(The previous chapter was blocked.,I don't know which red line I touched.,Waiting for the modification to be released)

"Pick up the speed, we must get to the third line of defense as soon as possible!"

Mahmoud and his men, who had withdrawn from the walls, weaved through the streets of Brahne, retreating in the chaos and retreating through the second line of defense into the city.

They had only time to recuperate before they were called upon to rush to the third line of defense to assist in the defense, and the lack of personnel in the company had to be supplemented by a few men from the militia.

Bang –

A series of gunshots rang out in the distance, and the soldiers were already familiar with them, from the city walls to the neighborhoods for almost the whole day, the only difference was that they were far and near.

The soldiers did not stop at the sound of the gunshots, and they continued to move forward, and passed several blocks in succession, and on the way they could see some citizens with their families and large bags on their backs hurrying away, and they saw that the faces of the muskets were visibly frightened, and they did not dare to stop, and they hurried away.

A block away from them, soldiers of the Korean Brigade in the Eighth Town dropped the body of the civilian who had attacked them and continued their march under the leadership of the company commander, Kim Jae-seok.

However, they soon realized that they had no map, and it was easy to get lost in this complex neighborhood - to be precise, they were lost now, and their mission was to keep moving forward, looking for the headquarters of the Turkish army in the Brachne district, but now they had no idea where they were.

"Fuck!" Kim Jae-seok scolded, he looked in the direction of the time, and then looked at the street in front of him, so he could only stubbornly continue to move forward.

If you look down from above, you can see that the two teams are coincidentally heading in the same direction and will soon meet head-on, unaware that the battle is coming.

Mahmoud led the team to the corner of the street, he turned around the corner defenselessly, and the next second, he saw a group of soldiers in red uniforms dozens of meters in front of him rushing towards him, and the eyes of both sides naturally collided with each other in mid-air, and they were both stunned in place.

But in an instant, both sides reacted, Mahmoud fell to the ground reflexively, and the soldiers following behind him subconsciously raised their guns, and before they could fire, the Xia army on the opposite side had already pulled the trigger first, and several projectiles flew head-on, and immediately shot these Turkish soldiers.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

"Array up to meet the enemy, shoot!"

Jin Zaishi shouted loudly, brandishing his saber and ordering his soldiers to shoot, and the Xia army's side fired a chorus of gunfire, although the Turkish army quickly dispersed to find cover, but several people were shot and fell.

After they dispersed, the Turkish soldiers dared to raise their guns and return fire, while Mahmoud got up from the ground and returned to his men in embarrassment, taking advantage of the enemy's view of the smoke from the burning gunpowder.

"Damn it, these damn Xia people!" Mahmoud cursed in shock, if he hadn't reacted quickly and lay down in time, he was afraid that he would have died directly just now.

After cursing, he picked up an ownerless flintlock pistol on the ground, confirmed that there were projectiles inside, and raised the gun to shoot at the other end of the smoke-filled street.

"Gaetani, you take twenty men into the house to find a vantage point to shoot!"

Seeing the strong frontal fire of the Xia army, Mahmoud could only hit the houses on both sides of the street, and under his order, the soldier named Gaetani answered, and led twenty men to rush to the houses on one side of the street with the cover of gunsmoke, and they forcibly broke open the closed gate with the butt of their rifles, and rushed in.

To their surprise, there were still civilians hiding in the dwelling, and when they saw the heavily armed soldiers entering, they all hugged each other in fear and huddled in the corner, and Gaetani did not bother to reassure them, and rushed up to the second floor with the soldiers, and occupied the windows along the street.

"Reload your ammunition and shoot at my command."

Gaetani commanded the soldiers,

The soldiers set their muskets on the ground, poured gunpowder and projectiles into the barrels, and after a few dozen seconds, they finished reloading, poking their muzzles out of the windows and aiming at the enemy in the middle of the street.

"Fire!"

