Eagle Byzantium

Three Bondacs were shot into the earthen basket wall, smashing out a few clouds of dust. One hit the wheel of a covered wagon, bounced straight up, flew high before falling into the long trench, and the rest hit the wagon board, but failed to penetrate the reinforced and thickened wooden board, and only smashed out a trail of dust.

"Oh oh oh!" The fire-throwing soldiers who were originally crouching behind the wagon board saw that the Bondac stone balls did not cause them any substantial damage, and their morale was greatly boosted. They began to stand up with a howl, and lined up their muskets and Latin bows through the firing holes. At this time, the commander Leotius, who was standing on the central flag car and responsible for the firepower dispatch of the wagon fort, waved the square flag in his hand, "Volley fire, volley fire!"

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle, the ropes on the firing ports of various firearms in the firing holes behind the wagon board were collectively ignited, and soon a tidal wave of sound exploded. Start: The half-moon chariot fortress, which was one and a half li long, was emitting gunpowder fire everywhere. The whole hill seemed to have been struck by a terrifying thunderbolt. The ground shook violently. The rockets and arrows shot into the Kibosha believers who rushed up like a tide, like wasps. There were explosions and penetrations everywhere. The believers in the front row, who lacked armor protection, knelt on the ground with their wounds and burning bodies covered. They fell into the long trench dug outside the chariot fortress in rows and were pierced again by the wooden spikes and pottery fragments inserted in it. There were many casualties.

Then the fire throwers in the front row quickly and swiftly pulled out their muskets, retreated under the chariots to reload rockets and paper tubes, and the personnel holding crossbow machines then pressed into the gaps and shooting holes in the earthen baskets, and fired another round of crossbow arrows. At this moment, the Kiposha believers, who had suffered heavy casualties, became even more frantic. They raised axes and ropes, stepped on the bodies of their dying comrades, crossed the long trench, and swarmed towards the carriages and wheels of the wagon barrier. The believers who rushed to the front in the smoke threw out the flying ropes in their hands, hooked the edge of the wagon board, and shouted in unison to pull it down, trying to pull the wagon board down.

"Charge!" Leotius on the flag car waved another red square flag. The border soldiers or Paulicians who were lined up behind the wagon barrier laid down their weapons one by one, shouted and rushed into the wagons, and began to fight with the Kiposha believers who were only "separated by a wall". On the wagon barriers and earth basket walls of other sections, the fire throwers were still holding the fire guns and firing continuously, attacking the other holy warriors "Ansu team" following behind.

The most intense offensive and defensive battle was first launched in the central part of the wagon barrier. Each of the ten-man teams on each wagon was equipped with a small axeman. At this moment, they showed their skills and cut off the hooks thrown by the Kibosha believers below with their axes. The ropes kept falling along the carriage boards.

Some of the other Kibosha believers who rushed up directly crouched and began to chop the wheels with axes, trying to overturn the car, but the wheels had already been buried in the mud, and many were still locked with chains and stakes, so they couldn't be chopped at all... In the brief moment when the Kibosha believers were puzzled by this matter, a series of burning white lights rolled over their heads and bodies, and screams were heard everywhere. From the firing holes of each wagon, the Khitan snow-throwing fire tubes of the fire-throwing soldiers began to shoot outward again. Many burned "fire men" ran and rolled backwards. After they rushed back, they took the long grass on the hills and wilderness and ignited a bigger fire. The rest of the holy warriors continued to rush up regardless of their lives in such a fierce fire and thick smoke.

The Kibosha believers who were not burned cursed each other with the Paul believers behind the carriage, and began to climb up one after another like ants, so the border residents raised their shoulders and stepped on the partitions, so that their upper bodies could stick out of the carriage, and stretched out rows of spears (six people in each team of ten held spears, one held an axe, three held bows and arrows, accompanied by three Paul believers, one held a flail or chain hammer, and the other two used iron forks) and stabbed down diagonally. The Kibosha believers who climbed up were pierced through the head or neck one after another, and fell backwards. When they gathered together bravely, grabbed the spears that kept stabbing and continued to climb, what awaited them was the falling flails, which were weapons with rotating spiked iron rods. The Paul believers originally used them to thresh grain in the Mut River Valley. Now one round was enough to make several people fall down with their skulls shattered and blood splashing.

"Go to hell, false believer!" There are always the bravest Kibosha people, who finally climbed onto the carriage board, howling and swinging the axe and sword in their hands, braving all kinds of dangers and slaughters, ready to chop down. At this moment, he always held the iron fork tightly behind the carriage board, staring at the enemy who climbed up, as if saying "I've been waiting for you for a long time", and then extended the iron fork, and the arm and chest of the Kibosha who climbed up were instantly forked and unable to move, and then the small axe cut his neck, blood spurted out, and then the limp body slid straight down the carriage board and piled up with the bodies of the rest.

During the fierce battle at the fortress, the Turkmen chieftain Ogulus led all the infantry and cavalry of the right army and swarmed along the west side of the fortress. At this time, Ogulus was on the galloping horse, looking sideways at the mountain where Gawain's troops were stationed. The bright sunlight from the east was shining directly over, and the black shadows of the earthen basket walls squatted on them, which were not clear at all.

The militiamen on the left wing of the hill where Gawain was stationed behind him could see the enemy's movements very clearly. The person in charge of supervising the battle here was Dim Goliath, the guard flag bearer appointed by Gawain, "Push the guard plate away, and shoot all the copper clams and rocket barrels for me!"

Behind the wall of earthen baskets, the border militiamen and fire-throwing artillerymen raised their push rods and pushed the copper clam's shield aside. The majestic mouth of the copper clam that was pushed out faced the moving Jihad directly. The soldiers and horses of the right army brigade, "Light the fire!" One after another violent Sparks shot straight up in the copper clam's fire door, and then the copper clam vibrated and let out a long roar majesticly. Together with the other rocket barrels, it fired the large arrow with a fire-breathing tail (the cluster was equipped with a sword blade to increase the damage). force) shot down like an overwhelming force.

Dim only saw many plumes of smoke from the explosion, swarming up along the upper side of the earth basket wall. He stepped forward, grabbed the edge of the earth basket wall and looked down, but saw that the enemy's right army was like a nest. The clouds exploded by the fire were like a swarm of ants, running around and scattered.

All the jihadist infantry fell into chaos after being shot down and sideways by rockets. "Don't panic!" Ugurus shouted on the horse, and the right-wing army beside him posted a banner in the rolling rocket fireworks. He held it strong, but it also provided a target for Dim on the hill, "Cum for me again!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the fire-throwing artilleryman who received the order from a few rocket barrels held the side iron rings of the barrel with his hands, and rumbled it around on the cardinal wooden frame: the dense vertical and horizontal partitions on the other side. There are also many light rockets installed between the plate holes...(To be continued~^~)