"Your Majesty, the army has advanced to the base of Galatata, but has met with stubborn resistance from the defenders."

As more and more coalition soldiers poured into the city, the walls of the city were cleared of the Turkish soldiers, and the soldiers either surrendered or died in battle, and the coalition soldiers were able to drive straight to the towering Galatai Tower in the center of the city.

The new Greek king José listened to the soldiers' reports and looked at the ancient fortress, and the Genoese who had returned to Constantinople after more than 300 years probably could not have imagined that the fortress built to ensure their interests in Constantinople would become the biggest obstacle to their counterattack against Constantinier more than 300 years later.

The troops of the Republic of Genoa were also involved in the crusade, and José wanted them to keep the blueprints of the Galata Tower, so that the coalition would not have to work too hard to conquer the fortress.

However, the Genoese commander was embarrassed after hearing José's thoughts, he shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "Your Majesty, I beg your pardon for how you could have placed your hopes on us, knowing that this fortress was built more than three hundred years ago, how could we have kept the blueprints for so long, and as far as I know, the blueprints were probably burned in the catastrophe of 1453."

José listened to him and waved his hand to let the Genoese commander leave, and he looked at the defenders who occupied Galata Tower and shot out the coalition soldiers, thinking about how to conquer the fortress.

At that moment, José was interrupted by a sudden commotion outside, and he looked out in displeasure, and saw several civilians tied up a Spanish soldier with black curly hair, who was shouting for a meeting with the king, and the soldier who was tied up looked ashen.

"What's going on?"

José shouted, walking towards the people, and a civilian led by him saw that José was still wearing the crown on his head to boost morale, and hurriedly greeted him, saluted Jose, and then pointed to the soldier and said, "Your Majesty, this man is trying to rob us, and he wants to *** my wife, we have arrested him, please make the decision for us!"

José furrowed his brow and looked at the soldier, who looked ashen and muttered something to defend himself, and the soldiers around him were all focused on him.

José suddenly realized that this was probably a challenge to him, and if he sided with the civilians, it would have an impact on the morale of the soldiers, but if he chose to favor the soldiers who committed the crime, it would also cause dissatisfaction among the civilians.

But......

He had been given the title of King of Greece by the Papal State, and his subjects were in Greece and not here, and José was not so stupid to offend the soldiers who fought with him for the sake of civilians who did not belong to him.

Thinking of this, José said lightly: "The citizens of Galatia also participated in the fight against our army, and they deserve to pay the price, pay to my brave soldiers, you have not paid, they have the right to collect it themselves, I cannot interfere."

After saying that, José waved his hand and asked the soldier to step forward and untie the bound soldier, and when the soldier saw José standing on his side, his originally gray face suddenly became vivid, and he stared viciously at the civilians who bound him, his eyes were full of murderous intent.

However, José was in front of him, and he knew that he should restrain himself, so he resisted the urge to take revenge on the spot, and decided to wait for them to go back to get revenge.

This incident also reminded José that the soldiers were brave enough to loot and loot the spoils after the city was broken, but now that Galata Tower has not been conquered, and the entire Galata District has not been occupied, there are already people who can't hold back and start in advance.

He had to curb this phenomenon, otherwise everyone would sneak out and rob, so how could he lead the troops?

In order to avoid dissatisfaction among the soldiers, he added that after taking the entire Galatia district, he would give the soldiers three days to move freely, and there was no limit to what they wanted to do during those three days.

José's order received a positive response from the soldiers, who began to take a more active approach to Galatata

Attack, in order to be able to capture the fortress more quickly and reap their spoils, the soldiers even dragged heavy 18-pounder and 24-pounder naval guns into the city, and fired several shots one after another at the iron-clad gate of Galata Tower.

Although the Galata Tower itself was extremely strong, its gate may be its only weak point, and the iron-clad gate was distorted by solid shells under the continuous bombardment of heavy artillery, but the Turkish army on the tower would not sit idly by and let the coalition forces unbridled shelling.

You must know that there are several artillery pieces deployed in Galatai Tower itself, and several of them are new artillery deployed when the Genoese were rebuilt more than 300 years ago.

Rumble –

The sound of artillery continued, and from time to time shells fell from the sky on the allied forces besieging Galatata, killing and wounding several people, and the nobles and generals of various countries stared at the commander from Genoa with complaining eyes, and the Venetian commander quickly withdrew his gaze, approached José's side, and proposed:

"Your Majesty, I propose to use a large amount of black powder to blow the gates of Galata Tower straight open, so that the soldiers can rush in without being beaten here in vain."

José listened to his proposal, thought for a moment, nodded in agreement, and ordered two wooden barrels filled with black powder to be prepared, and several daredevils in the army were gathered to carry the powder barrels to the city gates.

Under the promise of money and titles, José immediately signed up for the battle, and they took off their armor, and the two men rushed to the city gate under the cover of the fire of their own soldiers, carrying a powder keg.

The defenders in Galata Tower also noticed their movements, and the defenders screamed loudly, trying to turn their guns and shoot at the daredevils, but where were the coalition forces willing to let them shoot indiscriminately, under their firepower, most of the defenders in Galata Tower were dumb for a while, and could only shoot from the narrow shooting hole, unable to aim accurately.

Soon, the daredevils carried the powder keg outside the city gates, and their task did not include igniting it, so after putting down the powder keg, they ran out as hard as they could, and before they could run out of the safe range, the anxious soldier pulled the trigger directly at the powder keg.

In the next second, I saw a dazzling firelight flashing outside the city gate, and then everyone felt a violent tremor under their feet, and their ears were filled with a deafening explosion, and the power of the two powder kegs exploding together directly blew the iron city gate into pieces, and the heat wave and shock wave spreading to the surroundings could be clearly felt even by Jose outside the safety range.

