Eagle Byzantium

Gawain kept his word, when the guard soldiers on the seventeen towers just delivered the letter. The giant Plani cannons on the opposite hillside all raised their arms, throwing huge stone pellets far away and hitting Diyarbakir's city defenses.

The gunners of the artillery regiment who control them are extremely skilled and can eject one round almost every half-quarter (fifteen minutes).

By the time Sockman read Gawain's letter of persuasion to surrender, the two towers No. 17 and No. 18 had been beaten to nothing, and this ferocious projected firepower was only one-tenth of Gawain's limit. , he still has a large number of trebuchets and artillery that are not in use. Now it is just a display of power!

So Sockman did not have the confidence to resist to the end. He had only established the Altuki Emirate for a short time, and his feelings and foundation were not deep. "I don't want to stay in this place where enemies and dangers are everywhere. In the Holy City I have done well and tenaciously in the defense battle, but I was sent here by the Great Sultan - I hope to negotiate peace with Gawain, give up the country and the fortress, and return to Isfahan and Kejiyun."

The prince's idea was also echoed by the city's chamber of commerce and militia. After all, everyone lived in the local area. If Gawain was to ruthlessly bombard the city to pieces, they would all suffer.

However, the Greek emissary Potrufis and the second leader of the mountain sect, Gabzuk, strongly opposed it. The latter even threatened Prince Sokman nakedly, "Don't forget, that dagger can be inserted into your chest at any time, unless you To be able to never sleep, no, to never sleep."

It turns out that Sokman did not want Diyarbakir to be used as a stronghold by these Assassin fanatics, but these people were carrying out assassinations everywhere, which had already caused panic among the Seljuk people: some princes were assassinated by Assassins. Xin assassinated, some hired Assassin to assassinate others, and some assassinations directly faked the name of Assassin, and some princes were framed as Assassin and were liquidated. Anyway, they were "Assassin" all the time. name. Sokman had previously received a threatening letter from Assassin, asking him to give up the castle and barracks "to facilitate my dispatch." Of course Sokman refused at first, but when he woke up on the third morning , he found a bright dagger stuck on the floor in front of your bed, only four or five feet away from him. The dagger was wrapped with parchment, which read, "Tonight the dagger is on the floor in front of your bed, and tomorrow night it will be in your chest!" "

So frightened, Sockman could only lure the wolf into the house.

Now under the coercion of Gabzuk, although he was ready to surrender, he did not dare to respond to Gawain. Gabzuk also shouted to the city defense militia, "The city wall of Diyarbakır was built directly. There are as many as eighty-two towers on the limestone. He just threw a few stones and has already scared you cowards to this point." Then Gabzuk led the believers to hold various stages of fanatical rituals in the palace hall in the city, and made various plans for the siege. A new plan to assassinate Gawain during this period.

But in the morning of the next day, Gawain's big Pulani cannon no longer threw stones, but people, including the Assassins who had been captured before: the brigade sergeants in bright silver armor were on the hillside, along the way. They lined up in a row with battle flags, holding axes, and held down more than 30 Assassins, beheading and dismembering them one by one. Then they imitated Bohemond's attack on the city of Bari and put them in the bullet pocket of the big Plani cannon. , the sky was full of corpses raining straight into the city.

The militiamen and residents in the city were frightened to death when they saw human heads, hands and feet falling in the air.

After throwing away the corpses, the artillery began to fire fiercely, mixed with large Pulani cannons and ordinary trebuchets. Stone bullets and stone pellets frantically bombarded the black city wall every quarter or half an hour, carrying Terrifying howls and explosions.

Diyarbakir was actually Amida, the first-line fortress against Sassanid Persia in the ancient Roman era. It changed hands repeatedly during the fierce tug-of-war between the two empires, so the city walls and battlements are very strong, as Gabzuk said. It is surrounded by a total of eighty-two towers, and it is indeed integrated with the limestone under its wall base, making it The entire fortress is completely black and is very bluffing: but now that Gawain has used the powerful large prani cannon, rock-shooting cannon and fire bear cannon, Diyarbakir's original advantage has turned into a disadvantage, and its city wall is really too large. The height is so high that the artillery regiment does not need to raise the trolley at all, and can directly destroy it by firing directly at the hillside artillery position.

After just one day of bombardment, Diyarbakir's city wall was already crumbling and riddled with holes. The soldiers of the garrison militia, with a low mood of despair, began to repair the city wall overnight. At this time, they took inventory and found that facing the north and east Nearly twenty towers on the city wall have been flattened by the besieging enemies. The traditional city defense system that Diyarbakır is proud of is so fragile. But that's not all. On the hillside and in the fortress where the Gowan Artillery Regiment is located, many torches with flames continued to rise in the night, falling on the scaffolding and wooden fences and frequently burst into flames. Many people in the city The soldiers and craftsmen were covered in fire, screaming and falling down one after another. The whole scene was too horrible to watch.

On the other hand, the reinforcements coming from other castles in the Altuki Emirate were also repelled by the troops selected by Gawain Jian. Therefore, the leading figures in the city found Sokman miserably and had a very tough attitude, "If you don't surrender, this will happen." The city is about to be completely destroyed, so we will make our own decision before you continue to waver!"

Sokman did not dare to neglect it. He had also made up his mind to surrender, so he called several messengers to draft a surrender letter. He was willing to hand over not only Diyarbakir, but also other fortresses in the entire country. However, Gawain had to give him 30,000 gold coins as a bargaining chip and let him go back to beautiful places like Tauris, Isfahan or Kejiyun to retire.

However, in the early morning of the next day, the residents of Diyarbakir suddenly opened the blacksmith gate, spice gate and other places, carrying silk ribbons as flags and rushing out loudly, expressing their willingness to surrender and accept the rule of Tarsus, begging the other side to stop the bombardment and gunfire and accept the city with kindness.

"Where is Sokman!" Gawain, who was receiving the representatives of the people in the scarf tent soon, asked.

The answer was: Prince Sokman was assassinated by the resentful Gabzuk along with two confidential officers after he drafted a letter of surrender! Therefore, the entire castle was leaderless and could only open the gate and surrender.

"This group of foolish fanatics is simply sent by God to help me. Not only did I not have to send out troops to fight, but I also saved 30,000 gold coins to buy the castle - where can I find such a good opponent." Gawain thought to himself, and then he asked, "Sure enough, Potrufis and Gabzuk are the masterminds behind the scenes, so they must have escaped now?"