Constantinople on October 10.

At the head of the inner wall of the city of Theodosius, Emperor Tiberius III came to the city to supervise the battle.

Due to the threat of the Tang Army's flying thunder artillery, he did not play the honor guard, wore ordinary soldiers' uniforms, covered his face with a face armor, and did not have many entourages around him.

This inner wall is eighteen meters high, and he looks down on the city, and the soldiers and horses outside the city are like a vast ocean!

There, a tall ladder truck, along with the people everywhere on it, looked like monsters of an ant colony.

The noise of the fierce battle was like a wave of sound, making people's ears "buzzing" all the time.

The stones thrown by the catapult and the crossbow arrows of the ballista flew down one after another, the rockets flew brilliantly in the air, and from time to time there was the roar of the flying thunder cannons, and the battle was very large, but it was like a small pebble falling into the East China Sea, and even a wave could not stir up a wave.

The offensive of the Don Army is extremely fierce!

They were on the offensive in many places, and in many places they had already climbed the outer walls and fought one after another with the Byzantines, and those who died on the walls were piled up on the battlements, and blood flowed down like a waterfall!

If it weren't for the inner city, the Tang army would have broken the city defenses!

The Byzantines used the inner city to attack the Tang army with bows and arrows and throwing spears, and then launched a counter-charge, which was so brutal that the emperor's face cramped slightly.

There are too many people who have died at home!

The Tang army was a powerful melee force, and their long-range strikes such as catapults and thunderbolts smashed into the city as if they didn't want money, seriously killing and wounding the Byzantines.

If only God could send down divine punishment!

At this moment, he imagined that a huge mountain fire could burn from the wilderness below the city, or a tornado howling by, and surely so many people and horses open to heaven and earth would be wiped out! But no one has the power of the gods, and mortals only have mortal weapons to attack the mighty army without pain.

In fact, not long after the start of the war, the Byzantines in the city became religious fanatics and prayed desperately for God's blessing, but unfortunately God did not manifest himself, and everyone had to pray for heaven after death.

The Tang people's catapults, thunder cannons, and artillery were very powerful, but they could not break the city, just like the gunboats now do not open fire, because the cannonballs cannot shake the city walls at all.

On the contrary, it was the morale and combat strength of the Tang army's siege army that amazed Emperor Tiberius III, he heard most of the Great Food Language, Byzantine language, and did not hear any Chinese, and the attached soldiers dared to climb the wall to attack? The courage and morale required for this kind of attack are no less than those of a field charge!

Fortunately, the army was also not bad, they held the city tightly, repelled the Tang army's charge after charge, and made the Tang army work in vain.

Arrows flew over his head, stones and thunderbolts fought, and the emperor himself raised his shield, and there were two other guards next to him who were always on guard, but they would not protect the emperor when they were not in danger.

This is a matter of experience, three days ago, the Byzantine general Alun supervised the battle in the inner city under the protection of the front and rear support, and the target was too significant, and as a result, the Tang army staff summoned about thirty flying thunder cannons to carry out a saturation attack on their position!

Even if the guards were desperate to protect him, Aaron was also killed by the earthquake!

A thunderbolt landed only two meters beside him, and Aaron's end was extremely tragic, and he was also the first general to die after the battle.

After that, the upper echelons of Byzantium watched the battle and consciously narrowed their goals, but only to reduce the danger, the danger was still very great, because the Tang army was not short of money, and from time to time concentrated thunder artillery bombardment of a certain area, especially in the direction of the main protrusion, the place where Emperor Tiberius III stayed was a secondary position, but it was not necessarily foolproof, the Tang army liked to bomb indiscriminately, and bombed wherever it saw someone, and the carpet attack was quite the style of the "American army" in later generations to hit tents with missiles.

Therefore, some people went to the emperor's side to persuade him to leave, but it was the deacon Constantine (the first minister), and the emperor had no choice but to leave the city wall.

If you give the Tang people a magical shot and destroy the emperor and the prime minister, there is no need to fight this battle!

They descended the city and marched along the stone promenade made in the city, which had a stone roof on top of which effectively defended the heavenly projections and allowed the army to drive quickly and unhindered to the city walls.

"Is there any reaction to sending Maurice (the general) out to Qin Wang?" The Emperor asked.

Konstani bowed his head and said: "He raised tens of thousands of troops and led them to relieve the siege, but he was routed at Lugulus (place name, fifty miles from Constantinople), and our fleet saw the result, and Maurice was killed!" ”

The emperor paused, said "It's a pity", and continued to walk.

As an emperor, there are tears and no flicks!

He was born in the military, and Morris was his favorite general, loyal and meritorious, and he died at the hands of the Tang people!

At the same time, there is a pain in my heart: there is no hope for foreign aid!

can only rely on himself, and now he sent people to spread the legend of the "Thousand Miles of Imperial Capital", pointing out that Constantinople will last for a thousand years, and it is far from now, so everyone should not be afraid, so as to strengthen everyone's will.

But in the final analysis, seeing Tang Jun so powerful, he had no bottom in his heart, how long could this city last!

He is an experienced general, he knows very well the comparison of the strength of the enemy and us, the time and place are favorable, and the Tang people have everything, and it is impossible to defeat the Tang people militarily!

I can only hope that the Tang Army is in civil strife!

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"Chirp!"

Wei Xi, the biggest boss of the Tang Army, sneezed, shook his head and said, "Someone must have cursed me!" ”

The generals next to him listened to his words, and thought that you would kill the enemy like this, and curse a lot of people who cursed you.

Emperor Tiberius III watched the battle cautiously, while Wei Xi watched the battle in a conspicuous place outside the city to boost morale.

A masked smile appeared on his face, as if to praise the army for fighting well, but no one knew that he was not impressed by the war at all!

He has seen too many wars: the Rwandan massacre, the set/middle/battalion, the youth soldiers go to Jiangnan, Nanjing, Nanjing! World War I, World War II, ......

This person, you kill me, I kill you, in fact, we are all human beings, why don't we engage in peaceful rise? What if you don't work and get rich?

He may be the most civilized and human rights person in the world, and the subjects who follow him, as long as they don't touch his bottom line, he is actually a kind person and treats them very well, which is one of the reasons why everyone believes in him.

However, his human rights cannot be given to foreigners.

He also had to start a war, if he didn't start a war, unify the places, and let the light of civilization shine, there would be no peace, if he didn't do the great cause of unifying the world, after a hundred years of his great trip, the world would be what it would be.

Even, in order to win the territory under the sun for the Tang people in the East, he had to constantly drive the obedient cannibals and Byzantines to die!

This was necessary, to maximize the consumption of the Byzantines' forces before the city was broken, so that the Tang could successfully capture Constantinople.

If he succeeds and includes this region in the territory of Greater China, even if he leaves this world, with the "great unification" nature of the Han people, Tang people, Chinese and other Eastern Confucian descendants, they will definitely not let the territory won by their ancestors in a hundred battles be easily lost!

Emperor Tiberius III sent people to spread the legend of the "thousand-year-old imperial capital".

Wei Xi trumpeted the "great unification": under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister!

Those who dare to abandon their ancestral inheritance, the world will attack them together!

No matter how nonsense the emperors of later generations are, as long as they lose their territory (conditions), they will trigger the "world strikes together" (consequence), and the throne is difficult to protect, forcing them to consciously maintain territorial integrity, and also let all the Han people, Tang people, Chinese or something As long as there is no unification of the territory, all the guys will be uncomfortable, and if they are uncomfortable, they will come to reunify to ensure that our China is always unified and maintains territorial integrity.