It was a decadent image, with a large table full of leftovers of lettuce and empty bottles of drunk, and traces of the purple of Greek wine dripping to the ground, lying on the table, a darkly clad Tang official, and a Roman centurion wearing a horsetail helmet, ornate robe armor, and a medal on his chest. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

The appearance of this armor bears a slight resemblance to Bernis's worn armor.

Traveled thousands of miles to Byzantium, but the initiator of the task was in such a state, Li Que couldn't help but be angry, casually carried a large bottle, and poured it down towards Yang Xiong's head, and the cold water made Yang Xiong jump upside down like a grasshopper, covering his head and shouting in panic: "Who? Who would dare to attack this officer? ”

"The Fujian Palace's forbidden guards are prepared, a thousand cavalry officers, and the commander Li Que!"

A piece of iron fish talisman representing identity was taken out, shook in front of Yang Xiong's eyes, and after putting it away, Li Que hugged his arms and hummed with anger and mockery: "That's how Lord Yang served King Min?" ”

As soon as he heard that someone from the Min Wangfu was coming, Yang Xiong was really excited at first, but looking at the few people who followed Li Que and Hou Jie, especially when he saw the fat Wu Yuanqing, this Ministry of Rites suddenly became listless again, and arched his hand dejectedly: "Ah, Uncle Wu Guo is also here, I've seen it." ”

"The officer asked you why you were derelict in your duties?" Dissatisfied with Yang Xiong's mental state, Li Que roared angrily again, but he didn't expect Yang Xiong's anger to be even greater than her.

"The king of Min asked his ministers to take care of Princess Anna and wait for an alliance with Byzantium, and now that the ministers have done it, how about letting the ministers?"

Yang Xiong's mood at this time is really up and down, just reused by the King of Fujian, worshiped as the envoy of the visit to Byzantium, Yang Xiong is simply ecstatic, thinking that his ambition is about to be displayed, don't you see how Lao Xiao Sheng got up? Who knew that as soon as he entered Constantinople, he fell into this realm that was not embarrassing or embarrassing, and for a few years, except for being a nanny for Princess Anna, Yang Xiong did not do anything at all.

The guy at the table was called Manius, the chief centurion of the legion under General Mezchos, and his arrival gave Yang Xiong a second hope.

Dissatisfied with Emperor Constans's escape without a fight, the co-ruling emperor Constantine IV, the general of the Asia Minor Military Region, Mezzios, and the previously executed co-emperor Theodosius formed a political alliance in an attempt to kidnap Princess Anna and give it to Li Jie, the king of Fujian, in exchange for the support of the Min state to fight to the death with the Arab Empire.

Seeing a little light again, full of hope, Yang Xiong put the efforts of many years of operation in Constantinople on Manius, actively running, providing property, and asking for help from Fujian, but the dream of the sixteen countries was blown up with Theodosius, a crazy idiot who wanted to be the emperor, and finally Yang Xiong obtained the Byzantine noble knight senator who was either implicated, or was so frightened that he stayed away from Yang Xiong, and even he himself was driven out of Constantinople.

After some hard work, but in exchange for one more person to accompany him to drink stuffy, this loss can be imagined.

Seeing the stunned Wu Yuanqing and his entourage, it took a long time to think that it seemed that these people were tossed by their own letter for help, and finally put away their grievances, and hung their heads again like a defeated rooster, Yang Xiong drooped his head listlessly and said: "I'm sorry Uncle Wuguo, Li Duwei, all the blame Yang Xiong bears to the King of Min alone, and the ministers will find a way to send you back, and it has become impossible to rescue Princess Anna." ”

"Wait, rescue Princess Anna?"

Suddenly, an ominous premonition rose from his heart, trembling at the horizontal flesh on his face, Wu Yuanqing turned his head sadly, and asked Hou Jie cautiously: "Little, little monkey, don't tell my brother, you said that the princess you can get is Princess Byzantine Anna." ”

Even Li Que, who was angry, couldn't help but shrink his neck when he heard Wu Yuanqing's trill, Hou Jie's smile turned into a sneer, and he quietly took a step back, and shrugged his shoulders vigorously: "That's right, brother, you see that Byzantium is such a big country, how can Princess Anna be worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins, Brother Wu, you still make ...... when you talk about it."

"Make a wool, lose Lao Tzu's money, I'll fight with you."

Although it is not a high-level Fujian State, Wu Yuanqing still knows about the major events of the superstructure, especially Anna and Li Jie have been ambiguous for so long, in the minds of many important ministers of Fujian, Anna has become one of the princesses of Fujian, even if he gets it back, does Wu Yuanqing dare to sell himself to the third street? It's not the Great Song Dynasty, Master Li and Song Huizong.

Thinking of the 100,000 gold coins he spent in a daze, looking at Hou Jie, Wu Yuanqing was like seeing the enemy who killed his father, and pressed it with red eyes, even if Hou Jie had been training in the Punjab Army for a few years, after all, he was short, and he was actually pressed under the big cake when he was caught off guard, and Wu Yuanqing's weight rose again in the past two days and made him roll his eyes.

