Chapter 70: Collapse

Theognes led this new force of monks and pilgrims along the corridors of the cathedral towards the battle-torn section of the city wall, and the warden kept turning back and cheering everyone on, until he saw Gust Cloud also carrying an axe, mingling in the crowd.

"You can't go to the front!" Diognis stopped and told the rest to rush over first, while he pushed Gust Cloud back.

Gu Siyun ignored him, and continued to hold the axe to go to the city, but was pushed back by the man, so he said angrily, "This is our Norman custom, since I am married to you, I will fight side by side with you, and husband and wife cannot be separated on the battlefield and at the head of the bed." ”

When the guard wanted to say something, Gu Siyun shouted, "Your Excellency will make the decision for me, and you must listen to your wife." With that, he raised his axe, and slashed at Theognes, and the guard hastened away, and the woman took the opportunity to leap up the steps of the wall.

At this time, the other two Norman siege towers had already set up battlements, and a group of Calabrian soldiers, with Norman knights holding swords on foot, let out a terrible howl, and rushed along the guard bridge, and Gawain's guards were also in great power, they were in groups of three or five, some with shields, some with spears, some with swords and battle axes, and fought flexibly by the city wall, killing people like hemp, and the corpses of the enemy under the battlements were piled up, even to the point of hindering the combat walk, so the guards and servants dodged arrows and throwing stones, and cats bent their waistsand threw the body into the gates and streets below.

On the siege tower in the corner tower, Gawain and Tancred were still wrestling back and forth at a height of more than twenty feet. The former raised his shield to protect his body, and the other hand held the hilt of the Sword of Phosphorus and Fire against his back. Constantly oppress the latter, ready to take advantage of the opportunity to slash it to death. And the latter wielded a long sword with both hands, and the defense was impenetrable. The rest of the Norman soldiers in the siege tower were stunned, watching the narrow duel between these two warriors, no one dared to step forward: if it were not for Tancred to defend against this tall warrior with red hands and feathers, the other party would definitely break into the tower in turn and kill them all; On the other hand, if Tancred is allowed to leap to the top of the city, the lives of everyone in Bari City. It is equivalent to not being insured.

This suspension bridge instantly became the life-and-death line of Bari City.

Under the tower, the Norman soldiers put their shields above their heads, and the servants with pickaxes and iron hooks bowed their waists, quickly passed through the shield wall, squatted in the corners of the city wall, and dug and pried frantically. Then swing the pickaxe, so that a large area is dug down and smashed.

At this time, Gao Wen, who was on the guard bridge, felt that his feet began to shake. Suddenly aware of something, he raised his shield and slowly stepped back. And Tancred, seeing him flinching, stepped forward and roared. "The vicious dogs of Hellfire, Lusail stained with blood and vileness. Are you scared? Do you tremble in the face of a sharp sword? ”

The sword continued to slash at Gawain's shield, making a violent sound, Gawain continued to "buzz" in the helmet and cursed with Tank Red, as if provocative, at this time Tank Red was already standing in the center of the guard bridge, so Gawain suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and jumped back behind the battlement.

"Master Tanfred, get out of here!" A Norman knight on the top floor of the siege tower shouted, and threw out the rope, Tancred caught it, and then felt that the foot "lala" suddenly emptied, and the armored body fell, fortunately, he still grabbed the rope, and the guard bridge had been broken down with the collapse of the city wall, because it was a rough siege tool, and there was no iron cable to pull to maintain balance, the towers and walls in the entire corner collapsed, the gray smoke rose thickly, and the tank red that was dangling in the air hit the middle waist of the siege tower twice, and it was full of arrows, Now he was all laughed at by his chain mail, and several wounds were suddenly knocked out of his body, and the pain was so painful that he was about to faint, but he was still pulling and couldn't let go, otherwise he would fall directly or be injured or killed, and the soldiers on the tower were slowly pulling him up.

Gawain jumped back, and he saw that the city wall had collapsed, and down it, the rubble and bricks were piled up into a slope, and hundreds of Norman soldiers below had already raised their banners, swords and shields, and climbed up, "The city of Barry has fallen!" A wolf-like howl swelled up.

On the city wall over there, there were also many enemies jumping in, Gawain pounced, directly pulled the collar of the enemy's lightly armed soldier from behind with his big hand, turned around, and hit the battlement of the city wall three times, the opponent's brain flew out, and then Gawain pulled out this guy's sword, flew over, jumped over the shoulder of the famous Varangian warrior, and stabbed into the chest of the famous Calabrian light soldier who was fighting against him, and the opponent fell to the ground upside down, and then fell down from the battle path of the city wall.

"Go over there and plug the gap!" Gawain continued to step forward and knocked on the helmet of the warrior of the guard, and the other party understood, and immediately turned his head and ran towards the gap in the tower.

Gawain continued to walk briskly along the battle path, and a Norman knight wearing a bucket helmet jumped in from the siege tower, twisted his neck to see him, and pounced with his sword.

The self-proclaimed Grand Duke also pulled out the sword of phosphorus fire with his backhand to block it, and then swung his iris shield and clamped the opponent's blade with the sword of phosphorus fire, broke it with a twist, and then pulled it back and stabbed again, the blade pierced into the eye gap of the opponent's helmet accurately, and the blue fire spitted out of the armor with a strange scream, and then Gawain raised the iris shield with a crack, and then smashed it down - the soldier behind the knight who was so frightened that he crouched to the ground was cut in two on the spot.

"Go over there and plug the gap, and I'll resist it here." The self-proclaimed Grand Duke continued to shout, and his guards warriors, despite their fatigue, followed the battle path and fought fiercely with the enemy who had climbed up from the collapsed walls.

"Kill this devil!" Here, more and more enemies pounced from the two siege towers, towards the lone fight Gawain, Gawain sideways dodged the slash of a Calabrian soldier, the opponent's sword and the battlement collided with fire, and then Gawain stretched forward and counterattacked with a sword, the soldier's arm was immediately cut off, and then he saw the blue fire constantly bursting out of the wound, holding the broken arm and screaming in horror, climbed up to the battlement, and then jumped down in front of everyone, falling to his death.

Gawain then took off his helmet, raised his flaming sword, and shouted at his enemy, "Kill me!" I am the messenger sent by the Lord to bring you back to Hellfire. ”

"Wow, wow, wow." The soldiers who were originally on the guard bridge shrank back in fright.

"Gawain, I'm here!" On the stairway on the side of the battle path below, the guard officer led many monks and pilgrims, holding the flail and bravely ascended. (To be continued......)