After everyone finished loading, Gaetani gave an order, and twenty-one muskets were fired at the same time, and the projectiles fired instantly killed more than ten Xia soldiers on the street, and even the company commander Jin Zaishi was shot in the left arm by a projectile, and he was bleeding on the spot.

"Ahh Fight back! Shoot back!"

The soldiers of the Korean brigade on the street shouted, and some of them hurriedly raised their guns to shoot at the windows, but all the projectiles they fired hit the window edges and walls, and did not cause any damage to the Turkish troops inside.

The Xia army was fired from two directions for a while, although they were all veterans of the battlefield, but there were still many casualties from the fire from both directions, and the company commander was wounded, so they had to temporarily retreat and stop the exchange of fire with the enemy.

Seeing that the Xia army was repulsed, this group of Turkish troops immediately cheered, and they fired a few more shots in the direction of the Xia army's retreat before they gathered one after another to count the casualties.

The battle in the city continued, and as more and more Xia troops poured into the city from the breach, the pressure on the second line of defense of the Turkish army was even greater than before, and the Xia army mainly opened the way with grenades.

In the shouts of the grenadiers, grenades larger than adult heads were thrown into the barricades, blowing up the defenders behind the barricades, and before they could recover from the explosion, the grenadier charge directly overthrew them in a wave.

It lasted until dusk on the 18th, when the Xia army broke through the second line of defense of most of the Turkish army and continued to advance along the streets, and as the sky darkened, the gunfire in the city gradually subsided.

Zhang Pu believed that night was not the best time to attack, and that the complex terrain of the city was very favorable to the defenders, and they did not know much about the streets of the city, and they would only lose their way if they rushed into the neighborhood, and they were crushed in the ambush of the defenders in street fighting.

Therefore, Zhang Pu ordered the offensive to be stopped, and the soldiers were asked to build defensive lines in the neighborhoods they were currently occupying, to consolidate the neighborhoods they were currently controlling, and to have the military doctors enter the city to take the wounded out of the city and treat those who were lightly wounded.

The Holy Alliance and the Xia Army, who landed on the Golden Horn and launched the attack, made the same decision, and the stubborn resistance of the Turkish army during the daytime battle cost them a large number of casualties, and several soldiers fell almost every time they pushed forward, so many casualties made them full of fear of the city in the dark night.

Therefore, they decided to stop the offensive and allow the soldiers to rest, regain their morale and strength, and prepare for the next day's battle.

In order to restore morale and motivate the soldiers, King José of Greece led a group of high-ranking generals from Galatia to the front line to inspect.

Their presence did play a part, so that the morale of the soldiers was restored a lot, but it was also noticed by the Turkish side, the defenders hiding behind the barricade listened to the cheers from the enemy's side, and looked over curiously, and the defender commander also sent scouts to investigate, after learning that the enemy's high-level patrol the front line, the defender commander suddenly had a bold idea.

That's right, it's a raid!

If you can take advantage of the enemy's high-level patrols to attack and kill them, the Holy Alliance's offensive will collapse and there will be no threat again.

With this in mind, the defending commander did not waste time in informing the authorities, but formed a commando team of elite veterans directly in the army at the front, who armed them with flintlock pistols and grenades, and left the line without hesitation under the promise that the defending commander would give their families a generous pension, and took advantage of the cover of night to touch the line of defense of the Holy Alliance side in the city.

More than ten minutes after the assault team set out, the position of the besieging side suddenly burst into gunfire, followed by several piercing explosions, the sound of grenade explosions was particularly harsh in the silent night, and attracted everyone's attention to the direction of the battle.

The commander of the garrison looked at the direction of the battle with some nervousness and expectation, and he wished that he could put a pair of wings on his back and fly there to confirm the night attack with his own eyes

How it turned out.

However, after those few explosions, only a few more gunshots rang out on the opposite side before it fell completely silent.

It was not until the next day that the defenders finally learned of the results of the night attack, and their assault team did not complete their mission, although they managed to break through the Allied lines, they were soon surrounded by reinforcements, and at the last moment of their lives, they desperately lit the fuse of the grenade, killing themselves and some of the surrounding enemies.

