The city gate was finally opened, at this time the defense of Constantinople was too short of people, and the battle opposite the Golden Horn contained more than 10,000 troops of the Romans, and the defense of the double-layer city wall was too wide, and the troops in the hands of Constantine IV were already a little tight, and he did not want to give up this new force. ｗ?ｗ?ｗ?．

However, the Bolgar cavalry and the Athenian infantry, the Roman paladiers were not greeted heroically, but hostile, and the crossbowers and archers stared from the flanks of the double wall, and in the narrow passages, a group of heavy infantry in a tense formation with long contradictory cards carefully defended

In this case, the indignation of the captive soldiers who finally came back after the massacre under the city can be imagined, if it were not for the city gate closed, some of the Bolgar soldiers and Greek soldiers even wanted to go back, after all, in the camp of the Fujian army, the regular army from Central Asia minority cavalry accounted for not a minority, and the mercenaries from Rome formed ten legions with good treatment.

Without hastily ordering the retreating infantry to enter the city, Constantine IV first recruited several generals such as Simon and Edward to the city.

"You're too embarrassed to come back! Traitors and cowards cursed by the Lord! As soon as they met, Archbishop Baldwin had already shouted angrily, and Edward, the head of the paladon regiment, who was listening, shrank back weakly, after all, he surrendered on his own initiative, but Constantine IV ignored the archbishop who was scolding and wanted to take Edward down, but looked around in the crowd, and then asked gloomily.

"What about the Duke of Sapurtes?"

Before coming, Simon and several generals who were released back by the Min army discussed their rhetoric, and their expressions remained unchanged, and Simon replied calmly: "The Duke of Sapurtis refused to surrender and has been killed by the King of Min."

"So, you've all surrendered?" Constantine IV's eyes immediately turned cold, and he snorted coldly with irony, and Simon shuddered again when he listened.

"We pretended to surrender, and the Min army also needed generals who were familiar with the terrain of Constantinople, so we were put into the forward battalion, and today the Min army defeated the Roman legions, and while they were celebrating, we opened the city gate and slipped out."

"Today it is clear that the Holy Roman Empire has triumphed over the evil infidels!" Archbishop Baldwin interrupted Simon with another roar, but Constantine ignored him, his eyes still staring at Simon coldly, staring at them with beads of sweat on their backs.

Simon's lie is really full of flaws, is the Min army so easy to mix? However, this is more credible than the King of Min inexplicably letting them go, Constantine IV looked at them suspiciously for a long time, but he still had to stretch out his arms and hug Simon, and said not salty or indifferent.

"Your loyalty to friendship, Rome will never forget, everyone has worked hard, tell the man to prepare food for the army!"

The inner gate was only opened, but the eyes of the defenders were still like thieves, which made the people who came back particularly uncomfortable, and some of the fiery Bolgar cavalry even wanted to go up to fight, but they were firmly held down by the officers.

Only Archbishop Baldwin was still muttering: "Maybe these people are spies sent back by the Fujian army, and they should all be arrested."

No one paid any attention to the grumpy old god, he said. There was no mention of Sapurtes, and Constantine IV personally accompanied Simon and others down the city wall, intending to pick them up and wash the dust, although the trouble was not very pleasant, but the matter of the return of the captives was basically diluted, and there was no conflict.

But at this time, the Roman patrols patrolling the city suddenly blew the battle horn in a hurry, and in the desolate whining sound, the torches on the city were lit one after another, and countless Roman soldiers rushed out of the tower in a panic.

The layers of ballistae were turned around, and in the darkness of the city, a bow and arrow were also poked out from the female wall battlement.

Unconsciously, no less than seven or eight legions of heavy troops have been densely arranged in front of the Fujian army camp, and the number of Fujian legions is twice that of the Roman legions, that is, at least seventy or eighty thousand people have taken advantage of the night to fight, and one by one behemoths have been pushed out in turn in the dark night, slowly moving forward.

Well bar! Rush the car! Siege ladder! Arrow Tower! It's all damn thing!

What was even more nervous was Constantine's imperial front, dozens of guards, the general immediately pulled out his sword and pointed at Simon nervously, and Archbishop Baldwin even used the cross staff as a stick in front of him, and shouted with a little schadenfreude in his viciousness.

"I'll just say! They are all traitors! The spies of the King of Min came back to deceive us in this city of God! ”

As the archbishop shouted, the nearby Roman defenders also nervously turned their heads, and drew their swords from their sheaths at the sound of a long time.

"Drink!" The phalanx of Roman hoplites, who had been defending nervously between the two walls, roared, and the spears that were put down were placed on the shields and pointed at the Roman prisoners who came back.

Being pointed at by so many swords, bows and arrows, Simon and the others were also difficult to ride tigers, and they also roared and pulled out their swords, and then covered each other's bodies, and carefully retreated to the city.

Outside the city, the big wheels of the Fujian army's siege equipment crushed the earth, constantly approaching, and there was a tense atmosphere above and below the city.

