Chapter 857
The people of Constantinople were so excited that the palace was open today for the supply of flatbread. Anyone who can speak Turkic can receive two flatbreads.
Of course, this kind of thing will happen, and a large string of people's heads hanging from the walls of the palace are caught.
Of course, there are such things that can't be caught, and sometimes people are just gambling with their lives. It's just that this time the chips for gambling are just two pies.
The square in front of the palace was crowded with people gnawing on flatbread, and the sound of their mouths shook. Despite choking and rolling their eyes, people refused to drink water.
It's a big bread that hasn't been eaten so open for days. Drink! Drinking water is a vice and must not be tolerated.
Under these conditions, it is not easy to eat flatbread, and no one knows when the next full meal will be. If you drink a full water, then you are really sorry for yourself.
From early morning to mid-morning, more than two million people are doing one thing, and that is eating. In addition to eating the flatbread, the people did not forget to express their most sincere gratitude to the Imperial City, thanking them for being able to eat a full meal at such a time as a time for the protection of His Majesty the Sultan.
But they soon had another piece of news!
His Majesty the Sultan will lead them out of the city, for there is no food left in the city. What they had just eaten was all the rations of Constantinople.
"Have you heard? His Majesty the Sultan is going to take us out of the city! ”
"Out of town? Isn't that a dead end? ”
"That is, everyone who left the city is dead, and you don't see the white bones under the city?"
"If I don't go out, going out is a dead end."
"That's right! If we don't go out, if we go out, we will die. ”
"It would be a death to wait here, if His Majesty the Sultan himself took everyone out of the city. That said, there really wasn't anything to eat in the city. If you want to live, only people eat people. But this man ...... Hehe, there will always be a day when you finish eating. ”
An old man with a white beard sat on the ground, chewing slowly on a piece of flatbread. Everyone stopped squeaking, the old man was right, waiting here would be a death.
Without food, we can only wait to starve to death. When the last food is eaten, cannibalism is inevitable. Everyone will become a cannibal, and they will become a person who is eaten.
It's cruel! But it's real!
"Eat this meal, it's probably the last meal of your life. There will be a lot of people who die today, and there will be a lot of people who will survive.
Although the old man lived to this age, he also wanted to live a few more years. However, if he lived like this, the old man would not want to stay up for a day, and it would be good to go out of the city and die a happy death. ”
The old man spoke again, and the people were even more silent.
Oh, yes! This day in the city is not a human life at all. Maybe the old man is right, living like this is simply better than death, it is better to go out and have a good time.
It's better to be killed by a bullet than to survive like this. At least, it would be enjoyable.
The silence soon spread, and people gathered to whisper. After muttering for a while, the voice invariably quieted down. No one has any interest in continuing to speak, even if they talk the most on weekdays, they have no interest in talking.
The sun was slowly coming overhead, and everyone was well fed. Men take care of their women, and women watch over their children.
The whole square looked at the gates of Dopkapi Palace, and at noon the day, the gates of Dopkapi Palace opened.
Suleiman II, dressed in cloth and boots, was the first to come out, followed by his concubine and children. The powerful warriors walked on both sides, kicking away from the guys who were looking with their heads stretched out.
The people in the square consciously gave way to an alley, and watched the people who were high up on weekdays walk in front of them.
Many people never dreamed that one day they would be able to get so close to His Majesty the Sultan.
In normal times, there would have been a lot of people shouting long live the Sultan. But now, people on both sides of the road are staring at the first family of the Ottoman Empire.
For the first time in his life, Suleiman II appeared in front of his subjects. Before that, the vast majority of people here didn't know what he really looked like.
Try to straighten your spine and walk in the corridor that people automatically let out. The citizens of Constantinople on both sides watched Suleiman II walk in front of him in a daze.
There was no flattery, no one was scolded, everything was so calm.
For the first time in his life, Suleiman II walked on the roads of Constantinople in this way. Under the gaze of millions of people, he walked firmly.
