The city of Constantinople was in chaos.
On the streets inside and outside the city, people wearing various costumes, carrying various packages and luggage, riding various vehicles and horses, were swarming out of the city in a chaotic manner.
Unprecedented chaos, complete chaos from top to bottom.
Even when the Ottoman Sultan ran away and the Lucians entered the city, there was never such chaos.
If the Sultan ran away, he would run away. If the great city of Constantinople changed its owner, it would change its owner. Those who were most affected were the nobles of the two countries.
Some of the Ottoman nobles became civilians and prisoners of the New Roman Empire, or directly ascended to heaven.
Some nobles also became the new Roman nobles together with the Lucian nobles.
Ordinary people in the local middle and lower classes, even if there was a bit of confusion during the transition of power and rulers, they quickly adapted to this high-level change.
We still have to live our daily lives. Those who should go to the dock to work as laborers will continue to work as laborers, and those who should go to factories to tighten screws will continue to tighten screws.
But now, everyone from school to school can't adapt.
Everyone has to run away.
The Ming Dynasty officially claimed that it would impose divine punishment on Constantinople.
Although it is just a claim, it is not 100% certain that divine punishment will really fall on Constantinople.
But in matters involving life, one would rather believe something exists than something else.
Anyone who doesn't run away will only die if he stays in the city. Not many people are willing to be buried with Constantinople.
Including the established new Roman nobility and bureaucrats.
Although the Ming Dynasty's army was still more than 400 kilometers away at this time.
There are still a large number of Lucian and German soldiers fighting on the Anatolian Plateau.
But no one doubted that Ming Dynasty could complete the four hundred kilometers in ten days and throw the divine punishment into the city of Constantinople.
This is indeed the case. It took the Ming army four days to reach the opposite side of Constantinople.
The main force of the Ming Dynasty, the Third Army, arrived on the other side of Constantinople.
Camped thirty kilometers away from the central city of Constantinople, and the entire army reorganized and rested.
Napoleon's Thai-Western immigration regiment followed, continuing to chase down the stragglers that the Ming Dynasty's main army had no time to deal with, and went deep into the mountainous areas to continue suppressing the bandits.
The city of Constantinople itself was a fortress, standing beside the narrow strait connecting the Black Sea and the Great Qin Sea.
Such a fortress city is surrounded by water on three sides, making it a truly dangerous place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
For a long time, in order to maintain the safety of the capital fortress, it was also because of the relatively high difficulty of the project.
Not only does Constantinople not have a large bridge with the Anatolian Plateau on the other side, it also has only a simple bridge with the other side of the river bend that also belongs to the western continent.
Traffic on both sides of the strait mainly relies on ferries.
However, with the advancement of industrialization, this traditional mode of transportation is becoming increasingly inadequate.
When the Ming Dynasty cooperated with the Ottomans, the Ming Dynasty helped the Ottomans build a large number of roads, railways and bridges.
These include two large bridges across the Bosporus and two modern bridges connecting the peninsula where Constantinople is located to the adjacent land.
Railways and highways can directly connect the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Then in the next dozen years, the city of Constantinople continued to expand.
Outside and around the city wall fortress and across the river, large urban residential areas and industrial areas were built one after another.
The total population of Constantinople grew from over one million to nearly two million.
When the Lucians attacked Constantinople, the Ottoman Sultan's decision to run away in advance was too decisive.
The soldiers who arranged for the Sudan to blow up the bridge were not very responsible. As a result, Lucia's army arrived before they could actually blow up the bridge.
The Lucians took over these bridges and continue to serve as important transportation nodes for themselves.
Now, before Daming rushed to the strait, he issued a warning in advance to the three Roman countries headed by Lucia.
They had enough time to blow up the four bridges before the Ming people arrived.
It made it impossible for the Ming people to cross the strait quickly.
But this also blocked a large number of Roman soldiers from the Three Kingdoms on the Anatolian Plateau, becoming the targets of the main force of the Ming Dynasty and the Napoleonic Legion.
Since more than a thousand years ago, Constantinople has been one of the most important cities in the western continent, and it still remains today.
The name Rome plays an important role in the culture of the Westerners, just like "Han" does to the Chinese people.
Constantinople's original name was "New Rome" and it continued to be the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire for more than a thousand years.
Constantinople is one of the most important fragments of the fragmented traditional culture of the West.
Emperor Lucia was nominally the emperor of Eastern Rome.
