When the ship carrying the captured nobles of bagzisala and the wife of Yishi LAN gley Khan arrived near the coast of akman, the offensive and defensive war of akman had been going on for 12 days, and the real attack on the wall of akman had reached 8 days except for the peripheral war. In these eight days, at the beginning, LAN gley and his two beys racked their brains and tried their best, but they got nothing except leaving bodies under the city of Ackerman and under the ground again and again.
At the beginning of this day, Langley adopted new tactics. He ordered the soldiers to build seven siege vehicles up to 156 meters. The main body of these siege vehicles is made of wood, covered with a thick layer of cowhide and sheepskin on the outside of the wood, and then poured with water to resist the bullets from the city.
The siege car is very heavy and needs 50 big men to push it. At the back of each siege vehicle, dozens of Crimean Khan guards were in full readiness. As soon as the siege car reached the wall of Ackerman, they rushed up from the ladder.
At the sight of these giants, a cold sweat broke out on the forehead of Muhammad graii and bayazid Khan. Because they both know that Ackerman''s defenders have no weapons to cause fatal damage to them.
If there is even a large caliber artillery in the city, even a six pound artillery can deal with these siege vehicles. However, Ackerman only has a small caliber Fran machine gun. Its caliber is so small that the kinetic energy of the shell can not even penetrate the wood covered with wet cow leather at a long distance.
On several city walls facing the landing point of siege vehicles, ah Hun mi''er, we are constantly dispatching soldiers to strengthen our defense. A famous soldier holding a shield gathered together and looked at the approaching siege vehicle with fear in his eyes.
"Commander Chris, what should I do?!"
On the city tower, Alan tried to grasp Christina''s sleeve with a trembling hand and ask about the strategy to break the enemy, but he was blocked by Carlson before he touched Christina''s arm.
"Panic! Commander Chris is resourceful and will have a way." Muhammad gley glared at Alan and said angrily, but his words were more to Christina.
Christina clearly understood Muhammad gley''s anxiety. She comforted Muhammad graii and said, "Khan need not worry. Although our guns and artillery can''t destroy their siege vehicles, they can kill the soldiers who push the siege vehicles forward. As long as the siege vehicles lose power and can''t get close to the wall, they are just a pile of wooden heads. Not to mention..."
Muhammad gley was not happy when he heard Christina say that it was up to him to kill the soldiers who pushed the siege car forward to stop the siege car from approaching the wall. Even when bayazid heard about Christina''s approach, he felt that "the head of Christina''s talent is exhausted". Because of such a simple method, when the Crimean Tatars attacked the big cities of Czar Russia and Ukraine, the Polish and czar Russians guarding the city had already used it, and the Tatars'' response was simple and rough, that is, they constantly sent people to replace the dead and wounded and continue to push the siege vehicle forward. Anyway, there are cheap Crimean slave soldiers and captured slaves.
However, Christina''s "let alone" raised hope for Mohamed gley - the head of Chris has a backhand.
"Not to mention what? Commander Chris."
As the mouthpiece of Muhammad gley, Alan asked the questions that Muhammad gley and bayazid Khan wanted to ask.
Christina deliberately sold Alan''s question. She asked the two sweaters to look at it carefully and there would be an answer soon.
Gradually, the siege vehicle was less than 50 meters away from the city wall. The Crimean garrison on the siege vehicle kept hiding behind the wooden board wrapped in wet leather and fired at the wall. Some shields were broken by stray bullets and hit the soldiers behind.
At this time, the Fran machine gun on the wall also opened fire. But the projectile either picked up kinetic energy after hitting the wet leather, or only penetrated a hole in the siege vehicle, which could not hurt its foundation.
"Shoot down, shoot at the enemy pushing the cart below."
When the siege car was still 40 meters away from the wall, Colson commanded the Hessian mercenaries and Crimean garrison to shoot bullets at the enemy who pushed the siege car forward, but as Muhammad gley expected, LAN gley didn''t care about the soldiers'' lives at first. If one falls, one will be replaced.
"Commander Chris, if you have a way to use it quickly!" seeing that the siege car is less than 30 meters away from the city wall, even the facial features of the Crimean garrison on the siege car are clearly visible, Alan urged anxiously again. He''s about to jump.
At this time, the two Khan also stared at Christina closely.
"It''s time," murmured Christina.
As if in response to Christina, there was a big explosion at the bottom of the two most forward siege vehicles. The fire devoured everyone near the siege vehicle and turned the siege vehicle into a huge pillar of fire.
"Allah, is this the fire of hell?" Alan looked at the two pillars of fire and couldn''t help but stay.
But this is just the beginning. Then, two more siege vehicles suddenly exploded from the bottom. For a time, the battlefield was full of people swallowed up by fire. They shouted and wailed. Some people rolled on the ground trying to put out the fire, while others rushed to the surviving comrades in arms around them, hoping they could save themselves.
On the wall, all Crimean Tatar soldiers, including ah Hun mi''er and me, were stunned. This hellish scene shocked them, no less than Alan''s.
Although there were still half of the siege vehicles left, at the beginning, the soldiers and even officers on LAN gley''s side had no intention of fighting for a long time. They left their siege vehicles close to the city wall and fled to their own positions.
The city gate of akmandu was opened. Yelishei led a cavalry to rush out. They destroyed all the siege vehicles abandoned by the enemy with huge axes and grenades, and then returned to the city as easily as an outing.
Seeing that all siege vehicles were destroyed, Christina smiled: "two Khan, we have won again."
"Chris, tell me, how did you do it? Do you really have magic?" Mohammed gley said in a dream.
Christina neither denied nor admitted Muhammad gley''s speculation that she was a magician. Because she knew that it was necessary to appropriately let Muhammad gley fear himself. After all, the Khan has made a lot of small moves recently - he even tried to win over the middle and lower level officers in the mercenary regiment.
The real destruction of these siege vehicles is the powder keg buried underground. Christina made full use of the tunnel previously excavated by LAN gley and Colson at the beginning of the underground. She ordered people to dig a parallel tunnel along the wall and bury gunpowder under it. When the siege vehicle moved below the tunnel, it detonated gunpowder, thus destroying the siege vehicle above.
Muhammad gley asked again when a Hessian mercenary ran up the tower.
"Deputy commander Chris, boat, boat," said the Hessian mercenary out of breath.