In May 1292, the Western calendar, on March 19, 332, a relatively new ship entered the port in the northern Italian city of Venice. After hearing the news, many people ran out of their homes and rushed towards the port. As soon as the crowd approached the port, they saw a group of soldiers guarding some pretty gorgeously dressed people.

"Do you have news about my husband Joseph?"

"My husband, Flamingo, he went out to sea last month. Have you seen him?"

...

Amid all the inquiries, the people who came off the boat walked silently towards the Venetian Parliament Hall. The team walked through the streets and felt a sad atmosphere. Many families were holding funerals or had just finished it. The bright sunshine in May was very inconsistent with such a depressing atmosphere.

The messenger was taken into the reception room at this time. Not long after, a bald old man in gorgeous clothes appeared at the door. The messenger quickly stood up and asked: "Governor General, Ri'an."

The old man stepped forward a few steps and asked, "What the hell is the saying in the state of Song?"

The messenger quickly reported, "Reported to the Governor, the State of Song has received the announcement of our declaration of war and told us that their next target is the Peloponnese Peninsula."

It seemed as if he had chewed a mouthful of sour lemon, and the Governor's entire face wrinkled. The Governor of Venice was elected by a large parliamentary group composed of 480 members of Venice, and was a lifelong position. It was a position with great power. However, the declaration of war was decided by the Governor of Venice. The old man, as the Governor of Venice, actually opposed declaring war on the Song Dynasty.

After finally calming down his mind, the governor asked reluctantly: "Did you see their ship?"

"Yes. Governor General. He saw the big ships of Song State. There must be problems with their ships. According to the redeemed sailors, some ships have been running on the sea for almost a year. This is not right. If it were an ordinary ship, something would have happened long ago."

"Do you know what tricks are there in the ships of Song State?" The governor's voice was a little expectant.

"I don't know yet. Those who have boarded the Song Dynasty ships were unable to reach the bottom of the keel." The envoy replied in embarrassment.

The Governor also knew that things would not be so simple. Venice's shipbuilding skills were better than Europa, relying on the various skills of the skilled craftsmen of Venetian countries. Making ships that were so huge that they were unimaginable, they would inevitably use more secret techniques. Now the Governor is becoming increasingly uneasy. He opposed declaring war on Song before not because he did not hate Song people, but because he had an indescribable premonition. The Song people showed them in broad daylight perhaps only a small part of their actual power. The sudden appearance of enemy wars like this mystery is really unsettling.

At this time, the Eastern European Division of the Song Dynasty was directly under the territory of Athens, and the Eastern European Division of the Song Dynasty was also holding a meeting. The main cadres of the Eastern European Division were in three groups, and a small number of cadres led by the Ambassador to the East remained in Constantinople, a relatively safe place. When deciding to assign tasks, Yang, the Director of the Eastern European Division, calmly said: "If we are all finished, you have to support the situation."

Most of the cadres of the Eastern European Division were stationed on Rhode Island, where there were only people from the Song Dynasty and hard labor that worked. When the basic part of the hard labor with shackles and chains was completed, there was only a safe and reliable population of the Song Dynasty left on the island.

The cadres who stayed in Athens were about 30% of all the cadres in the Eastern European Division, and Yang Congrong was one of them. Everyone was discussing the declaration of war from the Republic of Venice not long ago. Some cadres asked angrily, "Can you send a ship to wipe out the Venetians?"

The fleet representative immediately replied: "We don't have enough ships and are not familiar with Greek islands and reefs. We can't do it now."

"Then let them be so arrogant?" The cadres were very upset.

Yang Cong couldn't help but smile and said, "We let so many Venetian ship owners destroy their families and sell so many Venetian sailors. Their relatives must think that we are the arrogant side."

Everyone had to smile bitterly, and Yang Congrong straightened out his thoughts at this time. He said: "We threaten the Republic of Venice to attack the Peloponnese Peninsula. The land in the southwest of the Peloponnese Peninsula belongs to the Republic of Venice. Will they fight with their own strength?"

"Their ships were sunk so much by us. What do they rely on to fight? Do they rely on their mouth?"

