I am the king of the dead

"Even they have to spend more manpower and material resources to maintain these coerced troops. No one is willing to attack the king's castle, because no one is willing to come to die."

"The 33 battles to defend the castle have left irreparable wounds on the Castle, but these wounds are the best proof that the Castle will never fall!"

Constantinople has been fought on a large scale for more than [-] times.

Except for the Fourth Crusade, when King Castle was breached by "our own people" because of negligence in defense, King Castle has never been breached head-on.

The Sassanid Persians, Arabs, Egyptians, Roma, Mongols, and Ottomans were all under this city, leaving mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but they were unable to take off this pearl.

With such a record, in the entire Taixi world, it takes a lot of courage to attack this city that will never fall.

Even though Junbao has been surrounded by Ottomans, most of the Ottomans are not willing to die under the Wall of Sighs.

This is one of the reasons Giusti was able to achieve such a victory.

Giusti finally couldn't stand up anymore, slipped on the wall and said, "If the Ottomans want to get the red apples, we have to see if they have the ability."

The red apple is the red copper ball on the scepter in the hand of the bronze statue of Justinian outside the Hagia Sophia Cathedral.

That means legitimacy to rule the world.

"Can we jointly rule the kingdom of Aragon in Naples? Let Aragon rush to help the castle?" Giusti asked a question.

Constantine said helplessly: "If the magnanimous Alfonso V is willing to come to help, I can give him my crown and purple robe."

"But Alfonso V, he was afraid of affecting the trade with Ottoman, so he asked for my crown and purple robe. I guessed it a long time ago, and asked the messenger to tell Alfonso V, if you have the courage, go to King Castle Come and fetch it, and as long as he can hold the King's Castle, I will give him the crown and the purple robe."

"But he didn't dare."

The Kingdom of Aragon was a kingdom established by the Franks (now Andorra, Spain). The Franks wanted the crown of Rome, and Constantine agreed, but he asked them to come to King's Castle to get it.

But Alfonso V hesitated again and again, and did not have the courage to come to the castle to take the crown.

Giusti is exhausted, Franks, if they have the courage to support Junbao, they are not Franks.

Giusti continued: "Fatih was a cruel and cold-blooded tyrant who killed all his brothers and sisters."

"Fatih's only brother, that is, Orhan, is hiding in the king's castle. Now we send envoys to negotiate peace with Osman, and we can return this cousin of Fatih to Fatih for execution. His cousin."

"We cannot deny Fatih's ability to judge far beyond ordinary people because of his cruelty. The victory in this naval battle cannot change the situation of the battle. Junbao must fight, but he must use the battle to gain a bargaining chip for peace talks."

"The four Clark sailing ships brought hope and supplies, but we need to know that they have 20 people. Fatih is a very powerful person. He prepared for a full ten years to attack King's Castle."

Giusti said that the castle would never fall, but there were too many Ottomans.

There are only 8000 people defending the city. Once the Ottomans find a way to break the situation, the castle will be at stake.

Of course Constantine knew that it was not that Giusti had no courage. If he had no courage, then there would be no one in the world who possessed the virtue of bravery.

Giusti came from far away Genoa, sold all his family property, and came to Junbao. Compared with the strength of the enemy five hundred times that of his own, Giusti was not cowardly.

After considering his peace proposal, Constantine said with certainty, "I can return Orhan to Fatih."

"Whatever the conditions, Rome, there is nothing left to lose."

"But who should we turn to to persuade that brutal Fatih?"

Giusti showed a relaxed expression, and said with a smile: "Chandar Khalil Pasha, the head of the Four Viziers, you can contact him."

Vizier means minister. Under the king of the Ottoman Kingdom, there are four viziers, and Khalil Pasha is the head of the viziers and the representative of the conservative faction.

"Okay, you go to rest, I'll contact him right away." Constantine stopped and looked into the distance, and sent a few guards with his own letters to find the possibility of peace.

The peace talks began to advance, and it went smoothly beyond Constantine's expectations.

Khalil Pasha's prestige in Ottoman is extremely high, and he can be regarded as a veteran of three generations.

In the power change of the bloody Ottoman Kingdom, even the prince was not spared, and Khalil Pasha naturally had his own uniqueness in being able to be a veteran of three generations.

Khalil Pasha played an active role, the Ottomans' fighting will was not very strong, the reputation of Constantinople was still there, and the Ming Expeditionary Army was behind the Ottomans. By such a coincidence, the peace talks began Steady progress.

Orhan was placed on a ship and sent to the Ottoman camp.

The next day, Fatih ordered the guards to remove the heads of Orhan and Khalil Pasha.

Khalil Pasha was charged with collaborating with the enemy.

"I shouldn't have trusted this devil with any shred of integrity!" Constantine was furious.

After the peace talks advanced in an orderly manner and Constantine handed over the hostages, Fatih tore up all the agreements, and the attack continued.

Giusti said regretfully, "It's all my fault."

"This is my decision, it has nothing to do with you." Constantine is not a person who does not admit his mistakes, he is very ashamed.

A guard hurried in and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty! Ottoman's ship has entered the Golden Horn!"

"Have the iron chains and ship barriers been cleared?" Constantine asked with a terrified complexion.

The guard said in horror: "No, they sailed on land and broke into the Golden Horn Bay!"

"Sailing a ship on land?" Constantine asked dully.

Sailing on dry land is really unexpected.

Chapter 523 Power and Rome Live and Die

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 himself who was several times stronger than the enemy, Giusti once again used his own ability to win the raid.

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.