Brahnay Palace.

At this time, His Majesty the Roman Emperor could only live here, and the palace was looted and the gold and silver of the roof decoration were scraped.

"Your Majesty, you can't hold Constantinople."

Yang Feng said.

And in front of him was Manuel II, who was already over half a hundred years old.

As for Her Royal Highness the Queen, she stood by.

The two are also old husbands and young wives, but they actually have several children, the future last emperor of Rome, Constantine XI, was only a few months old at this time, but John VIII was already in his teens, and they also had two daughters, the eldest of whom was older than John VIII. In addition, there was his nephew John VII in Constantinople at this time, and he was still regent when Manuel II went to old Rome for help......

The Emperor's House!

Standard.

Although the throne had fallen to the point of being a vassal of the Ottomans.

But that is also the king of kings, the sand of sand, the eternal ruler, the emperor of the Romans......

Amid the constant thunderous cannon fire outside, His Majesty the Emperor of the Romans sat there melancholy.

He had actually just returned from the city walls.

However, unlike the queen and Yang Feng who watched from the high ground in the city, he directly admired the whole process of the destruction of the Tower of Christ or Galata by the cannons, and he could even see the artillery positions of the Ming army by relying on the binoculars sold here by the merchants.

Dozens of cannons spewed flames, like dragons that destroyed everything.

And then everything shattered under the impact of the shells.

The impregnable Galata Tower, which was pierced directly by a cannonball, caused the upper part to collapse, and the tower, which was the core of the Genoese defense, was reduced to ruins.

Of course, that's how it was bricked.

The castles of Europe in this era could not stop the stone cannons.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have developed towards the fortress.

The cannonball that destroyed Galata also destroyed the courage of His Majesty the Emperor.

However, at this time, Zhu Di's army only crossed the Bosphorus Strait in the forward, and he set off in Jianzhou, where he also built a large number of warships in the past two years.

In addition, the Ottomans also had warships.

Eventually, these ships sailed 20,000 Zhao Sheng's army from Jianzhou, first landing on the west bank of the strait north of Sküdar, relying on the artillery fire of the Üsküdar battery, but this was completely redundant, because neither the defenders of Constantinople nor the Genoese of Pera had considered facing the battle. Even the 20,000 Zhao Sheng's army exceeded their ability to fight, and at this time, there were more than 10,000 soldiers in Constantinople, and the Genoese in Pera were only a few hundred mercenaries.

They have castles.

Just rely on the castle to hold on and wait for help.

Then the Zhaosheng Army, which successfully landed, directly pushed the artillery, especially the heavy siege artillery, to Pera.

A heavy siege cannon of twenty pounds of shells hit the Tower of Christ with a single shot.

The bombardment of the castle continues.

As for the subsequent hundreds of thousands of troops, they entered Europe in two ways, among which the 200,000 Western Asian coalition led by the Ottoman king Issa crossed the sea on a pontoon bridge at Canakkale, and then attacked Adrianople to collect his brother Suleiman. As for the Central Asian coalition led by Zhu Gaochu to build a pontoon bridge in Squdahl, and then crossed the sea to participate in the siege of Junbao, the landing of the Zhaosheng army was only to clear the perimeter of Junbao and prevent the Genoese from interfering with the construction of the pontoon bridge.

In addition, there is actually a way, in which Zhu Neng led the nomadic cavalry of various warat divisions into the Eastern European steppe, and then reinforced Tokhtamysh, and after making peace with the latter, he swept south from Ukraine to Romania and other countries.

The three roads will eventually meet Junbao.

According to this strategy, after this battle, all the Black Sea coasts were taken.

Then Zhu Di moved to Junbao.

Of course, it was not to move the domain, his domain was still Ili, but as the governor of the Western Regions, he moved his line to Junbao.

After seeing the power of the heavy artillery of the Ming army, Manuel II was in a heavy mood......

He made a serious mistake.

He should have knelt in the first place.

"I know you still have strong walls, you have foreign help, the Hungarians, the Serbs and the Ottomans of Adrianople have promised to come to the rescue, but what good can they do? Even Bayezid was captured, do you think Suleiman is stronger than his father? The Serbs were defeated last time, and they lost badly, can they win this time?

As for the Hungarians.

They can't even beat Tokhtamysh, how can they defeat the Ming Dynasty?

Who else do you count on?

Emperor of the HRE?

The King of France?

Which of them will come to your rescue? ”

Yang Feng said.

He actually wanted Manuel II to surrender.

Let the Roman Emperor kneel down to the Ming Dynasty and present the Roman version to the Ming Emperor, of course, from the ancient Roman Empire, from North Africa to Britain, and then the Ming Emperor can use the Roman Emperor's sacrifice to conquest these rebellions......

What, they have separated?

