The sun was about to set, and the sky was about to turn from blood-red to boundless darkness.

The fighting on the Bosphorus ceased, and a sea battle that changed the course of the entire world situation ended.

The Italians suffered a painful defeat, and their galleys were powerless against the gunboats that landed Qi down from the Black Sea. The Itali, who relied on traditional ramming and gang jumping tactics, suffered heavy losses in this battle. The ships of the Black Sea Division sank them thirty or fifty feet away. On the other hand, the Italian paddle boats, which could only carry guns in the bow and could reach 120 feet in length and 15 feet in width, were not small. However, the warship could only place fire at the end of the war, otherwise it would interfere with the oars. It must be said that it is a tragedy!

The galleys will have 30 seats on each side, so that in addition to the sails, there can be 180 oarsmen, providing the ship with raw power that is not affected by the elements. A large number of oarsmen from the Italian and Greek coasts drove these ancient and historic warships across the Mediterranean. But such ships are really not suitable for accommodating artillery.

Moreover, artillery is still an absolute rarity in Europe, and no matter how rich the Venetians are, they can't afford to put artillery on all their ships. The long-range strike force of this European sailor still relies on bows and crossbows. But when the crossbows are turned into tall ships, one will find that their range and power are pitiful. And when they finally got on board with the enemy after a lot of hard work, they found that the gunboats of the Black Sea Division were too high to climb up at all, but were taken advantage of by the ship's firearms to be beaten to pieces.

In Lu Qian's eyes, the battle that took place in the strait was a reproduction of the original Space-Time Diwu Naval Battle.

In the historical Battle of Diu, the Portuguese defeated the combined fleet of Tianfang and Tianzhu with 18 ships and more than 1,800 troops, which was a large fleet with hundreds of warships. And they have almost nothing to lose.

The reason is in the artillery!

Right now, isn't this naval battle on the Bosphorus a victory for artillery?

The Europeans did nothing but use fire oil to burn a medium gunboat of the Black Sea Division. However, the Black Sea Master almost buried the essence of the Italian Water Master.

The sea water was full of broken hulls and mutilated corpses, and the ships of the naval division were searching for and rescuing the sailors of both sides who had fallen into the water, and then towing away the captured warships, although these warships were not suitable for sailing in the ocean, the sides of the ships were too low, and the seaworthiness and sinking resistance were too poor. However, it is very useful in the large bathtub of the Mediterranean. After repairing, it will greatly increase the strength of the Black Sea Division.

The fire on the Baiyi had been extinguished, and it was the medium gunboat that had been burned by the oil during the battle. Because the whole ship had been burned down, the explosions had already stopped.

More than 30 of the more than 200 people on the ship were killed, mainly from the initial explosion of the powder. When the explosion subsided, the captain's first order was to leave.

Half of the entire bow was blown off, and with the burning fire, there was no possibility of salvage for the Baiyi. The rest of the people, along with the artillery and gunpowder that could not be saved, have been salvaged, and the rest will be buried in this fire.

This was the largest loss of the Black Sea Division in the naval battle, and the Black Sea Division lost one of the sixteen medium gunboats.

Lu Qian looked at Constantinople and laughed. With the defeat of the European naval divisions, the ships of the Black Sea Divisions flying red flags approached the south of Constantinople, that is, the Sea of Marmara, and the morale of the entire defenders of Constantinople was shaking violently.

They were completely surrounded!

Before, Lu Qian surrounded Constantinople from the north and west, but the people were not afraid at all, because there was also a waterway to the south, through the Sea of Marmara, they could transport all kinds of military supplies to Constantinople in an endless stream, and even ships of reinforcements.

But today's naval battle shattered their dreams.

Right under the noses of the defenders, the Black Sea Division neatly defeated the Italian fleet with the Venetian navy as the main force, cutting off the last road of Constantinople's external communication and the dependence of countless people.

Yes, dependency.

Why did the defenders of Constantinople, the emperor of the Byzantine Empire, remain calm in the face of the invasion of the Lu Qi army?

Isn't the reason that they have waterways to rely on?

As long as the fleet of the Italians is undefeated, as long as the Marmara sea route can be maintained, Constantinople is an engine that is constantly being fed oil, and it no longer produces vigorous power all the time, how can it be afraid of the Emperor Lu outside?

But now that the Italians have been defeated and unable to fight back, this not only means that the logistical line of Constantinople has been cut off, but also that this severance will probably be permanent. The European sailors were powerless to resist the Chinese navy, which was equipped with a large number of artillery, which meant that the road cut by the Chinese gunboats could never be reopened.

The defeat of the Italian fleet is not terrible, the whole of Europe, France, England, the Holy Lorion, and even Denmark and Sweden, have their own sailors and maritime trade chambers, and their single strength is not as good as Venice, but together they are a stronger force than the Italians.

