The Byzantines who looked up at the sky were blown into flower-faced cats (without masks) by the explosives thrown by the thunderbolts that fell from the sky!

"Oh God, my eyes!" They cried out in pain, and the faces of the people who were close to the explosion point were covered with iron nails and steel balls, and they were terrified!

The explosive bag exploded in the air, filled with iron nails and steel balls and hit the periphery, so that the body of the Byzantine fruit dew was baptized with iron!

Dense iron nails and steel balls pierce the skin... In fact, their power is limited, and they cannot penetrate the body deeply, unlike the shrapnel that can be driven by a TNT explosion, which can slice a person's head open.

In fact, there are not many people who are directly killed by iron nails and steel balls... Death is the infection caused by rusting after being immersed in water and then rolling with dust.

The problem was that the Byzantines, who had tasted the explosives for the first time, did not know that they had been blown up and their faces covered in blood, terrified, screaming and screaming, and the morale of the army was in turmoil.

No, no, the explosives bag blew them to pieces, and those comrades who were shocked to death out of thin air were simply beyond their imagination!

The chaotic Byzantines scattered and could no longer care about the harsh military orders.

Explosive packets were constantly falling, and in addition to the long-range firing of the flying thunder cannons, the Byzantines on the edge of the city were also welcomed by the explosives packets dropped from the city.

Exploded into a piece, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, even if you used a shield to cover your face and armor to protect yourself, but your ears were caught off guard by the sound of a near explosion, and the two ears "buzzed" violently, and you couldn't hear any sound clearly.

The lethality of black powder is limited, but its shock wave and the oxygen consumed make people breathless in their chests, and they always feel that they can't breathe out of their throats, which is very uncomfortable, and it is particularly difficult to exhale, and there is a feeling of being out of breath.

The Byzantines were frightened, and they fled desperately to the rear, even though the warlords were shouting hoarsely, but they were not afraid of the whips and the knives that were flashed, and they fled.

The Warlords lay down their weapons weakly, and they felt the team's will to fight ramp.

Due to the emergence of new weapons, which led to the defeat of the Byzantine attack, the Tang people took the opportunity to use catapults, bows and arrows to help, and the Byzantine forbidden army was killed and wounded more than half, and broke into the city

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Emperor Tiberius III personally inspected the camp of wounded soldiers, and when he saw the miserable condition of the soldiers, he couldn't help but turn blue and couldn't speak for a long time!

When he returned to the imperial camp, he immediately convened a council of the Imperial Council, which was attended by the deacon chief Constani, the Thracian governor Valleo, the generals Aaron, Nogus, Maurice, and Romanus, and the ministers Alexei and Andenias, all of whom he had recently promoted, and those with vested interests.

General Aaron recounted the battle, especially the use of new weapons by the Tang people... He said: "This is called 'gunpowder', and it was also widely used by the Tang people in the war with the Umayyad Empire before, and it was used to attack cities and break armies, which was very powerful. But gunpowder is a secret that they keep strictly, and it is not known to outsiders, and we have no physical objects or methods of making it. Umayyad merchants tried to obtain this miraculous 'gunpowder' in the East, but they were unable to obtain it. ”

General Morris told everyone: "As it is today, we have actually dealt with gunpowder, they used to use gunpowder cannons against our warships, and they fired at a great distance, and we were at a disadvantage and had to retreat. ”

The Thracian governor Valleo said in a deep voice: "This is their 'Greek fire'!" ”

He led an army of 50,000 to help, and he was a local powerful faction, so he had to enter the imperial council, and his words were recognized by everyone.

'Greek fire' was the secret weapon of the Byzantines, and it was very powerful!

In 678 AD, the Arab Empire swept across the continents and sailed its fleet to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

Faced with the enemy's naval blockade, the Byzantines used "Greek fire" - several small boats spewed "fire dragons" into the Arab fleet, and the smoke and poisonous gas killed a large number of sailors.

The result of that naval battle was that the Arab fleet could not escape due to its location in a narrow strait, and five of the 2,000 ships fled back with heavy losses.

Greek fire was a special oil made of fire, a large number of Greek fires were loaded into wooden barrels, ignited by a siphon, and ejected from a tube made of bronze.

"It's a special weapon anyway!" Everyone agrees.

Seeing that most of the people were afraid, the chief deacon, who was equivalent to the prime minister, Constantine, said calmly: "The gunpowder seems to be powerful, but in fact it is not impossible to resist!" ”

He beckoned his attendant to come forward and showed an iron helmet, on which he could see that there were several iron nails nailed to it, and on the other hand, the iron nails did not penetrate the helmet!

Then there were two shields, both of leather, one thick and the other thin, both nailed with nails and iron beads, and the thick shield was not pierced, while the thin shield was punched out with a few holes.

Three pairs of armor are shown, one of which was blown apart, which should be close to the explosion point, but the other two were blown black and were not damaged.

"None of the armor owners were killed on the spot, but..." Konstani said in a low voice: "They were all injured, and then they had a fever, two died, and one was alive!" ”

"I suspect that they died because of the injuries, and those injuries were all nails and beads, and you see, they were all rusty."

He picked up an iron nail and swayed: "Someone was hit by a nail, and soon he had a fever, which is difficult to save!" ”

Everyone looked at the rusty iron nail intently, and gasped, they didn't expect an inconspicuous thing to be so spicy!

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Konstani was a prime minister, and he summed it up in a general: "As long as we strengthen the protection, the gunpowder is not defensible, and the heavy armor and thick shield can definitely block those things." Beware of the protection of nails and balls, even a nail must be cleaned after being hit! ”

Everyone nodded.

For example, the ancient Roman medical writer Celsus advocated cleanliness, and the wound must be washed and coated with vinegar, thyme oil, etc., these substances have the effect of disinfecting, and he identified the four basic characteristics of inflammation: redness, swelling, pain, and heat, which are divided into three parts according to the needs of various diseases for treatment: food, medicine, and surgical treatment.

There were other physicians and doctors, whose theories were right or wrong, but at least they were much better than the barbarians who used witchcraft to heal their diseases, and the Byzantine army was equipped with doctors, of course, they were far from being as perfect as the Eastern medical system.

The deacon, Constani, pointed out the countermeasures for everyone, and the colleagues present at the meeting replied with confidence that it would not be a problem to continue fighting.

Unexpectedly, the words spoken by their emperor made everyone stunned!