On the way back to the siege camp, Yin Polita kept staring at the string of eggs tied with a rope.
Giovanni was bedridden. Although Yinpolita forced him into the carriage and moved forward, he could not say a word. Everything in the army was put in charge of the deputy general Yinpolita. Giovanni's men directly controlled a fleet of several thousand men. In addition, Contarini, the admiral of the island republic, was convicted by Partisipaccio for escaping the fleet of the Seven Hills Empire and was asked to accept Giovanni's orders in this war. As long as he borrows Giovanni's name, Yinpolita can control the entire navy of the island republic.
Such Yinpolita would naturally not be as humble as she was in front of Patisipachio. Although she could get on the horse by herself, she always had to step on a soldier every time she rode. And her riding crop would always hit her own soldiers at the slightest displeasure.
The lords of the Alemannic Federation did not dare to underestimate this figure. Yin Polita led his army back, and many small lords came out to greet him from a distance. No one dared to laugh when they learned that she had missed.
"In any case, the enemy has run away. The enemy does not dare to fight. That is because the enemy is cowardly." The Duke of Saxony smoothed things over with a smile. "The enemy has no reinforcements. Next, we can attack Constantinian with all our strength. Yeah."
"Run away? The enemy left this thing for me. Do you understand what this means?"
With a dark face, Yin Polita showed the bunch of eggs to the lords of the Alemannic Federation. The lords of the Alemany Federation approached curiously and looked at it for a long time without understanding it.
"All our plans so far are based on the superiority of the navy. Because of the navy, the First and Second Royal Field Armies of the Seven Hills Empire were unable to cross the strait to rescue Constantinier; because of the navy, the Praetorian Guards It was blocked in Corfu; because of the navy, we were able to ignore all the cities in the middle and directly besiege Constantiniya! The enemy saw this clearly, so they left this one."
Yin Bolita swung the rope in front of the Alemannic Federation princes, and the eggs inside immediately began to shake.
"She is warning us that we are like these eggs, and our safety is tied to the navy. No matter how many eggs there are, as long as the rope breaks, they will all be shattered! Why did she withdraw from the Army? Because the Army There is no need at all! How arrogant! How arrogant!"
All the Alemannic lords were shocked.
"Duke of Burgundy, you said that the Swedish king holds a fleet that you have never seen before. It is not a pirate kingdom's clipper, but a battleship, right?"
The Duke of Burgundy nodded: "Yes, it looks like the fleet of the Republic of Liguria."
"It's Andrea Doria! The naval marshal of the Republic of Liguria! He was captured by the King of Sweden, and unexpectedly he defected to the Pirate Kingdom!"
Yin Bolita took a deep breath.
"Do you understand...that Swedish king didn't run away...she was nakedly declaring war on us!"
Yin Bolita has always been proud of her own intelligence. But it was obvious that she was manipulated by Ella regarding the camp. This made her begin to wonder why Ella would leave such a declaration so confidently—could there be some major flaw in her side's deployment?
"So, the island republic thinks it will fail at sea?" the Duke of Burgundy asked from the side.
These words made Yin Bolita's body feel chilly. She raised her head and looked around at the many lords of Alemanni, and then realized that these lords were not die-hard allies of the Island Republic - they just came to take advantage of the Island Republic's victory in the naval battle.
"Andrea is a terrible enemy, but we have the fire of the ocean in our hands." Yin Bolita said, "The fire of the ocean in our hands is more powerful than the Seven Hills Empire. There is no reason why we can't defend the Black Sea Strait... However, I hope you can capture Constantiniya as soon as possible to reduce variables."
The Black Sea Strait is extremely narrow and must be passed through. All enemy ships that entered here in history were repelled by the Qiqiu Empire using ocean fire. The Alemanni lords knew this and were relieved.
"In that case, we will launch a general attack tomorrow." The Duke of Burgundy said, "I have already prepared the siege equipment and have been waiting for the opportunity to attack!"
The next day, the Alemannic coalition pushed three battering rams, eight trebuchets, sixteen siege towers, and hundreds of ladders that the Duke of Burgundy had already built, and invested 20,000 soldiers. , launched an unprecedented offensive against Constantiniya.
However, their attack also encountered unprecedented resistance.
Their trebuchets were completely unable to shake the solid Theodosian walls. The soldiers pushing the battering ram were hit by crossbow arrows halfway. Although the battering ram had a skin to prevent the arrows from missing, the powerful crossbows of the Qiqiu Empire completely penetrated it, killing Alemanni one after another. Union soldiers shot and killed it until no one dared push it anymore. And the soldiers who climbed the ladder fell from the city wall in large numbers.
Only the siege tower advanced smoothly. The huge and heavy siege tower is like a small wooden fortress. Its ability to prevent arrows from missing is much higher than that of a siege hammer. The soldiers hide underneath to avoid being completely penetrated by crossbow arrows. After successive efforts of the soldiers, these siege towers were finally set up on the walls of Constantiniya.
Just at this moment, several stone bullets flew out from the city, and one of them hit the siege tower without any bias. These stone projectiles came from the trebuchets located on the city of Constantiniya, and were powerful enough to destroy the stone wall. The wooden siege tower was completely unable to withstand such a powerful impact and fell apart at the first touch!
The remaining stone bullets passed by the siege tower very closely. In the next round of stone bombing, half of these siege towers were destroyed.
"Damn it!" shouted a lord, "Why can these trebuchets hit our siege towers so accurately?"
"It was calibrated in advance! There must be markers on the ground!" The Duke of Saxony shouted, "Remember the positions where the engineering tower just arrived, and level all the surrounding three hundred meters of ground for me!" Don’t leave any grass behind!”
Although he reacted in time, this mistake caused the Duke of Burgundy to lose more than half of the engineering tower that he spent half a month building.
"Something's still wrong!" the Duke of Burgundy roared, "When I attacked before, I didn't lose so many arrows!"
"Crossbows are not like bows and arrows and do not require much training." Yinpolita said, "The time you were detained by the King of Sweden was enough for the ordinary citizens of Constantiniya to learn to use crossbows. Constantiny The garrison of Ye is actually more numerous than when you first arrived.”
"Then what should we do?" The Duke of Burgundy was furious, "I have never seen such a difficult city!"
"After all, half a month is not a long time. At night, the shooting accuracy of these crossbowmen will definitely weaken a lot. Let's try attacking again at night." Yin Bolita said, "This time, I will also come to assist in the siege."
