Chapter 17: The Stealthy Catcher
In the instant light of the Khitan fire, dense soldiers appeared on the entire ridge, as if a large number of people were also killed in the main fort of Kars, and the two sides began to fight each other, when the Khitan fire fell silent, there was only the sound of the blade fighting, "It seems that the soldiers of the main fort are here to meet us!" Mushg shouted. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Immediately, at a location only four or five hundred feet away from the sentry fort, that is, where another sentry fort is located, a few "Khitan flowers" suddenly screamed and rose up, and all kinds of flashes of light pulled the shadow of the stone wall of the sentry fort to rotate rapidly, illuminating the figure of the defenders behind it, and then the darkness on the southern slope suddenly with a sudden sound, shooting out dozens of shrimp whisker cannons, and shooting towards the sentry fort, "They are attacking the sentry fort over there!" Panicked shouts rang out, and someone below shouted for reinforcements.
"Don't move." Mushge hurriedly asked for composure.
But at this moment, the door of the sentry fort where he was located creaked open, and many Georgian soldiers who had just been reinforced during the day, with torches on one side and swords and battle axes on the other, rushed forward to support the friendly sentry fort.
Suddenly, not far from the outpost where Mushg was, there were many shrimp whisker cannons fired in a row, shaking the earth, and the shout of "Our outpost has also been attacked" shook Mushge's heart beating, and he stayed behind the battlement at the top of the tower, and saw with his own eyes a few more Khitan flowers rising in front of him, illuminating his somewhat pale face - under the tower he clearly saw that three hundred, five hundred such enemies rushed out from the shadows on the southern slope and began to attack this sentry fort.
"Vasak, Vasak!" Mushg suddenly remembered this at this moment, but at this moment Vasak was already holding a mulberry bow, tied to his signature colored flag, and ran out with many guards, and the night was full of scuffles, and it was impossible to distinguish between friend and foe.
Outside it was as noisy as a flood bursting its banks, and the shrimp whiskers hit the stone wall of the sentry fort, causing a series of crackling sounds, mixed with flying sparks, pouring and scattering, and soon someone secretly set up a ladder and threw the lit iron fire into the tower through the stone wall one after another, Mushge held on to his injured wrist, and watched the sparkling iron hammer turn and rotate along the stone slab, and then burst open, and the poisonous mist and gunpowder smoke flew everywhere, so that Mushg and many wounded soldiers squatted on the ground, coughing violently and wheezing— There were all sorts of curses and threats coming from outside, it was the enemy climbing the ladder, they were going to attack, they were going to attack!
Mushge cowered in the corner, and then he was almost overturned by a powerful wave of qi, the iron gate at the bottom of the tower was blasted open by the enemy with a cart full of Khitan snow! Mushge, who was in a semi-unconscious, saw black figures and snow-white blades flickering and running everywhere in the smoke, and then he simply tilted his head and fell unconscious on the stone floor with a bang......
That night, the Defender Brigade selected all the miscellaneous skirmishers, and the Bellerophon Brigade selected five hundred elite men for a fruitful night attack: both outposts were captured by them, leaving Carls with only a separate inner wall and the main fort.
In the early hours of the next morning, "Vasak" and many wounded soldiers—some of whom had attacked from the fort last night, some had escaped from the lost fort, and some were remnants of reinforcements sent by David the builder—were congested in the passages on both sides of the Belram Gate, shouting noisily, and there were still six arrows left in his arrows, "I can finally see the internal structure of the castle, which can only accommodate a maximum of 800 to 1,200 people, and the length of the inner wall from north to south is ...... It was only about 300 feet long, but it was very well guarded and was a multi-layered wall...... The gate on the west side seems to lead to the sluice, while to get to the north gate you have to go around the semicircular stone tower. In order to get a better understanding of the inside of the castle, the warden decided to venture through the huge semicircular stone tower in front of him to the north gate of the castle.
So he shook his eyes from side to side slightly, and then cautiously adhered to the root of the inner wall step by step, towards the stone tower embedded in the city wall, and after looking around, he felt the door of the stone tower like the mouth of the beast.
"What is he doing...... That Persian jackal, I thought there was something wrong with him for a long time. On the Bellam Gate Tower, General Mahad Zeli squinted at the back of the guards below through the narrow shooting hole, and judged in a hoarse voice, "That's not a mercenary who came to serve us at all, it should be a spy from the Tarsus side, with a Persian face, which is simply disgusting." ”
With that, Mahadzeri turned around and waved his chin at the eight guards behind him, "Follow him to the stone tower below and kill him!" ”
The eight warriors of the Guards, glaring, drew their swords one by one, saluted the general, and then rushed down the spiral staircase of the gatehouse, and then followed the commander of the guards, and came across the fort and towards the stone tower.
The catcher was keenly aware that someone was trying to make trouble for him, and quickly quickened his pace.
As he entered, he glanced at the hall on the ground floor of the stone tower, which was almost empty, and on the opposite side of the hall was a two-way staircase that could be walked down, and from there came the rumbling sound of water, "It leads to the sluice gate on the west side of the castle." ”
After judging, the guard flashed his figure and flashed into a mezzanine between the middle and side halls of the hall, where a small mule cart was parked, which was used to deliver baggage, and he cleverly concealed himself in the dark, with his back against the wall, and his eyes did not flash at all, looking at the "hole" outside the mezzanine.
The footsteps were clearly discerning: the eight soldiers of General Mahadzeri's guard arrived, stood in the middle of the road and at the mezzanine junction, and then all raised their swords and bows, and their eyes were all looking in the direction of the sluice gate: they must have thought that the catchers had fled there, and one of them turned his head and looked at the mule cart in the mezzanine, and the catcher in the shadows did not move, and continued to crouch calmly in the distance.
The soldier frowned and craned his neck, as if to determine whether the dark shadow between the side of the mule cart and the wall was a man or a pile of debris.
Soon his companion summoned him, and the soldier was stunned, and walked forward along the middle road.
The escaped guard quickly took off his original robe, tore off his turban and put on his hat and helmet, raised his mulberry horn bow, and slapped his wrist, which was now a little trembling, "Gu Siyun, don't abandon me, let my only six remaining arrows be satisfied immediately." ”
After thinking about it, he immediately stood up, and turned his body half sideways against the side wall of the mezzanine, his fingers already twisting the feathers of an arrow, and the bowstring pulled against the extremely bent back of the bow, making a slight squeak, and the arrow cluster suddenly stretched out clearly:
At this time, all eight enemies stood with their backs to him and fanned out at the exit of the west gate of the hall.