The concubines behind him began to sob, and the concubines holding the child hugged the child even tighter. Someone couldn't stand the atmosphere and fell to his knees with weak legs.
The bear-sturdy warriors grabbed the fallen men and drew razor-sharp Damascus steel knives. The steel knife arced in the sunlight, and then blood flew two or three meters high.
The beautiful head didn't look good when it fell to the ground, and the unkempt hair wrapped around the head, and you could only see Sensen's white teeth gnawing on the dirt on the ground.
No one paid attention to the corpses, and the line went on like this. As long as there are people who are left behind, the guards are responsible for cutting off the heads.
Soon, the queue was much smaller. There were also many corpses on the street, including not only the sons and daughters of Suleiman II, but also his favorite concubines.
The youngest son, Conte, grabbed the belt of Sultan Suleiman and begged his all-powerful grandfather to save him. But his omnipotent grandfather didn't save him, but tried hard to get rid of him.
The child was pushed down and then taken away by the wolf-like guards. Today's executioner is so entangled that he never thought that one day he would cut off so many beautiful heads.
If the head is cut too much, it will be numb, and they will not look at the faces of those concubines, and they will be stabbed on the head when they are dragged over. Some of them were crooked, directly splitting the human head in half. There are also the first knives that were not chopped to death, and the second knives were slashed, and the third knives ......!
Suleiman II walked the streets with a numb face and without joy or sorrow. The subjects on both sides watched their king walk out of the huge gates of Istanbul.
His Majesty the Sultan walked in the front, and naturally there were people behind him, and with the first came the second, and then the third, and the fourth, ......!
The Black Pressed men followed Suleiman II out of the gates of Istanbul, thinking that the Ming army was firmly walking.
There are more and more people following Suleiman II, they are like walking corpses, quietly following Suleiman II, like a group of zombies, numbly following Suleiman II.
What will be the future, what will they encounter on the road, and where should they go after the fall of Constantine. There are too many things on your mind, and in the end, you can only go down and strike. Then, man becomes the walking dead.
"Handsome! Dashuai, no. ”
Li Xiao drank a little wine last night, and then talked about life with a few Slavic beauties. It may be that I have been talking for a long time, and my physical strength is a little unable to keep up, and I haven't gotten up at noon.
Li Hu ran in in a panic, ignoring several Slavic women covered in red fruits. directly woke up the sleeping Li Xiao!
"What!" Li Xiao roared angrily, anyone who was disturbed by his dream would have the gas to get up. What's more, at this time, Li Xiao didn't have a trace of cloth on his body.
Although they are brothers, they are still not used to seeing Li Xiao with sincerity like this.
"It's out! It's out! Li Hu saw that Li Xiao woke up, and yelled in a hurry.
"What's coming out?" Li Xiao asked angrily.
"The Turks, the Turks came out of the city. It was their Sultan who took the lead! ”
"There's something great about the Sultan, he just killed the thing. This kind of thing also asks me, our goal is to kill all the people of Constantinople. In the future, we will no longer be able to become the overlord here. Li Xiao looked at Li Hu with dissatisfaction, ready to continue sleeping.
"But behind him, with all the people of Constantinople."
"The whole city? It's all out? ”
"Yes! Millions of people are approaching our position step by step. Several were shot and killed, some ran backwards, but many more went forward. It's already within the range of the artillery, and you can tell me whether to hit or not. "Although Li Xiao has ordered, those who come out of the city will not be killed.
The first was only a sporadic escape, ranging in number from a few to a few dozen. Now it's different, with more than two million people pouring out at once.
These are two million people, not two million pigs.
Even if it is two hundred pigs, it must not be killed just by saying that it is killed. If that were the case, the executioner would have been exhausted to death.
"This shit!" Li Xiao scolded and stood up and put on his pants.
With the help of the rebellious tribes of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople was besieged like an iron barrel. Li Xiao's purpose is to trap these two million people alive.
