I love how Jerusalem, despite ruled by the von Hohenzollern dynasty, is very
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in this alternate history.
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Defendite Hierusalem! Vincite Roma et Traditores! Abante!
Glory for Potato
Being now a powerful rival of the decadent Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Georgia has provided indirect support for Jerusalem just as the decisive Battle of Jerusalem carried on. Were Jerusalem to fall, the consequences would be not only bad, but disastrous, they cannot be allowed to win this fight! The Romans were outnumbered but they had a massive advantage in technology and a vast force of cavalry. The Hussars charged bravely against the enemy cavalry, despite being outnumbered by it, while the dozens of thousands of musketeers of the Imperial Guard boldly advanced to relieve the siege.
Not only they had more cavalry and better weaponry, but their training, tactics and coordination of units was superior as well, and thus the blood was shed again for the Holy Land, and even in spite of their numerical superiority, the defenders suffered heavy losses, but they never gave up, and through overwhelming mass supported by the bravery of the Crusader Hussars they gradually gained ground, and continued fighting no matter how many of them have fallen to the cannons and superior weaponry of the enemies, no matter how entire formations were crushed and slaughtered, they would show to Rome they could revert the tides of this war.
One of the most important decrees of the Emperor during this conflict was the institution of the Imperial Commissariat to oversee the morale of the armies of the Imperium of Jerusalem and have no mercy for defeatists, deserters, cowards, traitors and HERESY! *BLAM*
(Are they supposed to have machineguns?)
In the end, the Battle of Jerusalem in the year of the lord 1576 was an incredibly costly victory, but not yet pyrrhic, for if the retreating armies of Rome could be routed, then the casualty figures would turn up against them. It was a show of the ultimate sacrifice that over ten thousand men gave their lives for the Empire, for Jerusalem. During the final stages of the battle, the Romans thought they were actually winning this battle, thinking that no army would ever refuse to rout and retreat, but this was not any army, this is the Imperial Guard, and only in death does end to the Emperor end. Drowning the morale of the superiorly equipped Roman legions over their own bodies, their hussars charging bravely even after half of them fell, they eventually broke the will of the legions to fight despite their vast advantages in all but numbers. The numbers of casualties resulted from *BLAM* of deserters are fortunately negligible. Immediately, the Imperial Guard and the Imperial Hussars marched forward to crush the retreating legions, for if they are completely wiped out, then this will be a great victory, no matter how many patriots must die for Imperium.
Over twenty thousand heretics wiped out, this devastating loss for Rome has greatly bolstered the morale of the men in spite of the both numerically and technologically superior legion they had to fight against, and now there was a growing hope Jerusalem can emerge unscathed from this war.
DEUS VULT!
With the help of the Georgian subsidies, the army of the Empire is undergoing further expansion.
TRAITORS! TRAITORS! HERESY! *BLAM*
Once the Romans are raping their women, burning all they have and crucifying they, they should remember they could have done something to stop the Roman Empire instead of being despicable heretics and traitorous enough to ambush and entire force of Hussars marching to defend their own land. No worries though, that won't happen although for such traitors, a very deserving fate awaits once the war with Rome is over.
Marching to battle, Amalric IV died when his horse fell and he went down head first into a rock a mole popped out of place when digging up. Or to put it briefly, the emperor was killed by popamole. Long Live kingcomrade IV! May the new emprah be ready for the daunting challenge ahead of putting an end to Roman aggression no matter the costs.
Then, while the new units were rallying to disrupt the devastating Roman advance through Syria, the Egyptian scum have shown they never learn. They will pay for this! If only infamy was low enough they'd pay very highly for being such dishonorable and ungrateful dregs.
Hammah and Aleppo have fallen, and now the city of Damascus was under siege by another Roman Legion as vast as the one that once besieged Jerusalem. Despite their loss of dozens of thousands, they have more than enough reserves and themes, even if the complete slaughter of an entire legion didn't help with the morale of their decadent army and home support for the war. Thus the Imperial Hussars, now numbered fifteen thousand thanks to the generous temporary support of Georgia that made funding such a massive cavalry possible, and the Imperial Guard, advanced together to break the siege of Damascus, and they would win, no matter how many of them fall, they will win!
