The Eagle of Eastern Europe

Mircea finished her food, paid and left. He walked along the sea wall to Hagia Sophia. Along the way, there were smiling people. In their view, Wallachia made a wise choice to take over Constantinople. Those heretics and heretics have already restrained themselves. After a long time, this was the first time they felt proud, and they no longer wanted to live that humiliating life.

Mircea invested in the renovation of Hagia Sophia. The original dilapidated scenery has disappeared, and everything is getting better. He prayed in the cathedral and prayed for the safe return of his son in Anatolia.

"How's that guy doing today?"

Back at the palace, Mircea asked about John VIII.

"That one is very obedient, but he keeps clamoring to see the former Queen Mother."

Mircea's face darkened. It turned out that even older people couldn't control it, so his actions were going to speed up.

Since moving into the Castle, Mircea has sent the Queen Mother Jelena to the monastery in the name of recuperation, and the two children have been raised by the church, but John has been unwilling to obey, but Theodore has been very cooperative.

Mircea has been eliminating Western Europeans in an orderly manner, but there are always some fish that slip through the net. Jelena contacted them through the monastery's transport convoy, and went to Galata to contact Western European countries, preparing to overthrow Vlach in one fell swoop. Asia, and then divide their land.

These people must be eradicated as soon as possible. Fortunately, their power is only in King's Castle and a few small islands in the Aegean Sea, so they are easy to deal with.

"Your Majesty, this is the list of supplies submitted by the Governor. Please read it."

Mircea took the paper and was surprised by the amount of supplies inside. The total value of various items is more than 2.2 million lei, half of which is military pay for new recruits.

"Your Majesty, there are only 500,000 lei left in the state treasury. The newly collected tax revenue will not be collected until the autumn, and it is really impossible to allocate it."

The finance minister complained beside him that since Mircea had not yet become the only Basilius, there were two political systems, but the process of integration began to accelerate, and this situation would soon disappear.

"I understand your difficulties, but now is a favorable time and we cannot let this opportunity pass by."

The order of the co-ruling emperor gave the finance minister a headache. The best way now is to allocate part of the money from the treasury in Iasi, Suceava and other places. Fortunately, it is not all at once. I hope this can last until the autumn.

For the Ukrainian region, Mircea feels like taking a shot and taking a look. He knew that the organization currently responsible for reclamation was an organization called Ross Company, which was currently relying on commercial strongholds for expansion, but Mircea felt that he could go one step further and occupy part of the land while the Lithuanian army was marching eastward. This was also in line with the Eastern Policy.

At this time, the army led by the Cossack chief had occupied the vast area from the Dniester River to the Dnieper River. This made Vytautas anxious. He only hoped to defeat the Golden Horde quickly and then return to drive out the Cossacks.

But the Great Khan would not give him this opportunity. He already knew Lithuania's plight and decided to wait for a change and lead the Lithuanian army to the Volskla River to seek a decisive battle. They also sent light cavalry to harass the opponent's supply lines so that they could not concentrate on responding to the enemy. They even prepared to call Moscow to beat up this guy who didn't know the heights of the world, but they were afraid of what the other party would ask for, so they didn't call.

After acquiring such a large area of ​​land, the Cossack chief found a very embarrassing thing. He had no way to integrate the acquired land. The reason why he was able to acquire such a large area was that he had reached an agreement with other Cossack tribes to allocate the land after the war. Work. Relying on this promise, 15 larger Cossack tribes formed an alliance to attack Lithuania, but just when they were about to divide the fruits of victory, differences among them emerged.

The chiefs of each tribe believed that their tribe contributed the most and wanted to obtain the largest land. But they didn't want other tribes to get it, so the chiefs meeting was held for 10 days, but no progress was made at all. As time goes by, two tribes actually secretly contacted Vilnius. If this continues, they will be pushed back by Lithuania, and all previous efforts will be in vain.

The Cossack tribes in the lower reaches of the Dnieper River have close relations with Wallachia. The chief decided to ask for their help. He also initiated this conquest. The weapons and materials used were all imported from Wallachia. It can be said that there was no Wallachia. In Lakia, there would be no Dnieper and Zaporozhye Cossacks today.

As the main promoters of the Northern Expedition, the Dnieper Cossacks and Zaporozhye Cossacks accounted for three-fifths of the entire alliance. Wallachia has a close relationship with these two ethnic groups. Not only are a large number of tribesmen employed by Wallachia, but sometimes disputes will be resolved by the Grand Duke. This time they had the same idea. Only Wallachia could solve this problem.

The fighting continued, and the Cossacks were also attacked by another force on the steppe: the Tatars. They originally settled in Crimea, but after Wallachia occupied the entire territory, some were assimilated and stayed here, while the rest left Crimea and moved north. In order to expand their territory, they targeted the Cossacks who had gained a large amount of land, frequently harassed them, and also expressed their loyalty to Lithuania and were willing to work for them.

The ruler of the Principality of Kiev was the first to sit still and decided to take this opportunity to expand his sphere of influence. Taking advantage of the fact that the Cossacks had no time to think about, they attacked southward under the slogan of regaining the lost territory. This was really chaos in the north and south of the Black Sea.

Although the political situation is chaotic, it does not affect economic and trade exchanges. The group of merchants, with the Rus Company as the main force, traded along the Dnieper River. Everyone profited from it, so there were not many people to stop them.

By this time Vytautas had arrived at the Volskla River, where the two sides launched a decisive battle. Vytautas's army fought very well at first, but when the Great Khan divided his troops to attack Vytautas's retreat, the coalition army was immediately in chaos and collapsed. At least 20 princes, including Władysław II's two brothers, were killed; only Vytautas remained alive. This came as a thunderbolt to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

This failure directly made some principalities in the country ready to move, and Vytautas had no time to care about the lands occupied by the Cossacks. Life-saving is the first priority. Upon seeing this, the Great Khan directly invaded Lithuania. In his opinion, this was an excellent opportunity to enhance his prestige. Now that the Lithuanian army had been crippled by him, if he could take the opportunity to regain a large area of ​​the Golden Horde's territory, then It couldn't be better.