Lords of the Earth
CAMPAIGN TWENTY-FOUR
Fall
of Constantinople
Turn 54
1266
~ 1270 Anno Domini
628 ~ 632 in the year of the Hegira
New for T53
Restrictions on Royal Marriages: Due to the complications arising from
these rules only K, H or P leaders can benefit from a Royal Marriage. Members
of the Royal Family that have not come into play are not considered eligible.
Also, Primate, Order and Secret Empire positions are not eligible for marriage
bonuses. These are meant to be diplomatic arrangements between sovereign
states.
New for T52
East – West Split: I’m going to try to split the
East and the West parts of the game so that I can process the orders quicker –
don’t know if or how it will work yet but lets see if it’ll happen
New for T51
No Orders: If I don’t get any orders in for a position and the
player doesn’t answer my emails then I’ll put the position back to a NPN and
put aside the players cash (if any) until they pick it or another nation up
again.
New for T50
Request Royal Marriage: Used to ask a NPN nation for a bride for one of
your Princes or a suitor for one of your little Princesses. Cost is 6AP,
Charisma based. The leader doesn’t have to be in the NPNs capital but if he
isn’t then he needs to be in your homeland/capital.
New for T49
Naval Reaction and Blockade: Naval Reactions can only occur
when there is action in a Sea Zone that the fleet is based at. The fleet has to
be based from a port and not the Sea Zone. Also, the Reaction can only occur
when your own lands or those of an ally benefiting from a Defensive Pact
marriage bonus are attacked. It also applies to any merchant fleets you operate
through the Sea Zone in the case of piracy.
Naval Blockade’s only work if your fleet is based in the same Sea Zone
as the target port and you spend all (every single one) of your APs in the
blockade. The fleet must be based from a port and not a Sea Zone.
New for T48
The use of fleets for Reaction and mitigating the effects
of Pirates: My
understanding has now changed since we GMs have had some discussion on the
list. The use of Reaction has been explained on the Wiki and Patrol is no
longer used in the Base Rules.
Reaction
Trade Route Escorts
- This
is specific to Lords 24. Units can be assigned to a trade route to act as
static convoy escort using the G type leader. Note this is not as good as
patrol as the warships assigned will only reduce the effects of piracy,
not capture or destroy the pirates themselves.
Updated NPN and Primacy rules:
Yep, been tinkering again but I feel a almost serene sense of satisfaction with
my latest offering. See what you think.
Added the ability to hire
mercenary captain when there is no mercenary company available: See the mercenary tables
New for T47
Improved cultivation at TL5: If a nation has reached the
dizzy heights of TL5 than it can benefit from improved cultivation. You can
Improve a cultivated homeland region from 2GPv to 3GPv, or any other controlled
cultivated region from 1GPv to 2GPv. This is a level one megalithic construction.
New for T46
NPNS: I’ve tweaked the NPN and Primacy/Order rules a little to make them
fit better with the 24 game. I’ve also reduced their overall RRV to make
diplomacy easier.
Second Positions in the East: As I’ve not got a lot of players
in the East, I would be willing to allow a second position from existing
players. Let me know if you’re interested.
New for T45
New Rivers: I’ve added in some new possible rivers onto the map.
These are rivers that were once passable by light traffic (remember Cogs cannot
travel on rivers) and have now become silted up. You can dredge a stretch of
the river (along one region border edge) as a 0.5 level project.
Gripes:
Agro as conversion –
this has restrictions (see 2.11.5.3) which I will be enforcing from now on.
Rivers can only support
light ships – as far as I know Cogs cannot travel on rivers. This also includes
Cogs built for trade.
New Primates: We have two new Primate positions this turn. Jumal
Skyfather, which is an Estonian god and the Coptic Church based out of Axum.
New for T44
Minor islands and City States: I’ll be allowing minor islands (Corfu, Jerba, Wight etc) and city states to be used as
locations from T44. Just let me know the rationale behind why you want it
separate and if reasonable I’ll add it in. Once they are created as locations,
they obey all the rules of islands etc. However, their Gpv cannot go above 0.
Flooding: The last few turns have seen a massive increase in the
amount of flooding that has occurred. It appears that the years are getting
warmer and wetter. As a result of this some of the minor rivers on the map are
once again becoming passable to river traffic.
