It was a moonless night, and for the Union soldier Zedras Delbrook, who was at night in Triangle Fort, it was just another ordinary night in the siege.

Zekelas Delbrook was the youngest son in the family. His father loved the youngest son so much that he begged the priest to give the youngest son a saint's name as a church name.

However, this name is too long and difficult to pronounce, and few people can call it Lisuo. Because his face was covered with freckles, the other big-headed soldiers of the Federation simply called him "Mazi".

As the son of a self-cultivated farmer, the reason why Mazi chose to join the army was very simple - his father had very little land, but his father had many children.

Mazi has four brothers and three sisters, and his parents have only died of two children. This is an unusual luck and an unusual misfortune.

So until Mazi grew to sixteen years old, his elder sister Zhuoya still couldn't get married.

Zhuoya is not only a good job in work, but also beautiful in life and gentle in character. The young man who was driven away by her father with a stick can't be counted.

However, the marriages she talked about were finally hyped because Mazi and Zhuoya's father had no money to buy a dowry for their daughter.

Mazi's father only has more than a dozen acres of land, and they are still in the corners and are not connected.

For this reason, Mazi's parents got up early and went to bed late every day, and when they were not in charge of the youth, they had to work as handymen to make money to subsidize their family income. Even though they were so hard, they only barely raised their eight children. His father really had no spare time to save a dowry for his daughter.

The eldest sister Zhuoya became an old girl, always secretly wiping her tears in the yard; her parents were frowning all day long, sighing and complaining to each other.

Zekelas Delbrook saw these things.

So on the day when he was sixteen years old, Tzekras Delbrook handed over the settlement fee to his sister to buy a dowry, and he left his hometown with the recruiters of the Federation and became a "poisonous person".

Although the direct purpose of signing up for the army was to buy a dowry for my sister, it was because Mazi didn't want to dig food in the soil for the rest of her life like his father, and his father's land was not enough to be distributed to Mazi and his brothers, and Mazi also wanted to see the outside world.

But now, on the Triangle Fort outside the Tower City Wall, and under the siege of the Venetta army, Mazi is now particularly homesick.

"What are your parents doing now? You should be sleeping?" Mazi tried hard not to doze off, but thought in a drowsy manner: "I don't know who Zhuo Ya married to, so my elder brother should get married..."

Mazi was trying hard to recall the house in his hometown. When the road was on the road, a few "swoosh" sounds suddenly came from the front. He woke up suddenly, but before he could react, three short and thick crossbow arrows had already flew to him.

Two crossbow arrows hit Ma Zi's breastplate and made a "ding" sound. Two "ding" sounds, and the arrow penetrated the breastplate but failed to penetrate completely.

The third crossbow arrow hit the Mazi face, penetrated the eyes and bones, and the arrow stayed in the soft brain, causing fatal injuries.

Mazi fell to the ground softly, his consciousness quickly disappeared, and his memory and everything in his memory disappeared.

"Good shot!" Field, lurking not far in front of the Triangle Fort, excitedly punched himself in his knee, but before he could order an attack, the night was pierced by shrill whistles and alarm bells.

Another secret whistle on the Triangle Fort heard a strange noise first, and then when he saw Mazi leaning back and falling, he immediately issued an alarm.

"[Furious swear words]!" Seeing the failure, Field cursed fiercely, and then said angrily: "Anyway, I didn't expect to attack! Blow the whistle! Strong attack!"

In the Triangle Fort, the Union soldiers woke up from their sleep and flew in panic in the darkness. After getting the weapons, they immediately ran towards the fortress.

The defenders in Tacheng also heard the alarm bells, and the braziers on the city walls were lit one by one, and the defenders resting everywhere in the city ran towards the city walls.

As the low-intensity siege confrontation grew longer, the defenders in the city had more or less slacking off the Venettas outside the city.

The panic and fear when they were initially surrounded by the army gradually dissipated, and many soldiers of the Union began to think, "What? The Venetta man is just like this, except for repairing walls."

When the Vinetta people outside the city built the corridor about two hundred meters away from the city wall, they stopped repairing it forward, but began to extend parallel to the city wall, as if they just wanted to build a closer siege barrier.

Some Tanirian veterans who have been in the army for many years pretended to be profound and profound, and said to the recruits: "The Venettas work hard to build walls, which is a good thing for us to join the army."

The recruit asked foolishly: "What's the good thing?"

