Three large Plani cannons are aimed at the city of Castabara, and this "five-pole stone thrower" is a new weapon made by the small sunfish, it has five swing arms at the same time can be pulled by the cable to eject, the range is short, the stone projectile is small, but the five together to throw and smash, the pursuit is the effect of "face killing", the lower end does not use wheels, only need to be temporarily built, the material and process difficulty is not large, and the rural water equipment is not much gap, especially suitable for large-scale manufacturing, resulting in the advantage of quantity, to deal with such a camping fortification in front of you. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

What broke Golpan's heart even more was that the five-pole stone throwing machine in front of him was used by Gawain's soldiers and artillery players to try it out - because the number of dragging hands was insufficient, Gawain agreed to send a large number of soldiers, military servants and even Armenian prisoners to control it. However, this group of people was not trained enough, and their hands and feet were inevitably uneven when pulling the rope, so after the five stone bullets were thrown into the air, they lost their heads and flew around. Anselm and Gorpan both saw that two of them had smashed into the trench, one had rolled and smashed a section of the wooden fence on the periphery of the camp, and two had flown over the heads of the people in the camp, and there was a dull noise and a mist of blood, and the Armenian soldiers ran in amazement, and about a mule and two men were killed, and their bodies were smashed to the ground by two stone bullets, and red blood oozed from the sides of the eroded limbs.

After the monks of the Apostolic Church were pulled away, Gawain stepped on a distant earthen rampart so that all the gunners and soldiers could see him, "It's okay, while throwing practice, the accuracy will get better and better." The Armenian captives sharpened stone bullets there, and each stone bullet was rewarded with coins and food. Now that the peace talks have broken down, everyone does not have to be soft on the projectile, and from now on, all the five-pole stone throwing machines will not stop, grinding stone bullets, and pulling ropes. ”

"Grinding stone bullets, pulling ropes!" After hearing the Grand Duke's words, the flag officers and gunners were excited, and everyone knew that during the previous battle at Alarmanburg, the gunner of a certain large Prani cannon shot and killed Sero. Callegos was rewarded handsomely, even if the honor was insufficient, but it was much safer to kill the enemy with stone bullets from a distance than to fight the enemy with swords and shields on the battlefield.

Soon such shouts resounded one after another throughout the siege position, and under the guidance of the "gray-haired Grim Reaper" Agnes and the rest of the gunners, the Guimagis Brigade in the north and the Red Hand Brigade in the southwest set up a full twenty five-pole stone throwers, and even Richard also "followed suit" and made eight that could shoot.

In the following time, more than 30 stone throwers, from several directions, as long as the day began, without interruption, threw raindrops of stone bullets into the camp, with the increase of "proficiency", the temporary artillery of Gawain's army also began to be able to hit accurately, they could be under the command of the artillery man, very tacitly neatly pull the rope and shoot, Ruben camping was covered with dead and wounded, blood flowed all over the trench - 6,000 soldiers, plus thousands of people, were trapped in this narrow camp, once the overwhelming stone bullets whistled down, there was no place to hideSoon the tents were almost completely smashed, and the cattle who lacked food began to disobey the order, and could not bear this death threat, so they broke free from the reins and began to trample around, and the helpless soldiers could only slaughter them one by one, and then divide the meat to eat, but then Agnes and Anderodat commanded the men to dig all the canals leading to the camp, so that the soldiers of Reuben's army could not have boiled meat to eat, and finally Reuben's command could only quench their thirst by collecting rainwater, or drinking the blood of animals, and the whole situation was even more miserable and embarrassing.

Such a wanton bombardment lasted for more than ten days, the number of fleeing casualties increased day by day, and Reuben's originally beautiful camp tent was gone, and it was wiped out on the first day of the ejection in Gao Wenzhong, and now his close servants dug a pit in the camp, which was supported with wooden frames and leather, and covered with earth to counteract the power of the stone bullets, in short, Prince Ruben returned to the "cave life" to some extent, and dozens of other Armenian nobles also followed suit, The prince's cave is surrounded by dense small caves with artillery, and everyone is next to each other, like a group of egg-laying lizards hugging each other to keep warm.

In the cave, in the midst of the falling mud and dust, Reuben's face was covered with dust and stubble, and he fell on the couch in despair, rolling his godless eyes, full of infinite anger and despair, and there was a corpse lying close to him, his flesh and blood blurred, which had just been smashed to death by a stone projectile that had penetrated the leather roof today, and had not yet had time to rein, or to put it bluntly, there was no one engaged in this matter, "There are far more dead and collapsed people now than the living and sober." ”

Just yesterday, Prince Ruben organized an infrastructural assault: he drove the forced people, dressed in the armor of soldiers, and frantically broke through to the north, while he himself took the opportunity to charge the city of Castabala on the west side with four hundred elites - but Gawain's red hand cavalry reacted too quickly, and as soon as Ruben captured two earthen ramparts, fifty cavalry appeared on his flanks (just in the periphery, returning from the captivity), and he did not hesitate to launch a surprise attack when he saw this group of Armenians. Ruben fled alone, and most of the 400 soldiers were killed, and their bodies were beheaded and thrown all over the fence.

Then Prince Ruben began to fluctuate in his spirit, and he sometimes scolded Gawain and Bohemond for being vile and shameless, and taking advantage of his coveting of Samosata to set a trap; sometimes angrily reprimanded Gorpin, scolding him for being greedy for life and afraid of death, and most of them abandoned his mission and defected to Gawain; From time to time, he complained about the Emperor of Constantinople, who may have known the situation, but still deceived and acquiesced in his army.

At the same time, he scolded the Pope, and also scolded Patriarch Antiochus, and scolded ......

In short, everyone around him understood that the prince had completely collapsed, but he did not allow his nobles and officers to surrender, and the prince had to carry a guard every day, taking advantage of the interval between the bombardments of Gawain's stone throwers (usually after the stone bullets were exhausted) to patrol the camp, and find some excuse to wantonly execute the nobles and soldiers in order to kill Liwei.

Then Gawain's striking ceased: the prince took his sword again, and went out to patrol the camp in his dirty robes, and it began to rain again, as was common in the early winter of Cilicia, and the prince walked out of the shelter with his boots unworn, and barefoot in the ditch that was constantly filled with mud and rainwater. Then in front of him was a huge field of silt, and under the gloomy clouds, many soldiers in the rain were lying in the mud, and the colorful tent felt cloth was torn all over the ground, some of them were wrapped in soldiers, some of them were used to prop up a small tent to make a fire, and the trenches were covered with gray corpses of men and animals, soaked and swollen, and the stone projectiles thrown into them smashed into pits, and dung, flesh, and all kinds of strange smells, which were smoked into the prince's brain.

"Look, the valiant prince is out again."

"Of course, every time the enemy's stone bullets are poured, he will come out on time." A small group of soldiers nestled together, looking at the prince with a scepter and trying to pretend to be a spirit, with cold and hateful eyes, and whispered sarcastically. (To be continued.) )