As mentioned earlier, the new emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, Constans II, sent Sergio.
Prussiac also had his own sister to send an envoy to Broken Leaf to repair the Broken Leaf League of Broken Leaf that had been destroyed by Heracronas, but as soon as they walked to Armenia, news came from the side of Jiankun that the Great Khan had led his troops south to conquer Tianzhu, and the main lord was not in Broken Leaf, and Princess Irina had no point in going to Broken Leaf.
Prussia came to Broken Leaf City alone, and he met Xue Lu and Princess Changle successively, which can be regarded as re-repairing Constantinople-Broken Leaf Alliance.When he met with Xue Lu, he tentatively asked for the possibility of marriage for Irina, and Xue Lu said that in principle, he supported the marriage between the two countries, but there was a problem, that is, including him and several wives of his king, all believed in Taoism, and if the Duke of Irina had a conflict mainly because of religious issues, they could not guarantee justice.Also, when he met with several wives of Li Lu, Sergio.
Prussia couldn't help but be surprised, without him, Li Lu's wives were not inferior to Her Royal Highness Princess Irina, especially the queen, who was the most beloved daughter of His Majesty the Emperor of Seris Country, although Irina was beautiful, but there was still a certain distance from her, and the princess in charge of the business department was also the daughter of a grand duke from Seris Country, her appearance was no worse than that of Her Royal Highness the princess, and the other two wives were not low, and their faces were equal to Princess Irina.This made Sergio.
Prussiac was a little lost, originally he thought that Princess Irina was already the best in the world, if the two countries were married, Her Royal Highness Princess Irina would use her beauty to persuade this great khan who could fight well to convert to God and form a true brotherhood with the great Rome, but now it seems that this road will not work at all.To say Sergio.
The biggest gain of Prushak's mission is to re-establish an alliance with the broken leaves, and the other is to get the promise of selling armor and swords and spears to their own weapons, you must know that in the previous Western Turkic era, the Eastern Romans often purchased weapons and equipment from Tongye Hu, after Li Lu's defeat of the Western Turks, the Eastern Romans lost a stable source of weapons, and could only rely on local blacksmiths to provide weapons and equipment for their own soldiers, compared with the Persians' sophisticated weapons, The Roman legions were simply scum.When he returned to Constantinople and told Constans II about the results of his mission, Constans II frowned, he didn't want his own sister to compete with several women for himself, and as a devout Christian, he hated the pagan behavior very much, not only did he frown, but even the Patriarch of Phocas, who had just taken office, also expressed his disapproval of Her Royal Highness Princess Irina to make Li Lu a concubine.While they were discussing the marriage of Princess Irina, Constantinople was facing the most dangerous moment since Heraclius the Great, and the Persians, who had taken Egypt and Cyrenaica, under the leadership of Kavard II, made a comeback, and soon swept across the Anatolian Peninsula, and they came to the city again, this time with the troops of Khavard II's favorite general, Massoud, known as the "Sword of Ahula", who adopted a strategy of advancing by land and sea, and again besieged Constantinople in the third year of the reign of Constans II.
And this time it was even more dangerous than the siege of Constantinople twenty years earlier.Constantinople is geographically important and is the only way to communicate between Asia and Europe.If the Persians captured the city, they could march straight into Europa, unlike the last siege, this time the Persians not only had 200,000 troops on the road, but also had a large fleet at sea, while the Eastern Roman navy rebuilt by Constans II only had a few dozen warships and some small ships, and the disparity in strength was too great.The Persian attack came so suddenly and quickly that Massoud personally led an army of 100,000 men across the Strait of Hlispont (later known as the Dardanelles) and tightly sealed Constantinople's land connection with the Balkan hinterland from the Thracian direction.At the same time, the famous Persian admiral Abidu led nearly 2,000 Persian warships to surround the water entrance and exit of Constantinople, in addition to a lot of Persian reserve troops constantly transferred from other regions, the war was about to break out, the speed of the Persians made Constans II and his ministers a little too late to react, they quickly ordered resistance.Under the command of Massoud, the Persians launched round after round of attacks on Constantinople, and if it were not for the desperate resistance of the army and people of Constantinople, and the forty-mile circumference of the city wall that turned the entire Constantinople into an impregnable military fortress, this thousand-year-old city would really be finished.In the midst of his death, Galinius, a Friend of Damascus, presented Constans II with a powerful weapon, and after trying it out, Constans II was so pleased that he