We don't care about this, he is the Roman emperor, he dedicated the empire to the Ming Dynasty, then the land of Rome is the land of the Ming Emperor, no matter what you did before, all of them have nothing to do with the Ming Emperor, you betrayed the Roman Emperor, the Roman Emperor is not capable of requisitioning does not mean that this land is not his. And he dedicated the land to the Ming Emperor, the Ming Emperor has the ability to requisition, then of course he has to clean up the rebellion, this is called reorganizing the mountains and rivers to rebuild Rome, survival and extinction, I Daming is good for this. Then Manuel II was crowned a Roman king, but his family was in the Ming Dynasty, and King Yan was regent of Rome, responsible for the next conquest, and the rest was thrown to Zhu Di, and he could play as much as he liked!

Later Rome was still Rome.

He is also the king of Yan.

But regency Rome.

He came as a prince to give the Roman king a vassal king regent, which was already a big face, and then gave the Roman king's family some money every year, even if it was the tax that the Roman people gave to the king, it was actually similar to the relationship between the king of the Japanese country and the Ashikaga family.

After all, it is impossible to crown Zhu Di as the Roman emperor.

And it is impossible to crown him the king of Rome, and his title of king of Yan is higher than that of the vassal king.

The Roman king belonged to the depreciated.

"Who the hell are you?"

Her Royal Highness said.

"Your Highness, it doesn't matter who I am, you just know I'm here to help you.

I don't want this city to be destroyed.

You can't win, don't say you can't win the attack of King Yan, even if you can repel him temporarily, he will come again and again, he will bring more powerful cannons every time, and bring more troops than once he comes. Maybe you don't know his identity yet, the current Ming is an empress, because she is the only descendant of the previous emperor, but she is only three years old now, and the actual ruler of the Ming is the aunt of the previous emperor, this princess regent. And what you have to face is King Yan, a prince, the princess's brother, one of her dozen brothers, his fief is in the west of the Ming Dynasty, so he is also the governor of the Ming Dynasty to conquer the west.

Do you understand?

What you are facing is not even the Ming Emperor, just a prince of the Ming Dynasty.

You are not facing the army of the Ming Dynasty.

The real Ming army he brought with him totaled 30,000 people, and the remaining hundreds of thousands were all servants, and the Ming Emperor currently had a million real Ming troops, and the last time King Yan conquered the Golden Horde, it was only 5,000 Ming troops who defeated Bayezet, and the rest were only servants.

And what scared Timur to death was only 80,000 Ming troops to reinforce King Yan.

Then Timur was scared to death.

So,"

Yang Feng looked at Manuel II.

"You are facing an empire that can destroy you with a single finger, and the population of the entire Constantinople combined is not even a single block in the capital of the Ming Emperor.

It's true.

The largest neighborhood in her capital, or Fang, now exceeds 100,000 people. ”

He said.

He's not lying.

The largest square in the capital, that is, the one under Wutai Mountain, has already exceeded 100,000 people.

"As for the issue of faith that you are worried about, there is no need to worry about this at all, the Ming Dynasty does not prohibit any faith, no matter what religion, as long as you submit to the Ming Emperor, you can continue."

He went on to say.

"Even if what you say is true, it will be useless after all, the most in this city is not my army, but the Venetians and the crusaders who follow them, if I want to sacrifice the city, they will kill me first."

Manuel II said.

He was telling the truth.

The main force in the city was the Venetians.

The latter had the equivalent of a colony in the city, and the knights and armed ronins from other countries were all in the company of the Venetians, and they would not listen to the Patriarch of Constantine, who were believers in the old Rome and not the new Rome. It can be said that he has been tied to the chariot forward, even if he knows that he is dying forward, he can only watch himself rush to death, and now it is not that he wants to defend Junbao, but other countries in Europe, to block the progress of the Ming Dynasty here.

They are to guard the gates of Europe.

So he could only be held hostage in the city and wait for destruction to come.

The sound of cannon fire outside was still thundering, and he could even make out the terrifying sound of the cannon firing.

"Your Majesty, as long as you are willing to sacrifice the city, I will go out to see King Yan, and it is up to him to decide what to do with the rest."

Yang Feng said.

Isn't that simple?

When the time comes, just open the door for Wang Shi.

Manuel II looked at the empress, who quickly took out a box full of jewels and looked prepared.

"This is your reward."

Manuel II said.

Yang Feng smiled.

"Your Majesty, this is an insult to me, I made it very clear, I just want to prevent the destruction of this city."

He said.

Understand!

Manuel nodded.

People don't look down on this bit of jewelry, and this tama is not something that a small box of jewelry can handle.

But it's also very reasonable.

After all, he was running for his family's life.

But he really doesn't have any money!

He was poor.

"Go, let Isabella come over and let her accompany Yang around the city."

Manuel II said.

It's good that he has a daughter.

(End of chapter)