Such an unreliable coach, Yang Xiong was even more stunned when he saw it, Li Que shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and then strode in front of Yang Xiong, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Since you are here, let's understand the situation in general, right?" ”

After being stunned, Yang Xiong nodded in agreement.

A lot of things were pushed to the ground with a bang, and the plates and jars were broken to the ground, so that the Roman centurion had not woken up yet, and it could be seen that he had drunk enough, and a large map was spread on the table by Yang Xiong, and the sad Wu Yuanqing finally got up when he saw this, and let Hou Jie, who was foaming at the mouth, crawl to the table for a long time.

This is actually a clear map of Constantinople, including the city defense, and the nearby geography are clearly reflected on the map, looking at the map, even Hou Jie couldn't help frowning.

"This is the main city of Constantinople, here is the Sea of Marmara, here is the Golden Horn, and the Golden Horn is the main port of Byzantium's commercial activities, and a small half of Byzantium is divided in the northeast, and Galatacastle is here."

Pointing to the map, Yang Xiong described in detail: "This is the lock chain, once the chain is raised, all ships can not pass, the Galatai Fort is surrounded by water on three sides, all are cliffs, the entire castle is handled by five hundred Slavic mercenaries, they are hired from the emperor, so only listen to the emperor's words, this slope is extremely dangerous, and it cannot be broken without thousands of elite troops attacking." ”

This terrain is really steep enough, from the map, the whole of Constantinople is like a triangle, deep into the sea on three sides, protected by the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus Strait, and the Golden Horn, layers of sea walls, city walls, there is no room for the army to exert itself, and northwest of Constantinople, there are groups of fortresses, this is the most heavily defended place in the city.

Galatai Fort is just above the Golden Horn, like a miniature version of Byzantium, also surrounded by water on three sides, and protected by the Byzantine Navy, all of them are ******, and it is also used as an important fortress defense during the war, which shows that its defense is strong, Yang Xiong said that it takes thousands of elite troops to conquer, but in Hou Jie's opinion, it is impossible to dispatch thousands of people here.

Pinching his chin, Hou Jie began to think sadly.

This kung fu, Yang Xiong complained even more depressed.

"Originally, there were more than 20 centurions of the Janissaries in Byzantium who had been bought by Theodosius, generally plus the financial support of Fujian, and in general, the defenders of Constantinople plus the mercenaries we controlled 3,000 people, and with these forces plus the internal response to the Galatai Fort, there was still some hope for Galatafort, but Theodosius wanted to be the emperor and wanted to go crazy, insisting on capturing the palace first, and then taking Galatai Fort in the name of the emperor."

"As a result, I fell into an ambush."

The defense of Constantinople is very three-dimensional, the huge Theodosius city wall actually has more than 7,000 defenders, and more troops are arranged in the town fortresses dotted around Byzantium, just like Galatiansburg, Qilipu, Herom Polyan, unlike the suppressed and loyal army in China, the ancient Roman Janissaries used the emperor as a puppet The lessons of the previous Byzantine kings can remember it clearly, on the one hand, the defense of the city wall is enough, on the other hand, the emperor is not worried that there are too many permanent troops around him.

The weakness of Constantinople's troops also gave Theodosius confidence, so that he blindly saw the golden light of the throne, but did not see his own shortcomings, in the narrow lanes of the Byzantine city wall, more than a thousand elite Byzantine heavy cavalry were trapped in front of the Grand Palace, unable to break through the city defense, the peripheral army took the opportunity to enter the city, and the rebels who took money and sold their lives under the siege of layers quickly mutinied.

Theodosius was very heroic and led hundreds of heavy cavalry to rush to kill, but unfortunately, the disparity in strength still made them become hedgehogs by the defenders' spears and armor-piercing arrows, which also buried Yang Xiong's political hopes.

"Now this guy can still get a thousand or so soldiers from the military region, for the sake of the family in Asia Minor, it is estimated that these people dare to fight, but it is just a drop in the bucket, we can't even enter the Golden Horn, the city has been under martial law, the nobles of various families are panicking, and the peace alliance with Byzantium is just a moon, the moon in the water, and the flower in the mirror."

Patting the helmet of centurion Maneus, who was still as drunk as a cat, Yang Xiong said dejectedly.

"How?" After listening, Li Que was not discouraged at all, but looked at Hou Jie with a bright face, and turned his head meaningfully to glance at the old mercenary Beennis, who had become abnormal since he arrived in Byzantium, Hou Jie nodded with a smile.

"It's funny, it's good that Theodosius the idiot died, otherwise it would have been really difficult."

"General Hou don't want to talk big, the current situation requires at least a few mansions of the Tang Army of Fujian to recover, but if you can transport several mansions here, I'm afraid you won't need to worry about it."

Yang Xiong shook his head in frustrated self-deprecation, but Hou Jie suddenly laughed, pointed at Yang Xiong and asked loudly, "Ambassador Yang, do you know why King Min sent Ben in the future?" ”

Caesarea's castle is still very high, through the thick sea fog, you can vaguely see the thick walls of Constantinople here, looking at the window, Hou Jie's smile revealed a rich coldness, raised his hand and said loudly.

"Just because Ben Jiang is alone, he is worthy of the soldiers of these ten prefectures!"