Since then, there is no Constantinople in the world, only Istanbul.
145 1 year, Muhammad Ⅱ, 2 1 year, inherited the Sultan's throne from his father. Compared with his father, he is younger, more fanatical and more obsessed with fame. He is determined to surpass the Ottoman sultans of past dynasties and build a great empire unparalleled in the world.
The territory of the empire has crossed the Bosphorus and reached Europe; However, there is one last nail on the side of this waterway connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea: Constantinople.
When the Eastern Roman Empire (also known as Byzantine Empire) was at its strongest, it covered many places in Europe, Asia and Africa, and Lian Gang's founding emperor Osman had to submit to it. Constantinople became the center of the Orthodox Church, facing its brother Rome, the center of Catholicism.
Now, this is the only isolated city in the whole Eastern Roman Empire. However, the city has the strongest city wall in the world, defending the only surviving Byzantine empire composed of churches, palaces and rows of houses.
Muhammad Ⅱ's road to great empire must be unplugged.
The ambitions of pagans are obvious. Constantine XIII, the last emperor of Eastern Rome, knew that without foreign aid, he would be in danger.
However, most of the Eastern Orthodox Church became Ottoman territory, and their brother, the Western Roman Empire, was already destroyed by the Germans. Now, the Catholicism there has parted ways with the Orthodox Church for a long time, and the past vendetta is still vivid.
However, you can't do it without asking for help. Byzantium sent a mission for help, and Rome also sent a goodwill ambassador. But the two sides sat down to talk for less than a while and found that they could not continue to talk. In the end, the Roman and Greek Catholic churches only symbolically supported several warships and hundreds of soldiers to go to Byzantium.
The embattled Ottoman Turkish army has been gearing up and is on the verge of exploding.
Without foreign aid, the only support of Constantinople is the solid city wall. One side of the city is near the sea, and the other three sides are protected by city walls.
The emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire carefully repaired the city wall, which has become an insurmountable wall in the western world.
Muhammad Ⅱ, which is surrounded by Constantinople, knows very well that such a strong wall is not easy to break.
Although artillery had spread to the Middle East with the Mongols' Western Expedition many years ago, the Ottoman Empire's specialty was artillery. But even Ottoman's proud mortars could not break through the Yugoslav capital.
The leap of scientific and technological progress was unprecedented in that era. There is only one solution: make mortars with larger caliber and longer barrel, and launch shells with longer range and more power!
Under the will of the Sudan, the Ottomans mobilized all over the country, and the iron monsters that met the requirements were made. Then it was several months before the monster was sent to the front.
Unprecedented huge artillery, unprecedented huge artillery shells, a little bit of the once unparalleled Constantinople wall, and a little bit of tearing up the beliefs and hopes of countless people inside the wall.
At that time, facing the narrow Bosphorus Strait of Byzantium, the Ottoman fleet was stuck here and could not move forward. The harbor behind the strait and the city behind the harbor are the goals of Osman.
However, on April 20th, four Genoese warships appeared on the battlefield. This magical support from western brothers seemed to be a shot in the arm, which once again aroused the hope of Byzantium. Byzantines believed that the arrival of the first reinforcements meant that the new reinforcements were not far away, and the western brothers did not abandon them.
At least the Ottoman fleet can't reach the harbor, and the threat from the Byzantine Sea has been lifted. Reinforcements can come more calmly.
People in the city fantasize about support, while people outside the city are trying to realize their dreams: instead of directly attacking Byzantine and its reinforcements' warships in the sea fjord, Muhammad Ⅱ towed them away from the land, crossed the mountains and reached the bay under Byzantine sea blockade.
Byzantine citizens thought they were dreaming when they saw the enemy fleet sailing in the center of the bay that they mistakenly thought they could never enter.
The Ottoman navy suddenly appeared in Constantinople Bay, and although Constantinople has the strongest wall in the world, the defense in the coastal areas is relatively weak.
Here, it's seven inches of Byzantine.
The reinforcements didn't come, and 12 East Roman soldiers went to inquire about the news, only to know that without reinforcements, the Catholic Church had forgotten them.
On May 29th, Muhammad Ⅱ promised his soldiers that everything in Constantinople, including gold, silver, jewels and women, would belong to the soldiers who won the battle, and he only wanted the city and the glory behind it.
Constantinople, the rich capital of the largest empire in the Millennium, will be divided up by the victorious countries, which seems to be more effective than any pre-war mobilization. Ottoman Turkish soldiers launched a final blow to the already riddled fortifications of this ancient city.
At one o'clock in the morning on the 30th, the Ottoman general attack began, and the last emperor of Constantinople also came to the city wall.
However, at this time, a completely unimaginable thing happened. Not far from the main battlefield, the Ottomans were pleasantly surprised to find that a small door that had no military significance and had been forgotten by the Byzantines was not closed. In this way, an Ottoman army easily entered the inner city of Constantinople, causing a huge riot. The soldiers standing on the wall saw that the enemy had entered the city, thought the city was broken and gave up their resistance.
The city will eventually fail, and people from all over the city gather in Hagia Sophia to hold the last requiem mass, which is also the last Christian ceremony held in this church.
Soon, Ottoman troops came here.
Sultan Muhammad sent people into Hagia Sophia to preach the creed of Prophet Muhammad, and Sultan himself made a pilgrimage in Mecca.
The next day, all the Christian symbols in the church were removed, the mosaics were painted with lime, and the cross on the top of the cathedral was knocked down. It seems that westerners realize that due to their inaction, the Ottoman army will enter Europe smoothly.
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