The veterans would proudly answer, “The harder they work to repair the wall, the less they want to attack, they just want to trap us to death. In this case, if the food is finished, the superiors have to surrender, and they have to surrender. Isn’t it a good thing not to fight?”

However, the Federation defenders who thought they were safe did not expect that the Venetta people would suddenly attack tonight, and they would be like thunder once they had any movement.

In the dark night in front of the city wall, a sharp whistle sounded first, and then hundreds of whistles blew at the same time.

After hearing the whistle representing the attack, the Venetta officers in the corridor and the barriers were blowing the whistle and ordered people to light torches.

In an instant, hundreds of torches were lit in front of the city wall, as if thousands of troops were moving in the dark. With the shaking of the torches, the Vineta soldiers shouted and killed one after another and knocked on the spirit of the defenders like waves.

The panicked defenders rushed to fill in muskets and cannons, stringed the crossbows, and searched for arrows without any brains.

The officers of the Federation no longer cared about the order to save gunpowder and desperately urged the gunners to order fire immediately once the loading was completed.

For a moment, the defenders shot several bullets and arrows at the torches and figures in the distance. They just kept repeating the process of loading and shooting.

Fear is contagious. The deafening momentum of the Venetta people made the defenders fall into fear. Only by firing at the enemy can they feel a little safe.

And under the cover of shouting, firelight and gunfire, a large number of Venetta soldiers were pouring out from the corridor facing the city gate and Triangle Fort. These soldiers did not shout or turret, and carried the ladder in groups of three people and rushed to Triangle Fort quickly under the guidance of the officer without night blindness.

Lieutenant Colonel Field and several other crossbowmen who had quietly touched the closest to Triangle Fort were waiting for them.

The defenders on the Triangle Fort immediately discovered the abnormality. The brazier beside them made them unable to see the open space in front, but the footsteps in front were clearly audible and were getting closer.

Although the east-west direction is huge, it can be seen clearly from the perspective of the Triangle Fort: the torch does not need to approach the city wall, but is just moving repeatedly on the left and right.

Captain Sanogaila, who was responsible for defending the Triangle Fort, realized that he was just pretending on the east and west sides, and he shouted desperately to warn the city wall, but the defenders on the city wall were already in a sense of fanaticism, and it was useless even if a few people noticed him.

In desperation, Sanogala had to send someone to run from the suspension bridge between the Triangle Fort and the city wall to ask for help.

However, it was too late. A large number of Venetta people rushed out of the misty night, making Sanogail gasp.

The defenders shot out bullets and killed the Vineta people in the front row, but every time one fell, more people would rush out of the night.

The temporary triangular fort in front of the city gate is like the city wall, and lacks the protection of trenches. At the same time, in order to resist the attack of artillery, the main material is soil, with a height of only about five meters.

The triangle structure makes it without firepower dead corners, and the city wall behind can provide full coverage fire support. The low and thick main structure can not only absorb the force of the shells, but also enable the city wall behind the Triangle Fort to perform beyond shooting.

This is a fortress of a new era, and Antonio will use the tactics of the old era tonight to break it.

Without the protection of the trench, the Venetta soldiers carrying the ladder rushed to the base of the Triangle Fort wall in one go, and then set up the ladder and began to climb.

The Venetta's aura of sacrificing his life made Sanogala feel frightened. He shouted loudly and directed the defenders to fight back.

The defenders of Triangle Fort dropped muskets and threw rocks at the Venettas. All the Venettas who were hit were killed on the spot.

Before the asphalt could burn, it sprinkled under the wall. The Venetta people who were poured on their heads were wailing like ghosts, and then a few more torches were thrown off the city wall, turning them into firemen.

Four-pound cannons and eight-pound cannons carrying more than a dozen walnut-sized iron shells opened fire at the Vineta people, each of which could cause a flesh-and-blood storm.

Cannons and grenade guns kept roaring, and the dying people let out creepy screams, smoke rolling, and fires swelling, as if the whole world was about to be destroyed.

But even though the defenders resisted tenaciously, they still could not stop the momentum of the Vineta attack.

Tonight, Antonio and Leiden used two teams to attack the two waists of the Triangle Fort at the same time.

The two brigades in charge of the main attack were elite troops selected from the two legions. The colonel captain now stood under the fort wall to command, while the centurions were the first to climb up with their swords.

After a large number of casualties, a small number of Venetta soldiers soon climbed to the Triangle Fort and began to fight with the Triangle Fort defenders.

