Eagle Byzantium

While the couple was still arguing, in the gap of the north wall where the fighting was endless, a guard was holding his shield in the afterimages of weapons pecking at each other, and was caught off guard by a saber that stabbed him in the abdomen. His eyes were immediately dazed, and the people and weapons in front of him were confused. Blood gushed out of his throat and he fell to the side of the gap. Then arms, elbows and leggings were swung and kicked everywhere. He spit blood and foamed at the mouth. He was kicked here and there, his helmet fell off, and the chain mail around his neck was untied. He lay on the ground covered with rocks. Looking over there, there were countless boots and leggings moving around. Looking over there, more than ten feet away, a shooting soldier of Gawain's army was putting a musket on a fork. He didn't notice him (probably thinking he was dead) and was concentrating on suppressing the battlements on it.

In a dying state, this ordinary Ani soldier quickly summoned up the remaining strength in his heart and fell in love with this kind of musket. Every time the shooting soldier finished firing a round, he would take off the tube of Khitan snow from his shoulder strap. The outside was wrapped in paper shell and tied with a small rope. He tore it open with his teeth, then tilted the musket upright and poured it into it, then stuffed the lead bullets and pounded them with a stick. After completing these actions, he lowered his body again, took out another small copper pot tied to his belt, poured a little Khitan snow of another formula, and shook it into the fire door at the rear end of the musket, then pulled the metal catch to fix the matchlock wrapped around the musket, blew away the floating ashes of the matchlock clamped on the shiny copper dog head, then simply aimed and began to squeeze the trigger under the wooden support - with a flash of lightning, accompanied by a lot of smoke, another musket bullet was fired.

The dying Ani soldier fell to the ground, jumped over by many boots, and watched the gunner of the shooting army do the same thing over and over again. It should be after the fourth shot, the gunner was hit by an arrow on the forehead, and then he covered the wound and opened his mouth, fell down and died. Then another soldier took over the fork and musket and continued to shoot...

When the fierce fighting between the attackers and defenders was concentrated on the gap collapsed by the artillery, Leotius, who was in full command at the back, felt that the opportunity of "making a feint to the east and attacking in the west" had come, so he chopped his hand down.

After receiving the signal, many gunners pushed a huge battering ram-like vehicle out on the road between the two artillery forts, and the gunners at the front held shields to escort it. The chassis of the vehicle was very large, with a slope-style wooden shed built on it, covered with wet grass and animal skins to prevent arson. There was a huge lamp between the chassis and the wooden shed, with the opening facing outward.

The wheels rumbled, heading towards the north gate of Marash. Because most of the elite guards were concentrated at the gap over there and fighting with the Gimages soldiers who rushed in, there were few soldiers at the gate tower. When they saw the siege vehicle carrying the big lantern below and the gunners with their heads buzzing beside it, they couldn't help but shout.

"Swoosh-swoosh-swoosh!" Rockets after rockets, with smoke trailing behind their tails, kept flying out of the firing holes in the gate tower and shot into the wooden shed of the big lantern vehicle, but they couldn't burn at all. After emitting a puff of smoke, they all slid down.

"Keep shooting!" General Firouz, who was in charge of this place, stood behind the wooden fence of the gate tower and kept shouting to the Ani archers to light the fire arrows and take turns to come forward, "Throw the iron hook." With this shout, several more guards lit the thatch wrapped around the iron hook and threw it from the firing hole, trying to hook the big lantern vehicle and burn it. The iron hooks kept being thrown down, making a creaking sound on the wooden shed. But many gunners beside the vehicle risked their lives, raised the hooks with blades, and cut them off one by one. As the sound of the wooden wheels rolled louder and louder, the speed of the big lantern became faster and faster, and the distance to the city gate became closer and closer.

Amid the shouts, many guards inside the city gate held wooden stakes and blocked the heavy wooden door from all directions to prevent the enemy from using the copper hammer in the vehicle to break the city gate.

"Bang", the big lantern was pushed in and just stuck to the iron grille outside the wooden board of the city gate.

Many fine powders also drifted and slid down from the vehicle with such vibrations.

At this time, the crossbowmen of the guards put the crossbow triggers on the holes left in the city gate and started to pull them. With the sound of swishing, crossbow arrows kept flying out through the door. Many gunners were shot through the knees and calves even though they were holding shields. They fell on their backs with screams. The rest of them fled down the hillside with their heads in their arms. Many white crossbow arrows were still shooting out along the corridors inside and outside the city gate, chasing their lives.

There was a cheer in the gate tower. The guards were ready to throw down the millstones and boiling oil to destroy the siege vehicle, but they didn't expect that the enemy who pushed and used it was so fragile that they were defeated in an instant.

But no one saw that the matchlock dragged under the big lantern was emitting hissing sparks and burning rapidly upwards - the big lantern was filled with gunpowder and iron beads on the wooden support. It was completely an "enhanced and expanded version" of the elder mentor Maglundius killing his butler, and now this big lantern was attached to the north city gate.

In the upper and lower shooting holes of the city gate, the eyes of the Armenian crossbowmen who stopped shooting flickered and swayed left and right. Finally, someone saw: beside the dead and wounded bodies of several gunners, the rapidly burning matchlock was rushing towards the black big lantern.

The crossbowmen screamed and turned to the soldiers who were still holding the wooden stakes, gesturing, "Disperse quickly, open the city gate quickly, open it!"

"What are they shouting below?" Firuz in the fence of the gate tower was still wondering.

As he was speaking, the city gate suddenly swelled and twisted like a toad with a bulging belly in just half a second. The wooden stakes that were originally supported at the back suddenly bent and wedged into the faces and foreheads of the soldiers holding them.

Then fire, air waves and smoke sprayed out desperately from the gaps in the broken city gate - the Khitan snow gunpowder in the big cup exploded, and the guards behind the lifted city gate had about 10 to 20 people, their clothes and armor were burned, and they were rushed back and rolled and danced, death and shattered everywhere, and then the entire city gate turned into a giant dragon's big mouth spewing flames, and went further in along the city gate corridor, sweeping away a straight distance of dozens of feet.

Firouz on the gate tower felt that the bricks under his feet seemed to roll back and forth completely several times, and he and the soldiers next to him fell to the ground together, curling up in pain. Not only the gate tower, but also the bricks and stones in the corridors on both sides became scorched and swayed in the deafening continuous loud noise, and dust kept falling.

Under his feet, the destructive power released by the explosion of gunpowder in the big lamp not only killed all the guards behind the gate, but also blasted the entire city gate into a big hole!

General Dolus, who was supervising the battle behind the wooden fence of the siege, was so shocked that he almost dropped his sword to the ground when he saw the dazzling explosion of the city gate.

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At this moment, behind him, the trumpet of Leotius's general attack sounded sharply.