Gawain did what he said, when the guards on the seventeen towers had just delivered the letter. The giant Plani cannons on the opposite hillside www.biquge.info flicked their swinging arms and threw the huge stone pellets far away, smashing them into the fortifications of Diarbakir.

The gunners of the artillery regiments that operated them were so skilled that they could eject a round almost every half quarter (fifteen minutes).

By the time Sokman had finished reading Gawain's letter of surrender, the Seventeenth and Eighteenth towers had been smashed to the ground, and this ferocious projectile firepower was only one-tenth of Gawain's limit, and he still had a large number of catapults and artillery unused, and now it was just a display of power!

Sochman did not have the confidence to resist to the end, he had not established the Emirate of Altuki for a long time, and his feelings and roots were not deep, "I don't want to stay in this place full of enemies and dangers, I have done well and tenaciously in the defense of the Holy City, but I have been sent here by the Great Sultan - I want to make peace with Gawain, give up the land and fortresses, and return to Isfahan and Kokuyun." ”

The prince's idea was also echoed by the city's chamber of commerce and militias, after all, everyone lived in the local area, and if Gawain smashed the city fortress to pieces, they would all suffer.

However, the Greek envoy Potrufis and the second leader of the Mountain Sect, Gabuzuk, strongly objected, and the latter also brazenly threatened the prince of Sochman, "Don't forget, that dagger can be plunged into your chest at any time, unless you can never sleep, no, never lash each other." ”

It turned out that Sokhman didn't want to give the city of Diarbakr to this group of Assasin fanatics as a stronghold, but these people carried out assassinations everywhere, which had already stirred up panic among the Seljuks: some princes were assassinated by Assasin, some hired Assasin to assassinate others, and some assassinated directly in the name of Assasin, and some princes were framed as Assasin and liquidated, anyway, they came and went in the name of "Assasin". Sokhman had received a threatening letter from Assasin, telling him to give up the castle and barracks "so that I can send them to do their work." At first, of course, Sockman refused, but on the third morning when he awoke to find a dagger stuck in the floor in front of his bed, only four or five feet away, with parchment wrapped around it, with the words "The dagger is on the floor in front of your bed tonight, and it will be in your breast tomorrow night!" ”

Scared, Sockman can only lure the wolf into the house.

Now, under the coercion of Gabzuk, although he has the intention of surrendering, he does not dare to respond to Gawain, and Gabuzuk also shouted to the city defense militia, "The walls of the city of Diarbakr are built directly on limestone, and there are as many as eighty-two towers, and the other party has only thrown a few stones, which has already scared you cowards like this." Gabzouk then led the believers in various fanatical ceremonies in the halls of the palace in the city, and devised new plans to assassinate Gawain during the siege.

But the next morning, Gawain's Grand Plani Cannon no longer threw stones, but threw people, throwing the Assasin Men that had been captured earlier: the brigade sergeants in bright silver armor lined up along the battle flags on the hillside, armed with axes, and beheaded more than 30 Assasin Christians one by one, and then put them in the bomb pocket of the Grand Plani Cannon in the same way that Bohemond had attacked the city of Bari, and the sky was full of corpses and smashed into the city.

The militia groups and residents of the city were terrified to death when they saw their heads, hands, and feet falling down in the air.

After throwing the corpses, the artillery began to shoot violently, mixed with large Plani cannons and ordinary stone throwers, and stone bullets and stone pellets bombarded the black city wall frantically every quarter or half an hour, with terrifying whistling and explosions.

Diarbakr was actually Amida, the first-line fortress of ancient Roman times against Sassanid Persia, which changed hands repeatedly between the fierce tug-of-war battles between the two empires, so the walls were very strong, and indeed surrounded by eighty-two towers, as Gabuzuk said, and indeed merged with the limestone under the base of the wall, making the whole fortress completely black and very bluffing: but now that Gawain used the powerful Great Plani cannon, stone cannon, and fire bear cannon, Diarbakir's original advantage became a disadvantage. Its walls were so high and so high that the artillery regiment could destroy them directly from the hillside artillery positions without having to raise the trolleys.

After a short day of bombardment, Diarbakir's walls were crumbling and riddled with holes, and the soldiers of the garrison militia began to repair the walls overnight in a state of despair - when they counted and found that nearly twenty towers had been flattened by the besieging enemy on the north and east walls, and the traditional system of city defenses that Diarbakir was proud of was so fragile. But this was not the end, on the hillside and in the earthen ramparts where the Gawain Artillery Regiment was located, many flames were constantly rising in the night, falling on scaffolding and wooden fences, and many soldiers and craftsmen in the city were contaminated with fire, screaming and falling one after another, and the whole scene was terrible.

On the other hand, the troops from other castles in the Emirate of Altuki were also repelled by the guerrillas selected by Gawain, so the leaders of the city found Sokman tragically with a very tough attitude, "If you don't surrender, the city will be completely destroyed, so we will make our own decision before you continue to waver!" ”

Sockman did not dare to slack off, and he also made up his mind to surrender, so he summoned several messengers to draft a surrender document, willing to hand over not only Diarbakir, but also the other fortresses in the entire border, but Gawain wanted to give him 30,000 gold coins as bargaining chips, so that he could return to such beautiful places as Taulis, Isfahan, or Kekuyun to retire.

However, in the early morning of the next day, it was the inhabitants of Diarbakir who suddenly opened the blacksmith gate, the spice gate, and other places, and carried silk ribbons for the banner, and poured out loudly, expressing their willingness to submit to the rule of the state of Tarsus, begging the other side to stop the shelling and gunning and accept the city with mercy.

"Where's Sockman!" Gao Wen, who was soon receiving the public opinion representative in the tent, asked.

The answer is: Prince Sockman was assassinated by the already angry Gabuzuk along with two confidential officers after drafting a letter of surrender! Therefore, the entire castle group has no leader, so it can only open the door and surrender.

"This group of foolish fanatics is simply sent by God to help me. Not only did I not have to send my army to fight bloodily, but I saved me 30,000 gold coins for the purchase of the castle - to find such a good opponent there. Gawain mused, and then he asked, "Sure enough, Potrufis and Gabuzuk are behind it, so they must have escaped now?" ”