Denmark:
Following on from the Minor Islands stuff, you can see that Denmark is now separated out to Jutland and
Syaland (Zeeland).
Announcements and
items of note
General Stuff: Please use my Paypal account (stephenbrunt@yahoo.co.uk) for all
Lords’ 24 payments. If you cannot use this facility then please let me know and
I will see what I can do about filtering US funds to my account. I may also
stop using the throneworld email address due to the mass of spam I’m getting!
Order Form: Please use the standard excel
order form from now on. I’ll update the site with a link to it next week when I
get some time. This is important as it helps me process the turn more quickly.
THIS IS NOW MANDATORY.
Non-Payment: some of you still owe me some
cash. Although it may come as surprise that this is not my main source of
income, I see it only polite that you pay for the occasionally night out. So,
if you’re under zero next turn I’ll not process you orders.
Version 6: Lords 24 uses version 6 of the
basic rules
The Map: The map now includes India as well as Europe, Central Asia and Africa. I’ve greyed out repeated areas on the maps to
make my life easier. However, this means some player nations are split across
more than one map. I may increase the size of the main map but I’ll have to
think on this.
Tithes and Tribute: I think these are automatically
updated by the stats program, so no need to declare them in your orders.
Control
of the Papacy and Religious Orders: In Lords 24 we will not always have a player Pope (or
Caliph etc for that matter) and the following rules are used to determine which
player faction controls the Pope’s actions, Papacy
Rules. I’ve also added some stuff about gaining support from their armies
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The West
Without further ado, the news for these
years in Lords 24 history...
Eastern Europe
The Varangian Rus of Kiev
(Orthodox Civilized Open Empire)
Svetlana,
Queen of the Rus
Vitebsk is
expanded and its walls rebuilt around the new
city. An Order House for the St Vladimir is built at
Svetlana’s experience in Kirivitch. Svetlana also set in motion improving the
lands of Kiev
with new irrigation schemes and land clearances. The Kievian society continued
its gradual drift from Agrarian to Guuld and from Clan to Feudal. Whilst the
Princes Gregori and Vassily patrolled the Kievian lands, to the exclusion of
Pechneg, much time was spent investigating Kiev
and Chernigov
for signs of Cultists. The presence of
any such secret society was not discovered by Piotr or Vasimir. The Bulgari
Bogdan tribes begin to stir, no longer subject to the Magyars. They push out of
Moldavia
and after raiding Pechneg; take the province from Kievian control. Their force
of ten thousand cavalry and three thousand infantry easily overwhelmed the
Pechnegs.
The Ests
(European Pagan Barbarian Open Empire)
Andrus III, Kings of the Ests
A new port city called Mensk was built on the banks of the Dvina in Kur. The cultivation of Livonia was completed. Andrus ruled the Ests
from Estonia
after commissioning twelve new cogs for the coastal routes out of Reval.
Artomas and Wintrop travelled to Veposkava where they were tasked with the
defence of the nation.
Scandia and the Out Isles
Jarldom of Orkeneyjar
(Roman Catholic Seafaring Open Empire)
Nicholas Larsson, Jarl of Orkney
Nearly
eighty warships were commissioned in Kirkval’s dockyards along with a number of
merchantmen to ply the route to Danzig in Poland. Once again the royal
entourage of Nicholas and Alesund travelled to Norway to persuade her relatives to
join with the Orkneymen. A marriage was arranged between Prince Erik and a
Norwegian bride and this helped to persuade old Olaf of Norway to forgo his
ties with Uppsala
and acknowledge Nicholas’s claim through his son Erik. Sadly Alesund did not
survive the journey home and Nicholas was left a widower. Much advice was sent
to both the Anacletan Order and the Holy Roman Empire
do aid in the quality of their navies.
Kingdom
of Svear
(Roman Catholic Seafaring Open Empire)
Olaf Arnoldson, King of the Svear
Quiet
times in the northern kingdom.
