The first army is scheming, the second is the enemy, the second is the army, and the next is to attack the city!

Sun Wuzi is listed as the highest state of using soldiers is a soldier who surrenders without a fight, this article has been listed as a golden rule by countless soldiers in China for thousands of years, but unfortunately, this article is often not so practical, just like the relationship between the Eastern Roman Empire, several times to claim the vassal, several times to betray the treaty, although it is good to convince the enemy, but not to shed blood and not to come back some costs, after all, it is not a long-term solution.

Secondly, the invasion of diplomatic relations, and the second invasion of soldiers is actually what Li Ji appreciates, which includes all the means of the soldiers, vertical and horizontal, with a three-inch tongue that is not rotten, and dominates the political situation in China for half a century, such as Su Qin, Zhang Yi's generation, raising 100,000 troops, fighting in the wild, killing people for hundreds of miles, dominating the world such as Wu Qi, Sun Bin, Pang Juan, Wu Anjun and others.

If there is time, Li Jizhen wants to spend about two years to drive a wedge between Constantinople and the Bolgars, plunder Macedonia, and cut off the Rhine River transportation line, but now there is no crusader assistance from the Western Christian World Organization, which is strong and unified under the will of the Pope, and two years later, Constantinople will naturally collapse like an old tree with dead roots under many blockades.

This is the means that the generals of the soldiers should use, not the city with human lives and flesh and blood as it is now.

It's a pity that everything was originally pushed forward according to Li Ji's tactical movements, but suddenly there was an incident of the Roman senators sending a fraudulent surrender, and even these people had the audacity to assassinate the King of Min, even if it was not successful, this also pushed the Great Min to the same as the Qin State after the Qin Shi Huang era, after encountering Jing Ke's assassination of Qin, if the Yan State is not broken, the prestige of the great power that has accumulated for decades will be disgraced, and the remaining princes will also take the Yan State as an example, and the Great Qin court will never have peace.

Although tactically speaking, a long-term strategy is the best policy, but after all, war must be subordinated to politics, even if he is unwilling, Li Ji has to use all his means to conquer this city.

And Li Ji's pressure is particularly heavy, in terms of power comparison, Damin is a super empire close to the territory of Genghis Khan's Mongol Empire, and the Eastern Roman Empire is now left with the Balkan Peninsula and a small part of southern Italy, and the Carthaginian enclave in North Africa, which can't help itself, belongs to a corner of the overall confrontation.

In terms of military comparison, there are more than 100,000 naval divisions on the front line of the Great Min, equipped with sophisticated artillery, sturdy and flexible warships, and more than 250,000 siege troops, which are also well-armed and have high morale, on the other hand, Constantinople, even if he wins the military power of the Senate, Constantine IV has only more than 20,000 defenders in his hands, less than 30,000 defenders, and Macedonia and Thrace, but he needs to protect Thessaloniki, an important town in the middle of the Balkan Peninsula, and the Rhine defense line in the rear, which has little impact on the overall situation.

The only remaining very threatening ones were the remnants of the Roman navy, which stayed in Athens and joined the royal navy, about 50,000 men and six or seven hundred Mondello ships, but the guns of the Great Min could still defeat them.

Maybe the king of Min could see the severity of the terrain in Constantinople, so before the expedition, Li Jie had interviewed Li Ji alone for two hours, telling him not to be too anxious, he absolutely trusted him, and he could fight slowly, but his colleagues in the Manchu Dynasty may not be able to see this situation clearly, especially many imperial historians who do not understand military affairs, I am afraid that in their eyes, they only saw more than 400,000 troops of Great Min against more than 20,000 Roman defenders.

Even if you have the support of King Min, if you can't make a quick decision, I'm afraid that it will be unfavorable to you after a long time.

He did not give the Min army who had just disembarked much time to rest, and just after observing the form of Constantinople, Li Ji gathered the generals of the whole army that afternoon, laid out the plan that had been drawn up for more than half a year on the drawings of the city wall of Constantinople, promulgated it, and after making modifications close to the actual situation, he assigned the task on the spot.

After receiving the task, the generals were really happy and worried, but everyone returned to the barracks nervously, and gathered the captains under their subordinates, and also issued corresponding tasks in response to the military orders of the general manager.

Between the layers of conveying, the entire Fujian military camp was like a tumultuous ant nest, and it was not stable overnight.

The next day, the tense siege of Constantinople officially kicked off with a bloody curtain.

As early as a few days before the Fujian army increased its troops, in fact, the defenders of Constantinople had already smelled this unusual smell, looking through the telescope, the Caesarea army on the opposite side was almost undisguised, and it was obvious that there was going to be a big move, and he assassinated Li Jie, and attacked the Min army stationed outside the city, Constantine IV had already thought of this consequence, so he was not surprised in the face of the army pressing the city.

The Roman army was prepared, but the next morning, when the Min army showed the overwhelming formation under the city, it still made the defenders at the head of the city gasp.

On the one hand, the Fujian army is overwhelming, the Fujian army wearing black armor is out of the camp from the west, a flag represents a Fujian brigade of about 100 people, and a large pole represents at least a thousand people to break the palace, and the flag of the Fujian army spreads from the edge of the wall of Constantinople in the north to the sea in the south, and there is no end in sight.

