Chapter 479 Reaction

In the following week, Stanitsa occupied several towns one after another, and the entire northern part of Sardinia had fallen.

Cagliari finally learned that the Roman army was coming, and hurriedly organized the army to set out to the north, but because the other side came too fast, and the escaped peasants said, the residents did not dare to go forward, and only hoped that the army could expel them.

The troops went all the way north, and finally a battle broke out in Gilarza. The Sardinian army was mainly composed of civilians and temporarily recruited soldiers, and there were 100 nobles. After the fall of Rome, the weapons here began to improve. Although it was still not enough compared with Aragon, it was already a considerable leap.

The Sardinian cavalry took the lead, and they still maintained the spirit of chivalry and charged at the Roman army desperately.

"Artillery ready, fire!"

The small Roman artillery fired at the other side, and the warhorse was frightened and fell, and the people on it fell down with it.

The same way, the same end, their proud chivalry was shattered in front of the artillery. Their first resistance failed.

Because there were not enough soldiers, they asked Rome for reinforcements and attacked Cagliari directly. The local farms and mines had no power to fight back in front of the army. Only the castles and manors of the lords relied on their own defense to barely keep their territory, but they did not dare to go out, fearing that the only card that could save themselves was gone.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!"

Aragon was furious because of the death of Martin I, Aragon was caught in the war of succession. Even the previous meeting was a representative sent by the committee.

"We have to change our plan. If this goes on, they will definitely attack Barcelona. We must send troops first."

"But we have already discussed with Castile and Portugal to send troops together."

"If we don't send troops now, we will regret it when they attack Barcelona."

There were all kinds of quarrels in the committee. They were not very interested in Sardinia. Anyway, their property was in Aragon, and there were only barbarians there.

But its geographical location meant that they could not give up Sardinia, so they could only send troops in advance. And they had to find a suitable commander for it.

But before their discussion came to an end, Stanitsa's army continued to move south. After dealing with the large army, the Roman army looted towns along the way. Half a month after landing on Sardinia, Cagliari surrendered and Rome controlled the entire Sardinia.

Although the entire island was nominally controlled, the guerrillas on it still had to be dealt with, from the plains to the deep mountains and forests. The Roman army began to suppress rebellions every day, the church was abolished, and the local nobles were promised that they could maintain their privileges and property, and they only needed to come out to help the empire maintain order.

If you think about it carefully, it's also true that you are also a native, and whoever is the ruler above you doesn't affect you. Maybe this is better. Some nobles began to turn to Rome, and others were wavering.

Milan and Genoa noticed the actions of the Roman army and began to urge other countries' troops to come to protect them, saying that if they were finished, then you wouldn't be much better.

This threat is also quite big. No one knows how big Rome's appetite is. They only know that he has a claim to all of Europe. Only by completely defeating them can they survive.

But it still takes time to send troops from all over the country. Before that, they can only rely on themselves. Especially in the bishoprics near Rome, everyone knows that the Roman army looted here and hated it the most. If they wanted to trade, they had to pay a bargain price. They could only live on the output of monasteries and churches. The Pope pitied them and sponsored them a little.

Now the Roman army is coming again, they can't hold on any longer, or you can be merciful and bypass them?

Genoa also felt that it couldn't be like this. If the country was really destroyed, their political talents would not be able to be cashed out. But their business should be good after joining, which is really a dilemma.

However, the nobles and wealthy businessmen decided to support the Holy Roman Empire. There was no reason. Just because the nobles borrowed a lot of money from them, the whole city almost went bankrupt. At least they had to get it back.

The West was in such a mess, and the East was even more chaotic. Mihaly relied on his control of Novgorod and the capture of the Finnish region to frame those boyars who were close to Lithuania, and suppressed and confiscated their property on the grounds of disrespecting the Grand Duke of Moscow.

Livonia was also often under pressure from Novgorod, and Moscow indulged Mihaly. In order to create a pro-Western grand duke, Livonia and Lithuania secretly supported Yuri to take power, and those boyars who wanted to restore the old system also supported him. They were going to arrest Mihaly, sentence him and drive him out, and then announce his crimes to the world, so that it would be foolproof, and Yuri could smoothly inherit the position of Grand Duke of Moscow.

The plan was perfect, but there was a problem in the first step. How could they quickly capture Mihaly? Seizing territory for Moscow made his prestige so high that the Grand Duke trusted him very much and put him in charge of northern affairs, and confiscated most of the boyars' property and put it here. It was simply a fantasy for the Grand Duke to agree.

Mihaly changed the land of the big landlords in the north into smaller self-cultivating farmers' land. The farmers had to serve and pay taxes for Mihaly, and they were directly responsible to the archon, which maintained their combat effectiveness. And used artillery to attack their fortresses, and Livonia could be quickly occupied.

He also heard about the things in the south. The attacks from other countries that were overconfident and attempted to restore their glory were doomed to fail. What he had to do now was to stabilize the family's power. I heard that my eldest brother had gone south to Jerusalem to fight for the family. According to the plan, Michael needed to obtain the position of Grand Duke of Moscow before he was qualified to compete for other places. He was doing it now.

The representatives of Munich left one after another. They were going to prepare the army. According to their plan, the Austrian army attacked Hungary, the Polish and Lithuanian armies attacked Moscow, the Holy Roman Empire, Orleans and Burgundy armies entered the Apennine Peninsula along Milan, and Iberia attacked Naples through the navy. As long as Egypt could delay for a month, they could solve the Apennine Peninsula, and then directly attack the Balkans, and then march to the gates of Constantinople.

Lithuania decided to unite with Livonia to deal with Moscow, but something happened in the south again. The Cossacks began to plunder Lithuania, and they did not leave anything for them. It seems that Rome has taken action.

Vitatus prepared for another expedition, and then he successfully gathered a group of troops with the prestige of the Teutonic Knights. He marched south in the name of fighting heresy. As long as he was fast enough, he could regain all the territory.