Just two short years had passed since Lucia occupied this place and renamed the country New Rome.
Many religious buildings had to be abandoned again before they were completely renovated.
Although the city of Constantinople itself was dangerous enough, the Lucians also succeeded in destroying the bridge to Anatolia.
If a conventional war breaks out now, the city of Constantinople and the strait next to it can hold back the Ming army on the opposite side for a long time.
But in the face of divine punishment weapons, all conventional defensive measures are meaningless.
Once the Ming Dynasty's threat was issued and made public, this fortress that should have been extremely strong began to rapidly collapse from within.
Nobles, officials, soldiers, businessmen, and civilians were all running away frantically.
On March 5, the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army arrived opposite Constantinople.
More than half of the nearly two million people in Constantinople have fled.
Nobles, officials, and businessmen traveled by car or even plane, but most civilians could only walk.
The reminder given by Daming is to stay away for twenty kilometers, and a normal person can get out in one day.
The key issue is life after going out.
How to get food and water.
In fact, most of Constantinople's two million residents, ordinary people, would simply become refugees.
People in Constantinople are fleeing, but there are also some people who are rushing to Constantinople from other parts of the European continent by various means.
There are intelligence and reconnaissance personnel from the three Roman kingdoms, as well as reporters and camera crews from various media.
There are also some relatively capable civilians.
Their purpose is simple, they want to confirm the use of the Ming Dynasty's divine punishment weapons, or to appreciate and record the miracles of the divine punishment weapons with their own eyes.
Most of these people have extremely complicated emotions that are a mixture of anticipation, sadness, and entanglement.
The expectation is to see the God's Punishment Weapon, and the sadness is of course because Constantinople, a city comparable to the Holy City, may completely disappear.
The reason for their confusion is that they are not sure whether the Ming Dynasty will use divine punishment if all the people in Constantinople are gone and there is only an empty city left in the area.
The three Roman monarchs and senior officials of Lucia, Deutschland, and Italy also began to think about this issue after calming down for a few days.
Constantinople has become an empty city. If it can be captured without any bloodshed, there is no point in using divine punishment weapons.
They even began to feel hesitant and confused. Could it be that they still couldn't see the God's Punishment Weapon this time?
The Ming Dynasty held the stick of divine punishment like this. It didn't really need to be used directly against the enemy. Could it be that it could capture cities one after another simply by intimidation?
As the city's population dwindled, its military and political institutions quickly disintegrated.
Some middle- and upper-level officers may have some speculative mentality and did not flee with the crowd.
Instead, after his officers and main nobles left, he tried to contact the Ming Dynasty's Taixi Combat Command on behalf of Constantinople.
Hope to surrender directly to Ming Dynasty.
In their opinion, surrendering a special city like Constantinople and completely handing over the city to the Ming Dynasty should be regarded as a certain amount of credit, right?
Although the main strength is the suppressive effect of Ming's divine punishment weapon.
But my cooperation as an internal staff member should also play a certain role, right?
At the very least, I can tell the people of Ming Dynasty that those facilities are the most important and those buildings have historical significance.
The various classics and antiquities left by the Ottomans and Rome should be of interest to the cultural people of the Ming Dynasty.
Their news received a certain amount of attention and was sent to the commander-in-chief Yang Yuchun after passing through the hands of the liaison personnel of the Taixi Combat Command of the Ming Dynasty.
The disposal of Constantinople was personally arranged by Yang Yuchun.
Yang Yuchun glanced at the telegram and directly ordered the intelligence personnel:
"Tell them that if they surrender, they have to retreat twenty kilometers and wait until the main force of the Ming Dynasty crosses the river before surrendering."
Yang Yuchun's meaning was actually very obvious. Even if there was only an empty city left in Constantinople, he would still use the God's Punishment weapon to blow it up.
The emperor told himself directly that he wanted to level graves, demolish temples, and burn books——
Then Constantinople, the old capital of Rome, a place that many Western Romans dream about, must be completely razed to the ground.
At the same time, purely from a military strategic perspective, Constantinople is not easy to fight. It would be best to just blow it up.
In Yang Yuchun's view, it is unrealistic to say that Constantinople has really become an empty city.
Most ordinary people would voluntarily leave Constantinople because of the threat of divine punishment, but some people might wait to die with the city.
Constantinople was also the center of Lucian spiritual Romans and Lucian elements.
