Chapter 18: Behind the Scenes
"Go to ......" The guard was in a flash of lightning, his hand was suddenly released, the bowstring flicked, and the head of the first arrow spun rapidly through the hall of the stone tower, and lightning pierced the back of the neck of one of the guard's warriors on the far side, and the other party knelt down without saying a word, and then shook twice, and fell to the ground. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
At the moment, the other seven were still engrossed in staring at Simon, and they still thought that the catcher would hide there under the steps, or behind the sluice, so they did not notice the first unlucky companion for the time being.
The catcher turned, quickly re-mounted the arrow, and then strode out, stretched out his long arms, and flew another arrow, which passed through the side of several guards and samurai, and shot the one standing at the front of the west gate of the hall, and the other party screamed, and scratched the back of the arrow with trembling hands, and slowly fell to the ground, and the rest of the people were also frightened.
At this time, the guard took the opportunity to shout in Armenian, "Get out of the way, someone is shooting us in the shadows behind!" With that, he bowed his head in chain mail, blended in with the crowd, grabbed the first man who had been hit by the arrow, half-lifted him up like his comrade, and pointed sharply at the entrance of the stone tower, "There it is, from where the arrows are shot." ”
The remaining six people were in a panic and could not figure out how many people were present, so they turned around in the direction pointed by the guard and stretched their bows and shields in the opposite direction.
"There, shoot fast!" The catcher suddenly shouted again, as if he were giving orders.
The three archers in the guard shouted nervously, and they fired their arrows at the entrance of the stone tower, only to find that it was nothing more than a stone lion statue on the handrail of the door.
At this moment, the guard stood up, limped his hind feet, drew his bow and shot arrows like lightning, and immediately shot a shield man from the back.
"Run, there is more than one enemy, and there are arrows shooting here!" He continued to shout.
At this moment, the remaining five people roared, and no matter what the situation was, they all ran towards the entrance of the stone tower with their lives.
The catcher shot the three remaining arrows from the arrows in one fell swoop, and one by one they sank into their backs, and the three who were hit by the arrows fell into the hall almost simultaneously, and the last two fled wildly. In the end, the guard officer, who had no arrows, pulled out the arrows from the corpses of the two enemies who were the first to be shot, and another arrow hit the famous guard warrior who had just run out of the stone tower gate, and the guy was hit by an arrow in the back of the waist, and rolled down the multi-level stone steps screaming.
The last one who was lucky was also rolling down the steps with his head in his hands, accompanied by a devilish wail.
"What's going on!" Mahad Zeri, who saw this scene on the opposite gate tower, was furious and puzzled.
And in the light at the west gate of the stone tower hall, the guard stood alone, surrounded by darkness, looking at six corpses from his feet, straight down the middle of the hall, and he was still holding a mulberry bow, and there was still an arrow left on the string.
The arrow then swished and hit the lamp hanging in the hall, "Thank you for the mulberry bow you gave me, General Mahadzeri." And Mushge, as I said, I would shoot all the arrows (Mushg was really captured at this point). Now I know exactly what Carlsburg is doing. ”
There was no more Vassac, and Diognis, who had recovered his identity, threw down his bow, climbed down the sluice gate on the west side of the fort like an ape, jumped into the Kars River, and swam towards the Red Hand Brigade position in the Basilica of the Holy Apostles.
Two days later, Diognis had made a sand table of the walls, gates, and towers of the main castle of Karls out of ash and fine wood in the scarlet tent, and said to Gawain, "The main fort is an irregular quadrangle, the north gate is the main gate, and the west sluice gate and the cliffs and rivers have a path that is submerged among the rocks to climb." ”
"Be bold and speak your mind."
The catcher pointed to the sand table model with his finger, "Immediately let the two brigades that have captured the southern slope and the eastern sentry fort set up their equipment and artillery to storm the east gate of the carsburg." There were only seven or eight hundred of the city's defenders left unwounded, and it stands to reason that with the multi-layered stone walls and abundant supplies, Mahadzeri could hold out for a while, but I would lead the raiders to the path at the corner of the west and north gates, and climb up while he was overwhelmed, and take the main fort of Cals. ”
"How many people do you want?"
"Thirty to sixty, but give me the best warriors."
"No problem, I'll be selected from the Gmagis and the Red Hand Brigade right away." After Gawain finished speaking, he looked at the captor Diognes and stretched out his big hand, "After you succeed, you will raise the flag and call the trumpet, and Branas and I will do our best to deal with you in different directions - Diognes, just like we did with pirates in the first place, and the cooperation will be seamless!" ”
The captor paused for a while, and then fought Gawain with his backhand, "But this time there is no more Tetisius as a criminal murderer, sooner or later I will kill him with my own hands." ”
In the days that followed, the Defender Brigade and the Bellerophon Brigade, which had surrounded the isolated corner of the main fort of Karls on the mountain, converted the nearest outpost fort near the east gate into a fort, laid a plank road along the southern slope and smeared it with butter, and then dragged a precious cast bronze fire bear cannon up the ridge at an altitude of 700 feet above sea level and erected it behind the new fort!
The Bear cannon began to fire, and the disassembled Great Plani Cannon was brought up and reassembled, throwing heavy stones at the Karlsburg.
But even so, Mahadzeri remained calm and tenacious, vowing to defend to the end. Anyway, the besieging side also used this fire bear cannon that destroyed the city wall, so he mobilized his soldiers, and as soon as there was a gap in the city wall, he took advantage of the night and the firing interval to repair it in time, so that he actually resisted for four or five days.
The town of Chiarte on the Eastern Front, Haddadi. The Sylvan coalition continued to confront the troops of General Zacharias, especially the allied musketeers, who seemed to feel that Khitan Snow and Lead Pellet did not need money, and they were shooting endlessly all day long.
In the midst of this burst of fire, David, the builder of Chakmak Hill, unfurled his long-awaited parchment letter, on which was written by General Theodoro, and arrived by the best riders of Trabzon, "I have heard that the rebel Gawain led the people to take Cals, but the city fell into a stalemate, so I discarded Amasya and ran along the mountain road of Chardia with six thousand elites in the orthodox army, and it was planned to appear behind the traitor Gawain on April 20 (perhaps one or two days sooner), when you and I launched a decisive battle and attacked Gawain, There is hope for such a revival of the empire. ”
David, the builder who received such a message, was excited, "All the army, prepare for a decisive battle!" ”
Almost at the same time, Gawain received a letter from Earl Merlot in the tent, "Theodoro has suddenly abandoned the empty city of Amasia, and some of them have retreated to the Gate of New Caesarea, while the rest seem to have hurried eastward along the border between Chardia and Erzurum." ”
Gawain immediately stood up with the letter in his hand, sweat dripping from his forehead, "I actually failed to contain Theodoro...... It seems that this old general has finally learned the new principle of abandoning the city and maneuvering the decisive battle. Depending on the time lapse, Theodoro's team may be less than two days away......"