Byzantium: Chinese historical texts refer to it as "Great Qin", also known as "Fula" or "Haixi Kingdom". In 395 AD, the Roman Empire was divided into Eastern and Western Empires, with the Eastern Roman Empire centered on the Balkan Peninsula and including Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and part of Mesopotamia and the South Caucasus. The capital, Constantinople, is the former site of Byzantium, an ancient Greek immigrant city, so it is also known as the Byzantine Empire. In fact, the historical Byzantium had already fallen as early as 1400, and for the sake of the plot, we are shaping a Byzantine Empire. The capital of Byzantium was still in Constantinople.

The main army of the Ming Empire was led by Dolgon to the Domit Valley of the Alar Valley, which is a barren mountain area, and after Li Long led the army, he first observed the surrounding terrain. The ground is surrounded by mountains, and there is a huge basin in the middle. There was not a single grass in the basin, and the Ming army was on a high ground, while the Byzantine army was on the high ground at the other end of the basin.

Li Xin also observed the terrain, rode his horse to Li Long's side and said: "Boss, this basin will become the main battlefield, boss, do you think it is a conventional position?" ”

Li Long smiled and said: "No, this high ground can allow our army to overlook the entire battle situation, once an army enters this basin, it is equivalent to entering a fire pit that will never recover." Do you think I'm that stupid? ”

Li Xin understood what Li Long meant, and then rode away to deploy his position. Li Long's meaning is very clear, the enemy is outnumbered, and this natural high ground is just the best position to block the enemy. The huge basin will be the burial place of the Byzantine monarchs.

The artillery was deployed on a higher ground by the artillery platform, which consisted of six artillery regiments of the Ming Army, with a total of 900 155-mm howitzers and 1,200 60-mm rocket launchers. Above the artillery position, five thousand airships circled in the dark. The airship was pressed very low, apparently filled with bombs. The dragoons have also increased from the cavalry battalion at the time of the first encounter to the current cavalry division...... 3,000 dragoons are on high ground, ready to strike at any moment.

Li Long, the commanders of the armies, and the division commanders set up the command center on the largest airship, so that they could overlook the overall situation and command the support of firepower......

"Your Majesty, our army must not attack rashly, the death of the prince has seriously stimulated the morale of our army, and in addition to the fact that this Ming army is several times more numerous than the previous one, the king thinks twice" Karenelbruce, as the chief prime minister of the Byzantine king, put forward his own ideas.

"Karenel, are you scared of these oriental monkeys? Although Xiao'er lost to them for a while, which is because the army is too small, now this king has come to conquer with the strength of the country, but the enemy has hundreds of thousands and is not the opponent of my million-strong army, don't say more" The beard of the Byzantine king looked at it with a spade, and angrily rebuked his beloved prime minister, Karen Bruce.

"I'm thinking twice......"

"The king thinks twice," all the generals persuaded him......

But the Byzantine king was obviously determined to fight this battle first, drew his sword in his hand and said angrily: "The army of the Ming Empire is brutal and unkind, as the east gate of Europa, I should resist this daring enemy for Europe, so you don't need to say more." I've made up my mind...... Attack now. ”

"Think twice, Great King," the generals still refused to give up the Byzantine king......

"The three armies attacked, the town militia, the town spearmen took the lead. The Pronoan infantry Byzantine swordsmen, following behind the militia, the Nordic Guard, the Latin Guard, the Court Guard, and the Three Davids guarded around me. The Latin cavalry after the infantry exchange was dispatched "the orderly deployment of the Byzantine king,

On the Ming position, hundreds of thousands of soldiers had already loaded their bullets, and the shells were loaded, just waiting for the commander to give the order to fire, and they were greeted by the most basic troops of Byzantium, the town militia and spearmen, obviously these people were here to be cannon fodder, to buy time for the cavalry behind. Time and time again, the rangefinder signalmen reported the enemy's distance...... When it was reported that there were still 1,800 meters, 900 howitzers were the first to fire, and the power of 900 large-caliber guns was so great that the ground shook and the whole valley was suddenly filled with fire, and the screams were suppressed by the sound of artillery fire. 30,000 militia 30,000 spearmen were completely crushed before they could get close to a distance of 1,000 meters......

