I am the king of the dead

Chapter 524 Potential and Rome Live and Die Together
When Constantine was in the Laurel Palace, he had already become sluggish. He mumbled to himself, "A boat on land?"

Timber, noose, slides, oil, dragging peasants, the words flashed through Constantine's mind.

The combination of these is why Farah can do it.

The biggest crisis since the establishment of Junbao came. The Golden Horn Bay, which was blocked by ship barriers, opened its gates for the first time.

The castle that never fell will finally fall.

Giusti was terrified, he quickly ran to the north wall, and the Ottoman crescent flag was floating above the sea.

The fragile northern city wall was attacked by enemies like a tide.

He already fully understood that the cunning king Farah had no intention of making any peace talks from the beginning to the end!This boat sailing on dry land, the boat going up from Cutthroat Fort, was clearly premeditated!
Fatih is determined to break through the castle, and then start his own expansion path without any resistance.

Justi didn't have time to think about how strong Fatih's determination was. He drew his long sword and joined the battlefield.

"For honor!" Giusti was drowned in the crowd.

Even in the face of such an offensive, as the defender of the city, he still had a huge advantage, and Giusti struggled to repel the attack from the north.

Facing an enemy several times larger than his own, Giusti once again used his own ability to win this surprise attack.

Giusti collapsed on the wall of the city wall. He was observing the legion outside the city. The most elite army of the Ottomans had not yet appeared.

Janissary Guards.

That is an army that can decide the direction of the battlefield.

The Ottomans prepared 86 artillery pieces, including a super-heavy artillery piece half as thick as a man, the Urban Cannon.

Urban, a Hungarian, was a cannon maker. Because of the cloud of war in the Balkans, Urban fled to Junbao.

It's a pity that Constantine himself was poor and lived a tight life. The salaries of some guards could only be paid with silver tableware in the Holy Palace.

Unsatisfied with the poverty of Jumbo, Urban eventually defected to the Ottomans.

The air was ripped apart as Urban's cannon roared.

The 86 artillery pieces of the Ottomans brought many variables to the war. Under the power of the artillery, the strong city wall in the past was punched with nine gaps.

Giusti is a master who is good at defense. In the years he spent in Taixi, he has never seen such an artillery array, and artillery fire can cause such huge damage to the castle.

But Giusti still defended against the continuous attacks of the enemy.

He is a master of defense and he never lived up to his reputation.

The blood moon rises.

Less than 25 miles away from Junbao, Kuva Volcano is at its most active, with volcanic ash exceeding [-] kilometers high, being continuously erupted into the atmosphere.

The moon turned blood in the volcanic ash, the trees stopped growing, the crops began to fail, and the weather became colder and colder.

Giusti looked at the moon in the sky, the crescent moon, just like Ottoman's flag, did this herald the end of Constantinople?

"I can't hold it anymore." Constantine, wearing a purple robe, came to the wall of Theothedo. He had just visited the wounded soldiers in the wounded barracks, and then patrolled around the top of the city, especially when he was blasted by artillery. The place.

Countless civilians, taking advantage of the blood-red moonlight, are working hard to repair the city walls that have been smashed by artillery and trebuchets.

Constantine boosted the morale of the guards. When there were only two of them, Constantine showed a trace of fatigue and no longer cheered up his spirits.

"My wife was killed by Fatih. I never thought of revenge. I just hoped to defend the last city of Rome." Constantine patted the wall and said, "I heard that the emperor of Ming Dynasty also had Standing on the top of the city, we will live and die with their soldiers of Ming Dynasty."

Justi did know some news about the Ming Emperor guarding the capital, but it was too far away, and he didn't know much.

He shook his head and said, "That's different."

Constantine nodded and said, "Yes, it's different."

"Da Ming has 22 militiamen who were mobilized to defend the city. They have [-] knights to train these militiamen. But I have nothing."

"They defeated the enemy outside the city, held the city, and then took revenge on their enemy with the most cruel means."

"And I can't do anything, I can't even defend this city."

The veterans of the Beijing camp of the Daming Old Camp were the backbone of the preparation army and the preparation Japanese army who trained and participated in the battle of the capital. Many of them were promoted to generals, and more than 3000 of them were disciples of the Son of Heaven.

Constantine understood them as knights, they are loyal, they are brave and fearless, they are upright, they dare to sacrifice, their souls are so dazzling.

It's a pity that Junbao has no cavalry, let alone the Romans who support him as emperor.

