When the Golden Horn Bay was lost and the news that the Norman fleet entered the port area spread, the entire Constantinople fell into panic. After all, that direction was one of the few loopholes in Constantinople. After that, the Normans could no longer attack the tightly defended Theodosy walls, and then switch to the north dock area to launch an attack. Once the walls there were lost, Constantinople would declare it to fall.

Such a strategy is equivalent to reducing the difficulty of conquering Constantinople by three quarters! Even though Constantinople has high cities and thick buildings and towers, it is impossible to display it!

August 1, 1014 AD. It was destined to be a sleepless night. After learning the news, no matter how generous the person is, he can't sleep anymore. From Her Majesty Liliannu, Empress Etius, and other Imperial generals, all dressed as soon as possible after receiving the news. They summoned all the troops they could gather and ran towards the north wall of Constantinople as fast as possible.

While rushing on this road, Liliannu secretly sighed: It was a pity that Constantinople had not cut corners when designing it. Unlike some cities, the coastal side had not simply set up a city wall. Otherwise, there would be no need to fight this time. Just surrender.

Just like that, as the Empress Marshal General ran towards the north of the city, many panicked Constantine citizens also followed the flow to the north of the city. They wanted to see with their own eyes, to hear some comments from authoritative people, and to be comforted. Let themselves know that Constantinople is still under the control of the empire and is still the best fortress that will not fall.

However, they were destined to be disappointed. When they saw countless warships as big as castles, showing their power in Golden Horn Bay, countless large-caliber artillery, which were as thick as bowls, fired continuously, shaking the city wall on the north side. When they saw tens of thousands of Norman soldiers sneering, setting up barracks in the already ruined dock area and assembled those hideous siege towers...

When the soldiers and civilians of Constantinople saw this scene, everyone, from Lilianu to an ordinary citizen of Constantinople, was shocked and frightened, unable to speak.

"Don't panic! Get ready quickly, the other party is going to attack the city! Romans, I order you to cheer up and fight these savages bravely! Don't panic! We haven't lost yet!"

Soon, Liliannu stabilized and then shouted at the Constantinople soldiers and civilians behind her, cheering them up: "Although the walls of Theodossi are not strong, this place is still Constantinople! It is still the most solid fortress in the world! As long as we are dedicated and work hard to defend, the other party will not be able to conquer this place! We have sufficient supplies and manpower. We don't need to be afraid at all!!!"

When the Queen finished speaking, the soldiers and civilians of Constantinople roared loudly and cheered in response. Soon, the soldiers and people boarded the city walls with weapons, hugged behind the stilt, and looked nervously at the Norman army in the dock area, waiting for their attack.

However, before this, they had to withstand the terrifying and powerful naval guns of the Norman artillery's side volley. Just three rounds of volleys, turning the entire port into firepower in ruins. At this moment, it poured on the walls of Constantinople. A violent explosion and bombardment were violently exploded and bombarded. Many towers collapsed and could not be used. They also flattened some of the sams. They also fried the Greeks hiding behind the sams into minced meat.

Such a scene is extremely shocking. Ordinary soldiers, even if they have killed people on the battlefield, saw such a scene - a person who was standing beside him just now was blown into pieces in a blink of an eye. This is unacceptable in any case. Not to mention those ordinary citizens who have never been on the battlefield.

Some people were bombarded by artillery and shouted in pain. Some people were covered with burnt minced meat. They were so scared that they were incontinent. Some people threw down their weapons and rolled and crawled away. They even fell down from the city wall in a panic and fell to pieces...

Immediately afterwards, a shell hit the city gate. The hardwood gate could not completely defend against such bombardment like a brick and stone wall. A hole was made. The Norman soldiers who saw this scene from the front immediately cheered loudly!

"Blast their city gates! Concentrate their city gates!! Doing this is more valuable than bombarding their city walls at will!!" At that time, General Ushakov, who was holding a telescope and trying hard to see this scene in the fire, shouted excitedly: "Notify the fleet. Concentrate their city gates! Blast open those city gates and we will win!"