José was so enfurbited by the surprise plan of the defenders that the next day he ordered another fierce assault on the city's defenses, this time risking the artillery to the streets and shelling the barricades, despite the threat of enemy artillery.

Although the barricade can easily resist the fire of the projectile, it is still as weak as paper paste in the face of heavy solid shells, only listening to the sound of banging, the shells smashed a large gap in the barricade, the wood chips fly, the power of the cannonballs is diluted so much that they cannot shatter the human body, but the soldiers hiding behind still bring them serious internal injuries.

As the coalition forces threw their artillery into battle, the pressure on the defenders rose for a moment, and shells bombarded the barricades, smashing the seemingly strong barricades to pieces and crumbling, and the coalition forces immediately attacked, shouting and rushing towards the barricades with a cry of apparently weakened fire.

"In the name of God, kill all the infidels!"

The soldiers in front of them fell to the ground wailing and screaming, and the soldiers behind them stepped over the body of the robe without fear and continued to advance, they soon rushed to the barricade, roared over the barricades, shot the projectiles in the barrel of the guns at the enemies behind, and then drew their sabers under the cover of gunsmoke and rushed in to fight the enemy.

"Kill!"

Amid the earth-shattering shouts of slaughter, the Spanish veteran who had survived the Reconquista rushed to the front, brandishing his saber and slashing at the neck of a Turkish soldier who tried to raise his gun, cutting the main artery with a sharp blade, and blood gushing out, staining both of them into blood.

In hand-to-hand combat, both sides used the most brutal methods against the enemy, with one garrison infantry raising his gun and shooting a German who had climbed over the barricade in an attempt to leap down, then threw his musket without projectiles on the ground, pulled out a mace pinned to his waist and swung it at the nearest Venetian soldier, whose silver helmet on his head failed to protect his head, and the poor Venetian died instantly.

"Get them out! Guys, get them out!"

Behind the barricades, the Turkish soldiers shouted loudly and met the enemy with muskets loaded with inserted bayonets, one musket turned into a short spear, and the Ottoman infantry, who had thwarted the Holy Roman Empire in the Battle of Buda, drove the incoming enemy out.

After more than half an hour of fierce fighting between the two sides inside and outside the barricades, the coalition forces finally routed the Ottoman infantry and advanced through the defenders' second line of defense with heavy casualties.

The results of breaking through the second line of defense boosted the morale of the coalition forces and allowed them to continue their advance without being affected by huge casualties, and in the Brachne area, the Xia army's offensive was also going on, but compared to the difficulties on the side of the coalition army, the Xia army's offensive appeared to be more smooth.

From the very beginning, the Xia army chose to use artillery and grenades to open the way, and in the rumbling of artillery and explosions, one after another the barricades collapsed.

The fighting in the Brachny district was very unfavorable for the defenders, and until the morning of the 20th, it took only two days for the Xia army to tear through several lines of defense built by the defenders one after another, and the troops advanced all the way to the garrison headquarters in the Brachny district.

The Turkish garrison headquarters in the Brachne district was a monastery that existed during the Eastern Roman Empire, and because the Ottoman Empire was more liberal in religious affairs, the monastery was not demolished and rebuilt.

However, the Xia army was basically atheist, so they ignored this unspoken rule that was popular in Europe, and the Xia army ignored the dissuasion of the Poles and recklessly used howitzers to bombard the neighborhood where the headquarters was located.

Blossom bombs roared into the monastery and exploded, blowing up the Turkish troops who were defending around the place, and in the rumbling of artillery, the commander of the garrison of Brachne broke down and angrily cursed the Xia army's unruliness.

As he continued to curse loudly, a cannonball struck the minaret at the top of the monastery, and the ancient minaret was blown off by the waist, and collapsed, smashing on the roof, causing the whole building to shake, and the commander was startled, and the curse that came to his lips was swallowed back for a while, and he did not dare to continue.