Chapter 486: One, Two, Three Rotation

It is indeed crazy, death is the greatest fear for human beings, as long as it is dead, everything is nothing, so there are so many people in front of you who are not afraid of death, you must think that these people are crazy, especially these people not long ago, they are still some unmotivated people.

The shouts of killing rang out from top to bottom, and the Russian soldiers on top of the castle loaded ammunition and fired, the Cossacks picked up the stones that had been prepared for a long time and smashed them down, and the death squads of the Obir Khanate, who had climbed over the trenches below, died in pieces under the city walls.

It seems that such a battle is extremely tragic, but if you look closely, except for the 500 cavalry lost outside, the rest of the people in Dimitri Fort were not injured at all, and the dead were all the dead soldiers of the Khanate who were attacking the city in vain below, and they were almost the target.

After a stick of incense or so, Baron Roganov, who was in a daze at the head of the city, finally reacted, and repeatedly stopped the people around him from continuing to fire, and he ordered loudly:

"With stones, with wood, save your ammunition, save your ammunition!"

The reserves of gunpowder and weapons in Fort Dimitri are not worried about being cut off in a short time, but it still takes a certain amount of time to send them from the storage ground under the city, and the few bases stored in the city have already consumed a lot in the panic of the people.

At this time, in the direction of the castle facing the battlefield, the deep trench was already filled with mud, and of course, there were many corpses, after the initial sharp aura, those dead soldiers of the khanate under the city were already a little unable to support it, and suddenly there was a long horn sound behind them.

The dead soldiers, like an amnesty, mustered up the last bit of strength on their bodies and ran back desperately.

Baron Roganov didn't care to show his aristocratic demeanor, so he wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, exhaled there, turned his head and yelled at the soldiers who were also a little relaxed:

"What are you doing here, to carry ammunition, it's still a long time before it gets dark, and they're going to attack!"

Just after Baron Roganov's loud order, that is, in a short time, the dead soldiers who had just retired rushed up again, and nearly a thousand people had died under the city, but Liu 13 organized the captured young men of the Obil Khanate into three teams, and a separate team was those who participated in the previous death mission, used as a supervising team, this team withdrew, and the other team immediately topped up.

This time, the defenders of the castle were not in a hurry to shoot with cannons and muskets, but there they had their spears and swords ready, and in their hands stones and heavy wooden blocks, ready to be used to throw the dead soldiers of the Khanate who rushed to the city, and there were no ladders or other siege equipment anyway.

Just holding that thing that seems to be an iron rod to smash the chain of the suspension bridge, God knows when it will be able to smash it, don't worry, these dead soldiers have already seen their comrades who began to charge, because of the retreat, the tragic situation of being bombarded by artillery and flesh flying, it is much better to fight to the death with these ghosts under the city than to die under the slashing of cannons and compatriots.

And this charge, rather strangely, there was no shooting from above, through the trench filled by those people in front, the second wave of death squads quickly rushed to the bottom of the city wall, the officers above began to give orders, and the soldiers in the castle began to lean out, ready to throw.

However, this time the dead soldiers were a little different from the previous wave, many of them were running on their backs, and dozens of people suddenly stopped their steps when they ran to the middle of the trench, but they didn't know where to take out their bows and arrows, stretched their bows and arrows, and began to shoot at the soldiers who leaned out of the city.

The Russian soldiers at the head of the city didn't expect that there were bows and arrows in the charging death squad below, after all, the young and strong people of the khanate were a people living on horseback and the steppe, and the level of bows and arrows was still there, and the sound of swishing bows and arrows breaking through the air sounded rapidly, and many soldiers who were still holding stones were directly hit by arrows in the chests and brains, and they howled miserably, and they were planted from the city walls, even if they were not shot to death.

Baron Roganov also showed his head and observed there, but no arrow came, or the guards around him were extremely vigilant and threw him to the ground at once, otherwise, he would also be shot through by a long arrow.

After the soldiers at the castle wall saw that their companions had been shot dead, they hurriedly bent down behind the battlements, and some of them were directly prostrate there.

Some bows and arrows directly swept over the city wall and landed on the inside of the castle, although they had no strength, but they also frightened the people who were carrying gunpowder and weapons inside, and panicked. Who would have thought that there would be other tricks out there next.

