~Date: ~November 07~

After that day, the relationship between Egil and Artoria seemed to return to normal. It was as usual. Artoria ate, slept, ate, or fought in the name of training. Egil was still scattered among the flowers and lived a decayed life. Both sides seemed to have forgotten the conversation that day before. It seemed as if it had never happened. They were still talking and laughing when they got along. The night life was also harmonious. It still looked like before. A model couple who were envied by the whole world.

Of course, in fact, both sides also know that their relationship has not been back to the past, and it is gradually growing. Although both sides have the idea of ​​trying to make up for it, it is just "thoughts". Artoria will not regress. However, Egil does not know how to regress, in fact, it is not enough to regress. Behind him is an abyss composed of 300,000 listeners and nine underground mistresses.

In addition to the two of them, another party involved, Princia, was greatly touched that day. Artoria's joking attack destroyed the self-esteem of the Centaurus. After that, she was sad for a long time. After recovering from her mood, she devoted herself to crazy training. It seemed that she wanted to rely on a lot of training to enhance her strength and then defeat Artoria.

In addition, in fact, there was another person who looked at everything on that day. Egil's personal guard Sonia was on the treetops not far away. She stared at Artoria's neck with a cold look, lifted up the delicate and fatal poison-tempering knife, and put it back. She continued to perform such actions several times until the whole thing ended.

Although I didn't hear the most critical sentence. However, through the roar of Artoria and the change in attitude afterwards, Sonia could also infer some things. From then on, another person was added to the list of shadow killers behind Egil.

"No matter what identity or status, as long as it threatens the master, it is the enemy. I will stare at you." The next time I saw Artoria, Sonia swears in her heart: "If this woman really dares to hurt her, I will kill her. Even if the master executes me for this, it doesn't matter."

In this way, in such an extremely depressing atmosphere, the emperor continued his statement on the day. His speech under the walls of Constantinople issued a formal written document order. He announced the change of Christian precepts. According to the vague argument that he had previously said that "man has twenty-four ribs", a man could have up to twenty-four wives. And this provision was written in writing in the form of law.

After the promulgation of this law, many defenders and clergy opposed it. However, soon, these people who opposed the laws designated by the emperor were charged with various charges. The local court arrested all of these people on charges such as "rape", "sodomy", "impedement", and "descene". And presented real or forged evidence, which completely ruined the reputation of these idiots.

So for a moment, the entire Norman Empire, which could also be regarded as the entire Europa, was silent. No one dared to oppose the emperor's orders. And long before, the Catholic Church, which had lost most of its power during the Reformation, could not oppose the Norman Emperor's rebellion. In this way, the law was officially passed.

After the law was officially passed, Emperor Norman sent an envoy to Constantinople to propose to Liliannu. Of course, the request was rejected by the Queen of Eastern Rome. The reason was that Emperor Norman asked her to send the entire Eastern Rome Empire as a dowry. The excessive demand made Liliannu, who had always been elegant and focused on demeanor, shouted angrily and started to quarrel:

"Does he want to marry me or this empire?!"

"... Do you really want to marry him?" At that time, when he heard the noise like a little girl like Liliannu, the Eastern Roman generals and nobles were speechless one after another. They looked at each other and complained in their hearts.

In this way, the last "effort" of Emperor Norman failed.) The final battle around Constantinople between the Man Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire seemed inevitable.

The Norman Empire concentrated a total of 130,000 troops - 40,000 Norman regular troops, 50,000 recruited troops, more than 10,000 Celtic troops, 10,000 Balkans, Hungarian troops, and nearly 10,000 Thracian troops. When there were tens of thousands of navies of the Black Sea Fleet, Viking pirate troops and more than 300 warships. If there were also baggage troops transporting supplies along the way and engineers, then the Normans would probably have more than 200,000 troops to attack Constantinople.

Two hundred thousand. In the heyday of the Eastern Roman Empire, a number was nothing. At that time, the total regular army of the entire empire exceeded 200,000. The temporary reserve troops were recruited more than one million.

However, fourteen years later, when the Norman Empire rose strongly, the Eastern Roman Empire inevitably declined. Not to mention an army of 200,000 people, even half of this number, it had to devote all the power of the entire empire to get it out. Later, it was defeated by a vanguard of the Norman Empire.

"But it doesn't matter. As long as this defensive battle is won, the Empire will usher in a new life. The Empire will win. Because this is Constantinople!"

At that time, June 4th, a clear morning. The weather was a little hot. But it was less than an unbearable level of n good weather. On this day, the Norman Empire finally started to launch a formal attack.

Emperor Norman took the battle himself. He brought his army, siege machinery and artillery to the west side of Constantinople, the only open area where he could attack from the land direction. The army was clearly armored and the military flag was waving. The Queen of the East Rome, who received the news, immediately took her imperial guards to the wall of Theodosy on the west side. She led the main force of Constantinople, after all, there were sponges on the north and south sides. Although there was some land on the east side, she had to land in order to pass.

However, the queen completely forgot that the Normans had the right to control the sea - the former Mediterranean overlord. Now, all the warships were added in time, which was not enough for five hundred warships. Moreover, these old warships had not been repaired for a period of time. The waterline of the ship was covered with barnacles, which affected speed and flexibility, so that even sailors and sailors were not complete.

However, despite this situation, Liliannu still has certain confidence that if these warships go out to fight, it may be difficult to win against the new gunboats of the Norman Empire. But if they are concentrated and guarding the Golden Horn Bay, then such a task can be at least competent.

With this idea, she then regarded the west side as the main attack direction of the Norman Empire. From today's situation, it seems that the prediction is indeed correct.

Standing on the west side of Constantine, at the walls of Theodosy, with towers lined with towers, Queen Liliannu let out such an roar! Immediately afterwards, the entire Constantinople seemed to be boiling. Wanda cheered loudly. They used their weapons to hit their shields and made a violent noise, which made a little dismayed the morale of the Norman team not far away.

After that, a group of Norman troops, even the Celtic troops, Balkans and Hungarian troops, the Lessians...the soldiers in the siege position all looked at the Norman emperor's position and looked at the carriage where the emperor was. The emperor could also say some exciting words so that the soldiers could get rid of the impact of the other party's cheers.

Emperor Norman, a man who conquered most of Europa, also raised his beard and showed a confident smile.

His voice was not very loud, but it was extremely clear, which made the people around him feel energetic.

"I'm here."

The emperor just said this. He was so proud that the words said by ordinary people were said. The extremely confident tone made the soldiers go crazy. Then, a louder and more deafening cheers broke out in the Norman army than the previous Constantinople defenders.

"attack."

Accompanied by such cheers, Egil issued an order to attack. Then, a large number of Norman engineers pushed dozens of bridge-building vehicles and advanced towards the moat in front of Theodosy walls. Behind them, a total of eighty twenty-four-pound infantry cannons, one hundred and ten sixty-four-pound giant cannons began to load elixirs - around these cannons were more counterweight catapults, large crossbows and hundreds of ladders carrying thousands of longbowmen and heavy crossbowmen.

These siege machinery and artillery are so dense that other troops can hardly move forward. On the front line against Constantinople, tens of thousands of troops concentrated in the Man Empire were all long-range support and shooting troops.

On the opposite side of them, the Romans' city defense was also gorgeous. Two meters high, five to seven meters thick city walls, and the sturdy, one meter high and half meter thick stools were enough to resist most of the attacks. On the hundreds of towers, the Romans' crossbows, scorpion crossbows and stone catapults made by the Romans began to operate in an orderly manner. The crossbow troops holding Greek crossbows and compound bows became the most solid line of defense in Constantinople...
Chapter completed!