Just when Agnes was sad and angry about the birth of the "toad". On the west and north sides of the city, shouts of murder erupted, and now Raymond, Godfrey and Bohemond competed to attack the fortification. Because it was the right time for a great victory, everyone agreed that it was necessary to speed up the intensification of the attack and break the morale of the Roma army defending the city in one fell swoop.

Needless to say, the Normans and Provençals fought against the Crescentists for a long time, but the Frankish infantry regiments and the sergeants of the lords also began to use flags and drums to communicate with each other, and Godfrey and Baldwin also mobilized thousands of civilian pilgrims to stand behind the siege team and serve as the rescue work on the battlefield.

The three leaders lined up all the ballistas and catapults, and concentrated on the set target: the tower in the northwest corner of Nicaea, and carried out a fierce bombardment.

The stone bullets whizzed, one after the other, and smashed heavily on the corner towers, sending out a cloud of rubble and dust, and some of them crossed the curtain wall and smashed into the streets and houses, and the Roma soldiers shouted and lined up along the city roads, and kept brackets of wood on the shaking and trembling corner towers, hoping that it would last long.

The craftsmanship and construction of Nicaea amazed everyone, not only the besieging pilgrims, but even the defenders, so who wouldn't want to be the rightful heir to the glorious halo of the "Roman Empire"?

"Non-stop shooting." Godfrey gave the order.

A single catapult could not damage any section of the Nicaean wall, but when all the instruments were slammed into one place, the effect finally appeared—an hour later, the corner tower on the northwest side was smashed into a crack. The bricks covered with bread rolled down, "Rush, rush me!" Stephen, Count of Blois, immediately shouted with his sword, and a large number of pilgrim warriors raised their shields and stacked them on top of each other, braving the bows and fire pots that the Roma soldiers threw desperately at the head of the city. Approaching the turret again, they no longer climbed or built ladders, but surrounded it, and then the craftsman and the rest of the men, armed with hoes, pestles, hammers, and other tools, approached the base of the wall where the crack was located, and began to dig hard.

In the sound of madness. The crack grew wider, and then, at the sound of the trumpet, the besieging soldiers looked back on either side, pulling back with all their might with their hooks with ropes

An earth-shattering sound rose like a meteorite falling, shaking the streets, monasteries, and palaces of Nicaea, and the people handling the paperwork and correspondence tumbling and rolling. Ibn sat in the midst of them. Maimun was also stunned, among the towers and camps. The khadi and the imams are constantly receiving confessions from the Roma soldiers, and then encouraging them to defend the city to the death, even if all of them are successful.

"The city of Nicaea has fallen, the city of Nicaea has fallen!" The Sultan's wife, Shah Nami, was almost broken, and she pulled Gigiki's children. Surrounded by panicked servants, he ran out of the inner chamber of the palace.

"Madame, please exercise restraint and calm, and trust Allah's blessing!" Ibn. Maimon and the guards stood in the outer hall and scolded the poor woman harshly. "Go back!"

"I want to see my husband, I want to see him!" Shahnamy couldn't take it anymore and shouted sharply at the vizier.

With a wave of his hand, several warriors stepped forward and carried Shahnami back to the inner chamber with a rough pick-up, while the rest of the slaves were whipped by their horses and scurried back with their heads in their hands.

At this moment, the herald in charge of the messenger galloped to the entrance of the palace on a mare with a mare with a colorful ornament and a banner, and then ran to report to the vizier, "There is a section of the wall on the northwest side that has collapsed and been destroyed by the enemy's catapults. ”

"How's the damage?"

"The gap is about twenty to twenty-five feet."

"It's okay!" Ibn. Mai Meng immediately decided, "All the stones that were originally intended to be used to build the palace were pulled to the gap with ropes, and pushed up and sealed." In addition, Hajib and Jigasadin were told to resist desperately, and the defenders of Constantine's Tim Gate were drawn to come. ”

In the midst of the huge smoke, the corner tower fell to one side, half of the wall had collapsed, and dozens of Roma soldiers stationed inside were either crushed to death or rolled down, and the Franks guarding below were chopped into pulp with axes. Then, holding shields, they formed a dense line, and when they saw that after the smoke had cleared, there was a crack in the wall in front of them, which was enough for several people to climb side by side.

"Almighty Lord, let us fight indispensable!" The knights and sergeants who took the lead immediately stepped on the fallen stone ruins and threw themselves towards the breach.

"Allah is greater!" Later, the Roma soldiers who came to the aid of Constantine Tim Gate also rushed to the breach.

Soon, in this area of more than 20 feet wide, it soon turned into a bloody slaughterhouse, and the people on both sides were so congested that they could not swing freely, and they could only stab their swords out of each other, all kinds of weapons and shields were staggered and squeezed, the wounded were trampled or suffocated to death, and the hostile soldiers called out their own honorific names, desperately advancing, or never retreating.

"Go up, go up, attack it!" This was the shout of Count Toto, who commanded at the front.

"Plug the heretic dogs back!" Behind the wall, Hajib and Gigasadin also kept whipping, kicking, screaming, and cursing the soldiers who kept climbing up.

The other defenders who had recovered from the panic of the collapse also crawled over from the battle lanes on both sides, lifting stones and fire pots, and slamming them downward.

Finally the Franks could not take it anymore, and they began to flee again along the slope of the collapsed ruins, shielding them behind them, and scattered towards their besieging camp.

The brave Gigasadin, with dozens of soldiers, immediately crossed the gap and prepared to pursue bravely.

But Bohemond had already erected wicker shields on both sides of the gap, and then ambushed several groups of crossbowmen, and when Gigasadin and his men had just stepped out of the gap, they rose up and fired fiercely.

A stone projectile fired from the besieging camp also swept past the crossbowman's position and smashed into the gap, knocking all the soldiers of Gigasadin down, and then being smashed to pieces by the stone bullet that had been cut down by the stone bullet in the past, killing the pursuing Ataberg instantly.

It was only after the Roma had dispersed the crossbowmen that the body of Gigasadin was snatched back.

"Rest for a moment, then attack a second time!" Godfrey, Bohemond and Raymond raised their hands at the same time.

"The next attack, it's time to let the recharged Provençal warriors go." Baldwin lamented the casualty of his own casualties and spoke to Raymond with dissatisfaction.

"That's, that's, of course."

And the red-haired Bohemond watched this scene coldly, with an incomprehensible smile.

Just as the defenders of Nicaea were exhausted from the attack on the northwest flank, Toulon, the defender at the new gate, saw the Red Hand Brigade approaching the walls of the city with their strange siege engines. (To be continued.) )