However, because the castle is very tall and strong, and the Byzantine people resisted desperately, the Turks would not be able to capture it for a while. But why are the Byzantine high-level officials so decayed, and these people still resist desperately? This is actually not true.

It’s hard to understand, because if they are attacked by the Turks, then they will be slaves, which is actually worse than death.

Of course, this situation left Urhan helpless. But at this time, Urhan's son Suleiman volunteered and expressed his willingness to lead troops to attack Gribolu Castle. After obtaining his father's consent,

Suleiman only led thirty-nine warriors. Suleiman sneaked across the sea by boat at night and came to the castle. But at this time, a very big earthquake occurred in this place! Suddenly the walls of the castle collapsed.

The soldiers and residents in the castle were panicked and fled one after another. However, Suleiman and others were very motivated. Taking advantage of the chaos, they entered the city and quickly killed the panicked soldiers and residents.

Some even occupied the castle.

At this time, the Turks quickly reinforced more than 3,000 people, which immediately consolidated the fruits of victory. Later, this castle became the bridgehead for the Turks to attack Europe. This is Ur

Khan's strategy, using this method to obtain greater benefits.

As for after 1359, Urhan died at this time, and his son Murad I came to the throne. At this time, Murad I led the Ottoman army and continued to attack the Byzantine Empire, which had long been in decline, and captured one building after another.

In the end, the Byzantine Empire was forced to surrender, and all of them were reduced to slaves, and they gradually became vassals of the Ottoman Empire.

We have already seen the rise of the Turks, which also indirectly shows the internal decay of Western countries. As long as the empire is not corrupt, it can instantly dominate. Then let's look at other places. Russia was previously completely conquered by the Mongolian army.

After conquering it, they all became slaves of the Mongols. Now, because of the corruption of the top management of the Mongol Empire and the fact that they did not treat slaves as human beings, uprisings continued. At this point, the Mongol Empire began to end, and at this time, Russia took the opportunity to rise.

However, in order to help everyone understand this matter better, let’s start from the beginning: In 1240, the Mongolian Western Expeditionary Army, led by Batu, the grandson of Genghis Khan, captured the capital of Kievan Rus in a very bloody way.

Kiev. In 1242, Batu, who occupied most of Russia's land, established the huge Kipchak Khanate. Therefore, many small Russian principalities were forced to surrender to the Kipchak Khanate under this powerful military power.

Surrender. Because if you don’t surrender, you will die. There is no second option. After all, you can’t defeat them at all, so what can you do? And because the Mongols all live in golden tents, the Russians call them Golden Tents.

Khanate.

However, in the Golden Horde, the Mongols only accounted for a minority, because most of them were slaves, so the Russians constituted the majority. In order for the Mongols to rule the Russians more effectively, Batu thought of a way,

Then they used the title of Grand Duke of All Russia as a bait to sow discord within Russia. This led to everyone wanting to have this title and wanting to escape from this slave life. Therefore, conflicts between various principalities within Russia continued, and even

To the point of attacking each other. But it is not difficult to see that the Russians are just fighting for the humblest human rights.

But what the Russians don't know is that they have actually fallen into a trap. This is Batu's strategy, which has caused the strength of the principalities in Russia to become weak due to fighting. At this point, Batu will continue to control those who oppose their Mongolian rule.

The small Russian principalities took the opportunity to kill them, which was to consolidate their Mongolian rule.

All the small Russian principalities that eventually surrendered to Mongolian rule would receive an amnesty order from the Golden Horde, and then pay taxes and perform military service to the Golden Horde. However, in these small principalities in Russia, in order to surrender to the Golden Horde, the top officials

Taxes, as well as satisfying their own extremely luxurious life, which means extravagance, lust, and excessive debauchery. In the end, this made a very crazy and perverted squeeze on the Russian civilians, which led to the fact that the Russian people were really miserable in the end.

Unfortunately, there is still no way to mount a more effective resistance.

On this day in 1327, a Mongolian army arrived in the Volga area, where Alexander, the Grand Duke of All Russia, ruled. As soon as the Mongolian army arrived here, they began to burn, kill and loot wildly. The common people saw that the Mongolians

The army did this, so they all took up arms to resist. At this time, Alexander could not bear it anymore, so Alexander personally led his troops to attack the Mongols.

