Eagle Byzantium

Bey, who was sweating profusely, took out the sundial plate and learned that it was noon. The enemy cavalry had advanced outside the trench and began to roam provocatively. On several Gaofu hillsides, enemies on foot spread out like ants. They first set up camp tents, then they used pre-sawed and disassembled wood, rattled it again, and used various tools to build tents in front of the campsites. , facing the southwest corner of the castle, a tall wooden tower was erected. Someone quickly climbed up, and then Gemma Radin Bey saw something on the tower reflecting fine sparkling light. .

Slowly, the enemy was very patient and sweating profusely. Behind the high tower, he also used various wood components to build a huge trebuchet...

They don't seem to be greedy for quantity, because according to the order of the great patron, as long as one large Pulani cannon is assembled and ready by evening, it will be a success.

"The enemy is going to shoot rocks at the turret over here, the enemy is going to shoot rocks at the turret over here!" Bey made fierce gestures and shouted nervously to the garrison soldiers who were also busy on the battlefield, "Same arrangement behind the turret. The trebuchets and fire spear crossbows were also brought up, and they were hidden and fired at the enemy. Half of the gunners controlled the equipment, and the other half came to the war room in the corner tower to measure and determine the direction and angle of the enemy's trebuchets. Quick, Quick, quick!"

The garrison soldiers and craftsmen responded hurriedly. One by one, they perforated the fence or twisted the nooses of the ballistas on the enemy platform into place, and stuffed the fire spears into the channels with a creaking sound, and pots of flames were ignited. , the soldiers wiped their sweat on the basin, placed the tongs and fire cones one by one on it, and burned it until it turned red and white. The gunners also climbed to the highest point of the turret, using measuring rulers to calculate the distance to the large Plani gun that was rapidly taking shape on the slope of the hill opposite.

Finally, a fixed gunner shouted and reported the result, "That thing is too far away and very weird. Because we can't shoot it, it can't hit our tower."

Just when the other Turkic gunners were surprised, on the hill here, Gawain had jumped off Sabina's back. The gunners watching him were shouting, pulling the pulley with their hands, and pulling the big Pulani The gun's weight box rose slowly and hard, and kept rising.

"What a blessing, here's a shot!" Not long after, Gawain, who was leaning against the dusk, chopped down the scepter.

With a long sound, the weight box of the Big Plani Cannon filled with stones and iron blocks quickly fell down, and the long arm on the other side was raised, pulling the magazine pouch and the scorpion tail hook up, and then fired. The large round stone bullet rose like a meteor and passed through the air. It entered directly from the side of the southwest corner of Kayseri and exited diagonally. In the cave drilled out with brutal force, just now More than a dozen Turkic artillerymen who were still wondering about "the shooting distance is very weird" were smashed into flying powder and stumps. They fell down along the entrance of the hole, and the broken bricks and stones were like a flood that burst a bank. , poured down, directly in front of Bey, killing and submerging the trebuchet originally placed under it to counter the siege, as well as several other gunners.

"What monster?" Gemmaladin, who was supervising the battle at the fence, screamed in shock and anger.

The southwest corner tower of Kayseri Castle, under the precise distance measurement of the watchtower erected by Gao Wenjun, was "cruel to the soul" by the first stone bullet of the first large Plani cannon. The bloody cave penetrated from one side to the other, inside It's a mess.

For the first time, Gemma Radin Bey felt the situation of "the higher you stand, the more dangerous you are."

Because Gawain used him, even the entire city of Kayseri, no, it was a giant new trebuchet that had never been seen in the entire Anatolian Plateau. It could easily destroy the towering towers beside the city battlements. .

This is indeed the case. In the next three days, Gawain did not follow traditional tactics and set up a siege position - he adopted the strategy of "point back first", with the army leaning against the mountains under the snowy peaks of Algaeus. The six large Plani cannons facing the three directions of the city wall were the core, and six small camps were set up around them. Each one relied on the high ground and took turns to bombard the castle at fixed points.

Then Branas's Guardian Brigade was split up, leaving five hundred soldiers to guard each small camp. Then Gawain's Red Hand Brigade and Branas' remaining German Land Guards each established a reserve camp to take charge of the attack. Links support small camps everywhere.

As for the red-handed cavalry, they still occupied the water source of the stream at the foot of the mountain and set up camps dispersedly. Once there was a police officer, they quickly gathered on horseback to block the enemy's entry and exit teams.

Gawain did not seek to trap Kayseri to death. What he pursued was to "use the advantage of the shooting range of the large Pulaani cannon to destroy all the high towers on the city wall of Kayseri."

Three days have passed, and fourteen of Kayseri's twenty-one ribbon towers of various sizes have been destroyed. Among them, the southwest and southern towers have been completely wiped out, and not a single one has survived. This was something Gawain's gunners had practiced skillfully at the simulated castle in Milio Cephalon in advance. The entire bombardment process was very smooth, precise and fierce.

Many stone bullets were still bouncing and rolling, jumping into the city, smashing roofs and walls, killing many people, and causing panic. All the garrison soldiers and civilians knew that if the towers were destroyed, half of the siege equipment used to deal with the enemy would be lost. Very passive. Gemma al-Dinbey did not want to sit back and wait for death. He knew that under the turrets and city walls, Kayseri still had a horse wall surrounding the city moat, so while he kept sending people out to ask for help, he placed heavy troops on the horse wall. And in the military stronghold between the city walls, this can not only kill the enemy troops close to the city wall, but also retreat to the city to continue resisting when the battle does not go well.

Gao Wen, who was standing on a high hill and observing all this, was overjoyed and immediately gave an order, "The enemy has indeed deployed its forces as we expected, and this is their own destruction. Now I need Melo to lead all the Red Hand Brigade and the Red Hand Fire Throwing Brigade to attack, according to the original drill rules, and capture all the chevaux de frise walls and gate towers in the southwest corner of Kayseri in one go, and then capture the entire fortress - Merrick still thinks that his city can hold me back for two months or even more, so I will show him, two months later I will cut off half of his land. "

The general attack was scheduled for three days later. The Red Hand Brigade, the Fire Throwing Brigade, about half of the Red Hand Cavalry, Gawain's two guards, and nearly 8,000 elite soldiers, after holding a solemn prayer ceremony, put the dozens of wheeled five-pole cannons assembled in the camp in advance, accompanied by the flag car with the Red Hand Seven Ridge Flag, in the core position of the array, and then the spears, halberds and flags continued to stretch, and the war horses and wheels neighed and rolled, constantly approaching the ruined city wall in the southwest direction.

"The enemy is attacking, Allah will send down fire, and destroy them all with our swords." Behind the entire chevaux de frise and trench, all the Kayseri defenders who were guarding here also raised their flags, prepared catapults and crossbows, and roared provocatively at the enemy army that was marching in orderly steps, and fought to the end. (To be continued ~^~)