Continental Warriors Yoo Ma

"I'm sorry, Mr. Bernard, I'm too tired and can't concentrate." Muhammad smiled awkwardly to hide the gaffe in his heart.

Afterwards, he said: "I can take out the compensation of [-] ducats. I just hope that it can be returned to Tunisia as soon as possible. I hope that your army can abide by the agreement and maintain the truce."

Bernard could hear the bleakness in Muhammad's words.However, if the Ottoman Crusaders were really so completely discouraged, it would not be in Ma Youfu's interest to return to Anatolia in despair.

Recalling the Duke's instructions when he left Oran, Bernard said: "Your Highness, you don't have to be too discouraged. You still have a chance to return to Anatolia as a victor."

"Hmph, that cunning Siris! Does he still want to persuade me to fight the Eastern Crusaders after I return to Venice?" Muhammad sneered, "My army was destroyed by Ma Youfu himself, doesn't he know What is the state of the Ottoman soldiers today?"

"Your Highness, after you return to Muhammadia and gather all your forces, you still have more than 2000 troops on hand. Although this army has lost the courage to fight a powerful enemy head-on due to the previous fiasco, but , if you conduct a surprise attack from the rear when the Eastern Crusaders and the Sultanate of Aries are at war, your army should still be able to handle this task. The battle situation I described is likely to happen under the city of Tunisia. At that time, It is your last chance to leave the Maghreb with your head held high."

Prince Muhammad pondered for a long time, then nodded slightly and said: "I will seriously consider this suggestion. Since Ma Youfu has won so many brilliant victories and let me taste the taste of failure, then I must pay attention to his words."

"To your sanity!" Bernard raised his glass.

Prince Muhammad raised his head and poured it down, but he couldn't taste the high-quality wine produced in Burgundy at this time.

However, Bernard's next suggestion cheered up Prince Muhammad.

"His Royal Highness, the Duke has long expected that the compensation of [-] ducats will cause you to suffer heavy losses, and even affect your competitiveness for the Sultan's throne. Therefore, he provided a plan that allows both parties to establish a lasting mutually beneficial relationship.”

Bernard handed over a brochure with "Balkan Immigrant Attraction Program" printed on the cover.

Although Ma Youfu used to play the meme of "Jing Luo shed tears" on the Internet, but he was really at the time point of the first half of the fifteenth century, and he still clearly realized that he is now curled up in Constantinople. The thousand-year-old empire in a corner is already old and weak, and has no value to save.

The rising Ottomans will eventually destroy this decaying empire, and then embark on their own imperial road.

That being the case, in the face of the turmoil in the Balkans, Ma Youfu's best choice is to eat melons and watch, and then see if he can get some benefits in the process of the fall of the old empire and the rise of the new empire.

In Ma Youfu's view, there are only three valuable things left in Byzantium.People, knowledge, titles.

Although the Seven Sacred Sects and the Orthodox Sacred Sect believed in by Byzantium both regard each other as heresy, they both have the same origin, and they both respect Auritus as the god of gods. Compared with the Mulholland Sect, they are much closer .Attracting Orthodox believers in the Balkans under Ottoman rule to the Maghreb was the policy that Mayouf had already set when he launched the Crusades.

If this immigration plan had an Ottoman prince to fuel the flames, it would definitely be better implemented.

With the arrival of Orthodox believers, there are naturally all kinds of knowledge that have been passed down from the Roman Empire and are still of precious value today.

As for titles, Ma Youfu is definitely not "Duke of Athens", "King of Greece", "Lord of Constantinople" and the like.All he valued was the "Emperor of the Roman Empire".

Of course, if there is no corresponding strength support, even if the supreme title is obtained through formal channels, it can be understood legally, and not many countries will buy it.

For Ma Youfu, who is still a duke now, the "emperor" is still too far away.

It's just that he always likes to plan ahead and make arrangements in advance.

Mayouf plans to set up a "Maghreb Immigration Bureau" in the Balkans to help the believers of the Seven Saints and the Orthodox Church who do not want to live under the rule of the Mulhollans to immigrate to new lands.

