In 1451, when Mehmed II was 21 years old, his father, the elder Sultan Murad, died, and this young man with awe-inspiring courage took control of the throne. The first thing he did after he ascended to the throne was to send someone to drown his own brother in the bathtub, and then kill his brother's murderer. The move is simply to eliminate potential competition.
The new monarch of Islam, who believes in Allah Allah, is young, fanatical, intoxicated with fame, ambitious and has superhuman willpower. He had a dual disposition: pious and brutal, fanatical and cunning, he was knowledgeable and loved art, while at the same time killing people without blinking an eye. All his strength was focused on one goal—to create a feat that surpassed that of his father and grandfather. His first target was Byzantium, a well-known but unbreakable ambition, the last treasure in the crown of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Mohammed II had extraordinary military and diplomatic skills, and although his ambitions were well known, he tried his best to disguise himself and spread peace before military expansion took place. He received foreign envoys, said all the reassuring things, and publicly vowed to be most faithful in upholding all signed contracts.
Mohammed II
At that time, the Byzantine Empire, that is, the Eastern Roman Empire, had only one capital without a territory, Constantinople. Known as Byzantium, it is only a huge land of bullets surrounded by walls. It had been looted by the Crusaders of the Crusades, had been invaded by nomadic peoples for many years, and had long been exhausted and torn apart internally by ethnic and religious strife. But byzantium, the land that gathered thousands of years of civilization throughout the Western world, was enshrined as a god and a symbol of Europe's own honor. The last and most palatial church of the Eastern Roman Empire, hagia Sophia is located in Constantinople.
The last Emperor, Constantine XI, guarded this ancient but fragile land. Byzantium represents the Orthodox Church, and there has always been an ancient theological rift with The Catholic Church in the West. After The succession of Mehmed II, Constantine XI realized the dangers of the land and had to abandon his stubbornness and send a message of obedience to the Western doctrinal world, while asking for help. So Europe sent messengers of reconciliation and relief from Constantine's request. In December 1451, the Eastern and Western Churches held a magnificent ceremony at the splendid Hagia Sophia, and a solemn reconciliation was reached.
At this point, whoever attacks Byzantium is provoking the whole Christian world!
But human desire has always been self-centered, and the Orthodox Church has never thought of truly yielding, just as the Catholic Church has never thought of really aiding.
Constantine XI
The strongest protection that Byzantium had at that time was the legacy, the fortified walls, from the slightly greater and happier times of the previous time. It is located on the west side of the city, seven kilometers long, with a moat on the outside and multiple layers of equipment on the inner floor. Successive emperors have repaired and maintained this majestic city wall, which is regarded as an indestructible building that provides the city with protection that surpasses all other cities in Europe. There was no suitable landing site on one side of the Sea of Marmara, and in order to prevent the enemy from entering the Golden Horn from the Bosphorus, the Byzantines also set up a huge chain at the entrance to the Golden Horn. There were eight thousand elites in the city for Constantine XI's personal command, and their weapons were throwers for throwing stones and throwing Greek fire (ancient incendiary bombs).
In August 1452, Mehmed II no longer hid his ambitions, revealed his ambitions to occupy Byzantium to his courtiers, and began to recruit troops. In April of the following year, a large Ottoman army of 150,000 men began their journey.
Muhammad knew the walls of Constantinople better than anyone, and he showed that he would do whatever it took to build a giant cannon with destructive power! The declaration at all costs summons boundless creativity. A man named Urbas, the world's most creative and experienced gun casting master at the time, forged the world's largest gun barrel for Muhammad to date, and built a total of 70 such cannons in the same way. Ironically, the cannon-caster was a Christian who had recently served Constantine XI, but because the deficit of Byzantium did not have the financial means to pay his meager salary, he turned to the Islamic sultan. After a mobilization of the people, these huge cannons were transported to the walls of Constantinople.
A decisive battle between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, the old emperor and the new sultan, the millennium walls and the new cannons is about to begin.
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Muhammad soon launched the first offensive, and they bombarded the city wall with huge cannons, and the shells slowly but irresistibly took a bite of the fortified wall, and it began to slowly become full of holes.
On April 20, 1453, Europe sent a rescue force of four large ships. Muhammad's maritime army consisted of 150 smaller, armed warships. The four large ships, with their wide round sails, paid no attention to the attackers, and they did not hurry toward the safe harbor in the Golden Horn, and the strong wind pushed them out of the Turkish boats. Just as the big ship was only a few arrows away from the port, the wind suddenly stopped. The Turkish boats rushed forward like a herd of hounds, slashing with axes and setting fire to the ship, trying to crash and sink the ship from the side, and the Turkish navy and the European sailors mingled together. The people on the shore could only witness this terrible scene helplessly and with great pain, and these rescuers rushed over in vain, in vain! People shouted and prayed, but they couldn't do anything about it, and they watched as everything was going to fall into despair. Suddenly, a breeze blew in, and then the wind grew stronger. The big ship suddenly raised its sails, knocked over the surrounding boats, and re-entered the port of the Golden Horn. The city, which was full of sorrow and despair, once again lit up hope, and people cheered and celebrated, as if a cloud of good fortune was shrouded.