When the Byzantine king saw this, he ordered the cavalry to use the advantage of speed to quickly rush to the position of the Ming Dynasty and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. 50,000 Latin cavalry and ironclad paladazions began to charge at a distance of 1,800 meters under heavy artillery fire

"Boom, boom, boom,,," a huge cannonball exploded in the tens of thousands of Latin cavalry, and the cavalry was immediately blown off their horses. I saw countless war horses falling from the sky. The charred horse meat and the shattered corpses mixed with the earth and fell into the air, the morale of the Latin cavalry began to loosen, and many Latin cavalry wanted to flee backwards, but the ironclad paladazions belonging to the Byzantine court pressed the formation behind them, and the Latin cavalry did not dare to escape, so they only urged the horses to continue to charge forward......

50,000 horses rumbled into the basin, and at this time, a black cloud floated from the sky, and countless explosive bags the size of small quilts fell from the sky. Suddenly, a violent explosion blew all the horses on the ground into a pile of meat. 5,000 airships carried hundreds of thousands of packs of explosives and bombarded the horses...... The dead and wounded of the war horses, the dead and wounded, the people who did not die really could not withstand such a big threat, and began to retreat one after another without orders. Li Long estimated that this burst of artillery bombardment, combined with aerial bombardment, killed at least 60,000 or 70,000 ...... The corpses were piled up, filling almost the entire basin......

"Good ,,, fight well" Li Long watched the fierce battle on the ground from the airship, so far not a single Ming army has been killed, and the Byzantine opinion is tens of thousands of dead and wounded. The wave of air generated by the explosion also rushed to Li Long's face for a while.

After the cavalry retreated, they left behind the corpses of tens of thousands of horses, and hundreds of ownerless war horses roaming there. At this time, from the large Byzantine position, a large group of troops rushed out,

Seeing that the attack had failed, the Byzantine king was angry and ordered all the soldiers to join the attack, wanting to fill the basin with corpses, and hundreds of thousands of Secynian archers, Byzantine ironclad archers, Byzantine lancers, infantry, and swordsmen rushed out of their positions and filled the entire basin. Suddenly hundreds of black shells flew out of the Byzantine battlefield. Flew straight to the position of the Ming Empire.

"It's a black shell, everyone quickly hide" When the position commander of the Ming army saw this, he immediately reacted that this was a solid shell of black powder.

The soldiers of the Ming Empire were obscured by the sound of artillery fire, and did not hear the commander's reminder, and were immediately hit by a black solid bullet, and the hot shell hit the position of the Ming Dynasty, and immediately caused a jumping egg on the sandbag, although the power of the shell after the jumping egg was greatly reduced, but it still injured dozens of people.

Li Xin, the commander of the 1st Division, was in the ranks of the position commander, and when he saw the black shells flying past his ears, his face sank and said: "Order rocket artillery, fire intensively...... Heavy machine gun fire ......"

Although there are still thousands of meters, the Makqin heavy machine guns can still achieve the effect of fire suppression, and there are more than 1,500 Makqin in the eight armies. At the same time, fire "Da Da Da, Da," ...... A supersonic bullet swept a large swath. 1,500 Makqin heavy machine guns, rocket artillery, light machine guns, and rifles were intensively attacked, and the Byzantine soldiers who did not know how to lie down to defend rushed forward upright, but after the bullets and artillery fire, the Byzantine time was like mowing grass, and they fell down piece by piece.

"Boom, boom, boom......" again fire was fired on the Byzantine positions. Again hit the positions of the Ming army, causing hundreds of casualties. Li Long also wondered how a weapon of black powder could shoot so far.

"Captain Liu, drive the airship to the Byzantine position, and I'll see what kind of weapon can hit our position," Li Long ordered

"No, commander-in-chief, the sky above the enemy's position is dangerous, if there is a mistake, we will ???? burden" Before Captain Liu could finish his words, Li Long interrupted him and shouted: "At present, hundreds of people in our army have died under the enemy's artillery fire every minute, isn't the life of our warriors important?" Let's get on the boat."