And Prince Mohammed should use his influence in the Ottoman country to facilitate the Maghreb Immigration Bureau.Correspondingly, Prince Mohammed gets a commission for every immigrant who sets foot on a passenger ship bound for the Maghreb.

Half a ducat for an adult man and one ducat for an adult woman.A child is a quarter of a ducat, and an elderly man is a tenth of a ducat.

With hard work, within a year or two, Prince Mohammad will be able to make up for the losses in the Maghreb through this business.In the future, it will continue to flow steadily, earning rich and stable rewards from it.

Today, the Ottomans have not yet got rid of the residual habits of nomads, and their country governance is quite rough.Even if they know the basic truth of "the more the population, the stronger the country", they don't value the pagans living in the country.Compared with those Orthodox believers who make trouble all day long, real money is more attractive.

And through this immigration business, Ma Youfu will be able to expand his influence to the orthodox believers in the entire Balkan region.And the Byzantine Empire, which is now on the verge of death, is also powerless to resist the infiltration of this foreign force.

I believe that soon, the tables of Byzantine nobles will be served with sweet white sugar from the Maghreb.

The emperor Ioannis VIII who now rules the Byzantine Empire was married to Sophia from Monferrato.

Sofia also comes from the Valois family, and also has Valois blood.

What is different from history is that Sophia, as the second wife of Ioannis VIII, is now in very good health, showing no signs of premature death, and gave birth to a daughter, Helena.

Including Helena, the women of the next generation of the Valleolo royal family are all Ma Youfu's focus.In the future, when Constantinople is captured and the empire falls, these royal women who fled will be the legal basis for Ma Youfu to get the title of Roman Emperor.He will definitely use all means to get all the nieces of Constantine XI to come to France.

At that time, whether it is playing the routine of building a country in the harem, or simply buying it with money, you can easily get the title of Roman Emperor.

This is called walking the old man's way, leaving the old man with nowhere to go.

Prince Mohammed didn't know that such a big ambition was hidden behind a small immigration plan.He was just confused as to why Ma Youfu was willing to come up with such a cooperation plan that offered generous rewards.

You know, the two sides still have to fight a life-and-death enemy in the name of faith before a day.

Bernard took out a volume of European maps drawn by Ma Youfu himself, which was quite accurate and precious in this era, and explained to Prince Muhammad: "Your Highness, France and Ottomans are far apart, and there is no core conflict of interest that cannot be compromised. Now Ottoman has determined the policy of westward expansion. Whether it is the old Byzantium or other weak Balkan countries, it is nothing more than food in Ottoman's pot. One day, Ottoman will expand to the border between Hungary and South Germany. Holy Rome The Empire will be your great enemy.

The Duke of Barr assisted His Royal Highness Charles VII in defeating the English, and after recovering the entire territory of France, he set the next direction of expansion to Italy.And northern Italy is the sphere of influence of the Holy Roman Empire, and the two sides will inevitably conflict in the future.Since France and Ottomans have a common enemy, why not help each other?There is a proverb in the East, called "far friendship and close attack", which means that in the choice of national strategy, one should make good friends with distant countries and use force against nearby countries.I think this term is very much in the strategic interest of both parties. "

Such an alliance with a pagan country is still too shocking, so Ma Youfu did not ask Bernard to bring it up, but only hoped that the two sides would strengthen cooperation and be friendly and mutually beneficial.

France and Ottoman, one French chicken and one native chicken, can't write two "chicken" characters in one stroke. Regardless of the factor of belief, the two sides do have a natural basis for cooperation.

Ma Youfu believed that Prince Muhammad would agree to his proposal.

Chapter 480 Eighth Burgundy Good Son-in-Law

In the end, Prince Muhammad agreed to the conditions offered by Ma Youfu.

Witnessed by a senior Ulema and an army chaplain, the two parties signed an undisclosed cooperation agreement.

Prince Muhammad signed his name on the agreement, and then swore to the true god Ankabal, and promised to abide by the content of the agreement with his faith and soul.

