Daming Greedy Wolf Star

Chapter 385

December.

It seems that the ubiquitous guards of Prince Wu are still active in the area north of Bulgaria, and cities will be captured by them from time to time.

At this point, neither the Holy See nor the Kingdom of Hungary has any solution.

Is the Holy See incompetent?Or is the Kingdom of Hungary acting as a powerful force on the outside?
No, all of this is actually not caused by subjective factors, there are many objective factors.

In order to take back the Holy City, the Crusades defeated the nomads, and everything was due to the difference between the offensive and defensive sides.

If you look at it from another angle, the nomads at that time had already captured Constantinople and occupied the area south of the Balkan Mountains as the demarcation line as their foothold, it would be different.

The mobility and penetration ability of the cavalry could make the Crusaders exhausted with guerrilla tactics alone.

Unfortunately, Zhu Zhanhe has already captured Constantinople, and not only the Balkan Mountains, he is almost approaching the lower Danube plains.

Under the terrifying power of the white phosphorus eggs, the garrison at the top of the city was like a useless force. They just had to open the city gate to welcome the crown prince's guards into the city to burn, kill and loot.

In this regard, neither the Holy See, the Kingdom of Hungary, nor the Holy Roman Empire can stand idly by. If they ignore it, their reputation will plummet, and no one will ever believe in their rule again.

However, for the European white pigs, the blackness of November did not recede with the arrival of December, but became darker with the cold winter.

However, they may discover this, but they will never discover that this increasingly dark darkness actually comes from their victory.

Adrianople.

Zhu Zhanhe looked at Xing Kun in front of him with a gloomy expression.

As the saying goes, if you often walk by the river, you can never get your shoes wet.

The prince's bodyguards, who wandered freely and recklessly through Southeast Europe, eventually got wet shoes. Xing Kun and Liu Qingwen's group of nearly 5 people were all defeated, with less than 3000 people able to escape.

Among them, Liu Qingwen from Qianhu died in battle after risking his life.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhu Zhanhe didn't get angry directly. After all, the Shizi's guards have done what they should do in terms of record and bravery, but they are lacking in meticulousness.

"Sanfeng, send an order to make all the guards of the princes shrink. Within half a month, I will see the replies from all the guards of the princes outside. Within a month, I will see all the guards of the princes outside return to Adrianople! "

"Yes!"

Zhu Sanfeng knew that Zhu Zhanhe was unquestionable at this time, so he immediately bowed to accept the order and retreated without even raising his head.

"You go down too..." Zhu Zhanhe rubbed his temples and felt a little headache.

"Go and get fifty military sticks on your own initiative!"

"Yes!" Xing Kun lowered his head and limped away.

Yes, Xing Kun was also injured, and it was not serious. There were two deep wounds on his right leg that showed the bone. It is conceivable that he will be disabled in the future.

But compared to their arrogance, Zhu Zhanhe felt that this was all deserved.

At the beginning, when he was determined to implement this guerrilla tactic of breaking up into parts and constantly harassing them, Zhu Zhanhe once gave these people numerous instructions to operate around the Kingdom of Hungary.

You can enter the Kingdom of Hungary, but remember not to go deep.

But what about Xing Kun and Liu Qingwen?They actually went to Mohachi!

Where is Mohachi?Along the tributary of the Danube to the north is Budapest, the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary!
A scattered team of more than 5 people, without stable logistics supplies, without a stable source of information, or even a specific plan, dare to go deep into the capital of a country?And the king of this country is also the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire!

He wouldn't even dare to do this to Zhu Zhanhe!
but!Xing Kun and Liu Qingwen did just that!

Zhu Zhanhe took a deep breath, and tried hard to get all these messy thoughts out of his mind, because thinking about them now doesn't make much sense, the important thing is how to get them back.

A loss of nearly 5 people. From the beginning of Zhu Zhanhe's Western Expedition until now, relying on Bai Phosphorus Dan's rogues, the loss has only been more than [-] people, and most of them are Ah San.

But this time, there were 5 people, a total of 5 people, more than 3 Asan, more than 1 Uzzandusi soldiers, and more than 1000 Crown Prince guards.

This made him very heartbroken and troubled at the same time.

"Come on."

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhanhe sighed and put down his hands on his temples.

"His Royal Highness." Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping, who were standing at the door, heard the sound and walked in.

"Inform the Mu family and ask them to notify Zhanqi when the next supply is coming and ask him to contact Wuszang Dusi and send some soldiers over."

"Within two months, I want to see [-] soldiers coming here!"

"If there's not enough at Wu Zangdusi, go to Xiangzhou Prefecture! If Xiangzhou Prefecture doesn't have enough, go to Nanzhou Prefecture!"

"Yes!" Zhu Ling bowed and stepped back.

"Ju Ping."

"His Royal Highness." Zhu Pingyuan wanted to retreat, but stopped after hearing Zhu Zhanhe's voice.

"Inform Jian Xiao and ask him to lead 4 people to stay at the Castle, and all the others will be transferred to Adrianople!"

"This..." Zhu Ping rarely accepted the order directly, but asked hesitantly.

