Several of the Varangian Outer Palace Guards, who were chopping the dog's foot wood, looked at the Paulineans approaching about a hundred feet away from them in the firelight, wrapped in black robes and turbans, and holding yellow glittering brass pipes, and shouted twice in their mouths with contempt, as they did with the other party's fleeing people, and then continued to swing their axes and slash hard. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Send Khitan fire!" Leotius pointed his flag at the group of soldiers of the Emperor's Guard, who were currently climbing up.

A Paulicist named Sinkotoas, whose name may not be recorded in history, was an ordinary and insignificant figure in this procession, but in the hourglass of the Creator, he was indeed about two seconds better than the other comrades next to him, and the wooden brass pipe in the early hand was embedded in the copper pipe, and the copper pipe was embedded with a delicate copper lizard head, and this "little monster" served as a function of illumination—aimed at the figure waving his arms, about fifteen Anna feet away from Sinkotoas.

The weapon in Sinkotoas's hand was the "Portable Fire Guarding Shooter" created by Gawain with the painstaking efforts of the Ordnance Division, but the recipe inside was no longer the old one, but a "Khitan snow paper tube" with a diameter equivalent to the copper pipe was rolled into multiple layers of Seleucian reed paper, which was filled with nitrate, firecrackers, willow charcoal, iron filings and broken pottery shards, mixed evenly and loaded into the paper tube, and then loaded into the copper tube breech.

Seeing that Sinkotoas aimed the copper lizard's head at the enemy, his comrades beside him lifted the jar with the tinder, pulled out the small red-hot iron cone, and half-knelt to muster up his courage, and the "poof" sound was inserted into the opening on the side of the copper pipe, and the red cone tip pierced into the Khitan snow of the paper tube.

"Ahh Sinkotoas felt that the wooden support in his hand was shaking violently, but he did not dare to throw it away, because at the moment of lightning, at the same time as the iron cone was inserted into the opening, the copper pipe shot out white and fierce fireworks, and a burning sensation came to his face...... Sinkotoas became the first person of all ages to use a tubular weapon, but he was stunned at the time...... Not far from him, the same fiery dragons flew out one after another, illuminating the night as if it were day, mixed with the cries of the Paulicians in horror or excitement.

This is by no means an "ordinary Greek fire" that will disappear after burning, Sinkotoas's wide eyes clearly saw that the ferocious fireworks, still pouring out in the brass pipes, actually lasted for a long time, and soon the dog's foot wood in front of Sinkotoas burned, and the group of enemy guards soldiers who were still majestic before also burned-the vicious flames swept through the gaps in the wooden fence, burning the most current soldiers into "fire men", dancing in pain: iron filings and broken pottery shards can be mixed with the melting of all Khitan fire, Under the fierce jet of the fire pipe, it pierced into the cracks of their armor, helmets and clothes, not to mention that in this flame formula, there were also poison powders such as strychnine, soaphorn, arsenic, etc., which were burned together by the samurai's skin and armor in the spray, the hair was gone, the limbs and faces were horribly charred, and the air around them was burned out, some "fire men" curled up and fell in front of the dog's foot wood, and some "fire men" rolled and fell off the cliff, with creepy screams.

Sinkotoas could clearly see that in front of a stench and smoke-emitting enemy corpse, even the battle axe next to it was burned into a pile of twisted scrap metal! "It's amazing." Although he couldn't shout with his face covered, he felt that his hair stood on end because of excitement, and the pleasure of wanton fire-breathing and killing might be terrifying for the first time, but it would definitely be addictive after one time.

The assistant next to him pulled the iron cone from this side of the copper pipe opening to the other side, and the reed paper tube with the residual warmth was pulled and thrown by his other hand with a thick glove, and the paper tube turned over, and smoke rose from Sinkotoas's feet.

"Should I say that this Khitan fire is too powerful, or is the Seleucian paper tube too tough? The flames were exhausted, and the paper tube was preserved intact. Sinkotoas marveled inwardly.

At the back of the queue, Kabeamiya and Muzafi Ardin, who were so frightened by the previous Khitan fire salvo that they almost fell off their horses, calmed down and saw that the dog's foot wooden fence was still bubbling with flying fire, but the enemy soldiers who climbed up earlier were burned to death and sprayed to death in an instant, "Reload, reload!" Kabeamia's mood then changed to excitement, and she stretched out her golden hand and shouted this order almost at the same time as the Khitan fire commander Leotius.

"Reload!" Sinkotoas also waved his hand excitedly, and the comrade immediately took out another closed Khitan snow paper tube from the hanging bag beside him, and stuffed it into the mouth of the copper pipe held by Sinkotoas, and then all the Pauline believers moved forward again, reaching the wooden fence, and soon there were white thunderbolt-like fires, with a slight downward arc, illuminating the originally black mountain rocks: the emperor's soldiers who continued to climb up, strings were burned, and all rolled down, and soon the emperor's night attack on the front of the camp was completely declared a failure.

Standing on the opposite mountain ridge, seeing the Khitan fire flying in the Imperial Ink Officer Mailes, he was simply surprised to the point of inexplicability, "What kind of weapon is this." ”

"Your Excellency, it should be the fire of guarding our great empire."

"No, it's not...... This power is more powerful and fierce than the gunfire of Venice, and it is by no means a defensive fire. Myles cupped his forehead in distress, "The order to stop the attack, anyway, our goal of containment has been achieved." ”

Meles was right - Alexios' army, which attacked the camp, won a great victory, and when the emperor's six hundred second-line spearmen stormed the camp, the Seleucian garrison was completely routed, they abandoned the camp and poured down the hill, many were shot in the back by the emperor's archers, and even the defenders of the defensive wall fled and rushed to the camp in a disorderly manner.

Fortunately, Gedier had urged the people to dig a deep ditch on the north side of the camp perpendicular to the defensive wall, and although many of the soldiers of the Folk Army fell and were killed and wounded here, they were able to resist the Emperor's further attack: otherwise, the entire camp of Mirio Sefalon would have collapsed at this moment.

When the sun rose the next day, Cabeamia and Billell saw that the only remaining people in the camp had almost fled, and that the few small houses in the rear of them had also been occupied by the Emperor's right-wing Yagfi tribe in the previous night, and about a thousand people had been taken prisoner -- these small villages, which happened to be on the road behind the camp and the valley of the Mut River, caused great horror and panic among the more than 3,000 people and Paulineans trapped in the camp.

But Gedier did not despair, and he still demanded that all those who could afford the tools continue to build the sub-city without any care, while the rest of the men defended the ditches and wooden fences. "If the emperor's army launches another onslaught, try to use Khitan fire." At this time, even Cabeamia was relieved, gritted her teeth, and wanted to fight with Alexios.

But in her heart, the female consul still complained that Gawain had not shown up to save her so far. (End of this volume) (To be continued.) )