The desolate horn dragged a long sound, coming from the sky, and the Arab army that had been running for miles walked out of the camp in an orderly manner with the horn, and the sound of horses' hooves rumbled after counting, as if even the earth was shaking

Before the battle, the Islamic believers made a long prayer, and under the blessing of Allah, the Arabs defeated the war elephants and the iron-mounted Persians, defeating the great Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius in Syria.

This time, Mu'awiyah had every reason to believe that Allah would continue to protect him, laying a strong fortress on which the Byzantines had survived for more than 400 years, allowing him to spread the faith of Allah all the way to the West.

As long as Constantinople is captured, there is no danger to defend in Eastern Europe, and this strong fortress can be held by Muawiyah, Muawiyah can also return to China with confidence to face the attack of the Tang people, and the glory of occupying the eastern Roman capital can bring him incomparably high prestige in the Islamic world, and achieve his ambition to inherit the Umayyad family, this battle must be won!

Looking at Constantinople, who was still unyielding in front of him, Muaviy's anger came out of his chest, drew his sword and hissed with all his might: "For Allah, rush!"

Under the nervous gaze of the Byzantines, the cavalry hit the Arab army ten miles wide and violently cracked several gaps, and a large number of enemies carried cloud ladders like torrents, gushing out, and one by one the Constantinople militia couldn't help but clench the simple swords, guns, and weapons in their hands, and the archers who had been trained with great difficulty these days also raised their compound bows slightly.

But only a moment later, they couldn't help but gasp, and instead of the imagined wolf-like Arab infantry, they were all ragged and dirty, and some of them were wearing the worn armor of the Byzantines.

Tens of thousands of such people drew their swords and roared towards Constantinople, and the defenders of the city couldn't help but be stunned, aren't they also Eastern Romans? Why do Christians help the Islamists fight Christians?

Seeing the Byzantine defenders on the city wall in chaos for the first time, Muawiya, who was riding on a high-headed warhorse, couldn't help but brush his curly beard proudly.

Driving away civilians and prisoners of war and besieging cities is generally a notorious nomadic practice, and a great caliph who claims to be a civilized man does not discredit himself, but there are some things that can have a very different effect if they are slightly adapted.

The rise of Islam has been almost equivalent to the largest empire in the world in a few decades, on the one hand, because of the appeal of Islam, and on the other hand, because Islam will use a soft knife to allow the original faith to exist, as long as you pay a heavy faith tax every quarter, there is no forced conversion of others, no massacres, and there is no blood feud like rebellion.

But man is realistic after all, it is better to save this money to eat a full meal when he is hungry every day, and it seems that what the imam said is also very reasonable, and Allah seems to be very holy, so every time he conquers a place, it will not be long before the poor people will accept Islam, and they cannot believe it.

Jerusalem, the Middle East, the birthplace of Christianity, became an Islamic paradise.

During the period of the truce, Mu'awiyah vigorously promoted Islamization in the newly occupied Asia Minor, and the declaration of Islam as brothers attracted a large number of Byzantine low-class people who had suffered from years of war.

In the process of transporting ballistas, the Arab navy also brought in a number of such new converts, and under the slogan of granting land and bringing down the hypocritical and evil infidel vampire priests and aristocrats, a large number of fanatical Byzantine Islamists were deceived into a brutal siege war like a meat grinder.

Tens of thousands of Byzantines, who had no training at all and only killed with enthusiasm, really shook the defenders of Constantinople.

"Bastard, don't cum yet!"

The Ostrogothic Guard commander, who was supervising the battle on the city wall, was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and one by one he kicked his buttocks, and the Byzantine archers woke up from a dream, and the uneven rain of arrows began to rain down from the city walls, and around this, hundreds of Islamized Byzantines still fell in the rain of arrows.

However, there were too many civilian cannon fodder troops, and the scattered arrows and ballistas couldn't stop them at all, and the ladders finally set up the city wall under the rescue of the corpses.

"Brother, believe in Allah and stop being deceived by the Old Scriptures!"

"It's you who don't want to be deceived by the cult anymore!"

Speaking the same Greek, the Byzantines from the Ancatlian Mountains were in battle with the Byzantines from the city of Constantinople.

However, after all, there was no military training, and after a short period of fanaticism, a small group of Byzantine Islamized militias began to retreat screaming.

"Ahhh

Seeing the flying ballista stone projectiles smashing the heads of the townspeople, the shock was indescribable, spraying a body of blood, a ragged militia of Asia Minor screamed and fled back hysterically, and the Arab army formation behind him was coldly attacked, and rushed towards him in a black shadow.

