Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Situation in Junbao
Kiss Thira.
It has been four months since he came to Xinzhou Mansion, and Li Anshi is worthy of his hero-like background and has established Xinzhou Mansion in an orderly manner. The silk industry in Xinzhou (formerly Mistras) took off again, and with the industrious work of the Han Chinese, the silk export trade soon filled the treasury of Xinzhou.
A few days ago, Chen Jia just came over once. This time it's a bit embarrassing, though. When he passed Constantinople, he was hit twice by the cannon on the shore, and although he missed, it was also very infuriating. Chen Jia stopped the ship at that time, and put out a reinforced two-pounder cannon on one side of the ship, and bombarded the unlucky fortress and left.
Although it didn't hit anything....... Dozens of servants died, and for the Ottoman Turks it was no different from losing a hair.
The battle of Constantinople was even crazier.
The various armies of the Turks, such as the Serbian Servants, the Bulgarian Servants, and the Christian Legions of Yaya and Ganishari (with almost no real Turks), took turns storming the walls that had been shaken by the cannonballs. But the tenacity of the defenders of Constantinople also surprised Mehmed II!
The cannon was blown away by the opponent's faster, better aimed artillery in a few shots! Mehmed II saw clearly that the cannon was much smaller and lighter than his own cannon!
And that damn Urban spent countless resources of his own, and more than a dozen giant cannons made of a huge amount of copper and brass died one after another! And when the dozen or so cannons that had been set up in advance were destroyed, Mehmed II completely lost his patience!
"My dear gunsmith! This is the most terrifying cannon in the world that you told me? Look at the cannons on the upper floors of the city! Look at this broken piece of, won't your conscience hurt?! "Mehmed II angrily insulted Urban! The Hungarians frantically deplete his treasury and bring him all this result!
"I ...... I don't know why...... Where did they get the artillery...... "Urban was drenched in cold sweat and faced the scolding of Mehmed II with two trembling forces.
He was about to run out of ground.
After staring at him for a long time, Mehmed II said to him: "You have one last chance, go to the Golden Horn." Your life and your honor are there. ”
Urban ran away with and urine.
The battle of the Ottoman Turks began again.
Unable to break through the walls of Theodosius, the cunning Mehmed II turned his head on again.
He spent a lot of money to buy off Genoese merchants in the Golden Horn. And then the chains blocking the Golden Horn were opened! The wealthy Ottoman Turks directly sent a track of one and a half miles into the sea with high-quality logs to drag the ship in! A huge army rushed into the border between Galata and Constantinople!
The Ottomans assumed that the artillery was at the Golden Horn, and the target was Cui Wei's Constantinople walls!
However, it was almost impossible for the Ottoman army to break through. Constantinople is known to have two walls. The walls of Theodosius were the outer walls, and the walls of Constantine were the inner walls. And the walls of Constantine, which served as an inner wall, have long been transformed into fortresses. This fortress is right in defense of the Golden Horn.
"Fire! Fire! Blow them up!! ”
Giustiniani personally rushed back to the Golden Horn from the front. The fifteen guns here roared wildly with his will! Warship? Blew! Rolling logs? Blew! Got someone ashore? Shoot them into the sea and feed the fish!
Deterred by the terror of artillery, the Ottoman offensive soon became exhausted. The hapless landers died in the stampede and panic caused by the artillery, the rolling logs were blown up, and the ships sank into the Golden Horn instead as a shield to protect the Greeks!
Giustiniani saw Urban and his cannon! Five huge cannons are mounted on the bay deep in the Golden Horn, and the target is directly aimed at the walls of Junbao! This wall is not as strong as the wall of Theodosius!
"Goal! Enemy cannons! ”
Roaring iron projectiles flew out of the slender muzzle, aiming at the large mixture of brass and copper on the shore!
Urban, before he had time to think about it, was already smashed into slag by the flying copper blocks.......
Urban was shot dead on the shore along with his pride, the cannons.
"Sure enough, it failed!" Mehmed II looked at the dim sky in the distance, and his heart fluttered as if he had seen the end of the world.
Turkish proverb – red apples are picked.
Constantinople is the red apple of the Ottomans. This is what the Prophet Muhammad and countless other scriptures consider to be the holy city. It is the desire of countless Muslims! Constantinople........
Mehmed II flicked his sleeves and returned to his tent.
Behind him, the army regrouped.......
At this moment, Kissira.
"This is your gift to me?" Chen Jia couldn't help but look at Li Anshi with tears and laughter. This guy actually gave him several boxes of honey candy and a few silks.
"Of course you're not alone! No matter how rich my Lao Li is, so much honey candy will hollow me out! Li Anshi rubbed his hands and said. Chen Jia understood what he meant.
"Okay. I'll tell the king when I get back." But have you trained your army? It's also known as Spartan United, what is that? I haven't heard of it yet. Chen Jia asked with a smile.
Li Anshi patted his shoulder and said, "Will I still make mistakes?" I tell you, I have trained a thousand veterans, all of whom fought by raiding teams that caught thieves in the mountains and chased the Turks on the plains. Even the council next door is begging me to send troops to drive out the Ottoman raiders! ”
"Okay, okay, you'll be cheaper and sell well! Cheng, I'll go first, and I'll bring you more support next time. ”
Chen Jia set sail again. With the goods, Chen Jia first docked at Chios Island, sold them, and then bought some ceramics and other products. When passing through the Golden Horn of Constantinople again, new rumors and new invitations arrived.
Legend has it that the Hungarian Grand Governor Janos Hunyadi has raised 20,000 troops, and the famous 'Piercing Prince' Vlad III next door has also raised 10,000 troops to respond!
At the same time, Pope Nicholas V, a sympathizer of Eastern Rome, also began to raise the flag for the defense of Eastern Rome in Rome! He issued an edict forgiving all the promises made by Christians to the infidels! And chant to defend Eastern Rome, defend Constantinople! even vaguely shouted out the title of canonization!
At this time, the younger brother of Władysław III, who was defeated and died in the Battle of Varna, is now King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and married Elizabeth of the House of Clamsburg in the Kingdom of Bohemia and Hungary next year (the previous text is mistaken, he is the nephew of Vytautas, not the son, corrected. Attention, this is a capable man) is already preparing to lead troops south from Krakow and Vilnius!
He's going to be ashamed!