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On the one hand, ballistas were requisitioned from Asia Minor to suppress the firepower of the city walls, and on the other hand, cannon fodder servants were recruited from the local people, and on the other hand, three tunnels were quietly excavated.

The Arabs have always been weak in the siege of the city, to break through Persia, either by defeating the field troops, relying on the aftermath to break through the city, or by besieging, the Persian capital Ctesiphon, after the defeat in the Battle of Iron Bridge, the defenders were less than 10,000 people, and the morale was low, around this, the Arab army also besieged for three months before taking it, Alexander, the capital of Egypt, and Damascus, the capital of Syria, the same, all times were the besieged defenders in the city who had no hope and surrendered out of the city.

So this time, in order to attack the Byzantine fortified city, Muawiya made a lot of preparations before setting out.

The tunnels were designed by Persian military engineers, and the location and location of the tunnels were carefully calculated, starting with small-scale raids, and the Arab armies dug carefully and day and night with the noise of cavalry harassment.

Now, the three tunnels have come to an end with the arrival of ballistas, which is one of the reasons why Mu'awiya refused to retreat despite any circumstances.

Beneath the tunnels, the beams and dried wood removed from the Byzantine patriarchal manor were split into one after another, forming one tic-tac-toe bracket after another to support the tunnel walls, and under the pit, five or six recruited Persian craftsmen were constantly digging, and hundreds of soldiers were relaying the earth outward.

Suddenly, the digger stopped, the earth peeled off in front of him, and the solid limestone foundations of the city walls were revealed.

With the iron crowbar imported from Fujian into the stone cracks, dozens of military men under the dull shouts, a radius of about one meter, after cutting smooth stones were pried out of the wall, with the first gap, the remaining rocks are also easier to pry, another hour, in the three tunnels, the solid Theodosius city wall up to 20 meters long foundation was dug through.

At the end of the long work, the Persian craftsmen left with the sergeants sweaty, while the other part of the sergeants carried large bundles of dry wood, vegetable oil, olive oil and other oilseeds, scattered all over the tunnel.

Eventually, hundreds of pigs snatched from the Balkans, from Byzantine farms, were driven into the tunnels and driven under the city walls.

Finally, along the straw, several Persian infantry quickly dropped torches and turned around and ran out of the tunnel.

Crackling, the raging fire began to ignite in the tunnel, the tongue of fire climbed to the wooden beams and pillars that supported the tunnel, the beams began to turn black and brittle, making a crackling and crisp sound, in the face of the raging flames, the pigs at the end of the tunnel neighed in fear, trying to escape, but unfortunately, the dug out of the city wall masonry blocked them tightly.

The smoke and fire continued to spread, and the straw under the pigs was also ignited, some of the Apennine black pigs had been smoked to death, and some were still screaming with fire and screaming as hard as they could, and the terrifying screams resounded throughout the tunnel.

The Byzantine cannon fodder army, which had been driven back and forth by the Arab cavalry, suddenly felt that it became hot under their feet, and the blood of those who had been shot to death quickly dried up, and at the same time, billowing smoke could no longer hide it from the three large tents.

"Hahaha, old thief Mu'awiyah, dare to attack my great new Rome! His hometown smoked first, hahahaha~"

Standing on the city tower, watching the billowing smoke drift from behind the enemy army, the senator Leonti, who had been nervous, finally found a laugh, pointed to a few puffs of smoke and laughed, but after laughing for a long time, he found that except for his good friend Wu Yuanqing, who smirked twice, the rest stood on the city tower, from the empress Anna, to the general Beennis, to several Gothic guard captains, and the Slavs hired chiefs, all with grim faces.

Anna, in particular, became even paler, her fists clenched tightly, and she gritted her silver teeth for a long time before turning around, facing Bernis and several generals, the captains of the guard commanded: "Do what you have to do!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, it is a supreme honor to fight to the death for the country!"

With an almost stern answer, more than a dozen generals went down the city one after another, and then the seven thousand regular troops of Constantinople, which had not been used in such a fierce attack and defense of the city walls, were mobilized one after another, and the Gothic heavy armor guards put out three gun formations in the direction of the burning three puffs of smoke, mounted their war horses, and one by one the Byzantine heavy cavalry also lined up in the nearby blocks.

"This, what's going on? Isn't it a good thing that the Arabs' camp is on fire? ”

Stunned, Leonti turned his head and asked the others suspiciously, the half-dead blind old man standing nearby snorted disdainfully, and Anna herself turned around helplessly.

"Senator Leonti, remember Rome's pacification of Jerusalem?"

In a word, Leonti's face turned pale.

"What pacifies Jerusalem?" Full of doubts, Wu Yuanqing grabbed Leon and asked again. His face was pale, and the purple-robed old fat man trembled for a long time before he spit out two words: "Authentic!"

In 221 A.D., in the province of Nabata under Roman rule, the Jews revolted against the tyrannical rule of Rome, and in Jerusalem, the Roman army of three legions fought against the Jews for more than a year.

