Eagle Byzantium

When he saw that the Ogus people had all drawn their bows, Potrufis was so frightened that he immediately crouched down and hid under a pile of hay behind the fence.

The bow strings sounded like a violent rain, and hundreds of Ogus arrows were fired, like waves of waterfalls flowing backwards, straight into the gray snowy sky. Because no rockets were used, the black and grey-colored arrows were exactly the same. The clouds and sky blend into one.

The Assassin believers behind the village gate and the fence were still shouting with various long and short weapons. At this time, Potrufis held his head and looked up, and saw that the arrows of the Ogus people were pouring down like sea water. , the foreheads and throats of many believers were violently pierced, and some were covered with arrows and leaned upside down against the supports of the wooden tower. Then they were pierced there by more arrows one after another.

The haystack in front of Portruphes was filled with grass and grass, and arrows were dancing around and on it. Some of them flew like snakes along the gaps in the grass, grazing the former Roman emissary's head. Passing by, Potrufis was frightened. He screamed and did not dare to move around casually. There were people everywhere falling on their backs after being hit by arrows. They could only curl up even harder to survive.

But the arrows shot by the Oghuz people were like a constant rain. The open space, wooden fences and towers of the entire small town were covered with feathers. If they were given enough time and strength, these archers could simply shoot them down. The city gate was completely smashed!

The Assassin believers no longer felt the fearlessness they had after taking hallucinogens and manic potion. They were shot through by the arrows of the Oghuz people in various postures and fell to the ground. Some seriously injured people had not even taken two steps before another arrow pierced their skulls to the ground.

"The gate of heaven is open, the eye of heaven is open! I finally want to receive seventy-two small seedless raisins!" Among the dead bodies, there was a believer squatting there with his hands raised and howling hysterically at the sky.

But what was ejected from the open "Heaven Gate" was a rain of arrows that killed people instantly. As soon as he finished calling this person, he was shot into a hedgehog by "seventy-two arrows falling from the sky. He sat on the ground and bled to death." ” (Portruphus’s words as seen with his own eyes)

"What the hell? If this continues, I won't be able to hold on for even an hour. I can't wait here to die." Portrufis was frantic and desperate.

Suddenly at this moment, the rain of arrows being thrown intermittently from outside suddenly stopped - the Ogus people no longer formed an arrow formation. They were in groups of twos and threes, guided by the fish-dragon flags and horse-tail flags that were pulled out and raised high, and began to follow the arrows. Climbing the hillside, under the cover of rocks, trenches and short trees, they pressed forward with a cornered lunge.

On a wooden tower in the area where Potrufis was, an Assassin, who had survived the arrow fire just now, stood up, raised the wooden crossbow in his hand and fired a round at him. The crossbow arrow hit a stone, and the Ougus people behind him immediately crouched down, and then hunched over and walked out from the side of the stone - Assassin on the tower shouted angrily and began to Reinstall the arrow hook on the wooden crossbow, and follow the target with your eyes.

At this moment, another Ogus man hiding behind the stone suddenly stood up. The horn bow in his hand swung rapidly, and the Assassin crossbowman on the wooden tower was shot through the head. His body flipped over the railing and fell straight to the ground. in front of Portrufis. "Bless all the holy apostles, bless all the holy apostles." Potrufis grabbed the body as a cover, prayed tremblingly, and slowly, while shouting for kill, headed towards the only place in the walled city. Solid building: The small monastery on the edge of the back mountain is moving.

Only now did Potrufis see that at the tying stone in the small monastery, Gabzuk was lowering his body and sneaking out the horse from the stable, "Shame, you actually want to escape? You are not The eighth-level deputy in the Assassin sect?”

On the front of the walled city, the Ogus people had an absolute advantage. Their bows and arrows suppressed and blocked the city gate and several towers.

The skirmishers of the brigade, under the command of Zigata who was riding a war horse, thundered up the snow. In the middle of the front group was a chariot with a wheeled door and a heavy iron pipe across the side. It was a smarter version of a large chariot - —The iron pipe was filled with Khitan snow, and it was pushed up with a rumble to the city gate.

Then Zhigata waved down the battle flag in his hand, and the fuse on the iron tube cart was ignited. The skirmishers put their shields behind their backs and turned around to spread out and crouch.

After the loud noise, the ground shook, and the entire mountain fortress seemed to shake several times: the air wave and explosive force bursting out of the iron pipes spanned more than twenty feet, shattering all the gates and bolts of the fortress, and blocking all the people behind it. The heads of several Assassin believers who were still in a state of madness due to poisoning were suddenly smashed by the flying pieces of the door latch, and their bodies flipped back more than ten feet.

"I, Zhigata, were the first to rush in!" Before the skirmishers could rush in, Zhigata, wrapped in a bright red battle flag, rushed up the hillside on horseback and passed by the bombed At the gate of the village, he was holding a red-handed cavalry-style war spear in his hand, when an Assassin believer flew from the side and tried to knock him off his horse. Zigata swung the spear shaft sideways to knock the opponent down, then turned his body on the saddle and pierced him to the ground with a backhand spear. However, due to the stimulating effect of the toxin, the opponent kicked his feet like a dying toad. He was still gritting his teeth in an attempt to get up, and held on to Zigata's spear with both hands.

At this time, two or three tall Assassin followers, with their faces covered, howling and holding up wooden sticks and axes, rushed towards Zhigata, who was unable to stab the spear freely.

"Swish, swish, swish", more than a dozen arrows flew over, hitting these people with a thud. They were even blown away several feet by the powerful force of the arrows, and then rolled on the snow - the arrows were shot by the Oghuz volunteers who caught up with Zhigata, and then they rushed forward and chopped the believer who was lying on the ground holding Zhigata's lance into pieces with scimitars and axes.

The volunteers, scattered soldiers, and border residents rushed into the fortress and killed everyone they met: the facts proved that even if this group of believers had taken stimulant poison, their technical and tactical level was not even comparable to the lowest Khorasan militia when they encountered a regular elite army. They shouted and waved their pitiful short weapons in their hands without any rules, running around and moving around, and as a result, they were cut down by long sickles, stabbed by swords, and chopped down by axes one after another. The religious guards of Tarsus were simply unstoppable.

Zhigata simply threw down his lance, and continued to charge forward with his horse's hooves trampling over the corpses of Assassins. When he rushed to the gate of the monastery, a short Assassin believer holding a dagger twisted his body and blocked him.

He looked like a country boy in his teens.

The dagger flew over and hit Zhigata's chest, but it was bounced off by the strong armor and did not hurt him at all.

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Then the Assassin believer stood there, at a loss as to what to do next.

Zhigata got angry, and because he had received the order of "kill without mercy", he pulled out a loaded short musket from the saddle bag, stretched out his arm and directly pushed it in front of the believer's face.

A cloud of smoke exploded with a sound, and the believer's head was completely pierced, and his body fell sideways beside the low wall.