Chapter 1283. The situation is improving
The ministers once again became ants on a hot pot, the last time it was such an urgent war report that made the King of Min so anxious that he vomited blood, bringing a lot of bad news, this time I don't know what bad luck it was, so scared that the King of Min actually dropped the military report again, and everyone was pale, looking like a catastrophe was coming.
Especially a few Praetorian Guards' cronies, such as a few of Zanpo Gar Xiangling, saw that Li Jie was in a daze and seemed to be about to faint again, and he panicked even more, shouting one by one that the imperial doctor was about to rush forward.
After Wang Fangyi led the troops out, the highest status became Di Renjie, the servant of the Feng Pavilion, and he was worried and wanted to emulate Li Rang, the king of Hezhong County from the previous time, to pick up the military situation of the black capital, and he had to let the ministers know what was going on in order to come up with countermeasures!
Who knew that at this chaotic moment, after swaying for a while, Li Jie actually lowered his head and picked up the battle report again, so he spit out a mouthful of blood after not being hit.
He really became Fan Wei who was fooled by Uncle Benshan, and now his head is dizzy, don't mention the depression in Li Jie's heart, but fortunately, this time it is good news, and he closed his eyes again to calm down his emotions, Li Jie finally regained his dignity as the king of Fujian, and stood up with a parchment secret letter in his right hand with a dignified face.
"The widow just received the news, the right Qianniu Wei Zhonglang general Lou Shide said that he surrendered the city of Saisalonica, and at the same time, the general Su Dingfang also captured the Macedonian town of Vika, and now most of the Macedonian territory (1) ∧, soil, has been surrendered to my Min!"
This news made more than 100 ministers not come back to their senses for a long time, and then almost all of them made a move, and sighed long, it turned out to be good news, and it almost didn't scare us to death!
The lower level of civil and military affairs still has no concept, but Di Renjie, Xiao Shengyu Wenjie and other prime ministers know what this means, but it is not as simple as keeping two armies, Macedonia is almost one-sixth of the existing territory of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the geographical environment is in the middle, taking this place, almost breaking the connection between Constantinople and Greece.
Moreover, Damin has won a close territory in Europe, which means that in the next battle, Damin can rely on local supplies to fight, and no longer have to be full of enemies on all sides like the last time, at least invincible.
The most important point is that the capital of the Macedonian province, Sessaloniki, was surrendered by Lou Shide! This means that Constantine IV has gradually lost the hearts of the people! In the consistent theory of China, those who win the hearts of the people win the world, which means that the fall of the imperial court in Constantinople can be counted in the countdown.
"Your Majesty is blessed with all directions, the old ministers congratulate Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live!"
Otherwise, if he could become the prime minister in the two dynasties, Yuwenjie, an old guy in his sixties, was the first to lie on the ground, and he congratulated Li Jie with his five bodies on the ground.
Yuwenjie's voice made other officials also wake up, like dominoes, from front to back, prime ministers, generals, and civil officials at all levels all bowed to the ground, and the sound of singing praises and virtues came like a tide.
But not only the army needs morale to fight, but also the court needs morale, if even the ministers have no confidence, like the Song Dynasty, then no matter how many heroes there are, how many wars won, Li Jie will not be able to conquer Constantinople, now watching the ministers finally stand up from the shadow of defeat, Li Jie is also happy, can't help but raise his head, very leader-like laughter.
After laughing for a while, a sense of dizziness came up again, and he scolded Nima, Li Jie sat back on the dragon chair with a butt, and shook hundreds of ministers in one breath and choked up, and each grew up and shouted loudly in a panic.
"Doctor !!"
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This top-secret military report was sent back by Su Dingfang through carrier pigeons, and in the next few days, the Fujian army sailors raised their morale again, and once again chopped the waves and sailed to Europe, which brought back the specific situation, so that Li Jie and the Damin court gradually understood the situation in the Roman Empire......
Things were not so bad, although the Min army did suffer a crushing defeat, the whole army was scattered, and the strategic intention to occupy Constantinople was in vain, but Rome was not comfortable, and the First World War almost put the last bit of foundation into it.
Sailors, the battle of the western bay of Constantinople, the Greek Navy and the Royal Navy rushed to the beach like a bull, in a vain attempt to release the Greek fire to completely destroy the Fujian naval division, however, the Greek fire is a double-edged sword, it burns but does not distinguish between the enemy and me, Liu Renliang ordered the Lu Ning Department to forcibly intercept the Roman fleet, in the fierce battle, a large number of Greek fire was leaked in the bay, plus the ocean current or rushed to the east, the Roman fleet was almost in the same direction as the Greek fire, really lifted a stone to shoot itself in the foot, after the retreat of the Great Min Naval Division, The fire burned for more than half a day, and more than 600 Mondello ships were burned.
Even if many sailors ran aground and fled to shore in time, the ships were almost destroyed, and the Roman navy could be considered to have collapsed after this battle.
