“The defenders in Istanbul have lost most of their morale and have no ability to launch a counterattack again.

I will transfer another 30,000 Greeks, rush in, and take down the broken inner wall in one fell swoop."

Carl lowered his monocular and ordered the generals around him.

But not long after, a general who went down to pass the order came back to report.

"Commander-in-Chief, there are no Greeks available in the army, and the last Greek soldiers are there."

After saying that, he raised his right hand and pointed at the outer city of Istanbul, which was still burning in the flames.

After several days of fierce street fighting, more parts of the outer wall of Istanbul collapsed and basically lost their defense capabilities. The large number of houses in the outer walls of civilians naturally also spread fires in the fierce battle.

No one on both sides has the energy or time to arrange fire belts. No matter who occupys the outer city, the attacking party will try every means to set fire to the wooden buildings and cause as much trouble as possible for the guardian enemies.

As a result, after a few days, the fire was still not completely extinguished!

Thanks to Istanbul, a city with a large population, even before the war started, a large number of wealthy people and Ottoman nobles still left countless houses that could be used as raw materials for the burning of flames.

Of course, as long as the soldiers fighting inside pay attention to preventing smoke and fire, few people will be burned and choked to death.

The purpose of setting fire is not to burn the enemy to death (soldiers are not fools, they have to rush into the fire), but to interfere with the vision of the battlefield defenders and provide convenience for the attackers.

The protection effect of long-range attacks is very good. With thick smoke, both artillery and long-range muskets have almost lost their effect.

As for the civilians stranded in the city, neither Greek cannon fodder in the Holy Allied Army nor Ottoman defenders would care about their lives.

Even civilians die more thoroughly than soldiers, because civilians do not have the weapons and means to protect themselves!

Soldiers with red eyes can do anything, and often they just want to take a few cushions to go to hell together before they die.

The battlefield is the easiest to highlight the degenerate side of human nature, which is completely different from the battlefield in film and television dramas.

After hearing the report, Carl's expression remained unchanged.

"I didn't expect that the Greeks were so useless and died one week earlier than I expected."

"Commander-in-Chief, there should be many surviving Greek soldiers in the outer city of Istanbul. It is their existence that makes the Black Dragon Battle Flag of the Holy Alliance float above the outer city."

"Yes, I think those Greeks must have cursed my name countless times in their hearts, and even had bad thoughts about my emperor disrespectfully.

Such people should die in the ruins of Istanbul.

Send the eliminated vassal servants and tell the generals who commanded them that after entering the battlefield, do not rush to launch an attack, and collect all the hidden Greek soldiers.

Then tell the Greek soldiers who can rush into the palace in Istanbul to capture the Ottoman sultans, whoever can gain eternal freedom, and a huge amount of gold that they can't imagine!"

"Commander-in-Chief, according to the spies from the General Administration of Military Intelligence, the Ottoman Empire's sultan left by boat three days ago. It should have fled to Ankara, which is the birthplace of the Ottoman Empire. Ankara will become the new capital of the Ottoman Empire after the Ottoman Empire loses Istanbul."

"In other words, there are no valuable senior leaders of the Ottoman Empire in the Istanbul Palace now?

In this case, Greek soldiers may never receive the reward I issued."

"Commander-in-Chief, does that order still need to be issued?"

"why not?

The generals of the minions and soldiers from the lower classes did not know that the Ottoman sultans had escaped and did not inspire the honor of capturing the Ottoman sultans. How could those Greek soldiers believe our promises?”

Carl had a clear understanding of his own and even the Levi government, the credibility image in the Greeks' minds.

It can be said that the Greek soldiers now have regarded any orders from the Levi government that are in their favor as farts.

Even Aristotle's words did not really believe it, because Greek soldiers were deceived too much.

An unimaginable price for this!

In other words, they didn't want to be killed, otherwise the Greek soldiers would have died together with the Levi government's army.

Living is the most primitive "greed" of the living.

Who said that there is no ideological leadership in this era?

The influx of tens of thousands of servants and vassals forced the hidden Greek soldiers to step onto the inner city walls with a fierce temper.

There is no need for the system army directly under Carl to supervise, because the vassals and servants know very well that if the Greeks did not work hard in front of them, they would need to face countless bullets, arrows, and stones on the city!

The only artillery troops poured into the outer city were controlled by the soldiers of the system's brainwashing army. Of course, in order to prevent the Greeks and even those vassal servants from temporarily reversing, Karl arranged to send all the Czechoslovakian Legion in to be responsible for guarding the artillery troops.

The siege war is boring and cruel, especially when Carl urges those vassals and the remnants of Greek troops to use the most primitive and effective method of ants to attack the city, which highlights the cruelty of the siege war.

Fortunately, the Holy Alliance maintained its artillery advantage from beginning to end. When the inner wall fell, the Ottoman defenders had no intact artillery and could still shoot at the enemy.

This makes the two sides fight more frequently.

In fact, Carl's promise did not inspire Greek soldiers much courage, but Greek soldiers feared the lead bombs equipped with better vassals than theirs.

Among the Holy Alliance coalition led by Carl, the weapons used by the three levels of troops have obvious generational differences.

The Greek cannon fodder corps basically remained in the era of cold weapons, but the vassal army was equipped with a lot of gunpowder weapons, such as homemade inferior bombs, combroach guns and multi-handed flintlock guns that were found from somewhere.

The Li Wei government, which was financially in trouble, did not provide standard equipment to the vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal

It is uneven, but at least a lot of gunpowder weapons are flooding it.

Unlike Greek soldiers, even if they have muskets in their hands, they will be forcibly taken away, just because there was a mutiny in the Greek Corps.

