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About half an hour later, the shelling began again.

Gawain, who was overseeing the battle on the peak, saw countless fire meteors, scrambling to shoot at the walls of Marash, and the whole mountain fortress trembled in the smoke and explosions.

"Get up, get up!" The whistles and whistles sounded noisily, and the rows of soldiers of the shooting corps, who had been crouching at the entrance of the fence, shouted "Grenade of the Pyropers" and stood up, spit out the crocuses in their mouths to the ground, stepped on them with their boots, got up and carried fork frames, heavy guns, long guns, as well as shrimp whisker cannons, light artillery carts, etc., and took advantage of the time when the defenders on the pheasant moat were suppressed by artillery, crossed their own trenches, fences, and earthen ramparts, braved the cold arrows flying from the battlements, stubbornly endured the casualties, and advanced to a distance of about 150 feet under the city wall, and lined up." Shoot, shoot! The next posture of the group of archers was not half-kneeling, but similar to that of archers, raising or placing the fire guns on the forks, the guns raised and pointing in the direction of the battlements, and the bodies of the front row of the "bang bang bang" twisted due to the recoil, and then they retreated, and the next row took over, and began to shoot in turn. Countless lead pellets poured water on the gate towers, city gates, and pheasant moats, and the smoke billowed and filled the air, and the city gates and stone walls were struck with bullets for a short time.

Soon, countless brigade soldiers and border residents carried makeshift ladders, ran through the positions, leaned on the walls of Marash, and began to climb bravely. Above and below the city, the defenders and besieging soldiers fired at each other with muskets and bows and arrows, and the shells from friendly cover were often more dangerous than the enemy's bows and arrows - many ladders were broken, and many besieging soldiers were killed and injured by the blows fired from the rear.

"Charge, charge!" And Dorus also wore a striking armor, waved the sword in his hand, and stood under the city wall to constantly encourage his soldiers to go forward, "Don't be afraid of the lead shot by our firecrackers, the lead shot by Santa Barbara can tell the difference between friend and foe." Two of his horses were killed in front of him, and the young military chief stood directly on the edge of the trench, directing his men back and forth to climb and attack.

At this time, the battle of the western and southern walls also began, and the same artillery salvo was fired, and then the brigade infantry and border people attacked the city - in the ranks of the Philippe Mellon brigade, Bramson also waved his long sword and wore ordinary armor (obviously a long-standing performance) and stormed up the ladder, "The reward of the great lord and guarantor is a full two thousand gold coins, and the person who was selected just now was Dorus. Lambert, I'm not convinced, I've never been empty from Germany to Anatolia! "It's also a race for time, and I deliberately hung a sundial in front of the cuirass to check the time.

In the corresponding Marash Fort, about 3,000 defenders also fought endlessly, most of them calmed down after the terrible shelling, bravely returned to their posts and held the pheasant moat, raised their bows and arrows to shoot at the shooting troops of the Gao Cultural Tourism Regiment, or used various tools to destroy the ladder - the whole fortress was like a cauldron in boiling water and fire.

And the regent Fell, who had previously made up his mind to live and die with the castle, also stood on the top of the most striking tower, standing under the banner of the Armenian lion that had been shot to the ground, inspiring the morale of the whole army, and he also continued to cheer up his subordinates, "The Great Emir of Danishmond has broken through the interception of the Gawain Belle Army, and will be here in about a day or two." The reinforcements of the king of Aleppo, the king of Kandwan, were also about to arrive at the south river of the citadel. And the emperor of Constantinople has invaded the hinterland of Gawain, and he is already struggling with the trapped beast. As long as you find a way to keep it, everything will be fine. ”

Three hours passed, and the first two rounds of assault were defeated by the fierce resistance of the Armenian soldiers, and not a single wall was effective, and hundreds of casualties were inflicted. It was already afternoon, and Gawain directly called the commander-in-chief of the North Gate, Leotius, and his voice was full of violent, "There is still a chance to attack the fortification round before sunset, and this is also the last round." ”

"Yes, yes. Please trust our artillery regiment. ”

"I believe it, but the Marash fortress doesn't. I used to underestimate the Ani, who proved to be the best soldiers in the world, and the best mountain castle designers. Therefore, Lord Leotius, if I can't take this place tomorrow, I will have to disband the artillery regiment, and that's it. The chief guarantor gave an ultimatum with a serious face.

In the evening, all the artillery barricades rained down again, and all the jagged moats at the head of Marash were flattened, and many iron cannonballs and stone shells leaped into the city in an arc, smashing all kinds of facilities everywhere, killing and wounding all over the ground. The soldiers of the Tarsus Guards, who were the last to attack the fortifications, found that it was difficult to build ladders on the bare and flattened walls, but after the artillery salvo, countless brigade soldiers still rushed to the city walls......

At this time, a stone bullet finally worked, and in a loud cheer, it knocked over a section of the city wall that had been crumbling and had no time to be replenished, and the collapsed rubble and broken bricks buried and swallowed up more than a dozen soldiers and craftsmen who had been on it.

"Hooray, hooray, hallelujah!" Dorus pointed his sword there, and the deadly wall of the city that had been shot out by the artillery was all blocked on the opposite side of it, standing or crouching, and every three or four men were responsible for a long firebolt, which shot in continuously, with a lot of fire and green smoke to guard against the counterattack of the defenders, and then a group of soldiers with shields and axes began to approach like a tide, trying to pour into the city.

The Armenian soldiers in the city crouched in the rubble behind the broken walls, endured the fire fired from the opposite side, and only when they saw Gao Wenfang's infantry pounce on them, did they shout and get up, and also waved their weapons fiercely to meet the battle.

The red sun was shining on the faces of Armenian soldiers, young or vicissitudes, and many of them were chiseled by axes or pickaxes chopped down from the opposite side in the next freeze moment, and their eyes, nose bones, brains, and blood shot out beyond recognition.

At this time, Fell, with a melancholy face and a hint of despair, accompanied by several warriors of the guard, came to the inner hall of the castle, where the widow of Cousins fell to her knees with tears in her eyes, tugged at his armor, and begged him to surrender or escape, "This castle has lost all hope, and after you men have finished their heroism, it will be our women's turn to please the victors with their bodies." You have to think about me, too, even though we are a dewy couple. ”

Enraged, Fell pushed the pretty widow away, but then he saw that on the other side of the hall facing the wall, a stone bullet from Gawain's cannon was smoking, and it had smashed through the limestone wall of the triad, half poking inside and half exposed. Presumably, the widow must have been frightened and collapsed by this flying bullet just now.