Battlefield of All Sides

Chapter 309 The situation is urgent!
"Have the soldiers eaten well? Give them dry rations. If a fight breaks out today, whether they will have time to rest is another matter."

Li Mu rushed from inside the city to the edge of the city wall as soon as he learned of the situation outside. Along the way, he asked the officers to arrange meals for the soldiers immediately, so as to prepare for the battle.

Everything happened too fast, and the execution of the Ottomans was very good this time. It seems that they were forced to have no way out, and they just wanted to end the battle as soon as possible.

At this moment, the Ottoman Sultan was clamoring wildly in the camp.

"Soldiers, it's time to wave your swords and break through Constantinople. The prisoners inside are your slaves, and the gold, silver, jewels, and beauties inside belong to you. I only want this city and everyone in it. building!"

"Soldiers, show your murderous spirit, the glory and wealth are ahead, brandish the swords in your hands, kill the guys in Constantinople, avenge your father and brother, roar for wine, gold, silver, and beautiful women!"

The Ottoman Sultan roared with all his strength, and all around him, the soldiers wearing various clothes and holding various swords roared wildly, even the slaves who were used to fill the pit were screaming loudly.

At this moment, they are extremely thirsty for blood, and the stubbornness of Constantinople has completely aroused their bloodthirsty nature. They just want to rush into the so-called most prosperous city and snatch everything they can see. Spotless!

The trumpeter blew a heavy horn, and the deep voice began to echo throughout the area. The Ottomans turned around one by one, looking at the towering Constantinople.

After a roar, the Ottomans standing at the front moved out.

They were composed of slaves and soldiers wearing rags. They pushed dirt carts and carried loads of soil. The soldiers wore armor scavenged from the front line and carried rusty and blunted swords forward.

Li Mu looked up and saw a huge crowd separating from the dark crowd in the distance. Those people were running wildly on the battlefield, carrying all kinds of siege equipment and crazily heading towards the city wall. .

"Archer ready!"

"The siege equipment is ready!"

"Infantry ready!"

Up and down the city wall, the voices of the officers ordering the soldiers to stand up for battle were repeated one after another. Li Mu was wearing armor, a purple robe and a white robe, standing on the third city wall with a sharp sword in his hand and looking into the distance.

There are civilians around who are constantly putting all kinds of defense equipment on the city wall, and several large pots are set up beside them, and water is being boiled in the pots.

The same happened on the first and second walls, and the soldiers were pursing their lips, waiting for the attack to come.

By now, everyone knows that this attack is a battle to the death for the Ottomans.

The huge number of enemies frightened them, but when they turned around and saw their emperor standing on the city wall, they felt a little more at ease when they thought of how they had blocked the Ottoman attacks again and again under the organization of the emperor these days. A few points.

The slaves and miscellaneous soldiers soon came to the trench.

The originally nine-meter-deep ditch had been filled up more than half of it at this moment. These slaves frantically poured wooden carts, earth and rocks into it, and even slipped into the ditch themselves.

The trenches are being scaled at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At this time, the sound of the bowstring vibrating also sounded, and the archers guarding all over the city wall began to draw their bows and nock their arrows, throwing arrows outward frantically.

The slaves and miscellaneous soldiers fell in response, but behind the Ottoman army formation, there was a rumbling sound at this time.

The Ottomans fired again, and many projectiles rose from the Ottoman army formation mixed with gunpowder smoke, and then galloped towards the city wall.

The huge projectile hit the city wall heavily, or hit the top of the city wall, sweeping down many soldiers and stones together.

There were casualties again on the Constantinople side, and the officers frantically stabilized the situation while ordering the soldiers to counterattack quickly.

And those slaves and miscellaneous soldiers had already arrived under the first city wall at this time. Some Ottoman soldiers found the gap in the city wall and poured into it frantically.

But what greeted them was hot water and golden juice falling from the sky. The scorching temperature spread rapidly on the surface of their bodies, and their skin quickly turned red with bubbles. They rolled on the ground, screaming loudly.

And behind the first city wall, the infantry formation, which had already been ready for battle, also launched an attack.

Holding their shields and spears, they stabbed continuously into the gap, and the two parapets in front of them also helped them resist the attacks of these Ottomans as much as possible.

In just a moment, countless corpses of Ottomans fell everywhere on the first city wall, blood poured into the trench, and bright red scenes could be seen on the city wall.

On the ground, the smell of blood was even more overwhelming. The corpses of slaves and miscellaneous soldiers were piled up together, and they actually raised the gap a lot.

But before the soldiers in Constantinople could breathe a sigh of relief, there was a sudden burst of clattering.

Then there was a huge cloud of smoke rising up, and then the screams came slowly.

Li Mu had a panoramic view of the situation on the city wall. It was a large section of the first city wall, which collapsed suddenly under the bombardment of shells, and even buried many soldiers in it.

"Let all the soldiers under the first city wall retreat! Hold the second city wall with all your strength!"

Seeing this situation, Li Mu shouted loudly, ordering the soldiers to shrink the line of defense immediately, and at the same time ordering the soldiers on both sides to stand in line to prevent the slaves and miscellaneous soldiers from quickly breaking through the barrier of the first city wall.

But the collapse of the first city wall did lift the spirits of the Ottomans. Those Ottomans who were already terrified and tried to retreat rushed up again with roars.

The soldiers who urgently gathered on the second city wall quickly counterattacked, and several city gates were successfully blocked by infantry, and then firmly blocked with wood and stone.

Up to now, the first city wall has basically lost its effect, there are only a few lonely parts, and there are still some soldiers standing on it, but the Ottomans almost bypass them and attack the second city wall. Violent attack.

In less than two hours since the start of the attack, the first city wall collapsed like this, which undoubtedly caused the soldiers of Constantinople to panic.

Li Mu also gritted his teeth watching the situation, but now he could only order the soldiers to stop it with all his strength. If the second city wall was breached again, Constantinople would almost fall into the hands of the Ottomans.

This is what Li Mu absolutely does not want to see.

However, it seems that those Ottomans also began to become weak when facing the second city wall. Now the second city wall is still relatively complete, and some gaps only appear on the top of the city wall. Burned, and now they are almost blocked in the first city wall and the second city wall.

But at this moment, the dull horn sounded again, and Li Mu suddenly raised his head and looked at the Ottoman base camp in the distance.

I saw that many soldiers were separated from the dark army again, and those soldiers were also coming here at this moment.

But those people are much more formal than these slaves and miscellaneous soldiers. The weapons and equipment in their hands are fairly complete, and their morale is also very high. At this moment, they are roaring towards the city wall.

Seeing this scene, Li Mu turned around and said to an officer next to him.

"What about the things I asked you to collect, carry them to the city wall, and the kerosene in the city, carry them all up!"

The officer did as soon as he heard the words, and soon he saw groups of people carrying boxes and earthen jars up the city wall. They stopped at various places on the city wall, and the officer knocked on the locks on the boxes. Lock, open the lock, it turned out to be slowly filled with gold, silver and jewelry.

The eyes of the people who saw this situation were straightened, and the officer drew his knife and ordered the soldiers next to him to pour kerosene on the jewelry.

This scene plays out everywhere on the second city wall.

This is another method of defending the city designed by Li Mu.

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(End of this chapter)