Lieutenant Colonel Field saw it and was anxious. Tonight he failed to get the main attack mission, and the task he gave him was to command the musketeers to cover the main attack brigade.

However, the speed of sending troops in the corridor was limited, and the two hundred-man musketeers fell behind. It was not until the Venetta soldiers in front had climbed to the Triangle Fort that the musketeers arrived.

"[swear words]! What are you doing? You're here so slowly! [swear words]!" Field stared at the eyes and cursed the centurion of the Musketeers.

Two centurions Lieutenant Lehman and Captain Philip dared not defend themselves, nor did they care about their defense.

Two centurions commanded their own musketeers, the Century Team, quickly unfolded in front of the Triangle Fort and began to use a medley gun to suppress the defenders on the Triangle Fort.

The suppression of long-range weapons on the wall defenders was immediate. More than a dozen Tanirian soldiers poked out of the wall and threw stones. The asphalt-pulled oil was shot to death and fell from the wall with screams.

The remaining Tanirian soldiers were so scared that they dared not show up again, so they could only reach out from behind the chest wall. The momentum of the Triangle Fort defenders was released, and their killing efficiency began to decline, and the pressure of the Vineta soldiers who were climbing decreased sharply.

However, at this time, the Federation defenders on the city wall finally woke up. William Kidd, who received a request for help from the Triangle Fort defenders, sent a large number of communication soldiers to the city wall to convey the orders.

After receiving orders from the city wall, the defenders everywhere rushed to the city gate to support Triangle Fort.

The cannons on the two Half Moon Forts also adjusted their firing angles and began to fire at the Vineta people under the Triangle Fort wall.

The fortress design of the new era finally revealed its fangs. The shape of the Triangle Fort causes the arrows shot from the walls on both sides of the rear to be unobstructed and without dead corners. Each shell is a terrifying side firepower.

A shell shot from Half Moon Fort on the east side killed all the Venetta soldiers in a straight line, and finally bouncing on the hard volcanic rocks and smashing two ladders, trapping them into the walls of Triangle Fort.

Seeing this, Lieutenant Colonel Field sent two teams of musketeers to suppress the enemy shooters on the wall behind the Triangle Fort. However, he understood that the musketeers who suppressed the enemy had little effect, and the enemy's real killing weapon was the side-firing cannon arranged on Half Moon Fort.

Field roared loudly in his heart: "Fire the fire! Fire!"

The God of Artillery heard his summons, "dong", "dong", "dong", "dong", and the dull roar of artillery resounded throughout the battlefield.

But this time it wasn't the cannons on the city wall that were roaring, and the Vineta's cannons finally began to show their power.

Several stone bullets flew out from behind the newly built wall of the Vineta people. Most of the shells were crooked, and only one shell hit the target and hit the Half Moon Fort on the east side.

The stone bullets collided with the wall, the gravel collapsed, and smoke and dust rose. The Tanilla gunners on the Half Moon Fort were all killed and injured by the gravel, and the main shooter's chest was sunk by the gravel, which was so angry that the spot was in full swing.

The cannons on Half Moon Fort on the east side suddenly silted.

"Cannon? Where did the cannon come from?" On the top of the city, William Kidd grabbed the officer beside him with a ferocious face and asked angrily: "When did the Venetta bring the cannons up? Why didn't he tell me when did the Venetta arrange the cannons? [Pirate swearing] I'll kill you!"

As he said that, he reached out to draw his sword.

"Sir... No... Didn't see it..." The officer caught by William Kidd was so scared that he was about to cry. He replied tremblingly: "We saw nothing... No one saw the Venettas carrying cannons."

"Ah!!!" The furious William Kidder slashed hard on the chest wall, sparking sparks.

About two hundred meters away from the city wall, behind the Vineta wall, parallel to the city wall - these walls were built with corridors and extended horizontally after two hundred meters away from the city wall - Lieutenant Colonel of the Engineer, no, now, Lieutenant Colonel of the Artillery, Vo Bang, while observing the landing point of the shell, ordered: "Architecture No. 1, No. 2, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, Reset."

Next to him, the gunners were busy loading next to four short and thick cannons.

There was a wall between the artillery and the Tacheng defenders. The defenders on the city wall could not see the movements of the Venetta gunner behind the wall.

These four cannons are Vaubon's secret weapons, and they will not be discovered even if deployed under the eyelids of the defenders. They are not ordinary body-barrier cannons, but mortar cannons, mortar cannons removed from warships.

Ordinary artillery requires a gun position and a shooting port.
To be continued...