Under the winter sequence, countless Romans fled King Castle.

Rome is dying.

Constantine patted the walls of the city wall, and said with emotion: "And the emperor of Ming Dynasty is too rich. According to the last news from Nikolaoz, every third person in the army of Ming Dynasty has a pair of armor. , and there is also a plate armored cavalry of more than [-] men."

Giusti twisted his gaze, and a bright halo appeared above the Hagia Sophia Cathedral. If it was a normal day, he would wonder if it was a miracle.

But now, he has no time to take care of this kind of spectacle.

He was not looking at the halo on the top of the church, but looking out of the city.

"They're coming." Giusti pulled out the long sword that was already full of scars.

The Ottomans took advantage of the moonlight to launch a night attack. The walls of Theothedo on the west side were full of enemies, and the ships in the Golden Horn released their sampans again. Countless enemies began to charge towards the seven-story city wall. .

Giusti was ready to fight, he looked at Constantine and said, "Your Majesty, go to the Water Palace, no one will find you."

Constantine shook his head, took off his purple robe, revealed the armor inside, drew out his long sword and said, "I will go with you to defend the city."

"I live and die with Rome!"

Constantine folded his purple robe and joined the defenders.

The Ottomans attacked from nine places on the west side, and three more fields on the north side.

If, if you give Giusti another 3000 people, he will have full confidence in defending the city. He has won countless victories one after another, which proves his strong military strength.

But there are really too many Ottomans.

The most elite legion of the Ottomans, the Janissaries, joined the battle. They captured Kerkamen and opened the way to the west and north of the battlefield.

There are screams, wailing, and pools of blood everywhere. On the battlefield, the most dead people are dead.

The seven-storey three-story city wall stopped the crowds, and the densely packed Ottomans climbed to the top of the city like ants.

The vibration of the bowstring and the roar of the artillery finally stopped, and the more tragic close combat began.

From the northwest corner to the south, the Yeniceri Army charged as if entering no one's land, and the gap was getting wider and wider.

Constantine was covered in blood, and he and Giusti had retreated from the walls of Theothedo, for that was completely lost.

He looked at Giusti, who was seriously injured, and said with a wry smile, "Let's go, my dear friend. Although the Venetian merchants should be hanged, they are still willing to do things after receiving money. Now there is a ship on the Sea of ​​Marmara."

Several guards lifted Giusti up and carried him towards the direction of the ship.

This is Junbao's last chance to live.

Constantine never let down his friend, and gave the only chance of life to Giusti instead of escaping by boat and becoming an exiled emperor.

Giusti wanted to struggle, but several guards carried him and didn't give him any chance.

As the sun rose, nine breaches were opened in the city wall of Theothedo, and the Ottomans had poured in.

No miracle was born, and no savior came to save Rome.

Constantine was walking in the street, and deserters were flocking to the Venetian Concession, from where they wanted to leave by boat.

Constantine did not prevent the guards from fleeing.

Although there is a Constantine wall behind the wall of Theosidus, the weak national strength of Rome in the east cannot be maintained at all.

Constantine dragged his sword and walked towards the city gate. Even if he was alone, the Ottomans would have to step over his corpse if they wanted to come in!

He said that he would live and die with Rome.

But he waited for a long time, until the sun was rising, and those Ottomans wearing hoods did not appear in his vision. After a fierce battle all night, he looked at the sky with some dizziness.

what happened?
He was a little timid, and summoned up the courage to die, but death did not come for a long time, which made him hesitate, but soon, he firmly held the long sword again.

Because he heard the sound of hooves.

There are cavalry coming!
He squinted and watched the dusty road, hundreds of cavalry came rushing towards the city gate.

"Ah!" Constantine rushed towards the enemy, dragging his long sword. There were no guards around him. This was a lonely charge.

These people who came had excellent riding skills. They stopped at a position of thirty paces, and then stopped.

"I am Wang Yue, the civil servant of Kang Guo, and you are from the Great Qin Kingdom?" An oriental voice sounded.

Constantine's charge stopped slowly, he really had no strength left.

"Come on!" Wang Yue frowned and said: "Go and ask who he is? Tell him to report to the king of the Great Qin Kingdom, and say that the Ming Expeditionary Army has arrived, so don't shrink back in the city."

After not very complicated communication, the two parties confirmed their identities.