Not to mention the few soldiers who hadn't run out yet, they were directly blown over by the heat wave gushing out of their backs and fell to the ground one by one.

"Oh! Fuck, damn it!"

The soldiers, who had fallen to the ground and almost broke a tooth, cursed loudly and struggled to get up from the ground, and as soon as they looked up, they saw the friendly soldiers in front of them cheering and raising their weapons to charge at Galatata.

The gates of the fortress were blasted open by a violent explosion, and the debris of the gate was scattered and scattered, and the Christian soldiers poured into the fortress to fight the defenders inside, and after less than an hour of fighting, they finally cleared the defenders of Galatai Tower and captured the fortress.

With the fall of Galatia, there was no last obstacle for the Christians to take over the entire Gartia, and they went deep into all corners of Galatia along the main roads, bringing the entire city under their control.

On November 11, the Holy Alliance occupied Galatia, and that night, José, in the name of the Coalition Commander, demanded that the residents of Galatia pay at least two Akche protection fees to protect themselves from robbery, but most of the citizens obviously could not afford the money, so they had to close their homes in vain and wait for the judgment of fate.

In the early hours of the 12th, seeing that only a small number of citizens paid the so-called protection fee, José no longer restrained the eager soldiers, and announced that the soldiers would be given three days to reap the spoils that should have belonged to them.

After the order was given, the soldiers immediately turned into jackals, tigers and leopards, and pounced on the houses like hungry wolves in the sheepfold, and they kicked away the streets along the street

Shops and houses, looting property and violating women amid the roars and screams of the inhabitants inside.

After giving this order, José then set his sights on the main city of Constantinnier on the other side of the river, and he personally climbed to the top of the towering Galatian Tower, looking out over the magnificent city from above, and even at night, he could still faintly see the outline of the famous Hagia Sophia.

"A great city." He praised, "She will soon be recovered by us."

"Your Majesty, if you can recover Constantinople, His Majesty may be crowned Emperor of the Romans." The cronies and nobles who came from Spain with him said in a fanatical tone.

"If that ever happens, I'll make you a duke." Jose glanced at him and said casually with a smile.

José didn't take his casual words to heart, but the nobleman remembered them deeply.

José then ordered his soldiers and craftsmen to work tirelessly overnight to cut off the iron locks and waterways of the Golden Horn so that naval warships could sail into the Golden Horn, and by the early morning of the 12th, the obstacles to the penetration of the Golden Horn were finally removed, and the coalition warships sailed into the Golden Horn.

Immediately, the coalition high-ranking forces set up a temporary headquarters in the Galatia region, and José invited the Polish and Lisan forces and the Xia army to send envoys to discuss the next offensive plan.

Constantinnia built long walls even on the side near the Golden Horn, but these coastal walls were relatively easy to conquer compared to the fortified walls of Theodorius.

Therefore, the allied high-ranking forces proposed to avoid attacking the walls of Theodosius, and that their own naval carriers could land outside the coastal walls and bombard the walls with the ship's guns to open a passage for the landing force.

Although José was impressed, he realized that if they only attacked from the coastal walls, even if their troops were able to break into the city, they would still be surrounded and annihilated by the defenders who rushed to support in time.

Therefore, Jose put this plan aside first, hoping to get the opinion of the Xia army and the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Federation, and the representative of the Xia army was the deputy general Zhang Pu, who had been instructed by Fu Xinghua before he came.

When questioned by José, Zhang Pu offered their opinion that they planned to storm the prominent section of the wall north of Constantinniye, in order to divert the attention of most of the defenders and allow the coalition forces to break through the coastal wall.

The plan of the Xia army was not brilliant, in contrast, the Poles did not even have a plan at all, they were inferior to other friendly forces in terms of will to fight or firepower, and the whole of Poland did not have much confidence in attacking this giant city.

Therefore, they could only follow Xia Jun's ass and act according to the plan they had discussed.

What else can José say about this? He had no choice but to ask the Xia army and the Polish army to continue the frontal attack, to contain the defenders as much as possible, so that they could make a breakthrough on the side of the coastal wall.

While the coalition forces were discussing the plan of attack in Galatia, Constantinier, Grand Vizier Koprulu expanded the scale of their mobilization in the city, and he knew that the beginning of the fall of Constantinople was the capture of Galatia.

Now that the Golden Horn has been breached, the superior navy of the coalition forces can threaten their coastal walls at any time, but before the siege of the city, he ordered the craftsmen to transport the artillery onto the wall and build it into a coastal battery, so that as long as the coalition navy approached, the artillery could fire at the enemy warships first.

However, this could not completely stop the pace of the coalition offensive, and after several negotiations with the commander of the Konstantiniye garrison, the Grand Vizier decided to evacuate the inhabitants living in several blocks close to the coastal walls, build barricades on various arterial roads, set up barriers, and use the complex streets and alleys of the city to block and deplete the coalition forces.

After giving the evacuation order, the Grand Vizier set his sights in the direction of Edirne in the north, where the Sultan's army was stationed, and if the Sultan had been able to lead his army to support, Konstantiniye's predicament would not have been so severe.

What he didn't know was that the Sultan did want to break through to the south, but the vanguard he sent fought several battles with the Xia army and the Russian army stationed in and around Edir, but they were defeated and retreated, and the Xia army and the Russian army stationed there were defeated

It became the biggest obstacle for them to go south.

As time passed, the Sultan's mood became more and more anxious, and the scouts he sent out kept bringing back the news of Konstantiniye's war, and after learning the news of the fall of Galatia, the Sultan finally could not sit still.

With the fall of Galatia, the coalition forces had a bridgehead to attack Konstantiniye, and he had to go south to support, not watch the capital be encroached upon and conquered by the enemy step by step.