Captain Liu had no choice but to order someone to start the airship and go straight to the sky above the Byzantine position. I saw more than 500 giant war elephants carrying cannons and trying to load shells.

"God, isn't this a mammoth, isn't it extinct? Could it be that there was still a living one in the Ming Dynasty, and it was actually used by Byzantium for war," Li Long muttered to himself

"Boss, what kind of dream did you say?" Captain Liu heard Li Long talking and hurriedly came over to ask.

"No, it's an ancient beast with thick skin and a huge body. I didn't expect Byzantium to tame the mammoth and install a long-range cannon on the elephant," Li Long explained

"Why don't we give these elephants a bag of explosives," Captain Liu sneered

"Good idea, hurry up, still on the back of the mammoth," Li Long said

There were still a lot of explosives bags left for bombing the cavalry just now, and the entire air force unit quickly assembled over the mammoth after receiving Li Long's order......

"Look, it's the flying houses, who are they, the archers are ready" The Byzantine general commanded the archers to shoot at the airship.

But the lower part of the airship is protected by steel plates, and ordinary bows and arrows can't shoot through at all, only the sound of "dang, dang, dang" is stopped, and each bow and arrow is bounced back by the steel plate. Instead, he shot himself and killed many people. The airship carrying Li Long had already begun to fly high in the air, and gradually flew out of the range of the bow and arrow.

On the ground, countless packs of explosives fell from the sky and fell directly onto the battle platform on the back of the elephant. The 10 kg of explosives were packed with TNT high-explosives. The explosives bag fell on the elephant's back and had left the mammoth to pieces.

"Great King, the secret weapon has been attacked, and the whole army has been destroyed," the commander of the mammoth cried and reported to the Byzantine king

"Prime Minister, Prime Minister,,, tell me how many men and horses are there in our army?" The Byzantine king shouted

"King, our army has already suffered more than half of the casualties, less than 400,000, let's withdraw, if we don't withdraw, we won't even be able to save Tbilisi and Trebizond"

"Withdraw, withdraw" The Byzantine king is now a bad seed, and the first to turn around and run...... And a bullet that followed hit the center of the Byzantine king's eyebrow. The Byzantine king snorted coldly and got off his horse.

In the air, Li Long was holding his 95 automatic rifle on the airship, and after adjusting the 95 automatic rifle to a single shot mode, he installed a scope, which was already aimed at the head of the Byzantine king, but there were many soldiers surrounding him at that time, and they couldn't hit him accurately. Now he suddenly ran back, so that he avoided the protection of everyone and gave Li Long a chance to take advantage of. A single bullet killed the Byzantine king......

"Your king is dead, and he won't surrender yet, but when," Li Long said in English. However, it didn't seem to work, and Byzantium didn't seem to speak English, so I didn't understand what Long said, and Li Long said it again in Latin. As a result, the effect was very noticeable this time. The Byzantine soldiers, who had long been demoralized in battle, heard that the king was dead, and there was no point in continuing to fight. They threw away their weapons and surrendered.

At this time, 30,000 dragoons rushed out from the Ming army's position, came to the captives with guns, and took care of the captives. And to the west, a flamboyantly dressed general fled under the protection of a squad of generals. Along with the escapes, there were 50,000 palace guards and 50,000 Latin guards.

The captives were taken to the rear and guarded by infantry, while Li Long ordered the soldiers to pursue the Byzantine crown prince and leave no trouble. Byzantium cannot be given a chance to make a comeback. So all 30,000 dragoons got up from the divisions, organized 50,000 elite riflemen, and pursued them under the guidance of airships......

The Byzantine crown prince did not continue to flee south, but chose to flee to the west of Trabizon, Li Long knew that he must be intercepted before the Byzantine crown prince fled to the city of Trabizon, otherwise he would face a siege battle of 100,000 troops defending the city, and our army would inevitably suffer heavy casualties. 、

"Speed up, hurry up" 30,000 dragoons and 50,000 infantry quickly pursued westward under the carriage of steam cars. The Aral Pass is 2,400 miles west in a straight line and then 1,200 miles south along the Black Sea. When the Byzantine crown prince fled, the troops he brought with him were all cavalry, so they were very fast, and they could walk hundreds of miles a day. But Li Long's airship is not slow, and it can airship thousands of miles a day. As for the steam locomotive behind, the speed has also increased a lot, but there is no road repaired, so it still can't outrun the cavalry all the way. By the time the dragoons caught up with the Byzantine crown prince, they had already trailed the steam locomotive more than fifty miles.

