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Part 4 Anti-Norman Alliance Chapter 28 Searing

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    The Empire has never had a sacred update [Forbidden Water]

    The empire has never had a sacred [forbidden water]

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    August 1, 1014 AD.  The siege of Constantinople had lasted for nearly two months.  More than half a year has passed since the Norman Empire's series of conquests in Hungary, the Balkans and Greece.  Although it started off quite well.  However, the Greeks were encouraged by the major setback to their attack in Constantinople.  Then I became a little confused.

    After all, barbarians are still barbarians. Constantinople cannot be conquered unless the situation is clear.

    Under the guidance of this kind of thinking, small-scale riots began to occur in Greece.  Although it was quickly crushed by the fat cavalry stationed in the Greek area.  But if this kind of thinking continues to spread.  I am afraid it will have an impact on the rule of the Norman Empire.   /

    So, we need to act quickly.

    Originally Emperor Egil wanted to wait a few more days.  A little more preparation and a few more feint attacks would make the defenders of Constantinople even more relaxed.  But after receiving such a report from the Norman spies.  The emperor changed his mind.  Decided to take action on this day.

    Late night, new moon.  Dark clouds were rolling in the sky, covering the stars. It was dangerous to dispatch the navy under such circumstances.  However, the Black Sea Fleet has already explored all the shipping routes nearby.  So no problem at all.

    Under the orders of the Norman Emperor, the Norman army is about to launch a new offensive to break the unfavorable situation in the war against Constantinople in the past two months ¡Ü a total of 40,000 Norman infantrymen, carrying engineers to rush to work  Come out, parts of the towering siege tower covered with cowhide and iron sheets, and light artillery are boarded on the transport ship one after another.  Guided by a group of specially-built, recently completed caravels, they headed towards the Golden Horn.

    And the entire Black Sea Fleet.  Except for a small number of troops who blocked the Sea of ??Marmara, the rest were gathered together - a total of 220 warships surrounded the entire entrance to the Golden Horn Bay with water!

    ¡°Let¡¯s start taking action!¡±

    It¡¯s one o¡¯clock in the morning.  When all the ships were in place, on a huge first-class flagship, General Ushakov, the commander-in-chief of the Black Sea Fleet, gave an order to board the ship, and a dull horn sounded!  The ten special speedboats at the front of the entire fleet left the array and headed towards the Golden Horn Bay. Some small ships were filled with kerosene, thatch, sulfur and other flammable materials.  In addition, the sailors on the ship also carried huge two-handed tomahawks, saws and hammers - the same props used by the Norman emperor to deal with the iron chains that blocked the Golden Horn!

    In another world, Mehmed II bribed the Greeks and spread oil on the land.  The tactics of crossing the chain blockade and pushing the warships into the Golden Horn were different. Emperor Mann's method was more brutal, violent, and powerful.  This is to imitate the tactics used by the Western Jin Dynasty to defeat Wu and break the iron rope across the river in Eastern Wu.  There is poetry to prove it:

    ??The ship of the King's House flattened against Yizhou, and the King of Jinling lost his spirit sadly, looking for the iron chain to sink to the bottom of the river, and a flag fell out of the stone.

    This time, the Norman navy raided overnight.  But it's another story.  Countless haystacks soaked in kerosene on the sea burned violently on the iron chains.  Fires burst into the sky outside the Golden Horn!  And those iron ropes are constantly burning and gradually softening little by little after being heated.

    "It's melted! Sure enough! Quick, cut off these iron ropes!!" The Norman naval officer on the boat saw the iron ropes burning red and knew that the heat was coming.  He immediately ordered this.  So the soldiers first used spear poles to move the haystacks away.  Then rowing, the boat came closer.  He rounded up the ax and hammer and slammed it against the chain.  In just a few clicks, the softened iron rope was broken, and all the sailors on the boat started working together.  The chain was smashed into several pieces.  It quickly sank to the bottom of the water.  ¡­,

    In this way, the Norman fleet continued to burn and smash.  Quickly destroy most of the iron cables¡ÛLooking at the fleet about to enter the Golden Horn¡âIt took a while for the Greek fleet in the Golden Horn to react!  Seeing the fire outside, I screamed secretly.  The Eastern Roman naval generals and captains immediately roared angrily, wanting to sail out the battleships and fight the Normans for life and death.

    However, although all the naval generals are very brave.  But it was impossible to set sail for a while - because of the Norman Emperor's previous feint attack tactics.  As well as the Golden Horn's iron chain blockade tactics, all the ordinary Greek sailors believed that their place would not become a battlefield.  Therefore, the number of sailors willing to spend the night in the cramped, dirty, and rickety cabin was less than half of the entire crew.  More sailors were sleeping in the barracks at the port.  Some even went to prostitutes¡¯ homesovernight.

    After understanding this situation, the generals and officers roared angrily.  Ask the sailors around them to hurry up, get ashore, and find their comrades to prepare for battle.  However, how can this happen in a short period of time?  Then I heard chaos on the pier in Golden Horn Bay.  The busier it becomes, the more chaotic it becomes.  Nothing can be done for a moment.

