The northern front of the empire attacked, and it was actually cracked by the guards galloping back and forth, and John in the imperial capital was very disappointed in Theodoro's yang and yin, but the old general was more suspicious of the imperial capital, after all, there was a lesson from the previous siege of Anglasburg. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Again and again, John went to see his adoptive mother, gave her many gifts, and said that he would glorify her title and honor guard more, and begged her to send letters to his sister Marianne without interruption to "put pressure" on the old general.

Of course, Marlena loved John, and her letter to the city of Trabzon never went a day.

Due to the dangers of the southern sea route, Giovanni, Sven, and Samuelfa united desperately, and finally used camel caravans, mule carts and various tools to send the "siege ace" to the siege of Prussia from the new canyon with difficult conditions.

This trump card is the heavy short mortar gun.

Originally, when General Branas conquered the city of Dolly Laam, he used light mortar cannons, which were also used in the Battle of Philomeron, and the specific shape was two cast iron pipes with a thick front and a thin back, placed on a slanted upward cart, the thick barrel in front was connected to the charge chamber, and the pipe in the back could be inserted into the ground to play a fixed role. This kind of light mortar cannon Khitan snow is used in large quantities, and it can throw relatively heavy stone pellets, destroy the city wall and kill people.

The three heavy mortar guns transported from the rear are a round and stocky short guns carefully cast with brass and copper, the outer diameter is simply the same as the length of the barrel, and the inner diameter is about one to four with the barrel.

This kind of heavy mortar cannon cost as much as 500 Byzantian gold coins each, which shows that Gawain has made a lot of money.

The miners then roped the heavy mortars of the cannon, pulled it down from the vehicles on the second line of siege, and then pulled it down the trenches by pure hand, until the first line of moats, which encircled the entire southeastern corner of the city of Prussa, were placed in the pre-dug emplacements.

In the process, the resistance of the Prusa bulks was unprecedentedly fierce, and it may be that all the defenders saw the enemy dragging these three little monster-like cannons and sensed that the decisive battle of the siege was coming, so "Don't let them drag this thing into their gun emplacements!" ”

The firecrackers on both sides, one lying on the high forts and the broken city walls, the other crouching behind the trenches and dog's foot wood, separated by a short distance of dozens of feet, shot each other like countless looms shuttling, mixed with fireballs and primitive grenades thrown around each other, splashing dirt and broken wood to hurt the soldiers' bodies and nerves.

Then the light artillery of the enemy and our armies also fired volleys at each other, as if ceremoniously drawing a sign of the end of this hurried battle.

The sky was filled with smoke and white Prussa, and when Anna had personally moved the tent and the medical camp back to the tortoise fortress in order to boost morale, she, Gawain, and many of the Tarsus Guardian generals stood there, looking down the terraced ramparts: the smoke slowly cleared, and the whole battlefield fell silent.

It is said that thirty miners were killed before the heavy mortar was finally delivered to the gun emplacement.

The two lookouts climbed down from the nearby wooden tower, knelt down in front of Anna and Gawain, and reported on the enemy situation that could be seen in the city.

Gawain bowed, "It seems that Tetisius is ready to lose that corner wall, and he may have built a new wall behind it, continuing to seal the gap in depth. ”

"How do you deal with that?" Anna asked with concern.

Gawain smiled, "It's okay, I'd like to see if Tetisius can cultivate the second, third, and fourth paths, he is a very smart enemy, but not so smart that far." Anna, in fact, the siege is a competition between the weapons and resources of both sides, and whoever can invest more will achieve the final victory. So now that our heavy mortillants have arrived on this battlefield, even if Titius builds a new parapet, it will only cost them more shells and Khitan snow. There is nothing that cannot be solved by one round of mortar shelling, and if there is, then one more round. ”

"Then annihilate them all." Anna's eyes sparkled, and she put on a light veil and waved her hand at the city of Prusa.

The generals who followed also echoed in unison.

Under the fluttering banner, beside the giant artillery, Gawain had to meet the needs of all, his men, his wife's, "Attalia's fleet will also gather in the sea here, and the great losses will also come, and block the sea channel of Prussa, where there are six or seven thousand defenders, almost all the forces that John can still use, and the general Tetisius, whom the puppet emperor relies on the most, is also inside." Our slogan is, annihilate the new army of the puppet emperor and capture alive the traitor Tetisius who killed the king! ”

Then, the soldiers of the Guardians continued to rely on the barricades and trenches to gather troops and weapons at the front line of the siege, and Gawain set the time for the general attack to be ten days later.

As a result, three days later, the Venetian fleet and mercenary legions landed on the island of Crete and joined forces with John's defenders to launch a full-scale counterattack.

Cretan rebels rebel at the junction of the plain of Messala, and Venice. The Imperial coalition forces lined up and fought many bloody battles in a single day, and the corpses of the rebels were covered in ditches and fields, and finally they were defeated, and the two nobles retreated with the remnants in the direction of the White Mountain. Venetian mercenary general Goonletto. Led by the swift Magyar cavalry, Sargimons swept and slaughtered the entire Meshara plain, executing nearly a thousand prisoners of war and peasants sympathetic to the uprising.

Twelve of the captured rebel leaders were specially escorted to the castle of Gandhia, where they were tied to a cross and burned alive, and the black smoke of blood shrouded the blue sky.

Two days later, twelve large Venetian galleys suddenly appeared, ambushed the Pisan fleet that was encircling the pirates of Rhodes, sank a large Pisan ship, captured one, and seven light Pamphilian ships that came to the rescue of the Tarsus Kingdom were also sunk and destroyed, and Gawain's naval archcount Andreev lost more than 300 sailors and oarsmen under his command. More Venetian ships flying the flag of San Marco then arrived, apparently determined to save the island's trapped Asassidus and Zahaas, who were outnumbered and began to flee in the direction of Samos, and Andreev retreated.

Soon the fortress of Rhodes raised the lion flag of St. Mark, "Calling Lord Molitor to be involved in going to the city of Prusa," told Stephen. Gawain, it's better not to interfere with our city-state's demands on this ocean. The Venetian generals who landed on the shore triumphantly declared.