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The Fourth Anti-Norman Alliance Chapter 25 The Siege of Constantine

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    ~Date:~November 07~

    After that day, the relationship between Egil and Arturia seemed to return to normal.  Just like usual.  Arturia ate, slept, ate, or fought in the name of training.  Egil is still among the flowers.  Live a decadent life.  Both parties seemed to have forgotten the conversation they had had the previous day.  It's like it never happened.  We still talk and laugh when we get along.  Nightlife is also very harmonious.  They still look the same as before, a model couple that is envied by the whole world.

    Of course, in fact, both parties also know that their relationship can no longer return to the past and traces have been created.  And it is gradually increasing.  Although both sides are trying to make amends.  But it's just an "idea".  Arturia will not back down.  Egil, on the other hand, doesn't know how to regress - in fact, he can't do it even if he wants to.  Behind him was an abyss of three hundred thousand listeners and nine underground mistresses.

    In addition to the two of them, another person involved that day, Princia, was also greatly touched.  Arturia's joke-like attack destroyed the centaur princess's self-esteem.  After that, she was sad for a long time.  After regaining her mood, she threw herself into crazy training.  It seems that he wants to rely on a lot of training to enhance his strength and then defeat Arturia.

    In addition, in fact, there was another person who saw everything on that day.  Sonya, Egil's personal bodyguard.  It was on the treetops not far away.  Staring at Arturia's neck with cold eyes, he raised the delicate and deadly poison-quenching flying knife, then put it back. He continued to perform this action several times.  Until the whole thing is over.

    Although I didn¡¯t hear the most crucial sentence.  But before passing, Arturia roared.  And then the attitude changed in an instant.  Sonia can also guess some things.  Since then, there has been one more person in the list of shadow killers behind Egil.

    "No matter what identity or status you have, as long as you pose a threat to the master, you are an enemy. I will keep a close eye on you." The next time she saw Arturia, Sonia secretly swore in her heart: "  If this woman really dares to hurt the master, I will kill her. Even if the master executes me for this, it doesn't matter."

    That¡¯s it, in such an extremely depressing atmosphere.  The emperor continued his statement¡ëto the day.  The speech before the walls of Constantinople resulted in a formal written order.  He announced changes to the precepts of Christianity.  Based on his pretentious sophistry that "a man has twenty-four ribs".  It was stipulated that a man could have up to twenty-four wives.  And put this provision in writing in the form of law.

    After the promulgation of this legal provision.  Many defenders and clergy raised objections.  But soon, these people who opposed the laws designated by the emperor.  Various accusations were made.  The local court arrested all these people on charges of "rape", "sodomy", "outraging moral decency" and "obscenity".  And put it real.  Or fabricated evidence.  Completely ruined the reputation of these idiots.

    So for a time, the entire Norman Empire - which can also be regarded as the entire Europe - Europe fell silent.  No one dared to disobey the emperor's orders anymore.  Long before that, the Catholic Church had lost most of its power during the Reformation.  Nor could he oppose the perverse behavior of the Norman emperor.  Just like that, the law was officially passed.

    After this law was officially passed, the Norman Emperor sent an envoy to Constantinople to propose to Liliannu.  Of course, this request was rejected by the Empress of Eastern Rome.  The reason was that the Norman Emperor wanted her.  The excessive request of sending the entire Eastern Roman Empire as a dowry made Liliannu, who had always been elegant and dignified, shout angrily and start a quarrel:

    "Does he want to marry me? Or does he want this empire?!"

    "Do you really want to marry him?" At that time, when they heard Lilianu making a fuss like a little girl with a bad temper, a group of Eastern Roman generals asked.  The nobles were speechless one after another.  They looked at each other and complained in their hearts.

    "In this way, the last "efforts" of the Norman Emperor failed. The final battle between the Norman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire around Constantinople seemed inevitable.

    The Norman Empire gathered a total of 130,000 troops - 40,000 Norman regular troops, 50,000 levies, more than 10,000 Celtic troops, Balkan and Hungarian troops, and nearly 10,000 Thracian troops, including the Black Sea Fleet.  Tens of thousands of navy, Viking pirate troops and more than 300 warships.  If we add the baggage troops transporting baggage along the way.  And the words of the Corps of Engineers.  Then the Norman army attacking Constantinople would probably exceed 200,000.

