The coalition forces broke the main force of the Turkish army outside the inner city of Edir, and the good news of taking the inner city of Edil was soon sent outside the city of Constantinier.

In order to have the effect of attacking the heart, Fu Xinghua ordered this news to be transcribed in several lingua franca in Ottoman territory, and a simple temporary trebuchet was built on the spot, which was used to throw it into the city.

Of course, just leaflets could not be effective, Fu Xinghua also ordered Daniel Zhang to send the prisoners captured on the battlefield, after the prisoners were delivered, he ordered to use a temporary trebuchet to throw leaflets into the city, and at the same time escorted those embarrassed prisoners of war to the front of the battle, so that all the defenders could see them.

When the defenders saw this scene and learned of the crushing defeat from the leaflets that had been thrown from the sky, they were convinced of the leaflets, and their morale was dealt a heavy blow.

Not only that, but many leaflets were thrown into the city and picked up by the bewildered citizens, who were horrified by it, and the defenders on the city walls were all mouth-shut, and it didn't take long for most of Konstantinniye to spread the word about the defeat of Edirne.

The so-called three people became tigers, this rumor became more and more outrageous under the word of mouth, and even turned into the Sultan was killed in the Battle of Edirne, the army was completely annihilated, and the citizens outside spread like this, and even some nobles and bureaucrats were panicked.

When the Grand Vizier heard about this, he immediately realized that if this rumor was not suppressed, it would be a fatal blow to the morale of all the defenders, so he ordered a strict investigation of the rumor-mongers, and severely punished those who discussed the matter, and after hanging several people in succession, no one dared to continue to discuss the matter.

However, this did not help the defenders, as the Allied offensive began immediately, and in the early morning of the 18th, under the cover of mist, warships sailed into the Golden Horn, and the Allied forces used heavy shipboard artillery to bombard the walls built on the coastal area.

The bombardment of the Golden Horn was like a signal, and then, in the bulge north of the city, in the Confagne district of Constantinople, the Xia army also mobilized all their artillery to launch a stormy artillery attack on one of the walls.

The deafening sound of artillery enveloped the entire city of Constantinille, citizens hid in their homes, feeling the shelling that made the earth tremble, and the resplendent Hagia Sophia also housed a large number of refugees who had taken refuge in the city, most of whom had fled into the city before the siege and had no place to go.

"Samauddin, take your men to the city wall and defend it, and use the artillery to fight back!"

In the continuous sound of artillery, the commander of the subordinate company of the Konstantinye garrison listened to the orders of his superiors, loudly agreed, and led the soldiers who obeyed his orders to quickly climb the coastal wall, the situation of the coastal city wall was not very good, the city wall here was already low and weak, and it was bombarded by the heavy naval guns of the Holy Alliance, and countless potholes and cracks appeared on the surface of the city wall.

The soldiers on the city wall are still operating the city fire cannon to return fire, but the poundage of the city fire cannon is generally relatively small, and the damage to the enemy warship is very small.

Feeling the shaking under his feet, Samauddin knew that the city wall could not stay any longer, and at this moment, the commander of the regiment ordered all the defenders on the city wall to withdraw to the second line of defense in the city to prepare for battle, and the Turkish soldiers hurriedly took their weapons and evacuated the city wall.

Not long after they had evacuated, they heard a deafening roar behind them, a puff of dust swept from behind, and Samaruddin looked back to see the wall on which they had just stood collapsed, and countless fragments of dust rushed to the surroundings.

A few seconds later, the rubble and clods of earth from the collapse of the city wall rained down from the sky and smashed on the retreating soldiers, and some of the unlucky soldiers were smashed to their heads and bled out, and screams rang out from time to time.

Soon, they withdrew to the second line of defense, the barricades deployed on the streets of the first block behind the walls, which they blocked with a large number of obstacles, and placed a light 6-pounder gun in the middle

to increase firepower.

After Sama'uddin withdrew to the defensive line, one of the remaining company commanders approached him, saluted him, and said, "Captain Sama-Uddin, this line of defense will be handed over to you, and we have been ordered to go and reinforce the third line of defense."