Saxon Kingdom
of England
(Roman Catholic Civilized Open Empire)
Arthwin I, King of England
Aided
by missionaries from the far Orkneys, the heretics of Dyffed finally repent and
return to the Catholic fold. Great
strides were made in moving from a society based around the use of bonded serf
labour to that of guildsmen as the prosperity and size of the English cities
grew. Gold was sent north to Kirkval to aid in the building of a mighty fleet.
Arthwin was not getting any younger and without an heir he realised that his brothers
were only too willing to claim his crown if he should die. He took a young wife
but she proved incapable of providing him with a son so far. Lord Snipes
managed to gain an alliance out of the city of Caer Dyvi but Lord Neumann had no success in
improving relations with the newly converted Dyffed.
Western Europe
Heiliges Romisches Reich
(Roman Catholic Civilized Open Empire)
Leopold, Holy Roman Emperor.
Burgogne
rises up in rebellion against its oppressors and declares its independence. The
dockyards are busy in Cannes
as warships are commissioned for the German fleet. These years were not kind to
the German royal family, first the Emperor Heinrich died of a fever in 1277
along with Prince Hans. In the following year Prince Adalbert also died. The
Bishop Adriano Viccenzo was also to die in 1270 from over indulgence in
Lubecker Nusstorte. Despite declaring Arnulf as the heir, Prince Leopold saw
his chance to claim the throne and took control of the Empire before his
younger brother’s supporters could act. Before his death, Prince Hans increased
the support from Leipzig
with the aid of Marcus. Disgusted by the lack of success at defeating the
Infidels, the Knights of Malta swear before God to punish the Moslem aggressors
Norman Kingdom
of France
(Roman Catholic Civilized Open Empire)
Raymond, King of France
The
Loire was dredged all the way to Tours and the
expanded to make room for new dockyards to connect it to the Atlantic.
The death of Enguerrand of Tours made way for the sons of King Raymond to
arrive at court. Bishop Alberic gained tribute from Hainault
.
Principality of Salerno
(Roman Catholic Civilized Open Empire)
Ricardo III, Prince of Salerno
Years of peace in
the Salernese lands saw Ravenna grow in size and
the provinces of Romagna and Sicily
benefit from Ricardo’s treasury. The lands of Sicily were settled by the captured Egyptian
troops from the successful campaign years before. The lower part of the Po was dredged to make Vincencia a port. To keep the
Papal road in place, a bridge was built over the Po at Verona. With an eye towards possible Moslem
raids, Ricardo commissioned over thirty triremes in Calania. These were
assigned to the Bishop Masconi. Ricardo himself spent these years ruling from Campania and instructing
his son Prince Hector in the art of diplomacy. Prince Ricardo IV travelled to
Cavelleri where his marriage to the daughter of the Count of that city saw it
turn friendly to the Principality. Elsewhere, the lands of Savoy
and Sicily were
to see efforts to smooth over past differences. The old count of Vincencia died
in 1267, his victory in Sicily
his legacy.
The Papal
States
(Roman Catholic Civilised Religious
Order)
Pope Urban III, God’s Voice on Earth
The
Pope’s influence grew apace during these years. Cathedrals were built in the
cities of Ravenna and Leghorn
as well as an Abbey in Genoa and Churches in Stuttgart and Languedoc.
Nearly three quarters of Sicilians were converted back to Christianity and the
island seemed secure from further Egyptian attack. A Bishop was dispatched to London to assist the
English King in his affairs of state. As well as the Cathedral in Ravenna, the city
benefited from much Papal largess as new public works were built.
The Akramid Caliphate
(Sunni Islam Civilized Open Empire)
Darkan, Caliph of the Akramids
The
death of Darkan in 1266 saw his legacy of integrating the Ummayad lands
continue as the regions of Morocco
and Tunisia
were further improved. His son Tiroman II took control of the Caliphate and
received newly upgraded forces from Prince Obrahim and Imran Nazir. Prince
Obrahim also died in 1270 and made way for the Prince Karnachim. Tiroman took a
new wife but the task of patrolling the extensive Akramid lands meant that he
had little time to spend with her and was not to see any children born. The
Imam Astroman and Lehlmed were in Leon smoothing over past
grievances, edging the region closer to the Caliphate.
