Chapter 488: The Protagonist Appears

When the sky is dark, it does not mean that the intensity of the battle will be weakened, the torches and fires on the castle are shining brightly, the soldiers of the Roganov family shouted loudly, holding knives and guns in their hands and fighting with the death squads of the khanate, although there is a source of flame, but there will always be something hidden in the night, or someone climbs the city wall, but the dead soldiers of the khanate are also fighting on horseback.

In such siege battles, especially in small battles, far less advanced than the well-trained castle defenders, the Russian soldiers, armed with hatchets and wooden spears, gathered in a heap and repeatedly charged at the dead soldiers of the Khanate who had sporadically climbed the walls.

The Cossack cavalrymen wielded their sabers like windmills, and the dead soldiers of the Khanate were good at bows and arrows and the impact of horses, which were extremely ungood at fighting, and they were often killed by the opponent as soon as they climbed the city wall to occupy a position.

Westerners relative to the yellow race, can really be seen as beasts, high nose and deep eyes, long body hair as if it is an animal, the body is also much taller and stronger, the current khanate dead soldiers are all fighting there with a crazy energy, in fact, after the night falls, some people can take advantage of the night to escape quietly, but the killing is full of blood, everyone is very excited.

Moreover, the enmity between the Obil Khanate and the Russian expeditionary force was as deep as the sea, and many people vented the sullenness they had received in the expeditionary pioneer team these days in the battle.

The people above were already unable to put out the fire, but the flames of the castle gate and drawbridge were about to be extinguished, because the heavy wooden planks had already turned into charcoal at this time.

Another ladder had been torn off the wall, and now there were only three ladders on it, and the archers' arms were so sore that they could not shoot a strong bow to inflict damage, even at the head of the city, where the artillery fired a single shot from time to time.

Disperse the team of archers below, but the chamber of the cannon can no longer withstand such a frequency of fire, and the artillerymen have already begun to pee to cool the barrel, which is only a slight improvement. The three ladders are equivalent to the fact that the dead soldiers of the Khanate who climbed below could not continue to impact the defenders of the castle, and the defenders above became more and more relaxed, and the fatigue of the dead soldiers of the Khanate began to gradually diffuse.

The ferocity aroused by the killing gradually subsided, and some people now began to wonder if they could escape by nightfall, and a few who thought they were smart left the shooting range above the castle, and ran towards the darkness with their heads bowed, but they had only just run a few steps.

There will always be cavalry chasing after them, and those who flee will be killed there without even having a chance to resist, and the matter is not over.

After the fleeing dead soldier was killed, his head was immediately cut off, and then taken to the dead camp for identification, and his family members were mercilessly captured by the overseers, and they were beheaded and killed in front of the battle, this bloody example shocked all those who disagreed.

But these people under the city looked at the three lonely ladders, they really didn't have the courage to continue fighting, and the defenders who had already relieved themselves had already begun to load the guns with ammunition and prepare to shoot. The archer is at most a dozen arrows in a row.

Arms and shoulders are quickly felt to the limit, and don't forget that these days, they are not well fed.

At this time, the horn behind sounded, and the dead soldiers of the Khanate, who had no will to fight at all, ran back towards the big array desperately but without any speed, and the row of firearms behind them was also weak, and in this battle, both sides had already exhausted their spirit and strength.

Nearly 10,000 captives, because the Golden Tent of the Lost Bil Khanate was mainly concentrated in the young and strong tribes, so there were nearly 4,000 young and strong, but in the non-stop siege war, only a young man in his early 1,000s remained, and each of them was wounded.

Coupled with the warlords who have not been used much, the total is 13,400 people, and in the place where the families of these captives are held, there are already cries that are shocking, some people cry for the joy that their relatives can return, and more people are crying in despair.

Baron Roganov, who was standing at the head of the city again, listened to the cry of the sky opposite, and looked at the corpses below and the blood-stained wall tiles above the castle by the light of the fire.

However, it is still unknown whether the other party will continue to attack the next day, and the people of the Lost Bil Khanate are attacking so desperately, and the baron does not dare to guarantee that he can hold it, which is completely a madman tactic who does not care about the safety of his own life, under such an attack, the advantages of firearms and individual combat power are offset a lot.

