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"We're going to take our money too?"

The officials jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on.

"The moment you decide to resist, everything is doomed!"

Theodore spoke up.

"Those damn guys!"

The officials were furious. They hated those old nobles so much that these people didn't want to live anymore and even wanted to drag them to death with them.

"What should we do now?"

Alexius III looked at Theodore and asked.

"Just wait, at least you can save your life!"

Theodore said that the only thing they were thankful for now was that they were not involved, otherwise they would all have died.

In the dark night.

Xu Guanzhong sat in the palace and looked through various books and records, from which he could quickly understand the entire Byzantine Empire.

"Military Advisor, it's so tiring to look at these things. If I want to know something, wouldn't it be easier for me to just go and capture someone and ask them?"

Li Jun looked at Xu Guanzhong and asked.

“You still have to distinguish the truth from the falsehood of the questions you ask, but most of what you get from the book is the truth.”

Xu Guanzhong smiled and said, of course there are false things in the book, but it is easy to analyze between the lines, and words are much easier to discern than human hearts.

"Military Advisor, I'm afraid it won't be peaceful tonight. How about we go to the boat first?"

Li Jun looked at Xu Guanzhong and asked.

Who is Li Jun? He was a ruthless bandit who killed people without blinking an eye. He knows the evil of human nature best.

Today they were too merciful when they entered the city. They neither burned, killed, nor looted. They just killed some rioters outside the imperial city, and they only killed them for a while without pursuing them.

Such behavior is seen as weakness by some people, and weak people are full of weaknesses.

"You can't handle them?"

Xu Guanzhong looked at Li Jun and asked.

"How is that possible? It's no problem to kill them all! I'm just afraid of hurting the military advisor!"

Li Jun said, how could he be afraid of these Byzantines.

"Then it's up to you to perform!"

Xu Guanzhong continued reading with a smile. He was still very confident in Li Jun's abilities.

Seeing this, Li Jun walked out of the hall.

A group of generals immediately surrounded them.

"General, we have seen a lot of troops moving around in the city, and they seem to be planning to surround the palace."

A general spoke.

"Humph, they are coming. Let's wait and see until they get close, then kill them all!"

Li Jun spoke with a ferocious expression, saying that since these people wanted to die, he would not show mercy.

In Constantinople in the dark night, teams of soldiers in armor began to gather.

Most of these soldiers were defenders, and a small number were private soldiers of the nobles. The armor they wore and the weapons they carried were better than those of the defenders.

"How many people have gathered?"

The old noble holding a cane asked as he looked at the generals in front of him.

"Thirty thousand people!"

The young general said excitedly.

"Yeah, good, that's enough!"

The old noble nodded with satisfaction. An army of 30,000 was dealing with 2,000 people, and in familiar terrain. He could not think of any possibility of accidents.

"Your Excellency the Marquis, how do we attack?"

A young general asked. These young generals were all descendants of nobles. As long as they killed the enemy and defended the empire this time, they would all be promoted to a higher title. Some even thought about replacing the emperor.

"The enemy's witchcraft is terrible. Divide the defenders into four teams and attack the palace from four directions to attract the enemy's attention." "Then let the Spartan army charge into the palace from the front and tell everyone that no one in the palace will be left alive!"

The old noble looked at the young noble generals and gave orders.

"Those people in the palace..."

A general asked hesitantly, are there many Byzantines in the palace besides the Qi people?

"Didn't I make it clear?"

The old nobleman's face turned cold and he said that he had already made a decision and these generals just had to execute it.

"Yes!"

Those young noble generals immediately stood up and saluted!

In the dark night, more than 20,000 defenders slowly approached the palace.

The original Constantinople was also very lively at night, with various taverns, brothels, and gambling houses doing business at night.

But the arrival of the Qi army forced all these businesses to close down, and even the lanterns that should have been lit on the streets were no longer cared for.

In the dark streets, the march of the army became unclear.

"These idiots think they are so hidden!"

Li Jun, holding a telescope, sneered at the enemies marching on the street. These people don’t even think about the fact that tonight is a full moon night, and what can’t be seen under the moonlight?

The army, which was originally nervous, finally calmed down after discovering that the palace had no reaction. They thought that the people of Qi had not discovered them.

"Kill!"

As the roar sounded, the army began to bang on the palace gate with logs, and some people set up ladders to climb the city wall.

The original palace gate was not strong, and it was imagined that it could be opened with a few hits.

But today when they crashed into it they found something was wrong. The city gate seemed to be blocked by something, and they crashed into it several times but there was no response.

"Bang bang bang!"

There was a loud sound of gunfire on the city wall, and the Qi soldiers started shooting at the people below the city.

The city wall was only two meters high, and it would be a waste to use a rifle at this distance, so the soldiers switched to shotguns.

Shotguns are very powerful at close range, and even elephants can't withstand it, let alone humans.

The Byzantine soldiers who climbed the ladders with shields in hand thought that the iron shields could block the enemy's witchcraft, but after the gunshots, the shields were torn apart like pieces of cloth, and the soldiers behind the shields were beaten into sieves.

In the dark night, the Byzantine soldiers lurked and launched an attack on the walls of the palace. However, in the face of truth, no matter how many people there were, they were nothing but minced meat.

"Damn it, these devilish witchcrafts!"

The old nobleman looked at the flickering flames on the palace walls with a very grim expression. He wanted to use these defenders to exhaust the enemy's witchcraft, but after fighting for so long, the enemy's witchcraft showed no sign of being exhausted.

"Your Excellency, what should we do?"

Seeing the soldiers dying one after another, the generals became anxious. They thought it was not a good idea to continue fighting like this.

"Let the Spartans come! Tell them that those who enter the palace first will be rewarded with barons! The servants will be freed from slavery."

The Marquis looked at the noble generals around him and spoke.

"baron?"

Everyone was shocked. The Spartans were slaves, the lowest class of people. How could such people be given the title of nobility?

"The most important thing now is to kill the people of Qi!"

The old noble shook his head and said that they could not care about anything else at this moment. If they could not defeat Qi State, they would not be able to survive.

In the alley beside the street, a group of sturdy soldiers in armor were eating meat with big mouthfuls.

They turned a deaf ear to the gunfire near the palace and just focused on eating meat.

"The Earl has issued an order that whoever destroys the imperial palace will be freed from slavery and awarded the title of Marquis!"

A general shouted to the Spartans who were busy eating meat.

The Spartans, who were concentrating on eating meat, were stunned for a moment, then they looked up at the general one by one, as if asking whether the words were true.

"The Marquis's order!"

The general took out a piece of parchment and threw it in front of a Spartan man. (End of this chapter)