The operation of the other side is similar, except that Bernard signed the name on behalf of Ma Youfu.This agreement, endorsed by the Seven Sages, is bound by Ma Youfu, not his little negotiator.

The content of the final agreement is not much different from the previous negotiations between the two parties.The only difference is that Prince Mohammed took out another 45 Akche silver coins (equivalent to about [-] ducats) as compensation to Philip III to express his apology for the loss of his favorite illegitimate son to the Duke of Burgundy.

Although Cihangir Pasha, who killed the Duke's beloved son, fell under Mayouf's grenade launcher when Sidi Bel Abes was captured, if the anger of the Duke of Burgundy has not subsided, Prince Ottoman will It may be difficult to retreat safely.

The compensation of [-] ducats is nothing to Philip III, who is rich in Europe.However, Prince Ottoman was willing to bow his head and apologize to him, but he could calm the Duke's anger.

The overjoyed Philip III, the most important thing is face.

There are more than a dozen illegitimate children, but only one face.

After reaching an agreement, Bernard returned to the Burgundian military camp as a victor with several carriages full of gold and silver.

After Philip III received the compensation and the letter of apology written by Prince Mohammed himself, the expression on his face finally softened.

Since learning of the death of his beloved son Anthony, Philip III has fallen into a state of anxiety and anger.In a fit of rage, he prepared to summon the Burgundian Crusaders immediately, and then set out from the city of Tlemcen to attack Sidi Bel Abbes in the east.

The Duke was so eager to avenge his son that he didn't even intend to follow Ma Youfu's advice and launch a counterattack against the Mulholland Mujahideen under his unified command.

Later, Ma Youfu thought of a way and sent a message to his fiancée Mary who was in Dijon by means of messaging, asking her to go out and persuade Philip III.

Princess Mary immediately wrote a letter to her father.

Needless to say, the effect was very good, and Philip III quickly regained his sanity, suppressing his urgent desire to avenge his illegitimate son.

The reason why Princess Mary was able to change her father's mind was because she mentioned her brother Charlie emphatically in the letter.

Compared with his father Philip, Charles, the heir to the Duke of Burgundy, showed better military talents, but in other respects, he was far inferior to his father.

In the future, after Charlie takes over the principality, with his proud and warlike character, he will inevitably go to war everywhere.

At this time, without the support of a solid and reliable ally, the Principality of Burgundy will surely face the situation of making enemies on all sides. One mistake will ruin the hard work of several generations of the Burgundy family.

And the most reliable ally of Burgundy is the Duke of Bar.

The prospective son-in-law of Philip III can not only provide support for Burgundy in terms of military and economic hard power.In the political and diplomatic fields that cannot be intuitively quantified, it can still provide indispensable help to the Principality of Burgundy.

The status of the Duke of Barr is very special.He not only owns independent territories such as Lorraine, Bar, and Provence, but is also the actual ruler of Genoa (and Naples in the future), but he is also a vassal of the King of France.

This situation is very similar to the relationship between the Plantagenet family and the Capet family back then.

With Ma Youfu as a powerful vassal, it would be difficult for the French royal family to achieve real centralization and devote their power to external expansion.

The current king of France, Charles VII, was kind to Ma Youfu, and the two sides worked together to win the Hundred Years' War. It can be said that a deep trust relationship has been established, and the conflict between the monarch and the powerful ministers can also be suppressed temporarily.

But when the next generation of Dharma kings came, this personal friendship became much weaker.Between the king of France and the chief minister of power in the country, conflicts were bound to break out.At that time, Burgundy can take the opportunity to profit from it.

After analyzing so much, Princess Mary wanted to tell Philip III that the future of the Principality of Burgundy is closely related to Ma Youfu.For the sake of the orthodox heir Charlie, Philip III should fully cooperate with Ma Youfu in fighting.It is a trivial matter to damage the relationship between the two parties because of acting without authorization. The big deal is that Ma Youfu will spread this resentment on his daughter in the future.But if this leads to a disadvantage in the war and affects the overall situation of the Crusades, then the loss outweighs the gain.

Even, in case of some unfortunate events with a small probability, such as Ma Youfu's accidental death on the battlefield, Burgundy will also face irreparable and huge losses.

