Chapter 12: Mount Suwari

At this moment, the camps under Karles were extremely noisy, and everywhere there were people leading horses to run, and one of the scouts rode on sweaty horses, and their faces under their helmets were obscured by black shadows, and they galloped past with their teeth bared, and ran and shouted in the direction of the wooden tower of Jimburg, which controlled the streets, "It is forbidden to make any disturbance in the outer fort, and it is forbidden to move any outer fort, and it is forbidden to hold it here!" After saying that, he rushed to the north with the rapid cry of Gedagda. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Hearing this, Diognis turned his eyes to the north following the figure of the scout cavalry—the Jim Fort he was in was on the west bank of the Kars River, and it happened to be obscured by the high and steep cliffs below the main fort, and it was impossible to directly see the camp of the builder David further north.

But the Catcher had always been well versed in the terrain, and when he had taken the recruitment examination in the square in front of the Church of the Holy Apostles, he had memorized all the hills, roads, and streams that surrounded it, and it was not bad at all—"But I have not yet seen the shape of the main castle of Cals, and I cannot leave it yet." ”

In fact, although General Mahad Zeri hired him, it was impossible to be overly relieved by this group of mercenaries of unknown origin, so Mahad Zeri has always been stationed in the main fort with his direct guards and rarely appeared, and only handed over some small forts outside the city walls to the mercenaries to defend, the purpose is very simple: when the cannon fodder of the Gawain siege team is used, even if the mercenaries mutinate, they will not be able to jeopardize the core defense of Kars Castle.

While the Catchers were pondering how to infiltrate the main fort, Gawain's first besieging army, the Defenders' Brigade, had already begun to storm a hill called Suwari from the south of the Kars River.

The sound of the rumbling perfume bottles and the rapid-fire of the cannons reached from far and near to the Jim Fort, about a thousand miles away: because the river bent here and faced the Suwari Mountains.

Inside the small fort, more and more soldiers gathered around the silent captors, some of them natives of the Iberian Military Region, some of them Turkmen begging for a living, carrying a variety of weapons, and silently looking at the Suvari Mountains, which were shrouded in light and smoke from the artillery—there was also a small outpost wooden fort, and there were fifty garrisoned mercenaries in it, and it seemed that there was more than enough luck in such an offensive.

As the so-called:

The gunners and men of the artillery regiment of the Tarsus Guardian Army can count the stars of the vast universe during the day with the naked eye, and any civil target that is included in the field of vision has been sealed with death, even if they try their best to solve it, it is difficult to escape the miserable fate of turning into powder.

Actual combat has proved that within the sight of the Tarsus Artillery Regiment, the terrifying rate of fire and astonishing destructive power of the unparalleled artifact Persian long perfume bottle with wheels, and the naked eye blindly aiming at the fate and then correcting is the best way to project and destroy the enemy, which fully confirms the foresight of the R&D craftsmen of the Seleucian Ordnance Division, and is indeed the supreme glory of the Syrian craftsmen who are actively enterprising and innovative.

On this day, the battle of Mount Suwari was in the dark twilight, and the cast iron and grinding stone projectiles that rained like a rain of angry sea had become an eternal nightmare haunting the minds of the ignorant and backward Karls mercenaries.

The combination of the extinction lethality of its projectiles and the superb technical and tactical literacy of the gunners has made the Tarsus Artillery Regiment invincible and invincible, and the clusters of fireworks rising from the muzzles of the guns turned into a lamp to send the Kars mercenaries to Ajieh Hell for baptism, and the lights of the Caron ferries of repentance illuminate the dark and obscure spiritual abyss of every Kars mercenary.

In the middle of the night, sure enough, only a few bloodied remnants of the Suwari Hill escaped, groaning and lying under the hills of Fort Jim, and when they were dragged in, they kept saying to "Vasak", "Don't resist in the future, it's terrible." Stoneshooters, crossbows, and thunder cannons have destroyed our fortress almost instantly, and we have come to be mercenaries, but the castle of Kars will certainly not accept us, and it will only be in vain. ”

As a result, the morale of the dozens of soldiers in the fort fluctuated greatly, and they eagerly asked Vasak (Diognis): "Let's surrender!" ”

Diognis took two steps back and forth, and then said to everyone resolutely, "No, tomorrow I will fight myself when the banner is raised, and I will stop the enemy's progress." ”

Before he knew it, the commander found that he was lying, and his face was not red and his heart was not beating, which provoked him to confess for a long time in front of the small icon painting that night, and his soldiers were puzzled, and thought that he was praying for the glory of tomorrow's battle, and they could not help but admire it very much.

The next day, the Guardian Brigade with the golden ** banner continued the attack with the spirit of a full detachment (the second detachment of Fort Kyrenia had been established), and the ranks of infantry and artillery detachments covered the entire Suwari Hills, and the medals on the helmets, armor and shoulder straps of the soldiers, the blades of spears and guns that shook in the sun glowed a little in the sun, and with the beat of drums, flutes and trumpets, the murderous soldiers divided into two ways - one crossed the river to kill Fort Jim, and the soldiers of the other road lined up in horizontal formations, each team was about thirty or forty feet apart and slowly moved forward. From time to time, the firing corps in front stopped, shot out rows of deafening gunsmoke, and began to gradually sweep away the villages, roads, and barracks south of Karlsburg.

The guards at Fort Jim saw with their own eyes that in the woods of a village on the other road, a group of mercenaries from nowhere shouted and rushed out to attack the line of the Guardian Brigade, but they were all shot by the long sword before they could get close, and this situation was really unstoppable.

However, Diognis did not show any panic, he raised a small colored flag, and then ordered the whole fort to fight to the death.

Branas, who was overseeing the battle on the Suwari hills, soon saw the small bunting of independence and summoned the herald, "Tell all the detachments on the left to attack the little fort according to a specific plan; The detachment and artillery detachment on the right continued to approach Calsburg in a forward direction, and the attached cavalry covered the artisans and slaves to erect the Great Plani Cannon. ”

In the end, the left flank surrounded Fort Jim, with a full detachment of spearmen, and about 200 marksmen and archers, corresponding to no more than forty men under the fort Diognis, and seven of them escaped after the battle.

"Don't run!" - "Vasak", who was standing on the wooden tower, stretched out his hand and shouted to the seven guys who were crawling out in a row, but it was too late, and the firing corps of the Left Route Army of the Guardian Brigade was divided into several rows, and after several rounds of fire, the seven deserters were all shot in the back, fell into the splashing Karls River (not deep), and never moved again.