Battlefield of All Sides

Chapter 301 Battle of the City Defense
The battle cloud hangs over everyone in the Constantinople defenders.

Yesterday, the Ottoman army outside the city pushed something strange. Today, the Ottoman army has gathered tens of thousands of people, and there are crowds of people outside the west wall, and the momentum is huge.

The defenders on the city wall had been mobilized and scattered everywhere. At the same time, Li Mu also ordered the slaves and servants of the princes and nobles to stand by the city wall, ready to carry those sandbags to block the gaps made by the cannon.

At this moment, Li Mu was also standing on the city wall and watching the scene outside the city. Seeing the Ottoman soldiers gradually gathering, Li Mu knew that the battle was about to begin.

The sergeants guarding the city had already been dispersed. From the first parapet to the third city wall, the soldiers were scattered and waiting.

These soldiers had already experienced the first battle a few days ago, and the regular Ottoman soldiers were almost at a standstill just before the first trench.

Constantinople taught the unruly Ottoman soldiers their first lesson.

Therefore, in the hearts of the soldiers, they still believe in the city wall in front of them very much, but they are a little confused, why the emperor let himself and others spread out, and said that once there is a gap in the city wall, it must be filled immediately.

The soldiers were a little puzzled. The wide trench in front of them was enough to kill those Ottoman soldiers. How could they climb over?
While the soldiers were nervously looking at the situation in front of them, the horns of the assembled Ottoman army finally sounded, and the low sound floated throughout the world. The next moment, the Ottoman army broke out. roared.

Followed by a raging crowd, I saw a large number of soldiers rushing towards the city wall, but the difference was that they were holding big shields in their hands, and behind them, a large number of slaves were pushing Follow along with a wooden cart.

All kinds of messy things on the wooden cart, obviously they are going to fill the trench!
It didn't even take Li Mu to issue an order, and Gistini had already ordered his men to pass on the defense order, demanding to focus on shooting those slaves.

The speed of these Ottoman soldiers and slaves who started charging from hundreds of meters away was very fast, and in a blink of an eye they reached the front of the trench. The Constantinople soldiers behind the parapet raised their bows and arrows one after another under the command of the officer, and the bowstrings shook. The arrows were thrown out, and the Ottoman soldiers who rushed to the front fell in response.

Even the Ottoman soldiers rushing ahead fell directly into the trench.

And the slaves who followed the soldiers also suffered under the rain of arrows, especially the archers who used bed crossbows on each tower. Almost every thick arrow could take away the lives of several people. Fell to the ground, the injured people wailed continuously.

Until now, it has been the unilateral massacre of Ottoman soldiers by Constantinople sergeants.

Those soldiers and slaves who finally rushed to the front hurriedly pushed the wooden cart and the stones and mud on it into the trench, and then retreated quickly.

It's just that on the long front, the soil they poured down is just a drop in the bucket for filling this wide trench.

Ottoman's first wave of attack was quickly defeated, and the sergeants on the city wall also cheered and their morale was high.

Seeing this, Li Mu didn't show any big fluctuations, and just stared at the cannons in the distance.

And when the Ottoman soldiers retreated back in defeat, the cannons had already been lit up, and they were shining a little bit in the sun, and their huge size also made them very eye-catching.

Li Mu immediately called Gistini over and gave him instructions.

"Let the soldiers get down from the first parapet, let the men behind speed up the filling of the sacks!"

After hearing Li Mu's words, Gistini also realized that His Majesty the Emperor was taking precautions. He immediately ordered his subordinates to order the frontline soldiers to retreat, and at the same time advised Li Mu to go down the city wall to avoid possible attacks.

Li Mu did not accept his opinion, but he also stood on a place where sandbags were piled up on the city wall, continuing to look at the situation in the distance.

The attack of the cannon appeared very suddenly. Just after the evacuation of the troops on the parapet, the several cannons outside the city suddenly burst into flames, and then there was a rumbling sound.

A huge stone pellet hit the second outer wall violently, and then rolled down to the base of the wall.

At that time, another stone pellet grazed a tower, and a few stones were cut off from the top. It seemed that someone was injured, and there was a sudden scream.

And dozens of such stone pellets hit in an instant, most of them fell into the ditch or outside the ditch, and the remaining small part hit several city walls.

A section of the second outer wall was even knocked down, and rubble rolled to the ground.

Li Mu was tightly protected by several soldiers holding shields. Li Mu looked outside, and the Ottoman army began to surge again, the low-pitched horn sounded again, and the soldiers launched an attack again.

Li Mu put aside the cover of the soldiers, and immediately spoke to Gistini and the officers next to him.

"Let the soldiers return to their previous positions immediately, and make sure to organize the Ottomans to fill up the trenches!"

Everyone listened to the order and began to act, and Li Mu once again ordered those who had already installed the sandbags to start transporting the sandbags to the gaps.

The first round of shelling did not cause too much damage to the city wall, and soon all the gaps in the city wall were repaired, and the sergeants on the city wall also started a new round of counterattacks against the enemy.

The density of the arrows was higher, and the cannon fodder of the Ottoman slaves kept falling, and there were not many gravel and soil clods falling into the trench.

But this situation only lasted for a moment. When Li Mu took a breath, only a few minutes later, the rumbling sound of the cannon came again, and the bullets flew towards the city wall again.

This time, the accuracy of the projectile was much higher than before. Although there were some accidental injuries that fell into the crowd of Ottoman soldiers, most of them hit the city wall.

The first parapet was almost the first to bear the brunt. Some soldiers were directly hit, and their whole bodies and stones were embedded in the big pit created by the stones.

The second and third city walls were damaged everywhere, and even small pieces of projectiles flew directly over the city walls and into the city pool.

This made the defenders of Constantinople suddenly turn pale with shock, each of them looked very shocked, and they continued to fight back under the orders of various officers.

Li Mu had already been pulled down the city wall by Gistini, and more slaves and servants under the city wall were packing sandbags in full swing. Li Mu pulled the captain of his guard over and said to him immediately.

"Let your soldiers bring people to carry sandbags, first plug the gap, and then pile sandbags in each tower, half a person's height!"

After Li Mu finished speaking in a deep voice, the captain of the guard nodded quickly, and immediately called the well-dressed guard soldiers to help carry things, and at the same time mobilized the servants and slaves to carry sandbags to fill the gaps in the city wall.

The second round of shelling came and went quickly, because Ottoman's cannons basically attacked in a scattered manner, so there were gaps everywhere in the city wall, but there was not much damage.

Relying on the sandbags and soil that Li Mu had piled up in advance, combined with the blasted gravel, the gap was quickly blocked in sevens and eights.

But after going back and forth, the Ottomans who filled the trenches had a chance to breathe. Under the cover of infantry and archers, the slaves had dumped a lot of things into the trenches.

The bottom of the trench has been raised by about one meter.

Those frenzied Ottomans even threw slaves directly into the ditch when there were too many dead and injured slaves, and there was also a wailing sound from the bottom of the ditch.

Human tragedy is unfolding right in front of you.

The shelling sounds almost every few minutes, and the bullets hit the city wall, splashing gravel, killing people, and even causing panic.
The city wall is full of people fighting back with weapons and filling holes with sandbags, and at this moment, several large slopes have been filled in the outermost trench, and the Ottoman soldiers are already impatient to climb the city wall .

At this moment, Li Mu also appeared on the city wall again, accompanied by soldiers holding jars one by one.

Beside the parapet, there were also more soldiers holding jars and fast shuttlers carrying buckets.

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(End of this chapter)