The two armies fought on the shores of the Black Sea, with the dragoons firing with short guns and the palace guards and the Latin guards charging to attack. As soon as the palace guards and Latin guards charged, the dragoons ran backwards, shooting as they ran.

Seeing this, the Byzantine prince was furious and scolded in Latin: "Coward, there is a kind of battle that is carried out in a dignified battle, and what kind of hero is it to fight and run." ”

The warriors of the dragoons could not understand Latin, so they carried out their own tactics and followed the Byzantines' scolding. At this time, the sound of a whistle was heard in the distance, and after hearing the sound, Gong Yun, the commander of the dragoons, looked at it with a telescope and laughed: "Brothers, our reinforcements are coming." Everyone is ready to set up."

Countless steam locomotives towed artillery, and the quick-spear warriors carrying themselves soon came to the front of the dragoons. The generals of both sides were not very polite, and immediately got out of the car to dig trenches, fill them with dirt, and prepare for battle.

When the Byzantine crown prince saw that the Ming reinforcements were coming, he did not take the initiative to attack, but took a shovel and dug and dug in the ground, very likely, and thought: "This is also a war, is it, is it digging a grave for himself?" ”

Due to the unawareness of the Byzantine crown prince, the delay of twenty minutes has been completed, and the position of the Ming army has been completed. Sandbags were piled up in front of them, and tunnels were dug more than a meter deep. And the cannons, towed by steam locomotives, also set up positions not far away. The commander in charge of this pursuit army is Boss Li Long in the air.

Li Long told the division commander on the ground the location of the enemy in the language of the flag and gave the order to open fire. The number of artillery carried by the reinforcements was small, only 30 guns. But the power of the 30 guns was just as amazing, and the shells exploded in the Latin Guard.

The Byzantine crown prince did not know why, so he immediately ordered all the cavalry of 100,000 men to immediately charge like the Ming army's position.

"The crackling of gunfire and the deafening shelling began. The first wave rushed up with an army of 100,000 of the palace guards, who attacked in a dense formation, which gave the artillery a very good effect. With each shot, countless people flew into the sky. The cavalry of the palace guard stood unsteadily, as if on the ground of an earthquake, and flew up in bursts of shock by the force of the shock. In the middle of the battlefield is a stone, which is red. Very obvious.

But none of the soldiers of the palace guard could survive the stone without dying, and they all perished in the middle of the battlefield. They were followed by the Latin Guard. The barrels of the Ming army's guns were hot, and the discarded bullet casings around him were piled up.

"Ammunition man, hurry, bring the bullets" The light machine gun ran out of bullets and was dumb fired, and the machine gunner desperately shouted at the ammunition man to come over.

"Coming, coming, Wangbeard, give me a hateful beating" An ammunition man ran over

"Come on, see how I beat these grandsons" Wang Huzi didn't look at who the ammunition hand in front of him was, so he loaded the magazine and continued to shoot......

"Good fight, Wang Huzi, with your qualifications, you can be promoted to platoon commander," the ammunitionman cheered beside him

"Don't fucking chirp crookedly, affect Lao Tzu to kill the enemy, go to the side" Wang Huzi said as he shot, suddenly he felt that the voice was very familiar, turned his face to look, and was startled. "Senior Commander Li, how can you come to such a place, it's dangerous here...... Liu San, quickly escort the division commander to the headquarters"

Wang Huzi was a squad leader and a machine gunner, and what he called Li was Li Xin, the commander of the First Division of the First Army of the Beijing Military Region. This is a senior officer at the rank of lieutenant general, and Wang Huzi, a squad leader without military rank, must ensure the safety of the division commander.

