The Arabian Peninsula fell into my hands, economically worthless, but politically scored high.

This meant that the death knell of the Arab Umayyad Empire was sounded, and its country no longer had the legitimacy to rule.

As a result, many places that had previously been watched surrendered one after another, the ruling area suddenly increased, and there were many affairs, so busy that Princess Taiping was almost tired, Chu Chu was pitiful, and people were thinner than Huanghua!

As for her husband Wei Xi, he was busy attacking Constantinople!

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Tang Tian, who was the first to enter Constantinople, disdained the honor of capturing Constantinople and went straight to Europa, where the generals of the Western Army were very interested in becoming the conqueror of Constantinople.

Jiang Zhi, chief of the General Staff, convened an enlarged meeting that included all the generals, and everyone fought for three days at the meeting: showing merit, seniority, and seniority, and then smearing and making fun of each other.

There was a lot of noise, seeing that the fire was imminent, Jiang Shi saw that it was not the way, hurriedly stopped the meeting, and reported to Wei Xiyu: "Lord, you are still in command of the battle of Constantinople!" ”

Wei Xi then assumed the post of the chief of the march of Constantinople, and his subordinates had the former great cannibal Lazahan and Cheng Boxi as the commander-in-chief, with Lazahan as the chief and Cheng Boxi as the deputy, and the two presided over the attack on Constantinople.

Wei Xi explained to Cheng Boxi like this: "There is no doubt that Lazahan has a deep hatred for Constantinople, we give him a chance to take revenge, and I believe he will not do his best." Your mission is to keep an eye on him and prevent him from holding the army hostage; And to prevent him from deliberately ruining the life of the authentic Tang Army, as for the daily attack, as long as it is not too outrageous, you can ignore him and let him do it! ”

"Anyway, it's not us Tang people who die!"

Cheng Boxi understood, and when he approached Lazahan, he patted his chest and assured that he was not here to grab credit or hinder, but to assist Lazahan and try his best to capture Constantinople.

Lazakhan was very happy, and he had a very happy conversation with Cheng Boxi, and the two sides had a discussion.

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The thousand-year-old imperial capital, Constantinople, we are finally here!

Constantinople is located at the eastern end of the Balkan Peninsula, bordering the Bosphorus Strait, the gateway to the Black Sea, and is strategically important when it is a key point of communication between Europe and Asia.

Don't look at Tang Tian bypassing it to attack Europa, but if Constantinople can't be defeated, Tang Tian's supplies will be cut off at any time, and the consequences will be worrying.

According to Edward Gibbon, the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Constantinople had 2 theaters, 4 basilica (public assembly halls), 8 luxurious public baths, 153 private baths, 52 colonnades, 5 granaries, 8 elevated aqueducts, 14 churches, 14 palaces and 4,388 noble residences. The design of the new Roman city was completely modeled after Rome and was divided into 14 districts. The city also has the same seven hills as in Rome...... (The ancient Roman city was known as the City of the Seven Hills)

Its surroundings can be said to be three sides of the water and one side of the land route.

The land route faces the Thracian plain, which is open to the sea, the Sea of Marmara to the south, the Bosphorus to the east, and the famous Golden Horn to the north.

In the war room of the Tang army, it can be clearly seen through the sand table that the Byzantines in the Jianjiao area north of the Golden Horn Bay have been defended, and a solid iron cable has been pulled to block the Golden Horn Bend.

Constantinople was bordered by the sea on both the north and south sides, and the walls guarding the north and south sides were 15 meters high.

The western wall was built to resist land invaders, and in the 5th century C.E., the wall of Theodosius was built.

Since the Thracian plain is just outside the city, this section of the city defense system was designed to be 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 platform, the outer city wall, 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, with an average spacing of more than 60 meters, forming a powerful fire support system. Outside the castle walls is a moat about 18 meters wide.

The city was as strong as an impregnable wall.

When a round of bright sun hangs on the blue sky, the world is unusually bright, and the light shines on the earth, making this majestic city more majestic and majestic.

This is a city in the world!

The defenders of the city... At that time, because it was not seriously hit, there were 800,000 inhabitants in the city, which is also a large number in Eurasia.

The current Byzantine emperor Tiberius III was born in the military, with military strategy and bravery, and before attacking him, he saw through the plot of the Tang army to consume its vital forces, returned to the capital in time, strengthened the city defense, mobilized manpower, and stockpiled materials for the war.

According to the intelligence collected by the scouts of the Tang Army, the defenders reached more than 200,000!

They are determined to defend to the death, and the future defense will be wonderful, and every soldier who participates in the battle feels the blood boiling!

And the Don Army, with a full 450,000 troops, attacked along the land route of Constantinople!

Among them, 300,000 were the Great Cannibals, many of whom were Great Cannibal soldiers, who wore the robes of the Tang Army to fight for the Tang Army, 150,000 of whom were Tang people, of which 80,000 were well-trained infantry, 20,000 cavalry, and 50,000 were Panzergrenadiers, medical soldiers, baggage soldiers, and navy.

Chief of the General Staff Jiang Zhi personally arrived at the front and became the third chief of staff, as the chief of staff of the two chiefs, participating in the command of operations.

There are also 150,000 people in front of the branch, and these 150,000 people are very likely to be conscripted into the army to replenish the lost troops.

This is the largest troop build-up of the Tang Army after the battle with the white-clothed Da Shi in the hometown of Tuqishi!

The barracks outside the city stretched like clouds, reaching the sky.

The military funds are piling up, and all the sergeants have meat to eat and are full!

Although it is the main attack of the big cannibals, it is an out-and-out cannon fodder, the Tang people are very benevolent and prepared strong iron armor and shields for them, and they don't want them to die too much, and at the same time declare that any big cannibal who sacrifices his life for the country, his children will become Tang people, and their father will open a sunny road for them with his life.

In order to transport supplies, the Tang army built light railways for combined transportation by sea and land.

First of all, the double-track railway was used to transport supplies from the far east, because there were too many supplies prepared, the double-track railway transported supplies from east to west at the same time (in the past, one train went from east to west, and the other train reversed on another track), and the steamboats on the Marmara Sea dragged long barges to the shore with great difficulty, and then transported to the front line by light rail.

The army first built a long encirclement, and then set up a full 500 catapults and 300 flying thunder cannons, which were densely packed and terrifying!