Maybe this is Li Jie's plan, taking advantage of the mutual distrust in the city to attack the city at night, take advantage of the weakness, and destroy Eastern Rome in one fell swoop! The timing was really pinched by Da Min just right, and at the critical juncture, the internal and external difficulties were trapped, and the hearts of the defenders of the entire city were clouded.

In the end, it was the heroic Constantine IV, seeing this scene, he actually raised his hands, signaled that he had no weapon in his hand, and walked over with Simon, and reminded loudly as he walked.

"Simon! My son-in-law, have you forgotten? I promise to pass on to you the position of Roman Emperor after I die! Now Sapurtis is dead, and there's no one to fight with you! ”

The implication is that no matter how much the Min people can give, it is not as good as the whole of Rome! You have to think clearly!

"Lao Tzu didn't rebel at all!" Seeing Constantine IV calmly come over and repeat the transaction between the two people, Simon also softened and put down his sword, but still shouted back to Constantine IV angrily.

"See, Lord Simon didn't rebel, what are you still doing, don't put down your weapons yet! Put it all down! With Simon's words, Constantine turned his head and reprimanded his generals and guards, and repelled the nervous generals, who watched the other party put down their weapons, and the captives who came back also carefully put their weapons back into their sheaths, and the atmosphere of the great battle finally faded a lot.

"Simon, my son-in-law! For the sake of our common cause, please also go up to the city wall to defend it! ”

After calming the tension, Constantine IV once again solemnly invited.

The aggressive offensive of the Min army made peace between the two sides temporarily, and the sound of large pieces of leather boots, and the returning captive soldiers rushed to the outer wall like a tide, swords, guns, swords, halberds, bows and crossbows and artillery adjusted to the siege equipment that was getting closer and closer to the Min army, and they were wronged once, and the hearts of the captive soldiers who were still loyal to Rome were full of anger and wanted to fight with the Min people immediately to prove their innocence.

However, Constantine IV still took precautions, his descendant army, mercenary regiments were mostly arranged on the second city wall, and batches of bows and crossbows were also aimed at the Min army outside.

Being pointed at by the dense bows and arrows behind him, the taste must be uncomfortable, but to gain the trust of Constantine, he can only rely on this, he was used as a gunman for nothing, and almost lost his life under the random arrows, and his heart scolded the sinister King of Min Blood Spray, Simon personally went to a large general cannon that captured the Min army last time, and personally commanded the soldiers to adjust the muzzle, seeing that the huge well fence of the Fujian army was approaching the firing range, Simon wolf howled and ignited the cannon fire violently.

"Let's go to hell!!"

With a bang, the fire snake erupted more than a meter long, tearing the night sky, and the well fence opposite trembled violently, the Romans had filled too much gunpowder! This cannon even had some range, hitting more than two miles, and hit the wooden wall of the Min people.

Bang ~ Sawdust splashing.

As if a signal, the night sky seemed to be torn apart by the fire of the rushing carts, ladders, seventy-one large and small artillery, hundreds of ballistas, and twenty-two trebuchets under the city.

In the loud sound of shattering, two well railings immediately collapsed and smashed to the ground, and the Greek fire ignited a raging fire on the ground, and the car rolled in the fire, and the ladder was directly broken in two.

It is worthy of the Great Min Army, under such serious casualties, it still marches forward bravely, the sound of the wheels pressing the stones is extremely harsh in the night sky, and the large array of the Fujian army in the battle is also as immobile as a mountain, giving people strong pressure.

In this case, the Roman captives on the first-line city wall frantically loaded the cannons with lead bullets, wound the ballistas, and shot out countless rocket meteor showers, and the rumbling cannons shook the night sky like the roar of Thor.

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The fierce battle lasted no less than two hours, and fifty-eight ladders, twelve well railings, and more than a hundred rushing carts rushed to Constantinople were all destroyed in front of the city, and the nearest ladder was only more than ten meters away from the city wall, and finally fell in the boiling fire of the Greek fire.

However, the city head guarded the empty barrels, and the red-hot artillery was broken, and the Roman defenders still did not dare to be careless, because the dense array of Fujian troops had not retreated, and they were still eyeing the city wall, the sky was dark and scary, and there was only a small area illuminated by firelight. Therefore, most of the defenders also lit torches, opened a pair, and did not dare to relax at all with dark circles.

However, Simon fought so hard, Constantine's wariness of him was lowered a lot, and when it was almost dawn, he also organized the people to go to the first city wall with wine and meat.

Facing Simon, who was standing next to the bombed cannon, his face was blackened, Constantine IV laughed and opened his arms, to hug and greet him, Simon finally breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and opened his arms with the same enthusiasm, seeing that this son-in-law who was not much different in age was full of affection, and he was about to hug each other like the Red Army's 25,000 victorious divisions, but at this time, Archbishop Baldwin suddenly shouted loudly.

"Augustus, look! Deceived by this northern barbarian! ”

Looking at the battlefield in the faint morning light in astonishment, Constantine IV's face instantly turned the color of pig's liver............