In the end, it was by digging tunnels to attack hard, and this time the battle case has also become one of the classic battle examples of Roman tunnels and broken cities, and almost all the upper-level elders remember it as an allusion.

"Isn't it an authentic, what's there to fuss about...... poor military little Bai Wu Yuanqing still looked dazed, the happiness of the ignorant, just when he shrugged his shoulders easily, the root of the city wall under his feet, the heat accumulated in the burning tunnel finally reached a critical point.

The poor hundreds of pigs had all returned to the underworld at this time, the pigskin was scorched, a large amount of subcutaneous fat turned into fat and flowed out, and at the same time, the wooden pillars were almost carbonized by the fire.

Rumble...... The carcass of the pig, which was so hot that it exploded violently.

When the fat is fried in hot oil, the boiling fat often crackles and bursts, this time the boiling lard of hundreds of pigs bursts together, and the power should not be underestimated, it has already been baked crispy by the flame, and the fine cracks spread on the limestone city wall like a spider web, and in the distance, the first pillar clicked with a crisp sound and broke violently.

Puff ~ Like dominoes, the soft soil of the three tunnels was roasted and collapsed at the same time, and hundreds of soldiers who were besieging the city fell into the pit, and the scorching temperature inside immediately roasted both the Arabs and the Byzantine cannon fodder with extremely painful screams, as the end of the dominoes, the two-story Theodosius city wall was also violently shaken, and finally collapsed.

The rumbling of stones shook and the whole wall trembled violently, and in the midst of the screams, the soldiers of both armies who were fighting at the end of the collapse fell off the city, and the Arabs and Byzantines alike were stunned by the spectacular destruction.

Anna watched that the child who was still questioning herself in the morning also fell off the city wall with another Byzantine cannon fodder army, and stretched out her hand in panic, but Anna caught nothing, and let it go back in a daze.

"Your sister!"

This sentence was learned from Li Jie, Wu Yuanqing learned it so vividly for the first time, his fat eyes were wide and round, and the back molars of his mouth were exposed, and he complained sadly while holding the blind old man.

"Your sister, this is authentic, authentic! Don't you always listen? Three tunnels, tinkling and clanging, why don't you hear it? ”

Still half-dead, the blind old man's gray eyes were intentionally or unintentionally facing the side of the city wall, where there stood a person, the Empress Anna......

"Allah Shelter, Kill !!"

There was silence for a minute, and a roar of excitement suddenly broke out, and the wall of death that blocked him suddenly collapsed into two huge gaps, one large and one small, which was equivalent to stripping the beauty of Constantinople and putting it in front of him, thinking of the prosperity and wealth of the city, a desert warrior's eyes were red with excitement, and as Muawiya stretched out his fists sharply, the black pressure was like a breach of a levee, and the Arab army roared and rushed out.

"Steady! Steady! ”

Inside the city wall, the Visigothic Guards and the city guards lined up the heavy infantry gun array constantly shaking, looking at the crack in the city wall, the atmosphere did not dare to come out, in the distance, the sound of heavy horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, with the shouts of their officers, the nerves of the Roman soldiers jumped to the extreme.

Suddenly, a sharp and piercing sound came from the collapsed slope of the city wall, and in the eyes of the Byzantine soldiers, a dense rain of arrows fell into the sky, crackling rain hitting lotus leaves, and hundreds of soldiers fell under the rain of arrows.

"Kill!" With a rain of arrows, the slopes were draped with fine Persian chain mail, and Arab infantry were already wheeling Damascus scimitars, and round shields were rushing downward.

"God is above, raise your gun, meet the enemy!" In the heart-rending roar of the Goths or Byzantine centurions, the Byzantine spear formation also raised the spear high, and even the feathered arrow in the body just now did not have time to pull out, and it fell into a fierce battle.

In the next second, a group of Arab warriors jumped directly from a high place with their shields, some were pierced into hedgehogs by sharp Byzantine spears, and some relied on their shields to knock down the Byzantine hoplites.

Around the three collapses, the two armies fought fiercely, 1,300 trebuchets outside the city shot at this place all the time, and the archers in the city broke their heads, but in order to plug the gap and defend their homes, thousands of militia still braved the casualties and desperately threw thousands of guns and arrows.

The battle at the gap was also extremely bloody, and the Byzantine soldiers and Arab warriors in the first few rows were completely crowded together, and the formation was mixed, and they were really close to each other, because there was no room to dodge at all, and there were too many Arabs rushing over.

Overhead, the long arrows of the desert cavalry fell all the time, and despite all their efforts, the Byzantine defense line retreated step by step.

After a day of bloody battles, the sun had begun to set in the west, and the setting sun was obliquely shining on the back of the Arab army, reflecting a general's face gray and uncertain, but a smile of victory was still evident on the wrinkled corners of Mu'awiyah's mouth......