The daughter's tirade was justified and well-founded, which convinced Philip III.Of course, the most important thing is that no matter how good and lovable the "wild species" born outside is, it is not as important as the real son.

Considering Charlie's future, Philip III finally gave up his willful thoughts and took military action according to Ma Youfu's instructions.

In order to increase its strength, the Mulholland Mujahideen conscripted the rebels in Tlemcen, which instead helped the Crusaders.After the fall of Sidi Bel Abbes, the rebellion activities in various places decreased significantly, so Philip III was also able to recall all the troops scattered to counter the rebellion.

After leaving [-] defenders stationed in Tlemcen, the Duke of Burgundy led his army eastward.In addition to the Burgundian Crusaders, he also has two thousand Breton heavy cavalry, thirty French field mages attached to Ma Youfu, and four artillery companies recruited from Provence-including two A mortar company.

This force, which has been specially strengthened in long-range firepower and magic power, arrived at the city of Sidi Bel Abbes after three days of marching on the mountain plateau.

At this point, the Mulholran Mujahideen were just halfway through their northward journey through the Tayler Atlas Mountains.

The timing was so delicately grasped. Apart from good luck, there were no accidents during the march. Ma Youfu's hot air balloon troops also helped a lot.

Without these eyes in the sky to monitor the battlefield at any time, Ma Youfu would not be able to achieve the optimal solution in terms of strategic arrangements.

After arriving in the city of Sidi Bel Abbes, Philip III immediately launched an attack.

He has no mercy for this city that surrendered and rebelled, which resulted in the death of his favorite illegitimate son.

More than a hundred artillery bombarded the city indiscriminately.At night, the battle mages finally finished their preparations and cast a ritual spell on the city wall of Sidi Bel Abbes—rock metamorphosis.

This spell of the six-ring change school can change the material of the rock and reduce its strength.

The city wall originally built of granite is as hard and dense as a super compressed biscuit.However, under the action of the spell, it suddenly became brittle and loose, like a Nestle crispy shark, and quickly collapsed under the bombardment of dense solid shells.

In the early hours of the next day, the Western Crusaders recaptured Sidi Bel-Abes.

This time, the Crusaders, who had been more civilized because of Ma Youfu's restraint, would not show mercy to the traitors in the city.

Philip III defected to the Ottoman and Mamluk forces in the city before letting his subordinates massacre. At the same time, he ordered part of the army to go north immediately to build fortifications on the mountain pass to block the retreat of the Mulhollan jihadist army.

On the afternoon of the second day, when the city of Sidi Bel Abbes was still smoking, the Burgundy defense line, which had just been hastily completed for two hours, ushered in the Ottoman army that had withdrawn from the mountains.

What happened after that doesn't need to be repeated.

Holding the letter of apology from Prince Mohammed in his hand, Philip III felt that he had vented a lot of anger after breaking Sidi Bella Abes, and it almost dissipated.

After hearing the good news from the northern bastion, he felt extremely grateful for his decision to choose Ma Youfu as his son-in-law.

With the help of such a good son-in-law, the ambition in the hearts of successive Dukes of Burgundy - to rebuild the Kingdom of Lotharingia, is no longer an unattainable dream, but a goal that can be realized within one or two generations !

In a good mood, Philip III ordered the artillery positions in the camp to be withdrawn as a show of sincerity.Seeing this, Prince Muhammad hurriedly led the remaining troops all the way eastward without looking back.

He didn't even send anyone to inform the Mamluks who were still stranded in the mountains.

This is also the tacit understanding between Prince Mohammed and Ma Youfu.

From a geopolitical point of view, the rising Ottomans are a natural ally of France, so Mayouf is willing to let Prince Mohammed die.But the Mamluks had no reason to let Ma Youfu show mercy.

After the Ottomans withdrew, Philip III continued to strengthen the hastily built defense line, trying to tighten the pockets that trapped the Mamluk army.

A day later, General Mustain didn't hear from the Ottomans for a long time before he realized something was wrong and immediately sent scouts south.