Eagle Byzantium

"Go..." The guard officer's heart was in a state of panic. He loosened his hands suddenly, and the bowstring bounced. The first arrow head spun rapidly across the stone tower hall and penetrated the back of the neck of a guard warrior at the side like lightning. The other party knelt down without a sound, then swayed twice and fell to the ground.

At this moment, the other seven people were still concentrating on staring at the west gate. They still thought that the guard officer would hide under the steps there or behind the sluice gate, so they did not notice their first unlucky companion for the time being.

The guard officer turned around, quickly put the bow on the bow again, and then strode out, stretched out his long arms, and shot another arrow. This arrow went straight through the side of several guard warriors and shot the one standing at the front of the west gate of the hall through the back. The other party screamed, scratched his back with trembling hands, and slowly fell to the ground. The others were also frightened.

At this time, the guard officer took the opportunity to shout in Armenian, "Get out of the way, someone is shooting us from behind!" After saying that, he lowered his head in chain mail and mixed into the chaotic group of people. He also grabbed the first guy who was shot by an arrow, half-raised him like his comrades, and then pointed at the entrance of the stone tower in a stern voice, "Right there, the arrow was shot from there."

The remaining six people were in a panic and didn't know how many people were there, so they turned around in the direction pointed by the guard officer and stretched their bows and shields in the opposite direction.

"There, shoot!" The guard officer suddenly shouted again as if giving an order.

The three archers in the guard team were nervous and shot arrows at the entrance of the stone tower, but found that it was just a stone lion statue on the handrail beside the door.

At this moment, the guard officer stood up, limped his hind legs, and shot an arrow with a lightning speed, and immediately shot another shieldman from the back.

"Run away quickly, there is more than one enemy, and they are also shooting arrows here!" he continued to shout.

Now, the remaining five people roared, and no matter what the situation was, they all ran towards the entrance of the stone tower in fear.

The guard shot the remaining three arrows in the quiver in one breath, hitting their backs one by one. The three who were shot fell into the hall almost at the same time, and the last two ran out of the door. The last guard, who had no arrows left, pulled out the arrows from the bodies of the first two enemies who were shot, and shot another arrow at the guard who had just run out of the stone tower. The guy was shot in the back and rolled down the multiple stone steps screaming.

The last one who was lucky also rolled down the steps holding his head, and also wailed like seeing a devil.

"What's going on!" Mahadezeri, who saw this scene on the opposite gate tower, was furious and confused.

In the light at the west gate of the stone tower hall, the guard officer stood alone, surrounded by darkness. From his feet, there were six corpses lying in the middle of the hall. He was still holding a mulberry bow with an arrow left on the string.

The arrow whizzed and shot at the lamp hanging in the hall, "Thank you for giving me the mulberry bow, General Mahadezeri. And Mushig, I said I would shoot all the arrows (Mushig was really captured at this time). Now I have a complete understanding of the strength of Karsburg."

Now there is no Vasak anymore. Diogenes, who has regained his identity, threw down the bow, climbed down from the sluice gate on the west side of the main castle like a monkey, jumped into the Kars River, and swam towards the Red Hand Brigade position of the Holy Apostle Cathedral.

Two days later, Diogenes had made a sand table model of the walls, gates and towers of the main castle of Kars with ash and fine wood in the scarlet tent, and said to Gawain, "The main castle is an irregular quadrilateral. The north gate is the main gate. There is a path buried in the rocks between the western sluice gate and the cliff and the river, which can be climbed up."

"Speak your mind boldly."

The guard pointed to the sand table model and said, "Immediately let the two brigades that occupied the south slope and the east sentry fort set up equipment and artillery to attack the east gate of Kars Castle. There are only 700 to 800 uninjured guards in the city. It stands to reason that with the multi-layered stone walls and abundant supplies, Mahadezeri can still hold on for a while, but I will lead the assault team on the path at the corner of the west gate and the north gate, climb up while he is overwhelmed, and seize the main castle of Kars."

"How many people do you want?"

"Thirty to sixty people, but give me The best warrior."

"No problem, I will select them from Gimages and the Red Hand Brigade right away." Gawain said, looking at the guard officer Diogenes, and stretched out his big hand, "After you succeed, raise the flag as a signal, Branas and I will fully support you in different directions-Diogenes, just like we did when we dealt with the pirates, the cooperation will be perfect!"

The guard officer paused for a while, and then fought back with Gawain, "But this time there is no more evil murderer Taitsius, sooner or later I will kill him with my own hands."

In the following days, the Guard Brigade and Bellerophon Brigade, which had surrounded the isolated corner of the Cars Main Castle on the mountain, transformed the sentry fort closest to the east gate into an artillery fort, and laid a plank road along the south slope and smeared it with butter, and then used manpower to drag a precious cast copper fire bear cannon to the ridge at an altitude of 700 feet and set it up behind the new artillery fort!

The Firebear Cannon began firing, and then the disassembled large Planitia Cannon was carried up and reassembled, throwing heavy stones at Carsberg.

But even so, Mahdzeri remained calm and tenacious, vowing to defend to the end. Since the besiegers only had this one Fire Bear Cannon that could destroy the city wall, he mobilized his soldiers to repair any gaps in the city wall at night and during the intervals between firings, and he managed to hold out for another four or five days.

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In the town of Qiart on the eastern front, the Hadadi-Shirvan coalition continued to confront General Zacharias's troops with their chariots, especially the coalition musketeers, who seemed to think that Khitan snow and lead bullets were free, and they fired volleys all day long.

Amid the sound of musket fire, David the Builder on Mount Chakmak unfolded the parchment letter he had been waiting for for a long time. It was written by General Theodorus and delivered by the best rider of Trebizond. "I heard that the traitor Gawain led his people to seize Kars, but was stuck under the city. Therefore, I abandoned Amasya and led 6,000 elite troops to rush along the Chaldia Mountain Road. I plan to appear behind the traitor Gawain on April 20 (maybe one or two days earlier). Then you and I will launch a decisive battle and defeat Gawain from both sides. In this way, there will be hope to revive the empire."

David the Builder was very excited to receive such news. "All troops, prepare for a decisive battle!"

Almost at the same time, Gawain received a letter from Earl Melo in the scarlet tent, "Theodore suddenly abandoned the empty city of Amasya, part of the troops retreated to the gate of New Caesarea, and the rest seemed to rush eastward along the border of Chaldia and Erzurum."

Gawain immediately stood up with the letter in his hand, sweat dripping down his forehead, "We failed to contain Theodore... It seems that this old general finally understands the new principle of abandoning the city and moving for a decisive battle. According to the time difference, Theodore's troops may be less than two days away from us..."