The Eagle of Eastern Europe

The Khan of the Golden Horde proposed peace talks, but Vytautas disagreed. Seeing this, he could only send troops to fight. However, the Khan was also a smart man, and he knew how to find foreign aid to attract Lithuania's attention.

He is eyeing Crimea. Although he doesn't know how many soldiers there are, it is still possible to harass them at the border. The Khan sent people to Veruga and offered to exchange some left bank land for Crimea to send troops.

Crimea needed to spread the news to Constantinople, but the local church and Cossacks could not wait so long. The local chief directly led 5,000 Cossacks to attack north, and the Orthodox Christians in the southern region also joined in to jointly Squeeze Lithuania.

"Brother, please, you are already the governor of Anatolia, isn't it just a matter of words to let me go to the battlefield?"

"No, mother will tell me if she finds out. Also, you are already married, so just talk to your wife more."

Mihai no longer wanted to live a stable life, so he came to Chizikus to find Peter and asked for a chance to play.

"If you are too free, you can arrange a position in Smyrna"

"No, I don't want a civil servant."

Peter had nothing to do with his younger brother. Fighting was never that easy. He was afraid that he would be dead before he even went to the battlefield. Then his parents would blame him for not stopping Mihai.

However, in the face of his brother's request, Peter could not refuse forcefully. It's better to go somewhere to gain experience.

"It seems that you like fighting very much. Do you want to make a bet with me? If you win, I will convince my father not to stop you. If you lose, I will go back to Constantinople to study law."

Upon hearing about the bet, Mihai immediately became interested. As for the content, he was even more excited. Peter asked him to join an army to go to Cyprus and overthrow the Luchinian dynasty that had ruled for hundreds of years.

In 1191, Isaac Komnenos, the governor of Cyprus, broke away from Byzantium and became independent. Later, King Richard I of England occupied Cyprus during the Third Crusade. After plundering and plundering Cyprus, he sold it to the former king of Jerusalem, the Frankish Guy of Lusignan, via the Knights Templar in Jerusalem. Guy then ruled the island and established the first independent kingdom in the history of Cyprus.

As Cyprus prospered, Genoese began to immigrate to Cyprus in large numbers. They had a great impact on the feudal system of Cyprus. Therefore, after this, the contradiction between Cypriots and Italians arose. increasingly prominent.

Peter thought he could take the opportunity to swallow it and try it. If successful, he would be one step closer to controlling the Eastern Mediterranean. Mihai can also accumulate some experience and prepare to expand territory for the country somewhere in the future.

The Principality of the Aegean Islands had completely surrendered to Wallachia, and the Duke was forced to sell it to Wallachia for a low price of 3,000 ducats. Without the Aegean Islands, Crete would be directly exposed to Wallachia's navy. The Venetian Parliament quarreled again about Wallachia's policies, and finally decided to send people to sign a ten-year peace agreement with Wallachia, which could temporarily avoid war and trade interruptions.

As for Timur, he was indeed energetic. With such lightning speed, the army entered northern Syria. After dispersing some invincible Turkic tribes, they surrounded Aleppo, an important transportation hub. After the city was quickly captured, it suffered Tamerlane's trademark massacre. Except for a small number of craftsmen who were considered useful, most of the people's heads were cut off by the enemy and piled into horrifying pyramids of human heads.

After the fall of Aleppo, the Mamluk Sultan organized an army to counterattack, but was defeated by Timur. The army then gathered in Damascus, and it took Timur a full year to capture the city.

In view of Damascus's stubborn resistance, Timur once again resorted to massacre. More than 20,000 heads were sent to the barren fields in the northeast corner of the city and piled into a pyramid of human heads that Syrians lamented. A large number of famous buildings were destroyed, including the famous Umayyad Mosque. Timur's soldiers went from house to house searching for residents and property, and even gathered together Islamic jurists to kill them. The only survivors were craftsmen from various trades, who would be taken back to Samarkand to settle when Tamerlane withdrew.

After the Sultan fled back to Egypt from Syria, he sent a large peace negotiation delegation to Damascus to persuade Timur to give up his conquest of Syria. But what finally made Timur withdraw his troops from the local area was not the scholar's eloquence, but a rebellion in the rear. The Mesopotamia city of Baghdad, which had not been conquered for long, launched a rebellion when Timur besieged Damascus. After completing the massacre of the city, Timur, furious, led his army quickly eastward. The turmoil was calmed down as quickly as possible and bloody punishment was imposed on the Baghdad people.

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In Buda, the capital of Hungary, the Transylvanian army finally reached the gates of the capital. This was the closest Mary came to returning home, and she would not let go of this opportunity.

Over the past two years, Mary has overcome various difficulties and continued to expand her control. Coupled with the support of Wallachia, the Transylvanian army's combat effectiveness exceeded that of Sigismund's troops.

Last year, Mary's troops defeated Sigismund at Pecs and retook Hungary's cultural center. Then continuing to advance towards Buda, Sigismund saw this and transferred most of his property and government to Szekesfehérvér, and he also ran to the territory of the HRE to wait for the final result.

There were only 2,000 troops left in Buda, and most of them were militiamen. Facing the Transylvanian troops, they surrendered after only resisting for two weeks. Mary ensured the safety of their lives and property.

Buda was recaptured and Mary could finally return home. She asked people to prepare quickly to enter the capital in glory.

Sigismund was in a miserable situation. He even lost his capital. How could he still get the Hungarian nobles to support him? What would the princes within Shinra think? The future heir of Shinra couldn't even keep his own capital, so why should he be chosen?

Now that he still has land in western and northern Hungary, he still has the opportunity to counterattack, but his funds cannot support his military operations because his debt has reached 190,000 ducats. If he doesn’t change his extravagant habits, he will naturally run out of money.

Sigismund wished that his brother would die immediately so that he could inherit Bohemia and use the local minerals to pay off his debts.

But this time, Austria was still on his side. Albrecht offered 20,000 gold coins to help Sigismund, which made Sigismund firm in his determination to raise Austria as his heir.

Because just two months ago, Barbara gave birth to a daughter for him, whom Sigismund named Elizabeth. And he announced his engagement to the future heir of Austria after his birth, which undoubtedly proved that the Austrian Habsburg family would once again ascend to the throne of emperor in a few decades.