Eagle Flag of Epirus

Facing the dawn of Fort Wiscari, the cold wind of Xiao Sha rushed in, while the Byzantine soldiers standing on the wall quietly looked into the distance, and the Venetians who came back to the city again were obviously ready to finish their battle.

Ranieri sent all the siege equipment and the last elite troops to encircle the isolated city with a copper wall and iron wall according to his previous arrangement.

At the same time, a large number of Venetian fleets appeared in the bay south of Fort Wiscari. Justinian had no choice but to transfer part of the defense of the city wall to the sea wall. Aside.

With the presence of the Grand Duke Anastasius, the army of the whole city has gathered under Justinian's command at this time, but even so, the defense force of Fort Wiscari is still stretched.

"If this continues, can we really support the arrival of reinforcements?" Immaz beside Justinian looked at several times his own, and the well-equipped enemy's eyes also wavered. As a Turkic, he respected the strong and was loyal to Justinian, but in the face of such a disadvantage, he had to hesitate because of fear.

Although Justinian claimed that the reinforcements from Tripolis would inevitably come to support, Imaz knew that Justinian had no bottom in his heart, not to mention whether the reinforcements from all over the world had yet to fight the enemy. Power is even harder to say.

However, Justinian said indifferently: "Just do what you are doing now, Imaz, you are what you are going to accomplish now. I said...the one who shakes the military's mind, the military is engaged in it." He said a little bit. Chill, the Imaz who was standing beside him also took a step back subconsciously with a look of fear.

This is the first time Justinian has shown such a feeling, like a tyrant, just relying on a word between gestures can make all opponents surrender.

Immediately, Justinian turned around, but it looked completely different. He pulled out his saber and held it high towards the Venetian who was gradually approaching the castle in the distance. Justinian looked at the army behind him with high expression.

"I have already said that this war is different from all the wars faced by the empire in the past millennia, and everything has been completely different since the day our capital was lost. I am not asking you to serve me or the nobles. We are working hard, now you are working hard for yourself! Instead of protecting the **** nobles in the city. What you protect is your beloved in the city, this is your castle, and I am just an outsider, but I I bet on my own lives and fight alongside you. If you still have someone you love—take your lives to protect it! May the empire and her people be immortal, long live—"

"Long live!"

Justinian is very good at thinking about people's psychology. In the war, anger and humiliation may inspire people's fighting spirit, but this is only temporary, but the fear of the destruction of precious things is eternal. In Justinian Before the fierce pre-war speech, the soldiers on the city wall roared like chicken blood and took up the weapon in their hands, and the eagle flag on the city wall was also floating in the wind——

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At this moment, when the Venetian finally completed the array calmly, the ready-to-go total offensive finally kicked off.

A death fight is inevitable.

And Ranieri did not give a passionate speech, because everything is not as convincing as a real victory.

"Everything is ready, Lord Dandorou." Maximilian who followed him said, this is exactly the time for the attack on the previously formulated battle plan.

The silent man looked at the scarlet eagle flag on the city wall for a long time without saying a word. After a long time, he just said, "Go!"

In fact, Ranieri himself actually regretted the alliance with Nicaea. A castle that seemed to be easily breakable had been delayed for so long, and there was still a lot of loss. But now, he is already riding a tiger, either bearing the humiliation and returning to his motherland to accept punishment, or washing away all this with victory and triumphant victory!

The horn of the attack was sounded, and in the morning light, Venice’s trebuchet took the lead in launching the attack.

Due to the previous attack, all the boulders transported from the remote coast have been used up, and the Venetians can only replace them with lit asphalt shepherds, and the damage to the city walls is bound to be greatly reduced. But even so, the Byzantines did not hide behind the wall and endure this unscrupulous bombing.

Compared to the sophisticated and powerful trebuchets, Fort Wiscari is equipped with an old twist-powered ballista that pales in comparison.

But this is also the only precious weapon that the Byzantines can threaten the Venetians remotely.

