Caesarea's beach has completely changed its appearance after two months of war, and the original soft sand is almost hard by cement at this time, forming a rectangular cement platform two miles long and 100 meters wide, on which more than 200 cannons are neatly arranged, and the blue-gray cannon body exudes a cold killing machine in the sunlight. To read the book. Book 1 book k ◆ a book n ◆ s a h look u_._c

The wheels of the gun carriage carrying the heavy gun body have been rolled out of black marks on the cement platform, and the black cannon fodder at the muzzle of the gun has also been scattered on the ground, which is obviously used these days.

In fact, it is true that the distance between Asia and Europe is so close here, the widest point of the Bosphorus Strait, which connects the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, is only more than 3,700 meters, and the narrowest point is just in front of you, but more than 750 meters, and most of the strait is within the range of the artillery fire of the Great Min, which just blocked the Golden Horn and touched the sea wall east of Constantinople.

Constantine IV hid the main force of the Royal Navy in the Golden Horn, and was ready to fight to the death with the fleet of the Great Min with Greek fire in this narrow strait, but Constantine really dreamed a hundred times and did not expect that the artillery of the Fujian army could actually sit in Asia and fight Europe, and watched the troop carriers of the Fujian army continue to transport the Arab light cavalry and Caucasian mountain soldiers to the city of Constantinople, and then went to plunder his inner 6 hinterland, and forced the main fleet to hold back in the Golden Horn and did not dare to come out.

On the one hand, in order to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, so that Constantine did not dare to rush out and fight the other hand, in order to deter people's hearts and weaken the will of the Roman defenders, the Great Min also did not hesitate to work hard, every morning and afternoon will bombard the sea wall and tidal flats of Constantinople for an hour each, it has been two consecutive months, the solid sea wall has already been torn apart at this time, and the tidal flats are also like the surface of the moon, full of potholes, even the original Roman merchants in the Golden Horn Exit A small fishing port was bombed into slag.

On the second day of the fifth month of the sixth year of Kaiyuan, it was another sunny day, and the weather was just right for shelling, so early in the morning, the artillerymen of Damin carried out boxes of gunpowder from the powder magazine, and the heavy lead ball iron balls were piled up on the beach that was built into a fort.

A pair of cowhide boots paced back and forth between the busy artillerymen to supervise these soldiers meticulously preparing for the artillery bombardment, and a series of talismans on their chests jingled, whenever they heard this sound, the nearby artillerymen all tensed their nerves, for fear of doing something wrong, without him, it was the top boss of all of them, General Kamui Xiao Yehu. ▲△△ to read a book. 一1 ̄k to a look n〈s one h book u◇.book c◇ c〈

This person is really a legend, a Goguryeo, or a thief, it is said that he stole the wallet of the King of Min before he was recognized by the King of Min, and the last way to fight became the Shenwei General of the Three Grades of the Great Min, the head of artillery, in the battle of the Yamouk River, the artillery group he commanded accurately destroyed more than half of the Arabs' trebuchet ballistae, clearing the obstacles for the army, although there are many of his officers in the Min army, almost all of them are respectful to him, no way, who doesn't need artillery cover?

Xiao Yehu also knows to cherish, in the Min army is quite humble and cautious, never domineering, he also has a characteristic, that is, especially believe in religion, believe that it is the gift of God, so that he can have the opportunity to be the king of Fujian, this belief is a little special, almost any religion believes, Buddhist beads, Brahmin ornaments, Christian crosses, a trace of blue pendants, almost all religions in Min can find related objects on his neck, so Xiao Yehu is also known as the thirteen chain generals.

For the work, Xiao Yehu is meticulous, and he also knows that he can only have the firearms technology that he has worked hard to study, so even if the Roman Royal Navy has not made any action for more than two months, just bombing the empty city wall and beach every day, Xiao Yehu still has not relaxed at all.

"Check the gunpowder, and replace it immediately if it gets wet."

"You have a crooked cannon, how did you do it during training!"

"I have too much medicine to fill, and I will tell you how many times I want to order it! Customized! ”

In the midst of the reprimands, the artillery unit of more than 2,000 people nervously completed the preparation for firing, but just as Xiao Yehu was checking with the quartermaster about the artillery needed today, the commander of the cold front hurriedly ran over with a sweat in his head. △△〓 Look at the book ※.Look 1 to K One A - N Book S Book h_u ◆. One C - C -

"General! Checkmate! There's movement in the Golden Horn! ”

Their artillery position is to blockade the Golden Horn, once there is any abnormal movement, open fire in full force, sink any hostile actions of the Eastern Roman Royal Navy, so many days the Romans have not moved, listening to the anxious report under their command, even if they are as calm as a small wild tiger, they can't help but lift their spirits, and raise the telescope in the distance along the sound.

As far as the eye could see, the two thick steel cables that had been held up in the bay between the Galatian fortress and the walls of Constantinople were indeed loosened by the agitation of the chain disks, and completely sank into the sea, and the gate of the Golden Horn, which had been closed, was opened.

