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In the seventh year of Xuanwu, on the first day of the first month, Constantinople, inside and outside the walls of Theossido, there was a fierce competition between the crusaders and the defenders.

This time, the battle was fiercer than any before.

The Crusaders and the Triple Alliance overwhelmed tens of thousands of troops in one go, vowing to take the ancient city in one fell swoop.

And Varangi and the Han army were at the head of the city, resisting the cold wind and constantly fighting back.

Under the city wall, countless falling rocks fell, and the enemy soldiers who smashed cried and cried for their mothers.

Oleg roared angrily and poured the boiling oil soup down the edge of the city wall, and the crowd of soldiers below was suddenly miserable.

On the side of the Han army, the platoon of guns did not stop firing for a moment, and the red-hot projectiles kept blooming one after another delicate blood flowers on the enemy's body.

From the very beginning, the war was completely at a fever pitch.

Bang~

A gunshot rang out, and one of the musketeers accurately hit the head of a cross-cutting officer a hundred paces away, and the officer suddenly burst out with a puddle of yellow and white filth and fell to the ground with a bang.

There was another burst of gunfire, and the three or four enemy soldiers who had just approached the city wall were also brought down by the firearms.

However, more and more enemies carried ladders on the walls, and began to climb upwards in the face of death threats.

"Report ~~ General, General Oleg has asked for reinforcements, and a large number of enemy troops have poured into his defensive line."

"Immediately bring fifty men to support, and drive the enemy out of the walls no matter what."

On Oleg's side, more than 20 Varangian guards fought bloodily, each of them with a posture of one enemy and a hundred, and resisted their own defense line to the death.

Oleg even deflated the heads of the two enemy soldiers with his bare hands, along with their helmets, and even smashed through a shield with a direct punch.

His bravery greatly deterred the enemy army, but because of the large number of enemies, even if he was brave, he could only barely support it.

But at this time, the Han army support team arrived.

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

Puff puff puff –

After a burst of gunsmoke, a deafening roar, the enemy troops gathered in a pile instantly fell in pieces, and the pressure on Varangi's defensive line was instantly relieved a lot.

"Thank you!"

Oleg picked up an axe and directly slashed off the head of one of them, expressing his gratitude to the allies who came to support.

The commander of the Han army was called Zhao Guang, and after ordering his subordinates to break the siege three times in a row, he immediately assisted Varangi to gradually stabilize the defensive line.

There were too many enemies, and the Han soldiers didn't have time to change their ammunition after firing their guns, so they decisively picked up their knives and joined the hand-to-hand combat.

The rise of Zhao Guang and Oleg's two-person killing, after converging from left to right, they were stuck back to back.

"General Zhao, I want to ask you, if I become the king of a country, can my country establish friendly relations with you?"

"General Oleg, are you sure you didn't drink?"

As the two chatted, several more crusaders roared and rushed up to the city.

Zhao Guang and Oleg shouted in unison, and they all slammed sideways, pushing the people who had just boarded the battlement and several companions behind them down the city wall.

"I'm not kidding, I've amassed a lot of wealth, and when I'm done with this battle, I'm ready to go back to my hometown and establish my own country, and I've got a name for it, it's Norway!"

"What is this bird name in Tema, then congratulations, Your Highness the King! But you have to make sure you have to live! ”

"When I become king, if you come to my country, I will make you prime minister!"

"Then I'm so sorry thank you in advance, they're here again, put that thing up!"

"No problem!"

Seeing that more and more enemies were attacking from other cities with weak defenses, Zhao Guang and Oleg decisively sacrificed their unused firearms-sub-mother cannons.

"Hey~"

Oleg alone carried a sub-mother cannon weighing 100 catties and erected it on a rejecting corner.

Zhao Guang immediately stuffed the gun into the tail of the gun to fix it, and then directly took out the fire and folded it a little......

Rumble~

With a loud bang, the four-pounder cannon formed a shotgun surface, which immediately directly tore the flesh and blood of the running enemy soldiers into blurred.

Sweeping away the choking smoke of gunpowder, there was no enemy standing in front of him.

