Patricia Taylor
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On the high grounds one Roman mile away from Constantinople, Mehmed sits on his white horse with Zaganos Pasha behind him inspecting the offensive operation by the north army group on the walls of Blachnarea. Everything seems to be going smoothly, and Mehmed almost jumped down his horse in joy when he saw the gate opened by itself, hoping that it is some 'loyal admirer of Mehmed' in action opening the gate to welcome their Sultan's troops in. For one second, he even has thought of the reward to be…-
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Abdullah gave a shy smile, stroke his nose and said with hands on his waist. "Well you see, in a battle…" "You not only got to use here…" He pointed to his biceps and triceps. "Also, here…" He pointed to his legs. "And most importantly… There must be something here!" Abdullah sticked his finger forward and pointed at Antonius' head. Abdullah soothed the nervous temptations and atmosphere in the tower and sent everyone laughing together despite the fact that the enemy archers have already…
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"The navy did not suffer a defeat! The navy, did not suffer a defeat, let me repeat this for one more time! The navy did not suffer a defeat against the Ottomans!" The following day, In the various forums and streets, various leather-lunged broadcasters can be seen or heard shouting on the streets to passers-by. While they also know that their effort to eliminate these rumors spreading across the city might end up in vain as it is a natural instinct for people of Rome to suspect, question, believe in…
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"Now, gentlemen, can you trust me?" "Hardly need to ask." Giovanni let out a bold laugh chortle and reached out his hand. Antonius hesitated for a moment but reached his hand out too. Seeing this, Constantine smiled, heaved a sigh of relief and reached out his hand too. The broad hands of three men from different statues shook their hands firmly together, seems like from this moment onwards the three of them has formed a special kind of bond to sail through this ocean of hardships through…
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The citizens of Constantinople, for their first time, spent a day underground. Antonius remembered that he had some guns allocated on the various towers, and hurriedly scrambled to one of the towers to see if he can make use of it to fire back at the Ottoman guns. But what he saw made him furious, these artilleries, ever since they are placed there, has never been maintained. There are spider webs attached to the canons, there are even some rust taking shape on one of the canon, apparently the tower…
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Mehmed kept his stern face all day long from this failure of his very own idea. The idea of digging tunnels almost turned into a tragedy. Keeping in mind that they are working in a wooden shaft covered with straws and hays, while around these shafts are wooden walls, siege engines and tents, all pretty easily inflammable substances. Actually if one look from a broader scale the entire Ottoman camp is being built with a bunch of woods. Now what if there is a tiny spark in a place like this? It would…
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The digging of underground tunnels took another week. In the process the Ottomans launched four waves of attacks as a smoke cover up for the digging with troops from the tributary states, all halted by the moat, dropping down some two hundred bodies and scattered away, unable to step a little bit further. Mehmed did not expect them to do anything progressive for the siege anyways, their sole purpose is to cover the friendly forces' actions with their body, that is what tributary troops are used for.…
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Sixteenth of February, 1453 AD, six days into the siege of Constantinople, at about three AM. Mehmed had a dream in his deep sleep, again. He dreamt the times when he first became the sultan at the age of twelve in the year of 1444. When his father Murad II decided to abdicate after defeating John Hunyadi of Hungary. Mehmed was dragged onto the throne still as a boy while his father Murad II left Edirne for a vacation in Cilicia. He wanted to be a great Sultan that surpass the achievement of his…
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Fifteenth of Feburary, 1453 AD, five days into the siege of Constantinople. After the session of rejoice is over theres the session of remorse. Antonius, Julian, Giovanni, Abraham, Abdullah, Mauro, Yuri, Harald and a bunch other people stood together in a circle with their heads low while a clergy conducts his sermon by a cliff outside the sea walls facing the sea of Maramra. Infront of them is a dug hole with a coffin inside, but strangely it is an empty coffin with no body but a cutlass and a set of…
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Mehmed did not know that he must thank the senators and the Ecumenical Patriarch for solving his trouble before hand. If he had knew about how they rejected Antonius' request to install guns on the Theodosian walls, he would have awarded them with a ton of medals after all of this is done. Nonetheless, with one quarter of Ottoman war machines getting pinned down, the siege capabilities of the Ottomans went down by a great chunk. Thus, they have to pull back, re-organise their positions, cut down trees and…
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