The title of Wang Yue made Constantine look very strange. In the Roman official system, the word tribune was actually a general term for military and civil officials. Apart from Augustus and Caesar, it was the largest official position.

Wang Yue's complexion was also extremely strange for the lonely runner in front of him.

"You are the king of the Great Qin Kingdom?" Wang Yue finally got off his horse, took off his mask, and said full of doubts.

Constantine's status is respected, and no one has spoken to him in such a questioning tone for many years. He nodded and said, "Yes, I am the emperor of Rome."

There can only be one emperor in the world, and Wang Yue ignored Constantine's correction.

He said, "Take your concubines and maids with you, and hurry up to evacuate with me. I only have [-] cavalry here. When the Ottomans come to their senses, we won't be able to leave even if we want to."

"I don't have a wife." Constantine said helplessly, "As for servants, I don't even have..."

Constantine had two marriages, the first wife died of dystocia; the second wife was robbed by the Ottomans before she passed the door, and finally died of illness on the Ottoman land.

Constantine never thought about revenge, and the current strength of Rome did not support his revenge. If he had such unrealistic ideas, it would put King Castle in crisis.

Wang Yue rubbed his nose, the Great Qin Kingdom was indeed in despair.

"Clean up and follow me." Wang Yue nodded without asking too much.

Constantine took a step back and said loudly, "I won't go, I want to stay here!"

Wang Yue frowned and said: "I declare that you have been captured by our Kang country! Take it away!"

Wang Yue doesn't like nonsense, and there is no time to give him nonsense now.

Constantine and Giusti had the same fate, both being carried away.

Before he finally left, Constantine took away the red copper ball on the scepter in the hand of the bronze statue of Justinian in front of Hagia Sophia Cathedral.

This thing, according to Wang Yue's understanding, is equivalent to the jade seal of Ming Dynasty.

It is said that it was Constantine the Great who unified the divided Rome and cast it.

In the words of Constantine XI, where the red apple is, there is Rome.

Wang Yue glanced at Junbao, and left Junbao's territory with nearly ten thousand cavalrymen, circled half a circle, and headed towards Batu.

The westward march of the Oirats did stop in Samarkand, but it was just to repair and stabilize the rear, and they still sent many people to Batu to explore the way.

And Wang Yue is one of the pioneers in exploring the way.

He took [-] Uzbeks to Batu to explore the way, heard about the battle in Constantinople, and at the most critical moment, he attacked the Ottomans.

He didn't have many people, but the Ottomans, whose morale was not high, fell into a panic.

"Why did you run so far? Is it just to save me?" Constantine was captured and locked in the car, he asked loudly.

Wang Yue glanced at Constantine, shook his head and said, "No."

"Wala's big rock, I have to go to Batu to pick his red apples. Under the strategy of long-distance and close-attack, I will be responsible for going to Batu to find the way, and I will also contact the forces opposing Ottoman."

"When the time comes, we will do anything that can make Osman uncomfortable."

"Again, you are captured by us."

The Ottomans are too strong. Even the Oirats who are going westward can hardly be said to be the opponents of the Ottomans. Therefore, it is the purpose of Wang Yue's trip to do what he can to make the Ottomans uncomfortable.

As for the capture of Constantine, it was a completely convenient move.

"What are you going to do with me?" Constantine asked about his fate, and the Ottomans would let him die in the chaos and win the crown.

But what happened after these Orientals captured him?
Wang Yue seemed to think of something interesting, and said with a smile: "This depends on the outcome of the quarrel between our counselor and Wala Dashi."

Now that Wang Fu has the Uzbek army in his hands as one of his confidence, he has to consider Wang Fu's opinion when making some decisions.

At this time, in the city of Samarkand, Wang Fu was admonishing Yexian.

"Can you prevent the Oirats from killing people at will?" Wang Fu said helplessly, "Will the Oirats kill horses and cows at will when they can still run?"

"These people are Dashi's property. They farm, graze, work for Dashi, and kill people at will. Isn't that stealing Dashi's property?"

"Why does Dashi condone this behavior?"

Recently, Wang Fu has received many cases, all of which are Oara people wantonly insulting and killing Turks, Uzis, Persians, and even some Mongols.

Ye Xian didn't want to care about it at first, but when he heard Wang Fu say this, he frowned.

"What you said makes a lot of sense." Ye Xian didn't like discussing politics with Wang Fu very much. The counselor had ten thousand reasons to persuade him, and they were really reasonable.

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