After the capture of Konstantinople Alexius gained a new title, he was now known as Alexius VI Kommenos Emperor of the Romans. After the city fell the patriarch was executed quietly and a puppet loyal to Alexius was placed on the throne. Alexius became a hero back in Trebizond and after the victory, the Osamngulli soon carved up their half of COnstantinople, by this time relations beetween Murad and Alexius were at an all time high and Trebizond seemed as the power of the east...... More good news came when his wife bore him a child who was named David..... With this child Alexus throne was secure. However other events were occuring, a dark shadow had falleover Persia, Tamerlae was busy consolodating his forces but he was not satisfied, by his time the major powers of the Middle east were the Mamelukes of EGypt, The timurids, and Trebizond. However relations beetween Timur and ALexius grew sour, Timur had won many victories and no he wanted more.... His target was the city of trebizond now a wealthy prospourous city. ON July 16th 1411 Tamelane led a massive army of a hundred thousand arcehrs to lay siege to Eritrea. The sultan of Eritrea was in favour with Alexius and he fled to Trebizond where he pleaded for help from Alexius. Trebizond sent an ultimatum to the timurids, either they break off the invasion of Eritrea or Trebizond will declare war, when Tamer ignored the letter Trebizond declared war, the Osmangulli soon followed.......... Soon afterword Tamerlanes forces marched for Trebizond.
Timurid soldiers
Invasion force preparing for battle.
Trebizond/ Osmangulli defenders preparing to face the Ottoman onslaught.
Now Alexius was no fool, he knew that the Timurids were a terrfing force and it would be extremly tough to stop them but ALexius had a plan. He had studied up on Timurids warfare, he had sent spies to Tamerlanes court, they soon gave him info on his army makeup, and valuable information. Alexius knew that this war would determine who was the dominant force. Alexius soon was startled at what he discoveed, the Timurids were mainly an army made purely of Archers on horses as well as a couple heavy calvary and elephants. Together with Murad ALexius laid out a course of war. The Timurids would most likely rain down their arrows so what he would do is have the powerful byzantine swordsmen form a shield wall, this wall would provide protection against the Calvary. Now another pressing problem facing Alexius was how to deal with the massive war elephants, he decided to use an old roman trick, when the ELephants charged he would have his pikemen spear the eyes and nose of the elphant driving the elephant mad that it will crash into enemy lines. In order to deal with the heavy calvary he would wait for the Calvary to charge by planning a feigned retreat and then have the powerful Byzantine horse archers, and Ottoman Spihahi calvary reign hell down upon the enemy. ALso he would not fall for nay trick tamer tries. However Alexius had a secret weapon he would unviel. FOr some years the ROmans were trying to find a way to effectivly equip greek fire to their infantry. He finnaly found the way and soon created the byzantine firethrowers, they would be his pride which he created, they would charge foreward at his signal and flame the enemy troops. It was an ingenious tactic, also Alexius ordered the Greek fire to come in form of NApalm, basically he had oil gasoline and the various resources tat make up greek fire into LArge balls used by catapaults, these balls would ignite and soon explode casuing massive casulties to the enemy.
The terrifing Greek firethrower had been unvieled. With this army Alexius and Murad agreed to face off against the Timurids and end the timurid power in the east.......
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