Outside the city of Constantinople, thousands of horses galloped, and the flying hooves of the horses splashed the black earth and dust in the sky. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

Different from the Arab tyrants in later generations of TV, the Arabs in this period were definitely born in poverty, almost half of the barren Arabian Peninsula is desert, there are no perennial rivers, the land is barren, drinking water is difficult, and the limited space cannot feed the growing population at all, so the bloody battles between the tribes are extremely fierce, relying on day and night wars to eliminate the growing population, and almost eleven or twelve-year-old children have to pick up knives.

This is the true portrayal of life in the Arabian Peninsula before Muhammad's revival of Islam, on the one hand, the Arabs fought against the winds and sand and harsh natural conditions, honing the iron will that surpassed most of the peoples of this era, and on the other hand, the Arabs with scarce resources had a lot of business, which broadened the horizons and footsteps of the Arabs.

Therefore, after the Prophet Muhammad unified the Arabian Peninsula, so many tribes were willing to chase him out, so the tribes that came out of the desert were invincible, annexed one old empire, and fought another empire almost collapsed.

First of all, more than 10,000 desert light cavalry roared and rushed forward, the Arab war horses have always been known for their tall and majestic, and the Arab light cavalry wearing light leather armor is even more bloodthirsty and brave, with the desire for the land and the fanaticism for mission, the riding and archery skills inherited from the ancestors and grandparents are brought into full play, and the iron-blooded arrow skills honed in the tribal wars with sand thieves, robbers, caravan guards, robberies and robbers, tribal wars are poured on the city wall in an instant.

Theodosius' city wall was to defend against the Hun king Attila, the city wall was as high as twelve meters, and the defense was the arrows of these steppe peoples, but it was equipped with an oriental compound bow, and the long arrows were thrown out violently by equestrianism, and the female wall was obliquely brushed, and the Byzantine rookie who had never been on the battlefield crackled and fell down the city wall like dumplings.

Bernis, who was watching the battle from the city gate, twitched in his heart, more than 20 years ago, in the yellow sand beach near Damascus, he and more than 100,000 Byzantine Syrian troops were killed in pieces under this stormy arrow, and now this scene has happened in Constantinople.

Leonti, the patriarch who watched the battle, also had a fat face and trembling flesh, he had seen gladiatorial battles, but he had slaughtered the Romans like this, how could Leonti who had been soaked in a honey pot ever seen it? His legs and stomach trembled like chaff, and his voice trembled, and Leonti asked Empress Anna beside him with a knotted tongue, "Your Majesty, do you want to pat the Praetorian Guard?" ”

Today, Anna is dressed particularly beautifully and dazzlingly, the purple robe Mediterranean dress is full of fringed light gauze with stars and silver jewelry, the golden scepter is held on her chest, the white and tender arms like lotus roots are clamped on her chest, and the purple stars hanging from the crown of golden olive leaves are hanging in the middle of the smooth forehead, and a little girlish freshness is added to the majesty.

At this time, Anna was obviously not easy, there were two Roman legions on the city wall now defended about 8,000 people, but the soldiers who really led the team were only five hundred, and the rest were temporarily recruited in Constantinople to recruit some residents, under the defense of the country and religious beliefs, these people did report 120,000 enthusiasm for the defense of the city wall, but after all, they had not seen blood, and four or five hundred people died in the first round, who knows if they will collapse?

It is also sad to say that the rise of Rome completely relied on her citizen soldiers, the early Romans were upright, selfless, and willing to give, the Romans were not as smart as the Greeks, not as strong as the Gauls, and not as good at navigating the sea as the Phoenicians, but relying on the pure and simple classes of all classes to form citizen soldiers, Rome was a small city-state republic on the Tiber River, and developed into a huge empire across Europe, Asia and Africa.

But the decline of Rome also began slowly in her heyday, and there were many factors related to the destruction of the Roman Empire, all of which combined to overthrow the vast ancient Rome, but among all the factors, when the citizens of Rome preferred to go to the bathroom for a hot bath for a day rather than go to the army to defend the Romans' exploits and wealth, the destruction was doomed, and now the citizens of Constantinople in New Rome have not set foot on the battlefield to fight the enemy for hundreds of years.