"We only have 20,000 people in full swing. We really rely on our mouths to blow. No matter how useless the Republic of Venice is, it must have a population of two million."

"Can those slaves work?"

"Among so many of us, how many people can speak Greek words neatly? After arresting so many people, two or three months, can we tell whether they still rely on the numbers they sewed on their bodies?"

...

Everyone was talking, and as the excitement of the initial victory passed, everyone's thinking about the problem became more pragmatic. The more pragmatic they were, the more they felt how difficult it was to be true. No matter how they claimed that the old land of the Principal of Athens was the Europa Province of the Song Dynasty, the locals would not immediately become Song people because of this, let alone expect them to sacrifice their lives for the Song Dynasty.

After a while of discussion, everyone found that except for sending ships to see non-allied ships at sea, the Song Dynasty actually had no way to deal with the challenges of the Venetian Republic.

While he was talking, news came that the grain transport ship from the Yuan Dynasty finally arrived. This may be the best news recently. With General Boyan going to attack Italy, the only one who can be called an ally at this stage is probably Hao Ren's Yuan Dynasty. With the barrenness of Greece, if there was no food from the Yuan Dynasty, tens of thousands of people under the Eastern European Division of the Song Dynasty could only make a living by fishing.

There was a fish on the dining table of Marshal Boyan, and there was also some meat sausage. Marshal soon finished his portion and stood up to say goodbye to his wife. Mary had to stay in Sicily for work, while Mary himself had to cross the strait with his army and start his journey of conquest from southern Italy.

The princess is now a beautiful old woman. She doesn't cry or pull Massacre Boyan. She just carefully sorted out her clothes for Massacre Boyan, and put a cross cloak she sewned herself on. Massacre Boyan didn't say much, but he hugged his wife and turned around and left. Outside the tent, the soldiers who were ready to go were lined up in line. When Massacre Boyan came out, some of them couldn't help but cheer.

Marshal Boyan turned over and ran towards the port after saying the word "departure".

On March 23, 332, the Song Dynasty, General Boyan led 30,000 troops to land on the southern coast of Italy, and joined with 15,000 troops who had landed before. Along the roads recorded by famous writers of the ancient Roman Republic, the army of 45,000 began to conquer the north.

On March 25, 332, 480 members of the Republic of Venetian who were notified arrived in Venice from all over the Republic to attend the parliamentary meeting. Some of these great men took carriages, some rode horses, and some walked. Of course, the locals in the city of Venice were the people who saw their figures. Many people along the street dared not block the MPs' road. They could only ask the nobles to help ask their relatives for their whereabouts.

Before the meeting, the number of people was counted. The statutory provisions for 480 members of the parliament reached 455, reaching the number of people in the meeting. The parliament asked the envoy to introduce the matter of going to declare war with the State of Song. The envoy also told the final contact before the declaration of war.

"My dear lords, Song State said that we can consider not selling our prisoners to the Afiliga State in the south of the Red Sea, but the people they sold before could not bring them back."

This statement made many nobles look painful. The Latin country of the Venetian Republic was closely linked to the Crusades since the Crusades. Their rise was the history of the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire. By providing weapons, shipping, finance and other services, the Venetians purchased the trophy plunders from the Eastern Roman Empire and occupied the land of the Eastern Roman Empire. From a small land to the most powerful country in northern Italy.

The first of several pillar industries that made the Republic of Venice so powerful was shipbuilding and navigation. The Republic of Venice once hired naval, hospital Knights, Knights Templars, and large-scale maritime operations of these old customers all used Venetian fleets.

When the Song Dynasty fleet suddenly showed their terrible strength, the Venetian Republic's hegemony in the Eastern Mediterranean for two or three hundred years fell from the altar in just a few years. The ship's losses can be compensated, and excellent sailors cannot be cultivated in one or two days. So many places that are not suitable for navigation can only be remembered clearly by experienced old sailors.

The meeting was held for three days without a single result. All the nobles hated the Song people because of the losses of their own ships. They hired tens of thousands of mercenaries to attack the Principality of Athens occupied by the Song Kingdom, and needed to take out a lot of money that the parliamentarians could not accept.

