my days with tyrants

Chapter 406: Survival and destruction, rebuilding Rome

Brachnai Palace.

At this time, His Majesty the Roman Emperor could only live here. This palace was looted back then and all the gold and silver decoration on the ceiling was shaved off.

"Your Majesty, you cannot defend Constantinople."

Yang Feng said.

In front of him was Manuel II, who was over fifty years old.

As for Her Royal Highness the Queen, she was standing nearby.

The two were considered an old married couple, but they actually already had several children. The future last emperor of Rome, Constantine XI, was only a few months old at this time, but John VIII was already in his teens. In addition, they had two daughters, the eldest of whom was older than John VIII.In addition, there was also his nephew John VII in Constantinople at this time. He was also the regent when Manuel II went to Old Rome for help. Their family was actually very capable. In order to fight for this broken throne, they had previously The fight was also very intense...

The royal home!
Standard.

Although this throne has been reduced to the point where it has become a vassal of the Ottomans.

But that was also King of Kings, Sand of Sands, Eternal Ruler, Emperor of the Romans…

Amidst the thunderous sound of cannons coming from outside, His Majesty the Emperor of the Romans sat there melancholy.

He actually just came back from the city wall.

However, he was different from the Queen and Yang Feng who were watching from the high ground in the city. He directly appreciated the whole process of the Christ Tower or Gala Tower being destroyed by artillery. With the telescopes sold here by merchants, he could even see the Ming army's artillery. position.

Dozens of cannons sprayed flames, like dragons destroying everything.

Then everything shattered on impact.

The indestructible Galata Tower was directly penetrated by a cannonball, and the gap created caused the upper part to collapse. This tower, which was the core of the Genoese defense, became a ruined wall.

Of course, brickwork is what it is.

In this era, no castle in Europe could stop the stone cannon.

Otherwise, it would not develop towards the bastion.

The shells that destroyed Galata also destroyed the courage of His Majesty the Emperor.

However, at this time, Zhu Di's army only crossed the Bosporus forward. He set off in Jianzhou. In the past two years, he also built a large number of warships in Jianzhou.

In addition, the Ottomans also had warships.

In the end, these warships transported 1 holy troops from Jianzhou. They first landed on the west bank of the strait north of Uskuldar, relying on the artillery fire of the Uskuldar fort to provide cover. However, this was purely redundant, because regardless of Constantine's Neither the garrison of the fortress nor the Genoese of Pella considered fighting.Even the [-] Zhao Holy Army exceeded their ability to fight. At this time, Constantinople only had more than [-] soldiers, and the Genoese in Pella only had a few hundred mercenaries.

They have castles.

Just rely on the castle to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

Then the Zhaosheng Army, which successfully landed, directly pushed the artillery, especially the heavy siege artillery, to Pella.

The heavy siege artillery with twenty kilograms of shells severely damaged the Christ Tower with one shot.

The bombardment of the castle continues now.

As for the subsequent hundreds of thousands of troops, they entered Europe in two ways. Among them, the 20 West Asian coalition forces headed by the Ottoman King Issa crossed the sea on a pontoon bridge at Canakkale, and then attacked Adrianople to take down his brother Suleiman. .As for the Central Asian coalition led by Zhu Gaoxu who was building a pontoon bridge in Uskudar, and then crossed the sea to participate in the siege of the Castle, the Zhaosheng Army's landing was only to clear the periphery of the Castle and prevent the Genoese from interfering with the construction of the pontoon bridge.

In addition, there is actually another way. Zhu Neng leads the nomadic cavalry of the Oara tribe into the Eastern European grasslands, and then reinforces Tokhtamysh. After reuniting with the latter, he goes south from Ukraine to sweep Romania and other countries.

The three routes finally met at Junbao.

According to this strategy, all the Black Sea coast will be captured after this battle.

Then Zhu Di moved to Junbao.

Of course, it was not a move, his vassal city was still Ili, but as the governor of military affairs in the Western Regions, he moved his headquarters to Junbao.

After seeing the power of the Ming army's heavy artillery, Manuel II felt very heavy...

He made a serious mistake.

He should have knelt down in the first place.

"I know you still have strong city walls, and you also have foreign aid. The Hungarians, Serbs, and the Ottomans from Adrianople all promised to come to rescue you, but what use can they have? Even Bayezid was captured. , do you think Suleiman is stronger than his father? The Serbs were defeated last time and suffered miserably. Can they win this time?

As for the Hungarians.

They couldn't even defeat Tokhtamysh, so how could they defeat the Ming Dynasty?

Who else do you expect?

Emperor Shinra?

King of France?

Who among them will come to save you? "

Yang Feng said.

He actually wanted Manuel II to surrender.

Let the Roman Emperor kneel before the Ming Dynasty and present Roman editions to the Ming Emperor. Of course they belong to the ancient Roman Empire, and they should all be presented from North Africa to Britain. Then the Ming Emperor can use the Roman Emperor's tribute to conquer these rebellions...

