Chapter 44: Internal Response
Gawain put down the knife in his hand and took the arrow, but saw that between the cluster and the pole, it was wrapped in a small piece of cloth, "How did you get it?" β
"It was the tower on the Four Sisters Tower, which is closest to our palace area, that was shot into our outer garrison camp and discovered by the soldiers under the deputy heraldic officer." Muzafi Adin's tone was full of excitement.
So Gawain hurriedly untied it, and there were only two lines of Greek written in it, "I am a soldier stationed at the Emir Tower of Rosselen, named Prajit, and I am willing to serve as your internal response." β
With the sound of "bang", Gao Wen slapped the case, "Go!" He immediately put on his cloak, and under the escort of Muzafiadin and Diem, he walked out of the mansion, and before he could even kill it for dinner, he hurried to the besieged camp where the arrows had been collected.
As night fell, a bonfire was lit in the camp, and the one called Roserenta (named after the emir who was stationed inside), which happened to be facing the barracks of the second detachment of the Guardian Brigade, about a dozen soldiers were on duty behind the wooden fence and earthen barriers, and put on their hats and helmets to keep watch, Gawain came to the camp tent, and after saluting each other with several flag officers, he dismounted, and under a tree, Wright was standing there, and when he saw the Grand Duke approaching with an arrow, he pointed to the traces of the trunk, "The arrow was shot here." β
Gawain was silent, under the light of the torches, he felt the pit left by the arrow, and then looked at the top of the tower, several flickering torches were dangling on it, it seemed that someone was patrolling, Gawain then squatted down with a sigh, and the deputy heraldic officer, several flag officers and military servants also squatted down around the Grand Duke, "Do you want to shoot back one and contact him?" β
"Nope." Gawain thoughtfully raised his hand to stop him, "It's too late, we don't know who the soldiers patrolling above are Pragit, if you shoot back rashly" Then, Gawain's eyes suddenly lit up, and a vicious strategy was forming in his mind, and then he said to Wright, "The crossbow machine brought from Seleucia, is there here?" β
"Yes!" One of the flag officers ran back to the camp tent with a smoke, and then took the long, narrow crossbow machine, carrying a crossbowman's shield behind him, and a bag with crossbow arrows dangling, "Take out the broken planks." Gawain instructed, and Wright, who had been given the order next to him, was taking the pen and ink, and was also writing on a few pieces of cloth, under the light of torches.
The flag officer nodded, lowered his head, and took out the broken wood crossbow arrow from the bag, which was the four types of crossbow arrows set up by the little sunfish Agnes according to the needs of the battlefield, and it was one of the four types of crossbow arrows used to shoot the wooden plank: this kind of crossbow arrow, the tail end is bald, but there is a rounded fin at the back, and the arrow cluster is different from the type of anti-personnel personnel, it is a triangle with the tip facing inward and the flat bottom line outward, which can be deeply wedged into the wooden pole of the enemy's anti-arrow, and play a role in destruction.
"Wright followed." Gawain half-knelt in the shade of the tree, stretched out his hand, and the flag officer tied the crossbow arrow to the cloth, and carried the crossbow machine, and quietly climbed over the earthen ramparts, and Wright also mustered up his courage, and followed closely behind him with his shield and swordβthe two of them followed the bushes and the base of the tower of the tower, and found the tower that protruded from the front of the tower of the Four Sisters, that is, the "Sansadoni Asta", which was guarded by the eldest son of Yagi.
At this time, Wright and the flag officer raised their heads, and the bonfire on the tower illuminated the masonry patterns all around, and from time to time there was the coughing and conversation of the guards on it, and the place where the Turks had killed Aderobel and Beatrice was now directly above Wright's head. Accompanied by the night owl's terrible cries from time to time, Litemon's face in the helmet was a little numb with nervousness, but he always cheered himself up in his heart, "Don't be afraid of Leyte, is this more dangerous than the fact that you were in Sicily before and had an affair with the noble women?" Then he heard the footsteps of the patrol, and when it sounded again at the head of the city, Wright gestured to the flag officer.
The flag officer bent his waist, half stood up, and kicked the front end of the crossbow machine (which was obviously much more powerful than the hand crossbow originally used by the Beneventos), stepped on it with one foot, and then held the handle at the back end with both hands, and Kerala took the horizontal bowstring back, and then fixed it with the trigger, and Wright put on the crossbow bolt tied with cloth next to him, and then used the screw to adjust the tightness to the best, and then the flag officer lifted the crossbow machine and attached it to the root of the wall, against the wooden plank at the bottom of the fence that protruded above.
There was a bang, and suddenly two movable small boards hung down at the bottom of the fence, and Wright and the flag officer were stunned, and then Wright saw that in the night, two white and shiny buttocks were filling it, "X's!" It turned out that they were standing in a convenient place for this group of Turks. Wright cursed, and then remembered that when he was helping the crossbow machine kick the arrows just now, his arms were bent on the ground, a little slippery, and then he lifted up, and almost didn't get smoked, it turned out to be a big lump!
"Shhh Wright hurriedly gestured to the crossbow-wielding flag officer, signaling him not to shoot in a hurry, and the flag officer calmly did not pull the long hook, and then the two looked up, and the buttocks made a thudding sound, and spit out something like a black bread in the German intestines, and the stack fell, and fell between the two hidden people, and Wright remained motionless, waiting for it to fall, and then nodded.
The flag officer reoccupied the firing position, and put the crossbow machine up, and in half a second, he pulled down the long hook very neatly, and with a click, the crossbow bolt flew straight up with a whistling sound, and the plank of the fence made a dull sound of being hit, and then the heart-rending sound also exploded in the night sky, and the flag officer hurriedly put the crossbow machine behind him and hung it, and ran towards his camp with Wright, and the arrows shot down behind him, and the sound of people shouting and piercing leaves was endless
Soon, a wounded soldier whose left hand and hip were twisted together and was caught by a crossbow arrow was carried to the surprised Sansadonias, "What is wrong with him?" β
"He was untying his big hand on the fence, and was just about to clean it with his left hand, when he was shot by a crossbow arrow fired by an enemy ambush." The words of Gazi, who led the team, made Sansadonias unable to believe his ears, but this was not the end, Nagazi hesitated, and handed a piece of cloth that was miserably stained by blood and Xiang stains in front of Sansadonias, and the other party resisted the dizziness of vomiting and asked what was written in it.
"What, there is an enemy in the Acropolis?" In the room of the main tower, Aggie heard the news and shook his beard in anger at his son, who was holding the strip of cloth in his left hand, "It must have been a good deed done by your captured renegade standard-bearer, who chose his own life over my life and that of all the inhabitants of Antioch. Then Aggie laughed again, "However, this cloth does not say the name or position of the person who responds, so we can pretend that we don't know everything and let the enemy fall into the net." (To be continued.) )