At the end of 1804, the Ottoman Empire was declared lost in Istanbul, the last fortress in Europe.

In fact, when the battlefield moved to the palace, the remaining Ottoman defenders had lost their desire to continue fighting. Batches of Ottoman soldiers and even officers threw away their weapons, held white sailfish and surrendered to the messy vassals.

At the same time, the Greek region was also completely 'purified' by Aristotle, who was in the rear.

In addition to the city of Athens and the surrounding plains, other areas of the Greek Peninsula have become vast unmanned areas. In order to ensure the success of the "migration plan", Greek cavalry loyal to the Aristotle government continued to inspect all parts of the Greek Peninsula and captured them whenever they encountered living people.

Of course, here refers to valuable living people. If they are old, weak, women and children, they will be wiped out silently unless they are beautiful young women.

The vested interest groups of the Aristotle government were all in Athens. They were fed and fed without worries and enjoyed the last prosperity of the Greek region, and naturally had the instinctive needs of men.

These people are hard-core supporters of Aristotle. Aristotle still has to rely on them to continue to serve as future governors of Greece. Naturally, these "loyal ministers" who have to follow their own even if they turn their backs on their nation.

In fact, there are only three types of people in the city of Athens today who are not living as ‘serfs’.

The army loyal to Aristotle and its family members, the administrators and their family members of the Aristotle government, as well as the handicraft technicians that the city must have, are the craftsmen commonly known as this era.

The Greek Republic was played back by Aristotle to the city-state era, and even slavery was almost restored!

The farmers who worked hard on the farmland outside the city had no personal freedom at all. Most of the troops under the Aristotle government were used to guard these farmers.

The city of Athens is full of peace, and the city of Athens is under military control. This is the country that belongs to Aristotle alone!

Nowadays, Aristotle's rule over the Greek Republic is no longer relying on his own personal prestige, and what Aristotle did has long been an open secret in Greece.

Even the army and administrative officials who continued to be loyal to Aristotle were talking about Aristotle's character and his behavior of selling his country and seeking glory.

However, no one dared to resist Aristotle, just because behind Aristotle was the tyrant Levi!

At this time, those who could still take power in Greece knew very well that Greece has been completely abolished now, and the tyrant Levi only needs to breathe a lightly to completely turn the Greek peninsula into white land!

Therefore, no one dared to question Aristotle, who was supported by the tyrant Levi, and even the assassination was stopped by the vested interest groups.

After all, no one can guarantee that after Aristotle was assassinated, would the tyrant Levi take blood on Athens and take revenge on Aristotle!

Because of this, even though Aristotle's rule was already unpopular in Greece, his status was more stable than before. Aristotle no longer had competitors, and even potential competitors disappeared!

If Aristotle sells the country for this, he is also a successful traitor who can be listed in history. If the Levi government can continue to win, it will not be impossible for Aristotle to lose his reputation for selling the country.

It is nothing more than a different saying that Aristotle contributed outstanding strength to the unification of Europe and worked hard to stabilize the situation on the Greek Peninsula...

Anyway, as long as you have the power of public opinion, some people will embellish the peace.

After Istanbul was captured, Karl immediately wrote a magnificent report to Vienna, and then issued an order that could not be recorded in history.

During this day, tens of thousands of surviving Greek soldiers were quietly massacred, and their bodies were burned together in the group of dead bodies in the offensive and defensive battles in Istanbul.

I really did it, and I did not leave any evidence after the massacre!

After all, those who take action are absolutely loyal system soldiers.

Just one order can make them keep their mouths tight.

Therefore, Li Wei received the news that all Greek rebellions were killed as he wished.

As for cruelty...

Haha, fools know how deep and heavy the surviving Greek soldiers hated Levi and Aristotle!

Moreover, these people are veterans who have been trained from the sea of ​​corpses and blood. It is impossible for the young recruits to survive in the Istanbul meat grinder.

If these people were free, what would they become?

Ceramician?

Lumberjack?

Construction worker?

Grain and grass collector?

Maybe there is really a kind of disheartened Greek veteran who intends to be an ordinary Greek veteran, but most of them will inevitably be Greek veterans. After discovering that their relatives and family members have either died or become slaves from alien races, they brazenly embarked on the revolutionary path of resisting Li Wei's tyranny.

Moreover, Greek veterans with unwashable hatred will be more fearless than in the Battle of Istanbul!

At the same time, these Greek veterans only need a few smart people to learn the path Aristotle took back then and promote the idea of ​​liberal revolution to the outside world!

And, the massacre of the Greeks by the Levi government!

Therefore, for Levi, the best Greek soldiers are dead Greek soldiers, unless Levi has enough glory to brainwash them.

Of course, Li Wei is not short of military sources now. After the Battle of Istanbul, more than 100,000 additional Ottoman prisoners of war (most of which were originally just militias). Under Li Wei's rule, there were vast territory and villages and towns as numerous as stars for him to recruit soldiers!

It is really not difficult to have half of Europe and a developed European region to support an army that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.

"The Battle of Istanbul achieved a brilliant victory without any surprise.

The achievements that the Greeks won with their lives in this battle are worth learning from. The sacrifices of all Greek soldiers must be recognized by honor. I declare that the Greek Peninsula will permanently retain the name "Greece" under my rule, and specially set the Greek Governor General District, and Aristotle will be the first Greek Governor General.

The Greek Governor's District will become the crown territory of the Roman Empire in the future!”

The glory of no money was sent generously by Levi. The massacre of remnants of Greek veterans could be covered up, but the sacrifices made by countless Greek soldiers in the Battle of Istanbul could not be covered up anyway.

In this case, it is better to give the Greek region the highest honor and let the Aristotle government inherit this honor.
Chapter completed!