"The Northerner is indeed vulnerable." Looking at the city's head, Tsar Borier said disappointedly and disgustedly, without any grief for his people who died in battle like before Emperor Mikhail.

As the nobles of Paradonnaion, Connortin Palace was also opposite. The casualties who had filled the gullies in front were indifferent, but were calm and naturally estimating that the next attack might cause losses.

"Thessalonika's three-sided city wall is only narrow and long on the front and back. There will inevitably be loopholes on the deployment line of defense. You only need to attack and break through one of them to occupy it, so that the defense line of Thessalonika can be defeated. It is better for us to concentrate our efforts and we will definitely succeed."

Connontin, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, followed his former Tsar Karoyan, who knew every city in Macedonia well. In front of him, the Bulgarian rulers of all generations were all drooling about it, and they were all studying how to conquer this prosperous city. Under the influence of his eyes, this Gong Xiang revealed the weakness of Thessalonika's lack of defense.

Emperor Mikhail also expressed his strong agreement with his views and immediately ordered his soldiers to prepare for battle.

Before this, the tyrant Epirus waved his hand and finally debugged the next round of the trencher in the rear, aimed at the city wall of Thessalonika again. This time, the launch was no longer a boulder bomb, but a asphalt barrel igniting flames.

"Look down! Look for cover!"

"It's asphalt, don't be stained by the things from hell."

Seeing the huge fireballs fired from the enemy's positions suddenly crossing the city wall and smashing towards their heads, Arslan quickly ordered his subordinates to hide. He had once followed his father to travel in the Levant area and had seen the Muslim army besieging the Crusader Castle to use this weapon. The lethality was like a toy than the giant trencher they faced now. But that time the asphalt barrel he saw turned the crusader castle into a sea of ​​fire. The Frank soldiers poured on the asphalt struggled and could not put out the flames. Finally, they struggled and died tragically.

When the Turkic young man shuddered when he thought of that scene.

A huge fireball wrapped in black asphalt exploded above his head, turning into a not-so-glorious meteor falling on the city of Thessalonika. Some of them fell into the residential area. Suddenly, some of them lit up fires in some residential areas. Fortunately, the people there were ordered to evacuate before.

But even though there were already precautions before, casualties were still avoided. Many soldiers were still burned on the city wall, and bones were visible. But Arslan had no time to organize people to bandage them, because at this time, the siege towers pushed by Epirus heavy infantry were lined up and slowly approaching them.

Even on those siege towers, Epirus craftsmen installed simple small crossbows on them. Epirus' army pushed the siege tower forward and fired stone bullets on the top of the city. A curious Italian soldier subconsciously poked his head to see what was going on, but he happened to be shot by the oncoming stone. When he fell down, his companions squatting behind the city wall saw a corpse without a head.

Tsk, it's trouble.

Unexpectedly, the enemy was equipped with such things. Looking up the tower, the soldiers responsible for reconnaissance had no room to escape. They were naturally burned to charcoal by the previous round of attacks or were shot to pieces by the crossbows. The defenders on the city became blind in order to hide and passively. This was what Arslan wanted to see, because in this case, the plan given to him by Sir Baptiste before could not be implemented.

But at this moment, on the white tower behind the city wall in the distance, there was a sudden sound of gongs and drums. Someone was desperately making a sound towards this place to arouse Arslan's idea.

He quickly looked over and saw that a man was dancing to Arslan at the most conspicuous top, and he recognized at first glance that the man was not Sir Baptist who was supposed to be in the rear.

"The lighting here is good, and I can see the whole city, including the olive forest in the wilderness outside the city."

The Turkic man suddenly heard the conversation he had with Baptist on the White Tower, and he immediately reacted.

"No. 1, No. 3, No. 5, No. 7! Fire the crossbow!"

Arslan roared suddenly-although they had to be blind on the top of the city, the Latin man behind him on the white tower was their blind man, and as for himself, he was everyone's ears.

According to the original plan, after receiving the order, the soldiers in the corresponding position immediately responded and pulled the fixed crossbows that had been arranged. However, the targets of these crossbows were not the enemy siege towers that were approaching opposite, but several signs had been made in the open space under Thessalonika.

The one-meter-long giant iron cone flew out of the crossbow, and behind it were very strong and thick ropes. Like a giant snake, the ropes flew out of the city with the iron cone. At first, the Epirus people were very alert to these things, and once stopped moving to see what the Thessalonikas played on the opposite city wall. But nothing happened. Then the Epirus army felt relieved and thought that it was either the opposite side bluff or the siege tower, and continued to push the siege tower without fear.

Sure enough, the several giant iron cones that flew over and deviated from the target together and did not hurt the Epirus at all. Looking at this scene, the soldiers siege the city laughed, but they didn't know that the more they laughed, the more Arslan was hidden on the top of the city, the more at ease.

"kill--"

As the city wall and the siege tower contacted each other, the gate was opened, and the first Epirus soldiers who siege the city and the cavalry below the Bulgarians rushed to the walls of Thessalonika.

Arslan, who was at a disadvantage, immediately commanded his troops to fight. The two sides fought with spears and swords. The Turkic men led the way and took the lead and pierced the two Bulgarian nobles who came to rush towards him. Then several Epirus heavy infantrymen held swords and warhammers and attacked him. Arslan was cold-eyed. Faced with the dangerous attack, he first cut off the arms of a Greek soldier. Blood splattered and blinded the sight of several other Epirus people. Just as they were going to wipe their eyes, the Turkic sword had already fallen and took their lives.

Arslan repeatedly killed the other besieged enemies, and his morale was greatly boosted. Seeing his superiors burst out with such strength, the soldiers guarding the city were honored, and then they became even more excited and ignored.
Chapter completed!