The Anacletan Order
(Roman Catholic Civilised Religious
Order)
Guiscard, Grandmaster of the Anacletan Order, Scourge of Islam
Guiscard
felt every one of his sixty years as he tirelessly patrolled the water’s off Santa Maria. He persuaded
the King of Aragon to send one of his younger sons to augment the Order’s
commanders. Phillip moved to Olbia where he also took up the task of patrolling
the seas in the Western Mediterranean. He was
hampered in this task by the Order’s lack of presence in the city; however,
zealots of the Order did manage to acquire lands for a house in rural Sardinia. Pascal continued to look over the affairs of
the Order from the Ile de France.
The Middle East and Africa
The Buwayid Sultanate
(Sunni Islam Civilized Open Empire)
Zarife II, Sultan of the Buwayids
Missionaries
in Bithnia saw a large number of converts amongst the Catholics there. Zarife
ruled the Sultanat from Baghdad
and was blessed with a young son. Collecting the garrison of Diyala and ten
companies of engineers from Baghdad, Prince Arif
moved onto Bithnia and then to Antalya
where he spent these years in theological discussions with the nobility of that
city, converting the majority to Islam. In Bithnia he handed control of the
army to Imam Numair. The Imam then moved to attack Constantinople
from Paphlagonia. With the end of the ferry crossing controlled by the Romans,
Numair had to rely on Muwaffaq’s fleet to help in cross the Bosphorus. His
force of one hundred and sixty warships and twenty triremes was met by the
Romans fleet of sixty mixed warships, mainly triremes and biremes. The
defenders were overwhelmed by Muwaffaq’s numbers and although the losses where
equals on both sides, around ten ships, they were forced to retreat to Constantinople’s harbour. The way was left open for
Numair who aided by Hadi, Sayf of Qom had command of forty thousand men. The
Roman’s had withdrawn behind the walls of Constantinople
and waited in trepidation for the enemies attack. The walls of Constantinople were not as high as they once were but
were still substantial in size. The defenders numbered only three thousand and
despite Sayf being wounded in the assault, they were cut down to a man as the
walls were breached. Numair’s losses were less than two thousand men and
arriving in the city he headed straight for the royal palace. His orders were
to dig up the bones of Basil, instigator of Basil’s Crusade, and scatter them
on the crossroads outside the city. Abasigia, Crimea,
Galatia and Pontus
all rebel and the Roman nobility waited for Zarife’s acceptance of their
surrender.
The Ayyubid Sultanate
(Sunni Islam Civilized Open Empire)
Rashid, Sultan of the Ayyubids
Prince
Jibrail died of a fever and Shams of old age whilst a prisoner. The sultan of Syria also died a prisoner and his lands
rescinded all ties with Alexandria.
Al-Khulafa'ur
Rashidun
(Sunni Islam Civilized Religious Primate)
Zaahir al Shiraj, Kaliph
Rashidun
missionaries saw large numbers of converts amongst the peasants of Epirus and Attica,
fully one third of those regions were converted to Islam. The province of Bithnia
was finally fully converted to Islam. Al’Adana grew in size and the Kaliph
opened his treasury to provide beautiful parks and piazzas. In Baghdad, nearly twenty
thousand cavalry were raised for the Kaliph’s army. While the Kaliph Zaahir
ruled from Mesopotamia, the Imams were
dispatched far and wide across the Moslem lands to improve his standing in the
temporal realm. An Abbey was built in Media by Tahmid of the Adjou. Churches
were raised in Kuwait and
Mand and another Abbey in Fars. Basra now benefited from a
Cathedral as did Kufa and Mahidia.
The Al’Bahri
(Sunni Islam Civilized Religious Order)
Umar, Sultan of the Ayyubids
Peaceful
times for the Order, murmuring of unrest begin amongst its more fanatical
followers.
Ar Rassid Imamat as
Sa'Na
(Sunni Islam Civilized Open Empire)
Sheik Umar
Old
Sheik Farouk was left to end his days in peace in Sa’na as his son and heir
Prince Umar took control of the Imamat. Umar was to establish a new trade route
to the Ceylon port of Kollam as well as improving the internal
trade routes of the nation. Prince
Khalid spent these years in Oman
where he gained further support from the Omani tribes. Ziyad also some success
in the lands of Muscat.
