The Prussian-Bavarian Commonwealth
Kingdom of Bavaria
As Bavarian crusaders charge Serbian mountain villages, fully equipped in armor and shields, the villages are crushed, and the boulders doing the only real damage to the armies, and the peasants sent in as support units hit by arrows. Of the 34,000 strong Bavarian army, an estimated 2,000 were killed, mainly among the mercenaries sent in after the knights. The Bavarian armies fall back from ballista firing range, many of the armies returning to the coastline where 22,000 of them pack back onto the boats, and, with the new fleet reinforcements from the recently annexed provinces, set sail once more for the Holy Land. Gold is sent to the Papal States in recompense for the distraction. The 10,000 troops left set up massive tent camps along the coast, largest camps outside of Serbian ports and smaller camps further inland near villages. The peasants left in Serbia, numbering 3,000 of 10,000 begin to put the farms and fisheries on the coast back up, inhabiting them as Bavarian colonists. Byzantium is sent a messenger to Constantinople, promising that they would not be attacked, and implying that now would be a good time to invade Serbia.
The palace in the works is continued, but more time will be necessary for it to be completed.
Small forts are built along the mountain passes of Serbia, meant to intercept any Serbian armies coming through.
As Bavaria faces a deficit, some of the treasuries it had stored up are put into the economy in an effort to protect it.
The faraway United Provinces of Ireland are dismissively given trade rights to Bavaria.