"These things look a little weird, and they seem to be a little different from what I eat in Datang." After Liu Renliang followed Li Hao to the table, he saw the food prepared on the table, and said with a little surprise.

"Well, this is a more popular food here, and it is indeed a little different from my Datang style. But you can taste it, and it actually tastes really good. After hearing this, Li Hao replied with a smile, what he prepared was the Turkish food of the later generations, how could it be the same as the food of Datang?

There are a lot of special foods here, such as grilled meats, crepes, dumplings and pizzas, which are all good dishes and have a unique style. Li Hao's wife and daughters like these foods very much, and they have never been bored after eating them a few times after coming here.

"It tastes good, even though it looks weird." After listening to Li Hao's words, Liu Renliang tried some of them, and felt that the taste of this thing was really good, so he couldn't help but praise it. Neither of them has been drinking, and they are going to attack the city tomorrow, and the two of them are the chief officials, how can they drink?

"Is the prince too indifferent to Constantinople? I took a look at the protection system here, and it was very strong. Liu Renliang's mood was far less calm than his face, he didn't know much about Tang Jun's strength, so he didn't have much confidence in his heart.

The walls of Constantinople were about 20 kilometers in circumference and consisted of land and coastal walls, which encircled the entire city impregnable, the most elaborate and complex of which was the main part of the land wall, the wall of Theodosius. Since the city is just outside the undefended Thracian plain, this section of the city defense system is extremely complex. From the outside to the inside, the walls of Theodosius are the outer retaining wall, the moat, the inner moat wall, the steep slope retaining wall, the outer city wall, the outer city platform, the inner city platform, and the inner city wall.

The outer walls are about 8 meters high, and the inner walls are about 12 to 20 meters high. The outer side of the city wall is steep, made of granite boulders, and the top of the wall is a walkway and a battle platform, and there are pheasant moats to cover the soldiers. The inner side of the city wall is a slope with a rock parapet, a cave and a storehouse. There are 96 towers, more than 300 corner towers and pillboxes on the outer and inner walls, and the towers protrude about 5 meters from the city wall and the average spacing is more than 60 meters, forming a powerful projection weapon support system. Outside the city wall is a moat about 18 meters wide, and the entire section of the wall forms a multiple defense system that covers each other. If the enemy wants to pass through these three mutually echoing city defense systems, they will be within the range of the defenders' long-range weapons throughout the whole process, and there is basically no possibility of breaking through this section of the city wall in the era when there is no artillery.

"Don't underestimate it, Brother Liu doesn't know the strength of our army, so you don't know that these city walls are just like cutting tofu for my Tang army. Attack tomorrow morning, and then you can see how easily our army wins. After hearing this, Li Hao replied with a smile, Constantinople's strong defense is the strongest defense against the invasion of other countries, but it is not the Tang Dynasty.

The introduction of various artillery, the range and power have changed greatly, from the initial single artillery to the current mortar, field artillery, naval artillery and other types of artillery, against this kind of city wall, two times can get the city. After breaking this city, the whole of Europe is not a problem.

"Then I'll go over with the army tomorrow to see, does the prince want to go over?" Liu Renliang replied after hearing this, and then asked Li Hao, who felt that Li Hao seemed to despise this war too much.

"I'm gone, I'm old now, and I'm not interested in fighting and killing. I don't need to go through this kind of child's play, you just need to go over. Remember that the first people to enter the city did not arrange for our people, let those who were in the army. When they are almost consumed, let our army in, and those who dare to resist will be dealt with on the spot. What I hope is that we can take this city without a single casualty, and I don't care how many servants die. ”

After hearing this, Li Hao replied lazily that he would stay in the rear to accompany his wife and children. In a war of this magnitude, the soldiers in front can naturally follow their orders well, and they don't need to worry about anything.

The establishment of the Royal Military Academy has given these officers the most solid foundation, and they can handle it by themselves how to deal with them, and Li Hao really has nothing to add in the past.

The battle on the second day confirmed Li Hao's words very well, and made Liu Renliang understand why the Tang army was so confident in capturing Constantinople, and why Li Hao didn't even bother to come over to take a look. It's not a siege at all, it's just a one-sided slaughter.

The so-called multiple defenses have become completely ornamental in the face of artillery. First, a round of naval artillery bombarded the past, all the defenses blocking the waterway were cleared, and all the coalition troops guarding the city wall did not shoot a single arrow, and the first line of defense was broken. Then the second and the third.