Most of the armies supported in various parts of the empire were once conquered peoples, such as Assyria, Hittites, Macedonian Thracians in Asia Minor, and even various barbarians in Northern and Western Europe, and now in the city defense of Constantinople, the Goths heavy cavalry, the Guards infantry accounted for 3,000, the Slavic barbarians were 1,000, and the Hellenistic Romans were only a little more than 3,000.

The sweat on her forehead made the purple stars stick to it, the scepter was pinched tightly, and the white and tender hands were holding green tendons, but Anna shook her head heavily and refused: "Let the priest and the military judge go up, and cut the throat of those who run away without permission!" ”

The armies attacked by the rain of arrows are really in chaos, Constantinople does not have such a developed manufacturing industry as the Beijing Division, and the armor reserves are only enough to equip about 10,000 people, and more than 30,000 Roman citizens have joined the army, most of them are just wearing cloth clothes and sending a few javelins or a sword and a wooden shield to the battlefield, and some even hold short swords in the ancient Roman period. Some rats shrank into a pile and shrank under the women's wall like a nest, and some turned around and ran.

At this time, the Goths heavy guards pressed under the city wall, and the civilian army who turned around and fled was directly pressed to the ground to the ground, and the dagger clicked in the throat, and more than 200 deserters were brutally solved, the throat cutting was simple, but the deceased was extremely painful, because he could not die for a while, and he had to endure the pain of wounds and suffocation, seeing more than 200 people rolling on the ground with spasms and spurting in their throats, blood spraying everywhere, followed by the civilian army who wanted to run and fled back to the city wall.

On the other hand, a large number of Orthodox priests also appeared on the city wall, and even the new patriarch Paul himself appeared, and hundreds of priests looked at the corpses at both ends of the city wall with trembling legs and stomachs, and at the same time ripped open the classic lie that had not been renovated for hundreds of years.

"Soldiers, do not be afraid, now our war against the Arabian pagan map is a holy war, it is blessed by God, every time you kill a heathen, your sins will be reduced by one point, you will die for the Lord, and after death you can go directly to heaven, soldiers, kill! Kill! ”

One by one, the priests carried the cross and wandered around like the street performers of the Central Plains, but the effect was extraordinary, one by one, the believers who believed in Christianity above everything, or were driven to the death of the unbelievers, became murderous again under the blessing of the "aura of faith", and looked at the Arab army below with blood-red eyes and roared in a low voice, as if they were ready to go to heaven at any time.

In addition, the legion veterans kicked and scolded and told a group of rookies how to do, how to dodge arrows, how to counterattack, the commotion of the front can be regarded as calming down, Hou Jie yawned boringly, but Anna and Leonti and other veterans were all relieved, fortunately, the first round of cavalry shooting was just a tentative attack, otherwise it would be next to the infantry attack, and the outer wall was really mysterious.

After the cavalry withdrew, as if pleased with their masterpiece, after the army had gathered for a while, an Arab civil official rode quickly to the city with a white flag, and shouted at the city to surrender.

"Listen to the Byzantines in the city, my caliph is a servant of Allah, a representative of the ruler of the world, who has come to spread the truth, and does not want to do more killing, and surrenders quickly, including you, the new Byzantine co-emperor, the great caliph is willing to give you the position of princess, so that you too will be bathed in the light of God, and the whole city will be pardoned, if you continue to resist stubbornly, the war dead will return to Hellfire, and on the day the city is broken, the whole city will be reduced to slavery!"

Standing at the forefront of the army, Muaviye also smiled with a smile, not wanting this scene to look in Anna's eyes, but she was so angry that she almost didn't blow up, Li Jie was wise and martial, and the most important thing was that she was young, Anna didn't want to marry him as the seventh princess, Muaviye, an old man in his fifties and a half-year-old, actually came to fight his own idea?

"Empress Theodora once said that the purple robe is the most beautiful shroud! The one who wears the crown does not face disaster by running away! If you even have to abandon the god of faith and live under the threat of others, even if there is no point in living, so take your evil god and shameless conditions to get out! ”

Gently bending down and leaning out of the city wall, Anna replied sharply with sarcastic words, listening to her words, the entire city wall suddenly burst into cheers, but the Arab civil official under the city was full of anger, the face was flushed, turned the horse's head and left, behind, obviously gloomy, Mu'awiya did not say a word, and raised his right hand stiffly.

