It's no wonder that Baldwin persuaded the defenders of the Grand Palace so easily, guarding here was actually the Knights of the Holy Cavalry composed of the children of the Roman nobles, these guys were indeed the blades of the Roman Empire in foreign wars, but the political positions in the civil war were on both sides, especially the last time Constantine IV pit many of the elders all came to the side of the Great Min, and there were many pallads who were born in these families, and this time it was even more unstable.

In order to defend Constantinople, Constantine IV did make a bloody investment, he entrusted the defense of the Grand Palace and the Golden Horn Sea Wall to Simon, in order to hold out here for a while if the walls of Theodosius were lost, who knew that the trust was not human, Li Rang attacked more quickly, and Simon fled.

The Bolgars retreated to the Black Sea by boat, and the paladiers were even more happy, and when they left, everyone was still in the palace with something, so that the big palace was like a bad thief, and there was a commotion everywhere.

Rao so, still does not hide the beauty of this building, here is a true inheritance of ancient Roman art of the architectural masterpiece, the afterglow of the sun sprinkled on the stone dome, bringing a sense of splendor, in the garden, between the roads those statues of ancient Roman men and women come to life, the walls are inlaid with mosaics that seem to silently tell the past glory of the empire, the Chinese are keen to erect monuments to record their merits, stories, and the Romans seem to prefer to use this intuitive artistic technique to express.

In the era of Li Jie's later life, this Grand Palace has long disappeared like the Daming Palace, and even earlier in the thirteenth century, because of the weakness and dilapidation of the empire, the Roman emperor had to tear down the sculptures and domes of the palace in order to maintain the imperial expenses and sell them, and even when the ruler of Ottoman Turkey, Mehmed II, saw this Grand Palace, he couldn't help but sing a Persian poem.

"Spiders have made webs in the palaces of kings, and the lamentations of owls echo in the ruined halls."

Therefore, what Li Jie and the generals show in front of them is a beauty that only belongs to this era and is insulated from future generations!

However, at this time, Li Jie was not in the mood to appreciate this unspoken beauty, and the forbidden army hurriedly entered the palace, and rummaged through the cabinets, which scared the trembling palace eunuchs in the palace, but after rummaging for most of the day, he still did not find the shadow of Constantine IV.

If you don't die if you fight a snake, there will be endless troubles! No matter if you kill him or lock him up in the monastery, you have to find him again! Anxious, Wang Fangyi and Yuwenjie took Baldwin out again, and asked for a long time, but Baldwin fled at that time, how did he know where Constantine IV went?

Fortunately, at this time, Anna proposed a new direction.

"Don't look for him, he must be in Hagia Sophia!" After a moment of checking in the emperor's bedroom, Anna said categorically.

From the time the city was broken to the present, it has been an afternoon, and there should be a scale of indulgence, under the dispatch of the prime ministers, a few guards who remained outside the city and did not participate in the battle began to be ordered to march into Constantinople to extinguish the fires spreading everywhere, and then dispatch the already chaotic Fujian army to rebuild.

The legions that really belong directly to the Great Min, whether they are government soldiers or regular soldiers, are extremely afraid of military law, they have land and land in their hometowns, who is willing to lose their hometown land for this windfall, then they have to be looked down upon when they go back, anyway, the fear of the bloody battle is almost the same as the tension vented, and the left and right leading guards who participated in the war and the government guards of the Hindukus Mountains were the first to withdraw.

The vassal soldiers are a bit troublesome, they don't have such a good treatment of the Fujian army, they come all the way to fight for military pay and wealth, today they have the most casualties, the most resentment in their hearts, and even some Caucasian and Arabs are still driving the Fujian army under the leadership of their own nobles.

At this time, Min Prime Minister Di Renjie thought of a trick that lacked virtue, and he belonged to **** to assist the Min army to drive out the tribes that were unwilling to leave, so that they could possess their spoils! All of a sudden, those noisy genera ** killed each other and made a mess of porridge.

Robbed an afternoon, the outer layer of Constantinople is indeed nothing to rob, the wealth is concentrated in the hands of these vassal soldiers, so that they have long seen each other's eyes, this is good, you can openly rob, many of the subject soldiers received the order to immediately attack the other countries and tribes around them, snatched things and quickly ran out, the robbed were angry and followed, out of the city, but the Fujian army responsible for maintaining law and order saw the excitement.

Di Renjie didn't expect that he would inadvertently sow a lot of hatred and anger between the vassal states of Damin, and a series of wars broke out after Li Jie a hundred years later, but this is also a later story.

