?Artolia's action to conquer the Greek region was still very successful. After leaving three thousand-man teams to monitor the situation in Athens, she continued to move south with the remaining troops.

When people from other parts of Greece saw the Artorian army, they thought their army had been destroyed. So they did not resist too much and soon surrendered.

So, from May to June, AD 1014, a play was performed on the Greek Peninsula: the Norman Cavalry whistled like a strong wind. The foolish turned into powder, and the cowardly fell in sight...

Because of Egil's previous advice, Artoria did not start a massacre during this series of military operations, creating any massacres. Of course, if there were really some idiots who were blind to hindering the empire from taking over the Greek region, Artoria would not mind cutting a few heads as a deterrent.

In this way, soon, except for Athens, a city in Greece, which had not been captured yet, the remaining two great cities, Satheronica and Corinth, were all captured by Artoria, not to mention other small villages and towns. It was completely decided by a proclamation. Artoria left a thousand Hussars in Corinth to suppress the situation. He scattered more than two thousand Hussars across Greece. Patrol back and forth to suppress the evil.

During the war, these places will implement strict military management systems. However, after the war ended and Norman defeated Eastern Rome, the royal government of Krakow would formally send officials to govern the place. Egil already had a specific plan. He wanted to divide the newly conquered territory into three provinces, Hungarian provinces, Yugoslavia provinces and Greek provinces.

After completing these things Artoria led the remaining troops back to the outside of Athens to join the army there.

After the four thousand Hussars were divided, Artoria still had more than five thousand elite cavalry under its command. Compared with the Athenian defenders, it still had a great advantage. In addition, Artoria also arrested - no. It was asked, invited Sutheronica, Corinth, and other slightly larger Greek towns. He invited those nobles and wealthy merchants to her army and shouted to the Athenian defenders. At the same time, he showed some of the spoils she had plundered in these areas, as well as the city flags and other things.

Under such a psychological offensive, the morale of the Athenian defenders became increasingly low. It can be said that they were on the verge of collapse. However, they still did not surrender. Instead, they barely persevered. Artoria also tried to attack once. But judging from the opponent's momentum, it would probably cost a lot to break Athens. So Artoria gave up the plan to attack.

"Just wait for a little longer, the Athenian army will automatically surrender." Artoria also understood that these Athenian defenders were still insisting on it. It was simply because of Constantinople. The deified city supported their last little resistance.

"As long as Constantinople will not fall, then the empire will not fail. There will always be a day of victory." Those poor idiots seemed to think so. But they will soon realize it. Constantinople and other things are just a city in the final analysis. Since it is a city, then there will be the day to be captured.

However, this does not mean that the emperor had nothing to do. In fact, the emperor was very interested. On the third day, he summoned several leaders of the mountain people of Sères. He used both soft and hard work, forcing the Sères to obey him and contributed nearly 10,000 cannon fodder to him. On the fifth day, he led his army to the outside of Constantinople. He boarded a first-made cart outside the range of the crossbow and began to observe the city defense of Constantinople.

Speaking of which, this was not the first time Egil came to Constantinople. But before that, he came as an alliance of the Eastern Roman Empire. Although he thought in his heart: one day I will break through this city and loot the whole place... But at that time, he was just thinking about it. This time Egil really came here as a conqueror. Looking at the city of Constantinople, he felt a different feeling.

Before, he looked at Constantinople. He looked at the heritage, culture and urban construction planning of the Eastern Roman millennium Empire. The rich life of the residents of Constantinople. This time, he looked at the city defenses, fortresses, arrow towers and garrison troops on the walls of Constantinople.

While climbing up to look into Constantinople, Egil recalled the defensive structure diagram of Constantinople that he had seen countless times.

Taking the imperial palace as the city wall built by Constantine I was divided into two roads and extended to the west. Since the north and south sides of Constantine are bordered by the sea, the height of these two sections of the city is only 12 to 15 meters. At the west end of the city is located the third section of the city wall, that is, the 4.3 kilometers long wall.

Emperor Theodosie II built the Theodosie wall to the west of the Constantine wall. Since the Sères Plain outside the city was designed to be extremely complex. The Theodosie wall was designed from the outside to the inside, which was the outer wall, moat, moat inner wall, steep slope wall, outer city platform, outer city wall, inner city platform, inner city wall.

The outer city wall is about 8 meters high and the inner city wall is about 12 to 20 meters high. The outside of the city wall is steep, made of granite boulders, the top of the wall is a sidewalk and combat platform, and there are castles to cover soldiers. The inner side of the city wall is a slope, with rock guards, hidden soldiers and warehouses. There are 96 towers, more than 300 corner towers and bunkers, and the towers are about 5 meters above the city wall, with an average spacing of more than 60 meters, forming a powerful fire support system. Outside the city wall is a moat about 18 meters wide.

Compared with such a huge urban defense system, in Western Europe, the cities of France, Germany or Italy conquered by the emperor's generals were not worth mentioning at all. And with such a strict defense system, it is no wonder that the Greeks regarded it as difficult to break.

"But all this will be the past." Egil said to himself proudly. Then, his voice became louder. The emperor opened his hands to his mouth, made a trumpet shape, and then shouted in the direction of Constantinople...!

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