Thirteen thousand better equipped Roman companion cavalries were part of the siege together with about the same number of infantry. Led by the Hussars, the counter-attack has begun under the leadership of the skilled general Henry Le Tellier, who masterfully coordinate the musketeers to fire in the most effective manner possible as their human wave advanced without regard to anything other than victory, no matter how many must make the ultimate sacrifice for it. Henry Le Tellier would have achieved far more if only the technology of Jerusalem was better, but his skills were decisive in offsetting the advantage of the heretical Rome, as was the unrelenting bravery of the Hussars, who inflicted devastating losses against them.
The casualties were still unfavorable for Jerusalem, but this time the battle was far less imbalanced regarding losses, thanks to the crushing impact of the Hussar charge against the Roman soldiers, who had several of their units driven into retreat after witnessing the immense Crusader army fighting in perfect coordination. What the brave Jerusalemite crusaders lacked in technology they have more than made up in determination to achieve victory. Once this army is routed, then the casualties would be much greater for Rome.
DEUS VULT!
Yet, despite all these two decisive victories at Jerusalem and Damascus, the Imperium knew their chances were not good, while they wished for peace to improve their economic situation and eventually catch up in their lagging sciences, and thus they hoped that, in a combination of diplomacy and such far less favorable outcome than what the heretics predicted, they could persuade them to peace once all their occupations over Jerusalem were assaulted and retaken, and thus the Imperial Guard, knowing well time was against them, hurried to mass assault Aleppo and Hammah.
Motivated by their recent victories, they charged without fear and there was no need of a Commissar musket being used against deserters this time, as after only seven days the garrisson finally has fallen in face of the vast numerical superiority of the Imperial Guard. Now they must hurry to Aleppo, there is no time to be lost!
Just because there is no longer an Inquisition dedicated to exterminating authentic HERESY! this does not mean such traitors will go unpunished. Soon their time will come, specially because they ambushed and slaughtered one thousand hussars unprepared for a fight, which is as treasonous and heretical as it is a display of cowardice of such degree that makes them worse and less human than the most primitive African ape. Once order can be restored they will be made a very nice example of, perhaps not as brutal as the punishments involving skinning of traitors and salting during the reign of those during Sybilla's glorious reign, who the heretical dare to call as the "Blood Queen" and to compare with an obscure Slovak countess named Elizabeth Bathory, but they will get their due fate.
In April 4th, 1577, the last conquest of the Romans was undone, while the weary armies of Jerusalem prayed, for many has fallen, and Jerusalem had to make such great sacrifices to fight for their sovereignty that now there were no longer fresh reserves ready to replace the fallen, and to make everything worse, the legion besieging Beirut slightly outnumbered the armies at the recently freed Aleppo, for they knew the consequences should Beirut fall any time soon. Well aware of how precarious their situation was, the Emperor and his diplomats called a meeting with the dishonorable Romans to negotiate a peace treaty "favorable" to Rome, but in practice one that will do no harm for Jerusalem in the long term.
Let them bask in the prestige of "victory" after having over fifty thousand men crushed, over fifty regiments wiped out, for even if they have "conceded defeat" to Rome, there is no question about who won this war despite the official lies every heretical and heathen empire is based upon. Facing an army that strategically outnumbered and was devastatingly superior in technology to theirs, Jerusalem nevertheless emerged unscathed, and thus the sacrifices of countless thousands have not been in vain. Nevar forget these heroes who emerged victorious, against all odds, for it is thanks to them that Jerusalem was not lost during one of her finest hours since the times the Mamluks and Syrians threatened to crush her. Never forget the hussars who charged against numerically superior armies and turned the tide of battles seemingly impossible to win. 05/25 NEVAR FORGET
DEUS VULT!
Yet, while the war against Rome was at last over, the war against the traitors and heretics wasn't yet, neither war the war against another Egyptian backstab, and a vast legion of such traitors has recently seized most of the lands conquered from the Timurids, and an equally vast legion of over a dozen thousand heretics and traitors besieged Gaza right now. Let them have their deserving fate!
Despite numerically superior, those who stand for HERESY! have no morale and no honor, and thus were swiftly defeated.
A brilliant and brutal mass execution was enacted upon such worthless traitors. It was simple and terrible, an example to all those who dare to betray the Imperium. Underwears and blindfolds of iron were forged, and then while both were red hot, the scum was forced to wear both, painfully burning their eyes, their balls and their dicks for several minutes as their screams echoed through the entire Levant, then they were all thrown into a massive, deep pool filled horse shit, left to agonize there for some more time, and then finally all the shit was set on fire, including those responsible for betraying Jerusalem and instead of fighting for Jerusalem, for their very clay, skipping draft and fighting against her. This symbollic, cruel and merciless execution was more than deserved considering the circumstances.
