Secret truthsayers meeting (near Sankt Petersburg):
Umh, oldest one, tell me again, why we cant get rid of him
Because the books say that the ancient truthsayers already discussed this matter about 1000 years ago and concluded that there is no way and that it is our fate to live with him
Yea, but the trick with the holidays, couldnt we try this one again?
No chance, since generations of truthsayers have used trick, we now have to face the fact that he has been already everywhere, sometimes even twice
Any ideas?
Perhaps, I have been at a barbeque party with some foreign truthsayers, and one from England told me, that their live is much easier now, since their Queen does something they call -hobby-.
Arent we at war with the English?
Yea, but since the forming of the worldwide truthsayers association, we all take great profit from the worldwide truthsayers immunity status.
Thats a good thing.
Yes, indeed
But oldest one, when we are cooperating so closely with all the foreign truthsayers, why are we telling our people, that all the other countries are evil?
Thats a good question son, and I know a very good answer, but lets first go back to the -hobby- thing.
If I got it right, a -hobby- is a completely non productive sort of work that you do on a regular basis with the intention of getting better every day.
But why should anybody do such a thing?
We dont know, but when it works in England, it will surely work in Pesia
How exactly is it called?
Golf
Ok, then lets give it a try
Sorry for my question, but didnt the emperor actually do a quite good job with the war in India?
No, he didnt. The Indian had altogether 9 longbow men and 2 pike men defending all their cities, all wounded after numerous Chinese raids and still he managed to loose 2 cavalry and 1 catapult. With 10 cavalry, 5 knights and 4 catapults, even one of our new pigeons would have done a better job.
Yea, I also agree. We will all die here, when we continue like he planed
Oh
Do we actually know where our troops in India died then?
Nobody knows, they just seemed to disappear
In the jungle, somewhere near Delhi:
Hey seargeant, lets make something to eat
We have only 2 catapults left, so we will be running out of firewood soon
How many horses do we have left?
4 and a half
Thats OK to me
Does anybody know why the emperor said we should wait here?
No
Nop
No
Who cares
?
Then get the catapults and the horses, I get the grill
We continued our emergency meeting near Sankt Petersburg shortly after the truthsayers finished their internal discussion. I was surprised a little by the friendly atmosphere in which the talking continued. When one of the truthsayers suddenly brought up the thing with building a Golf Course near Persepolis, I wondered a little, but since Elisabeth seemed to have such an important thing (what ever it was) I agreed at once to supervise this priority one project and then to test it myself. I left for Persepolis the same day. I only had to sign some papers to turn the command of the army to the truthsayers (the strange thing was that they already had prepared all the papers in advance (how could they know???)).
First good news I heard when I reached Persepolis was that thanks to 2 cavalry heading for Africa and some whipping (2 cavalry more), the advance from Mansa could be stopped. After he lost his initial attacking force, he never again sent any troops near our territory
Some time later the news reached me that English forces had indeed landed near Paris in 1185 a.d..
English invasion:
But with our defending army of 2 cavalry, 2 mace men, and 2 longbow men, the truthsayers were able to drive them back.
I also heard, that Kathy had mad a fatal mistake. The truthsayers, who foolishly divided our army in several stacks and used 2 workers as bait (what a stupid idea), had managed somehow to drag half of the defenders out of Sankt Petersburg and to take the city with only a few losses.
Sankt Petersburg captured 1185 a.d.:
All Kathys attempts to retake the city failed, two stacks of her reinforcements were completely destroyed (altogether 15 Russian units; the truthsayers lost only 4 battalions of cavalry).
Shortly after this, the news reached me, that Persia was now worldwide in the third place concerning army strength. The truthsyers told me that they thought Persia had overtaken Kathy in army strength after the massacre of her troops near Sankt Petersburg. They also told me, that now only Qin and Monty had more military then Persia.
Elisabeth also seemed to have read this report, because she offered a peace treaty the same year
So the truthsayers decided to use the whip a little more, filled our cavalry up again to 15 battalions and when the 3 battalions of catapults from India finally arrived, they advanced further into Russian territory.
Jekaterinburg and Rostow taken in 1220 a.d.:
1225 a.d. the truthsayers finally fought of Kathys last effort to launch a counterattack. 6 Russian battalions of knights were brought down by 4 Persian battalions of cavalry near Pasagarde. Some land improvements got pillaged and the truthsayers lost 3 battalions of cavalry, but still it seemed a great victory to them.
When the truthsayers took Moscow, the last resistance of Kathy was broken.
Moscow captured 1240 a.d.:
They agreed finally to a peace treaty with Kathy in 1260 a.d., after they had taken all her European and West-Asian cities. Instead of all the faults that they were making during their war campaign, it seemed that finally my good preparations and my tactical advices had helped them to win this war in the end (as I told them).
Europe and West-Asian 1260 a.d.:
Another revolution swept through Persia about the time the Russian war approached the end and our civics changed to Free Speech and Emancipation.
see you soon,
Snaaty