The fire caused by the rocket rain was not very big, but the danger caused by the burning stone bullets and fire ships was too great, and the warships of the Eastern Empire were densely packed, and after the fire, even if there were warships that wanted to stay away from the fire, they could not move, and could only be surrounded and burned.

It was too late, although Hao Lenny gave the order for all the Eastern Imperial Navy soldiers to abandon their ships and retreat to the shore, but it was too late, it took a while for the order to be delivered, and under the action of the sea breeze, the fire spread very quickly, and the ships in this period and even more than a thousand years later were wooden, and now it is July, the temperature during the day is very high, and the hull of the ship has long been dried during the day, and it is easy to catch fire.

The fire is like a wildfire, most of the soldiers who have not had time to escape are engulfed in the fire, and there are many clever soldiers who jump into the sea, but when the warship is all burned, they still can't escape the call of death, the warship burns and drains the oxygen in the nearby air, and the temperature around is very high, even if the body is hiding in the water, but the head has to stay outside to breathe, and if you can't breathe oxygen, you will suffocate to death, or you will be roasted alive by the high temperature.

"Oh my God, it's miserable, it's miserable!" The soldiers who fled from the line of death to the shore and escaped from the fire turned to see the harbor engulfed in flames, and could not help muttering to themselves when they heard the screams coming from the fire from time to time.

With tears in his eyes, he watched his fleet and most of its soldiers being consumed by the fire, and fell to his knees with his spear pounced, and it seemed to him that it was his responsibility, and he was the commander of this fleet. And now this fleet has been burned by the enemy, and almost ninety percent of the seamen and soldiers have been burned, which is a huge mistake made as a commander. Someone has to be held accountable for this mistake.

"Immediately send someone to cross the strait in a small boat on the shore elsewhere and report to Constantinople what happened here, and let the coastal defense be deployed immediately, otherwise it will be too late, once the Huns break into Constantinople, oh my God, I can't imagine what will happen!" Hollenny got up and issued the order. Then he turned and walked towards his lounge at the docks.

"Yes, General!"

The military port of Poiraz was on the eastern shore of the strait, while Constantinople at this time occupied only the left side of the Golden Horn and a short section of the European part north of the Marmara coastline. The area is not large, but the distance from the military port of Poiraz to Constantinople is more than twenty kilometers, and Constantinople does not know that such a big thing is happening here. And it is located in the heart of the Eastern Empire. The high-level leaders of the Eastern Empire did not think that an enemy would fight here, so they did not build a beacon tower to warn them, so they could only cross the strait by boat and then go south to the gate of Haiqiang in the Golden Horn to open the gate.

After returning to his rest room on the dock, he waved off the guards, and sat alone in the room with a blank expression, he knew that he was finished, and no one could save him, and he was attacked by the Huns in the heart of the empire, and the entire warship in the military port was burned down by a fire. Moreover, ninety percent of the sailors and seamen of the entire fleet were burned to death, and this fleet could be directly canceled.

This is a gross dereliction of duty. Not only does he have to bear the responsibility, but the face of the Eastern Empire from the emperor to the ordinary people has been lost, in order to save some face for himself, Emperor Leo must take people to the knife, and this object must be him Hao Renni, maybe his family will be implicated.

Hollenny knew very well what he should do next, in order not to implicate the family, he had to take this responsibility alone, the dagger at his waist had been untied and placed on the table in front of him, he got up and took out a silver wine glass and a silver wine jug from the wine cabinet, and the jug contained red wine.

He poured himself a glass, and the silver wine glass containing the wine was placed on the table, and then he sat back in the chair, I don't know how long he sat down, he slowly stretched out his right hand and picked up the wine glass and drank the red wine in the glass, and after putting down the wine glass, he picked up the dagger on the table, and pulled it across his neck, and a stream of blood the color of red wine splashed out, and the dagger fell to the ground, and Hao Lenny also leaned his head back on the chair and did not move, but his body continued to convulse because of blood loss.

Before he died, he ordered his subordinates to send people to cross the strait in small boats to Constantinople to report the news, so that Constantinople should immediately prepare to defend against the enemy and prevent the Huns from entering the city, but what he didn't know was that Charlie Cao had already thought of this, and immediately sent warships to Barhan to go south along the channel to the Bosphorus Strait and lay a large number of fences and obstacles to prevent the Eastern Imperial Navy in the south from coming, and sent warships to blockade along the strait along the way, Prevent the survivors in the military harbor from taking small boats in the direction of Constantinople to report the news.

"General, the last general is leading people to patrol the channel of the strait, and found some people wearing the military uniforms of the Eastern Empire who are taking a small boat to cross the strait, and the last general sees that the identity and behavior of these people are very suspicious, so he ordered them to surround them and bring them back, please send them down!" A captain with a number of soldiers guarding a dozen or so soldiers reported to Balhan.

