eastern european eagle

Chapter 89
The army was finally dispatched, not only that, but also many troops responsible for transportation followed.Peter didn't expect much power from these two cannons, and deterrence was what he valued.

The defenders of Serrera Castle were suffering. Seeing the arrival of the Wallachian army, some people who had participated in the Battle of Krusevac trembled.

After the Wallachian pioneers arrived, they began to set up trebuchets and artillery, and fired them when they were assembled. Stones and burning stones hit the city wall, and huge crossbow arrows pierced the defender's chest.For a time the defenders suffered heavy losses.

"Use a shield, use a shield to block." The castle guard ordered his soldiers, which reduced casualties.

For several days in a row, trebuchets and artillery poured firepower at the city wall. Since the defenders had no artillery, they could only counterattack with bows and arrows, but the opponent was out of their range, which was very embarrassing. They could not break through the opponent's attack and counterattack If you can't fight again, you can only be beaten.

After a few days like this, the defenders have long been used to the opponent's stone bombs, and they hide behind the city wall every day, waiting for the opponent to exhaust them.But one morning, the stone bombs stopped coming, which made the defenders a little unaccustomed.

"What happened today, did they run out of shells?"

Some soldiers hiding behind the city wall raised their heads slightly and looked out. What they saw: two huge guys standing outside, with black muzzles aimed at them.

"God, what is this thing?"

"Holy Virgin Mary! Virgin Mary..."

Some soldiers had given up resistance and started praying to God.Pray that the other side will let them go, or give them a good time.

But the opponent was destined to make them uncomfortable. After loading the heavy shells, Boom... fired.

Even in a village 5 kilometers away, the people there can hear the sound of the artillery.A woman was frightened to miscarry, and the chickens and ducks were frightened by the sound and ran around.

So around, then the castle is more serious than this.Although the power of this cannon is the same as that of a small cannon, it has much more impact.

The defenders on the city wall were either stunned, had bleeding in their ears, or were knocked off the city wall, and only six out of ten soldiers could still fight.

"Again!" Peter ordered to the artillery.Although it took a long time to fill the artillery, the trebuchets and small artillery were not idle in this gap.This is not a time of rest for the castle defenders.

Boom, two more shells.This time the morale of the defenders completely collapsed, and they all demanded that the commander surrender, otherwise they would kill him first and then surrender.

For his own sake, the chief sent someone to open the city gate and hoisted a white flag to surrender.

The history of raising the white flag can be traced back to ancient Greece, ancient Rome and medieval Europe.In ancient Greece, raising the white flag means surrender, but it can also mean the cessation of fighting or the suspension of fighting, which is used to gain insight into the military strength of the opponent.In ancient Roman times, white cloaks were sometimes hung to indicate that they were no longer engaged in combat, but surrendered.In Medieval Europe, surrenderers used the white flag to signify that they were no longer fighting in order to obtain clemency.

Seeing the opponent surrender, Peter didn't feel too embarrassed, after all, his goal had been achieved.A barrier in this Krusevac was taken down, and the other party must be coming soon.

Peter was right. The news of Serrera's fall quickly reached Krusevac, and Brankovic was speechless.And the opponent could have directly attacked the capital, but now the purpose of capturing here is to make him agree to the opponent's conditions, and now it is meaningless to ask Osman for help.

So he hurriedly sent someone to the Wallachia camp to negotiate to see what the other party's conditions were.

After capturing Serrera, Peter did not continue to act, but just waited for the opponent to come, and at the same time sent the Cossack guards to the Ottoman border.

Seeing that the Wallachia army was dispatched, some Sipas immediately went to plunder together, but the Cossack cavalry rushed to kill them. Not only did they just rob, but they even lost their lives.And also robbed a lot of spoils to the south.

Bayezid continued to promote the Turkization and crescentization of Asia Minor and the Balkans. A large number of Turkic immigrants arrived in the Balkans and fiercely resisted the local residents.Osman is naturally oriented toward his own people, and he also changed his previous policy of tolerance towards these heretics, and began to focus on oppression and assimilation.This allowed the Balkan Peninsula, with a population of 250 million, to experience the ethnic migration at the end of the fifth century.

The day after the capture of Serrera, Brankovich's emissary arrived.As soon as he saw Peter, he stood there directly.

"Special envoy, did your monarch send you here just to see me?" Peter reprimanded the envoy somewhat seriously, and the other party also understood his gaffe and apologized to Peter.

"Your Highness, on behalf of the monarch of Serbia, Alexander Brankovic, I have come to negotiate with you."

The reason for this negotiation is the same, but the process is different.Peter didn't feel too embarrassed, and started to make his own request.

"Serbia, your country did achieve greatness decades ago, but now, your monarch is willing to be Ottoman's lackey. Is this what God wants you to do?"

Peter used religion as an excuse to denounce Serbia's despicable behavior.This made the messenger a little embarrassed, because he was telling the truth.

"Your Highness didn't understand the situation at the time, and we had no choice but to do so."

"Oh, so you're not wrong at all."

Peter stood up and began a long conversation.

"Decades ago, your monarch Dushan pushed your country to the top, but after his death, for those power and land, the nobles fought to the death, and the situation that was finally established collapsed in an instant. This is your mutual struggle the result of."

Peter kept on criticizing the Serbian nobleman, getting more and more angry, and even wanted to kick him out, but in the end he got back to business.

"Walachia is outraged by your actions during the war with the Ottomans."

After saying a word, the messenger answered.

"Your Highness, the monarch is willing to give your country 5000 ducats as an apology every year."

"Only five thousand?"

As soon as the question came out, the messenger hurriedly raised the amount to 7000, but Peter was still not satisfied.

"Your Highness, ten thousand, ten thousand is the most..."

The envoy was about to cry, but Peter didn't say anything when he saw this, after all, it was too late.

In the new year, Serbia will pay [-] ducats to the Grand Duchy of Wallachia every year, plus the tribute to Ottoman, a total of [-] gold coins will flow out.For Serbia, which has a lot of silver mines, there should be no problem.

(End of this chapter)