A month later, the Crusaders finally recaptured Constantinople.
The above sentence is an understatement because the recovery process is an understatement.
Since the Blue Sword Mercenary Group opened the road to Constantinople and drove away all the demigods along the way, it was extremely easy for the Crusaders to clean up.
In just over half a month, the Crusaders had already deployed heavy troops outside the walls of Theodosius and began to exchange artillery fire with the Seljuks in Constantinople.
Another week passed, and the artillery power in the city gradually became sparse. The Crusaders, sensing something was wrong, launched a wave of exploratory siege, and actually occupied the city wall directly.
As the scattered Seljuk people in the inner city of Constantinople gave up their weapons and surrendered sparsely, the Crusaders realized that Emperor Suleiman initially used artillery to shoot at the Crusaders, but secretly sent most of the troops through
The Golden Horn has moved towards Asia Minor.
The artillery that fired outwards from the city also used to increase the proportion of smoke bombs over time, using a large amount of smoke to cover up the decrease in the artillery firepower itself, so that the Seljuks successfully made a sudden change under the eyes of the Crusaders, and
The living forces were smuggled to the East.
This result has both good and bad consequences:
The good thing is that Constantinople was completely preserved. In order to hide it from others as much as possible, Suleiman did not have enough time and transportation capacity to transport the citizens of Constantinople, so they were not plundered.
, or were killed as consumables in brutal siege battles.
The disadvantage is that the subsequent battle to recapture Asia Minor will be difficult to fight. First of all, the Crusaders' initial goal is to recapture Constantinople, and Asia Minor is not included in the Holy War Contract. In short,... more money is required.
Secondly, the population and resources of Asia Minor are here. If it is not recovered, Constantinople will face the threat from the east. Recovering it will not take a day or two.
In turn, we can see the insidiousness and cunningness of the emperor Suleiman. If he chose to defend Constantinople, the Crusaders, who had the advantage in military strength, could first cross the sea to regain western Asia Minor and remove Suleiman's retreat to the east.
Cut it off.
In short, although Constantinople was recovered and the foundation for the restoration of the Eastern Solomon Empire was completed, Theodora was indeed not in a happy mood at this time.
To be more precise, from the restoration of the throne to the counterattack in Asia Minor, a lot of things diluted her joy and sense of accomplishment, and instead made her even more worried.
For example, there is no trustworthy bureaucratic team on hand to complete the integration of Constantinople's remaining resources; for example, the military threat in the east has become more serious, and the departure of the Seljuks has taken away a large number of fleets, so that the city is almost
No navy available.
Another example is that the diplomatic wrangling with the Crusaders involved a lot of her energy, especially the disastrous lessons learned from the past (referring to the fact that the Crusaders leaders in the first volume deliberately delayed negotiations with her and secretly incited the Crusader knights to plunder Constantinople).
Don't even dare to take it lightly.
Another example is a man who had promised her to become co-emperor, but now he was leisurely taking other girls to play around in Constantinople, which made Her Majesty Theodora almost bite her to death.
his impulse.
Compared to Theodora's busyness and boredom, the others in Cangqing Sword were relaxed and at ease, currently retracing their memories in various locations.
"Look, it's the St. Ol' Hotel!" Nora pointed to the high-end hotel opposite and said, "Ellie, do you remember? I stayed there for a month."
"Later, I brought Aske over to introduce you." Eleanor said with a smile, "I remember that Peggy also performed the characteristics of the flesh and blood sequence, which scared you to tears."
"I was so scared that I vomited, thank you." Nora said seriously, "My mentality is not that fragile."
"I remember Ask's home is nearby, right?" Medea suddenly said, "Do you want to go?"
"Well, I want to go to the 'Sunken Palace'!" Little Mia raised her hand and said, "Maybe everyone from the Thieves Guild has returned?"
"Then I also want to go to the Colosseum of Constantinople." Hidrifa also said seriously, "Although there is a high probability that our teammates will not survive today, but maybe we can see one or two familiar faces?"
"Okay, then you go there first." Aske agreed.
So Mia took Miriam to the Sunken Palace, while Sidley walked slowly towards the Coliseum. Asik took Nora, Eleanor, Paige and Medea towards Achilles
Walk in the direction of the mansion.
The Achilles Mansion is still intact on the outside, but still in tatters on the inside. When Asker reported a family of vampires to the Orthodox Church, a team of armored paladin rushed in and smashed everything inside. Although it was later added
Some new furniture, but it was taken back to Fire Island when they left, so there was nothing left at all.
Probably because of this, although the door lock of the mansion was picked open, there was no sign of habitation inside. Apparently the intruder did not expect that this was an abandoned house.
The Peggy family mansion next to it was initially burned to rubble due to the vampire incident. Later, due to the construction of Hearthfire Manor, it was cleared and used as a temporary place for building materials - but now a shack has been erected and is used by a poor family.
occupied.
Peggy stared blankly at the ruins of her home. A little girl in rags was shooting a ball at the door. Soon her mother came out and pulled the little girl into the shack.
"What are you doing?" Ask suddenly patted her shoulder and said, "Let's go."
"Oh." Peggy quickly followed.
A group of five people walked through the empty hall. Many wooden boards had been pried away and used as heating fuel in winter.
After turning around the second floor and going up to the study room on the third floor, everyone saw five chairs placed around the carpet in the center.
It was here that Asker and Medea worked together to popularize some introductory knowledge about extraordinary beings, and opened the door to a new world for Nora, Eleanor and Peggy.
So everyone sat down in their original positions with some nostalgia. You looked at me, I looked at you, and couldn't help but laugh with emotion.
"Ahem." Medea cleared her throat and smiled sweetly, "Do you want to become a transcendent? I have a magic potion formula for the psychic sequence here."
Eleanor was slightly startled when she heard this, but Nora immediately understood that she was acting out the original scene, so she pretended to be a newbie who didn't understand anything and said timidly:
"Psychic sequence? What specific ability is it?"
"Psychic I can allow extraordinary people to detect the existence of surrounding mental bodies..." Then Medea explained the knowledge of the psychic sequence.
Of course, Nora was already familiar with these things, but she still made serious gestures of holding a notebook and pen, pretending to write seriously.
"So, what exactly is the mental body?" she asked Medea with a smile.
"Well, the mental body is..." Before Medea could finish speaking, Eleanor interrupted her and said, "No, I remember you said there would be a fee!"
"Really?" Medea said pretending to be stupid. She actually remembered the original price of 15 pounds, but now it seems that it is too shameful to worry about such a small amount of money.
"Where did we go after that?" Aske asked.
"It seems that I went to some extraordinary gathering." Medea said with her finger poking her chin.
"Then he said he was going to collect materials." Paige was also somewhat impressed.
"Yes." Ask remembered, "I went to the Thieves Guild to look for materials to buy from Mia..."
So everyone felt sad again.
At that time, everyone was still Lv.0-Lv.2, running around for formulas and spiritual materials. Now most of them are at the demigod level. Looking back on it is still like yesterday, vivid in their minds.