At the wrong point of the horse-resisting wall in the southwest corner of Kayseri Castle, a group of Turkic cavalry, armed with sabers and quivers, came out of the raised trench and rushed towards a detachment on the flank of the Red Hand Brigade. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The Turkic archers behind the wall also appeared in large numbers, pulling the bowstring and throwing them at the rest of the detachment of the Red Hand Brigade.

The flank detachment that had been attacked skillfully formed a double diagonal formation, poking out the large infantry spears like porcupines and stopping the onslaught of the Turkic cavalry. In the shouting, there was a follow-up large infantry spear detachment on both sides, and there were famous flag officers or veterans in front and behind to press the formation, maintaining a straight impact route, and in turn detouring to cut off the Turkic cavalry that protruded from the horse wall, and the stragglers sandwiched between the arrays either used crossbow machines Latin bows or firework guns to shoot rhythmically back, and for a time the explosion smoke and dust were endless, flashing and splashing Khitan fires everywhere, intertwined with whistling tailless crossbow arrows, and with layers of approaching spear tips, the Turkic cavalry threw down the corpses of more than half men and horses, and retreated back in embarrassment.

"Kick back." The sound of trumpets and flutes sounded rapidly, and the infantry of the Red Hand Brigade of several flank detachments, the enemy was defeated and retreated before they met, and they took the opportunity to run angrily, and chased the retreating enemy cavalry along the shallow trench that was raised, and once broke into the bottom of the horse rejection wall, and the Danishmund Turks behind the wall desperately resisted, and the garrison soldiers and small stone throwers on the battlements behind also kept throwing stones, turning over and catapulting everywhere, and the brigade infantry who broke through first suffered more than ten casualties, and could not take advantage of the victory to open the situation, so they also retreated.

At this point, the unstoppable wings and teams of the Red Hand Brigade completely expelled and repelled Gema Radin Bey's stragglers outside the city, advanced to a distance of three hundred feet opposite the horse wall, and then all of them knelt down and erected countless large infantry spears upright, protecting all kinds of vehicles and equipment behind them.

Although the battlefield was only calm for a moment, Gemaladin, who was supervising the battle on the city wall, knew that once the opponent's group of siege equipment vehicles was successfully put into use, then his part of the city wall and even the entire Kayseri Fort would be in danger!

"Counterattack, all the ballistas shoot me!" Gemma Radin Bey waved his hand and ordered.

In an instant, along the slightly curved line of the horse-barring wall and moats in the south, all kinds of projectile equipment and ballistae in the city were secretly set up there, and all kinds of arrows and small stone projectiles were fired in a volley, and the crisp sound was continuous—many projectiles flew over the heads of the kneeling Red Hand Brigade soldiers, smashing their infantry spears one by one, and the broken and falling spears jumped everywhere on the sand--and then there was a loud noise behind the horse-rejecting wall, and with this layer of fierce fire, the Turkic soldiers swarmed out from everywhere, According to the experience of Danishmund's army in the past, once a salvo of bows and stone bullets was fired, the light soldiers and cavalry immediately launched a powerful surprise attack, and the opponent would not be able to bear it and flee.

However, all the soldiers of the Red Hand Brigade were not only as strict as an iron wall, but also stood up one after another, still a horizontal detachment, with a vertical detachment on both sides, and then the stragglers were divided into two layers of clamping, reloading the Latin bow, replacing the cartridge tied to the head of the spear, sticking out the iron fork and hook, and continuing to shoot violently against the fierce enemy who pounced.

This kind of small group cooperation operation was named "bull horn" by Gao Wen: the middle detachment and the stragglers who used Khitan fire stabilized the battle line, and the detachments on both sides either defended against the enemy in a roundabout way, or took the initiative to attack the enemy on the side, both offensive and defensive, which was really the only way to suppress the entanglement.

The Turkic teams, which were fiercely resisted by the "horns" everywhere on the front line, could not make any progress in the fierce exchange of blades and the flames and smoke emitted by the pyrotechnic guns and assault pipes, and after paying heavy losses, they retreated back into the wall of rejection.

The soldiers on the flag cart began to beat the brass drums, the whole siege party fluttered and danced its flags, Gawain's craftsmen and artillery troops were dispatched, they passed through the infantry array, and began to approach the position of the horse rejection wall and the trench, the front was the rushing cart with a large iron shield, followed by the red-handed five-pole cannon, some of the garrison soldiers who recognized this object, had already shouted in horror, many soldiers had begun to flee towards the city gates, and the rest of the dead ones continued to shoot defiantly behind the wall.

Under the pull, the swing arms of each five-pole cannon turned up and down, and they threw paper fires that were lit in advance with fuses, and countless paper fires were then overwhelmingly smashed against the city head and the fence, and the balls of flying fire exploded in the air, and the explosion was endless, and then the black, gray, and cyan smoke rose or sank, and soon formed a sheltering smoke belt along the city wall and the horse rejection wall, and the Turkic soldiers screamed, covering their eyes and skin, their clothes and armor burned white, crawling and rolling in the walls and on the ground. Created by Seleucia and Tarsus in a hurry, the paper fire was lightweight, had a long projectile distance, and was filled with many incendiary materials, poisons, and aerosols, as well as Cyprus lime, which was the most poisonous when it was thrown in the air.

"Lord Bey." Gemmaladin's eyes were almost smoky with the poisonous mist that flew in, and he shouted unwillingly, being pulled away from his post behind the fort by several slave soldiers.

"Keep shooting!" Melo and Branas, who were at the front of the battle, each led their guards on either side of the siege convoy, shouting to chop their swords.

The five-pole cannon continued to fire non-stop, but this rotation was replaced by iron fire and clay pot fire, and they exploded in the rejection wall, and all kinds of flames devoured the wooden fence, barracks, and sheds of the soldiers behind the wall, and the guards could no longer withstand the burning, poisonous mist, and lime smoke, and the fire opened violently, burning the city gate south of Kayseri, and the soldiers and people who were still insisting on the city head and gate tower were holding sandbags and water jugs like hot pot ants trying to extinguish the flames, and there was no time to shoot the attackers who forced back the city.

Many of the servants of Gawain's army, masking their faces with wet cloth towels, began to brave arrows, constantly throwing bundles of firewood wrapped in arson leather in the shallow waters of the moats, filling in the trenches, wielding pickaxes and pickaxes to dig a section of the horse wall, and then began to set up rolling logs. Soon, in the middle of the array, the soldiers of the large detachment of red hand pyriners pushed two made siege towers, smoked, crossed the trenches and the gaps in the horse rejection wall, and began to approach the high walls of the city wall from left to right.

Behind the burning fence, figures holding jugs of water were staggered, and bloody corpses lay horizontally by the side of the ballista, and the Turkic soldiers, who were still heroically resisting, began to take up the working ballistae and side crossbows, ready to fire at the approaching siege towers of the Gawain army.

The siege tower in front of them was in fact an upside-down sloping trapezoidal wooden tower: there was no barrier on the side facing the siege side, and the sloping planks that ran through the three-story tower formed a complete "ramp", and once it had pressed the wall, the firethrowers behind it could rush up the ramp and leap into the battlements and capture the Kayseri walls. (To be continued.) )