"This is Constantinople! This is... it's really..."

Sophia couldn't continue to say anything. She looked at the city walls that were still bustling with holes, but the whole city was still prosperous and exquisite. Seeing her husband handing over such a beautiful city to the Pope Innocent IV, she felt an indescribable feeling in her heart.

Indeed, before Constantinople was captured by the Ottomans, it was the most perfect and exquisite city in the Roman style at that time. According to historical records, Constantinople has 2 theaters, 4 Basilicas (public assembly halls), 8 luxurious public baths, 153 private baths, 52 colonnades along the street, 5 granaries, 8 elevated canals, 14 churches, 14 palaces and 4388 noble mansions.

If you just walk in the city, you can't feel what the Romans built to commemorate the once unparalleled Roman civilization. In order to see this view, the "Battlefield Reconnaissance Lighting System Ii" on the "Hanwu" class warships far away all grew into the sky. Zhao Fubo also took Sophia to the world's most advanced and magical hot-tempered airship, so the beautiful and magnificent Constantinople will unfold like a beautiful scroll.

The design of the city of New Rome is completely imitated by Rome and is divided into 14 districts. Seven hills like Rome can also be found in the city, but there are only 6 hills that are obviously visible. The seventh is located on a gentle slope in the south of the city and requires extremely high imagination to distinguish. There is a small river flowing to the Sea of ​​Marmara in the city, called the Licos River, which is attached to the new Tiber River. Several elevated water diversion channels bring live water from the Thrace Plain 30 kilometers away to supply the daily life of the city.

In that era, this was definitely a very advanced technology. Of course, compared with the tap water processed on "Huaxia Island", it was not a feature of the same era. However, the tall buildings here are completely different from those in the industrial and commercial society, such as high-end buildings based on efficiency and quantity that lack artistic rest characteristics. From the altitude, it can be seen that Constantinople has a strong defense. If it were not for the continuous bombardment of 1,500 naval guns with explosive warheads, such a city could have stood forever.

The walls of Constantinople start with the imperial palace. The old walls built by Constantinople I extend westward in two ways. Since the north and south sides of Constantinople are bordered by the sea, the height of these two sections of the walls is only 12 to 15 meters. At this moment, they are just city walls destroyed by artillery fire, and there are a large number of bullet craters in front and behind the city walls and on the city walls. Fortunately, they are gunpowder shells. If it were the 300-mm "Dragon Extinguishing Cannon" on the "Hanwu"-class warship, I am afraid that the wall can only ride on the next continuous bullet crater at this moment.

In the hot-aircraft tether, use a telescope to look further away.

The entire city is located on the hills behind the city wall. Merchant ships from afar can see the Holy Palace complex, racing arena, Hagia Sophia (the huge dome of the church can be used as a lighthouse), and various magnificent buildings in the city. At the west end of the city is the third section of the city wall, namely the 4.3-kilometer-long wall of Constantine.

Emperor Theodosie II built the Theodosie wall to the west of the Constantine wall. Since the Thrace Plain outside the city was designed so complex. The Theodosie wall was designed from the outside to the inside, including the outer wall, moat, moat inner wall, steep slope wall, outer city platform, outer city wall, inner city platform, inner city wall.

The outer city wall is about 8 meters high and the inner city wall is about 12 to 20 meters high. The outside of the city wall is steep, made of granite boulders, the top of the wall is a sidewalk and combat platform, and there are castles to cover soldiers. The inner side of the city wall is a slope, with rock guards, hidden soldiers and warehouses. There are 96 towers, more than 300 corner towers and bunkers, and the towers are about 5 meters above the city wall, with an average spacing of more than 60 meters, forming a powerful fire support system. Outside the city wall is a moat about 18 meters wide, which is an extremely difficult combat environment for any attack method at that time.

However, such a city easily fell under the attack of blasting bombs fired by 1,500 guns in front of the door. These shells with hard warheads can cause the shells to explode after entering the distance of 1 to 5 meters underground. Especially the power of those "reincarnation mortars" is really huge. You can see it by looking at the craters near the city walls.

Constantinople gave Zhao Fubo a feeling that it was the crystallization of human civilization in the past. The plunder and defeat of Rome by the Great Emperor Attila of the Huns should be the watershed of civilization, the end of ancient civilization and the awakening of new civilizations. Whether ancient Greece or ancient Rome, they were defeated by arrogance, extravagance and elegance. But in fact, they fell like the past dynasties in China, that is, there was no new and reasonable ruling and management structure. It was like a bottle of water, which was to the point where the water was full and overflowing.

Many craters expressed such a new concept to the entire ancient civilization. That is, for a country and nation, complacency at any time is a very terrible state. Looking at the world, looking at the entire history of China, the powerful Qin, the Han Dynasty, the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the glorious ancient Greece and Rome, everything is like this. After hard exploration, they reached the level of complacency, and then the entire country and the entire nation lost their direction.

Officials can no longer maintain integrity, or in terms of psychological concepts, they have lost themselves in lust and leisure. So for the "Huaxia Empire" that Zhao Fubo and his brothers are building, they must always find some new goals to keep the entire country in a state of exploration, and have been working hard for its success.

"Science is nothing more difficult to climb than the peak of science, nor is it more profound and endless than this. More importantly, scientific exploration can help us humans get out of ignorance and ignorance, and can find a better state to change the present at any time! The most important thing is that scientific exploration can prevent the occurrence of arrogance, extravagance and elegance."

This is the faint thoughts from Zhao Fubo from the hot-tempered airship, looking at Constantinople, the most magnificent city built by Europeans. This made him sure of one thing, that is, the future "Huaxia Empire" will not follow their footsteps and will laugh in this world for longer!
Chapter completed!