Chapter Eighty-Nine: Assault
Boulders flew by, walls shook, and the Imperial soldiers were all shocked.
Emperor Alexios came to the city, where the Romani army had retreated and the battle had long since ended.
The soldiers of the Imperial Army rejoiced, but in the blink of an eye, the tide of battle changed again!
The Turkic trebuchet silenced the warriors, and the power of the splendor was like thunder!
Stones flew and jumped wildly, and the soldiers of the Imperial Army at the head of the city were severely killed.
"Let's get out of here!"
Nils, the emperor's chief of guard, looked solemn, and there were almost no people standing on the top of the city now.
The fighting on this part of the city stopped, but the offensive of the Roma army never stopped.
The trebuchet roared again and again, and the flying stones were like a torrential wind and rain, constantly bombarding.
The emperor and the chief of the guards who retreated to the city looked back, and there were cracks in the inner wall of this city wall.
When did the Turks also have such a powerful siege weapon?
With the Sultan of Arslan throwing in new weapons from the Rohm, the Imperial Army was once again in a quandary.
"Your Majesty!"
"The trebuchet is one hundred and fifty steps from the city wall!"
The Imperial lookout post crouched at the head of the city, and with a sharp eye to see the enemy's position, he quickly determined the range of the Roma trebuchet.
"Very good craftsmanship!"
Although there is still a lot of gap compared to the trebuchets of the Imperial Army, the technology of the Turks is commendable!
Such a barbarian race is worthy of being a nation that can produce the Turkish Empire in later generations, and their wisdom to keep pace with the times even makes the emperor a little afraid!
Unlike in Caesar's time, the legions of the Republic relied on advanced technology to crush the barbarians at will.
But today, all nations have grown, and the emperor's great deeds will be intertwined with their swords until one of them collapses.
Although Nils was curious, the Imperial Supreme was still in the mood to praise the craftsmen of the enemy army.
But the emperor's composure also calmed the slightly shaky morale of the soldiers of the Imperial Army.
Now the commander of the First Army of the Imperial Army, Edmund, is unfortunately seriously injured, and the Emperor is the most important backbone of the Imperial Army.
Fortunately, the great Imperial Supreme has already gone through the battle and is not afraid of hardships and dangers.
Otherwise, once the emperor is shaken, the imperial army will immediately fall like a mountain and collapse.
"Andrew!"
"Your Majesty?"
"Assemble the hussars!"
The officers present were all stunned, what does His Majesty the Emperor mean?
"We can't sit still, Arslan has a problem for me!"
Between breaths, the emperor was equally uncomfortable.
Although it is not known where the Turks got their ascension, the enemy's siege weapons are indeed genuine.
This is not Constantinople, there are no city defenses that have been carefully built for hundreds of years, and even the emperor does not dare to say whether the city walls will fall down in the next moment!
"We must destroy the Turkic trebuchets!"
The emperor's tone was firm, and his strong conviction infected every soldier of the imperial army.
"Your Majesty!"
"There are too few Imperial Hussars!"
"Now the battle situation is dangerous, I'll go!"
The Imperial officers admonished, and Nils, the chief of the guard, realized that the Emperor's decision could not be changed.
But he wanted to take the place of the emperor and avoid the Supreme taking the risk himself.
"Nils, you are a good Imperial soldier, but that doesn't mean you're a good Imperial cavalry!
The hussars are led by me, and they have never escaped my control!
Today they will enter the most dangerous battlefield, how can the emperor not go with them? ”
The surrounding hussar commanders were all moved, this is the friendship of life and death!
What's more, he is the supreme of the empire, and the warriors are willing to die for him!
"Your Majesty!"
Knights of the Imperial Army, there are tears in their eyes!
The Emperor stepped into the saddle, and a thousand Imperial hussars marched through the streets.
Red streamers wrapped around the spear, and the sharp tip of the spear pierced the sky.
"The shame of the first emperor will be washed away by us!"
Except for the main gate, the other gates have long been blocked, which is Edmund's masterpiece, but the Imperial army has another passage.
"Open the secret door!"
The design of the city of Bursa is unique, built on a hill and surrounded by walls.
There is a secret door on the side of the hill, which leads directly to the town hall.
The narrow road can be used for two riders at most, and if you are not careful, you will fall off the cliff and have no life.
"Periande!"
"You raise the eagle banner for me!"
Alexios has a sword in his hand, he doesn't need to boost morale, the hussars are of the same heart and mind as him, they are of the same mind!
The Imperial Army was ready to go, and the knights were in armor, but they had never been so nervous.
The decision of the Supreme of the Empire, the hussars will attack the strong with the weak, and the outnumbered until victory comes!
"God forbid, the Imperial Hussars are invincible!"
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The siege continued, but the walls on this side were silent.
Boulders bombarded, smoke and dust filled the air, obscuring people's eyes, rubble flew out, and there were also severed limbs, bloody and terrifying!
Arslan waited quietly for the results, and he was so patient that he could wait for days until the walls collapsed.
When the Imperial army was naked like a girl stripped of its coat, it was time for the Seljuk army to take what it wanted.
In a trance, the Sultan heard the horn sounding for a long time, and the mountains were full of aftersound.
"Where did the cavalry charge come from?"
The Sultan roared angrily, and the guards were also watching, but the white smoke in the distance was covered and they couldn't see the situation clearly!
The sonic boom is like thunder, from far to near, slowly rising.
The Roma soldiers besieging the city stopped, they were terrified, where did the enemy come from?
"There it is!"
While the Sultan and the Turkic generals were looking forward to it, someone spoke out and found it.
On the side of the city's ridge, the red eagle banner leaps out, and the Imperial Hussars pour down like a landslide and tsunami, and the waves crash on the shore, and the power is overwhelming.
"It's coming!"
Sultan Arslan's tone was calm, and he was not moved, as if he had already felt something.
Just unexpected!
The Roman emperor on the other side was not a figure who liked to sit back and wait, and he would never be caught in a restrained manner.
He likes this kind of battle, and if the emperor can't even defuse such an offensive, then he will be disappointed!
Just this distance!
The Sultan frowned slightly, I'm afraid the trebuchet won't be able to keep it!
"Good!"
"Then let me see if the Romans can still compete with the Ghulam Guards without the help of the Imperial Paladins!"
"Scampiede!"
"Sultan!"
"The Romans are there!"
"I see!"
The Sultan's Commander-in-Chief, Skamped, was a mighty man who put on his armor again, and the Turkic elite was ready to shoot out.
"Kill it!"
The Sultan's main formation, the cavalry cheered, and the mighty Anatolian soldiers moved!
The Ghulam Guards galloped across the battlefield, and they rushed out from the center, advancing in two formations, spreading out like wings.
Skampid had mixed feelings, the Sultan's order, as long as the emperor's head, did not need to support the projection team.
"I'm Albanian!"
The Sultan's chief of the guard told himself that sympathy would not bring victory, and that he still had much to learn.
The Sultan can also abandon his soldiers for the sake of victory, and war is cruel.
Once the king has made a decision, countless people have shed their blood and died!
The Roma soldiers under the city saw clearly that the Imperial cavalry attacked from the flank, advancing in line with the wall, like thunder, irresistible!
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"Let's go!"
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"Let's go!"
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"Let's go!"
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Fear pervades the hearts of the people, and the Turks under the city are all scattered, and the soldiers of the Imperial Army in the city take the opportunity to kill the strong enemy, and the dead are in disarray.
Even the Roma soldiers, who could not escape, jumped off the city walls and turned into pulp.