The nobility of Kilwa were converted to Islam by the Imam Zahir. Prince Sayyid
moved with his force of two thousand cavalry and slightly fewer infantry to
attack Berbera. Due to his popular command, the forces reached the beaches
without any losses but the Ogaden had mobilised over three thousand heavy
cavalry with some light skirmishers from the Berbara garrison to defend the
region. Months of fighting saw Sayyid no further into the from the beaches until
the Ogaden finally forced him back. In the attack Sayyid was lucky to escape
with his life, his forces and ships destroyed on the beaches of Berbera.
Usama-Yoruba Onium of
Ibo
(African Pagan Civilised Open Empire)
Bhanda, King of the Ibo
The
lands of the Sudan and Songhai were resettled after the damage caused by the
Adjou Aba. Mabhanda took his royal guard of nearly twenty five thousand men and
destroyed any control left by the Adjou Aba in the oasis of Tahoua. He returned
to Ibo where he married from the local nobility. Payad took his thirty five
thousand cavalry and wiped out the nomads of the Wadan. Moving north to
Iguidir, he took the province easily before dying from spoiled mutton. Adjoukt
in Walata rebelled from Iboan control after Payad’s death. With the horde far
to the east, Mabhanda felt that he had cleared some space from his borders but
still commanded Ibana to clear any remnants from the oases of Bilma, Yanaka-Chinga,
Al-Kufrah and Ayn-Al-Ghazal, no sign of the Adju was found but reports came in
that they were camped in Batha, their isolated lands to the west rebelled.
The Mwene-Mutapa
Empire
(African Pagan Civilised Open Empire)
Nyambo, Emperor of Mapungubwe
The
Aqueduct for Mwene-Mutupa was completed, bringing fresh water to the city all
year. Missionaries from the Unkulunkulu clergy saw some more converts in
Gorongo. Nyambo was pleased that his new wife from the Cape
had survived his attentions and commanded that Matombo Mukare send him another
from the same stock. Nyambo was blessed with another two children, this time
one was a son. Matombo’s diplomacy saw
the Cape become an integral part of the
Empire. With the death of Chimbganda, the region of Nguni pledged only support
from their treasury and not their warriors.
Bakongo Kingdom of
Kanem-Bornu
(African Pagan Civilised Open Empire)
Zeta, King of Kanem-Bornu
Zeta
ruled from Kanem-Bornu whilst his brother brought Kano into the kingdom
The East
Without further ado, the news for these
years in Lords 24 history...
India
Pratihara Kingdom of Kaunaj
(Hindu Civilised Open Empire)
Rajiv, Raja of Kaunaj
Like
their Bengali allies, the Rajputis raised over twelve thousand men in Kaunaj.
The walls of the isolated cities of Mandalay
and Pagan were built high and wide to protect the cities. The captured Thatonese
general, Thawan, was murdered in his cell on the orders of Janda. Despite his
paranoia from assassination, Janda was to die in 1266 from a fever. His eldest
son Prince Rajiv became the Raja of Kaunaj. Kundeep raised an army of nearly
twenty thousand mercenaries in Kaunaj and during his time on Gaur, Prince Gyan
also managed to hire a further two thousand mercenaries. Prince Om moved from
Kaunaj to Nadavaria. While Rajiv and the Brahmin Mohandas discussed the
benefits of re-joining the kingdom to the Raja of Nadavaria, Om
gave over command of his army to Rupinder. Rajiv and the Brahmin regained the
old alliance with the Nadavarians. Rupinder led the army into Kalinga in order
to pacify the region. However, Kalinga was heavily defended with field forts
and the invasion faltered against these defences. However, Rupinder was not
lightly thwarted and moved in again against the province. After twelve months
of fierce fighting the province was finally subdued. However, Rupider fell to
the opposing forces and was captured by the Thatonese. Prince Om was not
confident enough in command to continue against the province and remained in
change of the garrison there. Of the twenty thousand men attacking the
province; Om was left in command of just over
seventeen thousand. Rupinder later died
of his wounds whilst in captivity. The Order of the Dagger brings its warriors
back to Kaunaj prevent further attacks on Hindu regions. A slight change in the
climate in Ajmer
means that the deserts begin to subside.
