, which inherited the Roman heritage, is the economic and political center of Europa. The prosperity here made the Pope salivate.
Therefore, the purpose of the Crusades was actually to rob money from the east, including the robbery of the Eastern Roman Empire.
At this time, how could the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire still believe in the Pope's face?
Then what did he do next?
I wrote a peace talks letter to Yue Fei.
Chapter completed!