"Allah is first!"

Suddenly, a fierce roar sounded behind him, and in an instant, countless Arab infantry wheeled with a dazzling Damascus scimitar, the Muhammad pattern on it was as terrifying as a spell from hell, like a loess sandstorm, and the furious Arab infantry rushed madly towards the walls of Constantinople.

When it comes to the Arab Empire, people will always think of the light cavalry that is as vicious as the rattlesnake, but in fact, the Arab Empire really started, relying on the tenacious infantry, and the flexible mobility relied on camels to complete, the early Arab Empire conquered Persia with light infantry to defeat the opponent's ironclad cavalry and elephant soldiers, relying on the fanaticism of religion and land to gnaw the Persian Empire, and now, equipped with Uzi steel knives and Damascus, Persia and other places will be able to create chain mail, The Umayyad infantry under Mu'awiyah was as sharp as the unsheathed warriors.

However, in the face of this divine weapon, the shield of Constantinople is very thick!

Rome also has crossbows, and they are heavy crossbows, and the towers on the walls of Theodosius are equipped with torsion ballistas, this kind of heavy siege field equipment originated from Greece, but it was taken to the extreme by the Romans, facing the surging yellow sandstorm, while calculating the distance, while the Roman engineers constantly adjusted the angle of firing, almost three hundred meters, the first round of ballistas fired.

More than a hundred head-sized stone balls were thrown out, and the rolling stone balls immediately bounced in the enemy group like a bowling ball, and the heavy chain mail directly became an ornament, as long as it was hit by the stone balls, it also turned into slag in the solid protection, the head was smashed, the arms and legs were broken, and the Arab infantry who fell on the road wailing were no less than the Byzantine defenders who had just been shot by horse.

After a round of fire, the four Roman gunners immediately turned the crank to wind, and at this time, the shortcomings of the slow response of the ballista were exposed, and it was not until the Arabs rushed within a hundred meters that a hundred or so ballistae let out a second roar, taking away hundreds of people.

The Arabs, who had survived two rounds of long-distance baptism, finally roared Allah's blessing and set up the ladder on the Byzantine wall, and at this time, they had a third blow, the javelin!

From the Roman Republic BC to the current Byzantine Empire, javelinmen are an important part of Rome's long-range power, even if they have been abused more than once by the compound bows of the eastern nomads.

The javelin has a small amount of ammunition, is inconvenient to carry, and has a close range, but it does have an advantage that bows and arrows cannot match, with strong lethality and outstanding armor-piercing ability.

The heavy javelins thrown from the twelve-meter city wall, and even the Arab warriors were directly pierced, even if they were not pierced, they lost their combat effectiveness after being hit by a javelin, and the javelins on the city were like rain, and the Arab elite soldiers who rushed up with a ladder under the city were actually emptied more than half.

However, at this point, the three axes of the Byzantines were also finished, and under the gaze of the green tendons pinched by Mu'awiyah's fist, the siege team that lost a small part of the city climbed the city wall in a rage with a ladder, and many Byzantine light infantry who were still skimming javelins were directly cut down by Damascus scimitars.

It's really cruel, the sharp Damascus scimitar slashes lack armor protection and the light infantry is simply open, with the protection of the shield behind the back and the chain mail on the body, one by one the Islamic infantry climbed up to the city and the tiger entered the flock of sheep like a big killing, the equipment was in a weak position, the combat experience is not as rich as these nomads, at first engagement, the Byzantine city citizen soldiers were like watermelons were cut down a large area, often several light infantry died in exchange for an Arab warrior to return to heaven.

Seeing the city wall covered with blood in an instant, Anna closed her eyes worriedly, and the white and tender little hands holding the golden scepter were already bruised, looking at the timid Byzantine citizen soldiers, the corners of Hou Jie's mouth showed a mocking smile.

The blood flowed like a stream, running down the drainage ditches on the city wall......