"The muzzle of the left flank position **** twenty degrees! The muzzle of the right wing artillery array **** fifteen degrees, the Chinese army does not move, each team is correcting the firing angle and fine-tuning by itself, listen to my order, and do not open the cannon without authorization! ”

Xiao Yehu's nervous voice was spread throughout the entire battery by more than a dozen heralds, and the 6 battle guns of Damin were all mounted on wooden artillery carriages, for convenience and practicality, the gun carriages had been engraved with a ruler of angle and elevation angle, and according to the results of the usual training, the gunners of each team all gritted their teeth and twisted the heavy artillery carriages.

It has been more than two months since the start of the war, and these royal gunners belonging to the forbidden army have spent several warehouses of ammunition, but now they have not even blown up a Roman hair, and today they can finally open meat, and every gunner's face shows a bloodthirsty look of excitement, looking forward to the imminent enemy being torn apart in their own hands.

However, under everyone's nervous and eager watching, for a long time, the large-scale Roman fleet did not appear, but came out of an ordinary Mediterranean dwarlet ship of more than 20 meters, which was usually used by merchants to transport goods, and a lone small boat with a white flag slowly grinding out of the Golden Horn.

As soon as the boat came out, the Galatai fortress behind him hurriedly raised the barrage cable, as if for fear of being bombarded by the cannons, not to mention the white flag of the ship, facing the artillery of the little wild tiger, several Romans actually desperately shook the Fujian flag and the double-headed dragon flag designed by Li Jie, and stopped at the mouth of the Golden Horn, not daring to move.

What kind of fuss is this? Not to mention Xiao Yehu, the rest of the artillery captains were also dumbfounded, and were stunned for a while, and Xing Shushu, the former artillery captain, ran back in embarrassment and asked: "General, this, how to deal with this, do you want the last general to shoot him?" ”

Xiao Yehu himself was embarrassed for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and shook his head fiercely: "Don't fire the cannon first, send someone to report to the military department quickly, but don't let your guard down, Xiao Xing, you go and keep an eye on the entrance to the Golden Horn, and another boat will rush out and kill the damn!" ”

"Whoa!"

The captain of the criminal capital galloped back to the front line, and more than a dozen messengers also rode on horses and galloped back to Caesarea City, and the military department also attached great importance to this matter, and actually Li Ji, the secretary of the military department, went to the front line in person, and looked at the sweaty Roman merchant ships that were tired of waving flags desperately for a long time with a telescope, and he also frowned.

"Let the Roman ship come."

After speaking, Li Ji actually climbed on the horse again, and returned to the city without looking back.

In this era, the Great Min made up its own flag, but the Romans did not, and communication became a problem, but fortunately, some gestures were common to humans, and the little wild tiger found more than a dozen people to fan themselves for a long time under the banner of the Great Min, which was suitable for passage, and the merchant ship sailed cautiously.

Last time, the Great Min envoy let Constantinople be killed, this time, the Fujian people did not have a good face, one by one the soldiers wiped the cannon with a cold face and arrogantly, and some of the artillerymen also held the self-defense three-edged bayonet gun unloaded bayonet back and forth to pick their teeth, and the reception was even smaller than the smallest, Honglu Temple came to a nine-grade sesame official, and the etiquette department that has always paid attention to etiquette is even better, and the veterans who guard the door are sent.

Seeing the merchant ships of the Roman Empire on the opposite side, a cardinal archbishop dressed in gorgeous robes, but with a smile on his face, nodding and hunching like a roadside vendor landed on the shore from the board, the veteran patronized and scratched the lice on his body, lazily basking in the sun, but the nine-grade sesame official of Honglu Temple was so arrogant as if he was the prime minister of Da Min Zhengyipin, and he was arrogant and said arrogantly in Greek: "If there is anything to say about the small state of Puer, this official is very busy, and he has no time to waste time with you." ”

The Roman Empire, which has ruled the West for more than a thousand years, was said to be a small state by a nine-rank sesame official, and this taunting skill was turned to the extreme, but the guy in the red-clothed main robe was not angry at all, but accompanied by a smiling face and a big bow with a smile.

"What the lord said is very true, the small one is the great pastor of Constantinople, on the order of His Majesty Constantine, he came to Great Min, and wanted to discuss with His Majesty the King of Min and His Majesty Anna about surrender and peace, and Rome is willing to pay tribute to Great Min."

The petty official of Honglu Temple is really stupid, not because the Roman Empire said that it would surrender, and now Constantine's title of minister Nagong has become a joke in the territory of Damin, people are metaphorical and do not talk about credibility, capricious, two-faced, despicable and shameless will be applied to this Roman emperor, to the surprise of the petty official, this thing actually speaks a more fluent Tang language than himself.

Seeing that the little official seemed to be speechless by what he said, and he didn't know whether it would work or not, another veteran simply waved his arrogance to the extreme, pulled out a big lice from the collar of his neck, and actually bit it like the protagonist Ah Q in Mr. Lu Xun's "The True Story of Ah Q", this guy who claimed to be the great shepherd of Constantinople suddenly sweated on his head, smiled more sincerely, took out a piece of gold cake from his arms and stuffed it into the little official's hand, and said in a more lowered tone.

"That, my name is Paul, and I am an old acquaintance of Her Majesty Anna, and I would like to ask your official to help me accommodate!"

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"Paul?"

In Caesarea's temporary palace, listening to the petty official bowing at the door and announcing the name, Anna, who was helping Li Jie to pack up the materials of the Roman Empire, couldn't help but stand up in astonishment, and then said with surprise on her cheeks.

"This god stick is still alive!"