    Two hundred thousand.  existIn the heyday of the Eastern Roman Empire, a number was nothing.  At that time, the total number of regular troops in the entire empire exceeded 200,000.  The number of temporarily recruited reserve troops exceeds one million.

    But today, fourteen years later.  While the Norman Empire has risen strongly today, the Eastern Roman Empire has inevitably declined.  Not to mention an army of 200,000 people.  Let¡¯s say half that number.  It took all the strength of the entire empire to get it together - and then it was defeated by a vanguard of the Norman Empire.

    "But it doesn't matter. As long as this defensive battle is won, the empire will usher in a new life. The empire will win. Because this is Constantinople!"

    It was June 4th.  One fine morning.  The weather is a little hot.  But not unbearably good weather.  On this day, the Norman Empire finally began to launch a formal attack.

    The Norman Emperor went into battle in person.  And he brought his troops, siege machinery, and artillery to the west side of Constantinople, the only open area that could be attacked from the land direction.  The army has bright uniforms and armor.  The military flag is fluttering and the atmosphere is high.  The Queen of Eastern Rome, who got the news, immediately brought her imperial guards with her.  Reached the Theodosian Walls on the west side.  She will be the main force of Constantinople, after all, the north and south sides are sponges.  Although there is some land on the east side.  But you have to log in to get there.

    It¡¯s just that the queen completely forgot that the Normans had control of the sea - they were once the overlords of the Mediterranean.  If we add up all the warships in time now, there will not be enough 500 warships.  Moreover, these old warships have not been repaired for some time.  The ship was covered with barnacles below the waterline, which seriously affected its speed and agility. Even the sailors and sailors were not equipped.

    However, although this is such a situation.  But Lilianu still has a certain degree of confidence - if these warships go out to fight, it may be difficult to win against the new gunboats of the Norman Empire.  But if they gather together to defend the Golden Horn.  So this kind of task can be accomplished at least.

    With this thought.  Only then did she regard the west side as the main attack direction of the Norman Empire.  And judging from today's situation, it seems that this prediction is indeed correct.

    Standing on the west side of Constantine, at the Theodosian Walls lined with towers.  Queen Liliannu roared like this!  Immediately afterwards, the whole Constantinople seemed to be boiling. The tens of thousands of troops cheered loudly.  Beating their shields with their weapons, making a violent noise.  The morale of the Norman Imperial Army not far away was slightly depressed.

    After that, a group of Norman armies, even Celtic armies, Balkan and Hungarian armies, Les peoplethese soldiers who were in the siege position all looked towards the position of the Norman Emperor¡ÛBaba's  Look at the carriage where the emperor is.  The emperor was also able to say some exciting things.  In order to let the soldiers get rid of the influence of each other's cheers.

    And the Norman Emperor, a man who conquered most of Europe, also raised his beard.  He showed a confident smile.

    His voice is not very loud.  But it's extremely clear.  Lifting the spirits of those around him.

    "I'm here."

    The emperor just said this.  It can stand up to thousands of words that ordinary people say.  The extremely confident tone drove the sergeants crazy.  Then, the Norman army erupted in deafening cheers that were even more violent than those of the Constantinople defenders before.

    "Attack."

    With such cheers.  Egil gave the order to attack.  Afterwards, a large number of Norman engineers pushed dozens of bridge erecting vehicles towards the moat in front of Theodosius' city wall.  Behind them, a total of eighty twenty-four-pound infantry cannons, one hundred and ten mortars, and ten sixty-four-pound cannons began to load pills - around these cannons, there were even more  There are numerous counterweighted slings, large ballistae, and hundreds of ladder trucks carrying thousands of longbowmen and heavily armed crossbowmen.

    These siege machines and artillery are so dense.  So that other troops could hardly move forward.  On the front line against Constantinople, the Man Empire gathered tens of thousands of troops.  All are remote support shooting troops.

    Opposite them, the Roman city defenses were equally gorgeous. The city walls were two meters high and five to seven meters thick, and the solid battlements were one meter high and half a meter thick, enough to withstand most attacks.  On the hundreds of densely packed towers, the ballistas, scorpion crossbows and catapults made by the Romans also began to operate in an orderly manner.  Together with those crossbow troops armed with Greek crossbows and compound bows, they became Constantinople's strongest line of defense

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