"You... forget it, I can't remember the names of you northerners, just like I can't recognize who you are. Have you dealt with the enemies coming from the Water Palace?"
As soon as he came up, the Greek officer who looked like he had a lot of background said this. These words made Rurik choke up, but soon the Russian prince reacted, "Yes, everything is solved.
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"That's good. If I hadn't suddenly discovered someone doing something at the Water Palace, I wouldn't have noticed that there were enemies over there. Really, it seems that Constantinople is full of traitors, etc.
We have defeated these rebels, and then there must be a big purge."
The officer shook his head and sighed, and through his sigh, Rurik also realized that the ambush was really just a coincidence. This... it can only be said that God is very good at arranging people's fate.
"Wait a minute, I remember that the captain before was not you."
The officer's words immediately made Rurik's heart tighten, but he still responded with a relaxed face, "The original captain unfortunately died in battle, and now I am taking over the team."
Fortunately for Rurik, the man did not become suspicious, "Well, okay, did you lose much? I see that many people in your team have blood on them, and the bows I allocated to you before
The crossbowman is also missing."
"Yes, although those enemies were not many in number, they were all elite. Some of them even broke through our defense and reached the crossbowmen. Then they chopped them down one by one like killing pigs."
Rurik reacted very quickly and found the words to respond to the question the moment it was raised. Seeing this, the Greek did not become suspicious and kept nodding.
"That's really a pity, but we don't need so much here, so if it's gone, it's gone. Now wear your man and go rest. The next battle will not be less, and maybe we will need it when the time comes.
Let you go up the city wall."
"How is the war situation now?"
Rurik did not leave, but talked about the battle situation in a normal manner. When the battle situation was mentioned, the officer became very excited, "Haha, you didn't see it. Those guys outside could only break through the first city wall.
Then we were blocked in front of the second and third city walls. They couldn't break through this wall, and we don't know what the unscrupulous people in the city were doing with their smuggling. We clearly have a chance of victory."
"Really? I understand, then I'll leave first to settle my people."
"Yeah, let's go."
What the officer didn't see was that the moment Rurik turned around, he made a gesture to the people behind him. The meaning of that gesture was very simple - start taking action.
While the operations within the city walls were in full swing, the situation outside the city was not so good.
Facing the city wall of Constantinople, both the Russians and the Greeks seemed so powerless. Their successive sieges on the city wall ended in failure. They were either driven off the city wall or blocked on the first floor of the city wall.
I couldn't move inside a certain tower.
The morale of the soldiers was getting lower and lower. After several fruitless attacks, they really couldn't get up. Knowing that advancing would essentially lead to death, few of them were willing to step forward.
As the attackers became more and more defeated, the defenders also began to play some new tricks, such as suddenly opening the hidden secret doors on the city wall, and then killing them in front of the enemies who were busy ascending the city.
Such assault operations can achieve very good results. The soldiers who were ascending the city never expected that there would be an attack from the city wall. The defenders quickly retreated after sweeping away the nearby attackers as quickly as possible, and then reacted
The attacker could only look helplessly at the closed secret door.
But things didn't end like this. After knowing that there was a secret door here, the attackers definitely couldn't just watch. They had to send people to keep an eye on these secret doors, but the places where these secret doors were located were often extremely vulnerable to arrows.
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What's more terrible is that you don't know how many secret doors there are, so people everywhere are panicked for a while, everyone has less and less willingness to attack, and morale is getting lower and lower.
Rostislav once had great expectations for the car that crashed into the city gate, but the result was that after suffering a lot of casualties, the car finally reached the Golden Gate, but it could not hit the door at all, and was then used by the Greeks with torches.
It was lit.
And those soldiers who rushed so deep could not pull back for a while. They were completely hit by arrows. They could only rely on the burning car with their shields to deal with the arrows from all directions. It can be said that they have begun to die slowly.
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Under the city wall, it has become a place of death for the attackers. There are corpses everywhere and soldiers lingering everywhere. No one wants to continue the attack and no one wants to die.
Watching groups of wounded being carried off from the front line, Rostislav's mood became worse and worse. He couldn't restrain his horse and rode back and forth. Alexios also became calm. According to this situation
If we go down, the siege will fail.
"When will there be an uprising in the city?"
Rostislav anxiously said to Alexios that the situation in front of him could not continue any longer, but Alexios could only shake his head. He really didn't know that everything in the city was not under his control.
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Just when the morale of the troops was getting lower and lower, an unexpected scene suddenly happened in front of them, and they saw the magnificent golden gate slowly opening.
"God, Rurik and the others succeeded!"
Rostislav exclaimed uncontrollably, and after the surprise, he was proud, proud that his son had accomplished such a feat.
When the city gate opened, the soldiers who had been forced to surround the burning car and crashed immediately rushed in. However, there were quite a few shouts of death from behind, and it seemed that the fighting there was also fierce.
"Lord Rostislav, let's go!"
Alexios shouted, and then led his long-prepared heavy cavalry to rush towards the Golden Gate. At a glance, everyone who could still move, whether they were Russians or Greeks, were rushing towards the Golden Gate.
"Come on, boys, let's go up, victory belongs to us!"
Following Rostislav's words, his entourage and soldiers also moved into action, and the standing army quickly followed behind and advanced towards the open city gate.
Everyone's heart was filled with excitement, because they all knew that as long as they rushed through the city gate, the majestic and wealthy Constantinople would unfold in front of them, and the goddess of victory also spread her skirts for them, and victory would be
Belong to them, all deaths and sacrifices are worth it!