Clustered around the siege towers were the raging ranks of the new detachments of firethrowers, dressed in armor-filled linen, leggings, and iron helmets of the ancient Thracian style, with small umbrella-like red horsehair feathers tied on the tops of the recurved helmets, swaying in the smoke and wind, covering their faces with wet wipes, carrying flaming pipes or leather bags with iron fire flakes, and in the midst of the fierce sound of flutes and drums, followed by groups of people shouting the chants of war, "Lord, there are countless persecutors of my persecution;

Lord, those who besiege me, hordes!

But the Lord is my shield, and he hears down on the holy mountain and sustains me;

Although there are thousands of enemies, I am not afraid;

Lord, help me to forge ahead;

Lord, deliver;

Lord, help me to break the cheeks of the unbelievers;

Lord, help me to break the fangs of the wicked!

Hallelujah, Hallelujah! ”

The Turkic soldiers defending the city were dizzy by this war song, coupled with the previous fire bombardment, they had long lost effective command and control, and fought separately with one courage, a white light spear of gunfire sprayed out from the hole in the fence, some pierced on the asbestos bags or sandbags hanging from the siege towers, some swept over and fell into the ranks of the firethrower detachment, several pierced through the top of the siege tower, and the flames spread rapidly - the Turkic soldiers behind the fence cheered, "Thank Allah, Allah is greater! Then reload and extinguish the fire. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

With a boom, the soldiers behind the siege tower cut off the iron chains on the board with sharp axes, and the burning board fell directly, and then the Turkic soldiers in the fence shouted in horror - on the top of the siege tower of Gao Wenfang, which was completely uncovered, several pyropers with iron shields and copper shields, umbrella-shaped horsehair feathers swaying, were trying their best to control a short and stocky "copper monster" aimed at them.

This "bronze monster" resembles the form of a crouching toad on a sarcophagus in a church, but it is much larger, made of copper, and its front and hind paws are just right to be fastened deep into the planks or dirt for fixation; The "big eyeballs" on both sides are actually hand clasps that allow the pyropers to rotate and move them, and there is an iron mark at the nostrils. The monster's "mouth" is very large, quite devouring the world's style, five feet wide, two feet up and down, divided into three layers of six partitions with a total of eighteen channels, each with a barbed iron spearhead of a large rocket, the front and back of each Khitan snow paper tube in series, the back of the hole to expose the lead, with a ****** inside, in front of the deflagration charge - the lead of the three large rockets through the "monster" back of the fire door twisted together, this is the Seleucian Ordnance Division in order to attack the "flying fire copper clam".

Seeing that about thirty or fifty feet away, such a terrifying artifact suddenly appeared on the opponent's siege tower—eighteen large rockets, stuffed into the bloody mouth of the large "Flying Fire Copper Clam", and stared at the battlement fence in front of them, many Turkic soldiers lost the courage to resist at all, and they threw down the spears or arrows that were ready to be mounted on the ballistas, and fled in all directions.

"Go, go, my bronze clam, burst out with the highest and most magnificent roar, and the Lord and Mary are with you!" In an instant, several flamethrowers behind the Flying Fire Bronze Clam shouted prayers in unison after aiming at the target, and then the flag officer who took the lead kissed the "Little Gospel" decorated with fine leather and gold leaf edges twice, and placed it between the iron signs of the bronze clams, "Hallelujah, launch!" ”

"Spit spit spit!" The whistling sound of the Khitan snow used for the launch, in the mouth of the copper clam, collided with the copper and iron with air waves, and made the sound of the air shock city fortress, like the cry of a giant male frog courting, which shook the entire Kayseri Fort inside and outside the south wall, and the eighteen lead iron spearhead rockets, according to the slight time difference, dragged brilliant sparks at the tail, rushed out of the mouth of the copper clam back and forth, shaking the entire copper clam and the siege wooden tower trembling and shaking repeatedly - several large rockets shot through the wooden fence of the opposite city wall, Then the cartridge began to explode, scattering in all directions, sending pieces of wood flying and burning everything around it—the barbed iron spear could not be pulled out once wedged into the fortifications.

There was even one, with the tail of the fire, rushed into the perforation, smashing the ballista cannon of the gate guarding the city on the opposite side, and the two Danishmond Turkic artillery who had not had time to withdraw were pierced together: the people who were preparing to put out the fire under the city saw that the big rocket was inserted into the chest and back of the two of them, shaking their hands and feet, screaming and being taken out of the distance, and then falling down, in the process of falling, strings of sparks continued to burst with broken bodies and internal organs......

About half a minute later, the flag officer behind the bronze clam half-squinted, and when he saw the smoke and flames, the enemy's battlements and fences were all burned, and the burning wood and armor fell down the city wall, and then he shouted excitedly, waving a small flag below, "Get on it!" The firethrowers below continued to push the siege towers with iron shields, Khitan fire pipes, and chanting war songs.

Soon, the iron rods sticking out from both sides of the siege tower pierced into the fence plank under the residual fire, and then the siege tower stopped moving, and the flag officer turned to the rear and waved the small flag twice, "Charge, charge!" "The firethrowers under the tower swarmed the wooden plank ramp stretched down from the siege tower, and poured directly onto the pheasant moat, and then frantically threw iron fires at all the buildings on the other side of the city wall, and the explosions were endless, and the people and soldiers who came to fight the fire were blown up, and they abandoned the burning city gate and ran away.

Soon the battering ram was pushed up, and directly smashed open the southern gate that had been burned in half, and the outer city of Kayseri had already fallen in the midst of the fireworks. ”

At the east gate of the castle, Danishmund's defeated army and Turkic immigrants poured out the most, because they tried to flee in the direction of Sivas or Meritane, but now it was an extravagant hope: Giovanni rushed with three hundred red hand cavalry, and the more than ten horsemen at the front turned over and dismounted, and in groups of two, half knelt down, carrying a long iron gun with half a chute sticking out of the front of the root, and with a "knock knock" burst out, the rockets in the iron gun flew out, and beat the dense Turks to a bloody ground in front of the city gate. Then the cavalry behind shouted, like a wall, with single-edged sabers and chain hammers, and cut down many Turkic soldiers who had no time to turn around and escape, and all the corpses fell into the moat, and the entire trench was flattened, and Giovanni then led the cavalry to trample on the pile of corpses and burst into the east gate.

In a short period of time, the gates of Kayseri fell one after another, and the desperate Gema Radin Bey fled with the remnants into the inner city protected by the "Seljuk Walls" (the inner wall built by the Danishmunds after the conquest of Kayseri by the Turks), and the corpses of the slain tribesmen and crescentists were strewn all over the streets. (To be continued.) )