On October 3, after a day's rest, the Holy Alliance launched another attack on Galatia.

This time, the Confederates did the same, mobilizing a large number of artillery to collapse the gap that the defenders had barely used all kinds of debris to block again, and then pushed a large number of bulletproof plates and ladder carts towards the city wall.

This time, the Allies learned their lesson, and they decided to take the walls in a two-pronged manner, preventing the defenders from once again pouring fire on them by relying on their superiority.

After the rumbling of the cannon, the young Kemer jumped out of his chair almost reflexively, glanced at his two sisters, who were obviously frightened, suppressed his inner worries, ordered them to hide under the bed and not run around, turned around and rushed out of the house, locking it from the outside.

No sooner had he locked up than Turgut, a veteran of the same neighborhood as him, stood behind him and beckoned him to go with him to the city walls, which they had to assist in the battle, whether it was carrying ammunition or treating the wounded.

When necessary, they must also take up arms and fight against the evil infidels.

With the experience of a day ago, this time there were not a large number of civilians fleeing in a panic on the streets, only a small number of civilians rushed to their homes in a panic on the entire street, and more of them were strong men who responded to the conscription and rushed to the city wall.

By the time Kemer reached the breach, the shelling had stopped, the gap they had worked so hard to close had been blown down again, sawdust was flying, and several soldiers who had been unfortunate enough to be hit by flying objects fell to the ground and their lives were uncertain.

Woo –

The face of each soldier changed after the breach, and Kemer heard a veteran standing a few paces away from him whispering, "They're coming."

"Hey! What are you doing here? That's you!"

At that moment, a loud shout rang out a few steps away from Kemer, who followed the sound and saw the officer looking at him with eyes that could almost burst into anger, shouting, "Don't stay here, go up the wall!" The walls need you!"

"Kemer, go!" The veteran Turgut pushed him, grabbed him by the arm, and ran with the other strong men to the wall, the first time Kemer had climbed the wall.

After climbing the city wall, he was immediately shocked by the scene in front of him, the city wall was full of boxes and boxes of ammunition, there was a cannon emplacement ten meters each, and many soldiers were deployed around the gun emplacement, they were shirtless, shouting loudly, part of the wall was destroyed by artillery, hollow, and people piled up useless boxes as cover.

Soldiers armed with crossbows and muskets nervously loaded their ammunition against the wall stacks, musketeers cursed the infidels as they loaded their arquebuses, and on the ground, several unfortunate people who seemed to have died in the shelling just now lay quietly in pools of blood, and half of the head of one of the corpses had been cut off, and the brains were thus exposed to the air, and no one kept their eyes on them for a moment, as if it was a waste of time.

Beyond the walls, Kemer's eyes were cast over the battlements to the outside world, and beyond the walls of the city were endless camps, with flags flying over the camps, and the artillery positions outside the camps were shrouded in smoke that gradually dissipated, and countless soldiers in various uniforms poured towards the walls like waves.

Many of the strong men were just as shocked by what he saw, but the grumpy officers had no intention of letting them continue watching the show, and the officers kicked them in a rage and ordered them to carry the ammunition.

Soon, the artillery erected on the city wall opened fire on the attacking Christians, and in the deafening sound of the cannon, Kemer seemed to be able to feel the city wall under his feet trembling slightly, and the cannonballs flew out of the muzzle, rolled in mid-air and slashed into the dense crowd, directly plowing a bloody path, taking the lives of several coalition soldiers.

But soon, the empty space left by the dead soldiers was filled, and they rushed to the walls with the corpses of their comrades - motivated by faith, wealth, and hatred.

In the face of the artillery bombardment of the defenders, the allied infantry finally approached the city wall, and the defenders on the city wall immediately fired at the enemy who entered the firing range

Smoke from the nose spread over the city walls.

"Hang the ladder on the wall! Storm the walls! Storm the walls!"

Under the city wall, the officers shouted loudly and waved behind them, and a group of soldiers carrying the ladder shouted slogans and rushed to the bottom of the city wall, and they worked together to erect the ladder, so that it was erected on the surface of the city wall, and several people used the weight of their bodies to hold the ladder together, so that the defenders could not push it down from above, and then many soldiers stepped on the ladder and struggled to climb up.

After the ladder was erected on the surface of the city wall, the native troops on the wall also tried to counterattack, and the officers shouted and commanded their subordinates to lean out and shoot at the enemy on the ladder, or use the rolling log to throw stones downward, directly emptying the soldiers on a ladder.

"Keep climbing!"

A Spanish veteran who had fought the Moors had a sword in his mouth, and he climbed up the ladder with agility, and when he was less than two meters away from the top, he saw a Turkish musketeer venture out and aim his gun at him with the black hole.

In an instant, the Spanish veteran's scalp exploded violently, and the fatal death induction made him stiff, and before he could react, the musketeer pulled the trigger, and the projectile shot directly through the veteran's forehead, and before he could even scream, the whole person fell on his back and fell from several meters in the air.

The men below also sensed this, and they raised their guns to shoot at the enemies leaning out of the wall, trying to inflict fire suppression, covering the friendly troops on the ladder to continue climbing, and after the people below began to suppress the fire, the casualties of the Turkish soldiers who ventured to lean out rose in a straight line.

A young Turkish soldier holding a loaded arquebus, despite the reminder of the veteran next to him, leaned out and tried to shoot, but in the next second, several projectiles hit most of his body, and the confident soldier stiffened and fell off the battlement.

The veteran who had dissuaded him could only shake his head, pull the strip out of the barrel and insert it back into the groove where it should be, and then, after a round of gunfire rang out from below, he quickly poked his head out, stretched out the barrel, fired a random shot at the bottom, and quickly retracted it.