So, with General Ushakov's order, the fleet began to focus on bombarding the city gates that were not very solid. Although the accuracy of the artillery in this era was not very high, and it was two or three o'clock in the morning. The darkest period of the day. However, hundreds of artillery bombarded with luck. Several shells really hit the city gates. At that time, wood chips flew across the city gates, and several boards were torn off by a single piece. A big hole had been revealed!

"Quick. Go and carry the stones and seal the city gate!" Seeing that the defense line was about to appear, the Greek officers immediately ordered in anger. Constantine soldiers and civilians were bombarded with such artillery. They immediately carried the stones, wood, and stones that were originally used to throw the city to guard the city. They were at the gate of the city. After all, the city gate was sealed. The defenders then breathed a sigh of relief.

It was like a weak reed in a storm. The defenders of Constantinople endured for about three hours under the bombardment of the Normans' storm. Three hours later, when it was already dawn, the Norman fleet stopped the shelling.

After three hours of shelling, the Norman fleet fired a total of thousands of projectiles. Although the final record was not satisfactory, there were only more than a thousand Greeks killed. However, in order to destroy the morale of the other party, this round of bombing was extremely effective. After such bombing, almost all the tens of thousands of Greek soldiers and civilians on the city wall fell into chaos. At this time, the sun also rose and the light became sufficient. Norman's army troops were also rested. Then, taking advantage of the Greeks' chaos, they began to attack!

"Charge!!" Centurions and thousands of siege leaders roared, pushing the huge, just assembled siege tower towards the other side. Holding a layer of iron sheet, the siege tower weighs several tons more than ten meters high. Although three rows of wheels were installed below and the wheels were lubricated with oil. The marching speed was still not very fast - but this was enough.

Because there are not many defensive machinery on this side of the city wall, there are very few catapults and crossbows. It is impossible to destroy these strong siege machinery with only individual weapons. It is also very difficult to burn it by fire.

Although after the accident, Queen Liliannu ordered that the front, the inner wall of Theodosci and the Constantine wall on the west side, were transported to the north side of the north side, which was not needed for the time being. However, in a hurry, she could not do this at all. The precious mechanical weapons were still on the way to transport them.

"Concentrate the existing catapults and crossbows firepower to attack those siege towers!"

After the shelling of the Norman warship ended, the queen and some professional soldiers climbed out of the hidden soldiers on the side of the city wall and rushed to the city wall. Seeing the ferocious siege towers slowly moving towards their side, Queen Liliannu ordered.

However, with just a dozen stone catapults and crossbows, they could not break these siege towers wrapped in iron. They either missed or hit them, and they bounced off the iron sheets, which could not stop the Normans from the footsteps.

"It's so damn. It seems we have to be ready to fight." As the siege towers got closer, the Greeks gave up their plans to destroy these things. After these things got closer, some Greek soldiers tried to throw Greek pots at them to destroy these things. However, the Normans had already prepared their countermeasures. The fastest-running soldiers ran up the siege tower with wooden barrels filled with sand. Then they fell over and extinguished the flames.

In this way, the soldiers pushed more than a dozen such siege towers forward and finally approached the city wall. Then, the Norman soldiers rushed towards the city wall. The Norman longbowers and heavy crossbowmen holding longbows and heavy crossbowmen also rushed under the city wall and fired bows and arrows at the head of the city.

On the walls, the Greek soldiers also roared and used their projection weapons to fight back at the Normans. At the same time, they concentrated all the catapults and the crossbows for the last round of bombardment. The only Greek fire ejector was also activated. In this case, they finally destroyed a siege tower. But this was completely useless. Under the city tower, the gates of the total sixteen siege towers had been opened. The Normans rushed to the city head impatiently and fought fiercely with the Greeks.

"Attack! As long as this city wall is occupied, Constantinople is ours!!" The Normans shouted loudly. They launched a fierce attack on the Greeks who were still in chaos and unable to organize effective defense. The long-handled axe and battle axe slashed violently. All the approaching Greeks were chopped into pieces. After accumulating physical strength for a night, the battle was completely exploded at this moment. They formed a combat power that was enough to destroy an empire!
Chapter completed!