The company fired stone cannons, and it took Theodoro hundreds of soldiers to repair them. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The next day it crouched like a monster on the convex rock that could be seen on the inner pheasant moat, staring at the gates and towers, and by tomorrow it would shoot deadly stone pellets.

Eight hundred defenders were in despair. Their officers surrounded Theognes and Breptus and asked vehemently, "Why haven't the reinforcements of the Great Patron arrived?"

"If we put our hopes entirely on reinforcements, we will lose. Look at the current stone cannon, what if Gawain's reinforcements arrive tomorrow afternoon, and the enemy breaches it in the morning? Is it worth it for us to die? In plain language, Diognis pointed in the direction of the city gate and said to the group, "Remember, we are here not to obtain Gawain's reward, but to seek the justice that the Roman ruler deserves from His Majesty the Emperor, who died in vain!" ”

"But how exactly are we going to hold this place? After all, flesh and blood can't resist the flying stone bullets. The officers were hesitant and hesitant.

"Are there any horses in the city?" The catcher asked.

"There are three horses left in the stable."

"Give it to me, I'll try to destroy that Theodoro's stone cannon." The captor's tone was firm.

"Let me go." Deputy Bleptos hurriedly said.

The commander dissuaded him, and everyone else, "I'll go, and if I die in battle, I'll give Bleptus the decision to surrender to Bellasburg, and as for the corpses...... It doesn't matter, if my wife is not executed by the new emperor, I will ask you to help me in the future. ”

In the camp under the Anglasburg, the old general Theodoro looked triumphantly at the stone cannon on the mountain rock, raised his horsewhip and once again introduced his proud deployment to his subordinates and Tetisius who came to watch the battle, "The technology of the Persians and the craftsmen of Trabzon will be invincible when combined. Tomorrow we can break here, as long as we occupy Anglas, what if Gawain comes to attack? His realm is surrounded by enemies, and together we are more than 30,000 people, and as long as I continue to entrust my command, I will be able to withstand Gawain with the Sakarya River and this fortress. This is the real and down-to-earth step of His Majesty's counteroffensive of the Emperor, and this is the true gospel of the Roman Empire. ”

"I was near Caesarea before, and what I saw was undoubtedly Gawain's number one ace brigade." Tetisius was a little worried.

"My Tuma division is not inferior to his brigade at all, and even surpasses it. This has been demonstrated in the previous campaign of Paphragonia. The old general is still reveling in the battle of years ago, "Not to mention the fact that I have the help of Georgian, Alan and Rus soldiers in this battle, this group of people is the best warrior in the world, if Gawain comes, how can I have to fight him again!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, several heralds galloped down from the besieged positions on the rocks and came to the old general and Tetisius to pray, "The enemy asks for surrender. ”

Theodoro laughed, with a look of course, "Asking Theognes to send an envoy to meet me, the time is very limited. ”

At the inner city wall, the gates slowly opened, and Theognes, wearing a helmet to cover people's ears, rode a slowly walking horse, followed by vigilant guards, and the passage between the two besieging towers on the periphery was also lined with Trabzon peasant soldiers with weapons in hand.

As soon as the horse's hooves walked ten feet outside the city gate, the heavy gate of hoops and iron behind was quickly pushed shut and covered.

"I'm an envoy, please guide my horses to the camp of the Great Leader of the Empire." Theognes changed his voice, and in his hand he held a spear with a letter tied to the blade, which shook in the eyes of the Trabzon peasants.

"Dismount, and walk to the chief's tent." Several Trabzon peasants stepped forward to pull the horse.

"That's not going to work, I have to ride a horse and deliver the letter to the chief myself." Diognis did not give up.

"Get off the horse!" Those peasant soldiers are going to come strongly.

In a moment's time, Theognes saw the stone cannons on the rock, around which a group of craftsmen were polishing piles of stone bullets.

At this time, the Trabzon peasant soldiers also noticed the gaze of the envoy, and seemed to be throwing it at the stone shooting cannon behind it, which was about four hundred feet away from here, and was lined up with large wooden shields against arrows in front of it.

"What are you going to do!" A peasant soldier shouted.

As a result, Theognes's spear blade stabbed forward, and the peasant soldier's dome was instantly stabbed into two pieces, and his head was pierced.

Then Theognes drew his spear in a hurry, and with a swing of his hand, swept over another approaching peasant with the shaft of his spear, and then he fell down in the saddle, and with both hands he held the spear in a straight line, and rushed over the other two or three peasants who stood in front of him, and ran straight for the stone-shooting cannon.

Behind the walls of the inner city, many of the guards shouted and stood up, and shot a torrential of burning arrows at the lower rows, and for a time many rockets flew behind the guards, and continued to rush forward with spears, and in the confusion he continued to shout, "I am a military envoy, get out of the way, I will send the letter to the camp of the chief chief." ”

Along the way, more and more enemy peasants pounced, and they shot arrows at Theognes' mount, trying to kill the warhorse on which the captor relied on, but this time Theognes' horse was covered with face armor, chicken neck armor and front bell horse coat, and many arrows bent and flew in front of the sturdy waistcoat, and Theognis shouted and stabbed with spears left and right, and pierced several people, and at this time he was less than fifty feet away from the stone cannon, and the Cappadocian steed under his crotch was fed with food before, and his energy was galloping, and he crossed several wooden fences in succession. But there are more and more enemies surrounding them.

Theognes rose from his saddle and threw the spear in his hand, and with a cry of lightning bolted, it pierced into the wooden frame of the stone cannon. Then the catcher lifted his robe from the wrestling horse, where he held three clay pots with ropes, which were rapidly burning, and Theognes grabbed the ropes, threw them around his arm, and then smashed them out when there were still stars left.

A huge flaming flower bloomed on the wooden frame of the cannon, followed by a second and third, and many ropes hanging from the huge cannons were burned by the roots, and quickly spread towards the main body. The craftsmen and soldiers screamed and scattered, and Theognes was struck twice by arrows, and fell back on his saddle in pain, and fled back to his own gate.

"What the hell is going on!" At the foot of the rock, after watching the stone-shooting cannon he had painstakingly built turn into a ball of fireworks that grew more and more vigorous, Theodoro angrily threw the horsewhip in his hand under his crimson boots and cursed.

Diognis' clay pot was filled with light oil from the "oil wells" on the border of Greater Armenia, which burned most rapidly and violently, and could not be extinguished.