At the gap, the infantry on both sides also launched a dense salvo, and the Christians took out a large number of grenades, lit the fuse, and threw them at the Turkish positions behind the gap under the cover of friendly fire.

By the time they could react, the grenades exploded, and the Turkish soldiers on the ground fell one by one, and after the explosion, the Christians brandished various melee weapons and shouted to charge, trying to use the grenades to open the way into the city.

However, as they reached the top of the slope of the breach, they were greeted by a barrage of barrage from the defenders, who killed a large number of Christians who tried to charge, forcing them to retreat in defeat.

The will to fight was high in the garrison of Galatia, and under their resistance, the Holy Alliance failed to achieve results in several attacks, and had to sound the horn of retreat again.

Two successive siege failures did not make José feel depressed, he also knew that it was not easy to conquer a fortified city, and it was even more impossible to take a city in a short period of time, and it was common to besiege for months and years.

Over the next half month, the Holy Alliance launched several sieges on Galatia, but they were all repulsed by the defenders, but José could clearly perceive that the defenders' resistance was gradually weakening, and the artillery erected on the walls was also destroyed.

Compared with the active offensive on the side of the Holy Alliance, the Xia army and the Polish army appeared to be somewhat peaceful, except for the beginning of the feint attack with the Holy Alliance, they only fought a small fight, but did not fight a big fight.

It's not that they are not highly motivated to fight, it's just that the walls of Theodorius are difficult to conquer from the front, and they don't want to waste too much material and manpower to storm the walls, so it's better to wait for the Holy Alliance to take the Galatia region and make progress before going to war.

In any case, the news of the siege of Constantinnier by the Holy Alliance soon spread over most of Europa with the footprints of supply ships from the Italian states, no

This only increased José's prestige, but also increased the religious authority of the Catholic Church.

European theologians at the time could not help but sigh that this was a crusade of the New Age, in which Catholic soldiers came to Constantinnije in order to liberate their fellow brothers who had been oppressed by the pagans.

As for the Xia army, who also participated in this war, some theologians simply shamelessly declared that it was because the Chinese felt God's will and divine might, voluntarily joined the war, and fought against the infidels together with God's people.

They also cite the example of Guangdong, China, a decade ago, when the Yongli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty sent a letter of help to the Vatican from the Portuguese in Macao, asking the Pope to launch a crusade to free them from the iron heel of the Tatars.

This example is enough to prove that there is a soil for the spread of the Catholic faith in the Far East.

However, the views of these theologians have been ridiculed by many people, especially those who have come into contact with Xia Jun laughed the loudest, although they did not know Xia Jun well enough, but they still knew the pragmatism that Xia Jun admired, and for Xia Jun - or for Chinese, if it was really useful, they would not mind believing it, but if it was useless, even if it was not even a bird.

In any case, the victory of the Holy League in the war against the Ottomans inspired the vast number of Catholic countries, and at the call of the Pope, more and more Catholics spontaneously went to Constantinier, and the Pope did not hesitate to buy a large amount of supplies and ordnance to send to the front in order to increase his international influence through this war.

At the same time, in order to motivate the Holy League, and also to recognize José's merits, the Pope announced that the Greek region liberated by the Holy League would be granted to Don Juan José of Austria, and sent cardinals to canonize José as the King of Greece by God's grace, Duke of Athens.

When the bishop of the Papal States crowned Jose in the army and canonized him in the name of God as King of Greece and Duke of Athens, the onlookers and soldiers cheered José's name loudly, and the morale of the coalition army was boosted.

José felt the cheers of the soldiers, and he was keenly aware that this was the best time to attack, and after kneeling before the cardinal and accepting the bishop's crown of pure gold on his head, José raised the sword of the king, ordered another attack on Galatia, and announced in the name of the king of Greece that he would canonize those who had performed well in battle as his vassals or knights.

Although the time entered the mid-to-late 17th century, the nobility and knights were still very attractive to the commoners, and with José's promise and encouragement, the coalition army was full of morale and launched a fierce offensive against Galatia overnight.

José did not hide in a safe camp just because he was crowned king, but in order to show his bravery to his soldiers and to take the opportunity to increase his prestige, the brave new king and his soldiers rushed to the front line.

Led by José, the coalition forces fought the defenders in a gap in the walls of Galatia for several hours, eventually repelling the defenders and finally pouring the banners of Catholic countries into the city.

Subsequently, the coalition troops divided into two routes, all the way down the street, trying to take advantage of the victory to capture the Galata Tower, all the way to the city wall, and completely wipe out the enemy forces here.

Gunfire rages, and young Kemer is forced to flee the dangerous battlefield by Turgutra, a veteran who had been caring for him, before the walls fell, and return to a neighborhood that had been chaotic by the fighting.

The defeated soldiers who had been routed from the city walls had lost their discipline, and they seemed to realize that they could not hold the city, so they took off their military uniforms, took their weapons and went into the complex streets and alleys, and fled directly back to their homes.

After dodging several waves of defeated rebels in succession, they fled back to the alley where their family was located, and when they parted, the veteran Turgut looked at Kemer, who was evasive, and forcibly shoved a short sword that he had touched while he was in the chaos, and admonished:

"Galatia will soon be taken by the infidels, and you must keep this dagger on your body at all times

So I went out into the streets, hoping that I would see you again when the turmoil subsided."

"What about you?" Kemer gripped the hilt of his dagger and asked rhetorically.

"I still have an arquebus and sword at home, enough to protect myself, little one, go back quickly!"

After the veteran finished speaking, he pushed Kemer away, and ran in the direction of home without looking back, Kemer stood in place for a while, and saw a few figures appear on the corner of the street in the distance, before spreading his legs and rushing home.