The Western
Dhara
(Hindu Civilised NPN Empire, Open Empire)
Pajama I, King of the Dhara
Bengani and Palcama
move over the mountains between Satava and Tripuri to bring Dharan peace to the
state of Pawar. The Raja of Tripuri refused to meet with the Dharans and
instead dispatched his general at the head of four thousand infantry and nine
thousand cavalry to force the Dharans back over the mountains. Bengani was
tasked with taking the province if diplomacy failed and moved to attack with
his two thousand elite cavalry and a further two thousand foot, most of which
were also elite guardsmen. Bengani was killed in the first attack and Palcama
failed to take control of the Dharan forces. It was only their high morale that
prevented a full rout of Palcama’s force as they fled back to Satava. Losses
were slight on both sides, only a few hundred men each. Fallija found favour
with the King when he aided Paga in gaining some diplomatic relations with the
Cholans.
The Palas of Bengal
(Hindu Civilised NPN Empire, Friendly to
Kaunaj)
Ran, Palas of Bengal
Tamralipti was the
staging point for Bengal’s army as nearly
twelve thousand men were called to arms. Missionaries in Assam reduced the numbers of
Buddhist converts in those war torn lands. Bengali assassins wounded the
Thatonese admiral, Chao Seni, before he left Moulmein for Pegu. Satinder was to attempting
to improve the Bengali relations with Arakan when he died of a fever in 1266.
Pala Ran ruled from Gaur until his death in 1268. His wife Harshita took
control of the Kingdom until Ran’s son came of age. Rom was tasked with
blockading Moulein from Bandarban with the Brahmin Gandhi; Prince Kasem of the
Thatonese was loathe to meet the threat outside the harbour and failed to break
the blockade. Banu moved out of Samatata and after collecting the garrison in
Tamralipti moved on to Arakan where he attacked the Thatonese province of Pegu.
The Tatonese army under Chao Seni had already passed through Pegu and attacked
Samatata to liberate the province from Hindu control. Banu failed to defeat the
heavily fortified province, after many years of campaigning; his army was
reduced to just over one thousand men. The fortifications of Pegu were mainly
intact.
South East Asia and the Islands
The Dai Kingdom
of Annam
(Buddhist Civilised Open Empire)
Fer Netcol, King of Annam
Fer
Netcol was determined not to give up on re-uniting his Kingdom and continued to
lead the delegation to the Nanchao. Some
progress was made after much gold was spent to improve the relations. Pala Nga
Non was tasked with patrolling the Kingdom but died of a fever in 1270.
Kambujadesa
(Hindu Civilised Open Empire)
Emperor Surya Din, Emperor of the Khmer
The
lands of Khemer and the island
of Singapore were fully
fortified and Surya Din took command of a further five thousand men. The port of Bakheng was built in the newly colonised
lands of Tengah. Surya Din ruled from Angor after meddling with the shipping
out of Sambor Prei Kok and moving several of the ships to Phan Bho. Vireakboth the Snake patrolled the northern
borders, on the out look for Buddhist aggression. The settlers for Bakheng were
transported from Angor to Tengah by Nung Tok Pai before his death in 1270. More
of the nobility of Siam
were converted by Jao the Zealot but Khemer missionaries were not successful in
those lands. Heng Huynh travelled to Tengah where he persuaded the last of the
tribesmen there to embrace Shiva.
The Kingdom of Thaton
(Buddhist Civilised Open Empire)
Ratana Nai-Thim, King of the Thaton
The
respite gained by Thaton’s victories in the past few years meant that Ratana
Nai-Thim could fortify the western regions of Assam,
Manipur, Burma, Ava and Pegu as well as some
more in Thaton itself. Over eight thousand men were raised in Thaton for Chao
Seni. Nearly sixty warships were
commissioned in the dockyards of Moulmein
for Prince Kasem. Ratana was confident enough to commission sixty merchantmen
in Thaton as well and add to the fishing fleets out of Songkhla, Kadaram and Moulmein. Missionaries in
the Hindu lands failed miserably and no converts were found. Chao Seni was
wounded by Bengali assassins as he left Moulmein
in charge of the newly raised army relieve the province of Samatata.
