Chapter 94: Prelude
When Gawain quietly read out the names of the people on the "list of sinners" in one breath, Brenus under the side of the banner was really mixed in his heart. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although Brenus has limited abilities, he is not stupid.
He knew what the mystery in Gawain's list was, and in addition to what should have been, there were two subtle characters in it, one was that the patriarch Maastas was actually declared the "mastermind", and there was also the head of the stable, Mikhail, who had an ambiguous attitude and position. Nestas.
But Brenus didn't say anything, he led 4,000 newly incorporated "Lydian Border People's Army", responsible for the task of attacking the eastern wall, because of the limited time, this group of soldiers almost adopted the traditional formation and equipment, no caravans and no artillery, anyway, Gawain just wanted him to take charge of the flank attack.
If it weren't for Gawain's departure and return, I'm afraid that these four thousand people would not have called him to command, and eighty percent would have been handed over to that Branas.
"Generals, take your place. The two cannons beside me will fire at intervals in the moment of accuracy. Take this as a signal to strike at the walls of Prusa, crush its walls, storm its half-moon ramparts, and rush into its belly. Gentlemen, may we drink the wine of victory on the shores of the Marimara Sea and celebrate the capture alive of the bandit chief Tetisius! When the speech and the announcement of the end of the list were over, Gawain put his hand down and gave the order to prepare for a general attack.
The commanders of the five brigades and nearly 10,000 border residents received all of them, and then walked down the big turtle fortress lined with flags and went to their respective posts in the trenches, car bases, and artillery emplacements.
After a while, Anna in full costume walked out of the tent, and she herself gave the order for the general attack, for the city of Prusa was to be overturned in her pink hands.
In the light of the day, Anna holds a beautiful new round astrolabe, facing the majestic position below, which is actually a "mechanical clock" specially made for the tyrant Caesar. After all, Gawain and Anna are more concerned about the passage of time than their contemporaries, and they are more eager for the accuracy of time than their contemporaries.
At the end of the astrolabe in Anna's hand, there was a hammer that fell slowly and at a constant speed, and there was a ring-shaped container containing mercury in it to control it, and then the hammer precisely drove the pointer on the astrolabe to rotate in the area of the twelve star palaces, and when it finally arrived in the Cancer Palace, "Gawain, you can start." Anna fluttered her eyelashes with some excitement as she uttered the words.
Under the plausible fortress of Plausa, Atretis with his helmet in the middle of the trench felt the earth around him shift, and then he heard two very long and sharp shellings, and all the soldiers behind him opened their mouths wide and their noses wrinkled to adapt to this terrible howl—all the soldiers besieging and defending the city clearly saw that two cannonballs like red giant stars were fired from the great turtle fortress, and then shook the ground on the southeast corner tower of Prussa!
This is the signal of a total attack.
"Lord, help me to do my best!"
"Hallelujah, Hallelujah!"
"The Three Saints guide us!"
"The sword of the god Shamkh Saud has descended!"
"Hit the Sea of Marimara and capture Tetisius alive!"
Almost at the same moment, under the two walls of Prussa, thousands of Tarsus Guards raised the banners of their respective ranks, and let out the roar that shook the earth, almost mixed with all kinds of faith, but with such a unified pace.
"Rush, rush, fill it in for me!" Artretis stood up and swung his arms behind the dog's foot fence, and a great multitude of miners, men, and lightly armed soldiers climbed in a row over his breastwork, barely armed except for a few round shields, but each of them carried two utensils behind him, one a bale of hay and the other a bundle of branches, which rained down and threw them into the wide moat of the wall of Prussa, and some of them pulled up the dog's foot wood and threw it down to smooth the passage to the half-moon fortress.
After a brief silence, all sorts of shots exploded like thunderbolts, and began to flicker on the high earthen ramparts, which were the brave soldiers who had stood there, and continued to fight to the death in their respective posts, with firearms, fire arrows, crossbow arrows, and large areas of fire raindrops pouring down.
Many of the miners were shot like hedgehogs from their shields, and many more were shot in the body, burning their limbs, screaming and falling into the trenches. But the people behind continued to press forward along the trench, braving the rain of bullets, and the sound of whistles, flutes, and trumpets was deafening.
The soldiers of the Marksmen and the archers of Oghuz and Komaroy who were taking cover in the two ravines stood up one after another, and the long guns and bows were like a dense forest that suddenly emerged from the ground, and the smoke of the rain burst apart little by little over the entire besieged position, and countless arrows were thrown from all directions into the nodules and the rest of the ramparts of the wall.
Artretis soon saw that a large number of guards, armed with arrows or wounded, were tumbling down the slope of the ramparts, and in the wide trenches were piled up with the corpses of soldiers on both sides, in addition to bales of straw and firewood.
"Kaon, Kaon!" Heart-rending shouts rang out.
This is the command for a salvo of light and heavy mortars, and "kaon" is the original name for cannon in Greek, and later became more familiar as "canon" after Latinization.
Frightened, Atretis and the officers and soldiers next to him hurriedly fell back behind the breastwork.
Immediately the entire horizon trembled.
The three heavy mortars were first propped up by the gunners with push rods to open the bulletproof suspension, aiming the giant muzzle at the target, and then double the Khitan snow medicine package was stuffed into the chamber, and the Khitan snow at this moment has been improved, using the wet sieve method to form granular gunpowder, which ignites and bursts more effectively and quickly, greatly reducing the danger of exploding.
Later, the projectile, which was much heavier than the light cannon, was pushed into it by the projectile rod, and the first shot was cast iron and covered with cork trays to better fit the "clearance" (the gap between the shell and the muzzle), which alone was worth ten soldiers' salaries.
"Shoot!"
"Ahh Even Anna, who was far away on the big turtle fortress to supervise the battle, was frightened - on the position of more than 200 feet, the butt of the heavy mortar cannon smashed out a large cloud of smoke and dust, and the air waves and fireworks sprayed out of the mouth rose sharply, and then the tumbling cast iron cannonballs swirled, and the broken wooden supports were scattered in the air.
Then she saw that the fortifications, men, and weapons of the defenders had been smashed into powder by the mortar shells that fell in the arc, and that large chunks of wood and earth had collapsed, and that they had submerged the wide trench beneath them like a raging flood.
This was the result of farsightedness, and Atretis, who was close by, felt that it was his ears that were shaking his flesh, and the feeling of nausea and suffocation continued to surge down his chest, and at this time the sound of the horn of the charge was no longer heard by most people, because they were in a state of deafness for a short time.
So he waved the tongue of fire flag in his hand.