As long as there is still fighting, the continuous collection of European warships can use the war of attrition to erase the naval power of the Chinese. But the problem now is that the two sides have no fight at all.

Just like in Hungary and Bulgaria, the war between the Europeans and the Chinese in the wilderness is so desperate.

And when all the people in Constantinople realized that they were completely surrounded, their military morale could not be shaken, and Lu Qian turned around and left. His army of more than 100,000 went straight to the HRE, and he could wipe out Central Europe, so why bother to fight with a group of stunned youths? He's got an iron head?

Looking at the gradually changing clouds, Lu Qian was very satisfied. The defenders of Constantinople, if they had been able to score a hundred points, were now at most seventy or eighty points. The morale is still good, and if Lu Qianruo takes the opportunity to launch an offensive now, there is almost no chance of taking the city.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Hundreds of ten-pound and twelve-pound guns were gathered on the west side of Constantinople, and then they bombarded Constantinople incessantly.

This is striking iron.

Every piece of good iron has to be tempered a thousand times, Constantinople is the pig iron, and the heavy artillery outside the city is the hammer for striking iron.

But Constantinople will not be made of steel, but will only be torn apart by a hammer. The sound of cannons is their amulet, and many of the Byzantine cannons are concentrated in Xicheng, but the number is insufficient, and the European artillery with poor performance can compare to Lu Qi? With the roar of artillery, how could the defenders of the city not be affected at all?

Constantinople, with its triangular layout, faces the Straits to the east, the Golden Horn to the north, the land to the west, and the Sea of Marmara to the south.

The Byzantines did not have the advantage of the water, and all their arrangements at the entrance to the Golden Horn were useless decorations. Ship after ship sailed into the Golden Horn, their guns pointed at Constantinople, and the roar was no less sparse than that of the artillery groups on land on the western side.

The Byzantines, who were beaten on three sides, were constantly falling.

The city defense of Constantinople has reached the peak of the Cold Weapon Age, and the strength of the stone city is far from comparable to the fortified cities of the Central Plains earlier. But no matter how strong the stone is, it must be soft in front of the artillery. Otherwise, in the military history of Europe, these individuals would not have rapidly eliminated the castles of the Cold Weapon Age.

"God bless, warriors of the Christian Empire, God is with us!"

Manuel I stood neatly draped on the walls of Constantinople, waving his sword and shouting slogans that he found ridiculous, and his soldiers were weak to deal with it.

Helplessly, anyone who can only be beaten and can't fight back is beaten for more than ten days, and the morale will become like this.

There was no fighting spirit at all - in front of the broken stone wall.

The defenders were not all bitter and bitter Europa serfs, but there were many educated nobles who knew well what awaited them when the solid shell of Constantinople was shattered.

Cold weapons hand-to-hand combat, they simply can't resist the Chinese. Even if they have a lot of powder and fire oil in their storehouses.

How can they believe in God, God will not save them.

Manuel I's greatest regret was that he had 'trapped' his uncle Isaac Komnenos in Constantinople. Having prepared to resist the Chinese in Constantinople, he left his most threatening uncle, Isaac Komunen, in Constantinople.

This was a clever move for Manuel I at the time. But now it looks like a stupid choice.

His father, John II, had eight children, but he was the only son. Manuel I also had several sisters and brothers-in-law, and if he could not hold Constantinople, or if he succeeded in breaking through the siege after the city was broken, the future Byzantine Empire ...... hard to believe what it would be. And what will happen to the Byzantine Empire, which is so chaotic, in the face of Chinese attack......

The thought of Manuel I made his heart ache like a knife.

Perhaps, the Eastern Roman Empire was really about to fall.

……

Taihe six years.

A flotilla of ships flying the crimson flag slowly docked in the port of Fiumicino, and many European bigwigs were waiting on the shore. From the HRE to France, to Venice and other forces, of course, the cardinals in Rome are indispensable.

Europeans must show respect to the envoy of the Chinese Emperor who has led a large army to ravage Europa over the past year.

Cardinal Nicholas Breckle, who represented the Pope in port, was one of the few Englishmen in the Holy See and was the right-hand man of the current Pope Eugene III.

All the greeters at the port had stiff smiles on their faces, which was very different from the smile on Yu Yunwen's face.

To put it simply, this is the difference between a loser and a winner!

More than 100,000 troops were overwhelming, and in the Danube, in Bavaria, and in Bohemia, the natives of Europe gathered their armies again and again, and were defeated again and again under the iron hooves of the Lu Qi army.

With the Iron Cavalry of the Imperial Front Division as the forerunner, Lu Qian perfectly realized his willingness to punish Europe.

And then, the Europeans succumbed and they wanted to talk......

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