The Turkic servant immediately twisted the arrow feather with his fingers, drew the bowstring, and then with a sharp whistle, the light arrow painted vermilion "Woo Woo", like a red meteor tail, drew a striking and graceful arc in front of the battle line between the enemy and the enemy, and finally fell. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

About half a minute later, the soldiers of the Emperor's Immortal Army on the left flank, who had already rushed to the "convex" shaped fortress less than 200 feet, suddenly saw several carriage boards on the opposite side, and were suddenly pushed up by the push rod, and from the inside, several imposing copper clams and large hoops and iron stabs were pushed out one after another, and the "big mouth" was facing their formation, and there were sharp fire arrows filled with arrows in it, shaking slightly.

At the same time, at intervals in the central barricade, the face compartment was pushed open, and the slender muzzles of the black holes of the perfume bottles were also pushed out one after another, and in a brief silence they faced the Platyna's dismounted cavalry.

"Leave it alone, shoot as you approach and cover the Varangian soldiers behind you." Seeing this, Selilaruss waved his sword and waved his hand and shouted.

"Fight hard, warriors of God and Lord, pyrometers and grenadiers of the Patron of the Lord, warriors of Oghuz!" At this moment, behind the various compartments of the fortress and the tower, behind the earthen baskets, compartments, and bracket shields into which the dense arrows were shot, the firethrowers with umbrella-shaped feather helmets, the Oghuz volunteers with emerald feathers and white felt hats, and the border archers with semicircular iron helmets, all of them were behind the long and long fortress defense line, and with this shout, all of them stood up with shooting weapons in hand, especially on the "convex" barrier, many firethrowers stood there, holding their hands or waists against the iron guns, and a group of people were lifting the long black guns, There are curved wooden supports under the iron pipes, and there are fork frames made of birch or iron under them, and the shoulders are all set up with custom-made Khitan snow paper tubes, and in one hand he holds the two ends of the burning fire rope, one of which is clamped to the dog-headed iron tongs at the tail of the long gun......

"What, they're clearly a hundred and fifty feet away from us, so their guns can't shoot us!" In an instant, Selilarus was stunned, but he still couldn't believe it in his heart, and the soldiers of the Emperor's Immortal Army beside him also began to panic, some of them continued to carry the fire gun forward in the sound of the horn, and some saw the enemy archer who appeared condescendingly on the opposite car barrier, and began to stick the tail end of the hook halberd into the ground, set up his own fire gun, and messily raised the medicine pot, horns, and wooden barrels and began to fill them, and then pulled out the cane clamped on the hook and began to pound it, and prepared to continue to put the fire arrow into the mouth of the gun, and the sound was undulating for a while.

And on the barricade of Gawain's office, all the firethrowers' firearms were pre-loaded.

It had been resting behind the wagon's erected carriage planks, and dowels had been used to imitate the walls of the city wall, and a circle of small wooden sheds had been built, under which the soldiers could hide with their bodies low, and after firing, they could get up with their weapons from the intervals of the small wooden sheds, so as to avoid the damage of arrows and arrows.

In addition, the soldiers stationed at Gawain behind the barricade had already dug a rectangular pit four or five feet deep under the ground, and covered it with a flat scaffolding tent, in which the soldiers crouched, and the cover of the barricade and their own stone throwers could effectively avoid flying stones, and they jumped out of the pit in wartime and were stationed behind the carriages, which was very cheap.

Therefore, even if the emperor ascended to the posta, it was difficult to see with the naked eye how this low, semi-underground scaffolding differed from a normal tent. But in fact, such fortifications began to be used in the Roman siege of Alesia in the time of Caesar.

"Cast!" On a wooden tower in the center of the barricade, Leotius, the commander of the firethrowers, chopped down a small flag.

"At that time, all the soldiers on both sides of the enemy and us felt that Mount Etna had erupted in Sicily." Later Ander Odart. Nisitas writes so in the manuscripts of the annals.

Fire bolts, Persian perfume bottles, flying copper clams, double-sided rocket barrels, five-pole cannons, fire shells thrown by light artillery carts, and the mysterious long guns with a dog's head and copper hooks, almost immediately spewed out large and small flames, and the sound was really like a volcano suddenly erupting.

The whole ground between the barricades trembled, and even Artretis on the rearguard felt the earth under his boots shake violently, and his helmet buzzed, "The whole ground seemed to suddenly move three feet behind my feet, and I staggered, and I clung to my spear so that I would not fall, and my ears were deaf, and my throat could not help but vomit." Large groups of white 'Khitan clouds' rose thickly on two or three guli-long fronts at the same time, and countless brilliant and fierce 'fire wheels', 'fire lines', and 'fire balls' rushed out of the smoke, flew out for a full two hundred feet, ran over all the ground grass and trees, and exploded in the dense front line of imperial soldiers...... Then the wind blew and the smell of pungent and bloody, the smell of the devil, and I can imagine the blows and pains suffered by the comrades who were there at that moment that day, death, injuries, burns......"

The cloud of gunfire quickly twisted into a whole like a giant python fire dragon, floating on the battlefield, tumbling heavily, up and down, and the sound of thunder could be heard as far away as Ikonium or Afyon.

The lookout on Posta, the commander of the chariot tower, the emperor in the imperial camp, and many generals and lords could not see what was in front of them.

And the "remount" in the imperial camp, that is, the spare war horses, and the horses under the crotch of all the people, are manic and frightened.

But Alexios' face was pale, and he looked at Gawain standing on the earthen tower opposite him in the midst of the gunpowder clouds.

And Gawain was watching him there, and even if he couldn't see his face clearly, he could see his great royal flag very clearly.

The smoke gradually dissipated, and in front of the trenches and wooden fences under the convex ramparts, the commander of the Immortal Army, Celilarus, was hit by a few shots on his armor that he didn't know what it was, and blood flowed out, flowing in his chest and abdomen, but he instinctively knew that it was not a fatal wound - the Roman general's fine armor blocked most of the killing energy, and Celilarus lowered his head and did not see the feathers of arrows or crossbow arrows that had sunk into his body and armor, he fiddled with his gloves, and several twisted black lead pellets smoked and fell to his feet- What was shot out of the mysterious black iron long gun just now was something like this, can you shoot three or four very small "perfume bottles" in one shot?

But the situation of the rest of the Immortal Army soldiers around him was obviously not as lucky as his own, the ground was full of wounded soldiers who had been hit, the fire guns that had not had time to shoot out kept sticking to the ground and spewing sparks aimlessly, a few hook halberd brackets remained in place, moans and coughs were far and near, and it seemed that the number of people who had been injured was extremely large.

"Don't back down, get close and shoot bravely at it, throw your fire." In the smoke and flames, Selilarus raised his hand again and said to the Immortal Army and the soldiers of the Outer Palace Guard who continued to bravely move forward behind him. (To be continued.) )