As long as these two million people died, the Ottoman Empire would become the empire of legend.
I didn't expect it, I never expected it. Li Xiao thought of everything, but he didn't expect Suleiman II to come up with such an idea.
Killing two million people with starvation is not the same as killing two million people with guns.
In any case, Li Xiao could not have ordered the soldiers to shoot two million people. It takes a lot of nerves! Li Xiao was very afraid, his soldier Ao survived life and death on the battlefield, but in the end he went crazy because he killed too many people.
Even if he is not crazy, this kind of person with a distorted personality will return to Daming, which will be a great security risk. Once the inner violence factor is activated, God knows what will happen.
"Go and talk to the Ottoman sultans, I agree with their surrender. But at the moment they could not come near my position, and in an hour they would bring their Sultan to me. Li Xiao commanded angrily while getting dressed.
When the Sultan came to see him, what was he going to do? Li Xiao didn't expect it, but the most important thing now is to prevent the enemy from approaching his position.
As soon as two million people rushed through the cordon, the soldiers would have opened fire.
That's the way it is on the battlefield, as long as the gunshots go off, the only way to stop is for everyone to fall to the ground.
"No!" Li Hu answered and hurriedly ran out to give the order.
There was already tension on the Ming army's position here, and countless Ming army officers blew their whistles and drove their troops into the trenches. The artillerymen began to prepare for firing according to the calculated shooting elements, and as soon as they found out that the Turks were out of the city, the carriages sent to fetch the shells set off.
Suleiman II was still walking, slowly but firmly.
He knew he needed to walk slowly, so as to give General Ming time to react. Otherwise, if you take someone directly to the other person's position, you will definitely die ugly than a pig.
More than a dozen war horses ran out of the Ming army's position, and the corners of Suleiman II's mouth twitched.
For the first time, the enemy army has come out, which means that they are willing to negotiate. After seeing the comer clearly, the corners of Suleiman II's mouth twitched again.
The leader of the Yezidis, Kuriba, was once as docile as a pug. His daughter was behind him, and he personally sent her to him to become his concubine.
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Unexpectedly, it was him who came out to talk to me today.
"Your Majesty! The Generalissimo of the Ming Dynasty has an order, and he agrees to your surrender. But stop at once. See that over there? Just cross that forest, the cannonballs will fall, and there will be rivers of blood here. Kuriba pointed to a forest not far away.
"Kuliba! I really didn't expect that the person who came to talk to me today would be you. You are so trusted by the Ming people, did you give your daughter to the generalissimo of the Ming Dynasty again? Suleiman II looked at Kuriba playfully.
Kuliba's old face turned red, and he really gave his two daughters to Li Xiao and Li Hu.
"Your Majesty! There is no way to do this, the Yezidis are very weak and can only rely on powerful forces. It is clear that this is no longer the world of the Turks. The Generalissimo of the Ming Dynasty is the one who really has the final say here!
I hope that Your Majesty the Sultan will think clearly that you now have to think not only about yourself, but also about the life and death of more than two million Turks behind you. An hour later, the Generalissimo of the Ming Dynasty will meet you. Think about it and try to get the best for the Turks right now. ”
"Kuliba! I'm impressed by what you've said today, and if you had shown such a good mind, maybe I'd have reused you. Suleiman II was a little surprised, could it be that the person in front of him was the same Kuliba who wanted to die on the belly of a woman?
"Huh! Your Majesty, if I had behaved today, I'm afraid my bones would be cold. You Turks will never allow a single wise man to appear in the tribe. Compared to you, Da Ming is much more open. They like smart people, so I became smart.
Again, the weak can only cling to the strong and survive. This is the right of the strong and the sorrow of the weak. ”
"Excellent! I remember Kuriba, you are a real wise man. Suleiman II bowed deeply to the Curiba, whom he despised so much.
Wise man! Respectable.