Alexander was originally very powerful. He was a young prince from the Principality of Novgorod in northern Russia. His original name was Alexander Nevsky. He was especially powerful in the military, so the Mongols were severely injured by Alexander's army.

It was a tragic, hell-like scene, with Mongolian corpses everywhere. The Mongols did not expect such a result at all. They had always won every battle and conquered, but now this group of Mongolian armies is still very

He fled in embarrassment. But this incident made the Great Khan of the Golden Horde very angry! So he prepared to send a large army to completely defeat Alexander.

At this time, Grand Duke Ivan of Moscow hurriedly came to see the Golden Horde Khan.

Jinzhu Khan asked directly: What brings you here?

My extremely respected Golden Horde Khan, you must not be angry because of that bastard Alexander. In order to show my loyalty, I am willing to lead my army and the armies of other principalities to defeat him for you. This is a gift to honor you.

After Fan finished speaking, he presented a lot of gold and silver treasures to the Golden Horde Khan.

When the Golden Horde Khan saw this, he was very happy and immediately said: OK! If you defeat Alexander, I will make you the Grand Duke of all Russia and let you collect taxes for me.

At this time, Ivan racked his brains for the title of Grand Duke of All Russia, and then led a very large army to defeat Prince Alexander very quickly. He even executed Prince Alexander! And precisely because of this,

Ivan also got his wish and was made Grand Duke of all Russia.

But why did Ivan work so hard? Next we will know that Ivan used his power to collect taxes to line his own pockets, which is corruption. But the Golden Horde Khan seemed to allow him to do this,

Therefore, there was not too much punishment, and Ivan worked really hard. Because at this time, Ivan also helped the Golden Horde to suppress other small principalities that did not obey the Golden Horde, so that Ivan could get

With more money, the Golden Horde can also stabilize its power.

What's even more frightening is that Ivan also used the power in his hands to expand his own territory. By the time Ivan died, his principality was already the largest and most powerful principality in Russia. By the time Ivan arrived,

When Van's grandson, Dimitri Donstei, became the Grand Duke, the power of the Muscovite Principality was further developed, and even the territory was further expanded.

But at this time, the Golden Horde had a lot of corruption at the top, and many people were fighting for power. This led to constant wars within the Golden Horde, which eventually caused the Golden Horde to fall apart and its strength was greatly weakened.

. We can understand that during this period, the Mongolian princes were fighting for the position of the Great Khan. Dimitri decided to take advantage of the civil war in the Golden Horde to launch an army to resist and completely get rid of the Mongolian rule.

Dimitri first led a large army and drove away the Mongols in the Principality of Moscow. At this time, the Mongols had no external aid and were all fighting. How could they have time to pay attention to them? So Dimitri drove away these people.

After the Mongols, they immediately declared the independence of the Principality of Moscow. Mamai Khan, the Great Khan of the Golden Horde, was very angry, so he decided to teach Dimitri a lesson.

So in September 1380, Mamai Khan led an army of 150,000 people and was ready to violently attack the Principality of Muscovy. At this time, Dimitri led an army of 100,000 people to fight. The two armies were in Donton

They met on the Kulikovo Plain on the south bank of the river. Before the war, Dimitri carefully observed the terrain. In fact, the Kulikovo Plain was not very big. It was a swamp in the middle and surrounded by hills and forests. This was not at all true.

It is conducive to the Mongolian cavalry to give full play to their advantages, and the Mongols are basically cavalry. They are originally nomadic people, so they can also be said to be a nation on horseback.

At this point, Dimitri used the terrain here to arrange his troops very carefully. He lined up his army in a row, with the main force in the middle and two wings on both sides. In front of the main force in the middle was the vanguard force, and he also added a

Very elite cavalry ambushed in the forest behind the enemy.

When everything was arranged, the early morning fog had just dissipated, and the Mongolian army shouted and charged towards the Russians. The Russian soldiers were excited, because this was the battle of liberation, and the Russian soldiers all understood it.

, if they win this time, they can completely get rid of the Mongolian rule. Even if there is a war later, it will definitely not be like this, so the Russian soldiers rushed towards the Mongolian army very resolutely and bravely.

The two armies fought together instantly, and it was indistinguishable. There were corpses and blood everywhere, and there were shouts and madness everywhere. The world also lost color at this moment, as if it was going to be completely dyed red with blood. Especially Jimi.
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