In September of the first year of Fengming, the war under the city of Constantinople had a new change.

After the massacre that night, the tactics of the Min army were changed again, like Li Ji last time, Li Jie also divided his troops, with the eldest son Hezhong County Wang Rang as the main commander, led 40,000 Arab mercenaries and four guards of the loyal and brave eight guards, 60,000 soldiers left the main battlefield, bypassed the Golden Horn, and attacked the northern fortress of Constantinople, the Galatian fortress.

The Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II bribed the Re~Naya defenders who were guarding here, and the Re~Naya people agreed that the Ottoman army would go around to the Golden Horn from their position and attack the flank of Constantinople, so there was Mehmed II's famous land itinerary, which dragged hundreds of heavy sea ships into the Golden Horn with logs and grease.

However, the reason why Ottoman Turkey is so inferior is because the north of Constantinople belongs to the relatively strong Second Bulgarian Empire, and there are Magyar cavalry who have converted to the Christian Kingdom of Hungary that may go south at any time to support, sandwiched between Constantinople and the northern countries, even if the Turks' heads are harder than Nokia, they have to be crushed.

However, the Min army did not have such concerns, the Huns went to aid the Avars, and Serbia and Austria and the Franks, that is, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Luxembourg and other ancestors in later generations were inseparable, and there was no strong regime in the whole of Eastern Europe that could aid Constantinople, so Li Rang could rest assured that he could attack boldly.

On 2 September, the Arab mercenaries, who had become very different from those of three years earlier, easily severed the link between Constantinople and Thrace, and Constantinople became a completely isolated city.

On September 3, Li Rang prepared for the offensive, and hundreds of tiger cannons launched a fierce attack on the Garatai Fort, where Anna had been imprisoned for several years, and the pill-sized buckshot hit the stone fortress, scattering fragments in all directions, and the more than 1,000 defenders in the castle could not raise their heads at all.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the warriors of the Fujian army carried the flying cloud ladder and rushed towards the fortress wall at the top of the mountain.

In the Golden Horn, dozens of Roman warships and merchant ships also sensed the impending disaster, and constantly used trebuchets, ballistas and other attack equipment to harass the flanks of the Fujian army, and the Greek fire on the shore burned into a sea of fire.

Li Rang did not show weakness, the tiger squat cannon was set up on the shore and sprayed against the Roman warships in the strait, and the rumbling cannons and shouts of killing in the north were heard clearly even by the Fujian army camp west of Constantinople.

In fact, Li Jie did not expect Li Rang to capture Constantinople across the Golden Horn, even if the city wall on the side of the Golden Horn is far less perfect and solid than the city wall of Theodosius in the west, but after all, across the strait, there are only a limited number of cases that can be put into operation at one time, such as the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, who conquered Constantinople in later generations, tried his best to transport the warship into the Golden Horn, but only restrained part of the strength of the defenders of Constantinople, and the real breakthrough of the city wall still relied on the western army to break through the city.

However, it was enough for Li Jie to contain some of the energy of the defenders of Constantinople, and the enemy army in a group could not even be able to recruit the saint Sun Wuzi, and the successful military strategists, whether it was Alexander the Great who conquered the world, or Emperor Napoleon I, who was invincible in the West, mobilized the enemy as much as possible when facing the enemy, and only the enemy army in motion could show its flaws.

Li Jie also wanted Constantine IV to work in the north and west, and he was tired and made mistakes.

On the one hand, the siege equipment was burned in the attack of the Romans, although most of the siege equipment used as bait was a kind of goods, damp and rotten and festering defective products, and the real things were hidden behind, but after all, these kinds of goods delayed time, and they had to continue to build in order to supplement and improve.

On the other hand, Li Jie is still unwilling to rely on brute force to attack the city, who is he? The traverser who came from later generations, Li Jie didn't believe that he was so late for so many years, and he stood on the shoulders of countless giants, and he couldn't fight the old fox of Constantine IV!

pondered for two days, and from the day Constantine IV went mad because of his mistake and lost his temper before the whole army, Li Jie figured out one of his weaknesses.

Constantine IV cared too much about this throne!

On September 3rd, on the order of Li Jie, all the influential veterans in the places occupied by the Great Min were all called to the front line, and such big men arrived at the camp one after another, and they did not know what Li Jie had explained, so they immediately bathed and fasted in the barracks.

Theodora I, the Archbishop of Constantinople who had been comfortably staying in Ctesiphon for three years, was called over, and the Min army was also busy arranging something at the head of Constantinople, a large pile of exquisite cotton cloth tents wrapped the distance of two hundred meters in front of the wooden wall of the Fujian army, and no one knew what Li Jie was drumming up.

But this time, none of the frightened Roman troops dared to go out of the city and attack the strange tents of the Fujian army, and the last time Lord Simon, who fought bravely, did not know whether he was alive or dead, and the body of the general Dibius who was unloaded into five pieces by the knife is still enshrined in the Hagia Sophia, and no one wants to be divided into five parts to see God.

