The Eagle of Eastern Europe

Kiev, once the capital of the Rus' Principality, is now the main city in southern Lithuania. After the last Cossack attack, the local lords once again fortified their defenses.

But now, due to the Archduke's orders, the Orthodox Christians living in the city needed to convert, which they found difficult to accept. He left the city and went south to settle in Fort Mircea.

The landowners are no longer willing to do it. If they run away, whoever they run away will farm for them. No, they must be captured.

Along the Dnieper River, there were people fleeing and cavalry chasing them everywhere. But the Cossack cavalry would help these people escape, burn the landowners' estates, and plunder their property.

Some lords wanted to fight back, but their attack on Kharkov failed. The other party wants to stay here for a long time.

Mircha Fort, located in the middle reaches of the Dnieper River, is the economic center of southern Ukraine. It was also the base for the Roman Empire's northward attack.

Calderon, who is responsible for patrolling the northern defenses, counts the troops at Mircea Fort. The current plan is for him to attack Kiev north with the Cossack army.

"My lord, we are all ready. There are 15,000 people in total, there are 2,000 more in Kharkov, 10,000 in Lugansk and Donetsk, and 20,000 Cossacks are gathering. Do we want to Waiting for them to gather?”

"Don't those Cossack tribes have any objections?"

"On the contrary, they are very happy to see Kiev conquered. The stronger the empire, the safer they will be, and Kiev will not be the only one who will belong to the empire in the future. They are also willing to provide garrison for the legion, but in that case, our soldiers will have to Be careful of Cossack women breaking into their tents at night, you know Roman soldiers are very popular now!" his adjutant said jokingly.

Calderon sounded amused and laughed. He looked at the adjutant and said with some emotion: "I remember you were working as a mercenary back then, but it's not easy to reach this point now."

"Your Majesty is right. If it weren't for the imperial policy, I would still be just a mercenary, fighting for money. Back then, I worked hard just to have a mouth of bread to eat. How could I have imagined that we would be here today? This is all brought to us by the empire. Unimaginable changes!”

"Opportunities are provided, and you must be able to seize them. As a mercenary who only knows how to fight, you resolutely choose to leave the familiar place and come to this strange land to face the enemy. You are not afraid of difficulties and work hard. Solve the problem boldly. To this day, it can be said that the place is completely the territory of the empire! Your work is excellent! Not only I think so, but other people in Constantinople think so too!

The adjutant was a little embarrassed to praise him so much.

"Sir, what are we going to do now?"

"Order all troops to go north to Kiev. We want to surprise them."

Rome's land in Ukraine can begin to recruit soldiers because the area is in the development stage and a large number of people are going there. In order to protect the property, each local family must contribute one person to register at the recruitment office. After the war breaks out, the local army begins to recruit troops to Mircea Castle. and Luhansk.

----Dividing line----

The prelude to the war slowly opened in Eastern Europe. Poland and Lithuania took the opportunity to intensify their contacts and strive to reach an alliance agreement. Even the surrounding countries are facing their plans.

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"...The Livonian camp is about 24 miles east to Dopat. There are more hills in this direction, but the terrain is generally flat. Therefore, although the Livonian people stay in the camp today, But their mercenary cavalry were in the territory of Novgrod, destroying farmland and orchards, burning villages and houses, and killing and wounding dozens of our scouts..."

Mihai listened to the reports from his men. Livonia and Yuri are currently attacking him from both sides. His army only has about 20,000 people. He can still delay it as long as he can, hoping that other situations will affect this place.

"Let the people of Narva continue to hold on. As long as they wait a month, I will lead the soldiers back to support them."

The person Mihai is currently thinking about, besides Peter, is the Berlin League led by Vlad. Seeing that Rome and the anti-Roman alliance were entangled in the southern region, Vlad ordered the army to go north to attack Denmark and capture Holstein and Schleswig.

The Principality of Schleswig was not only about 5,200 square kilometers of land north of the Eide River in the later state of Schleswig-Holstein, but also included about 3,900 square kilometers north of the border between Germany and Denmark. Many square kilometers of land. That land was later called South Jutland. If you include the county of South Jutland in later Denmark, the area of ​​the Duchy of Schleswig reaches a total of 9,200 square kilometers.

This principality mainly consists of several cities such as Schleswig, Husum, Eckenförde, Flensburg, Ribe, and Oberlo. Of course, these cities are not big. Only Schleswig and Flensburg are on the list. The others are all small cities and their commerce is also very underdeveloped.

Vlad began to lead his army north, having already captured Holstein while allowing Pomerania to attack. Now it's Schleswig.

Vlad's army moved all the way north and easily occupied the city of Schleswig. With artillery, the resistance of these cities was much smaller. Later, Flensburg, the second largest city in the area, also chose to surrender. However, Vlad encountered more resistance in the area north of Flensburg. Because, going north from Flensburg, you enter the area where the Germans live and enter the area where the Danes live.

After entering the Danish area, no small town or manor was willing to surrender. As a last resort, Vlad had to divide his troops and plunder these recalcitrant towns and manors one by one, killing them until rivers of blood flowed.

Some nobles resisted to the death, but Vlad didn't say anything and just killed them. After the city was breached, no one was left alive. News was also released to the outside world that there were no survivors in the battle.

Everything here is different from Rome. The Roman emperor could easily decide a person's life or death. Especially for the enemy, it would be an emperor's mercy to give you a whole corpse, not to mention the punishments of beheading, torture, and eye-gouging.

The emperor is supreme and has no responsibility to anyone except God and himself. They were born to rule. Vlad was not as lucky as Peter, but when it came to a large area of ​​Central Europe, it was too fragmented. He needed to unify it.

The Hanseatic League was at his disposal, and the Kalmar League felt threatened by this. For the Imperial Anti-Luo Alliance, the addition of the northern region is undoubtedly a good thing, but it is a pity that the alliance is now divided into pieces by the Bartland family. The inability to gather strength in one place is a flaw.