The craftsmen skillfully first connected all the baggage wagons end to end, formed a long rectangle at the specified fortification site, and then erected the carriage boards one after another, and the ten hundred-man border infantry began to remove the shovels, pickaxes, round-headed shovels, wicker baskets, and sharpened wooden stakes carried in the wagons, and distributed them to all the craftsmen attached to the brigade, and then half of the men hung windproof lamps on the carriage boards, and began to dig trenches desperately around the perimeter of the "temporary barricade", and loaded the excavated earth part into the willow baskets. Pile up at the gap between the baggage trucks, fill the overall defense line, and bury the rest of the earth on the wheels to prevent the carriage from slipping. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The rest of the infantry climbed on the side of the wagon, and held torches and banners, hooks, axes, and crossbows and crossbows in the interior to guard the perimeter.

And Monomachus led four border cavalry hundreds, lined up in a double front, facing the east gate of the North Fort, acting as a mobile garrison.

When the defenders of Danishmond at the North Fort saw the sudden appearance of an enemy force in the east and began to build a barracks, they immediately understood that their intention was to isolate themselves from the siege, so they hurriedly sent a detachment to rush out of the east gate and raise a beacon fire again to ask for reinforcements from the rest of the ramparts, in an attempt to break the fortress of Monomachus.

Seeing the skyrocketing beacon sky rendering the night sky, General Monomachus, who led the cavalry, hurriedly ordered, "Everyone turn around and retreat to the barricade and wait for my instructions!" ”

The four hundred cavalry of the frontier people clamored, and the rear team quickly changed to the front team, and went around to a gentle slope eight hundred feet away on the south side of the barricade, and stopped.

At the same time, the watchmen at the barricade saw the flags and traces raised by the cavalry, and hurriedly beat the brass drum, so that a wagon was connected to a wagon, and all the border soldiers shouted in response, and the people digging trenches on the periphery also quickly retreated along the gap left, and then pushed the basket containing dirt to seal it, and they began to remove the skin shield and hang it on the vehicle support, and raised the windproof lantern with the mast to illuminate the direction of dozens of feet outside the barricade. In a continuous stream of voices, many began to raise their spears and various weapons and board the carriages, each of which was in charge of a wagon (which corresponded to the number of frontier militias), while all the craftsmen were in the middle of the barricades, carrying torches, or loading their bows and arrows with ammunition.

"Bang!" A flash of fire flashed from the barricade, or rather, from the hole drilled out of the carriage plate, which was the first sound of the border infantry raising their handguns, and the afterimage of the light was fleeting, and the passing rockets exploded into a cloud of fireworks after flying more than a hundred feet, illuminating the formation of the heavy Danishmond soldiers who came to attack the barricade......

Then, in all directions, more and more arrows began to struck, followed by the sound of dense arrows breaking through the air, and the Danishmund soldiers on that side also began to draw their bows and attack. Far away on the hill, Monomachus saw that the barricade was standing in the midst of white smoke, flashes and flying arrows, and many spear tips were shaking black shadows, which were the border people's troops struggling to resist, this mode of defense did not require the soldiers to have much combat experience, nor did they need to be able to ride or be brave, as long as they could unite and climb behind the board of the carriage, or stab the enemy with spears to climb and climb over, or slam the outside with bows and arrows or fire arrows behind the board.

This is the strength of the infantry composed of the common people, and it is also Gao Wen's concept of the whole army: "Khitan fire, infantry spears and chariot bases, together with the generals and training teams, can quickly form an army of the common people against the most elite samurai armies in the East and West, and then I use the more disciplined cavalry as a fist to decisively defeat the enemy." ”

After fighting for a whole night, the border troops in the barricade repelled the attacks launched by five enemy barriers.

In the early hours of the morning, Monomachus's cavalry gave fierce pursuit to a certain exhausted army of Danishmund, which was retreating into the ramparts, "The enemy attacked the barricades, and were attacked by our cavalry, and almost all of them fell into our hands, and their corpses were scattered all over the road, and no one could escape." ”

After resting for two hours, the craftsmen and border infantry in the fortress continued to dig a trench outside the fortress, first digging a five-foot wide trench, and then digging a heavy trench, and at night, a huge civil stronghold was naturally formed around the fortress, and the earthen embankment passage for the cavalry to enter and exit was set aside, which was considered to completely block the external route in the eastern part of the North Fort.

At the same time, Branass commanded two brigades and pyrinomers to deploy their forces and block the route west of Fort North.

In desperation, the North Fort erected the black crescent battle flag, which was a final gesture of determination to the inner city of Meriten.

After the time of the general attack, the pyrometers concentrated all the five-pole guns and light artillery wagons, and bombarded a section of the defensive stone wall of the north fort, throwing the fire in an arc, and after crossing the wall, the defenders behind them burst one by one one overhead, spewing out large lime clouds and sprinkling them, leaving people without a foothold; Then, two companies of firethrowers with shields and battering rams approached the stone wall, slammed it with their brass mallets, and pulled it with rope hooks, and soon with a loud bang, the wall collapsed.

After the smoke and dust dissipated at the gap, countless arrows suddenly came out of it, and although the two companies of pyrinos stacked their shields in front, they were still poured down a lot and fell into the rubble, but more pyrinos pounced from behind, and under the cover of their shields, they rushed to the gap, and stepped forward in turn, their arms jumped, and smashed the iron fire they carried into it like hail.

Soon, the broken notches between the city walls, the flames exploded, and some of the iron fires did not bloom, but rolled on the ground, whizzing out puffs of black smoke, and finally the Danishmund soldiers blocked in the gap were not repelled by the explosion, but were smoked away by the thick black smoke...... Seeing the opportunity, Branas gathered four companies of brigade stragglers, armed with two-handed swords, long-handled scythes, etc., wearing armor, and burst into the gap in the north fort with smoke and fire, and slashed down the enemy soldiers who were densely wounded and fell behind the city walls.

The North Fort of Meritene held out for half a day before falling. When the Bey and Ghazi backbones who held the fortress were killed, the remaining more than 2,000 soldiers did not want to be buried here, and they fled along the eastern gate, but were stopped by the Monomachus cavalry who rushed out of the blockade and almost all surrendered.

After the capture of the North Fort, Branath appointed Orson and Dorus to stay in this position, and he personally led the Red Hand Brigade to continue the lightning advance, the obvious goal was to take advantage of the opportunity to capture the rest of the outlying camps, while Danishmund's army concentrated on 2,500 men to resist the battle, and the two sides fought a second fierce battle in the river plain, three guli outside the city of Meritane. (To be continued~^~)