The Mosul soldiers escorting the siege vehicles advanced very quickly, their steps in unison, and the ranks of shieldmen, archers, artillerymen, and light infantry were also scattered, constantly beating drums and forks, like black whirlwinds, more like black plagues, and pounced on the defensive line of the Orontes camp.

Between them and the sub-wall group, there was a trench that was not deep or shallow, this was the outer trench of Gawain's camp, according to Gedier's original idea, it was to pour into the Orontes River like the inner trench to keep out the Turks of Mosul, but before the project was completed, Amasa sent a large number of cavalry to attack: after the victory of the Gao Cultural Brigade yesterday, he sent some soldiers and many laborers to dig the trench hard, but it was only five or six feet deep, which was far from Gedier's requirements.

Therefore, in a burst of shouting, the Turkic soldiers who rushed to the front unloaded all the firewood and straw bales they were carrying, and completely filled in several sections of outer trenches in an instant. Then the vehicles hung with leather curtains were the first to be pushed under the sub-wall, where the small number of soldiers who remained behind began to clamor and shoot crossbow arrows and throw pikes at the vehicles and siege personnel, but the Turkic vehicles were also hung with leather: these shooters and weapons could not hurt them in the slightest. In addition, in the previous artillery battle, almost all the small stone throwers set up under the Orontes camp were destroyed and dumbfounded, so the Turkic soldiers around the vehicle confidently raised their shields and continued to push the leather carts, towards the various walls.

At the same time, a number of other vehicles with iron pockets and blast skins also approached the row of horse-repellent guns and forks between the sub-walls under cover.

"Don't fight back, they're meant to set fires, and getting close to it will cause our soldiers casualties!" As soon as this slogan was shouted on the tower of the city gate, the Turks on the left and right braved the arrows, raised their hooked sickles and short spears with flames, and lit the iron pockets hanging from the cars—which were full of sulfur, dry firewood, and other flammable materials, mixed with lime, and instantly ignited a ferocious fire—and then, the Turks behind the vehicles, holding the drawers of the leather bags, shouted back and forth into the pipes of the iron pockets, and in the whistling, the strong wind was mixed with the fluttering red flames, and the billowing lime, forming a series of "poisonous snakes and pythons" , poured on the horse rejecting pistol, and suddenly the fire spread, so that the people left behind could not stand it, and ran backwards one after another.

On the other hand, the Turks began to push the vehicles with grappling hooks, trapezoidal shovels and rectangular rakes one by one under the sub-wall, and then they pry the levers and shout slogans to turn them up and down: the grappling hooks used to pull the dog's foot wood, and the shovel and harrow were digging the earth wall, and they were so busy that the broken earth and the dog's foot wood fell one after another

Gawain stood silently behind the flat wall of the city gate, intently observing the battle below, it seemed that the army of Mosul had turned into a demolition brigade, destroying several wooden fences that he had built with a pile of earth, while around him, the soldiers of the Gimagith Brigade had continued to arm the tower of the city gate and the high walls on both sides, and began to prepare for other defensive equipment.

After the "demolition brigade" had been busy for about an hour, Gawain heard earth-shattering cheers, and they finally filled in the outer trenches, leveled most of the sub-walls, and burned the horse rejecting guns. Countless Turkic soldiers with excited faces stood around the vehicles, set up a dense formation, and faced the Orontes camp that had been stripped of their external defenses, thinking:

Raise the banner of Allah and the scriptures and climb up! Attack it! Rush into the killing spree and annihilate all the people inside.

But soon they saw the "chest tie wall" about twenty feet away in front of the gate tower, which was parallel to it, and it was somehow higher than the surrounding sub-walls, and even the dog's foot wood on it was specially made to raise it, and blocked the main gate of the enemy's stronghold. The Turkic officers and soldiers were dumbfounded: push the siege hammer past? This high wall is in front of the gates, unless you break it first. Take the zigzag road from both sides of the wall with siege equipment? That means that the siege vehicles have to turn a corner when they enter, enter the narrow mezzanine road, and then turn another corner if they hit the door, whether these two turns can be turned well or not, I am afraid that they have not yet been turned, and they have already been smashed by the enemy, because even if these siege vehicles have four wheels, but they are also straight and effective, and the steering equipment is almost unknown in that era.

So the following situation is interesting: thousands of Turkic siege teams lined up, after destroying the sub-wall and rejecting the horse gun, approached the main city wall, first cheered, and then saw the chest strap wall in front of them, and immediately dumbfounded, how to deal with this thing?

And the Jimagis people on the city gate tower are gearing up, sticking to their posts, and also silently looking at the Turks in the battle below the city, thinking why don't you attack yet?

Gao Wen, who was a little tired, thrust the blade of his sword back into the ground, held the hilt of the sword with both hands, and sat down in the tower of the city gate, with the spirit of living and dying with the entire camp inside.

Afterwards, in the other camps, thousands of Crescent laborers who had been kept under captivity and monitoring also began to worship and chant side by side, and the soldiers who knew Saracen dissatisfiedly held their weapons and shouted to silence them, and those who took the lead in chanting raised their hands and said, "We are praying for a good peace, and may there never be war in Antioch."

Finally, General Amasa, who was still in the back of the battle, sobered up and shouted to the towering wooden tower beside him, "You issue a banner order, call all the soldiers in front of you, divide into two parts, one uses a ladder to climb, leave that strange wall alone, and storm both sides of the opponent's gate tower; On the other hand, choose the side corner of the opponent's camp, and under the cover of the stone thrower, also attack! ”

The Persians on the wooden threshold tower received the order and immediately waved the flag.

In the midst of the roar, the Turkic soldiers on the front line shouted loudly, abandoning the siege vehicles that had just played a miraculous role (strictly speaking, this group of expensive and time-consuming equipment only destroyed some cheap earthen walls, but they were completely scrapped by Gawain's chest belt, no, it was the chest belt wall that was invisibly abolished), holding axes, spears, and shields like a tide, scrambling to carry the ladder, and rushed towards the walls of the Orontes camp, and its shouts and footsteps simply shook the ashes in the city gate tower, and fell all over Gawain's head, The Grand Duke grunted as he dusted his hands.

The wall in front of the whole camp is undoubtedly centered on the city gate tower, which is no different from the normal system: two large towers, sandwiched between the city gates, with interconnected battle lanes and flat head walls, on which are guarded by soldiers who are waiting for battle.

"Stack your shields." When the Turks who ran to the bottom of the wall looked up and saw the black iron pedal rings of the crossbow machine (this part was located at the head of the crossbow machine) beginning to peek out of the flat head wall of the Orontes camp, they shouted one after another, and in a creak they lifted the countless round scales of shields to cover their hats and turbans. (To be continued.) )