"Let the servant army enter the city, and tell them that thirty percent of the seized property will belong to them, and the rest must be handed over to the court, and if they do not obey, they will all be shot. In addition, they were given bombs and small cannons, except for a few places where they could not be shelled, and everything else was left to their own devices. ”

"There are also beautiful women who can't move, especially the women of the royal family, these are to be left to the emperor for their purposes. Other women, whatever they want! ”

At this time, it was the turn of the servant army, and the capture of thirty percent was enough to make these people crazy. Coupled with the support of small artillery and bombs, no danger in the city could stop the enthusiasm of these people. As long as they rush in and find some wealth, they will be prosperous.

Since these people chose to resist the Tang army, they naturally had to accept the consequences after being captured by the Tang army. The Xiyi women here are not very attractive to the Tang people. But for those servants who have been alone for many years, this is very attractive.

To Li Hao's surprise, the resistance in the city was fierce. It's just that the resistance of cold weapons and flesh and blood against hot weapons, defeat is inevitable. Despite this, the number of servants was reduced by nearly a third after entering the city.

Although there are reasons for the poor combat effectiveness and backward weapons of the servant army, the desperate resistance of the coalition forces is also a major reason. This kind of war can't avoid such a situation, so Li Hao will let those servant troops fight in the front, and the Tang army will clean up the mess after entering.

"This kind of loss is too great, but fortunately it wasn't us Tang people who went in first. If this is the case in the following wars, I am afraid that we will not be able to bear such an outcome. "When all the generals gathered together for a meeting after the war, this issue was raised.

"Such an outcome cannot be avoided, for these natives, we are the invaders, and they will fight hard for their homeland. So we still have to follow our previous plan, let those people go over and consume them for a while, and after disrupting their morale, we will press them with all our might. No matter how desperately they resist, as long as they destroy the space in which they live, they will not be able to make any waves. ”

Li Hao replied with a smile after hearing this, as for the dead coalition forces in the entire city, for him, it was just a price to pay for their descendants in a certain time and space. In Li Hao's time and space, their descendants would not have committed less sins to the East than this, why couldn't the Tang army kill them?

"Lord Wang, what to do with those captured royal beauties?" The seized goods were classified and liquidated by special people, and this Tang army swept all the way, and he had already done it extremely skillfully. In addition to these goods, the captured coalition soldiers also had special personnel to deal with.

And how to deal with these arrested Xiyi beauties, this has to ask Li Hao. Roughly send some to the palace, whether Li Hao wants to stay, and whether those generals want to stay, Li Hao's opinion is the most important, and he will not violate the rules if he does anything, Li Ke will not blame him at all.

"Register and make a book, and then send the two most beautiful and smart to the emperor, there are still a few secretaries around the emperor who know the Xiyi language." Li Hao has been using this excuse, but there are not many beauties he sent by Li Ke's side, and Li Ke himself rarely comes to the draft every year to find a concubine, and it is normal to add a few eye-catching secretaries by his side.

Li Hao didn't stay by himself, his wife was with him, find a few young and beautiful female secretaries for himself, it is estimated that Xiao Wu and Gao Yang will have a little mood, and these two girls are more jealous. If Li Hao dares to find the little secretary by his side, it is estimated that the two of them will be able to put on a small face to Li immediately. It's not bad to ride a big ocean horse secretly once in a while, but I'm afraid it won't work to bring it home.

At that time, the women who registered and made the register would be assigned to those generals as personal secretaries according to their war exploits, but that would have to wait until after the war, not now. Now let these women be personal secretaries, in case these women think of sending the information out, then it will be troublesome. Li Hao himself will not let his own people make this kind of small mistake, and there is no big mistake in being careful.

After Constantinople was taken down, Li Hao took all his family to live in it. Post-war repairs are also underway. A large number of indigenous people were cleaned up and captured, leaving only a small number behind. The Tang Dynasty migrated from the Americas and Australia, and some of the descendants of Fusang and Goguryeo, who had been completely domesticated, scattered and settled here, and lived together with the aborigines.

This kind of handling is more cumbersome, but it can effectively curb the chaos of these people, so that they cannot form a unified group. It's a pity that although the population of the Tang Dynasty has now exceeded 100 million, it is still not enough after being dispersed to all parts of the world, otherwise Li Hao will directly raise the butcher's knife to empty it, and then let the Tang people occupy all these places.

With the fall of Constantinople, the morale of the coalition forces was dealt a heavy blow. And after their internal rebels received the support of the Tang Army, they frequently moved internally, making it difficult for the coalition forces to resist the Tang Army with peace of mind, and they had to defend their territory at any time.