"Your Highness, are you all going to be transferred here?"

In fact, it wasn't that Zhu Ping didn't obey Zhu Zhanhe's orders, it was actually that Zhu Zhanhe's behavior was a bit impulsive.

Previously, Zhu Zhanhe spent a lot of manpower and material resources to set up defenses in the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits in order to block this pass, but now...

Command conflict.

"Bring them all over!" Zhu Zhanhe knew what Zhu Ping was worried about, so although his tone was a bit harsh, he was not angry.

"Yes!"

……

Just when the Ming army in the Western Expedition suffered such heavy losses for the first time, the enemy, the European White Pig, was celebrating.

Rome.

That's right, it's Rome, the Rome where all roads lead to Rome.

As the seat of the Holy See and the capital of the Papal State, this is undoubtedly one of the most prosperous cities in Europe...

At this moment, the news of the Crusaders' defeat of the Ming Army had already been announced by the Holy See and all parties in the Holy Roman Empire. Everyone was immersed in celebrations, and it meant that the whole world was celebrating.

However, the Roman church at this time was gloomy.

This place used to hold secret chamber meetings in the past, but now it has become a meeting place for the big bosses of all parties, and this time there are Pope Martin V, Emperor Sigismund of the Holy Roman Empire, and Queen Jeanne II of the Kingdom of Naples. Frederick III, King of Sicily.

This was all started before. In addition to these people, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia, the Principality of Venice and other countries also sent people over.

It's just that the kings of these countries are not Sigismund. He is also the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire while serving as the king of Hungary, and he is not as close as Pope Martin V, Jeanne II and Frederick III.

Therefore, they could only send representatives over.

"Think carefully. Today's victory is only temporary and is used to deceive the civilians. In fact, we all know that there are as many as sixteen cities attacked by the Ming army. The Ming army alone we know has More than seven!"

Sigismund looked at the people present with a gloomy expression.

"Although we captured one of them, we all know that there are still six teams that have escaped and are heading towards Adrianople."

"And! The most important thing is! That fleet..."

As Sigismund said the word fleet, everyone frowned, and the atmosphere in the secret room dropped almost instantly.

The treasure ship was the largest ship in the world, even comparable to the ships of later generations. However, at this time, Europe was far inferior to the Central Plains in terms of shipbuilding capabilities.

Let’s put it this way, although the treasure ship was made of wood, its displacement exceeded one thousand tons. However, the Columbus fleet that discovered the New World had a maximum displacement of only one hundred tons. And Magellan, who is known for his circumnavigation of the world, had a fleet with a displacement of more than a thousand tons. It’s only 110 tons. (Note 1)

The ten-fold gap was the gloom lingering over Sigismund and other European rulers.

"How about..." Pope Martin V looked at the gloomy faces of everyone and spoke slowly.

"Let's increase troops..."

"Nikoburg is an important place. We don't have to worry about the north. After all, that is our place, but not Nikkoburg."

“Surrounded by the Alps, Dinara Mountains, and the East, West, and South Carpathians, the middle reaches of the Danube River is a huge basin. As long as Fort Nico at the outlet of the Danube River is defended, the Ming Dynasty can be stopped at the minimum cost. military."

Upon hearing this, Sigismund lowered his eyelids and tapped his right hand on the table unconsciously, seeming to be considering the feasibility of Martin V's proposal.

Jeanne II, Frederick III and others looked at Martin V and then at Sigismund, but in the end neither spoke.

In fact, what Martin V said was very technical.

The Danube River is known as the cradle of European civilization, and the middle reaches are indeed surrounded by multiple mountains to form a huge basin plain, as Martin V said.

but!

He only talked about the middle plains.

The lower plain of the Danube is not worse than the middle plain, but because it is not blocked by many mountains like the middle plain, and the adjacent Adrianople, Burgas and Varna are all under the control of the Ming army. Next, so...

The actual situation is not very good.

Martin V seemed to have come up with a good solution, using the unique terrain of the middle Danube plain to block the Ming army's advance, but in fact he really lost it...

Well... I saved one watermelon, but lost another one.

but……

In the method proposed by Martin V, there is still one variable, and that is whether they can hold the pass of Fort Nico.

If they can hold it, they can still keep one of the watermelons. If they can't hold it...

Finally, if you hold on, you may not be able to sit back and relax, because this is not a turn-based game where you come and go. If you don't succeed once, won't people try again?

Moreover, everything in this world has its own sequence.

Back side of Adrianople, Plovdiv.

Looking at the Jingguan in front of him, Zhu Zhanhe suddenly felt a sense of comfort.

how to say?There are all kinds of crafts and various ways out in this world, but any craft, no matter whether you know it or not, is not as good at playing it as your old skill.

　Note 1: Everyone knows that there are disputes about the data of the treasure ship. I checked it briefly. Some said [-] tons, [-] tons, and exaggerated ones said [-] tons. Let’s take it Fifteen hundred tons.

Of course, this is just what I found. If book friends have relevant information, you are welcome to slap me in the face. I like this kind of slap in the face.

　
(End of this chapter)