"If necessary, open the Golden Horn Cable...... Let the fleet cover the merchant ships from Morea and Athens, otherwise there would be no practical point in capturing the city of Athens. After assigning the task to Admiral Francisco, Zhou Heng was finally liberated from high-power mental work. For now, as long as the current besieging force from the Ottomans is dealt with, it is enough to hand in a perfect answer to Constantine.

The taste of power, it seems, is not so glamorous.

"Yes, Your Highness."

From the letters of Constantine XI, they also intercepted intelligence from the Venetians. The main forces of the Ottoman navy, which was practically still in the Gulf of Cyprus, helped Murad to complete the Karaman campaign. In fact, the patrol fleet in the Aegean Sea is now very weak.

So Zhou Heng and Sophia immediately seized the opportunity and sent a large number of merchant ships and transport ships to the waters of Athens. The logisticians of Moreah and Athens were also busy. They needed to immediately transfer a certain amount of resources and money to tide Constantinople through the storm.

"Brother, is he really Mehmed II......"

"If there was one child among the Ottomans who could make such a large legion submissive, it would be Mehmed II...... It seems that Murad II is about to hand over the throne of the Sultan after dealing with Karaman's affairs. ”

"Why?" Sophia wondered, "Give the power of the whole country to a small child?" It's even more ...... than Your Majesty Ahem......"

"Maybe it's for physical reasons, maybe it's the expectation that the heir will push the Ottomans to new heights...... In any case, at the moment this Muhammad was no longer a mere governor of Manisa. Zhou Heng looked at Muhammad who was also staring at him under the city wall and on a war horse with a complicated expression, and he suddenly felt that there were probably more than one or two geniuses in this world.

A war letter, along with a long arrow that had been pulled out, was sent to the walls of Theodosius. War is inevitable. For Constantinople, Muhammad, who had more than three times the superiority of his forces, seemed determined to win.

He was convinced that at this time, Constantinople could not receive external support, and its defenses were weak. As long as you concentrate your forces and attack a little, you can quickly open a gap. The walls of Theodosius were the only reliance of Constantinople, and when the walls were destroyed, the castle could no longer be defended.

"Brother...... Don't expect your father to come back quickly, since Muhammad was so confident in storming Constantinople, he must have made preparations to stop the reinforcements. ”

"I understand, but the conventional way of defending the city should only usher in a slow death."

"Indeed, the Ottomans are equipped with ample long-range firepower, and if they are entrenched on the city walls, our casualties will be unimaginably fast......" Giovanni glanced at the Ottoman military formation, except for archers and a large number of light infantry, the Ottomans did not have much cavalry in this siege, although the cavalry did not play a big role in the siege battle, but obviously, Muhammad was not prepared for emergencies.

"Your Highness, Muhammad believes too much in the fighting power of his soldiers, rest assured, Constantinople will never fall today."

Seeing Giovanni's confident eyes, Zhou Heng also smiled and nodded: "I'll leave it to you, General Giustiniani." ”

In fact, Zhou Heng also made an estimate in his heart, you Mehmed II, ten years later, with 200,000 troops, and the blessing of heavy siege artillery and naval blockade, it only took nearly two months to capture Constantinople, and today, under the city of Theodosius, you must let your young and vigorous little sultan know that the empire you are facing will never be slaughtered!

"Put them near the Golden Gate, and the archers will make a symbolic block."

Giovanni ordered calmly. At the same time, he quickly mobilized the Genoese hoplite guards and Imperial hoplites, the elite of the Phoenix Legion, to take up a position behind the Golden Gate. As the strongest and most reliable barrier in Constantinople, the Golden Gate has a full two layers of thickened walls, and even if the most powerful stone mortar cannon is brought in, it is absolutely impossible to create a gap in a short time. The only way the Ottomans could conquer the city was to storm the walls.

But obviously, Giovanni did not intend to compete with little Muhammad in a place like the city wall, which did not have any tactical width, what he wanted to do was to teach the little sultan how to destroy the tactics of the crowd with the absolute crushing quality of the army.

"Wake up, Muhammad, this is the first lesson for you from Eastern Rome." Giovanni walked up to the lookout and stood beside Zhou Heng, "Your Highness, if this plan is successful, maybe Murad II will have to consider finding a new heir." ”

"Cavalry, shuttle formation, infantry, diamond formation. When the Golden Gate is opened, you have only one goal...... Sultan's Tent! ”

The sparse shooting of bows and arrows only inflated the morale of the Ottomans, and the infantry soon rushed to the city wall and set up a shield array to resist the arrows, and the engineers behind them immediately placed the siege towers and ladders on the first level of the city wall of Theodosius.

"Open the gates!"

When the golden gate was slowly opened, there was a short circuit in the thinking of the Ottoman soldiers outside the city wall. But it was just these few seconds of hesitation that were enough for the Genoese cavalry to rush in front of them.

The shuttle formation is very slender and powerful, and can instantly penetrate any form of phalanx defense. What's more, there is just an array of improvised shields consisting of various light infantry.

"If Murad II had been there, he would not have made such a lowly mistake. The spies he planted in the city didn't seem to tell him what kind of combat power this 2,500-strong Phoenix Legion had. No matter how clever Muhammad is, he is no match for me...... and my dear sister. Zhou Heng hurriedly changed his words under Sophia's eyes. The Ottomans still had most of their soldiers in a dilemma on the siege towers and siege ladders, while the main force of the Phoenix Legion seemed to be in a no-man's land, with the cavalry opening the way, the heavy infantry harvesting, and the light infantry clearing the remnants. In the middle of the Ottoman front, a corridor of death appeared in an instant, and the end of the corridor pointed directly to the leader of the Ottoman army, Muhammad.

The spear of the knight who rushed to the front was only a few steps away from Muhammad......

The glory of the great execution of the infidels, as if at hand.

But Muhammad's account was not defenseless. I don't know if they were prepared for a possible accident, but at this time, the infantry at the rear of the Ottoman was already guarding in front of Muhammad.

"Sultan Guard!"

"How...... Possible? ”