What, they have separated?

We don’t care about this. He is the Roman Emperor. He dedicated his empire to the Ming Dynasty. The land of Rome is the land of the Ming Emperor. Regardless of your past, it has nothing to do with the Ming Emperor. If you betray the Roman Emperor, it does not mean that the Roman Emperor has no ability to conquer. This land is no longer his.And he dedicated the land to the Ming Emperor. The Ming Emperor had the ability to conquer, so of course he had to deal with the rebellion. This is called rebuilding the mountains and rivers and rebuilding Rome. The survival of the Ming Dynasty is continuous. I, the Ming Dynasty, like this.Then Manuel II was granted the title of King of Rome, but his family was in the Ming Dynasty. King Yan was the regent of Rome and was responsible for the subsequent conquest. The rest was left to Zhu Di, who could do whatever he wanted!

From now on Rome will still be Rome.

He is still the King of Yan.

But regent Rome.It was already a huge honor for him as a prince to serve as regent for the Roman king and a vassal king. Then he gave some money to the Roman king's family every year. Even if it was the tax paid to the king by the Roman people, it was actually similar to the relationship between the Japanese king and the Ashikaga family.

After all, it was impossible to make Zhu Di emperor of Rome.

And it is impossible to make him the king of Rome. His title of King Yan is higher than that of the vassal king.

The Roman king was demoted.

"Who the hell are you?"

Her Royal Highness said.

"Your Highness, it doesn't matter who I am, as long as you know I'm here to help you.

I don't want this city to be destroyed.

You can't win, not to mention you can't defeat King Yan's attack. Even if you can repel him temporarily, he will come again and again. He will bring more powerful cannons every time, and bring more powerful cannons every time. More troops.Maybe you don't know his identity yet. The current Ming Dynasty is a queen, because she is the only descendant of the previous emperor, but she is only three years old now. The person who actually rules the Ming Dynasty is the previous emperor's aunt, this princess regent.What you have to face is King Yan, a prince, the elder brother of this princess, one of her dozen brothers. His fiefdom is in the west of the Ming Dynasty, so he is also the governor of the Ming Dynasty in the western conquest.

Understand?
What you are facing is not even the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, but just a prince of Ming Dynasty.

What you are facing is not the Ming army.

The real Ming army he brought only totaled 3 people, and the remaining hundreds of thousands were all servants. The Ming Emperor currently still has 100 million real Ming troops, and the last time King Yan conquered the Golden Horde, he defeated the Ba Yeseth only had five thousand Ming troops, and the rest were just servants.

What frightened Timur to death was only the [-] Ming troops reinforcing King Yan.

Then Timur was frightened to death.

so,"

Yang Feng looked at Manuel II.

“You are facing an empire that can destroy you with just one finger. The combined population of Constantinople is not even as large as a single neighborhood in the Ming Emperor’s capital city.

Really.

The largest neighborhood, or square, in her capital city now has more than 10 people. "

He said.

He wasn't lying.

The largest square in the capital, the one at the foot of Mount Wutai, has already exceeded 10 people.

"As for the faith issues that you are worried about, there is no need to worry about this at all. The Ming Dynasty does not prohibit any faith. No matter what religion, as long as you surrender to the Ming Emperor, you can continue."

He continued.

"Even if what you say is true, it is of no use after all. The most people in this city are not my army, but the Venetians and the Crusaders who follow them. If I want to dedicate the city, they will kill me first." of."

Manuel II said.

He is also telling the truth.

The most important force in the city was the Venetians.

The latter has a commercial district equivalent to a colony in the city, while the knights and armed robbers from other countries all follow the Venetians. They will not listen to the Patriarch Constantine. They are believers in the old Rome but not New Roman.It can be said that he has been tied to the chariot moving forward. Even if he knows that moving forward means death, he can only watch himself rushing towards death. Now it is not him who wants to defend the castle, but other countries in Europe. We must block Ming's progress here.

They want to hold the door to Europe.

So he could only be held hostage, waiting for destruction to come in this city.

The sound of artillery outside was still thunderous, and he could even distinguish the terrifying sound of huge cannon fire.

"Your Majesty, as long as you are willing to dedicate the city, I will go out to see King Yan. He will decide what to do with the rest."

Yang Feng said.

Is this not easy?
Just open the door to Master Wang when the time comes.

Manuel II looked at the queen, who quickly took out a box full of jewelry and seemed prepared.

"This is your reward."

Manuel II said.

Yang Feng smiled.

"Your Majesty, you are insulting me. I made it clear that I am just trying to prevent this city from being destroyed."

He said.

Understand!
Manuel nodded.

People look down on this little jewelry. This Tamar can't be spent with a small box of jewelry.

But also very reasonable.

After all, he was running for the lives of his whole family.

But he really has no money!
He is very poor.

"Go, let Isabella come over and let her accompany Yang around the city."

Manuel II said.

Fortunately he has a daughter.

(End of this chapter)