But what made the Roman army even more panicked was that it was the neatness of the Fujian army!

To describe it in a Chinese idiom, that is, the infantry assembled into a neat team like tofu blocks, with long soldiers in front and short soldiers behind, and the neat crossbow array seemed to be fast in rhythm, calmly approaching Constantinople.

Even the cavalry was lined up in a similar line, with the same frequency of horses' hooves.

The queue can not explain the combat effectiveness, but the neatness of the queue can reflect the training level and psychological quality of an army from the side, the era of cold weapons, of course, there are warriors with one enemy and one hundred, but the vast majority of the war also needs to rely on the formation of the same advance and retreat, kill the enemy together, to maintain such a neat queue, indicating that in the battle coordination, the Fujian army is definitely not inferior to the Roman civilization army, the soldiers have experienced long-term running-in and close cooperation with each other, forming a terrible killing machine with strict discipline.

Just like a few days ago, the Arab light cavalry under the city set up a larger array than this, the Arabs are still notorious, but the Roman defenders are not too scared of them, because the Arabs' formation is too messy, and after the death of the last caliph Hussein, the Arabs seem to have lost the spiritual bond of unified dispatch, and the separation barriers between tribes are clear.

The Romans had never seen such a large army, the Gauls, the Celts, the Iberian tribes, the eastern tribes, and that time the Romans did not win more with less, and these guys fled in the desert.

But there have been two or three times in Roman history, the first was King Pyrrhus of Epirus, who almost stopped the Roman Republic in northern Italy, and the second time was Hannibal's Carthaginian army of 50,000, which invaded the Apennine Peninsula, killed one-third of Rome's men, almost destroyed Rome, and created more than 80,000 kills a day at the Battle of Cannae, a record that was not broken until World War II.

The third is Attila, the whip of God, although he is a nomadic people, but Attila almost commanded the Huns under his command to the point of command, indirectly destroying the Western Roman Empire.

Damin is now the fourth!

However, standing at the head of the city, looking at the formation of the Fujian army, Constantine IV's eyes seemed to reveal a little treacherous look.

Li Ji had almost 70,000 cavalry under his command, of which 50,000 were gathered Arab light cavalry, and the remaining 20,000 were under Su Lie.

At the first time of the battle, Li Ji deployed these cavalry in Sofia, a satellite city about ten miles away from the battlefield in the north, and Pierrot, a small city on the south side of the ancient Roman Sergeant's Avenue in the west, leaving only about 3,000 cavalry as a reserve force beside him.

On the map, the two cavalry divisions first form the other two corners of the triangle. Cavalry did not play much role in attacking the city, and although the strength of the Roman army in the north and west was not strong, it had to be defended, you must know that even if it was a million troops, it could not be fought on both sides of the enemy, and with two cavalry guarding behind him, Li Ji could also rest assured that he could boldly confront Constantinople with all his might.

After the two armies left the military formation, Lao Li Ji was expressionless, and waved his command flag to his personal guards, and after a while, the forward battalion of the Fujian army suddenly cracked, and more than 50 cavalry escorted more than 100 Romans wearing brocade robes and slowly moved to about 200 meters away from the city.

At first, the defenders at the head of the city were full of doubts, but in a moment, the Romans suddenly shouted, but the city was a mess.

"It's our Earl Cophi!"

"Oh my God! It turned out to be Congressman Hernandez! ”

"And Master Philip!"

There are also clouds in Sun Tzu's Art of War, attacking the city for the bottom and attacking the heart for the top! These more than 100 people are one of the members of the Senate who followed Aetius to Caesarea to coronate Li Jie, and after learning that they were sold by Aetius and Constantine IV, a large number of Roman senators' "political consciousness" suddenly woke up, and a red heart began to move towards Damin.

You must know that many Roman defenders were organized in the fiefdoms of these patriarchs, and when they saw their lord, the city was in chaos, and groups of Roman soldiers screamed and lay on the city.

"Didn't Augustus say that the patriarchs were all harmed by the Great Min? What's going on with these people? ”

But after all, the Roman legions were very disciplined, and Constantine had been purging in the army for half a month, and almost all the officers were replaced by their own henchmen.

"The senators loyal to Rome have been killed by the Min people! These are traitors who betrayed Rome, betrayed the people! ”

"Stick to your post, dare to turn around and scream, kill!"

Dozens of defenders were executed almost on the spot, under the whipping of the officers, the defenders who had been in chaos for a while still returned to a tense state of battle, a crossbow with a handle was aimed at the city, and some crazy Roman generals ordered to fire arrows at the senators, so frightened that those landlords and old wealth retreated in a panic under the cover of the Fujian cavalry shield.

However, Li Ji did not expect that with more than a hundred senators, it was enough to plant this seed of suspicion and doubt, and with a sneer, Li Ji took out the earthy yellow order flag in the order box and waved it violently.

The snare drums sounded loudly, and in the rumbling deafening drums, tens of thousands of Fujian troops rushed out of the neat military formation, but the tense defense of the Roman defenders only grew their mouths in shock for a moment.

These men did not wear armor, but explored the upper body of the road, and did not carry weapons, but only a hoe, shovel, or other agricultural tools.

The Fujian people ran to the city to farm?