For a while, no one dared to show their heads at the head of the wall of Fort Dimitri, and a few people running behind were holding torches in their hands, and they casually found some guns and spear shafts and shabby leather robes dropped by the people in front of them, piled them up, and then took out some black gunpowder powder and sprinkled them on it.

Then he threw the torch on it, and although it was not yet dry weather, the fire burned instantly, and everyone with a bow and arrow in his hand came to the fire, lit it in his hand, and shot it into the castle.

Liu Shisan's plan is very shrewd, he knows that this kind of fortress of city defense cannot have too much ammunition stored at the head of the city, so the first wave of death squads is used to consume the opponent's ammunition, the second wave of death squads, the rest of the people are attracted, and these archers in the back are the main course.

Archers can shoot Russian soldiers who think that the siege dead have no long-range weapons, and the other party will inevitably carry gunpowder towards the castle, and take advantage of this time to launch rockets into the castle, although I am not sure what powder keg or something it will encounter, but at least it will make the other party mess.

The facts echoed his judgment, at this distance, the completely unsuspecting Russian soldiers became the target of bows and arrows, killing and wounding dozens of people, and the next rockets did not cause any damage to the people in the castle, but it made those who were handling the powder kegs panic, and there were dodges left and right, and some people directly took off their clothes and beat everywhere.

If the flames really fell on the powder keg, it would be a big deal, and the officers on the castle reacted, although the guns in their hands were not much, but they could shoot a few rounds, and immediately shouted loudly, and the soldiers also carefully took their guns to the battlements, ready to aim and shoot.

The dead men of this siege, although some of them rushed to the bottom of the walls, did not cut chains or dig earth, as in the first wave, but each of them ran towards the gate and the drawbridge with oil-soaked skins or firewood and grass.

After running over, they threw these things directly under the city wall, and then turned around and ran towards the back, because the Russian soldiers who leaned over and smashed wood and stones and shot were stunned by this round of bows and arrows, and the movement of the dead soldiers of the Khanate was quite smooth, after all, it was the second wave of a thousand people, and soon the drawbridge was filled with combustibles, just as these people ran through the trench from the side of the wall.

The soldiers at the head of the city showed their heads with muskets and began to shoot, and the loud bangs continued to be loud, and the crowd running back under the city wall suddenly fell, but those archers were already out of the range of muskets, and the death squads who were desperately running towards the back did not dare to ram the archers standing in the middle, they all bypassed, and when they heard the gunshots and screams behind them, the pace of these people accelerated more and more.

In the place where these retreating archers stood, several large bows were placed, and speaking of which, the Lost Bil Khanate did not have large bows except for horned bows, and these bows and arrows were all weapons brought by Liu Shisan's expeditionary pioneer team, and the same as Fang Cai, someone made a small fire on the ground.

Several archers looked at the castle gate more than a hundred paces away, roughly calculated the angle and wind direction, and stretched their big bows one after another, and mounted their long arrows.

In order to ensure that the fire of the arrows was not extinguished when the bow and arrows were flying, they also wrapped strips of cloth soaked in oil on them, and the soldiers on the castle did not know what the archers in the distance were doing, and when they were wondering, six large bows were full, and the bows were shot, and six flaming bows and arrows were shot towards the city gate.

Following the direction of the bow and arrow, the soldiers on the castle finally discovered the problem at the drawbridge at the main entrance of the castle, the arquebus can't hit such a distance, only the artillery can, and when the artillerymen were just cleaning the barrel, dozens of archers over there had already begun to run backwards.

Four of the flaming arrows were fired at the combustibles that had been piled up between the drawbridge and the city gates, and the dry leather and firewood soaked in grease burned as soon as they came into contact with the fire.

But the city gate can only be a thick wooden gate with iron corners, and the same is true for the suspension bridge, this kind of heavy wood is strong enough, and the wood will burn after all, such a blazing flame, and finally the city gate and the suspension bridge are burned together.

The soldiers of Fort Dimitri were hurriedly fighting the fire there, and in Liu Shisan's team not far away, more than a dozen cavalrymen galloped back and forth between the formations, shouting:

"The third team is ready to attack the city!"