Chapter 477 The Third Anti-Roman Alliance

The news of the canal area naturally reached Jerusalem, but everyone's first reaction was not jubilation, but a disaster.

Now the entire Jerusalem area has only 300,000 people, and the army is only over 5,000. It is simply impossible to stop them with such an army.

Everyone is ready to run. If Egypt can't run, they will go to Mecca. They only have this way now. At the beginning, I complained just for fun. Now there is no figure like Saladin to lead them to victory, but the remaining religious consciousness makes them stick to Jerusalem. This holy city must not be lost.

Seeing that the goal has been achieved, Umansk wrote a letter to the Castilian Committee, telling them that they can attack Rome now.

Although they know that Egypt will definitely not be able to beat Rome, as long as they can delay time, watching them fight each other, Iberia can attack Rome, and then recapture Rome with overwhelming momentum. In this way, the Pope will definitely support them, and then let them lead the holy war against the East, and then realize the highest ideal of the unification of the Catholic world.

The pirate groups entrenched in Tunisia also became active. They began to plunder Sicily and southern Italy. Poland in the north also had its eyes on Moscow. Rome's external environment deteriorated greatly.

Although it deteriorated, none of them dared to be the first Christian country to declare war on Rome. The lesson of Venice was still before their eyes, and even Egypt's diversion of attention would not work.

This gave Rome time to react. All the recruited troops and diplomatic envoys took action, and at the same time ensured that other family members could take action to disrupt the opponent's rhythm.

Peter did not return to Constantinople but went directly to Ashkelon. At the same time, he gave the prime minister his will. He wanted to lead the expedition himself, so he would go to Cyprus first and then go south.

At the same time, the emperor also granted the prime minister the power to dispatch all affairs, and also sent a message to Duke Argao to take the initiative. Since they are coming, they must be welcomed well.

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Since Sigismund was busy with his own affairs, the war against Rome was jointly led by Burgundy and Austria. They held a meeting in Munich, the capital of Bavaria. In addition to these three countries, there were also Milan, Savoy, Poland, Lithuania, England, Iberia and the Kalmar Union. In addition, there were the Duke of Orleans and five electors. This basically brought together the entire Western Europe.

John was in charge of this meeting. He directly stated the purpose at the beginning, which was to attack Rome and his allies.

This is also the common goal of everyone. No matter whether it is interests or anything else, as long as Rome is defeated, many benefits can be obtained from him.

"The existence of Rome has threatened many countries. We must unite, just like the Venetians did two hundred years ago."

"That's right!!!!"

Everyone shouted to destroy Rome, and then directly discussed the plan to divide the spoils. In their view, this is already a done deal. The failure of the anti-Roman alliance before has made them learn the reason, that is, there are too few countries and too few troops. Now that so many countries have joined, it must succeed.

According to the division plan, Venice will regain its independence, Rome will establish the Latin Empire with Constantinople as its capital, the Kingdom of Anatolia with Ancyra as its capital, and the Kingdom of Serbia and Bulgaria with Sofia as its capital.

The northern territories of Rome and Moscow will belong to Lithuania. As for the allies, the Kingdom of Hungary will be inherited by the Habsburgs, Romagna and Rome will re-establish the Papal States, Naples will be inherited by the Orleans branch, and the three countries of Rome will be kings sent by Burgundy, Castile and Aragon respectively. Everyone who joins can get a piece of land, and the canal area will be given to Portugal. This plan looks pretty good.

Now the three countries are just a rough division. They are preparing to re-establish the fiefdom system. There must be a lot of dukes and earls below, which is another piece of fat meat.

Iberia will definitely take the lion's share. They have a lot of nobles, and their descendants are also ready to join this crusade. But there are also many nobles in the Holy Roman Empire. It can only be said that Rome has too little land and can only be divided reluctantly.

In terms of religion, the Catholic Church is preparing to re-establish the diocese to restore the rule of Catholicism.

"Since everything is ready, how many troops are you prepared to provide?"

After this, the voices of their discussion became much quieter, but the Iberian Alliance, which was the most confident, spoke out first.

"We are prepared to prepare 40,000 troops for this holy war."

Good guy, this is indeed a big deal. No wonder they want the most, to spread their nobles all over the world.

"Austria is prepared to provide 10,000 people," Leopold said his number, which is already the limit for them. In addition, Austria has been on the front line of confrontation for many years, and it must be experienced in many battles.

"Burgundy is prepared to provide 10,000 people."

Here it comes, the richest one is here. John not only provides troops, but also provides a lot of funds to support. In return, the alliance agrees that Burgundy will inherit the richest Latin Empire.

Other members said the number of their troops, which is 100,000 at most, which is quite remarkable. Because no country has ever been able to provide so many troops. They will launch an attack on Rome from the west and north in cooperation with Egypt, and force Rome to surrender with overwhelming force.

And this time they will also send the navy to participate in the war, attacking from both land and sea, I believe it will be successful.

This is the first time that the western region has united after Charlemagne to jointly deal with the Eastern Empire. Although they are all full of confidence, they have to attack in several directions because they all want to command themselves. Among them, Austria and Poland feel that they are slow to attack just because they want allies, and others who want Rome itself are impatient. They are ready to attack without much equipment.

However, it is well said, but the specific things are not like this. How to calculate the wages, food, armor, and weapons of the soldiers, and whether their own economic situation can support a long-term struggle. Even if there is a religious bonus, they are still human beings and need to eat. Jesus will not turn a little wine and bread into the food needed by their entire army.

It seems that they have proposed a solution, that is, looting along the way. Anyway, there are a lot of them, so it’s not too much to give a little, right?

Everyone thinks that their plan is perfect, but they seem to have forgotten one situation: the Bartland family is not only a country in Rome, but also the Berlin Alliance in the north and the Duke of Normandy in France. Have they forgotten?