At this moment, after weaving the twig bags and planks, Tanegfrey, Baldwin, and the knight sergeants beside them also put on their helmets and buckled their noses, raised their swords and axes, and then there was a nervous and heavy breathing everywhere. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Don't rush, Baldwin - are all the bags in the back ready?" Godfrey asked his brother calmly.

"All ready, ready to wait for your orders."

Godfrey saw through the light through the cracks in the planks that the guards under the towers on the other side were shouting, and on the cardinal's wooden frame were spinning their ballista, on which were the same hollow trunks as before, and on them were still densely covered with iron pestles and iron spikes, which were burning, and in a short time they were aiming at the siege tower where they were.

"Pray, pray to the Lord who can do all." Godfrey closed his eyes and began to pray.

The stones thrown by the stone throwers and ballistas of the defenders and besiegers around the city kept smashing violently on the battlements, trying to break people's hearts. The bloody battle was imminent, and with the Duke's command, everyone also folded their palms and touched their chests and silently prayed for the mercy of the Lord: even though Joselan had planned and prepared for how to deal with the large tree trunk that shot at him, the real situation was unknown.

In the previous attack, Godfrey had survived by evacuating the siege tower, but this time they were not prepared to retreat, which meant that there were two possible outcomes: one was success, they could then jump out of the siege tower, occupy the tower in front of them and the surrounding city walls, and guide more pilgrims to storm the city and reclaim the Lord's tomb; The second is the success of the defenders - the burning trunk will burn down the tower, and Godfrey, Baldwin, Robert, and other leaders will not be spared, and they will all be burned alive wearing heavy armor.

In that case, the crusade against the Holy City would have ended in a complete fiasco.

It was really a time to fight for your life, and the sound of the noose on the ballista seemed to be heard by Godfrey praying.

"Launch!" All the Turks and Saracens howled in unison, and the large trunk flew out of the ballista cannon with a powerful catapult, sweeping through the entire defensive wall with fire and smoke, and a ball of fire burst into the siege tower.

All the characters in the meantime, as if they had been hit by an earthquake, the whole tower shook violently, many fell to the planks, the smoke and fire began to spread, the coughing and moaning filled the ears of Duke Godfrey, who struggled to get up, and he heard the cries and cheers of the pheasants outside and the enemies on the tower—they must have thought that we were all finished, or that we were about to be finished.

"Baldwin!" Godfrey burst out and yelled.

"Yes, extinguish the fire!" Baldwin exclaimed, and the brave soldiers beside him regained their composure in the fire and smoke and began to raise their skins in their hands.

At this moment, the siege tower that was shot and burst into flames under the tower of David was visible to the entire pilgrim army and civilians who were arrayed along the Mount of Olives: Peter the hermit saw it on the top of the mountain, and thousands of believers around him knelt down, facing the path Jesus had walked, facing the hill where Jesus had been crossed, and facing the holy gate of Jerusalem, countless hands were raised and lowered again, and the sound of pleading for God resounded in the sky.

On the other side, in front of St. Stephen's Monastery, looking at the "Tower of Herod" on the west side of the Holy City (it is another tower group and defensive wall in Jerusalem, named after King Herod, and the Tower of David on the east and west to protect Jerusalem), and the general of the Gimaggis Brigade on the side, Gregor, heard the fierce battle horn and the black smoke rising from that side.

"Anyway, be ready for battle, lift ladders and climb rope nets." The two generals ordered almost at the same time.

Outside the siege tower, the ballista and the guards next to the tower looked at the large tree trunk that penetrated into it with almost disbelief in their eyes, and it actually did not continue to burn! Instead, it began to emit a constant cyan-gray smoke, and the fire above it was getting weaker and weaker!

"What the hell is going on!?" Sokhman on the main tower of David grabbed the window, and his eyes were about to fall out and roared angrily.

In the wooden tower, Baldwin, Robert, Hartman, Duoduo, Werner, and many other soldiers rushed up from the second floor, all held their skins and constantly threw "fire extinguishing water" at the fire point.

This kind of fire extinguishing water is something that Joselan and Gawain jointly planned beforehand.

In fact, it is a large amount of fruit vinegar, plus the stone alkali produced in the Cappadocia salt lake mixed into the water, packed in a leather water bladder that can be very good against corrosion, once splashed on the trunk of a large tree, the fire that was originally difficult to extinguish was quickly extinguished.

In the end, the crumbling siege tower miraculously stood up and held on.

"The Lord has mercy on us, long live!" All the warriors drew their weapons and shouted excitedly.

This will be on the second floor below, a Frankish knight named Littlehold could not hold it down than the people on the top floor, he shouted to several sergeants to pull out a few long boards of beams, and preemptively put them on the wall of the Tower of David, which happened to present an angle of forty-five degrees, and then Littlehold was the first to leap into the defensive wall, holding a sword and shield, and stepping on a long plank that was only less than three feet wide, and "God has blessed me with such a wonderful skill and luck!" Lithold shouted so excitedly that he swung his long sword and split the two Turkic archers who couldn't dodge into four pieces.

Then he braved his arrows and climbed to the top of the fence for all the people inside and outside the city to see, and with a roar of rage, he cut down the crescent moon banner that Sockman had erected there.

At this moment, the planks on the top floor of the siege tower were also pushed down by the soldiers with shouts, and smashed down on the temporary fortifications of the defenders, and arrows and fire canisters poured water at the exit, and the sergeants around Godfrey folded the tight and impermeable shield wall in advance to resist it.

The shield wall scattered with a clatter, and the sergeants behind threw the equally lit spears onto the straw bags and wooden strips on the fortifications, and the flames crackled and quickly rose from everywhere, and the suffocating black smoke that rose from it blew like a whirlwind all over the ruined tower—the defenders behind were so smoked that they began to cover their mouths and noses and abandon their posts and run outside.

"Holy city, holy city belongs to the great Jesus!" Duke Godfrey raised his sword and the others leaped past the fireworks and into the tower, then Baldwin, then Count Robert, and then ......

Soon, the inhabitants of the Upper City, the New Town, and the Old Palace District saw in horror that on the impregnable walls, crescent banners were cut down and discarded, and cross flags were erected, and the Turkic and Saracen soldiers shouted and screamed, lost their fighting spirit, and fled from the entrances to the moats and towers.

"Our city has fallen, and the Gallic barbarians have invaded!" Such a terrible shout exploded, and soon spread throughout the city. (To be continued.) )