Eagle Byzantium

"Use light artillery, use bows and arrows, and use firecrackers to stop them!" Feeling the crisis, the defenders bravely rushed back to the position during the interval between the bombardment of the giant artillery, using various long-range weapons in an attempt to achieve this goal.

Layers of muzzles and muzzles were deployed behind the damaged wooden fence of the high earth platform. Following the orders of the fiftieth captain of the new army (the basic command of John's army was still achieved by the fiftieth captain), the storm started. He looked at the trench dug by the Guards Army and shot towards it, stirring up large pieces of smoke.

Atretis, who was previously an ordinary soldier in the imperial army, was captured on the battlefield of Philomelon, incorporated into the Hierapolis brigade, and was later promoted to a centurion, now by his side Standing in the trench were eleven miners and four brigade soldiers. They had previously been standing in a four-foot-deep trench, desperately using shovels and pickaxes to shovel up the soil, and continued to extend towards the direction of Prusa's city wall.

In front of them and on both sides, there are various "rollers" ten feet long. The central core of the roller is a basswood tree, which is wrapped with branches, thorns and iron hoops. Every time Atleti mentions When Si brought his subordinates and miners to carry out the task of digging trenches, they would carry three such "rollers". They would first arrange them on top and sides of the trench, and then hide their heads and bodies behind them to work.

"Down!" When Atretis heard the command from the high platform in the distance and learned that the enemy was about to fire at them, he shouted twice, and everyone immediately squatted down with their tools in hand. Then came a shower of fire arrows and projectiles On the drum, there was a rapid and violent sound, and smoke and dust were splashed everywhere. At this moment, a miner beside Atretis who had no time to dodge groaned, his neck tilted and fell at their feet, hit by a stray bullet. , died like this.

This was almost a common sight during this period. This was the seventh Tranzac miner that Atretis had seen unfortunately die in battle, so he squatted in the trench and watched this seventh unlucky death. The miner's corpse had not yet been closed, and he was staring blankly at the sky above it. The centurion's fingers were trembling a little, and he took out a few dried crocus stigmas from the pocket on the shoulder strap of his armor and placed them in his mouth. He sniffed it fiercely, then put it between his tongue and teeth and chewed it.

"The lives of miners..." Atretis was about to sigh in his heart, "How humble", but he swallowed it because it was not realistic.

Before setting off, the patron saint and all the senior generals summoned more than a thousand miners who accompanied the Tronzac army and gave them generous rewards, saying that they were the rewards for attacking the Claudicia Eagle Tower. The salary of time has been increased three times, which made these people scream. Don't you just want them to work hard like this?

The howling like a wild wolf interrupted Atretis's reverie - suddenly, along with the volley of artillery fire, many elite guards rushed out from the Prusa-shaped fortress and city gate. Fei Ye gathered and charged, trying to seize and destroy these three trenches.

"Centurion, Centurion!" Many voices shouted in Atretis's ears, but this man leaned on the edge of the trench and continued to chew saffron calmly and waved to his men. Arms, meaning to tell them to keep lying down and not to move around.

"Dong dong dong dong!" A series of explosions made the soil in the trench float and tremble. It was on the big turtle base on our side. All the light bronze cannons fired in volleys, all of which were preemptive. This was the Guards Army. Common tactics during this siege:

First use the giant cannon to destroy the long cannon of Prusa's new army;

Then, using rollers, iron-hooped wooden shields and caravans as cover, they dig trenches and approach;

The enemy returned to the earth platform to shoot and destroy. The Guards Army deployed its faster-firing and more powerful artillery on the Big Turtle Barrier, and fired continuously to counterattack, destroy or drive them away;

After the enemy was pushed back, people like Atretis continued to lead the troops to dig trenches.

But this time after his own artillery fire, Atretis climbed up the trench and was almost scared to the point of spitting crocuses out of his mouth: after the smoke cleared, the soldiers of Prusa's new army actually came out of their original ambush. He climbed up in an inverted posture and continued to rush towards them with shields and weapons in hand.

After a few days of shelling, the new officers and soldiers of Titicius also learned that the shells could never hit the ground. They simply saw the sparks jumping out of the gun positions on the Big Turtle Base, and they all fell down and let the shells hit the ground. He jumped over their heads, then got up and rushed forward.

On the battlefield of Prusa, strange tactics are changing with each passing day...

"The enemy will avoid the cannons, come and fight me." Harsh whistles were blown everywhere in the trenches, "Weapons, weapons!" Atretis shouted while holding his iron helmet, and the soldier next to him handed him a pickaxe. "What the hell?"

"This is all we have, Centurion."

Atretis was stunned for a moment, and then he grabbed the hoe and shouted, "Whoever buries me immediately will inherit my estate! Take good care of the hounds I raise." As he spoke, he gritted his teeth. He propped up his body and faced the incoming enemies, grabbing the soil with one hand and waving the pickaxe with the other hand, preparing to bravely charge forward.

"Bang bang bang", in the blink of an eye, the first dozen Prusa New Army soldiers in front of Atretis suddenly moved their limbs wildly, and the single-layer leather armor or pierced armor on their bodies suddenly moved. The blood mist from the explosion split open and fell to the ground in various postures.

Atretis looked back and saw several covered wagons with battle flags rumbling in the open space behind the trench. The wheels were rolling, and the raised wagons were covered with bullets and arrow marks. Several border soldiers were holding perfume bottles and shrimp cannons that were still smoking. The shotgun shells that killed the group of enemies just now were ejected from here. There were also people holding bows and shooting arrows. In the gaps between the vehicles and behind them, teams of border residents, archers and red-handed infantry followed and slowly advanced and shot.

The new Prusa army was counterattacked by the chariot formation. The front rows were successively bombarded by the light artillery in the covered wagons or killed by the long guns of the archers. The rest could only scatter and flee to the earth ramparts and the city walls.

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The trench was saved, and Atretis was glad that he was not injured. The wagons stopped when they pressed against the trench he dug. The body of the miner was pulled up. A centurion standing between the wagons holding a flag stuck his head out and shouted to Atretis from a high position, "We will set up a wagon barrier behind you to protect everyone. You continue to dig forward without stopping."

In the afternoon, more wagons were pushed here, filled with gabions, earth baskets and wooden stakes. Perfume bottle cannons, flying fire copper clams and shrimp whisker cannons were also set up in the back, forming a new siege line, not far from the enemy's tumor barrier!

Soon in the scarlet tent, Gawain and Anna received another victory report from Cyprus: County Governor Andeodate, who led the army alone for the second time, still performed well. He not only defended Kyrenia Castle, but also defeated Apsomatus's army many times and even occupied the entire Paphos.