On August 11 of the first year of Mingfeng, the king of Min also personally arrived at the city of Constantinople, and the battle of Constantinople in the second attack of the Great Min began. Fire Ran???? Wen w?

This time, the strength of Damin is much stronger than the last time, the king of Min Tielin, the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and the left and right military guards are all the most elite troops in Damin, not to mention, the various caliber cannons that have been hoarded in Saisalonika since last year have reached 2,000, and there are countless small-caliber cannons such as tiger squat cannons.

And this time the morale of the siege army is much higher than the last time, not to mention the elite army of Damin, the foreign Arab mercenaries have the unified command of the Fujian army, and the combat effectiveness is stronger than the scattered tribes, and they have just ransacked Egypt and punished the apostates, and this time it is the capital of the infidels, and the 80,000 Arab mercenaries are all murderous.

Even the Caucasian soldiers who were recruited as cannon fodder were very excited at this time, before the expedition, Li Jie made a covenant with many Caucasian nobles, this time to conquer Constantinople, he was the Roman Emperor, in the Thracian border to divide twenty-six Caucasian counts, the land on both sides of the Danube can be much better than the barren valleys in the Caucasus mountains, in order to achieve the goal, these counts promised like their own serf soldiers, once they captured Constantinople, they would give them land!

It is said that the Chinese peasants love the land the most, but in fact that country is not, especially these serfs who are in the form of primitive feudal society, and the means of production and personal freedom are in the hands of the earl, this promise is a fatal temptation.

In the camps of the Caucasian armies, the ugly roar of my father and mother who gave birth to me was also heard everywhere.

Like the old Li Ji, as soon as he came to the front line, Li Jie personally led his generals to the front line to inspect, less than three hundred meters away from Constantinople, hiding behind a pothole, Li Jie picked up the binoculars.

In his previous life, he had not been to Constantinople, this was the first time Li Jie had arrived here in person, but even if he had been there, it was estimated that it would not have much effect on the present, after all, the city had already changed beyond recognition under the effect of modernization, and it could not play a role for reference.

Compared with the last time Li Ji attacked the city, although the Min army had new and sufficient preparations, this time Constantinople was also strengthened a lot.

The number of defenders alone quadrupled to 80,000, and after forming an alliance with the Huns, Constantine IV absorbed the last bit of the Thracian military region into Constantinople, and also recruited soldiers among the Slavs in Greece and even further Europe.

Although this was not achieved, and Saracen was destroyed by the Franks, an ally of the Great Min, many Saracen warriors also defended the city of Constantinople at this time.

There is also the city wall, the last time was almost destroyed by Li Ji the outer wall will be repaired as before, the engineering skills of the Romans are indeed amazing, according to legend in 421 AD, the great earthquake in Constantinople, the outer wall collapsed, taking this opportunity to attack the Hun Emperor Attilati with the country's troops.

From the outing, exterminating the Roman defenders of the Rhine River and hitting the city of Constantinople, Attila spent a total of eight months, and in just eight months, the soldiers and civilians of Constantinople once again repaired the walls of Theodosius, so that the Huns' attempt to destroy Eastern Rome failed again, and they had no choice but to extort a sum of gold and silver, and retreated to the Don River valley.

In three years, the walls of Constantinople had been repaired by Constantine IV, and there were no traces of the war, and the white stone walls exuded an indestructible aura under the reflection of the rising sun, and they appeared taller than the last attack.

The trench that Li Ji had ordered to dig was also filled, and it seemed to have been tamped, and it was the time when the grass was luxuriant, and there was no grass outside the city wall, and it was estimated that the purpose was to prevent the Fujian army from digging again.

The defenders of Constantinople are also determined to win, seeing the arrival of a new round of Fujian army, the barbarians at the head of the city made an ugly noise, and all kinds of chaotic sounds came one after another, and Li Jiezhi, who listened to it, frowned.

No wonder Constantinople has stood tall and small after more than a thousand years of siege, first Arabia, then Ottoman Turkey, even the Austrian army in the artillery era has returned several times, terrain and architecture, Constantinople is indeed unique by itself, of course, this can not stop Li Jie's determination, after all, he is from later generations, if you can't solve a small Constantinople, wouldn't it make countless traversers laugh?

Anna beside her was also eager to try, and after waiting for a long time Li Jie finally nodded, Anna was a little excited, and under the command of dozens of Fujian troops, she actually boldly rushed to a distance of more than 100 meters under the city of Constantinople.

