Chapter 50: Range Advantage

Sweating profusely, Bey pulled out his sundial and learned that it was noon, and the enemy cavalry had advanced outside the trench and began to wander and provoke. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 On the slopes of several high hills, the enemy on foot scattered like ants, first set up the tents of the camp, and then they used the wood that had been sawn and dismantled beforehand, and clanked again, and with all kinds of tools, in front of the camp, in the direction of the south-west corner tower of the castle, they erected a towering wooden tower, and some people quickly climbed up, and then Gema Radin Bey saw that something on the tower was reflecting the small sparkle of light.

Slowly, the enemy was patient and sweaty, and behind the tower, they also used various timber components to build a huge and incomparable stone throwing machine......

They don't seem to be greedy for quantity, because according to the orders of the great guarantor, when evening comes, they only need to assemble and prepare a large prani cannon.

"The enemy is going to shoot stones at the corner tower on this side, and the enemy is going to shoot stones at the corner tower on this side!" Beybi made a fierce gesture and nervously shouted to the equally busy garrison soldiers on the battle path, "Set up a stone thrower behind the corner tower, and bring up the gunfire spear and crossbow machine, and hide it to shoot at the enemy." Half of the gunners control the equipment, and the other half go to the war room of this corner tower to measure the direction and angle of the enemy's stone thrower, fast, fast, fast! ”

The soldiers and craftsmen of the garrison hurriedly responded, and one by one they twisted the nooses of the ballistas in the fence or the enemy platform into place, and squeaked the spears into the trough, and the basins of flames were ignited, and the soldiers wiped their sweat on the basins, and placed the tongs and cones on them one by one, until they turned red and white. The gunners also climbed to the top of the turret, using a measuring gauge to calculate the distance of the large Plani cannon on the slope of the opposite hill.

Eventually, one of the gunners shouted the results, "That thing is too far away, it's weird." Because we can't shoot it, it can't shoot our towers. ”

Just when the other Turkic artillery players were surprised, on this side of the hill, Gawain had jumped off Sabina's back, and watched as his gunners were shouting, pulling the wheels with their hands, slowly and with difficulty, the weight box of the Great Prani Cannon was slowly and with great difficulty, and it continued to rise.

"Good luck, let's make a shot!" Soon after, Gawain, with his back to the twilight, slashed the scepter.

With a long sound, the weight box of the Great Plani Cannon full of stones and iron quickly fell, and the long pole arm over there was raised, dragging the elastic pocket and the scorpion tail hook to the ground, and then the round large stone projectile rose like a meteor, swept through the air, directly from the side of the southwest corner tower of Kayseri, and went out of the diagonal side, and in the cave that was savagely drilled out, more than a dozen Turkic artillery players who were still wondering about the "very strange shooting distance" just now were smashed into powder and stumps, and fell down in all directions along the mouth of the cave. The shattered masonry poured down like a flood that burst its banks, killing and drowning the stone-throwing machines that had been placed under it to counter the siege, along with several other gunmen, in front of Bey.

"What monster?" Gemaladin, who was overseeing the battle at the fence, screamed in shock and rage.

The southwest corner tower of Kayseri Castle, under the precise ranging of the watchtower erected by Gao Wenjun, was "murderous" by the first stone bullet of the first large Prani cannon, and the bloody cave penetrated from this side to the other, and the inside was a mess and miserable.

For the first time, Gemma Radin Bey felt that "the higher you stand, the more dangerous it is".

Because Gawain used him, and the whole city of Kayseri, no, a huge new type of stone thrower that had not been seen in the entire Anatolian plateau, it was easy to destroy the towering towers on the edge of the battlements.

In fact, for the next three days, Gawain did not follow the traditional tactics of setting up siege positions - he adopted the strategy of "first point behind", the army backed the mountains under the snowy peaks of Algaeus, with six large Plani cannons in three directions of the city wall as the core, and set up six small camps around each of them, each on the high ground, and bombarded the castle at a fixed point in turn.

Branas's Defender Brigade was then split, with 500 soldiers per battalion to defend it, and then Gawain's Red Hand Brigade and Branas's remaining German Guards each set up a reserve camp to link and support the various battalions.

As for the Red Hand cavalry, they still forcibly seized the water source of the stream under the mountain peak, scattered and set up camp, and once there was a police, they quickly gathered on horseback to block the enemy's entry and exit procession.

Gawain did not seek to trap Kayseri to death, but rather to "use the range advantage of the Great Prani Cannon to destroy all the towers on the walls of Kayseri." ”

In the past three days, 14 of the 21 striped towers of various sizes in Kayseri have been destroyed, of which the south-west and southern towers have been completely swept away, and none of them have survived. This was practiced by Gawain's artillery players in advance at the simulated castle of Milio Sepharon, and the whole artillery attack process was very smooth and fluent, precise and ferocious.

A lot of stone bullets were still rolling and jumping, smashing the walls of the roof, killing and injuring many people, making people panic, and all the garrisons and civilians knew that if the tower was destroyed, then half of the siege equipment against the enemy would be lost, and it was very passive. Gemaladin Bey did not want to be killed, knowing that Kayseri was surrounded by a wall of horses and horses under the towers and walls, so he kept sending people out to ask for help, and at the same time placed heavy troops in the barricades between the walls and walls, so that he could not only kill and wound the enemy troops near the walls, but also withdraw to the city to continue to resist when the battle did not go well.

Gao Wen, who stood on Gao Fu and observed all this, was overjoyed, and immediately ordered, "The enemy really deployed troops as we expected, and this can be regarded as their own destruction." Now I need Merlot to lead all the Red Hand Brigade and the large detachment of Red Hand Pyrinomers to attack and take down all the walls and gates in the southwest corner of Kayseri in one fell swoop, according to the rules of the original exercise, and then take the entire fortress - Merrick thinks that his city can hold me for two months or more, then I will show him, and in two months I will cut off half of his land. ”

After the general attack was lined up three days later, the Red Hand Brigade, the large detachment of firethrowers, about half of the Red Hand Cavalry, Gawain's two Praetorian Guard detachments, and nearly 8,000 elite soldiers, after holding a solemn prayer ceremony, will assemble more than a dozen wheeled five-pole cannons in the camp in advance, accompanied by the flag cart of the Red Hand Qiling Banner, to protect the core position of the array, and then the spear and halberd banner stretches endlessly, and the war horses and wheels neigh and roll, constantly approaching the declining city wall in the southwest direction.

"When the enemy came, Allah sent fire and destroyed them all by our sword." Behind the entire barrier wall and trench, all the defenders of Kayseri who were defending there also raised their banners, prepared their catapults and ballistas, and shouted provocatively at the enemy troops who were coming in orderly steps. (To be continued.) )