The Byzantines of the night lived in great joy, oblivious, imaginative, and confused, as if they had been saved and safe.
Meanwhile, Mehmed II was determined to send a fleet to attack Constantinople from sea, and he paid a lot of money to buy off the Genoese colonies. The sultan, with astonishing willpower, ordered his army to fire artillery shells into the surrounding area day and night to divert attention, while trying to transport his fleet from the open sea through Genoa into the inner harbor of the Golden Horn. He ordered the laying of a slide made of logs while greasing the ship, eventually dragging the fleet from the Bosphorus to the Golden Horn. The next day, when the Byzantine citizens saw a Turkish fleet on the Golden Horn sailing their waters, they rubbed their eyes but couldn't figure out why. The Turks had come to the city and began to attack the weak flanks, the already sparse defensive line had become more fragile, and the iron fist had tightened its grip on the throat of the victim.
On May 3, 1453, the Byzantine people finally woke up. They realize that they may have been forgotten by Europe and can no longer delude themselves into waiting hopelessly. Constantine XI sent a small boat carrying 12 warriors, dressed in Turkish style with Muslim turbans wrapped around their heads, mingled in Muhammad's fleet and sailed out of the harbor into the Sea of Love for assistance.
On this day, high-dimensional space struck the Earth for the first time, at the top of a mosque in the Brahne district north of The city of Constantinople.
This is the area where the artillery fire is most intense, the tower has disappeared in half, and there have been several patients infected with plague in it, and few people are willing to go inside. The top half of the tower did not disappear because of shelling, but this morning three soldiers witnessed the spire disappearing, and there was not a single fragment of debris on the ground around it. Over the next few days, two of the three were killed, and the soldier who was alive did not want to get into trouble and did not tell anyone about it.
A Byzantine prostitute broke in, Diorena, the first human to enter the high dimensional space.
Diorenne was a descendant of the Crusaders, but her grandfather joined the Scouts for food, never participated in any holy war, was sold into slavery, and later escaped and wandered to Constantinople. He met Diorenne's grandmother, one of a group of "holy women" sent by Europe to save Byzantium, but cut off from supply to prostitutes. Diorenne's family has been poor for more than a hundred years, she has worked in her grandmother's business, never hungry again, and has good clothes to wear, but she knows that she is a grass that has fallen in the mud, and under the constant trampling of passers-by, it has long been mixed with the mud.
Diorena did not think much of Joan of Arc, who had only received a sword that fell from heaven, and the thing that God had given Diorenne could make her a woman second only to the Virgin Mary— magic.
What does magic in high-dimensional space look like?
Nothing can block what is behind it, and the inside of any enclosed body can be seen. Diorenne said it was big, nice and comfortable.
Unlimited detail. In the three-dimensional world, human vision is faced with limited details, no matter how complex an environment or thing is, the details presented are limited, as long as you use enough time to watch in turn, you can always see most of the details. But when looking at three dimensions from four dimensions, because three-dimensional things are exposed to the four-dimensional field of vision at all levels, everything that was originally closed and obscured is parallel and listed. For example, a closed container can first see the objects inside it, and the interior of these internal objects is also visible, and in this infinite level of exposure juxtaposition, infinite details are revealed. When an object is exposed to four dimensions on all levels, it creates a dizzying sense of depth, like an infinitely nested Russian matryoshka doll, when "seeing infinity from the core" is no longer a metaphor.
In the high-dimensional space, people look at people, they see the human body and list infinite details, they can see all the bones and internal organs, they can see the bone marrow in the bones, they can see the flow of blood between the ventricles of the heart and the opening and closing of the valves, and when they look at each other, they can also clearly see the structure of the lens of the eyeball... But the word "juxtaposed" can equally be misunderstood, the physical position of the various parts of the human body does not change at all, the skin still wraps around the internal organs and bones, and the familiar image of each person in the three-dimensional world is still there, part of the details, juxtaposed with other infinite details. Everything is naked!
On 17 May 1453, Diorenne entered through high-dimensional space a rock chamber with no passages and no doors in the foundation of Hagia Sophia. There were thousands of years of holy relics, all sealed in a thick sarcophagus sealed with twelve thick iron hoops. Diorenne took a holy grail from the coffin and placed a bunch of grapes that had been leftover. She came to the gate of the palace and asked to see the emperor, the doorman stopped her, she took out the cup, no one knew, but the pure gold holy grail was studded with precious stones, breathtaking, and everyone was sure that it was not an ordinary thing. She was arrested, tortured by the sheriff, and sent to Minister Fazalan.
On the night of May 22, 1453, Diorena met with the Emperor, as evidenced by the Holy Grail, claiming that she had real magic and was willing to serve the Emperor, including killing him.