"What? Just one hundred and twenty men under my command?" Samauddin asked disapprovingly, frowning.

"No, at least two companies of soldiers will come and join you when the enemy enters the city." The officer saluted again, and turned to leave, regardless of Samauddin's reaction.

Seeing him leave, Samauddin cursed, looked at his soldiers, and shouted, "All right, guys, check your weapons, if something goes wrong in a moment of fighting, it will be you who are unlucky!"

As he finished speaking, the soldiers checked their guns, most of the muskets of the garrison regiments stationed in the capital were more expensive flintlock muskets, and only a few of them still used heavy arquebuses.

That is, the prototype of the Ming Dynasty's imitation of Lu Mi Gong.

The coalition forces were not in a hurry to land, and they shelled one after another for more than an hour, and after collapsing many gaps, José finally ordered the infantry to land.

With his order, the Venetian landing ships rushed to the land on the side of Constantinille, and the Venetians drove the ships directly to the beach, leaving the ships aground, and then opened the baffle, and the soldiers who were blue because of seasickness stepped on the solid land, and suddenly became alive, and they screamed and rushed towards the gap.

In addition, some of the tall Venetian landing ships erected long ladders directly after approaching the beach, allowing the soldiers to rush into the coastal walls and fight the few defenders left behind on the walls.

At 10 a.m., a large number of Christian coalition soldiers landed on the beach, where they lined up and brought a large number of siege equipment to land, including bulletproof plates and artillery.

"They're coming!"

In the second line of defense, the soldiers in charge of the sentry saw a large number of enemies pouring into the gap, raised their voices and shouted a warning, the soldiers who were chatting and farting in the barricade to relax suddenly stopped talking, and came to the combat post with a serious face, Samauddin stared at the surging enemy, subconsciously swallowed his saliva, and shouted: "Listen to my command, raise your gun to aim, and prepare to shoot!"

Hmmm-

The soldiers raised their muskets and took aim, they nervously watched the enemy who was getting closer and closer, as a member of the garrison of the capital, they did not usually have the opportunity to fight, at most they only went to clear out the bandits who had fled to the Thrace region, most of them were on the battlefield for the first time.

"Don't shoot without my orders, or I'll kill him right away!"

Samauddin looked at the nervous subordinates and sternly warned them, and the soldiers couldn't help but lift their hearts when they heard it.

"Usmafa, is the cannon loaded?" Samauddin asked, looking at the artilleryman operating the 6-pounder gun.

"Reloaded, ready to shoot." The artillery officer named Usmafa replied.

"Then let's fire!" Samauddin decisively ordered and said.

As soon as he finished speaking, the artilleryman picked up the torch and lit the cannon fuse, accompanied by a faint sound of the fuse burning, and after a few breaths, a blinding fire exploded in front of the muzzle of the cannon, and a deafening cannon sound rang out, and a solid bullet carried a powerful force enough to destroy all living beings and flew towards the Allied infantry advancing through the street.

"Shelling! Dodge!"

The moment the cannon sounded, some of the veterans who reacted quickly rushed directly to the ground to dodge the cannonballs flying in front of them, and when the soldiers who were still stunned in the middle of the street reacted and wanted to dodge, the cannonballs had already whistling and smashing over, and they were forced to jump out of the crowd.

Several coalition soldiers who were directly hit were shattered, and the severed limbs and internal organs were scattered like a torrential rain, and only one shell went down, and the streets were as cruel and terrible as purgatory on earth.

"Reload! Quickly loaded

Fill!"

After firing a round of shells, without bothering to check the results of the battle, the artillery officer Usmafa hurriedly urged his soldiers to reload, while Samauddin, who was supervising the battle on the side, looked at the enemy who was tortured by the artillery, his face was happy, brandished his saber and shouted: "Shoot! Fire!"

Bang bang bang –

In a series of crackling gunfires, the coalition infantry, whose formation had only been scattered and disrupted by shells, was killed and wounded by oncoming projectiles, and they wailed and fell in pieces like ears of rice after autumn, and the veterans who fell to the ground to avoid the shelling also resolutely raised their guns to return fire at the Turkish troops behind the barricades.

