"With light artillery, with bows and arrows, with firearms, stop them!" Feeling the danger, the defenders, in between the huge artillery bombardments, bravely rushed back to their positions, using a variety of long-range weapons in an attempt to achieve this goal. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Layers of guns and muzzles were laid behind the ruined wooden fence of the high earth platform, and with the orders of the new army's fifty-man commander (the grass-roots command of John's army still relied on the fifty-man commander), he looked at the trenches dug by the Guardian Army like a storm, stirring up large clouds of smoke.

Artretius, a common soldier in the Imperial Army, was captured on the battlefield of Ferromeron and incorporated into the Hierapolis Brigade, later promoted to the rank of centurion, and now stood beside him in the trenches with eleven miners and four brigade soldiers. They had stood in the middle of the longitudinal trench four feet deep, desperately shoveling and shoveling dirt with shovels and pickaxes, and stretching in the direction of the walls of Prussa.

In front of them and on either side of them were various ten-foot-long "rollers", the core of which was a basswood tree, on which were wrapped with branches, thorns, and iron hoops, and each time Artretis came with his men and miners to carry out the trench work, he would carry three of these "rollers", which he would first row on the top and sides of the trench, and then hide his head and body behind them.

"Bow down!" When Atretis heard the sound of the order coming from the high platform in the distance, and learned that the enemy was about to fire at them, he shouted twice, and everyone immediately crouched down with their tools, and then many fire arrows and projectiles poured on the drum, making a rapid and violent sound, and smoke and dust were splashed everywhere, and then one of the miners beside Atretis who had no time to dodge snorted, and fell to their feet with a crooked neck, and was hit by a stray bullet, and died.

This was almost the usual situation during this time, this was the seventh Tranzak miner that Artretis had seen tragically killed in battle, so he crouched in the trench and looked at the body of the seventh unfortunate miner, and the other party's eyes had not yet closed, staring blankly at the sky above it, the centurion's fingers trembled a little, and he took out a few dried saffron stigmas from the hanging bag of the armor shoulder strap, put them in his mouth and sniffed them violently, and then threw them between his tongue and teeth and chewed.

"The life of the miner......" Originally, Atretis was about to sigh in his heart, "What a humble sentence", but he swallowed it again, because it did not conform to reality.

Before leaving, the chief guarantor and all the senior generals summoned more than a thousand Tranzac miners and gave them a rich reward, saying that it was the reward for conquering the Laudisian Eagle Tower, and then tripled the salary during this time, which stimulated the group of people to scream, didn't they just hope that they would work like this?

The wolf-like howl interrupted Atretis's reverie, and suddenly a volley of artillery fire broke out from the Prussian fortress and the city gates, and they rushed together to seize and destroy the three trenches.

"Centurion, centurion!" Many voices cried in Atretis's ears, but the one, leaning against the edge of the trench, continued to chew the crocuses unhurriedly, waving his arms at his men, telling them to keep their bows down and not to move.

"Knock knock!" A series of explosions shook the soil in the trench and trembled, it was on the big turtle fortress on their side, all the light copper cannons fired in a salvo, all of them were preemptive, this is the usual tactic of the Weijiao army during this siege:

First destroy the cannons of the new army of Prussia with their cannons;

Then, with rollers, hoops, iron and wooden shields, and caravans as cover, the trenches were approached;

The enemy returned to the earthen platform to shoot and destroy, and the faster and more powerful artillery of the Weijiao military was deployed on the large turtle fortress, and constantly fired at it to counteract, or destroy, or expel it;

After the enemy was beaten back, Atretis, like him, continued to lead the trenches.

But after this artillery fire, Atretis climbed up the trench and was almost so frightened that he squirted saffron out of his mouth: after the smoke cleared, the soldiers of the new army of Prusa actually got up from their original prostrate position, and continued to pounce on them with shields and weapons.

After a few days of shelling, the new officers and men of Tetisius also learned that the shells could not be fired against the ground, and they simply fell down when they saw the sparks from the various gun positions on the big turtle rampart, let the shells grub over their heads, and then got up again and rushed forward.

On the battlefield of Prussa, strange tactics are changing with each passing day......

"The enemy will avoid the artillery, give me the battle." Shrill whistles blew everywhere in the trenches, "Weapons, weapons!" Atretis shouted with his iron helmet, only to be handed a pickaxe by the soldier next to him, "What's that?" ”

"All we have is this, centurion."

Atretis was stunned, grabbed the hoe sharply, and shouted, "Whoever helps me bury me right now will inherit my holy estate!" Take care of my hounds. As he spoke, he gritted his teeth, propped himself up, and faced the incoming enemy, picking at the dirt with one hand and waving his pickaxe with the other, ready to rush forward.

"Bang bang bang", in an instant, more than a dozen soldiers of the new army of Prussia who were the first in front of Atretis suddenly made a frantic jerk of their limbs, and the single layer of leather armor or pierced armor on their bodies cracked with the blood mist that exploded, and they fell to the ground in various postures.

Atretis looked back at the open ground behind the trench, several caravans with battle flags rumbling, wheels rolling, projectiles and arrow marks on the raised compartments, and several border soldiers behind them holding hot perfume bottles and shrimp whisker cannons, from which the shotguns that had killed and wounded the group of enemies had been sprayed. There were also people who raised their bows and continued to shoot arrows on it, and in the gaps and behind the vehicles, followed by groups of border people, archers and red hand infantrymen, slowly advancing and shooting.

The new army of Prussia, which was counterattacked by the chariot formation, was overturned by the light artillery in the caravan one after another in the front rows, or was killed by the long guns of the shooting army, and the rest of the men could only scatter in a hurry, fleeing behind the earthen ramparts and the city walls.

The trench was safe, and Atretis was glad that he was not injured, and the wagons stopped when they reached the edge of the trench he had dug, and the miner's body was pulled up, and a centurion of the frontier who was standing between the carriages holding a command flag poked his head out and shouted condescendingly to Atretis, "We will immediately set up a barricade behind you to cover the group, and you will continue to dig forward without stopping." ”

In the afternoon, more wagons were pushed here, filled with gabions, earthen baskets, and wooden stakes, and perfume bottle cannons, flying fire copper clams, and shrimp whisker cannons were also erected in the rear, forming a new siege front, not far from the opponent's bulk!

Soon in the tent, Gawain and Anna received good news from the island of Cyprus: the magistrate of Androdart, who had led the army alone for the second time, still performed well, not only holding Fort Kyrenia, but also defeating the army of Apsomates many times, and actually occupied the whole of Paphos.