"King of Kings Ruling Over Rulers"
Motto of the Byzantine Empire
Ch.1: A What if Story
Many wonder about a what if scenario, but few however contemplate the possibility of, what if the Byzantines had won and fought back the Turks for ever? This is the answer to the question and this is its story, but this isn't just your normal history leason… no it's a refined one with a personification to represent the Byzantines and their grand empire.
The siege of Constantinople, Year 1453. This is where our story will begin with the siege that ended the empire that spanned millennium.
Byzantium stood ready for the siege that the Ottomans where going to bring to his door. He was confident that the city was impenetrable. This was true nothing could get inside to the west or the east without going through this city. Ever since the Venitians invade the city during the fourth crusade the defenses had been modified to repel just about anything and with the inclusion of gunpowder troops into the Byzantine ranks they knew they had out matched the Ottomans at every turn.
The Ottoman Empire stood outside the grandest fortress in the world waiting for his great beast of a cannon to rear its head. The Monster bombard slowly crawled upward onto the hill ready to fire at the multilayered fortress. The Ottoman Empire smirked knowing that they had them this cannon could destroy anything. That's when it happened, the Bombard blew up a spy had infiltrated their ranks and sabbatoge the Bombard. The explosion killed almost 10,000 of the 100,000 men the Ottoman Empire had brought up.
The Ottoman Empire was furious, "Fucking spy… They couldn't be that cunning no they are old fasion how did they even know!" He ran up to the man in command of the Bombard who had actually survived the explosion he then said, "You know this is your fault and now you must die." The man said nothing and excepted his fate, he was beheaded in front of everyone. The Ottoman Empire turned around and began to walk to the front of the army and said, "Regardless of losing the bombard we still outnumber them and outclass them men, now tell me are we going to take this city?" The army cheered and grabbed the extra siege equipment, ladders, battering rams, and siege towers.
Byzantium watched from the top of a tower that had cannons with cannon balls cotted with some Greek fire on them. "Yes now they cant even hope to breach our walls, get the fire throwers onto the walls bring up their rear with some arqubiesers!" He shouted the command and the troops maneuvered over to their positions.
The Ottomans were ready almost inhuman really as they marched forward, but what they met was not arrow fire, no it was gunfire raining down on them. The troops started to panic as their ranks thinned, but once the gunfire was over did the flaming arrows fly down up on them from the upper walls. They made it to the walls, but as soon as the men first made it to the top of they met greek fire falling down upon them. They screamed as they fell to the ground dieing while lighting the sky with flames eating through their clothing and armor.
The cannons in the towers ripped through the towers that came their way bringing them down upon the troops pushing them crushing thousands of troops. The battering rams managed to make it to the gates, but were met with a huge mass of heavily armored calvary charging out of the fortess crushing the men carrying then lighting the rams ablaze.
By this time The Ottoman Empire had charged in himself kill several hundred men, but he came to face Byzantium himself, "Well we meet again you bastard!" Byzantium spat at the Turk. The Ottoman Empire staired him down and shouted, "How the fuck did you get this who did you bring yourself to, to get this armorment?" Byzantium laughed and said, "No one we made it our self… oh by the way look behind you." The Ottomans did and he saw what he had feared, his whole army destroyed and obliterated and not a single bit of purple laying on the ground. He dropped to his knees and said, "No! No, this isn't what was suppose to happen! You have no other cities, you lost everything and yet here you are winning against my whole force that practically out numbered you 10 to 1!" He started to cry knowing that he had lost the war now, due to the loss of his men he could not recruit and train enough to stop the mass of troops the Byzantines would throw at him come the counter attack. To say the least the Ottoman Empire was doomed. Byzantium walked up to him and kicked him to the ground and said, "Nothing will rid the world of this Empire, it will live on for we are the King of Kings and we are going to be Ruling over all rulers soon enough. This Empire will be reborn and you will be the first to fall." With those words The Ottoman Empire was stabbed in the neck and he falls to the ground, knowing that he had failed and there was no going back.