When the enemy's trebuchet gave the Byzantines a precious opportunity, Justinian immediately ordered the soldier next to the ballista:

"Launch, delay their attack!"

"Yes!"

Adjust the range and angle of the ballista to aim at the attacking Venetian, and then a violent stone fell into the crowd and struck a **** trace. However, this does not stop the advancement of the Venetians.

At the forefront of the Venetian army are the three detachments of heavy infantry composed of Venice in the Dalmatian territory. Although these Dalmatians often disobey the orders of their home country and even launch rebellions, they come from the shores of the Adriatic Sea. In fact, they in various regions of the country are in fact fierce and fierce. This is precisely what the Venetians lack. Although their helmets are varied, and armors are also some like those in the West, like the Turks and the Tatars, they look messy from a distance, but But it is the elite of Ranieri Dandoruo.

As the forwards, Ranieri didn’t worry about their sudden defeat this time, and these Dalmatian heavy infantry had a variety of weapons in their hands, including extremely long spears, which made the heavy cavalry The daunting weapon immediately made Justinian give up the adventure plan of the cavalry charge.

This situation is not conducive to the cavalry's galloping operations at all, but there is a risk of being divided and surrounded by the opponent.

Amidst the killing and the smoke, there was a Draven knight who was standing under the army, he raised his arm, the loud horn sounded again, and the soldiers of Venice pushed heavy siege vehicles and siege engines. The tower carried a ladder to assault the walls of Fort Wiscari.

They were accelerating, and as long as they entered the blind zone, the Greek-style ballista at the head of the city had no threat.

And Justinian, who saw through this, looked at the archer behind him unambiguously, and ordered:

"Let's release the arrow!"

Although these archers, composed of Balkan mountain people, are equipped with simple equipment, they are particularly good at archery. Things that were needed for hunting in the past must be well maintained every day. They are equipped with nomadic composite bows. Byzantine soldiers drew their bows and arrows and shot them. "Bo" bo" is an arrow that weakens morale and lives.

I saw a rain of arrows heading towards the heavy infantry in Venice. The sophisticated chain armor and leather armor were of no avail to such a sharp rain of arrows, but the infantry team that rushed forward was not afraid, they were among the elite. Elite, although they are not citizens of Venice, but because they are in the Dalmatian region, even the Magyar cavalry facing Hungary can charge without falling wind, and the arrow rain facing the archer is even more commonplace.

At this moment, the arrow feathers shot by the enemy in the city could not deter them. On the contrary, they were still marching forward bravely, carrying their shields to disperse and advancing. The power of the arrow rain was instantly weakened, causing the forward of Venice to easily move towards Fort Wiscari. The walls of the city advance.

In just a few breaths, the Venetian successfully advanced to the city, and the Byzantine soldiers who saw this scene were a little panicked for a while, and some even retreated and yelled, watching the enemy attacking the city timidly. The tower docked in front of them.

But when these frightened soldiers saw that Justinian commanding them showed an extremely calm expression at this moment, they couldn't help calming down again, not as scared as before.

"Come down, boys! Remember who you are fighting for!"

"For ourselves!"

The Byzantine soldiers roared in a low voice. It has been almost two hundred years since the Macedonian dynasty. Their status as the guards of these military districts has gone from bad to worse. Now they are no different from serfs, and their land has been unscrupulously invaded by the nobles. They don't have the right to choose once, even death, and now they can finally fight for themselves.

Everyone from top to bottom uttered amazing roars, tapping the shield in their hands with their weapons, and the Venetian on the Siege Tower finally jumped onto the wall in the next second, and the Byzantines greeted them. Fight bravely.

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On the other side, by the bay of Fort Wiscari, it has been calm. The one who is stationed here is a nobleman of Moria. Although a hundred people are unwilling in his heart, it is at the order of Grand Duke Anastasius. He still had to act as the command of the southern commander to prevent the Venetians from landing.

