Chapter 249: Duke Split Skull
Since communication to Smederevo had been cut off by the Hungarians, the report of the defeat of the Serbian Restoration Army on the Belikh Mountains was delayed for two days before it was crossed over the rugged mountain road and reached the fortress of Smederevo.
The position on Mount Berich had been completely lost, and together with the defenders of the city, the direct losses of the Restoration Army in this battle had exceeded 2,000 men. The Romans paid far less than that. By the time the battle report was issued, Prokupre had only the city walls, the only barrier left, but Mount Berich had fallen, and even a few Austrian artillery pieces had been surrendered. If the allied forces of Rome and Hungary wished, they could turn the muzzles of the guns erected on the top of the hill and then destroy all the defenses of Prokupree with impunity.
The coalition forces can get all the information they need from the top of Mount Berich, and then change the direction of the attack according to the deployment of the city, and in this absolutely passive situation, the ownership of Prokupree is no longer a suspense problem.
"Tolinka...... That rubbish! With trembling hands, Brankovich tore the Prokupree report into pieces and threw it into the blazing brazier, "Milosevickov! I'm done! We're all done! The Romans would never give up on their expansion! And after the fall of Smederevo, do you think the Romans will let us go. ”
"My Majesty...... Are you still worried about whether your head will end up under the crown or on the gallows? Milosevickov stared intently at the already burned battle report in the brazier, his bright armor glowing eerily against the light of the dancing fire, "At least, our people, our soldiers are still resisting." Even if we die on the battlefield, there will be countless Serbian successors who will take over the scepter, the crown, and the sword in our hands! ”
"You don't look at it either! How many more troops do we have! Did the Austrians reach out to us with all their hearts? Brankovich's anger gradually burned up in his chest again, "Mr. Milosevickov! Don't try to influence my judgment with your rhetoric of demagoguery to the common people! You and I are on the scales of power! No one is willing to sacrifice for anything! Will you go out on the battlefield yourself and fight a coalition legion that has not suffered a single defeat so far? ”
"Dear Your Majesty, you are wrong, you are the only one on the balance of power, and I disdain to sit on it." Milosevickov got up indifferently and opened the door of the secret room, "You can continue to be with your crown here, and I will personally fight for something more for our armistice." ”
Tolinka was more or less a qualified commander, and after the fall of Mount Berich, he still commanded the defense of Prokuprie. Of course, Prokupule was able to hold out for three more days, largely because the Imperial Legions had not launched a full-scale offensive in these days, but had only organized a round of artillery salvos from time to time outside the city walls. Although the walls of the city were in ruins, and the ordinary citizens of the city were in despair, Prokupree was still in Serbian hands.
Temporarily.
"General Giovanni, the cavalry has been deployed under General Vasica. When the first cannon was fired at dawn, it was the fall of the city of Prokup. ”
On the day of the end of the Battle of Mount Berrich, Flora completed her flag presentation ceremony and became the company commander of the Eagle Wing Cavalry Company.
This time, the siege of Prokupule was unusually well prepared. A city that should have been restored three days ago has also been dragged on until now.
For no other reason, on the hill of Berich, the outpost could easily spot the busy barn in the northeast corner of the city of Prokupro. There is also a constant supply of food to the city. If food wasn't a problem, Giovanni would have preferred to reduce some of the losses in personnel.
"Let the trebuchets reload them all, it shouldn't be long before dawn."
"So, General Giovanni, you are so polite to hand over all these Austrian captives to us because...... Are you running out of food? Hunyadi looked at Giovanni with deep meaning, although Hungary's supply lines were longer than those of the Empire, Hungary's grain income was more than several times that of the Empire, "You regretted it a few minutes after the Battle of Mount Berich?" ”
"Isn't that fair? The Austrians have money, how much can these captives, the knights who came out of them, and the miscellaneous little nobles? Look at us Rome! Yes! I don't even have the money to build a church! ”
With the start of the first salvo of the main cannon at the main gate, the city of Prokup ushered in the first round of general attack.
In fact, the frontal wall of Prokupje is full of holes, and the reason why it looks quite complete is because the Serbian defenders in the city hastily plugged the gap with logs and stones under the rain of artillery and arrows. However, such a city defense has almost no value for entrenchment.
The ignited fire bomb, as the engineer cut the trebuchet's rope, cut a beautiful arc in the sky, and then fell in the middle of the crowd of Serbian defenders.
The direction of the offensive of the coalition forces is no longer possible to judge. Everywhere there was the sound of artillery bombardment, and everywhere there was a rain of arrows. After the loss of the city walls, the city of Procuple was like a lamb to the slaughter in the morning market of Constantinople, and could only sigh in the face of a tsunami-like onslaught.
And when the sound of the horses' hooves of the Phoenix Legion's mounted cavalry was remembered, the defenders of Prokupule were at an end.
Only two hours elapsed from the complete collapse of the northern wall to the fall of the Duke's palace of Prokuprie. During this period, the Serbian Avenger Army was unable to organize another decent resistance. But when Giovanni and the others had just led the soldiers into the city of Prokup and saw a huge flaming bomb landing precisely above the head of the Duke's Palace, he instinctively had some bad premonitions.
Sure enough, a few armored soldiers who rushed into the ruins of the Duke's Palace finally carried out only a few corpses. Those seriously disfigured corpses, after careful identification, Vasika suddenly recognized a corpse whose head had been smashed in half by falling rocks and had brains flowing everywhere, which was Duke Tolinka who had been released before. In addition to this, his legs were broken in two.
"I should have let you kill him in the mountains with one arrow...... At the very least, it could be considered a complete corpse. Giovanni patted Vasika's shoulder rather regretfully.