The Sultan became more and more anxious after several days of lack of progress, and on this day, the Sultan finally decided, since he could not break the blockade directly, to bypass it, and pull the fleet directly into the Golden Horn by land, and break the enemy from within.

This is not without precedent, as early as the twelfth century, Saladin used galleys from the Nile to the Red Sea, and decades earlier, the Mamluks had used the same method.

Thinking of this, the Sultan directly called Khalil and directly commanded,

"You go and prepare the wooden rails, rollers, bulls and other supplies, remember, you have to prepare them in secret."

Khalil immediately responded, and immediately asked in confusion: "I wonder what is the use of Your Majesty in preparing this?" ”

Although it is a secret, Khalil as a vizier is entitled to know,

"I'm going to get the fleet inside the Golden Horn."

Khalil suddenly realized, and then added,

"Then you have to go to the Spring Valley."

"Oh? Why? "The Sultan did not expect Khalil to come up with effective proposals so soon.

"The valley of the springs is a cemetery of the Genoans, which is rarely visited in normal times, and it is not far from the Golden Horn, but it is only a small mountain to be crossed." Khalil said truthfully,

"We need to attract the enemy's attention elsewhere, though, as the Valley of Springs is too close to the Byzantine navy."

"That's fine, when the time comes, we will arrange an artillery company to bombard the enemy's navy, and then let the army cover, as long as the fleet enters the Golden Horn, I don't believe it, I can't beat it," Speaking of this, the Sultan's face was fierce,

"If I can't fight again, I'll nail Baltoglu to a stake and show them what will happen if they dare to disobey me."

Khalil sighed in his heart, and his mouth still explained: "Your Majesty, General Baltoglu will definitely be able to defeat the enemy." ”

"I hope so." The Sultan snorted coldly.

On 22 April, the day of the Sultan's preparations for the fall of the Byzantine navy, early in the morning, the Sultan pulled his artillery to a hill north of Galata and ordered the bombardment of Christian ships in the Golden Horn to begin.

In the midst of the panic, no one noticed that on the other side of the land, the warships were being dragged forward by a large herd of bulls and laborers, and the Sultan himself was here to supervise the smooth progress of the plan.

Watching the ship slowly come from the sea to the wooden rails on land, the Sultan suddenly had a peculiar idea,

"Men of Arms, board the ships, hoist the sails, and do what is right for you."

The sails were blown up by the sea breeze, and the colorful flags on the ship were waving in the wind, as if they were sailing on land, which was very Ottoman mythology, and directly boosted the morale of the soldiers.

As the warships entered the Golden Horn, the Sultan's long-planned plan was about to come true, and he could not bear the excitement in his heart, and the Sultan ordered: "Immediately surround the Byzantine ships and destroy them." ”

The fleet immediately rushed towards the ships anchored in the Golden Horn, and the crew could not have imagined that the enemy would appear from the inside, and for a moment there was chaos.

"Don't panic, line up and turn the ship's bow." Diado loudly reassured the army and waved his flag to direct the other ships.

Baltoglu would not give him this opportunity, and seeing that the enemy's formation was out of order, he immediately ordered the fleet to rush forward, wanting to take the enemy in one fell swoop.

"Don't stop, puff up the sails, and the whole army is ready to take overboard." Looking at the flustered fleet in the distance, Baltoglu laughed, "After today, my name will make the Byzantines fearful. ”

Soon, the Ottoman ships approached the enemy, and after a sparse rain of arrows, the Ottomans quickly hooked the Byzantine ships with hooks, and the war began to heat up.

"Come aboard, quick," Baltoglu kept urging, and one by one the soldiers in short clothes and with knives in their hands rushed forward one after another, constantly rushing towards the enemy, "the first to board will be rewarded with 10,000 ducats, for the glory of the Allah, rush!! ”

After saying that, he also took off his armor and rushed up in a single coat.

"Try to get as close as you can to the ships, and don't get surrounded by the Ottomans." Seeing that the situation was critical, Di Aido commanded, "Everyone go to the deck to fight, and now do not skimp on supplies, and the archers and musketeers do not stop shooting." ”

The Ottomans had one hundred and fifty or sixty ships surrounding a dozen Byzantine ships, each of which had an average of more than a dozen times as many enemies, but they could not all rush up for a while, and even then the situation still seemed precarious.

The battle lasted for more than an hour, and several times it was almost attacked by the Ottomans, but it was beaten back, and Diado knew the essence of naval warfare, condescendingly, and regardless of attrition, he barely resisted the enemy's attack,

But after fighting for so long, both sides were a little tired, the Ottomans were outnumbered, and Bartoglu ordered the troops to attack in rotation, while the Byzantines were weak and a little overwhelmed.

At this time, the iron chain that had been crossing the Golden Horn suddenly fell into the sea, and the Sultan was overjoyed, thinking that the Genoese saw that the situation was not right and was ready to abandon Constantinople.

The Sultan was thinking about such a post-battle disposition of the Byzantines and Genoya, and in his opinion, victory was already in the bag, when suddenly, the guards beside him shouted,

"Your Majesty, look, what is that?"

The Sultan turned his head, narrowed his eyes, and was shocked, it was a fleet, and it was a Byzantine fleet.

The number of new ships was relatively large, more than thirty of them, but most of them were small galleys, which posed no threat to the Ottoman fleet, and the most important thing was the large sailing ships, and the long iron pipes in front gave the Sultan some bad premonitions.

But Sudan had no choice but to rely on Bartoglu to deal with it himself.

Baltoglu also spotted this fleet, and he immediately divided half of his ships to meet the enemy, and even if reinforcements came, the Ottomans still had the advantage and could not make much use of the battle.

Baltoglu was so confident in himself and the Sultan's navy that he personally confronted the incoming enemy, and he stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the enemy's strange bow and gray hull, instinctively feeling that something was wrong.

The two armies were getting closer, and suddenly, several of the enemy's sailing ships spewed a large wave of flames in front of them, and several of the faster warships were suddenly plunged into a sea of fire.

Bartoglu was taken aback, but reacted quickly, "Disperse all and don't come close." ”

He waved the flag, and as the ships were about to disperse, an even more startling scene arose, as the enemy ships burst into flames and slammed straight at them.

"Oh, don't!!" The warships caught fire one after another, and the soldiers jumped into the sea with their whole bodies on fire, and the scene was like hell.

Watching the fleet be overwhelmed by flames, Bartoglu pursed his lips and tried to say something, but in the end nothing came out.