"I thought that Greek fire was already the most amazing weapon in the world to defend the city, but when I saw this artillery today, I realized that it was nothing at all!"

Although it was not the first time he had seen the power of artillery fire, every time he saw it, Oleg still praised it from the bottom of his heart.

He had a faint feeling that with these firearms, the Varangian warriors would be eliminated from the battlefield sooner or later.

At this time, on the city wall of Theossido, dozens of tiger squat cannons loaded with shotguns also began to roar in unison, and countless enemies fell in pools of blood in the roar.

Fighting was raging on the front lines, and in the city, all classes were doing everything they could to support the victory.

Craftsmen worked day and night to make weapons and armor to provide the defenders with sharp weapons.

The townspeople kept coming up with their own food reserves to supply the defenders.

The clergy and the laity, all in the Hagia Sophia, prayed for an end to the war.

Even the nobles, who have always been stingy, rarely took out some materials to support this war.

Together with the doctors in the city, the Han army's medical team worked hard to save the lives of every soldier.

Because everyone understands that there is no way back.

Father Urban looked at the statue of God in the church, sighed and said to the clergy servant next to him: "You know, I had a terrible nightmare last night,

I dreamed that the barbarians of Western Europe broke through the walls of Constantinople, and the emperor was brutally crucified on the beach,

Innocent citizens were humiliated by the enemy, as if a hell was coming, and a series of crimes such as murder, robbery, and strong swords occurred everywhere.

Even this great church was not spared, and countless lowly maidens danced in this holy church and made peace with the barbarians.

It's terrible to defile every inch of the holy land here, and although it's just a dream, my intuition tells me that if the barbarians really kill into the city,

The terrible sight in that dream will surely come true, so this time, even if it is God's will, I will do my best to prevent this from happening.

Donate all the gold and silver vessels of our Holy See to that Serris, and you must defeat those barbarians no matter what! ”

At this critical time, the entire city temporarily put aside its class contradictions and unanimously aimed at the crusaders outside the city......

From January 1 to the early morning of January 6, a full five days, Zhuge Zhi could not remember how many enemy attacks he had repulsed, and how many enemies had fallen inside and outside the city walls.

All he remembered was that the walls of Theossido were still standing.

But the cost was also heavy, with more than half of the Varangian guards suffering casualties and the town militia losing thousands of men.

In the Han army, one hundred and thirty-two people fell in a pool of blood in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

But the battle was fought in a hearty way, and the defenders were not demoralized by the casualties of their comrades, but were more closely united.

However, without sufficient troops, it can only be a passive defense and cannot achieve a decisive victory.

Zhuge Zhi firmly believed that the enemy's morale had also reached its limit, and if there was a military district system in Baisai to launch an offensive, this war could be said to be victorious.

Did the local warlords of Baisa really watch Constantinople fall like this?

In the early morning of the 6th, in the last darkness before dawn, the enemy army appeared outside the walls of Theossidus again in the dark.

"Here we go again!"

Oleg glanced disdainfully at the group of crusaders, then proceeded to pick up the axe.

Zhao Guang on the side was the same, holding a firecracker, lying on the side of the battlement wall and aiming at the enemy in front without saying a word.

The results of the siege in the past few days made Boniface very depressed, and he did not expect the battle to be like this.

In particular, the firearms of the Han army caused an indelible shadow on themselves and the coalition army from both physical and mental aspects.

During this period of time, the morale of the army was very low, and the Triple Alliance saw that there was no benefit, and it had caused such huge casualties, and they no longer wanted to stay here, but only wanted to withdraw their troops and return home quickly.

There was also a serious war-weariness among the Crusader generals at all levels.

Fortunately, Boniface tried to pacify and finally stabilized the morale of the army and prevented a large-scale rout.

However, today is the last attack, and in the event of another defeat, the coalition forces will not hesitate to turn back to Serbia, and the crusaders will not be under their own command to return west.

So, with all his troops and horses on his side, he decided to break through the wall no matter what.

But just as the coalition forces were charging at Constantinople at the moment of the rising sun......

"Huh~~"

A horse roared, and Ban Dingyuan rode his horse to appear on a mountain in the east,

In the sun, he was like a god.