Speaking of which, this military controversy by the Eastern Roman Empire in Budapest invisibly helped the Norman Offshore Fleet a great favor. While the Eastern Roman dispatched troops and approached Italy by sea and land, a plan by King Egil of the Norman Kingdom was also being realized bit by bit.

Surprise attack on Constantinople. He could have imagined that it was the legendary most powerful city in European civilized society, one of the three holy cities that God loves the most. Today, the most powerful country in Christian civilized society, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. It has tens of thousands of standing troops, hundreds of thousands of residents, and a super city that pays tens of millions of gold coins every year! Egil just said "Go to Surprise" and left it alone!

"It's really a life." Every time I think of what kind of opponent he will face, Marshal Carter, the commander-in-chief of the Outer Sea Fleet, feels a big deal. Fortunately, Egil's order did not allow him to win this largest city in the continent with a 10,000 offshore navy. He just asked him to take a feint, act and show his presence. If that's all, Carter would have some confidence at least and would not refuse the mission on the spot.

Of course, there is only 20% chance of winning. After Carter calculated it, he came to this conclusion. He wanted to complete this mission and retreat safely to keep most of the fleet intact. This possibility is basically only 20% or 30%. Now there is no danger in the inland river. Once he enters the Black Sea, it is very likely that he will face the enemy Black Sea Fleet and successfully avoid the Black Sea Fleet. If he wants to attack Constantinople, he has to cross the Bosphorus and enter the Marmara Sea from the Black Sea.

Egil's order was to attack Constantinople for at least three days.

Then within these three days, the Eastern Romans would most likely make some responses. For example, sending the Aegean Fleet to block the Dardanelles, so that the Norman Offshore Fleet could not cross the Dardanelles and enter the Mediterranean Sea. Then the Black Sea Fleet blocked the Bosphorus.

In this way, the Norman Offshore Fleet was trapped in the Marmara Sea. If you want to break through, you have to deal with the north-south attacks between the two Eastern Roman navies. If you are not careful, you will end up being wiped out by the entire army………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

The reason why the Eastern Roman Empire's military controversy increased the chance of winning the surprise attack was because in order to transport reinforcements to Sicily as soon as possible, Eastern Roman transferred the Aegean fleet elsewhere. In this way, it would be completely impossible to block the Dardanelles. If the Norman fleet's chance of winning was only 20% or 30%, then now it is at least 50%.

The remaining 50% is going to take a chance.

On the Black Sea, you will not be installed by the opponent's naval fleet. As long as you are not installed, the news will not be violent, and the news will not be violent, so that the effect of a surprise attack can be achieved.

The fleet is faster than the army. Because it can move forward day and night. Therefore, even the Grand Duchy of Moscow, who knew about this in advance, would have been too late to remind Eastern Rome.

That's it.

When the fleet used the fleet from the mouth of the Dnieper River and entered the Black Sea, Carter became even more nervous.

"All fleets, full sails, move forward as fast as possible!"

In this way, almost at the same time as the Catholic coalition raided Venice, the Norman offshore navy arrived at the legendary Constantinople, New Rome, and the north of Tsargrad. It is called the natural deep water port of Golden Horn.

At this moment, the huge fleet could no longer hide the heavy crossbow warship. Its huge outline, ferocious impact angle, and huge crossbows on the bow and side of the ship were chilling.

However, the people of Constantinople did not expect that this was an enemy attack. On the dock, among the ships anchored by the dock, there were merchants and sailors from Greece, Arabia, Turkey, and Latin worlds, just looked at the fleet with curious and even excited eyes. Some claimed that it was a squadron of the Imperial Royal Navy, some said that it was a siren merchant fleet of some rich man. Some claimed that it was an official fleet of Constantinople who came to trade from the far east through thousands of mountains and rivers.

No one expected that this was an enemy fleet from the enemy country, from the Norman Kingdom, carrying the entire Catholic world with an angry enemy, filled with lawless Viking pirates.

I never expected it! It was beyond imagination! Someone in this world would come up with such a bold plan... Come on. After crossing the entire Europa continent, he launched a raid on the capital of the enemy country on the other side of the continent with a navy!

This is simply incredible!

In fact, before this, Constantinople was not without enemy attacks. When the Second Bos Empire rose, when the Umayyad Empire rose, when the Hungarian cavalry galloped across Europe, at these times, the imperial capital provinces Sères, and the imperial capital Constantinople, all suffered direct attacks. So it cannot be said that these Greeks living here did not have a sense of vigilance, but this one was simply incredible.

At least in the previous few attacks, the opponent had to take steps from the east or from the north, and then attacked here bit by bit. With repeated failures and repeated loss of troops and land, the Greeks would be aware of and prepared for battle little by little. Later, when the enemy attacked, the fully armed Greeks would give the opponent a profound and unforgettable lesson with the solid defense system of Constantinople!

But now it's completely different.

The other party suddenly appeared from the sea. There was no war book, nor the news of failure coming from the front line. Everything seemed so sudden. When the sailors on these warships did not respond to their waving and shouting as people expected, people had noticed that things were a little different from what they imagined.

Birds and warships, fire.

The scorpion crossbows on more than a dozen crossbow warships, including the flagship, were all loaded with crossbow arrows wrapped in tinder oil, burning cloth heads. Then they aimed at the houses, people, ships and other ships at the dock... They even had no targets at all, they were just aimless shooting.

"Ah! What's going on?!"

