Chapter 356 Heading Towards Lake Van

News came from the front line one after another, and the news of the great victory in the Battle of Ancyra came, which made Mircea relax.

"Good, good."

Mircea showed the ministers the victories of his sons on the front line, and then issued an order to appoint Peter as the governor of Anatolia, Antioch, and Mesopotamia. All matters can be done first and then reported. Mihaly was the governor of Trebizond to help his elder brother.

Then Mircea ordered: 120,000 soldiers were recruited from the Balkans and the area north of the Danube to support the front line.

Due to the conscription of some personnel to join the army, the domestic financial pressure has also increased. At present, Rome has one soldier in eighty people, and after conscription, it will become sixty, but it is still acceptable. Moreover, the benefits of territorial expansion are not small. Let the people suffer again and wait for the victory of the war.

The name of Rome has spread to the entire Mesopotamian Basin. The Armenians welcome the arrival of the savior, and the territory of Rome continues to expand eastward.

After three hours of fierce fighting, the Ottoman capital of Konya was recaptured. The gold and silver in it were distributed uniformly by the upper level, women were used as slaves, and all children were sent to monasteries. Then Peter continued to move westward.

"Your Highness, Myriokephalon is just ahead."

Peter looked at the valley ahead and sent scouts to explore it first.

"It was here that Emperor Manuel was besieged by the Turks. The foundation accumulated by two generations was lost. It's a pity."

But what made Peter happy was that the Turks did not adopt the tactic of clearing the countryside, and his army could still get supplies.

"Your Highness, the scouts reported that there were no traces of Turks ahead. "

Peter was still worried, so he let part of the army pass through the valley first, and only ordered the main force to follow after seeing nothing happened.

Fortunately, there was no danger. It seemed that they retreated in a hurry and did not even set an ambush. The artillery troops passed through the valley quickly under his urging. They were an important part of the offensive.

"The people who were still domineering here four hundred years ago have now shrunk into a mess. It's a pity."

"It's all because of the eldest brother's good guidance, otherwise there would not be such a great victory. "

Seeing that most of the enemy's army was suddenly destroyed, Peter doubted that the impact he had brought was so great. It was shorter than the battle of Poyang Lake by Emperor Taizu, but there were also various factors that affected it, but it was also a battle that was enough to change history.

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After stabilizing the situation in Antioch, Maurice expanded all the way. After solving the situation nearby, he decided to go east and capture Aleppo, an important town in Syria. ׺°”˜˜`”°º×

Aleppo is an important town in Syria. It was attacked by the Crusaders many times during the Eastern Expedition but was saved. Timur also slaughtered more than 20,000 residents in the city here. It was the right time to attack here.

Sometimes no one knows why such great courage suddenly broke out. Maurice could only mobilize 7,000 troops, of which three One-third of the Romans were militias. For the sake of glory and the empire, he decided to take a gamble.

Maurice led his army over the mountains and entered Thermaida. The local residents surrendered immediately when they saw the Roman army coming. After the explanation of the local merchants, he learned that Aleppo now had only 6,000 residents and less than a thousand defenders, which gave him a bargain. He went to Aleppo without stopping.

Some local tribes wanted to rob, but they were robbed. Their good horses, their treasures, their food were gone, and only their lives were left. They regretted it so much.

Just one day later, Maurice led his troops to the city of Aleppo. The commander of the garrison was about to say that he would strengthen the city defense, and the west side of the city fell.

Because Timur did not do much repair after destroying this place, the gate there is the weakest. It is easy to was breached.

The defenders fought for a long time, but they were powerless in the face of the surging enemy. Finally, Aleppo was occupied.

Rome's behavior of eating meat in the north stimulated the Mamluks, and the Sultan immediately sent people into the Sinai Peninsula and went north to recapture Jerusalem. At the same time, he sent people to Constantinople to explain the situation to the emperor and sign a peace treaty.

In the campaign to recover the lost land, the Crusaders formed by the Knights and the Order once again played a role. Bishop Mark of Cyprus recruited more than 200 armed monks for Maurice's team, who performed outstandingly in the battle to capture Aleppo. The Knights also performed bravely in the battle of Ancestral and received unanimous praise.

Driven by the government, the size of the order continued to expand. In this mobilization of troops, the order contributed more than 1,000 armed monks, and the Knights contributed more than 1,000 armed monks. There were also 4,000 troops at Caesar's disposal. They came to the pagan land with the Orthodox Gospel to purify it, and were looking for a piece of land to prepare for the heavenly experiment.

The Cilician region was completely opened without bloodshed, and the road to Antioch in the south had been opened. Peter also learned about the recapture of Aleppo, but now he still wanted to fight Muhammad to the death.

In the process of pushing forward, almost all the Turkic pastures were confiscated. Some were taken back to arable land, and some became state-owned pastures and rented out to herders.

Those Turkic tribes converted all the strong laborers into soldiers, so women became the main force of grazing. When facing the army, they had no power to fight back, and could only watch their property being taken away. They also became slaves, and Sultan Muhammad was fine because he ran away again.

After running to Tunceli, Muhammad felt that it was not safe here either, so he took his army and ran to the east. At this time, he only had 50,000 troops around him, and they ran to Erzurum. This small town with less than 5,000 people could not accommodate 50,000 people now, so some people lived in the city and some lived outside the city.

Muhammad prayed to Allah in the temple, praying that he could make a comeback. But judging from the current situation, he is no longer able to do so.

"God, have you abandoned your most loyal people? Since the founding of the country by our ancestors, successive rulers have been respectful to you. How come you abandoned Osman since my father Bayezid? Why?"

Muhammad was furious here. Since Osman I established the Sultanate, he has witnessed Osman's fall from a regional power to a small regime. No one can bear such a huge gap. What's more, it was Muhammad who saw his father being humiliated by Timur. At that time, he vowed not to let such a tragedy happen again. As a result, in just a few years, he still let his father's tragedy come here. However, he had to continue to escape at this time, and it seemed that he had to run into the territory of the Timurid Empire. As long as he could stay alive, he would not be afraid of not having time to make a comeback.