On March 28, 332, the Venetian Republic's chamber of commerce in southern Italy used the Clippers to bring news that an army under the banner of the Knights of the Hospital landed in southern Italy and launched an attack on the lords.

The members of the parliamentarians who were fighting against the Song Dynasty were even more puzzled by the news. What exactly happened? It was the Mongols' actions that abducted the pope, which triggered the attack on Mongolia by the Knights of the Hospital on Rhode Island. In the battle of Mongolia to annihilate the Knights of the Hospital on Rhode Island, Venice provided the fleets of the Knights of the Hospital and the Knights Templars, as well as all the sailors in the fleet were completely lost.

Whether it is the Republic of Venice or the Knights, they are willing to pay a large price to redeem surviving people. They even risk going to the slave market in Egypt to buy auctioned sailing talents. In order to encourage such actions, the Parliament of the Republic of Venice specially passed a decree that in Egypt, the merchants of Venetianity could first buy Venetian slaves, and after they sent the people back to Venice, the Republic would pay for their expenses. Even if they paid such a huge price, the number of people redeemed by the church and the Republic of Venice was less than one-tenth of the number of captured people.

Two years after the destruction of the Knights of the Hospital, why did people suddenly appear under the banner of the Knights of the Hospital fight in southern Italy?

The parliament immediately sent personnel to investigate. As soon as the investigators left, new messengers came to report that the troops under the banner of the Knights of the Hospital were advancing north along the road, without any cities, forts, manors, and villages that could block them. Judging from their appearance and equipment, there seemed to be many Mongolians in that army.

In the eyes of the MPs of the Venetian Republic, the extremely rapid offensive speed is similar to the stroll in the eyes of Marshal Boyan. After participating in so many large-scale wars, Italian cities and castles are more like toys made by children who play houses. Those generals and schools who once followed Marshal Boyan to conquer Lin'an can easily lead their subordinates to conquer.

"Master, and Italian nobles came to surrender." The subordinates came to report.

"Did they bring food, grass and money?"

"Take it."

"Will they hand over the hostages?"

"Master, those people are very long-winded. They just said they were willing to hand over the hostages, but they asked which big city they wanted to send the hostages to. Wouldn't it be better to send them to the army?" Boyan's subordinates said dissatisfied.

Boyan smiled slightly, and he could accept such a request. Those nobles still had value in exploitation, so they kept them first. Boyan said to his subordinates: "Tell them that they will send the hostages to Rome soon."

The Mongolian army conquered the city and landed all the way. By April 27, the vanguard had already arrived at the city of Rome. At this time, Rome was no longer the center of the entire Mediterranean world during the Roman Empire. After the demise of the Western Roman Empire, it had changed from a great city to a very inconspicuous small city.

As early as April 24, the ruler of Rome had received a letter of persuasion from the Mongolian army. The previous ruler was killed when General Boyan was arresting the Holy See. The new leader was shocked when he saw the Mongolians appearing. On April 28, before the large Mongolian troops arrived, the new leader had already run away with treasures.

On April 29, the new owner of the city of Rome, Marshal Boyan, led his subordinates into the city of Rome, which belonged to him.

There was no cheer, no bouquet, and no laurel wreath. Every family in the Roman city closed their doors, and the whole city exuded fear and rejection in silence. The Mongolian army following Marshal Boyan looked at the strange city with fatigue and alertness. In the past month, they had almost been fighting and marching non-stop. In the earlier months, in addition to carrying a large amount of supplies, they had to endure the bumps on the ship. It was not until Marshal Boyan ordered the entire army to repair for three days that the soldiers of the expeditionary army were happy.

According to later historical records, General Boyan's army entered Rome City on April 29, 332, with strict military disciplines and no violations. The residents of Rome City took pots of slurry to welcome the royal army. At this time, women who were pulled out of their homes and had close relationships with the Mongolian army would not agree.

But history is written by the victors after all. Historical records show that looking at the many magnificent ruins in the city of Rome, General Boyan couldn't help but sing the lyrics written by Zhao Jiaren, an official of the Song Dynasty, in Latin.

The peaks and mountains are like gatherings, the waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are like Tongguan Road. Looking at the western capital, I feel hesitant.
Chapter completed!