Sun Tzu's Art of War, the Nine Variations chapter clearly mentions the five dangers of the general.

Surely you will die, but you can also kill! You will be born, but you will be captive! Angry, insulting! Incorruptible, humiliating! Love the people, but it's annoying! These are the five major character flaws that you should not have as a commander-in-chief, you are brave and unscrupulous, greedy for life and afraid of death, impatient and irritable, too self-esteem and too doting on the people, and have no overall view!

Constantine IV was scheming, he was not rash at all and was not afraid of death, if he was afraid of death, he surrendered during the siege of Antioch, and several scheming games showed that he was not an impatient and irritable person, as for doting on the people? In order to gain the help of the Huns, Constantine IV did not hesitate to agree to their plundering of the Balkans, saying that he was a negative example.

The only offense of Constantine IV is that he is honest and humiliating, he is too fond of his imperial throne, and several battlefield gaffes are because of this throne! When Anna persuaded him to surrender, the first thing he thought of was this throne, which made Li Jie see an opportunity.

More than 200 years ago, when Wuhu entered China, Yao Xiang of Qiang was a good example, Yao Xiang made the fourth and fifth points of the five dangers, diligent government and love the people, too much to cherish the reputation, when Qin Fujian and Qiang fought, Yao Xiang could not hold out, Fu Jian ordered people to slander Yao Xiang's reputation, at the cost of the people of the city in order to hold their position, as a result, Yao Xiang could not stand the excitement, and Fu Jian fought in Sanyuan, defeated and killed.

Sure enough, as Li Jie made a fool of himself and used the collected Christian artifacts to prove his legitimacy, Constantine IV really exploded, and the walls of Constantinople burst open, and the armor soldiers poured out of the city like a tide, gathering under the city, and it seemed that for the sake of the throne and dignity, he was going to fight to the death with the Fujian army!

Seeing the Roman army rolling forward, the double-headed golden eagle flag floating densely in the air, and the army was in a strict formation, Li Jie not only had a trace of fear, but he still couldn't help but be very proud in his heart, one word, cool!

There are more than 20,000 armor soldiers around him, nearly 20 miles to the left, Su Dingfang and Wanyan Agu fight two 30,000 cavalry are also eyeing each other, once the fight starts, less than five minutes can copy the back road of the Romans, Li Jie's abacus is quite good, once the Romans attack, he first used 20,000 people around him as bait soldiers to drag the main force of Constantinople, and so on Su Lie and Wanyan together, cut off the return of Constantine IV, and then hundreds of thousands of troops pressed, Constantinople is at your fingertips.

However, Li Jie, who was excited, forgot that there is another sentence in Sun Tzu's Art of War, those who know themselves and know their opponents will not be defeated in a hundred battles. Those who don't know each other and know themselves, one wins and one loses!

Raising the command flag in his hand, Li Jie was just about to order the legion as an honor guard to move closer to resist the attack of the Romans, but a deafening thunder suddenly sounded at the head of Constantinople.

There was a boom of white smoke, followed by the sound of air rubbing that tickled the eardrums, and before Li Jie could react, the true cross more than ten meters behind him shattered into pieces with a clatter, and the five or six Roman senators who surrendered around him were inserted by the fragments, and their flesh and blood fell to the ground in a blur, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead.

The true cross in history was smashed to pieces in the battle between Saladin and the Knights Templar, and it is still impossible to escape the doom in this time and space, but it is unknown whether the Roman senators who died under the same cross as Christ felt honored or aggrieved!

There was a buzz in his head, and it wasn't until two or three seconds that Li Jie reacted, cannon!

"Protect Your Majesty's !!"

Without waiting for Li Jie to think more, Zampa had already roared loudly in horror, and more than 100 soldiers immediately used their flesh and blood to form a huge shield array in front of Li Jie, pulling him and Anna to retreat, and the rest of the archbishop elders were even more frightened, and without thinking about it, the cross was thrown away, and the holy relics were too late to take care of, so they ran away.

was coerced by the forbidden army to retreat, and without taking two steps, Li Jie's brain also turned away, and he also shouted anxiously: "Disperse!" Disperse! ”

It's not that Li Jie loves soldiers like a son, he died very scary when it was time to spare his life, he wanted to finish playing, and the foundation he had worked so hard would be over, but this was in the face of shelling! The denser the target, the easier it is to be hit by a concentrated attack, and it is not safe to stand in a crowd.

Who knew that the soldiers of the forbidden army still thought that the King of Min loved them, and after being moved, the shield array was maintained more closely.

Just when Li Jie wanted to cry without tears, there were two white smokes again, and the iron balls the size of bowling balls pierced into the shield array of the forbidden army, and the sturdy tower shield became paper paste at this time, and on the route of the two shells, rows of forbidden troops were knocked down, and screams and blood spread everywhere.

With a bang, the guard in front of Li Jie finally used his shield to block the cannonball at the end of the strong crossbow, and the tower shield also cracked back, and the sternum collapsed, and a stream of blood spurted out of his mouth, and he was not alive.

It's really a cold sweat, at this time in the place of life and death, Li Jie can't care about the dignity of the emperor, he tore off the conspicuous emperor's cloak on his body, ripped off Anna's cloak with one hand, and pulled her back desperately with the other, piercing out of the gaps in the layers of forbidden troops.

After all, Zanpo has also followed Li Jie for so many years, and it can be regarded as thick and fine, and when he saw the purple robe that Li Jie had dropped, he also understood, and reached out to pick up all the two clothes.

