It's an exciting time to see one ship after another being towed towards the Golden Horn on the boat trough next to the Galata Fortress!

At least 30,000 people took part in this feat, and they pulled the fibers in batches, shouted the trumpets, and dragged the boats one by one to the Golden Horn with all their strength and movement, moving their hands and feet, step by step.

The support of the Tang Army is powerful!

I don't know how many gloves, fur and shoes used to tug the boat have been broken.

Tea is always guaranteed, the key is a large bowl of meat, a large piece of steamed buns, and a large piece of candy (used to supplement blood sugar, this is what Wei Xi said), everyone eats energetically, and it is even more powerful to drag the boat.

The first boat slid into the waters of the Golden Horn with all the attention of the people!

Splashing the people who came nearby, the people let out bursts of cheers!

It was broad daylight, and the Byzantines on the other side of the Golden Horn were astonished and frightened when they saw the Tang ships entering the Golden Horn, and some of them turned pale.

The legendary proverb says "the imperial capital of a thousand years, a thousand years will not be broken"!

But there is another half of this proverb, which is "If the city is broken, it will be attacked on all sides!" ”

Previously, the Galata Fortress was quite advantageous, it was surrounded by the sea on three sides, the beach wetlands on the other side, and it was difficult for the enemy to come by land, and the dry land near the Galata Fortress was within the attack range of the fortress stone pumping trucks.

It has been besieged many times in history, and before the arrival of the Tang army, there had never been an army that could capture the Galata fortress and could not appear in the Golden Horn beyond the barrage.

But today, the Don army appeared in the Golden Horn and left Constantinople vulnerable on all sides!

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The thousand-year-old imperial capital, which is not broken for a thousand years, if the city is broken, it will be attacked on all sides!

No one knows where this mysterious proverb came from, the vast majority of Constantinoples don't know about it, not even the emperor, only a very few, and they are shocked to see that the Tang people have accomplished the feat that no one has done in the past, leaving Constantinople on all sides!

If the conditions are true, Constantinople will be breached?!

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More and more ships floated on the surface of the water like dumplings, and the Tang people eagerly re-equipped them, and the things that had been moved were reset one by one.

The Tang were preparing for the life of the Byzantines, and the Constantinoples were frantically fortifying the city.

The defense of the city towards the Golden Horn has been slack, and today it has finally been strengthened and thickened by the Constantinoples.

Everyone was rushing for time, and when the first Tang ship was re-equipped and inspected, they couldn't wait to open fire!

The first shell landed in the city, smashing the roof of a house and bleeding the people inside.

Another shell landed on the street and killed a man, who was really unlucky.

One cannonball after another hit the city, and as a result, the aristocratic families wearing Tang silk clothes fled in confusion.

In fact, when the first emperor of Constantinople built the city defenses, the city defenses around the Golden Horn were also strong.

The emperor at that time was far-sighted and had long anticipated the possibility of a future enemy attack from the Golden Horn.

But hundreds of years have passed, and not a single enemy has been able to attack the Golden Horn, and there is pressure from other places to defend the city, and the Golden Horn has actually become a rich area!

In many places, the city defenses were destroyed, and the wealthy rushed to build villas by the sea.

It is a densely populated area adjacent to the wealthy area, where a large number of civilians also settle nearby.

Now that the city defenses were being strengthened, the cannonballs of the Tang ships came, and the rich people fled for their lives to other parts of the city.

The rest of the population could not move (martial law was ordered) and had to resign themselves to fate.

The Byzantines did not fail to make an effort, they moved the catapults to the edge of the Golden Horn and fired stone projectiles at the Tang ships.

But!

Linhai fired a bullet, the head was so low that it made people cry, and two hundred stone bullets were fired, and only five were hit!

At the end of the strong crossbow, you can't break the recklessness, hit the Tang boat, the ship is shaking, and it can't hurt the Tang people at all. . . The statistic is that a Don sailor was wounded.

In this way, the Byzantines could only endure.

They did not have many stone bullets, and they had to be used against the Tang army's vital forces.

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About eighty gunboats appeared in the Golden Horn, echoing the one hundred and fifty ships outside the bay and shelling Constantinople.

Twenty-four hours of artillery fire, endlessly, the whole of Constantinople was in trembling. There was no one on the street, and the huge city seemed to have become a dead city! Only the army is moving in groups in a hurry from time to time.

They also have to worry when they move, but fortunately, the stone corridors that surround the city provide them with good protection, so that they will not be unable to move an inch.

However, it was not safe for residents to stay at home, and in the middle of the night, the Tang army launched a large number of "rockets" into the city.

It's a blasting arrow!

There was a bang, blowing up the mud house, blowing up people's lives, blowing people to the ground, and the fire started!

It was a miasma, the smoke was filled, and the room collapsed a lot of messes.

There was screaming in the streets, people fled in panic, and in the darkness they couldn't see clearly, trampling on each other.

Where can you escape, until dawn the streets are full of dead bodies!

Most of them trampled themselves to death, and there were very few people who died under the blows of the Tang Army!

After all, it wasn't the later TNT explosives, how powerful the black powder could be.

After the city was attacked, killing and wounding 10,000 people, the government ordered a strict curfew, stipulating that if the city was attacked again, even if the house fell and people were injured, they could not escape, but could only stay at home, otherwise the patrols on the streets would kill people on sight.

This order has to be said to be quite effective, even if the Tang army used all the tricks of the mixed forces, bows and arrows, catapults threw bombs, cannonballs, and rockets in a salvo, and attacked Constantinople together, plunging the city into blood and fire, flying dirt and falling stones!

Orders can imprison people, but people's hearts are in chaos, they are frightened day and night, and they go to the city to defend during the day, facing the vicious Tang army!

At night, the Tang army launched a long-range attack, and at some point the house collapsed, and it was safe to stay in the defensive hole in the city, and many people dug holes underground to hide.

Staying like a mouse in a burrow in the ground, no one will feel comfortable.

As a result of this, many people's eyes become red (lack of sleep), their faces are pointed (malnutrition), and their mental stress is very high.

How long can the city be held?

It's terrifying, the second half of that deadly proverb is quietly popular: If you want to break the city, you will be attacked on all sides!

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Another morning, the Byzantine people stood at the head of the city, looking at the continuous earthen fence hundreds of steps away, the Tang army continued to pour in, and the huge Tang infantry phalanx in front of the Byzantine city tower was like a sea of people that would flood the city at any time. The tall ladders and buildings are like buildings built outside the city.

The circumambulation of the city was foggy, a sign of dust in the air. The Tang army lined up, although the scene was very quiet for the time being, but seeing the prepared men and horses, the atmosphere was highly tense.

The Don army is going to attack the city again!