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With bright flags as a signal, Atretis and several soldiers rushed to the front, and then the soldiers also raised various weapons and accompanied their charge.

The wide trench had been filled with corpses and a large amount of collapsed soil. The tumor-shaped earth rampart was almost cut off in half, and the slope was shaken to move forward several feet. There were bloody and pale corpse fragments everywhere, mixed with burnt and smelly earth and wood, all over the road.

In the three trenches and breast walls, dog-foot wood, and roller trenches, the elite of the Tarsus Guards, holding battle flags, stepped on the rugged terrain like a tide and attacked upwards.

Soon they were crowded and fought with the remaining new army guards on the city wall.

The bridge leading to the city was either destroyed or removed, which means that the guards on the wall refused to fight with the will to die.

But their fighting skills and armor were not as good as Gawain's elite soldiers who climbed the city. When their spears and axes rained down on the enemy's body, they found that the enemy's chest armor was as bright as a mirror, with a slight arc, and the hands, feet, and shoulders were covered with ring-shaped strips of armor. In addition, the shield made it extremely difficult to kill one of the enemy.

On the other side, Gawain's elite soldiers from the Red Hand Brigade, the Gimages Brigade, and the Guard Brigade (Atretes helped them, clearing the road first, and then this group of elite soldiers went up) gradually climbed up and killed the remaining guards on the edge of the city one by one in an extremely cruel way. The whole atmosphere was full of despair.

The battle lasted until noon, and all the guards on the corners of the ramparts were killed or captured, and the east and south walls were also captured by the border troops.

On the newly built wall in the city, behind the piled earth baskets and stone cages, Melicelos, who was abandoned here, already understood what the final outcome was waiting for him. He stood with the 800 new soldiers who were defending behind the new wall, protecting the light artillery, holding the lance, looking at the corner towers and battlements soaked in blood and fire more than a hundred feet in front of him, waiting for the enemy to break in, inflicting serious casualties on them, and then fighting heroically with hand-to-hand blades until death.

Assistance is no longer possible, we must shed the last drop of blood in this city to win precious time for Gallipoli and the imperial capital to prepare for war.

The people in the city were unwilling to die, they lamented why they became victims of the conflict of powers, and no one cared about their fate: thousands of people were desperate and clamoring, fleeing from the catapults, oil refineries and other positions, and rushed out of the city's west gate like a tide, and the soldiers guarding there did not stop them. As the crowd ran blindly along the river under Mount Olympus, they encountered the Tarsus sailors who had landed.

There were about 1,500 sailors who had landed. They first sank more than ten "Skuas" and blocked the river horizontally. Then they towed dozens of ships, turned them over and filled them with mud and sand, and built temporary fortifications to monitor the west side of Prusa.

After all, ships like "Skuas" were not worth much. According to Andreev's calculations, it only took a week to build one with 60 people.

The sailors who saw the fleeing people thought that the enemy troops in the city had broken through, so they all knelt behind the "ship fortifications" and fired muskets and bows and arrows in rows. Countless people were killed, and their bodies fell into the water and rushed to the "blockade line" along the river. At this time, many people realized that they were ordinary people and shouted "stop shooting".

As soon as the words fell, the distant Prusa city suddenly seemed like a person jumping up from the burning felt mat, and brilliant black smoke and flames roared up.

Because after clearing the outer fortifications of the spectacles fort and the half-moon fort, the miners of Tranzak quickly dug through the lower part of the tumor-shaped rampart, and then pushed in four "demolition vehicles" to the southeast corner of Prusa's city wall, and then detonated them.

A large gap of nearly 100 feet wide was directly penetrated in the Prusa city wall there. The violent blasting air wave carried countless broken stones and smashed into the new wall where Meliselos was stationed. More than a dozen new soldiers who showed their faces outside were beheaded immediately.

After the smoke cleared, the spearmen of the Red Hand Brigade took the lead. They jumped out of the trenches, holding the scarlet infantry spears like a forest, and marched to the rhythm of the flute, rumbling and rumbling, and entered the gap after the explosion.

However, what they faced was a new wall that blocked the way. Below was earth and stone, and above was a wooden board, gabion and earth basket, with a gun position for light artillery in the middle.

"Fight back!" Melicelos waved his hand.

All the light artillery, muskets and bows and arrows on the new wall swept over, and more than 30 red-handed soldiers were killed and wounded on the ground. The rest of the experienced soldiers immediately carried or dragged their injured companions and quickly retreated in a team.

"Continue to dig gun positions and drag the mortars over to bombard!" Branus and Leotius, who were supervising the battle on the front line, were very angry and issued this order.

So the shooting army lined up again and fiercely exchanged fire with the guards on the cross wall, while the miners and craftsmen behind them began to dig pits and clear passages fiercely.

At dusk, three heavy mortars were pulled to the new gun positions and aimed at the new wall, which was built by Taitius with great effort and energy.

After several rounds of bombardment, the new wall was broken and could no longer hold.

The new force of the Guards captured the wall, and Melicelos and the remaining troops retreated along the street into the core church in the city - the Guards used sledgehammers and battering rams to pierce the wall, and the remaining Red Hand soldiers passed through in a column, chasing Melicelos relentlessly.

In the churches and houses on both sides of the street, there were new soldiers everywhere, throwing fire balls and rushing out with swords, without any shouting, fighting hand-to-hand with the red-handed soldiers who rushed over.

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In the dark night, the red fire, except for the dense sound of sword fighting on the streets of Prusa, the rest seemed to be silent.

Soon after, the victorious red-handed soldiers stepped on the corpses and blood puddles of the new soldiers and finally surrounded the church. Then 300 Tarsus guards came with feathers shaking. They rushed in from all sides with long spears and killed all the remnants of the new army including Melicelos.

White Prusa and Mount Olympus fell. In fact, after the general attack began, it only lasted for one day under the fierce attack of heavy mortars and large chariots.

Although John's new army was extremely stubborn and brave, it was also annihilated, and only 500 people were captured. Of the residents of Prusa who were finally gathered back, no more than 3,000 were still alive.

In the relatively long (actually not very long compared to this era) siege, the Tarsus Guards mobilized five brigades and several border troops from the border fortresses, and also dispatched a large number of skuas to block the estuary. During the battle, nearly 3,500 people were killed and wounded on all fronts. It can be said that while they won a glorious victory, they also suffered considerable losses.