It took many years and over twenty thousand men but eventually the province was
returned to Thatonese control. Ratana’s wife of several years died in
childbirth and he was left to rule his kingdom alone. His afforts to raise more
mercenaries out of Moulmein
were successful when a captain and one thousand hardened cavalry rode to his
banner and gold. Prince Kasem took command of the navy from Chao Seni and
patrolled the waters out of Moulmein.
The mercenary captain Sunan Veerapol raided out of Assam into the lands of
Gstang and Palas, although some gold was gained from the wilderness of Gtsang,
the well defended lands of Palas caused many losses amongst the mercenaries,
especially as the Dagger lent its cavalry to aid the Bengalis.
Manchu’ko and Nihon
The Minamoto
Shogunate
(Shinto Civilised Open Empire)
Eiroku Minamoto, Shogun of the East
Akita was cultivated by the
Shogunate. An army of five thousand men was raised in Yamato for the Shoguns
invasion of Shimane. The Shogun was joined by Adachi Yasumori and together the
Minamoto army comprised twelve thousand infantry and the same in cavalry. The
force was augmented with two thousand siege engineers. The Taira Shogun rallied
his nine thousand men out of Saga and met the attackers as they moved through
the Great Wall of Yamato. For months the fighting was at held at stalemate
until finally the attackers were forced back. Six thousand of the easterners
were killed or lost in the action. The defenders lost almost the same amount of
men. The Shinto priests of the Shogunate had a mixed bag of success during these
years, their influence in the Nihon-no-Tenno grew but that in the Clan Kiyowara
waned. Daiei had the task of raiding the Tairanese costs of the Dozen Wan and
the Inland Sea while the Tairanese army was
tied up in the conflict in Shimane. His raids caused devastating ruin on the
Tairanese lands before returning with his haul of loot to Edo.
The old general was to die late in 1269 of a fever.
The Goryeo Kingdom
(Buddhist Civilised Open Empire)
Wang Insu, King of Goryeo
The
steppe lands of Shangtu were cultivated by peasant labour from Parhae and
Liao-Tung. Ships were commissioned for the trade routes out of Pusan and Po Yang. Old Ro
Moo died early in 1266, a not unexpected event given here advanced age and
inform state. Wang Insu ruled from Koguryo and was blessed with two daughters
by his wife Wang Bayarmaa. Missionaries were sent to Manchou but failed to make
any progress with the natives there. Wang Dong Sun travelled across from
Manchou to Ch’in on a grand diplomatic tour. Things started well when Manchou
became a full ally of the Kingdom, however no progress was made in Harbin and in Ch’in it was
only Wang’s escort that prevented him being executed for insulting the ruler’s
wife. Hyo Pong collected one thousand men from Po Yang and moved to defend the
Kingdom’s outlying possessions from Hokkaido.
Young Sha took the Goryeon fleet south and explored the seas of the Bashi
Channel and Dongsha Hai.
The Land under Heaven
The Kingdom of Koueichou
(Buddhist Civilised Open Empire)
Dai Ling, Queen of Koueichou
Dai
Ling rebuild her army after the losses at the hands of the Chang’Ling. Her
husband Bo Tai patrolled the borders in case of retaliation by the easterners.
He was accompanied by the nobility of the Kingdom. The Chang’Ling retaliated by
building cities in Hubei
and Hwai around the fortresses there.
The Empire of the
Western Song
(Buddhist Civilised Open Empire)
Zhi Zhen, Emperor of the Western Song
The
prosperity of the Song continued to grow and Lanzhou city grew with it. The road from
Chang’An toHuang Ho was completed as well as the road over the mountains down
to Ts’Un’I from Hanzhong. Kin was converted o the way of Buddha by missionaries
working out of Ordos. The Emperor ruled from
Chang’An and introduced Zhi Heng to the court there. Despite the death of Wu
Fei during the journey to Yun, Yu Jing was successful in gaining an alliance
from the lord of Yun by offering the hand of the Princess Zhi Chong to seal the
alliance. An Zhao patrolled the borders of the Empire from Kansu,
accompanied by the young Prince Zhi Hu.