All the doctors invited by Constantine XI were finally "invited" out of the Slou Garden by Sophia one by one.

There were even lucky ones who received a few lashes from the crown prince's guards themselves.

The princess is a freak who believes in true medical skills.

Zhou Heng never woke up, but he didn't expect that it was Hunyati's reply that came faster.

To Constantine's surprise, Hunyadi was also under pressure from many sides, and although he advocated peace talks and recuperation as soon as possible, not only the Eastern Roman Empire, the Papal States, Austria, and Władysław were urging him not to give up the good situation.

Eventually, when he received the report of the siege of Constantinople, the white knight, who had terrified the Ottomans, finally remounted his horse.

The combined forces of Hungary and the Crusaders, starting from Székesbehär, quickly launched an attack on the Ottomans, who were not prepared at all.

As Constantine and Zhou Heng expected. The Ottomans immediately wrote dozens of letters scolding Hunyadi for his untrustworthiness and distributed them to various European countries, and mobilized the entire Balkan army to assemble on the border.

Constantine knew that he had no time to wait, even if the situation of Morea was still unclear, even if his son was still unconscious, but he immediately gathered his army with Latius and left Constantinople at night from the Fountain Gate on the southwest side.

Every soldier who walked around the walls of Edirne was almost occupied by nervousness.

And how could the defenders on the walls of Edirne not be the same?

In order to withstand the onslaught of the crusaders on the front line, Edirne was also empty at this time. Seeing a bunch of soldiers carrying siege equipment passing by their city, the defenders on the city walls were now on the verge of collapse.

So, under the Ottoman Imperial City, such an embarrassing and strange scene happened. The armies of the two countries, which were mortal enemies, were only a hundred meters apart, and they actually saluted each other, and then tacitly looked away.

It has to be said that at this moment, the guards of Edirne are still a little afraid of what happened under the walls of Theodosius a few days ago. He would never have thought that the large army, which had a numerical advantage of 2.5 times, would lose more than half of it in this battle, and at this moment, he would never dare to go out of the city to pursue it again.

Once the field battle is defeated, then the inner city of Edir, I am afraid, will have to be renamed Hadlian Nopolis on the spot.

"Latius, let people throw away those useless models and speed up."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Constantine, only now can he be relieved.

In fact, a large part of the large siege equipment was a damaged model or semi-finished product that had been piled up in the warehouses of the Golden Horn port. The purpose of these things is to confuse the Ottoman army that may be encountered. But for now, this plan is a bit redundant. After all, the Ottomans did not dare to go out of the city to meet the enemy at all, so the resistance was reduced a lot.

The rest of the road is likely to be decently resistant.

The facts did not surprise Constantine either. The next Ottoman attack was almost instantaneous under the command of Latius, and it was the first time that Constantine experienced the joy of having a numerical advantage.

After leaving the border of Edirne and passing through the other Ottoman occupations at the same pace in succession, it was finally possible to see the former territory of the Empire, the city of Athens, in the bosom of the mountains.

Since the empire lost Athens in the Fourth Crusade, the control of the Duchy of Athens has changed hands several times, but I am afraid that even the Ottomans did not expect that it was not the sword of Allah that came to attack Athens now, but the Eastern Roman Empire, which had been besieged in Constantinople for hundreds of years.

In fact, when the lazy Athenian defenders saw the banner of the Palaiologos on the other side of the horizon, and the Roman eagle sitting on the spear, almost no one dared to believe their eyes.

It was a dying empire. actually came to his own face. Even Constantine XI's royal expedition.

"Don't they want Constantinople!"

"Crazy! A bunch of maniacs! ”

"Can our walls hold back this legion falling from the sky?"

Panic spread rapidly throughout the city of Athens. This group of soldiers who were eating and waiting to die in the city of Athens were no match for the Empire.

"Latius, write another letter to my brother, so that he doesn't have to support Athens, and let his army capture as many fortresses and lands as possible for the empire!"

"Your Majesty...... What do you mean? ”

"If you can't capture such an Athenian principality, Constantinople, there is no need to defend anymore!" Constantine turned his horse and shouted to the soldiers behind him, "Men of the Empire, what we see before us is the territory of the Empire. We have been defending Constantinople for too long, and we should show the world the edge of the Empire! Now that we're back here, our purpose, there's only one! Take Athens! Recover Greece! ”

"Take Athens! Recover Greece! ”

"Take Athens! Recover Greece! ”

The loud and impassioned slogans reached the ears of the Athenian defenders one by one with the determined steps of the legions. is also disintegrating their psychological defenses little by little.

This madman who didn't want to die actually broke through the Ottoman encirclement! Pulled a legion intact under the walls of Athens.

"Latius, begin the siege!"

Well-trained Imperial soldiers immediately began to set up siege camps outside the city walls, and the various pieces of equipment were assembled one by one with incredible speed. Because the supplies carried were very limited, it was destined to be a ruined battle from the moment they left Constantinople, and there was only one belief in everyone's hearts. Planted the King's Banner at the top of the Acropolis.

Only one day later, Constantine, who was resting in his tent, finally waited for the news he wanted most.

A few hours earlier, Latius had led his soldiers in a tentative siege that had been successfully defused by the Athenian defenders, but the Imperial army had suffered almost no losses and had identified the weak points of the walls.

At this time, a letter from Moreah was finally sent back by his messenger.

Thomas actually raised an army of nearly 10,000 people, crossed the Isthmus of Corinth, and landed on the Balkan Peninsula!

After receiving a second letter from Constantine, the prince, who remained loyal to the empire, quickly set out to act.

"Good brother! There are so many people! ”

Constantine, who was resting in the tent, was in a slightly languishing mood, and his mood instantly rose again.

Latius on the side was also very excited.

"Your Majesty, although a considerable part of these 10,000 people are peasants, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Empire...... Me, I have a bigger plan. ”

"Oh?"

Thebes even ...... Thessaloniki! ”