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The sun that set west over the Mediterranean Sea was so red that it almost dripped, staining the sea red, and the Romans' positions, which had been covered by the artillery fire of the Fujian army for three consecutive days, were also shaky and red, and all kinds of chaotic building fragments and collapsed security towers became blurred in the line of sight, like ghostly teeth and claws.

The smell of blood in the air was almost disgusting, the arrows stuck in the ground, the barrels of the guns and the throwing guns were like a reed, this Roman phalanx and the inheritance from Sun Wu, Qin Emperor Han Wu, Zhuge Wuhou, Li Weigong and other brilliant people left behind in the Chinese military array, after all, it was inferior, and retreated before dusk.

However, the collision between the strong military formations, no matter how good the armor of both sides is, the casualty rate is still amazing, just like the battlefield between China and Japan in later generations, in the end of large-scale bayonet battles, no matter who wins or loses, the casualty probability of both sides can reach three to fifty percent, Li Yexu through the tactics of tricks is in vain, this day he and Sheng Lianshan's left and right Qianniuwei at least more than 3,000 people were killed, killing this beach not far from Constantinople is red, to the retreat of the Romans, he simply sat on the ground tired.

The Min army was also red-eyed, and not far from where Li Yexu was paralyzed, several Roman wounded soldiers also fell to the ground, and seven or eight Min soldiers shouted and scolded angrily and stabbed them with long lances, and there were only a few of them left in a brigade of more than 50 people.

The miserable howls of the wounded, the angry scolding of the scattered Roman routs, and the strange notes of each and every one constitute this miserable symphony, the battle is over, but the slaughter is still going on.

In the distance, carrying double knives, Sheng Lianshan, who had already killed a bloody man, was still panting and running around like a praying mantis with red eyes, and he couldn't find his opponent for a long time, he ran back in annoyance just now, and asked Li Yexu who was sitting on the ground: "Why don't you continue to pursue?" ”

Also out of breath, Li Yexu, who had been in command for a day, had a swollen throat and could barely speak, and Li Yexu still waved his hand at him with difficulty.

"Can't chase!"

"The Roman army is not in chaos, the flag is not falling, they have not been defeated, if we break up the formation, it is easy to win first and then lose."

Sheng Lianshan is still a murderous look, he brought out hundreds of light soldiers who rushed out of the formation in the second Roman army under the attack of the second Roman army array, there are more than 100 left, these are veterans who have followed him for many years, at this time Sheng Lianshan can't wait to slaughter Constantinople now to vent his hatred, how can he give up so easily?

Seeing him like this, Li Yexu had to use his hoarse voice to say with difficulty: "They retreated into Constantinople and couldn't escape, the top priority is to dig a trench to prevent the Romans' ironclad cavalry from attacking again!" ”

Hearing Li Yexu say this, Sheng Lianshan had to finally suppress the anger in his heart, and he still turned around and shouted with an extremely bad attitude, which could be heard from afar.

Sheng Lianshan scared the Romans with a cold face and wanted to kill with a knife, and also frightened the Lou Boat General Lu Ning, and the sailor sent someone to Shang'an, not to mention the tools of the ditch, and the five thousand sailors also gave the work to the place, and the original Romans dug up the business to the side, and cleaned up all kinds of garbage and debris broken by the artillery, and helped the left and right Qianniuwei to set up tents and collect the dead.

The wounded were taken care of, and the material resources in the rear were constantly transported up by small boats, and at this time Li Jie had not yet made the glass on a large scale, so the military canned food was sealed with a large bamboo tube, and a large group of sergeants after the bloody battle were around the fire to cook the tsamba in the can, as well as fish and meat, and the aroma of the food relieved a lot of tension.

It's just that looking at the dark and tall walls of Constantinople not far away, Li Yexu's fists are still clenched tightly, and his pupils reveal a haze.

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Although it was a disastrous victory, but four days of hard work to take a tidal flat position in the European part, and the left and right Qianniuwei also killed more than 3,000 Roman armor soldiers, the news came back to Caesarea, but it still caused a burst of cheers in the Fujian army, Li Jie personally rewarded Li Yexu and Sheng Lianshan for their heroic battles, and generously allocated 500,000 Guan pensions and rewards for soldiers.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, there were poems that were widely circulated, with 100,000 pieces wrapped around their waists, and they rode cranes down to Yangzhou! It has always been almost one or two silver, the price of goods in the early Tang Dynasty was quite stable, 500,000 yuan is almost one billion in later generations, and it is clearly stipulated in the "Tang Law Discussion" that from the death of the army, the guard will give a certain amount of silk, fill the burial clothes, and still give the coffin, so that the delivery will be returned home. That is to say, if you die in a war as a soldier in the Tang Dynasty, you will be given a certain amount of silk, a set of shrouds, a coffin, and the corpse will be transported home, and the total cost will not be more than ten times, and the pension of the King of Min will exceed that of the Tang Dynasty by more than ten times.