"Retreat! Retreat!"

Under the volley of the Turkish army's muskets, the coalition forces suffered a lot of losses for a while, and the officers shouted loudly, ordering the soldiers to withdraw out of the range of enemy fire, and the soldiers turned and retreated in panic, and from time to time projectiles flew from behind, knocking the soldiers who turned and retreated to the ground, and blood splattered.

A similar scene occurred throughout the second line of defense, where the coalition soldiers were hit head-on by the defenders as they approached, and the defenders, in addition to relying on the barricades to resist, would also put *** in the houses on both sides of the street, and when the coalition forces approached, they would suddenly emerge from the windows, raise their guns and shoot grenades and throw grenades and canisters that turned out of the warehouse.

Rumble –

For a time, there was an explosion in the street near the coastal wall, and the allied infantry was blown up by grenades and Nafa oil cans thrown from civilian houses, and they cried and cried, and they hugged their heads and ran away, compared with grenades, Nafa oil cans, which had been used by the Arabs for nearly a thousand years, were more terrifying.

The flames from the explosion of the oil tank directly engulfed everything around them, and the flames licked the clothes and flesh of the soldiers like demonic tentacles, and from time to time the flames suddenly exploded - the explosion caused by the ignition of the ammunition packs on the soldiers' bodies.

The attack of the Holy Alliance coalition was temporarily frustrated, and on the other side, in the Brachne district, the Xia army mobilized all the hundreds of artillery pieces at once to launch a fierce bombardment on the walls of Theodosius, and countless solid cannonballs roared and smashed into the ancient tall walls, making the walls tremble constantly in the rumbling cannons, even the soldiers in the army, who have always been known for their bravery, could not suppress the fear in their hearts, and curled up with their heads in their hands to pray that the shelling was over.

This time, in addition to their own artillery, the Xia army also requisitioned most of the artillery brought by the Polish-Lithuanian Federation and the Ottoman heavy artillery captured from the Turkish army.

Of course, the defenders were not willing to be bombed, and they also operated the city's anti-Japanese artillery to fight back, but the artillery deployed on the walls of Theodosius was basically light cannons of less than 10 pounds, and the range was far less than that of the besieging side, and even if the shells they fired could land on the artillery positions of the Xia army, they had become soft and powerless.

The artillery bombardment of the Xia army lasted for nearly an hour, in order to prevent the barrel from heating and exploding, they could only take turns firing the cannon in the back, and the firepower was greatly weakened, but even so, the damage to the city wall was still extremely considerable.

A large number of shells did not only fall on the city walls, but also many shells fell over the city walls, destroying the houses and streets of the Brachne district, which was like the end of the city for the citizens who had not yet been evacuated.

A large number of shells fell into the city from the sky, destroying the sturdy houses like building blocks, and the houses collapsed one after another, and the citizens scattered screaming and fleeing, and many people were buried deep under the collapsed houses before they could escape, and their lives and deaths were uncertain.

After nearly an hour of shelling, this section of Theodosius's wall was badly damaged, and the surface of the wall was covered with dense potholes, and there were very conspicuous hideous cracks between the potholes, and the defenders were horrified to find that the wall under their feet was actually beginning to crumble, and the wall, which had never collapsed since its completion, seemed to be about to meet its end today.

Aware of this, the defenders were so frightened that in order to avoid unnecessary casualties among the soldiers and being buried by the collapsed wall, the commander in charge of guarding the Brachne district ordered the evacuation of the guards from this section of the wall.

After the soldiers were evacuated one after another, at 13 o'clock in the afternoon of the 18th, with a loud rumbling sound, this section of the city wall finally could not withstand the pressure

The scene of the collapse of the tall city wall was shocking, and the defenders screamed with fear, while outside the city, the Xia army cheered loudly in unison, and they were ready to attack the city at any time.

Fu Xinghua watched this scene with his hands behind his back, he did not know what the fall of the wall of Theodosius represented, this day was of great significance to Western countries, and it was destined to go down in history.