As for the army, the barbarian cavalry that came to support Constantine IV, Da Min finally knew who they were, as Li Ji expected, they were Huns! The nomads who destroyed the Western Roman Empire and led the West into the Middle Ages, the descendants of Attila, the whip of God!
This glorious empire rose almost like a meteor, rising from a small tribe on the banks of the Don River, reaching its peak after decades, occupying a vast territory from the Black Sea to the middle of Europe, and even forcing the Germanic peoples who later formed Western civilization to fall into a decisive battle, but from the sudden death of Attila, this great empire fell apart like a meteor and disappeared into the long river of history in a blink of an eye.
However, the Huns did not disappear, and after the great rebellion of the whole empire, Attila's sons returned to the Don River with their men, as well as Hungary in later generations, and Romania continued to be nomadic, and it is said that part of the name of Hungary in later generations came from the Huns.
For a period of time, historians believe that the Huns who ravaged the entire West were the Huns who were defeated in northern China and driven out by the Han people, because the time is relatively consistent, and some unearthed cultural relics seem to be able to testify, but in Li Jie's time, some people in Asia, Europe Huns Hun tombs extracted DnA for comparison, but the two do not seem to be the same ethnic group.
However, Li Jie doesn't care about the question of whether the Huns are Huns now, and now Li Jie's headache is how to solve them, these ancient nomads on horseback can really give a heavy blow to Damin, it is estimated that Constantine IV promised to let them move to Thrace from the barren Don River, the Scythian steppe and Dacia where Hungary is located in later generations, so in the hands of Constantine IV, there are almost more than 100,000 Huns composed of cavalry army.
And the political alliance between Constantine IV and Simon, the leader of the Bolgars, was also officially singled out, Constantine IV married his daughter to Simon, and recognized Simon as his righteous son, promising that after his death, he would leave the position of Roman emperor to him, for Constantinople, Simon also married his daughter to the head of the Huns, the nominal tribal co-lord Cabal, borrowed the cavalry of the once mortal enemy, with this political marriage, the three forces are still firmly resisting the invasion of the Great Min, if you attack Constantinople again, Li Jie was not allowed to find a way to break up this political alliance.
However, there must be advantages and disadvantages, the Huns are good at plundering for centuries, and they are even more ruthless than the Arabs, and the black smoke that Li Jie saw over Constantinople that evening was the fire caused by the victorious Hun cavalry looting in the city.
Even the Bolgars and Slavs who had entered the agrarian society were regarded as barbarians by Rome, not to mention these primitive nomads, and the plundering of the Huns naturally caused strong resentment in the Roman Empire and disappointment with the emperor Constantine IV, which was extremely beneficial to the Great Min, and more Romans began to tend to recognize him and Anna as Roman emperors.
Lou Shide is indeed a talent, in real history, Lou Shide first came to prominence from Gaozong Li Zhi's "Warrior Edict", conscripted into the army as a civilian official, and attacked Tubo from Li Jingxuan, but Li Jingxuan did not know military affairs and was defeated in Heyuan.
In this case, Lou Shide gathered the defeated soldiers, and held the Tao River under the attack of Tubo, not to mention, and then was ordered to send an envoy to Tubo, and negotiated with the Tubo general Zanpo in Chiling, that is, the bodyguard leader next to Li Jie in this time and space.
It can be seen that Lou Shide's lip service is done!
This time the situation was really similar to history, it was raided by the Huns, Lou Shide was beaten dizzy, separated from the large army, fled all the way to the main battlefield and fled westward, and crashed under the city of Thessaloniki in a daze.
The city was once the capital of the ancient Macedonian kingdom, and it was an important fortress on the Aegean Sea in the northeast that held the Mediterranean coastal plain, and it was here that the Eastern Roman Empire had previously relied on to block the invasion of Greece by Arab tribes that had been transported to the Balkans.
Thessaloniki has undergone several repairs by the Greeks, Macedonians, and later Romans, and as one of the fortresses of Rome's control of Greece and the invasion of Thrace at that time, it can be said that the city is high and thick, although it has not reached the level of Constantinople's perverted defense, but it is by no means gnawed by more than 2,000 remnants of the army led by Lou Shide.
As the saying goes, support the bold, starve the cowardly! Lou Shide was definitely not the one who was starved to death, when he fled, he happened to bring a few Roman senators, under their banner, Lou Shide brought more than forty good soldiers into the city of Thessalonica, not to mention, and also kidnapped the Roman general who was responsible for defending the city and let his army into the city.
Rao is so, there are more than 10,000 defenders of Cesarnica, and it is still not comparable to Lou Shide's more than 2,000 tired and hungry defeated soldiers, perhaps God does not want to see the defeat of Damin too badly, just when the two armies are eyeing each other near the city square, and the street battle is about to break out, the Huns in the distance have plundered Constantinople, and the news of the attack on Macedonia has come.
At this moment, Lou Shide's mind suddenly became lively............
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