The Eagle of Eastern Europe

News of the Canal Zone naturally spread to Jerusalem, but everyone's first reaction was not to rejoice, but to think of impending disaster.

Now there are only 300,000 people in the entire Jerusalem area, and the army is only a little over 5,000. It is simply impossible to stop them with such an army.

Everyone is ready to run. If Egypt can't run, they will go to Mecca. This is the only way they have now. Their complaints at the beginning were just words, and now there is no one like Saladin to lead them to victory, but the remaining religious consciousness allows them to stick to Jerusalem, and this holy city must not be lost.

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Umansk wrote a letter telling the Castilian Council that he could now attack Rome.

Although I know that Egypt will definitely not be able to defeat Rome, as long as it can delay time and watch them fight each other, Iberia can attack the city of Rome and then regain Rome with overwhelming force. In this way, the Pope will definitely support him. They would then be allowed to lead the holy war against the East and then realize the highest ideal of the unity of the Catholic world.

The pirate group entrenched in Tunisia also became active. They began to plunder Sicily and southern Italy. Poland in the north was also eyeing Moscow, and Rome's external environment deteriorated greatly.

Although it deteriorated, none of them dared to be the first Christian country to declare war on Rome. The lessons of Venice were still in front of them, and even Egypt could not divert its attention.

This gave Rome time to react, and all the conscripted troops and diplomatic envoys took action. It also ensured that the rest of the family could act to disrupt the opponent's rhythm.

Peter did not return to Constantinople but went directly to Ashkelon. At the same time, he also gave the prime minister his own instructions. He wanted to lead the expedition in person, so he would first go to Cyprus and then go south.

At the same time, the emperor also granted the prime minister the power to coordinate all affairs, and also sent a decree to the Duke of Allgäu to preemptively strike. Since they are coming, they must be welcomed well.

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Since Sigismund couldn't escape his own affairs, Burgundy and Austria were jointly responsible for the war against Rome. They met in Munich, the capital of Bavaria. In addition to these three countries, there were also Milan, Savoy, Poland, Lithuania, England, Iberia and the Kalmar Union, in addition to the Duke of Orleans and the five electors, basically brought together the entire Western Europe.

John was in charge of this meeting, and he directly stated the purpose as soon as he came up, which was to attack Rome and his allies.

This is also the common goal of everyone. Regardless of interests or whatever, as long as you defeat Rome, you can get many benefits from him.

"Rome's presence has threatened many nations, and we must unite, just as the Venetians did two hundred years ago."

"That's right!!!!"

Everyone shouted to destroy Rome, and then directly discussed the plan to share the spoils. In their view, this was already a certainty. The previous failure of the anti-Roman alliance had taught them the reason, that is, there were too few countries and too few troops. Now that so many countries have joined, it must be successful no matter what.

According to the spoils-sharing plan, Venice would regain its independence, Rome would establish the Latin Empire with Constantinople as its capital, the Kingdom of Anatolia with Ancyra as its capital, and the Kingdom of Serbia and Bulgaria with Sofia as its capital.

The northern territories of Rome and Moscow were assigned to Lithuania. As for allies, the Kingdom of Hungary was inherited by the Habsburgs, the Papal States were re-established in the Romagna and the city of Rome, Naples was inherited by the Orleans branch, and the three countries of Rome were inherited by the Bosch. Gundy, Castile and Aragon sent men as kings. Everyone who joins will get a piece of land, and the canal area will be given to Portugal. This plan looks good.

Now these three countries are only roughly divided. They are preparing to re-establish the fief system. There must be a lot of dukes and counts below, which is another piece of fat.

Iberia will definitely take the majority. They have a lot of nobles, and their heirs are also preparing to join this Eastern Expedition. However, there are many nobles in the HRE. It can only be said that the Roman land is too small and can only be divided reluctantly.

In terms of religion, the Catholic Church is preparing to re-establish dioceses and restore Catholic rule.

"Now that everything is ready, how many troops are you prepared to bring out?"

As soon as these words came out, their discussion became much quieter, but the Iberian Union, which had the most confidence, spoke out first.

"We are preparing an army of 40,000 for this holy war."

Good guy, this is indeed a big deal. No wonder what they want most is to spread their nobles all over the world.

"Austria is prepared to provide ten thousand people," Leopold said, speaking of his number, which was already the limit for them. In addition, Austria has been on the front line of confrontation all year round, so it must have experienced hundreds of battles.

"Burgundy was prepared to provide ten thousand men."

Coming, coming, the richest one is coming. John not only provided troops, but also provided a lot of funds for support. In return, the alliance agreed that Burgundy would inherit the richest Latin Empire.

Other members stated the number of their troops, which was considered to be 100,000, which was quite remarkable. Because no country has ever been able to deploy so many troops. They will cooperate with Egypt from the west and north to launch an attack on Rome, and make Rome surrender with overwhelming force.

And this time they also sent the navy to participate in the war, attacking from both sea and land directions. I believe it will be possible.

This is also the first time that the western region has united together to deal with the eastern empire after Charlemagne. Although they were all confident, because they all wanted to command by themselves, they had to attack in several directions. Among them, Austria and Poland felt that they only wanted allies, so they were slow, while others who wanted Rome itself were impatient. They didn't even have much equipment and were ready to attack.

That's fine to say, but the specifics are different. How do soldiers calculate their wages, food, armor, and weapons, and whether their economic situation can support a long-term battle? Even with religious bonuses, they are still human beings and they still need to eat. Nor would Jesus take a little wine and bread and turn it into food for their entire army.

It seems that they have come up with a solution, which is to plunder along the way. There are many anyway, so giving a little is not too much, right?

Everyone feels that their plan is perfect, but they seem to have forgotten one situation: the Bartland family is not only a country in Rome, but also the Berlin Alliance in the north and the Duke of Normandy in France. Have they forgotten?