The place was actually abandoned when the plan was first specified. Justinian only deployed a small number of troops to garrison. In order to delay the enemy's attack, he chose to place the wreckage of the warship that had sunk in Venice on the heavy obstacle of the waterway. The other party's itinerary. It is clear that I want to give up here and go to street fighting, so it stands to reason that it is easy to attack here.

But what made him strange and fortunate was that the Venice Calling Fleet, which was anchored at sea, had been standing still. Although the sound of killing on the northern wall had been earth-shattering, the other party had no intention of attacking at all.

Hey, I didn't expect me to become the safest place here, and the kid Justinian also has today.

The nobleman couldn't help but think that the more he thought about it, the more he would relieve his anger, but on the one hand he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but on the other hand, the nobleman was on the other hand, for fear that the enemy would suddenly get into trouble if he didn't pay attention to it.

However, what he didn't know was that the Venetian nobleman on the ship had other plans.

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"Aren't you attacking, everyone? The time we agreed with Your Excellency Dandorou has arrived!"

"Why are you in such a hurry, Your Excellency Reinhardt, it's just a castle. Since Ranieri is willing to spend a lot of time, then why don't we give him more time."

"Yeah, since it's a one-man show, why should we rush to appear on stage?"

"A broken city actually cost such a big price, so he actually wanted to succeed his father to run for consul, it's ridiculous!"

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Several Venetian nobles on the ship talked coldly with laughter, apparently accumulating a lot of dissatisfaction with Ranieri, and there was a lot of disdain in their speech. In their opinion, the other party deliberately emptied them to prevent them from participating in the command of this siege, which was an ugly move.

Therefore, of course they are already unwilling to make wedding dresses for others and work hard to cooperate with Ranieri Dandro's offensive plan. On the contrary, they are ready to stand still and they once again choose to reduce unnecessary losses in their eyes. As for Ranieri’s previous warnings, he turned a deaf ear.

Ranieri once again miscalculated his colleagues, and people often used the most malicious guesses about the discord in the past. At this moment, if these people's secret restraints are let him know, I am afraid they will not be able to bear the most vicious curse.

As the saying goes, the soul of the king is not necessarily more noble than the shoemaker, and the war between nations is more like the discord between the neighbors.

The intrigue between the Venetian nobles constrained each other invisibly to buy Justinian a lot of precious time to defend the city.

However, the situation in Fort Wiscari did not improve at this time. On the contrary, the situation worsened.

From outside the city, there are Venetian armies everywhere, between the city walls, soldiers hired by the Venetians, and elite foot knights, like a frenzy, gushing from everywhere, oppressing the defensive positions on the walls of Fort Wiscari ~www.ltnovel.com~ Almost all Byzantines gritted their teeth and carried astonishing casualties to resist wave after wave of attacks. The archers on the city’s head kept sticking out their heads and shooting arrows everywhere to support them. However, if you are not careful, you may be shot through the head by a crossbow under the city, or hacked to death by a Venetian knight who squeezes over.

But even so, the soldiers of the militia spontaneously formed in Fort Wiscari still held their weapons and refused to take a step back. As Justinian said, they were fighting for themselves, only the poorly equipped militias formed a dense formation. The shield wall stubbornly resisted the enemies that kept coming, repelling their rounds of onslaught. But more and more people fell, and the city was already covered with corpses. However, the Venetians were really unmoved, as if even the tactics of adding fuel had abruptly annihilated the weak flame of Byzantine resistance.

And Justinian is also struggling to fight the **** battle with the Venetians. He stares at fate, hoping to really see even a trace of people. If there is really no support, no matter who it is, no one will be able to reverse the situation. . The power gap is too great, but now the whole city is really relying on this vain hope that Justinian has woven with lies to hold on to the present.

However, at a moment when Justinian himself was desperate, suddenly a wounded soldier who was dragging his intestines with severe injuries shouted excitedly in an extremely weak voice:

"Look, look, our reinforcements, they have appeared!"