Whether it is the left and right Qianniuwei who were bereaved, or the 300,000 troops of the Fujian army, getting the news is all morale-boosting, what is the purpose of the army? Isn't it just for the descendants to pay homage to the marquis! Now that the pension given by the King of Min is enough for the old and young of the family, the worries have been lifted, and what about fighting this old life to seize the throne for His Majesty!

The high morale has brought another side effect, every day many new arrivals in the West Asian battlefield of the Southern Tianzhu generals sent a blood letter asking to be the first to be sent to attack Constantinople, I don't know whether the blood book written in pig blood or chicken blood made the military department and the military department yamen are all a smell of blood.

In this way, Li Ji still adhered to his previous strategy, ignored the blood book, and continued to implement the second phase of the plan, more than 100,000 Arab light cavalry, 50,000 Caucasian noble iron cavalry and a huge army of Caucasian infantry mixed with Li Jie began to be transported to Europe batch after batch by the Dafu ship.

After going ashore, Li Jing had only one order, go wherever you like, and grab it as much as you like!

Even if the Eastern Roman Empire was greatly damaged by the Persian hegemony war that lasted for hundreds of years, and lost more than half of its territory in the war with Arabia and the Great Min, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and the Eastern Roman Empire at this time still had a large territory of the Carthaginian generation in the Balkan Peninsula and North Africa, and even in southern Italy, Spain still had some regions that declared allegiance to the Roman Empire, and the areas that could support the war of Constantinople included Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Croatia in later generations. Macedonia and other territories of more than a dozen republics in Eastern Europe in later generations were no less than ten times stronger than Goguryeo.

Today's attack on Constantinople by the Great Min is somewhat similar to the Later Jin attack on the Ming Dynasty, Li Jie is to occupy Constantinople to claim the emperor, in order to maintain long-term stability, he must be patient to cut off the dense branches and leaves on the big tree of the Eastern Roman Empire one by one, cut off its long root system, and let it fall into the point of lack of nutrition and death.

Otherwise, it will be like the Tang Dynasty attacking Goguryeo in history, and Huang Taiji attacked Jingshi several times, not to mention that it can't be attacked, even if it is captured, it can't be defended.

However, if you want to spread the destruction of the entire Balkan Peninsula, the Fujian army itself is not good, on the one hand, the life is unfamiliar, the danger is great, on the other hand, if the Great Min lets go of burning and plundering, the reputation in the Balkan Peninsula will also be completely ruined, Li Jie is not like the later Mongol Empire, although it occupied a vast territory, but the territory was almost empty, and the population on it was all killed.

So at this time, it is necessary to bother the Arabs, the good allies of the Great Min, the hearts of the Arab light cavalry are much more ruthless than the Fujian army, they can eat the enemy very well, even if they die, they do not need to be compassionate to the Great Min, and the education level of the common people is extremely low in these years, they can not tell that it was the well-dressed Min people who ordered to plunder them, and in the memory of the Balkans, they can only remember that it was the locust-like Arabs who burned their hometown.

From February to April of the sixth year of the Great Min Dynasty, it was a terrible nightmare for the entire Balkan Peninsula, and countless Arab cavalry disembarked on the beachhead of Constantinople captured by the left and right thousand Niu Wei, and after showing off their might under the city of Constantinople with a mockery of the pagans, they entered the hinterland of the Eastern Roman Empire, first destroying Thrace and Macedonia, the nearest to the nearest country, and then spreading to Greece and north to the Danube.

As for the Caucasian soldiers, although they tended to be with the Eastern Roman Empire, which was also Christian, after breaking into the flowery world of the Roman Empire, they did not care about the love of the same Christians in the face of the dazzling wealth of the Romans.

Foreign soldiers from Western Asia filled the fields of the Romans like locusts.

In fact, when it comes to the results of the war, even if there are more than 100,000 Arab cavalry and more than 50,000 Caucasian soldiers, there are not many, they lack the ability to attack and even the will to fight, let alone the city, even the larger Roman towns they can't attack, the Roman army killed and wounded is quite limited, and even not many of them have died of disease because of their own unsuitability.

The greatest achievement of the Arab cavalry was the destruction of the spring ploughing of the Roman Empire, and in the countryside, whether it was the large estates of the Roman senators or the small farms run by the Roman yeoman farmers, they were all visited by these uninvited guests, and the peasants had to flee the land, and large pieces of farmland were gnawed away by the Arab horses even if they were sown with wheat.

In the seventh century A.D. was still the agricultural era, more than half of the country's agriculture was destroyed by the Arabs, and after the New Year, the Eastern Roman Empire would inevitably break out of a nationwide famine, and even if the Great Min did not attack, Constantinople would have to be starved, and then the Min army could easily take the pearl of the empire, which was Li Ji's plan, which he called locust tactics.

Constantine IV, who had been stuck in the city of Constantinople and had the same name as the person who founded the city, really couldn't sit still............