The traitors near the border with Egypt were given a bit more leniency: they were immediately thrown into a pool of shit then burned together with the rest of the shit. Let the old and new shit be forever removed from the premises of Jerusalem. After this, such humiliating and symbollic method of execution, despite expensive and not always practical, was finally formalized as a punishment for the most severe crimes like rape, mass murder of innocents, treason and HERESY! with the length of the same and whether or not to include red hot iron underwears and blindfolds depending on its severity.
No leniency would be given however to the several dozens of thousands of heathens besieging the Persian conquests of the Imperium. They may think they are too numberful to be defeated, but soon they will learn how great of a mistake they have done and wish they were executed the same way the traitors of Gaza were once their sentence begins, from how even more horrible and painful it shall be.
Due to the threat of defection such masses of traitors presented, Jerusalem finally managed to negotiate a peace treaty with Egypt by the Christmas of 1578. In face of the Christmas traditions and pagan imports(THERE IS NO PAGAN IMPORT *BLAM*), the former inquisitors who devised the "burn the shit" method of execution already devised something even worse.
And during the next year, the need of being ruthless and cruel to an almost over-the-top way was once again confirmed. NO MERCY FOR TRAITORS.
They marched forward to crush the most dangerous of all traitors: those who wanted to defect to the heathens. Time for a delayed Christmas Tree.
Land technology went through further evolution, the Hussars were given portable pistols that will allow them to *BLAM* one heretic while impaling another with their pikes, increasing their flexibility as they adopted part of the Caracole Cavalry tactics, while still retaining their focus on melee. Meanwhile, the colony of Trarza was prospering, even during the war, where it was never affected.
By July it became clear that Trarza was a shithole devoid of any valuable natural resource. Thus came a simple conclusion about what was the most valuable asset of that province. The niggers may be incredibly dumb and violent, but like pack mules or farm animals, they are strong and can be tamed. Thus Jerusalem took a small part into the growing slave trade over Europe, Africa and Central Asia, although the emperor wisely decreed it was strictly forbidden for those living in the Mainland to employ such slaves, and they were exclusive for working over the colonies. There is no need to have both niggers and sandniggers in the already overtly MULTIKULT Jerusalem.
Eventually, with time recruitment made the Jerusalemite army back to its full strength, although, for economical reasons, many units raised during the war against Rome were disbanded. Now it was the time to purge traitors and heathens from Persia.
No matter how many, like all traitors, they shall fall.
While Persia was being cleansed, a merchant asked for support to start up another expedition. The Emperor agreed although right now Jerusalem had to wait for the Canary Islands to become core territories so they could begin their own colony over the New World.
The Empire, having abolished the Inquisition, always pursued a policy of relative tolerance, which led many Jews to ask for permission to settle over their lands as refugees. The fact it is Jerusalem also had a lot to do with their choice of asking first here than elsewhere.
Despite their numbers, the heathens are driven into further and further retreat and slaughtered like pigs and dogs, because they hate the two animals for some dumb reasons probably related to how their false prophet resembles both. Good thing Jerusalem did a great job to remove the innocence of Muslims from Aleppo to Aden.
Christmas wasn't that far away when the traitors were at last defeated, and so it was a better moment than ever to try the new execution method. thousands of these traitors were strung upside down on imported Christmas trees, then their balls were cut off and hanged on the branches because there can't be a Christmas tree without balls, their guts were opened and then their intestines removed and stitched together with each other making for another fine decoration, and finally, each of them was impaled with a red hot poker with a star-shaped hilt, to the last one on the very topside, where the poker went and the star shaped hilt stood above the tree as a finishing touch.
Next time so many traitors show up, a wicked German suggested as well to try an idea called "the human centipede" as a method of slow and horrible execution, but hopefully all this brutality will serve a purpose in scaring the shit out of the shit. If they hate Jerusalem this much, either do nothing about it other than baaw, return to their precious mongolia, or face fates far more worse than death if they dare to act like traitors.
And thus, in April 1585, all order was restored over Jerusalem, all traitors cruelly and mercilessly given their deserved fate and Jerusalem's first colony was approaching self-sufficiency. Once again vast legions of enemies, both inside and outside, were crushed, and now, as the 16th century ended, Jerusalem was finally set upon this new Colonial Age.
DEUS VULT!