On the one hand, he handed over the follow-up matters in the city to the prime ministers and Li Rang, and on the other hand, Li Jie led Anna and carried more than 1,000 forbidden troops to Hagia Sophia in person.

Hagia Sophia is not far from the Grand Palace, and in later generations it even surpassed the destroyed Grand Palace of Constantinople in terms of fame, becoming the most shocking remnant of the Eastern Roman Empire in the future.

The towering and magnificent church door was closed at this time, and the guards of the forbidden army pushed it several times without pushing it open, of course, this did not bother the dignified King of Fujian, or the Emperor of Great Min Li Jie to worry about it, Zan Po shouted a few words, cut a tree from nearby as a battering ram, and a dozen or so guards with big shoulders and round waists hugged the tree and slammed into the door of the church, and the two doors collapsed with a roar.

Piercing screams burst out of it.

Usually popular in the upper class of the wealthy sons and brothers, ladies and archbishops are hiding inside, this will be no one can be angry, seeing the fierce and tall Min army with weapons rushing in, suddenly let this group of people like quail quickly shrank back, everywhere is a quiet scream, even the priest has no mind to pray to God at this time, many noble sons and brothers actually shrank back, pushing the women and children to the front.

Later Li Jie once watched a movie, "Conquest 1453", which tells the story of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II's conquest of Constantinople, the last scene of the film until now Li Jie remembers that Mehmed II walked into the cathedral full of brilliance behind him, and guarded the trembling Constantinople crowd We are a country, don't be afraid, I will protect you! A crowd of men and women from Constantinople immediately gathered around him as if they had seen Christ, and even a little girl threw herself into the Sultan's arms and giggled at him.

However, the reality is, let alone cheering, the white-bearded old man who was squeezed at the end of the head was squeezed and rolled his eyes, and the little girl in front looked at herself like the devil in the Bible.

"Anna! Your Majesty! ”

Fortunately, there were acquaintances in the crowd, a bishop with a silver cross squeezed out of the crowd with great difficulty, bowed to Anna, and said: "These are the old and noble families of Rome, for the sake of the same source of incense, please don't let the heretics be exterminated, everyone is willing to pay the ransom!"

At this time, what is Anna's mind on these people? Reaching out and grabbing the old man's collar, Anna shouted angrily, "Where is my brother?"

"Augustus......" As soon as he said the title, the bishop was trembling, and secretly glanced at Li Jie, whose face was sinking like water, and hurriedly changed his title: "**** Constantine is in the backyard!"

Hagia Sophia starts from Constantine the Great, is the place where successive Eastern Roman emperors were crowned, in addition to the outer hall, there is also a small hall behind the emperor to pray alone, it is said that after each Roman emperor is crowned, he will choose to stay here alone for a while, which represents the high status of the Eastern Roman imperial power.

Constantine and Anna, when they were children, once said that if he was at the end of his life, he would stay there as emperor!

Once upon a time, Anna and Constantine's brother and sister relationship used to be very good, almost a few of Constans's children, the two of them were together, Anna even remembered, pestering him to take her out of the city to ride horses, hunting days, but the world is impermanent, who would have thought that a pair of close brothers and sisters could develop to such a point of hatred, the elder brother killed his father, blinded the eyes of several brothers, and even cut off his hands, locked up in the monastery, and the younger sister took her husband to kill back, to kill the brother with her own hands!

Wandering in front of the door, Anna did not dare to push the door for a while, she was afraid of seeing the corpse lying inside, or seeing the pair of red eyes that were intoxicated with power, staring at her like a cursed beast.

Seeing this scene, Li Jie sighed, stretched out his hand to be the first to push the door open, who expected that Anna would take a step ahead of him and hit the door hard, this time the door was not locked, and she almost stumbled and almost didn't lie on the ground, so panicked that Li Jie hurriedly pulled her sleeve from behind, so that she would not fall.

"Growing up, I've always been so reckless!"

Constantine IV not only did not commit suicide, nor did he roar like a wounded wolf as Li Jie imagined, but at this moment he was as calm as a pool of clear water, sitting quietly on his chair, and behind him, a huge map of the whole territory handed down from ancient Rome hung on the wall, from Britain in the far north to Parthia in the east, all shrouded in the shadow of the Roman flying eagle, and the people who watched it were in awe.

Looking back, Constantine actually blamed Anna in a tone of an older brother blaming his sister, and a slight sense of intimacy.

Also taking a deep breath, looking at this old and strange brother, Anna was full of complexity, and it took a while before she could barely respond in a calm voice.

"I'm coming!"