In such anxious wait-and-see and the experience of being constantly attracted by the battle north of the Golden Horn, another five days passed, and on September 8, Theodora, the Patriarch of Constantinople, who was caught in the horse and almost did not fall apart, finally arrived at the front, and while the Roman defenders at the head of Constantinople watched cautiously, Li Jie and Anna once again dressed up and left the barracks.

This time, they were all wearing purple robes that symbolized the Yellow Spring in Rome, Li Jie was wearing a wide cloak full of crosses, Christ, and the Virgin, and he was wearing a golden olive branch crown inlaid with pearls and jade on his head, and Anna was similar, but it was a more feminine royal robe, and the two of them held hands and took the lead in walking out of the camp, which really felt like the overlord of heaven and earth.

Behind them, the same Venus was shining, and the Pope of Rome did not appear in person, but the papal secretary who was always in Damin followed with a silver cross, and next to him, Patriarch Theodora I of Constantinople also held a silver cross inlaid with precious stones, and the two most precious archbishop representatives of Christianity waited like small servants, and then Archbishop Edessa, Archbishop Antioch, Archbishop Alexandria, Archbishop of Damascus, and Archbishop of Buddhism followed in the same direction.

Then there is the elite of the heavily armed Fujian army, there are more than 1,000 Mo swordsmen who opened the killing ring that day, and the general Fang Yiai, who has resumed half of his duties, personally holds a knife to open the way, and the forbidden army leads the praise of Po, and the two uncles and nephews of Gar Xiangling are leading the forbidden army to guard the left and right.

Under the stunned gaze of the defenders of Constantinople, Li Jie was full of pomp, and the time for walking a stick of incense was more than a hundred meters away, and when Li Jie arrived at the covered and dense and mysterious base, Gar Xiangling ordered to tear open those cotton cloth tents violently, and in an instant, even the pupils of Constantine IV and Archbishop Baldwin who were watching from the city were violently contracted.

That's an artifact!

The huge black wooden cross placed in the center can be faintly seen on the shape of a person, stained with a trace of blood, which is the only true cross stained with holy blood when Jesus was martyred and crucified by the Romans.

Next to the cross, the spear of Longinus, which was the assassin of Christ and also stained with holy blood and called a holy relic, was neatly erected on the gun stand.

In addition, there is the Shroud of Turin, the legendary shroud that wrapped Christ, the golden ark of the covenant that Moses made when he made a covenant with God himself when he made the Ten Commandments, and even a bottle containing the scarab beetle that has been dead for I don't know how many years, the coffin containing the holy bones of the three holy kings of the East who came from thousands of miles to congratulate when Jesus was born, and the iron crown cast after melting the nail that crucified Christ.

Christianity originated in West Asia, and these sacred relics were basically left in West Asia, and were collected as trophies during the Arab expansion, and Western Europe was not taken away until the Crusades, but this time and space had Li Jie, he defeated the Arab Empire, and these things fell into his hands.

Even the holy **** at the time of Christ's circumcision had someone present it to Li Jie, but he hated it too disgustingly and didn't want it.

These things in the world of Christ are equivalent to the status of the jade seal in the minds of the Chinese scholars, and whoever owns it is God's destiny, the righteous destiny of heaven!

For fear that those Roman defenders would not know the origin of these things, Li Jie also specially ordered someone to write a text note a few meters in size, as soon as these artifacts came out, many nobles in the city were stunned, and Baldwin even stretched out his hand greedily, he wanted one of these things, and the position of the next patriarch of Constantinople was ironclad that he would not be able to escape.

But in just a moment, he woke up, because there was an incomparably cold cold beside him, almost his soul stiffened, and when he squinted, Constantine IV's old face was frozen with an expression as if the end of the world was about to be released from his hands, eerie and terrifying.

"Augustus, these are all fakes found by the Min people, fooling you! Don't be fooled! Baldwin's voice trembled a little at persuasion, but at this moment Anna began to cry out again in Greek.

"Brother, do you see it? Who is the Roman emperor recognized by all the archbishops! Who is the Roman emperor who is favored by God and has all the artifacts! It's just me and my husband! ”

With incomparable contempt in her eyes, Anna proudly proclaimed: "Even if you occupy New Rome, it will never change that you are just a usurper and a thief who murdered your father!!"

"Thief !!"

This sound was like a thunderclap for nine days, echoing over the walls of Constantinople, and Baldwin did not dare to persuade him anymore, because he saw that Constantine IV's face was as red as a devil, and the bruises on his forehead were violent, like a few earthworms crawling around, and his face was twitching.

Neurotic words kept pouring out of his mouth.

"I, I am the real Augustus! Kill them! They're all imposters! ”

With a bang, the large drawbridge of the west gate of Constantinople, which had been confined for many days, was lowered again, the city gate was opened, and the Roman legions in neat formations came out of the city gate and began to battle under the city walls, as if they were really desperate!

Looking at this scene, Li Jie shook the golden scepter in his hand with a look on his face, he ambushed all the cavalry in the north and south of the city, and there were 120,000 elite legions waiting for him a hundred meters behind, as long as Constantine IV was provoked by him, the army came out, and he could be crushed to death in the field!