Eagle Byzantium

"Is everything going to end? A great rout, a standard great rout. True believers from Greater Armenia, Melitene to Thrace, and then to Seleucia, have actually suffered a catastrophic disaster in my hands. Cabeamia, is this the punishment of the true Lord for you, a punishment for indulging in the Lord? But even if my miserable corpse will decay with it in the coffin underground in the future, I will shout out - Gawain, you cruel thief!"

Until a believer next to her tore open the wrapping paper, took out a round hollow iron ball, pulled out the wooden plug at the bottom of the ball, and then used a red-hot iron pestle to light the exposed fuse, waved his arm, and the sparks from the round fire ball fuse "whooshed" in the air, circling with a sharp whistle, and fell directly on the heads of the emperor's troops who were attacking the city.

Then, Cabeamia felt that the whole world exploded and collapsed, and her hearing was restored at once.

Because she felt her feet shake, and the entire long city wall seemed to be lifted up by some terrifying force. Was it an earthquake or a tsunami?

The "Khitan Iron Fire Ball" exploded in the air above the emperor's soldiers who were crowded under the city wall. Gray-black sulfur, charcoal smoke, iron pieces, and pottery fragments burst out under the orange-red flames, surrounding this hot and spreading dot. The emperor's soldiers around howled and fell down, some covered their broken armor and groaned, and some rolled over with their burned heads. But before the Varangian guards who were blocking the "city gate" could react, the rest of the iron fire balls were thrown down from the top of the city like raindrops, and then it was like countless small stars exploding, and fireworks continued to rise, mixed with the soldiers' flesh and blood and broken armor pieces.

"What is that!" Alexius and all the imperial officers who were supervising the battle in the back, saw the flames and the tragic explosions of the siege troops, and whispered to each other in horror. The emperor held the whip tightly, and even though he was panicking, he was still very calm on his face. Previously, the imperial edict officer Meles had reminded him that "the Seleucid rebels may have used powerful flame weapons."

At that time, the emperor did not think so. His thinking was similar to that of most generals, "This kind of flame weapon is just an imitation of the imperial defense fire."

But today, the fire balls thrown by the rebels in the camp city are definitely not ordinary fire pots, because the emperor saw with his own eyes that several iron balls with sparks jumped and rolled on the shields raised by the soldiers, and then fell under their feet, and then exploded, with terrifying power and fragments, killing and burning his "barracks descendants" in groups.

Among them, the emperor's guards who were responsible for the fierce attack on the "city gate" suffered the most serious casualties. On the two high platforms protruding from the city wall, the trained Pauline believers and civilian soldiers braved the rain of arrows and threw iron fire balls from both sides. Many of them were filled with poison, which exploded and spread everywhere along the fireworks. The emperor's carefully trained guards were killed and wounded everywhere. Many people had flames on their armor that were difficult to extinguish. They stepped on the bodies of their comrades and bravely swung their weapons to chop the wooden fences and baskets. This scene was extremely horrifying.

Among them, on the high platform on the right side of the city gate was Cincottoas, who performed well on the mountain rock front yesterday. At this moment, he threw the ignited iron balls one after another, and then turned his back to listen to the dull or sharp explosions below, and felt the platform under his butt shaking and trembling. He was very happy. He had completely become addicted to various weapons made by Khitan fire, deeply addicted.

But then the two fireballs thrown by Xinkotoas both went silent, without any movement. "Give me another one!" He took the fireball thrown by his comrade with courage, pulled out the cork, and lit the fuse. "I'll give you a volley!"

Just as Xinkotoas stepped on the battlement and raised the iron fireball, a stray arrow flew up from below and quickly pierced Xinkotoas' chest. He leaned back suddenly, and the fireball in his hand fell on the platform, rolling with sparks.

The loud noises instantly engulfed the entire platform. Xinkotoas, the first unknown soldier in history to use Khitan snow firearms, had his lower half of his body blown to pieces, and the upper half of his body flew out of the city wall, floated in the air for a while, and fell into the crowd outside the city attacking the city... The entire right platform, about twenty guards, and more than a hundred fireballs were all gone. Cabe Amiya and the soldiers around her watched in silence as the entire platform was completely flattened, with smoke and dust mixed with dirt rolling down to the ground.

Then, the sharp-eyed female archon looked at a believer in front of her, who was still holding a fireball with sparks in his hand. It seemed that he was so scared that he forgot to throw it. "Ahhh!" Cabe Amiya was confused, but she reacted quickly. As expected of a female fox from Konama, she snatched the fireball and prepared to throw it out, but her hand slipped and it was shaking between her palm and arm. In the end, the fireball fell straight down along the parapet.

Cabeamia did not see that the ball of fire hit the top of a ladder, then rolled over the shoulder of the first emperor soldier, then bounced onto the chest of the next soldier, and fell between the ladders. A gray-black cloud of saltpeter exploded in between: the ladder immediately broke into two, and the second soldier on the ladder's neck was completely blown off, half of his armor shattered into several pieces, and he fell to the ground and died; the one in front, holding on to the front half of the ladder tightly, was sticking to the wall of the inner city, and fell down with blood and smoke.

Although a high platform in the inner city was completely destroyed, this scene caused greater shock to the emperor's siege team. They could no longer endure the killing of the rain of fire balls, left behind hundreds of dead bodies, and turned to retreat towards their own camp.

"Crazy, all crazy..." Cabe Amiya, who survived the disaster, squatted behind the battlement, covering her ears and hair with her hands, watching the fireworks drifting into the sky, muttering to herself, "I don't know if the weapons are crazy or the people are crazy."

The entire northern wall and trench of the inner city were a dark and bloody mess. The misfired fire balls were still spewing smoke of various colors, and the blue-gray marks after the explosion were still splashed on the wall. The broken ladders and corpses were scattered all over the place. Many people's internal organs were torn out, and the seriously injured and dying people were hoarsely coughing and crawling at the bottom of the trench.

Looking at the soldiers retreating like a tide, the emperor looked at the enemy's inner city that had begun to repair the city defense, and for a moment he didn't know what to say or do...

In the small camp at the foot of the southern slope, Agufi held a long axe, and the emperor's outer palace guards stood behind him. Although he saw the explosion and smoke from the inner city, he didn't know what happened. The only thing he saw was the Seleucid enemy soldiers fleeing everywhere. "The enemy has begun to collapse. Follow me and attack the rebel inner city from here and kill them all." This was the judgment of the commander of the emperor's guards.

Standing in front of Agufi were Gawain's two guards, a total of 300 people. The militia that originally assisted Dim and Muzafiadin had already fled. (To be continued ~^~)