Click~ The knife flashed, and the head of the peasant soldier flew straight up, spinning extremely fast in mid-air, and the impression left in the peasant soldier's mind was still stunned.

Doesn't it mean that joining the religion is a brother? Why do brothers kill brothers?

Mu'awiyah reached out for the skirmish and immediately hundreds of Arab cavalry rushed into battle, killing dozens of defeated soldiers with the swing of scimitars, forcing the coaxed militia to rush to the bloody meat grinder again.

Seeing this scene, Amur, the governor of Egypt and the brains of the Umayyad family, couldn't help but frown.

The success of Islam, on the one hand, is that the Arabs have amazing combat effectiveness, defeating many empires and kingdoms, on the other hand, it is also the heavy Persian and Roman hegemony of the Central Asian peoples who are overwhelmed, as soon as Islam comes, it has attracted a large number of poor people to join the religion, and the military strength and financial resources have expanded geometrically, which has a huge empire on the horizon as far as North Africa and Spain in Europe.

But another problem was revealed, the expansion of Islam was the success of the Arabs, so in this new great empire, the Arabs who seized the land replaced the old Roman landlords, the Sassanid nobles, and became the new lords, both in terms of officialdom and wealth, the Arabs were very favorable.

The lower classes of non-Arab Muslims were already unusually dissatisfied, but now, after Mu'awiyah came to power, he has become more harsh and cruel to non-Arab Muslims.

Even so, the Byzantine Muslims returned to the battlefield screaming under the pressure of the scimitars of the Arab cavalry, and Amur was also an Arab, so it was naturally impossible for him to oppose Arab privileges, but the restless people made him feel very uneasy.

"Isn't it cruel for the Caliph, who are also God's people? Why don't you let the vanguard army retreat and reorganize the charge again? ”

"No, this is exactly the test that Allah has given them, to be able to cover the great Arab warriors and die, and they will die with the glory of dying!" His deep gray eyes showed no pity in his eyes, and Mu'awiyah waved his hand coldly and mercilessly.

Sighing, Amur fell silent again.

The larger and larger Byzantine Muslims began to retreat from the bloody battlefield, but every time the Arab cavalry drove them back with fierce sabers, these Byzantine militias, who were forced to have no way out, had to show their ferocity.

On the city wall, every place was once again soaked in blood, above and below the city, ballistas were firing all the time, even if there was the protection of the city wall, these heavy stone bullets still smashed on the heads of the defenders on the city from time to time, and the fragments jumped on the unprotected citizen soldiers screamed and flew out, and one by one the ladders were knocked down, and the ladders were constantly erected, and the enemies came up in countless.

What was especially terrible was that under the cover of a large number of cannon fodder Byzantines, several groups of elite Arab infantry were mixed in and killed, all of them wearing chain mail and carrying the sharp Damascus scimitar, killing the untrained defenders of Constantinople with rivers of blood.

Under such a sharp attack, even the walls of Theodosius, which had an astonishing defensive power, couldn't help but become crumbling.

"Your Majesty, if you can't go on like this, let's send the Goth Guard and the Royal Heavy Cavalry to support it!"

Looking at the tragic battlefield, even the newly appointed patriarch, the original profiteer Amuliel, couldn't help but turn his head and persuade him.

In addition to a few hundred Gothic infantry instructors, the most elite Gothic royal guard in Byzantium and the 6,800 soldiers of the regular army of heavy cavalry were always held by Anna and were not killed.

Relying on the enthusiasm of the citizens of Constantinople to defend their homeland, the suppression of ballistas, and the hand-to-hand combat, the more than 15,000 defenders were extremely exhausted, and the battlefield with hundreds of meters of walls became full of holes and precarious.

Unfortunately, wearing a cold Byzantine crown and looking at the Arab army rolling under the city, Anna remained silent.

As a last resort, Amulie also swallowed his words back, but he was still so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, and his fat face was covered with oily sweat.

The bloody siege continued, wrapped in tens of thousands of Byzantines, more Arab elite infantry climbed the city wall, killing and slashing, 1,300 ballistae were also constantly roaring and firing under the city, covered with dense stone bullets like raindrops, and every section of the city wall that could be hit was killed and wounded, and the battle situation continued to develop in their favor.

Mu'awiyah, however, did not pay attention to the battlefield in Dafali, but turned back from time to time, and behind him, in the Arab military camps that were trying to get close to the Byzantine walls, there were several tents that were particularly large.

Click, click, the dull sound of shovels digging from the ground kept coming from the ground......