"I'm still Roman co-emperor Anna. Jophni. Heraclius! I'm going to talk to my brother, the usurper Constantine! ”

Power is really a terrible thing, it makes the son kill his father, the hatred between the sister and the brother reaches such a depth, Anna's high voice has a kind of pleasure, for this meeting, she also deliberately did not wear Hanfu, but belonged to the purple robe of the Roman Empress, Anna Ke once led the residents of Constantinople to fight the Arabs desperately, many people still remember Anna, her appearance, caused a wave of chaos in the city.

But in less than a moment, the angry figure of Constantine IV had already appeared at the head of the city, also wearing an emperor's purple robe and a golden crown of olive leaves, but as soon as he saw Anna, Constantine IV had no emperor's bearing, and slapped his hands on the female wall like a shrew, and roared angrily.

"Usurper? How did my Heraclius family come out with a slut like Anna, you full of lies! Everyone can see with their eyes, who led the barbarians from the east to fight under the city of my new Rome? Anna, you are a scheming traitor! ”

Before the defenders of Constantinople could shout at the pander of the defenders, Anna's quick and rapid retort was already ringing.

"My throne is a crown sent by my father personally, crowned by the Grand Priest of Constantinople himself, blessed by God, with the Roman Law, my husband King Min also has the right to inherit the throne, I take my husband's army to fight for what belongs to me, what's wrong!"

These words have long been wanted to be said, pointing to the city, Anna's pretty face is full of frost, and she screams with great anger: "Brother! What did you do when I led Rome against the pagan enemy? You killed your father! You carried out a coup d'état by conspiracy, illegal means! Now you're leading Rome into the abyss! ”

"This is your last chance, Kaesong surrenders! My husband and I will give you a forgiveness and let you go to the monastery of Athens to repent of what you have done in this life! Giving you a chance to re-enter heaven! ”

Constantine IV was clearly no match for Anna in this aspect of the quarrel, and besides, he was still really weak-hearted, as if some kind of image that he would never forget came to mind, and after a moment of trance, he roared back in a furious voice.

"I am the true savior of Rome! It's you! It is you who are about to send Rome into the abyss of paganism, come on! Shoot the arrows! Whoever shoots this heathen vicious witch, I will make him an earl! ”

Anna still wanted to persuade a few words, but the barbarian archers had already rushed to the city excitedly, and a rain of arrows shot down, forcing the guards to hurriedly tear Anna off their horses, and retreated with a tower shield to protect her, and beat Anna away, and the defenders of all tribes at the head of the city couldn't help but excitedly knock on the shield and make a coaxing sound.

But at this moment, a loud bang suddenly sounded in the position of the Fujian army, more than 20 cannons fired one after another, heavy stone core shells hit the city wall, broken stone chips splashed out in all directions, and the city wall seemed to shake.

Another cannon was struck at the tower, and the screaming stone shards knocked down a large area of the Slavic defenders, leaving a spider's web crack in the tower.

In the front army, Sheng Lianshan raised his horizontal knife violently and shouted loudly: "Da Min!"

More than 100,000 people of the former army's loyal and brave eight guards also followed and knocked the ground with spears, swords and shields, and also raised their arms and shouted: "!! of Da Min"

The roar of the landslide and the cracking of the ground shook the city tower for a while, and the sea seemed to roar with it, and the barbarian defenders at the head of the city were also shocked by this earth-shattering scene.

In the first round of morale confrontation, it was Damin who won!

It's just that Li Jie was not happy, looking at the traces left by the cannonballs on the city wall, his face was very solemn, and Wang Fangyi, the prime minister who fought with the army, was also well-informed, and he snorted out in annoyance.

"Rammed earth wall!"

Don't think that the earth wall of China is weaker than the stone wall of the West, the rammed earth wall covered with bricks is thicker than the stone wall, and when it is hit by a huge external force, it will also produce deformation to remove this force, unlike the stone city wall, it is very easy to break, and the artillery trebuchet blows too much, and there are too many internal cracks, and it will collapse violently.

Some people say that the western city wall is well preserved, and there is little left of the Chinese city wall, which is the evidence that the western city wall is more advanced than the Chinese wall, in fact, a large part of the ancient city wall of China was demolished when the Mongols invaded the Central Plains, and then the founding of the country broke the four olds, and the remaining monuments were even more devastated, so there is very little left.

After the last war, it seems that the Romans also knew the secret of the two kinds of walls, and looking at the bullet impact point, it is clear that they have replaced the double wall with an outer layer of stone and an inner layer of earth.

It's not going to be a good fight!

At this time, it happened that Anna also came back from the front line, and saluted Li Jie a little depressed.

"The concubine has not completed her mission, please punish her husband!"

"No problem, you've done a great job!" The solemnity just now was quickly hidden, and Li Jie showed a warm smile again, in front of women, every man is always omnipotent.

It's just that looking at Constantinople, Li Jie's eyes still reveal a hint of murderous intent!

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