"Oh?" Balhan looked behind the captain who came to report, the dozen or so Eastern Empire Navy soldiers were all soaked, and their expressions were extremely wolfy, fortunately, it was July day, even if the temperature at night was very high, and the sea water was not very cold.

Barhan was about to speak, Charlie Cao came to his side and whispered a few words in his ear, he nodded and smiled after listening, but suddenly changed his face and shouted: "General Ben knows that you must have been sent to report in the direction of Constantinople, but you don't have this opportunity, come on, drag all these people down and cut off their heads and send them to their families!" ”

Someone immediately translated Balhan's words into Latin and Greek, and these soldiers of the Eastern Empire turned pale with fright after hearing it, and everyone was afraid of death, but for these soldiers it was at least much more daring than ordinary people, but what made them afraid was that Barhan was going to send their heads to their families, which was not something that ordinary people could bear, so these dozen soldiers immediately knelt down and begged for mercy in Greek.

During this period, the Byzantine aristocracy and official leaders were generally proud to be able to speak Latin, after all, the Byzantine Empire was the successor of the Roman Empire, and the language and living habits were inherited from the Roman Empire, while the people were proud to speak Greek, and most of the culture and living customs inherited the ancient Greek civilization.

Barr rarely had his own intimidation worked, and immediately said: "If you want to live, it's easy to say, but General Ben has a small favor that needs your help, if you can help, General Ben will not only not kill you, but will also give you freedom, and each of you can get a reward of ten gold dollars!" Well, that's the kind of coin! As he spoke, he took out a shining gold dollar.

The three coins issued by Qin Dong were very popular in the territory of the Eastern Empire, and there was a faint tendency to replace the circulation of the Eastern Empire's own coins, so many civilians and soldiers of the Eastern Empire liked to use this kind of coin, because this kind of coin was not only wear-resistant, but also contained a lot of gold, silver and copper.

After hearing what the interpreter said, after seeing the gold yuan in Balhan's hand, the eyes of the dozen or so captured Eastern Empire naval soldiers couldn't help but show greed.

An hour and a half later, Balhan led his fleet to the Golden Horn, where the speed of the fleet slowed down and slowly approached the Cape of St. Demidry, the left wall of the Golden Horn.

In addition to the inland walls, the walls of Constantinople were divided into two main parts along the long coastline to defend against enemies from the sea.

Part of it is the city wall on the coastline of Marmara, in addition to the pier and port, the sea wall of the Sea of Marmara is built on the coastline, 12-15 meters high, with ten city gates, three small city gates, 188 city towers, and a total length of more than 8,000 meters. The other part is the sea wall of the Golden Horn, with a total length of more than 5,000 meters, starting from the Cape of St. Demidry and ending in Brech, where it joins the land wall. The Golden Horn Sea Wall is built in a relatively inland area, 40 meters from the coast, the wall is 10 meters high, with 17 city gates and 110 city towers.

Throughout the history of the Byzantine Empire, the number of city guards was quite small, and the imperial guards and guards under the prefect were the only permanent armed city defense forces. Any threat to the city is dealt with by the regional field army before it is approached. In times of need, such as the earthquake of 447 AD or the invasion of the Avars in the seventh century, civilians were drafted and armed, or troops were drawn from the region, so there were not many defenders in Constantinople at this time.

A small boat docked at the Cape of St. de Midley, and a dozen men dressed in the uniforms of the Eastern Empire Navy and extremely wolf-shaped jumped from the boat and ran to the wall of the sea wall forty meters away.

"Open the door, open the door, I'll wipe you, open the door!" A dozen soldiers who ran to the sea wall raised their heads and shouted at the city wall.

"Yawn! Who the hell is barking down there? Don't want to live anymore? A head sticks out of the wall of the city gate and curses.

"Open the door, we are the naval soldiers of the Boylaz Military Port, our military port has been attacked by the Huns, open the door quickly, if you delay our time to report the news, once the above is investigated, I am afraid that your heads will not be protected!"

"What's going on?" An officer on the wall of the city gate walked to the edge of the wall and stretched out his head to grasp it, and the soldiers around him told him about the situation, and the officer was shocked when he heard it, and hurriedly reached out and took a torch and threw it down, and the torch fell to the ground and illuminated the clothes of a dozen soldiers below.

With the sound of "creaking", the city gate was opened, and a dozen soldiers strode into the city gate, and as soon as they entered the city, they saw an officer and several soldiers coming down from the city wall, and these dozen people wearing the clothes of naval soldiers immediately drew their knives and slashed at these people, and the officers and several soldiers were cut to the ground before they could react.

After occupying the city gate, a loud whistle sounded, and a large number of Hun soldiers ran from the sea and rushed into the city, "Rush, kill, kill into Constantinople, kill into the palace, capture Emperor Leo alive!" ”

Impenetrable, Constantinople, which had never been breached since the city was built, was thus breached. (To be continued......)