"It's okay, I see you're fighting quite hot, how many have you killed?" Li Xin asked with a smile

"Report to the division commander, it's not much, but I killed more than 30 people," Wang Huzi saluted with a standard military salute.

"Do a good job, on the position, the division commander is with everyone" After speaking, Li Xin stroked his big cap and went to the rear......

"See? Our division commander is so easy-going, with the division commander here, our troops are invincible," Wang Huzi showed off to the few soldiers he led.

"Squad leader, you have been promoted to platoon leader, don't forget a few brothers" Soldier A said

"Don't worry! Quickly, the enemy is coming, give me a hateful blow" The king's beard saw the Latin cavalry charging here. It's starting to kill......

Da Da , Da ...... The sound of machine guns was incessant. There were a team of cavalry approaching, and at the same time, countless black iron balls flew towards them. The power of the grenade was amazing, and a burst of grenades instantly shattered the attack of the Latin cavalry.

Gradually, the gunfire became thinner and thinner, and the attacking cavalry became less and less. Li Xin went out of the headquarters and checked the situation with a telescope, only to see dead horses on the battlefield, a pile of naked and a pile. It's as tall as a hill. There was a river of blood in front of the red stones, and a trench was filled with blood.

The defeat of the enemy is the beginning of our army's sortie. Countless riflemen and countless dragoons rushed out of the trenches and began to chase the enemy...... Of course, in this chaotic battle, the Byzantine prince was also unfortunately killed. It's just that the Ming soldiers haven't found it yet......

On the airship in the air, Li Long held a high-powered telescope and saw that the nobleman wearing the crown was hit by a grenade and his body flew out of the old height, and he knew that the crown prince of Byzantium was finished. Immediately send pigeons to the base. The base was ordered to quickly occupy the undefended cities of Trebizond and Tbilisi. After leaving a regiment of troops in each of the two cities, the army continued its march towards Edessa and Ikan.

The Byzantine king and crown prince mobilized all Byzantine men between the ages of 16 and 60 in order to fight Li Long, and this battle determined the rise and fall of Byzantium.

Chongzhen 22 years 11 15. The Daming Emperor ** team occupies Tbilisi, Trebizond, Edessa, Ikon and Nicaea. The Great Army and Constantinople, the last capital of Byzantium, were facing each other by sea.

In Constantinople, the five-year-old Silovas succeeded to the throne of the Byzantine king, and the bishop of Byzantium, Michael? Bugos served as Vice-Chancellor.

Hawar smiled: "My proposal to surrender to the Ming Empire is not unreasonable, at present, our country's troops have been lost, and there is no capital to compete with the Ming Empire." I've heard that the regent of the Ming Empire hates rebellion. Once the city of Constantinople is breached, the regent of the Ming Dynasty will massacre the entire Byzantium, which is the end of my Byzantium."

Michael? Bugos retorted: "Otherwise, I think we should mobilize the forces of Sthallonia, Sofia, Bucharest, Corinth, Durazo, and Ragusa to return to the city of Constantinople to defend the city, as long as we hold Constantinople, we can inflict heavy losses on the Ming army under the city, and when the time comes, we will pursue it out of the city, and of course we will win a complete victory."

Silowas, a naïve child, had no idea of his own, so he asked, "Uncle Michael, what do you want?"

Silowas's mother and Michael have a leg, so Silowas's mother specially told Silovas to listen to Michael.

Hawar was going to go on with his words, but the king had already agreed with the auxiliary minister, and he had nothing more to say. Leaving the hall with a sigh: "The country is going to die"

Haval, a member of the royal family who had just succeeded to the throne, immediately mobilized all the forces of Sathronia fifteen hundred, Sophia five hundred and ten, Bucharest three thousand and one hundred, Corinth two thousand three hundred, Durazo three thousand and one hundred, and Ragusa five thousand five hundred. Assemble to the city of Constantinople. Sixteen thousand and ten in all. 、

At this time, the battle clouds were already gathering outside the city of Constantine, and Li Long ordered the Xijing Military Region and the Korean troops to have a total of hundreds of thousands of troops, and wait until the troops of Constantinople were assembled, and then they were wiped out.

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