    And after hearing the noise on the other side, the sailors also became anxious.  Some did not wait for the iron chain to burn red before they cut it with all their strength.  It can completely break the iron chain before the enemy reacts.  Let your own fleet attack.

    However, as I said before, the busier, more chaotic, and more anxious it is, the less likely it will be to accomplish anything.  Before the iron chain was heated, the thick iron chain could not be cut open by human power alone. The Mann sailors were dumbfounded for a while.  Then the eyes turned red.  Without saying a word, they dispatched a few small boats as a last resort and rowed backward for a while.  Immediately afterwards, all the sailors rowed together, and the small speedboat slammed into the iron chain like an arrow from the string!

    After that, a muffled sound of "Bang!" was heard.  The violent vibrations made the Norman sailors on the clipper dizzy.  The specially reinforced bow and the iron chain collided violently, but both sides were injured!  There were cracks in the chain and a hole opened.  The hull also made an unbearable "creep" sound.

    "Quick! Just hit it a few more times, and then it will break away!" The sailors on the boat roared, then stepped back and then rushed over - repeated three times.  The hull finally couldn't withstand the force of the impact and broke into two sections with a "squeak" sound!  But the chain was broken as a result!

    "This is the last chain! Long live Emperor Egil!" Many of the sailors who fell into the water fainted directly due to the impact.  Some were also involved in the whirlpool of sunken ships.  There is no escape.  In the final moments.  The sailors cheered loudly!  Eventually, a total of four small clippers were sunk.  More than fifty Norman sailors were killed.  But it's all worth it!  In this battle, the Norman navy gained a head start and entered the Golden Horn before the Greek warships were ready!  !

    "Launch! Fire! Kill them all!!"

    Huge Norman battleships filed in.  While searching for and rescuing the surviving Norman sailors, they fired artillery fiercely at the port area opposite the Golden Horn!  A total of more than 200 Norman warships fired salvos from one side and the other side, and nearly 800 naval guns of various types opened fire at the same time.

    At such a close distance, such dense firepower produces unparalleled power!  In an instant, the entire port area became a sea of ??fire!  A large number of sailors on the Greek warship anchored at the port and on the dock were wiped out in this salvo!

    "Oh, God!"

    Seeing a round of artillery from the Normans, like fire coming from the sky, thunder and lightning destroyed half of the Greeks' poor hundreds of small battleships in an instant. The remaining Greek sailors were stunned, whether they were generals or soldiers. Except for a while.  God, Holy Mother, except for Jesus screaming like this, there was no movement at all!  Just like the shock when the Russians were forced back by Greek fire.  Only this time it was the Greeks' turn.  ¡­,

    Immediately afterwards, the battleships of the Norman army were busy for a while.  A few minutes later, a second broadside volley struck, and old splinters of wood, sails, and stumps of limbs flew everywhere.  Many more warships slowly sank at this moment after this round of bombardment.  The morale of the Greek navy was completely shattered. The ghosts on the battleship jumped to the shore crying and howling, and the ones on the shore ran in the direction of the city wall in piss.

    And on the city wall not far away.  A group of Eastern Roman heavy infantrymen also woke up at this moment. Only those who were dead would lie quietly without such a big movement from a naval gun salvo. In fact, after this naval gun salvo,  Most of Constantinople was in chaos¡­.

    "Sirare we going to help?" I saw a group of naval soldiers peeing and escaping towards the city wall.  Some soldiers asked like this - and then were slapped hard by the commander until they were all beaten.

    "Help your mother! If you want to commit suicide, go and do it yourself! It's good if we can take care of ourselves!"

    Just like that, a group of nearly 5,000 Eastern Roman troops looked at the port area not far away in panic, falling into chaos.  Immediately afterwards, Norman transport ships were seen entering the port.  Large groups of soldiers were transported out of the cabin one after another.  Once those parts were assembled, they turned into siege vehicles. In the blink of an eye, an offensive position appeared in front of these soldiers

    At the same time, in the Grand Palace of Constantine, Lilianu also quickly jumped out of bed and showed emergency that the emperor was sleeping in his clothes.  So I won¡¯t clean it up either.

    Immediately opened the door.  He asked the Imperial Guard soldier who was guarding outside with an equally anxious look on his face:

    "What happened?!" The queen was also confused.  door?Two Guardsmen were on duty all night.  How is it possible to know what is happening in the direction of the Golden Horn?  Then the Queen reacted, stretched out her hand, and stopped the two Guardsmen soldiers from talking.  After that, he continued to stride towards the door of the palace. Just halfway, a messenger hurried over. After seeing Liliannu, he knelt down and shouted:

    "Queen, the Norman fleet has entered the Golden Horn!"

    ¡°After hearing the news, Liliannu¡¯s face suddenly turned pale¡­¡±.)

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