Constantine XI was rational and realistic. He didn't see Diorena's "magic" as a way to save the world, but the evidence about her getting the Holy Grail was also conclusive, so what was the loss of trying it? So Diorena was handed over to Fazaran to prove her magic. The next day, during the day, Diorenna cast a spell and brought the brain of one of the death row inmates designated by Fazaran, the body of the death row prisoner without any wounds, and the forensic doctor opened his head to find it empty. The magic of high-dimensional space!
Wealth no longer meant anything to Diorenne, and if she wanted, she could get all the treasures of any corner of the world. Diorena wanted exactly the same thing as the new sultan—the glory of God—from the one she and his faithful ones.
Go, kill Mehmed II, bring his head, you will save Byzantium, you will become a holy woman, admired by all.
On a night of despair on May 23, 1453, the distress ship sent out many days ago returned, the Sea of Love was empty, the fabled Western European fleet did not exist, the rescue was just a dream, and the cold Christian world abandoned Byzantium. On May 24, 1453, the High Dimensional Space left the minaret of the mosque.
Diorenne did not appear as agreed. No one brought the head of Muhammad II.
After six weeks of fighting, Mehmed II was not well, and he began to get impatient, and the soldiers looked at the long-breached walls and grew bored with the stalemate battle, but the sultan used his fanatical will to sweep away all anxiety. Muhammad II, who maximally aroused the morale of 150,000 people, promised that after the capture of Byzantium, the army could plunder for three days without any restrictions, everything within the walls, property, jewelry, men, women, children. And he himself, as long as honor, conquered the honor of the last castle of the Eastern Roman Empire! The seductive notice provoked a thunderous cheer, a beastly frenzy that swelled, and the soldiers roared, celebrated, and clapped their fists, just as the brutal and noisy rituals of the priests before the sacrifice. After midnight, the hunt begins. Mehmed II ordered all lights to be extinguished, the cacophony of the people abruptly stopped, and the cruelty of the killing spread in a suffocating darkness waiting to explode.
The Hagia Sophia is brightly lit at the moment, and the despair of the people of the city has created unprecedented unity. All the court personnel, the nobles, the clergy, the armed armies gathered around the emperor, and thousands of ordinary people knelt respectfully behind them, silent, full of fear, and bowed their knees. The archbishop and the choir sang hymns, the voices that symbolized holiness and eternity, and one by one people went to the altar to receive the comfort of faith.
The last Requiem Mass of the Eastern Roman Empire was held in this church. Both Muhammad and Constantine knew that tomorrow would determine the history of the next few hundred years.
At nine o'clock in the evening of May 28, 1453, high-dimensional space completely left Earth.
In the early hours of the morning, the general offensive began.
Constantine himself took the battle, and he led his soldiers to fight the invaders in blood. After several hours of fighting, the Sultan sent out Turkish Guards infantry, elite divisions. The decisive battle has begun! Then, an incredible thing happened. Turkish soldiers who entered between the first and second walls found that a gate was not closed. They began to think that such a ridiculous thing could not happen, that there were mountains of corpses everywhere, that burning hot oil and spears would fly down their faces at any moment, and that the gates of the city, called "Kelka", were peacefully open. They called in reinforcements, and without any resistance, an entire force broke into the inner city at once. The guards of the outer walls, unaware of this, did not expect that the enemy would appear in their own city. Several soldiers, seeing that the Turks had come behind them, could not help but shout: "The city has been captured!" Such shouts shattered all resistance, and its spread and lethality surpassed all cannons. The soldiers left their positions and began to flee.
The Byzantine situation was gone, and within a few minutes, the open Kyle Carmen was in the dark deciding the fate of the city. Constantine XI fell, his corpses piled up among countless sacrifices, and only a pair of boots on his feet could prove that his master was the last emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, and that he had perished with his empire with the Roman spirit of infinite glory.
On the evening of 29 May 1453, Constantinople fell.
History is a mathematical game, and it was precisely after the solemn commemoration of rome's sacking of Rome by the Vendals for a thousand years that a catastrophe of byzantium began.
Muhammad and his army entered the city he and they had conquered. The latter began what the sultan had promised them to do, looting and slaughtering.
Muhammad was arrogant and undistracted, and he did not look at anything else or anyone in the city. He galloped to the Hagia Sophia, the shining soul center of Byzantium. He humbly got off his horse, prostrated his head deeply on the ground, and prayed silently. Then he grabbed a handful of dirt and sprinkled it on his head, reminding himself that he was just an earthly mortal who could not live forever, and therefore could not show off his victory.
All that he has is to be dedicated to His Allah God.
On 29 May 1453, Diorenne died, and the prostitute, who no longer had any magic to perform, was stabbed in the heart by Fazaran's sword and nailed to the wall.
For more than a thousand years, the cross at the top of Hagia Sophia has stretched out its arms to embrace all the sufferings of the world.
Allah don't like the cross.
It was pushed to the ground, and the sound of huge stones falling to the ground resounded throughout the church and also reached the distance.