Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1324 Defeated Battle Court Empire

But this time he arrived smoothly, thanks to the two people behind him.

One was Kraft, the other Organo.

These two people are not Romans, Kraft is Bulgarian, and Organo is Onogul. Both are chiefs of their respective tribes. They visited Constantinople together a few years ago, and in Baptized there, Emperor Heraclius became their godfather.

The Bulgarians are actually from the Turkic race, and then they continued to move westward. They were originally a branch of the Turkic branch Onogur, and later they moved all the way to the Sea of ​​Azov in Eastern Europe. The name of the Volga River comes from their habitat. .

Due to the invasion of the Avars, they had to move to the middle and lower reaches of the Danube, and even once attached to the Avars to attack Eastern Rome.

Caught between the Avars and Rome, the Bulgarians and Onogurs were wounded, and eventually they switched to Rome and got rid of the Avars.

After they belonged to Rome, they began to marry the Romans, and they had close contacts. A large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, silk, and various religious ceremonies flowed into their hands, which changed their lives from then on. They even became mercenaries for the Romans. , accepting gold coins as a reward from Rome, and uniting the Western Turkic Khazars to fight for Rome against the Avars and Persians.

A few years ago, Emperor Heraclius was ambushed and attacked by the Avars during the war against the Avars, and was even almost captured. If Kraft and Organo hadn't brought their tribal fighters to , Desperately rescued the emperor, maybe the Heraclius dynasty would perish for a lifetime.

Later, Heraclius awarded them the title of "Nobles of the Roman Empire", and even married the women of the Heraclius family to the two. The two brothers led the tribe together and formed the Great Bulgarian Tribe. , As expected, there was no large-scale invasion in the north of Eastern Rome, which freed the emperor to deal with Persia in an all-round way.

This time, the emperor specially selected these two loyal godsons to guard the crown prince and come to Daqin, hoping to form an alliance with Daqin.

In the past, Rome resisted Persia mainly by relying on the power of the Western Turks, but now the Western Turks are still there, but they have gone away to the Volga River under the attack of the Great Qin. There is no place to stand.

Ye Hu, the new Khan leader of the Western Turks, was so focused on guarding against the Great Qin's Western Expedition, how could he dare to lead his troops to fight for Rome in Persia.Without this powerful ally, Rome could not continue its offensive in the direction of Gaugaia.

"20 gold coins." Luo Cheng chuckled.

Cui Junsu was also laughing.

20 gold coins may seem like a lot, but it's not much after careful calculation.One Roman gold coin is only a little more than one renminbi, two are only three renminbi, and twenty are only three liang.

This sounds like a lot of 20 gold coins, but it is only 3 taels, and the Daqin copper coins are at most 30 guan.

You know, Li Shimin had previously raided and captured the Lion City in Linyi, but he donated 10,000+ catties of gold to the imperial court, not counting silver, copper and other spices, cloth and other property.

The young Roman crown prince heard that the Great Qin Emperor thought too little, so he hurriedly said to the translator, "20 gold coins is a lot!"

Luo Cheng laughed loudly.

"His Royal Highness Prince Constantine, do you know that Rome still has a nickname in China?"

"Could it be Da Qin?"

"The Great Qin refers to the Roman Empire before the split, and for the split Eastern Rome, our Central Plains has a nickname, called the Defeat Court!"

"Byzantium is just the original name of Constantinople, not the name of our empire. The empire has only one name, which is Rome." The prince said after hearing the translation.

"I'm not talking about the Byzantium, but the defeated court, the defeated court."

The translator hesitated. The name was a little insulting. If the prince was offended, it would be a diplomatic incident.

"It's okay, you can translate my words directly."

Sure enough, after the prince heard the translation, his face turned red with anger, but he didn't dare to scold the emperor of Qin.

"Rome is a great empire. It was divided into east and west. Although the western Rome was deposed by the barbarian general Odoacer and destroyed the western Rome, we have always inherited the great Rome. In the most dangerous era of barbarian migration, we also once Once again defeated the barbarian invasion."

Although the Eastern Romans were closer to the Greeks in terms of culture, customs, and even blood, they always called themselves Romans, and their emperors also considered themselves the Roman monarchs and the heirs and successors of the ancient Roman Caesar.

They even refused to admit the Byzantine Empire, how could they admit defeat to the Battle Court.

"You were defeated by the Franks, the Vandals, the Burgundians, the Visigoths, the Alemanni, the Lombards, the Angles, the Saxons in the north, and then the Huns, etc., and were also defeated by The Avars, the Persians, etc. defeated and paid tribute to many enemies who defeated you."

"The lesser is two to three hundred thousand gold, the more is four to five million gold."

"Prince, do you think what I said is right?"

The prince argued, "Although the barbarians invaded, we also defeated them one after another. Justinian I and the famous general Belisarius resisted the fierce offensive of the Sassanid Persian Empire, and also destroyed the kingdom established by the Vandals across the sea in North Africa. .”

"Our heavy cavalry is even more famous all over the world. We defeated the Ostrogoths on the Danube and Thrace lines of defense, as well as the Huns and Alans who followed. We successfully defended Nissi in Syria, another important line of defense. The Persians in the area of ​​Bes attacked,"

"My father, the great Emperor Heraclius defeated the regicide, and established the military district system with his own hands, commanded the army himself, and was invincible."

Luo Cheng laughed, "But the Slavs and the Avars have united, and with the support of Persia, they have built a fleet to directly attack Constantinople, and the Persian Emperor Kushilao II is also recruiting soldiers , ready to lead the fleet to the city of Constantinople to rendezvous.”

"The Roman heavy cavalry is very powerful, but the Persian armored cavalry is just as elite."

"We are not afraid of their fleet, we have Greek fire!" the crown prince said proudly. "The Persians, the Slavs and the Avars want to attack our capital Constantinople directly from the sea, and my father is also planning to attack the Persian capital Ctesiphon from two routes!"

"But without Daqin's support, you would not be able to win this battle. In other words, as long as I, Daqin, support Persia, you and Rome will definitely lose!" Luo Cheng said with a smile.

Not only did the Roman crown prince change color, but even Kraft and Organo changed color, because they knew that what the emperor said was right.

(End of this chapter)