Chapter 5: The Austro-Byzantine War part 2
The year is 1595 The Austro-Byzantine war has raged on for 3 years now as the Imperial army having to fend of the whole of the holy roman empire excluding several states that felt unobligated to aid their emperor. Byzantium decided enough was enough and was ready to do something about this war. He went to a northern German country that had not declared war on him and had a meeting with him. The hall was large and somewhat grand, but nothing in comparison to the halls of Constantinople. The man was sitting on a thrown with a black eagle behind him. The man had red eyes and silver hair and was wearing his military uniform, "What do you want?" the man said as Byzantium aproched him. Byzantium kneeled in respect for the man, "What I want is an alliance good sir." The man was intreguied and said, "Go on …" Byzantium stood up and asked for a proper seat, the man called for one and they sat and began discussing a possible alliance. "Sir … err Prussia, if I may I would like to say your northern empire is great, but it lacks something." Prussia eyed Byzantium and asked him, "What is my land missing?" Byzantium had him hooked, "It is missing the south, help me and you can take all of the southern provences for you self, while I take the Balkans." Prussia was interested in this idea, as unification was one of his major goals, to be the German nation that is, but he wasn't intirally convinced, "What is the catch? What do you want me to do besides this?" Byzantium thought on this long in hard trying to keep it so that the conversasition would not be a failure, "I want a strong ally and I want Austria gone, but I don't want his lands in Germany, what I want is the Italian provinces he holds and the Balkans. I want nothing else." Prussia nodded his head in agreement and put out his hand, "You have yourself a deal." Byzantium shook his hand and walked away.
Prussia declared war on Austria attacking on the opisit front from the Byzantines. There was only one more front left to secure and the Austrians defeat was assured. Byzantium went to another country that decided not to attack Byzantium. "Sir Burgundy it is good to meet with you." Burgundy was a tall and thin man with one eye red violet and the other blue violet he had brown hair and was a bit of a mix between France and Germany, except a lot more professional than France. "Yes as it is Byzantium and to you as well, now why are you here?" he studied Byzantium with a keen and observant eyes. He was preoccupied fending off the French to fight with the Byzantines, but he knew that the Byzantines would likely be a problem in the future. "I am here for an alliance." Burgundy staired at him and said, "You want an alliance with me? Please I know your intentions, you will eventually set your eyes on France and with my core provences being in France I simply cant allow you to take them." What Burgundy said, was true, but Byzantium had no intentions on rousing the anger of the Empire on purpose, excluding this one time. "Look I may want France in the future, there is no telling whether or not I would want you, I only want those of latin-esk desendancy, you may have been fully French at one point, but you are a mix now I cant say I am interested in claiming the tiny bit of land you hold in France, so please let that reassure you." Burgundy still wasn't convinced, but he listend on to see what else he would offer, "I can see you still don't believe me completely, fine how bout I get France off of you." A tall order, but one that could be done easily. Burgundy smiled and then laughed, "How exactly do you plan on doing that?" Byzantium said in reply, "Simple enough, I will bluff him into thinking once I am done with my war with Austria I will set my eyes on him and I am much stronger and larger than he is." Burgundy nodded his head and smiled, "Alright you get him off me and I will attack Austria, that Aristorcratic snob."
Byzantium convinced France that if he took over Burgundy he would be the next on the list of Byzantine conquests. Burgundy agreed to the alliance and assaulted Austria from the west.
Austria was in a three front war and he couldn't win, the princes of the empire were falling to Burgundy and Prussia, while Byzantium was pushing against him and the Empire from the south, soon the Empire would be divided into three. "I cant do this I cant win, its over I have lost!" Austria screamed and feel to the floor. North Italy and HRE who was actually quiet sick since his Empire was being split into three lands and he was starting to disappear, but he was still around since Austria and North Italy were still faithful to the Empire ran to him to see what was wrong. "Mister Austria what is wrong?" Italy asked Austria, Austria looked up and said, "I cant win I am surrounded on all fronts this was not my war to fight, damn it!" Austria started to pound on the ground and yelled, "I was suppose to defend the Empire, but I could do no such thing, I am weak and can do nothing against those who are not loyal and those who invade!" Austria stormed out of the room he was in. He was going to Byzantium to exclude a peace treaty.
Byzantium was surprised when he saw Austria walk up to him all alone, "What do you want, are you surrendering?" Byzantium mocked, but Austria replied, "Yes I surrender what are your terms." Byzantium's jaw dropped and then he staired, "Really your surrendering, hm guess your empire isn't all it was cracked up to be let that be a leason, Never take the title of something that isn't your!" Byzantium then took Austria back to camp to set up a peace deal, "Now here is the deal ok, I get the lower ends of your land primarly the Balkans, and Northern Italy Prussia gets Bohima and your northern lands, Burgundy gets the east and the rest." Austria was being annexed and he could do nothing to stop it. "Damn you, I have no choice in the matter do I?" Byzantium shook his head, "No you don't this is an annexation and that's the only peace your getting." Austria bowed his head and said, "You win I accept." Austria signed the peace deal Austria was no longer an independent country.