Invincible urban management

Although facing the challenge letter of Emperor Constantine XI, which was as rude and rude as a bandit, all the Turks in the city were filled with righteous indignation-just a few months ago, the Roman emperor was still in the Crescent Army Banner Trembling in front of him, begging for life-if Sultan Mehmet II was still alive, the Turkish Empire would have sent a large army to fight, and launched the cruelest revenge for this stupid provocation.

But the problem is that following the incredible catastrophe last month, the situation of the two warring parties has undergone earth-shaking changes.

At this moment, with the overnight destruction of an army of 14 and the sudden death of Sultan Mehmed II, no matter how the remaining Turks struggled, the hegemony of the Ottoman Turkish Empire in Eastern Europe and Asia Minor was destined to begin to collapse.

——On the European battlefield, Albania's greatest national hero Skanderbeg, Romania's originator of vampires "Duke Dracula" Vlad III, Hungary's Hunyadi regent, and the unwilling Serbs and Bulgarians , after getting the news and celebrating, the next step is to launch a counterattack against the Turks who have been hollowed out.Even in Asia Minor, which is regarded as the hinterland by the Turks, most of the other small Turkic countries that had been beaten by the Ottoman Turkish Empire before could take advantage of the situation to rebel and peep at the throne of the Turkish Sultan.

The Turks' most loyal, elite, and strongest native army, as well as the new army most trusted by the Sultan, had already been wiped out by this time, and there was not even a scum left.The few remaining miscellaneous troops are all filled with Bosnian heavy cavalry, Bulgarian light cavalry, Serbian musketeers and spearmen, Greek engineers and sailors... These people were in the heyday of the Turkish Empire.Maybe they will bow to the crescent banner and remain determined, but now that the Ottoman Turkish Empire's own troops have been killed and wounded, their loyalty will become very suspicious.

Not to mention that before these Turkish miscellaneous troops send troops to fight against the enemies from all directions and save the declining national fortune that has suddenly become precarious, they have to carry out a tragic battle among themselves to compete for the next candidate for the Turkish Sultan... After the civil war, whether the remaining Turkish army has the strength to repel the invasion of foreign enemies and suppress the rebellion in the country... This is too far away to consider for the time being.

Therefore, even though his eyebrows were twitched in anger by this letter of challenge, Turahan Pasha still restrained his anger very well.Not only did he not raise troops in a fit of anger, but he also tried his best to appease the generals under his command who were also furious, and persuaded them to stay calm—Sultan Bayezid is not yet five years old this year, and he is illiterate and ignorant at all, so naturally he did not come to participate in the military The meeting saved Turahan Pasha from the trouble of appeasing the children.

"...Although I am as angry as you are, I still want to persuade you to remain calm. We can go out of the city to repel these undisciplined Christians at any time. The problem is to embrace Mustafa The prince's Albanian army may be attacked from the northwest at any time. And the spies inside the city are also making moves, we must stick to the capital. Until the main force of my Moria army arrives!"

"...What's more, I suspect that this letter is very likely to be a trap—the Albanian army may have arrived near the capital and formed an alliance with the Roman emperor, deliberately trying to provoke us and lure our army with few troops Leaving the city wall, exposed to the open field. Then, the Albanian army hidden somewhere will suddenly appear, annihilate our living forces, and then easily capture the fortified capital!"

"...So. Please calm down and don't be irritated by the enemy's provocation... Short patience does not mean cowardice. As long as the main infantry of the Moria Legion comes from the south, these Christians will fight for them to pay the price for his arrogance..."

Although he tried his best to persuade the generals to ask for a fight, Turahan Pasha's mood was actually not as calm as he appeared.

The military council had just ended, and the last officer had just walked out the door.He took out a sharp dagger from his boots, and nailed Constantine XI's reply letter to the desk.

"...This pig wrapped in purple robes, the emperor who is poorer than a beggar... If my Moria army hadn't arrived yet, how could you be so arrogant?"

However.What Turahan Pasha never expected was that the Greeks were already preparing to retreat after making such false threats.

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On the outskirts of Adrianople, the capital of Turkey, the Turkish Sultan's palace, which was confiscated by the emperor, was brightly lit at this time.

"...The current situation is already very obvious. It is the limit that this jihad can be fought to this point. With such a gang of mobs alone, we are completely unable to break into Adrianople, and there is even no way to eliminate those who spread the current Turkish tribes on the plain of Seres."

Standing in the temporary battle meeting room, Emperor Constantine XI pointed to the parchment map spread out on the table, and sighed to the ministers with a sad face, "...Under the sky of the Roman Empire, It's full of Gentiles speaking foreign languages!"

——The Ottoman Turks crossed the sea and invaded the Eastern Roman Empire. Compared with the two events of the Manchus and the Eight Banners breaking through and entering the Central Plains, although there are some similarities in appearance, the problem is that in terms of population size, the Eastern Roman Empire is different from ancient China. But it's very different.

In the era of the Justinian dynasty in the sixth century, at its peak, the Eastern Roman Empire, which covered almost the entire Mediterranean, had a population of about 500 million, which was basically an order of magnitude with China in the same period.But when the Arabs rose up and took away the empire's North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Spanish territories, the Eastern Roman Empire degenerated into the Byzantine Empire in the history books.Under the banner of the double-headed eagle of the empire, only Greece and Asia Minor remained, and the total population has since dropped to a mere 800 million, and has never recovered.

As for the Greeks, who are the core nation of the empire, the population is even more tragic. At the peak, it was only three or four million.

Therefore, even if the Han Chinese numbered in the hundreds of millions were temporarily conquered militarily, they could gradually integrate and assimilate hundreds of thousands of Manchurian Eight Banners culturally by virtue of their overwhelming numbers and advanced civilization system.However, the Greeks, who numbered less than 400 million, could not form an overwhelming advantage in number compared with the hundreds of thousands of Ottoman Turks who invaded from the East, and they did not even have a particularly obvious advantage in culture.

Therefore, after the collapse of the Eastern Roman Empire, instead of relying on their own cultural traditions, the conquered Greeks gradually merged and assimilated the Turks who came from afar, but instead continued to convert to Islam, turning their bodies and minds into Turks.

As a result, when the Greeks du li again in the future, the whole of Asia Minor, except for a few sporadic port islands, has been completely Turkized, and many Greek cities in Europe have also become Turk cities-the national attributes have changed. Now, restoring the old ri territory has naturally become a fantasy.

Even at this point in time in 1453, the Turkization of the old territory of the Eastern Roman Empire was already very serious. Not only were there not many people left in Asia Minor who could speak Greek, even Seres in Eastern Europe On the plains, mosques and turbans are everywhere.

The Eastern Roman Empire's seemingly overwhelming counterattack this time was actually just a surprise to the opponent.If the battle situation continues to stalemate, it is the best end for them to be defeated all the way back to Constantinople, and even annihilation of the entire army is not impossible.

Therefore, except for the fanatical low-level believers, all the more rational high-level people in the empire are already considering accepting it if they see it well.