king of ros

Chapter 517 The Age of War
Although the kingdom under his rule is now full of rebellions, the influence of Monomakh's name remains undiminished.

Young people and old fritters from all over the country who want to make a difference on the battlefield come from all directions, and Monomacher is still frantically pulling strong men in the areas he can still control.

In this two-pronged approach, by September 1086, Monomaher pulled out an army of 9 troops.

With the vastness of the area ruled by Monomakh, generally speaking, under normal circumstances, it is not a problem to pull out 5 to [-] people through extreme mobilization, but now there are rebellions everywhere in his kingdom, and these places cannot really Leave it alone.

And he is a new ruler, so it is the limit to be able to pull out 5000 people, but the Seljuk army he has to face has a full 5 people.

The difference in troop strength has reached a full 1:2. It can be said that he is facing an extremely bad battle. More than half of his 5000 men are still used as cannon fodder. The prospects for this battle are very bad.

Monomakh was facing tremendous pressure. If he lost to the Seljuk Sultan, his future would almost be over, and the kingdom he had just won would disappear like a flower in a mirror.

When the Seljuk army was advancing, Monomakh once led his army to stay in Tbilisi for a long time. According to the plan, this army was going to intercept the Sudanese army.

Even if the news came from the front that the border fortress had been conquered, Monomacher did not start to act, but continued to wait, which made his subordinates very anxious, but Monomacher just didn't move, and he was under a lot of pressure now. Desperately thinking about what to do next.

This disappointed many people with Monomakh. They believed that Monomakh was frightened by the Seljuk army. The direct result was that some people started to run away, and some Transcaucasian nobles began to prepare for rebellion. And those with a quick temper have already raised the flag of rebellion.

Just when everyone was waiting, not knowing when Monomakh would act, and even thinking that he had lost his courage, Monomakh finally moved.

That was when he received the news of the movement of the Seljuk army. At this time, the Seljuk army was very close to Tbilisi. The Turks thought that they would definitely take the city, and Maliksha also thought that he seemed to be a little arrogant. Looking at the Ross adventurer, with his performance, he didn't have to gather so many troops at all.

And just as the Turks were camping in this way of thinking, before they knew it, Monomakh had brought his troops to the vicinity of the Seljuk Sultan.

Monomakh's team bypassed several Turkic troops and arrived at Maliksha's location. It was a coincidence that when they arrived, it was raining heavily.

Monomakh's 3000-strong elite headed towards Maliksha's camp in the rainy night. The Turks did not react to the attack at all. Almost within an hour, Maliksha's main camp collapsed.

Although the Seljuk Sultan was able to escape successfully, he dropped all his ceremonial guards and flags, almost just avoiding himself. For Monomakh, although this was regrettable, it was completely enough.

Taking advantage of the poor information, Monomakh spread the news that "Maliksha is dead" everywhere, and the various Turkic troops did not know why, and after seeing the ceremonial guard and flag of the Sudan, they also subconsciously believed that Mo The words of Normach's army.

The result of this was that the Turkic armies everywhere began to retreat in a hurry, and the retreat soon turned into a rout. Although a few people in the entire army did not die, most of them had already run away.

When Maliksha managed to find the army under his command two days later, spread the news that he was not dead, and stabilized the troops from all walks of life, he found that almost half of them had run away.

Moreover, Maliksha still has a big trouble. No matter what he said, he won a defeat. The Turks have never been kind to the losers, even if he is a sultan, even if he is such a high-profile ruler, Next, we must also focus on dealing with internal troubles.

For Monomakh, the Seljuk invasion came to an end, and the Turkic invasion was resolved by what he called a daring raid.

After solving the Turkic people, the next step is to solve the internal rebellion. There are so many people who jumped out of the Seljuk attack this time, so Monomakh believes that the next few years may all have to be spent on countering the rebellion.

But he also said that it doesn't matter, the rebellion of these guys was expected, and now it's good to pull them out earlier as long as there is no harm.

In this way, Monomakh started the war against chaos in his kingdom. The dawn of stability in this land has finally been strangled to death again, and the war will come again.

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When the Transcaucasus in the south fell into the flames of war again, in the north, the fuse of the war was also lit.

On a port in the Kingdom of Denmark, a prisoner who paid a ransom had just been released. The prisoner had obviously been mistreated and had various wounds on his body. However, due to the strength of the prisoner, these wounds made him It looks very prestigious.

"Go back... Back to Ross, this matter can't just be left alone..."

The prisoner said viciously, his tone full of anger, and those who redeemed him hurriedly supported him. This person was none other than the second son of the Grand Duke of Kyiv, Volodya Rostislavich.

As for why he is here, that's a long story.

After returning to Rose, Volorida was quickly entrusted by her parents with the important task of going to the west to find a suitable husband for her sister Kosenia.

Kosenia is now 14 years old, which is the age when she should get married, but the Rostislavs picked and picked the few vegetables in the field, but they couldn't find any suitable ones.

Don't even think about marrying Rome. How old are Alexios' children? There are no sons of the right age.

And for Rostislav, he didn't consider any political gain or loss in marrying his daughter this time. The key is whether that person can treat his daughter well, but the few vegetables in the field don't look very good now.

Since there is nothing nearby, we can only look far away, so Volorida was arranged by his parents to go to the west to investigate, in fact, to inspect the age-appropriate princes in various countries to see if there is anything suitable for his sister. .

Naturally, Volorida couldn't wish for it. He had wanted to go further west for a long time, and it was just right to take this opportunity to go, but it was precisely this time that something went wrong.

Volorida's habit of looking for women caused him a lot of trouble. The Prince of Ross always goes for the pretty ones he sees. The mistress got into bed.

Originally, this was just a trivial matter. For things like mistresses, everyone was just playing for fun, so there was no need to care about them.

But this time is different. For a long time, the conflict between the Free Trade Alliance and the Kingdom of Denmark has not been small. Even if the Svens have been caught in disputes, their hostility to the Free Trade Alliance is very unified. Jarre was also very supportive of the policy of hostility.

In this context, Volorida's behavior was regarded as a provocation, so he was caught by the Danes, and then tortured with the king's mistress.

In this process, the king's mistress was directly killed. Anyway, she was just a miller's daughter, and she died as soon as she died. She was used to make an example to Volorida, and she wanted Prince Ross to say something about free trade. An important message from the League, but Volorida held back, he didn't say a word.

And the Danes didn't dare to really do anything to Volorida. Although they had made up their minds and prepared to go to war, it was not good to kill a captive prince rashly.

The bad life in Volorida did not end until Rostislav sent someone to redeem him. In order to save his son, Rostislav spent a huge sum of money. At the same time, he vowed in his heart to solve the problem in the north.

Ever since, with the arrest of Volorida, the atmosphere of war in the Baltic Sea and even in the North Sea became intense, as if the battle would break out in the next moment.

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(End of this chapter)