Seeing dozens of pike-like giant crossbow arrows shooting towards the dock, people began to scream in surprise. However, this was just the beginning.

After docking on the dock, the springboard on the warship was put down. After that, the rude and ferocious Viking Consultants, who had been patient for a long time, laughed wildly and rushed down from their warships. The first one who got off the ship, with a horn helmet, a leather vest, and a pirate with strong muscles and arms, had no doubt at all. He took out the battle axe, aimed at a Greek who was still at a loss, and chopped it over.

Even when the Norman Pirates' tomahawk was slashing at them, many Greeks still didn't understand what was going on. What was going on? Why did the enemy appear here?! Could it be that the front line was defeated?! So why didn't there be any news? Is it blocked?!

As a civilian, it is really difficult for you to have such political awareness. Or, is it worthy of being the Greeks and the birthplace of democracy?

In this way, with a lot of doubts, this guy was cut into two pieces and died.

As the large number of civilians on the docks, slave workers carrying goods, and merchants from the Arab, Latin world, Ross, and even further away were killed one by one. Fear finally spread. Screams, screams of dying, screams of panic, and the slightly hideous laughter of the Viking pirates were intertwined.

Golden Horn Bay Harbor was looted. The harbor guards, with a total of only 200 people, were unable to make any decent resistance. These were completely without armor, only equipped with short spears, and were dressed more like honor guards. In the first round of the fight, they were overturned by the pirates' flying axes. Before the remaining people could arrange a decent formation, they were chopped into meat sauce by the Viking pirates who rushed up.

Afterwards, after more than an hour of landing, a total of 4,000 fully armed Norman pirates landed, and a team of 100 people spread around the dock. Adhering to the usual pirate style, locusts left no grass to pass through the border. The pirates clearly divided the labor, half were responsible for cutting people, and the other half were responsible for grabbing things. The efficiency was extremely efficient and looted all the buildings that looked good near Golden Horn Bay, including two monasteries and dozens of Si-man villas, which had oil and water.

The transport ships of the outer sea fleet began to become fuller little by little. Eastern Rome is worthy of being a world-class power, and Golden Horn Bay is worthy of being a world-class trading center. Soon, the Viking pirates were sadly discovering that their ships seemed to be unable to fill more gold, silver and treasures, as well as other valuable cloth, silk, porcelain and other things.

Do you have to throw away some of the food and water? How is that possible? Pirates have been veterans for many years. Naturally, they know how important these two things are on the sea. Money is naturally good, but they also have to have life to huā.

So the pirates began to carefully choose, throw away silver, exchange it for gold, throw away cloth and silk, throw away ordinary blankets, and replace it with bos carpet. The abandoned items were thrown into the water without hesitation, or piled up on the shore, lit a fire to burn Constantinople after receiving such news, it was already an hour later. When the soldiers who came to report the news ran to the headquarters of the Constantinople garrison, the commander of the garrison did not believe what they said.

"Did you drink too much?! This is Constantinople!! Did the enemy fall from the sky with wings?!"

In this way, the commander's inaction gave the Norman pirates nearly an hour. It was not until the Patriarch of the Universal Patriarch Sergius II received an alarm from the church outside Constantinople and hurriedly ran from Hagia Sophia to the garrison army. After a roar of his identity, the commander of the garrison army was stunned and truly believed the matter.

"But, this is simply incredible. The defenders of Constantinople have more than 50,000. The other party dared to attack us directly after only a few thousand soldiers. Are they crazy?

!” In the final military meeting, other Eastern Roman generals also expressed disbelief.

"It is not a discussion of the bravery of these enemies and where they came from. These questions are: our people are suffering from the ravages of these heretic enemies! I say, Generals, what you should do now is to organize your army, rush out of the city to fight back all the heretics and the enemies of God! Instead of sitting here and talking big!!!"

So in the end, the Patriarch scolded him, which made these young generals lower their heads.

"But the enemy situation is not clear. If you attack rashly...will it be worse if you fail? It's better to close the city gate first and wait for the news to be discovered before making plans." The words of the commander of the garrison army were unanimously agreed by the generals of the other legion. This is not to say that these generals cannot fight. It cannot be said that the Eastern Rome guards Constantinople are all waste. But because they are afraid of taking responsibility.

Yes, I am afraid of taking responsibility. Such a major thing, even if there is only a little chance of failure, what if it fails? What should I do if it fails? Anyway, I have not received the emperor's order. This is not the enemy's territory, and it is difficult to start if I want to rob. It has no military merits and no benefits. Who is willing to take such a risk...

"You...there are not many enemies! There are only a few thousand people!! They docked at the dock and came by boat! There are only a few thousand people! There are only a few thousand people!!! Can you guys even defeat thousands of enemies?!" The Patriarch trembled all over his body in anger.

"Okay, Master Patriarch, let's get rid of your anger and your tone is a big harm to your body." Finally, someone said such a sarcastic remark.

The reason why these generals dared to be so disrespectful to the Patriarch was because in the Eastern Roman Empire, the so-called universal Patriarch Sergius II, the so-called greatest leader of the Orthodox Church, had a very embarrassing position.

Although it is in nominal control of the entire empire's faith.

But in fact, the power of the pastor is not very large. Many times, they are just bishops of Hagia Sophia and the emperor's court priests. The Eastern Roman emperor, who exists, claims to be parallel to Jesus Christ. Therefore, they will not be too respectful to a pastor.
Chapter completed!