Baron Roganov, who was not so devout, began to pray silently, and the priests who accompanied the army had already gone to the city and began to pacify the soldiers.

Suddenly, in the direction of crying, the direction of the original darkness and no light, began to light a fire, seeing this, the soldiers at the head of the city were a little relaxed, which means that the other party may also be preparing to rest, anyway, everyone needs to sleep.

Someone lit torches on the fire, one torch lit two, two became four, just under the dumbfounded gaze of the Russian defenders on the castle, in the dark steppe, as if a sea of stars suddenly appeared, countless torches were lit, and the expeditionary pioneer team that had been hiding behind the dead soldiers of the Khanate finally revealed his face.

"Oh my God!"

The priest who came up to appease him couldn't help but let out this exclamation, Baron Roganov's eyes were also staring at the brigade that suddenly appeared, and for a while the atmosphere above the castle became strange and low, and a Russian officer looked wrong, and hurriedly shouted:

"Don't worry, these barbarians can only draw bows and shoot arrows, our firearms can drive them back like rabbits, just like in today's battle, the heroic warriors of the Tsar have only sacrificed more than a hundred people, but they have already killed thousands of barbarians!"

Of course, this person did not mention the three or four hundred Cossack cavalrymen who died outside, and Baron Roganov was also awakened by these words of encouragement, and he had already made up his mind in his heart, and he must have promoted the officers who stood up at this critical moment afterwards.

The five guns brought by the expeditionary pioneer team had been pushed close enough in the darkness, and the angle was adjusted as much as possible.

Under the reflection of the torches, Liu Shisan raised the saber in his hand, which was actually equivalent to his scepter, and the saber and saber that Jiang Feng gave to the general below could be regarded as a proof of identity.

An artillery captain standing next to the artillery saw Liu Shisan's order, nodded there, and followed the loud order:

"Get angry!"

The artillery that had long been loaded was ignited with a fuse, a sharp whistling sounded, and flew towards the city gate, and the faces of everyone on the castle changed in that instant, where are the barbarians, such artillery, even in the wars between the east and European countries, is not often seen.

When the priest was about to pray, the ground under his feet suddenly trembled, because the bloodstained ground was slippery and abnormal, and it suddenly fell to the ground, but after the cannon landed, the roar was not as loud as he had remembered, as if something had been penetrated.

Just as he was about to ask a question, he saw Baron Roganov and several officers running like crazy to the edge of the castle wall, where they shouted hoarsely:

"Block the city gates, and move stones to reinforce them quickly!"

The city gate and the drawbridge were completely smashed by the first round of shelling, but fortunately, in the afternoon battle, a lot of masonry had been piled up in the city gate hole, but because the battle at the head of the wall was too tense, and it was necessary to divide the manpower to prevent the enemy from attacking from other directions, the so-called work of filling the gate hole was not complete.

After all, they didn't expect that the other side still had such heavy firearms, and all the soldiers and even some women under the castle rushed over carrying things, but the whistling sound followed and five three-pound shells smashed on the piled up of masonry.

The pile of bricks and stones blocking the door suddenly trembled, and the part near the inside suddenly collapsed a lot, when shelling the other party, it was one thing, and it was another thing to confirm that the other party had artillery, and those who went to repair it were so frightened that they took a few steps back, for fear of being affected.

The officer standing behind him was so angry that he swung his scabbard and almost drew his knife to kill, and these people were just about to step forward, when suddenly a whistling sound sounded again, and the loose masonry just now exploded at once, and the people standing on the periphery were hit by these splashing masonry and broke their heads and bled out.

At this moment, even if the officers in the back could not restrain themselves, they fled to the back, and after five rounds of artillery firing in this era, the barrel would overheat, and the fourth and fifth rounds of shelling followed.

The artillery above the castle also began to fire at the artillery positions of the expeditionary pioneers, but there was no accuracy at all, and there was no way to determine the position with the flash of fire.

It was already possible to see the lights inside the castle from the city gate, and Liu 13 shouted loudly on the horse:

"Tomorrow morning, we're going to camp in this fortress!"

There was a roar of shouting around, and the large array slowly moved forward......