After all the other civilians have left, these people will definitely launch a completely lifeless and suicidal sabotage when the Ming people enter the city.
Therefore, Yang Yuchun believed that it was necessary to conduct another strategic strike now.
The morale that the Taisi people had been building up again collapsed again, and some of the extremists were wiped out.
So the bombing of Constantinople is certain.
The Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty and the military also arranged for photographers to bring the most advanced shooting equipment and select shooting angles in advance, preparing to record the destruction of the city.
Five days later, on March 15th in the fourth year of the Era, the ten-day countdown given by Ming Dynasty finally ended.
Most of the people in Constantinople had left the city.
But there are indeed people in the city.
Yang Yuchun did not arrange personnel to investigate the situation in the city.
Instead, he personally wrote an order and application at noon, ordering the Forbidden Army to prepare to launch nuclear missiles, and at the same time applied to the Ming Emperor Zhu Jingyuan for the use of strategic weapons.
Zhu Jingyuan from the Wenhua Palace Office in Yingtianfu New City of the Ming Dynasty sighed softly after seeing the application and explanation written by Yang Yuchun.
From a personal emotional point of view, Zhu Jingyuan hopes to retain Constantinople.
But from the perspective of the Ming Emperor, he couldn't stay.
Therefore, with some helplessness, Zhu Jingyuan sent the final instruction of permission to use to the Forbidden Army on the front line through a dedicated communication frequency.
At two o'clock in the afternoon on March 15th, the fourth year of the Grand Duke, in the Ming military camp 30 kilometers away from Constantinople, a small missile slowly rose with white smoke.
The distance is only thirty kilometers. Conventional missiles can deliver the bomb to the target location without the use of large and medium-sized ballistic missiles.
Moreover, conventional missiles are more accurate and the error can be controlled within one hundred meters.
This simple missile quickly arrived over Constantinople, directly reaching a height of two kilometers above the city.
Less than fifty meters away from the target point, the missile's warhead detonated successfully.
The huge light group, bright enough to cover the sun, slowly bloomed, and the violent shock wave instantly tore apart everything around it.
On this ancient land under the new sun, many temples and power supplies that had stood for hundreds or even thousands of years were completely destroyed in an instant.
The oldest urban core area has a radius of less than three kilometers and is completely within the range of complete destruction by a two-megaton nuclear bomb.
The surrounding area of more than ten kilometers further away, mainly new residential and industrial areas built in recent decades, also turned into a sea of fire in the blink of an eye.
This was a nuclear explosion with the greatest impact and the most shocking scene.
It was also a nuclear explosion with a massive audience.
To the east of Constantinople, within a few dozen kilometers across the strait, there were more than one million Ming soldiers.
There are more than one million stranded refugees in the west and north of Constantinople.
A total of more than two million human beings watched with their own eyes the second sun appeared in the sky, and watched with their own eyes the mushroom cloud rising slowly like a jade pillar.
They also experienced together the residual shock wave which was still quite strong dozens of kilometers away.
Many people saw horrific flames on the edge of the city.
There are countless cameras and video recorders that recorded this unprecedented explosion from different angles and at different points in time.
I don’t know how many people stared blankly for a long time, and then yelled or muttered uncontrollably:
"This is divine punishment——"
"Oh my God, what on earth is that!"
"Is this the real divine punishment?"
"No one but God can use this kind of power——"
"Then who is the Ming Dynasty?"
"Is God the Ming Dynasty?"
From nobles to scholars, from bureaucrats to businessmen, from soldiers to civilians, everyone is feeling extremely shocked and confused at the moment.
Victory and defeat, gods and humans, fighting and survival, strength and justice...
All kinds of heavy and contradictory, distant and direct questions linger in their minds, making people want to think but unable to think.
On the other side of Constantinople, in the Ming Dynasty's military camp, Yang Yuchun came to the front line in person and found a very good position.
Wearing the sunglasses prepared in advance and the large telescope prepared in advance, we carefully observed the entire explosion process.
Then he gave the most direct praise from the bottom of his heart, and began to think and analyze as a matter of course:
"Your Majesty's title is really appropriate. This is definitely a real strategic weapon. Even the gods in the novel have no such deterrent power.
"The deterrent effect of a weapon of this size is good enough. After being directly demonstrated to the Taixi people, it is likely that they will never have a chance to use it in the future.
"There should be no chance for future generations to use it. Now that I have these in my hands, my life is really worth it."