immediately summoned Galenix to the palace as a royal craftsman to produce this new weapon.On the other side, after an unsuccessful attack on the Massoud Road, it was decided to resort to blockade tactics in order to turn Constantinople into a dead city.Under his orders, Abidus led a Persian fleet to try to blockade the Golden Horn, and Constans II immediately ordered a naval fleet equipped with new weapons to fight, which showed great power at the first appearance, not only burning twenty Persian warships, but the rest of the warships were captured, and even the commander of the Persian navy, Abiddu, was also killed.Therefore, after this battle, the Persians called this new weapon that could burn on the water "Roman fire", and for fear of the attack of Roman fire, the Persian fleet no longer dared to break into the Golden Horn and sit back and watch the Eastern Roman grain ships bring supplies to Constantinople.And Constans II, who was good at using soldiers, waited for an opportunity to send troops after receiving accurate information, and used Roman fire to destroy the Persian fleet.In this siege, the Persian army used nearly 2,000 ships, both large and small, and returned to Syria and Alexandria with less than 500 ships.Since the sea could not trap the Eastern Romans, Massoud decisively chose to retreat, and after a lot of looting, he lost a devastated Anatolian Peninsula to the Eastern Romans, and then retreated to Syria, while inspecting Anatolia, Constans II saw the ruined cities, as well as the wheat fields that had been harvested by the Persians, and the weeping people, and he hated Persia as an old rival for thousands of years.After returning to Constantinople, Constans II found that the war had left his empire half-crippled, and in order to defend against the possible next wave of Persian attacks, he reluctantly took out a quarter of his royal wealth for military expenses, half of which was used to pay officers and soldiers, and the other half to Sergio.
Prussia, let him carry the gold and silver to the broken leaves, to buy a batch of fine cavalry equipment, he to re-establish the Iron Guard of the Belisarius era, so that he could fight the Persians to the death.When the Constantinople branch of the Jinyi Guard sent back the news that the Eastern Romans were willing to buy a batch of cavalry equipment, Li Lu suddenly became happy, the reason is very simple, his equipment has been upgraded, a new generation of plate armor has been manufactured, the use of coke iron-making blast furnace, hydraulic forging press and other machinery The application of machinery has improved the efficiency of military production and reduced the production cost.
When the Eastern Romans arrived, they really wanted to sleep, so someone handed them a pillow."
Your Majesty, you want to sell all this armor to the Romans?
If we fight each other in the future, it will be bad for us..."
When Xue Lu learned that His Royal Highness actually planned to sell the batch of Ranzi Armor that was still very powerful in his opinion to the Eastern Romans, he hurriedly came to Li Lu, and Old Man Xue strongly objected to this matter, "Even if we retreat, we can seal it up, or use it by other cavalry, how can you sell such a heavy weapon?"
”"Hehehe, Daxiang, this batch of Zhenzi armor is no longer a Zhenguo heavy weapon, the real Zhenguo heavy weapon is a firearm....."
Li Lu smiled and said, "You come with me....I'll let you see what the real Zhenguo Heavy Weapon is......"
The suspicious Xue Lu followed Li Lu to a secret shooting range outside Broken Leaf City, and Xue Lu saw that Li Lu brought a strange weapon, this weapon seemed to be composed of iron pipes and wooden supports, about fifty zhang away, and a set of squirrels armor was put on top of the wooden frame.I saw Li Lu erect the strange weapon, took out a projectile and a number of small gunpowder packets from his pocket, Li Lu first stuffed the gunpowder bag into the iron pipe, tamped it with an iron strip, and then stuffed the small projectile into the iron pipe, and then lifted the strange weapon.Xue Lu don't look old, he knows what Li Lu is doing, this is aiming, the thing that his king pulled is called the trigger, and Jiankun's bow and crossbow have this thing.I saw that after Li Lu aimed at you, he pulled the trigger, and Xue Lu saw the mechanism on the weapon slam down, and he heard a loud "bang", and the projectile that had been stuffed into the iron pipe before shot out like an arrow from the string, and accurately hit the pair of dear armor.Xue Lu was dumbfounded, but what he didn't expect was that Li Lu actually said something, his hand was raw, and he said that he was aiming at a helmet instead of a cuirass, Xue Lu couldn't help but look at his own king, his own king, everything is good, but he likes to pretend that something is not good."
Let's go, come forward and see my results....."
Li Lu said with a smile, after he and Xue Lu came to the pair of dear armor, the two of them found that the powerful kinetic energy of the projectile directly penetrated the entire breastplate, Xue Lu gasped, hey, if this was worn on a person, then, that person would have hung up a long time ago......
He said excitedly to Li Lu, "Your Majesty, what is this weapon called?"
The power is not small, the minister retracts what he said just now, this is the important weapon of the town....."