"Boom! Rumble! "The eight-pound and five-pound cannons on the northern wall opened fire one after another, and their targets were the wooden fences built by the Seljuks in the night on the opposite side.

Behind the wooden fence, the lookout on the lookout car at the head of the city clearly saw the battering rams and the ballistae in place.

Battering ram + battering tower + ballista, are these the three major weapons of the Crusades?

Of course, these are also the three major weapons of the Tianfang people against the Europeans. The two civilizations have been at war for a long time - the rise of the heavenly world is a history of the suffering of Europe, they know each other very well, and if the military technology content of the two sides is not at the same level, the other side would have been blown up long ago.

At present, the siege equipment made by Gersap is mainly a battering ram and ballista, especially the latter.

The position of the wooden fence was directly advanced to a distance of 100 steps away from the stone fort, and after the sky was dark, the artillery stones had been bombarded against the stone fort of the city wall.

A ballista that had just been erected, Yang Mi watched from the top of the city that the Seljuks were busy for a long time before dragging away the old cannon that had been damaged, and then pushing the new cannon from the rear to the gun position, and he was busy for more than two quarters of an hour. Finally, when the gang had made the ballista neat, a sudden cannonball landed in front of the ballista, and then jumped all the way to the middle of the ballista.

The Celestial People had no experience in preparing for artillery bombardment, and they did not know that placing a wicker basket full of sand and soil in front of them could prevent the secondary damage of the shells after they landed.

If so, all the people around the ballista will suffer. There were quite a few people there, not only in the back, but also in the front, and the shells made a bloody path all the way, and all the people who touched and rubbed against them poured blood mold, and finally the whole ballista was knocked apart, and the flying sawdust made the people around them scream like sharp arrows, and frightened the rest of the soldiers and servants into a hurry.

But the artillery is also in the midst of the 'bombing'.

The head-sized stone bullets hit the stone castle, and the force was no small. Gershap understood the power of Lu Qi's artillery very early on, and he fought hard in today's battle.

Even if all the ballistas made in these days are exhausted, as long as you can blow down the fortress in front of the enemy's walls, it will be worth it.

But there was one thing missing from his thoughts—cement.

The fortress built by the Qi army outside the city is not just as simple as stone, there is more cement processing inside, not to mention that the stone fortress wall itself is super thick, the effect of one plus one plus one is far greater than three, a few stone bullets bombarded the stone fort fiercely, and the gravel flew sideways for a while, and the floating dust was filled, but when the wind swept away the dust and smoke, the Seljuks opened their mouths in surprise.

There was no way, the stone castle hit by the stone bullet did not move at all, as if it was blown by a gust of wind. Gersap couldn't even control the shock on his face......

I can't think of it, I can't think of it. A completely unexpected scene disrupted all of Gershap's calculations. If the artillery stones fired by the ballista could not shake the stone fort of the Chinese at all, all of Gershap's previous ideas would be in vain.

Even at this moment, he thought that in the future, if the plan in front of him failed, what other way could he use to break the port of Homos?

He couldn't think of a way. Or rather, all he could come up with was bloody, and the final outcome was uncertain—and such a war was the defeat of a military commander, a complete failure.

The "smoke of gunpowder" continued to fill the battlefield.

Artillery roared one cannon after another. When the dull roar sounded from the barrel, the solid iron balls hit their targets with lightning speed.

Their targets were not only the Seljuk fences and ballistas, but also the battering rams and the Seljuk cavalry in array around them.

The distance between these people and the front line was seven or eight hundred meters, which was relatively safe in their perception, because Lu Qi's artillery range seemed to be rarely able to hit here.

Moreover, a large number of infantry cavalry was also tasked with defending the front line with ballistae and assaulting if necessary.

The soldiers in the stone forts were not worth Gerschap's concern, but the artillery inside was necessary. Even if you sacrifice a thousand lives, as long as you can get a complete Lu Qi artillery, it will be worth it.

How can they, who know little about artillery, know that in the item of artillery shooting, there is also the option of increasing the amount of powder.

The whizzing solid iron ball crossed the 'far' distance, causing horrific damage within the Seljuk formation, who thought they were safe and didn't try to distance themselves as much as possible when they lined up. In this way, after the iron balls that passed through the entire formation knocked down more than ten people like a devastating one, they bounced on the ground several times again, and finally stopped after touching several people in a row.

"The one who is in the middle will be killed immediately", "The sticky one will die"!

That's not false.

Two eight-pound shells caused thirty or forty casualties among the Seljuks, or it is more accurate to say that thirty or forty people "died", because if they were touched by the shells, even if they did not die on the spot, most of them were taken away from their arms and legs, and it was almost impossible to survive in this era.

The Seljuk cannons continued to bombard, and even though they saw that the stone shells had clearly hit the stone fort, they had no effect, but the ballistas were still bombarding.

Ballistae have a significantly weaker rate of fire than cannons, but their aim is clearly stronger than that of cannons. At the beginning, most of the stone bullets were missed, and only a small part of them hit, but now the hit rate has increased significantly.

Obviously. The immobility of a fully fixed stone fort is a major drawback, and the ballista has a hit rate of more than 30%.

It's just that the thick fortress with a thickness of more than two feet and all made of stones and strips of stone is obviously not something that can be easily shaken by stone bullets, and a few shells only knock off the outer layer of cement, and the damage to the city wall itself is very limited.

Gersap is going to despair, and he can't even take the shell of someone now.

But Gershap is a trustworthy person in Sanjar, and his ability is really outstanding. After two short days of silence, he reconvened everyone, and a smile had resurfaced on his face.

"It doesn't matter if we fail, we still have time. Since we have to deal with those stone castles outside, it is no longer possible to force them, so let's change our thinking. ”

"The Chinese have a proverb that says very well, if you are poor, you change, and if you change, you will understand."

Gershap's method was simple: to 'burn' the stone castle with a raging fire.

Let people fill the trench in front of the stone fort at night, and then pile bundles of dry firewood under the stone fort, and then pour buckets of black oil, and the raging fire is enough to swallow the entire stone fort. The scorching heat brought by the fire can make the Chinese in the stone fort feel the torment of hell.

There was a cheer in the military tent, and Gershap's strategy ...... Reliable, very sure of success.

"The failure of two days ago proved us wrong, but the true God tells us to ask Him for forgiveness, and God will relieve us of our troubles and open the way out."

"There is no power, but only the true God. The true God is great, the true God is high! ”