"Give me the command, disperse! For the sake of Your Majesty, disperse and slowly retreat! ”

It seemed that the murderous roar had been for a long time, and Zan Po reached out and stuffed the two purple robes into the arms of the two noble children who he always didn't like to look at, and roared passionately.

"The heavy responsibility of covering Your Majesty will be handed over to you!"

After saying that, Zanpo Saya also ran away, and he was not stupid.

The plan was all disrupted, this was the first time that the Min army itself was also facing artillery bombardment, seeing the retreat of the King of Min, the armor soldiers who were originally preparing to fight were also panicked, and 20,000 people were also scrambling to retreat, and the entire Fujian army was in chaos.

Seeing that there was an opportunity, the generals of the Roman legions, who had already left the city and lined up, shouted excitedly: "God has shown you the opportunity to defeat the infidels!" Kill!!! ”

The small drums of the Roman march sounded, and the neat Roman infantry trotted in an array and marched out quickly, although they did not understand the thirty-six strategies, but they also understood the principle of taking advantage of the fire to rob.

At this time, the heavy horse hooves in the north made a loud noise, it turned out that they heard the sound of cannons, the cavalry of the Su Dingfang Department in the north did not wait for the order, and took the lead in killing back, the heavy ironclad cavalry rushed to the flank of the Roman army, and the truck-like impact directly praised the Roman legion in the north.

At the head of the city, he didn't want to hit his own people, and there was not much ammunition, so the head of Constantinople did not continue to shell.

The soldiers intersected, blood spattered, and the two most elite armies of civilization staged a fair battle under the city of Constantinople, Su Lie's cavalry repeatedly attacked the Constantinople infantry, and the infantry in formation used spears and bows to knock the Fujian army off their horses.

The fierce battle lasted for half an hour, and seeing that the Fujian army's troops had been sorted out and rushed out of the city again, Constantine IV ordered the army to retreat to the city.

As a result of the battle, it seems that the Min army took advantage of it, Su Lie praised a Roman legion, and then rushed the other party several times in several charges, the Min army lost more than 300 people, and the Romans left 500 corpses on the battlefield, after retreating back to the camp, both Constantinople and the Great Min army declared themselves the victors.

At the head of the city, Archbishop Baldwin personally blessed the infantry who killed the enemy and awarded medals, while the Great Min was more practical, and at the same time of praise, he directly sent a few pockets of gold coins, and everyone who saw the Fujian cavalry was red-eyed, and they couldn't wait to fight with the Romans again.

However, Li Jie was not happy at all, looking at the fragments of the true cross that were rescued, the scarab that was flattened by someone who didn't know who had stepped on, the shroud with a few more footprints, and the holy grail called the silver flake, the muscles on his face twitched.

"Your Majesty, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and besides, our army still won today, which greatly dealt a blow to the arrogance of Constantine's thieves, Your Majesty should be happy!"

Seeing the twitching appearance of the corners of Li Jie's mouth, even if the prime ministers were angry, Wang Fangyi cautiously persuaded below, but Li Jie, who listened to it, was even more angry, and his head was confused.

After a while, Li Jie stabilized his emotions, rubbed the back of his head, but slapped the table table suddenly, and shouted gloomily: "No matter what, find a way to knock out the artillery of the Romans, find out how they got it, how many there are!" And then ruined them! If you can't come up with a charter, you don't have to eat dinner!! ”

As he spoke, Li Jie turned around and left angrily, and walked out of the Chinese army's tent in a blink of an eye.

The source of the Romans' firearms is very easy to guess, although the Great Min has always been in mind about the management of firearms, and does not allow firearms and gunpowder to flow out, but three years ago, the Great Min Army under Li Ji was completely defeated by the Romans! Even if Li Ji carried out the destruction mission, it was still possible to leave some gunpowder and usable Grand Prize military artillery on the battlefield.

This amount will not be large, because the ministers are very relieved about the secrecy policy of gunpowder, regardless of the military prime minister does not know the secret recipe of gunpowder, and the gunpowder of Damin is still ground into rice, and there is no laboratory instrument in these years, so the Romans can't peep at him.

In contrast, the ministers are still more concerned about Li Jie's situation, after all, the King of Min has a hereditary family disease, and in the case of continuous defeats, everyone is afraid that he will have a good one, and the king has no legal constraints, an angry king, especially terrible, is killed in vain, which is also the reason why the scholars who dare to offend Yan Jinjin in history are highly respected.

After an absent-minded discussion for a while, the prime minister's most delicate thinking Laiji couldn't help but pull the eunuch Sbratita who supervised the court and asked.

"Where has Your Majesty gone?"

It is taboo to reveal the whereabouts of King Min at will, but so many prime ministers, the six Shangshu stared at him fiercely, and did not dare not say it, and finally Sbratita had to bite the bullet, and reprimanded another little eunuch beside him: "Just now Your Majesty asked the prisoner where the prisoner Bao Garko Simon is!" Don't send anyone to lead the way! ”

This is a disguised statement about Li Jie's whereabouts, and the prime ministers who listened to it were all relieved, it turned out that Li Jie went to trouble Simon, the leader of the captured Bulgars, and Li Jie was able to send out the fire, which made everyone feel a lot more relieved.

But at this moment, a heart-rending scream suddenly came from the back camp, and the ministers present were cold again, and silently recited the death mantra for Simon twice in their hearts.

Brother Ren, let's go!