On March 20th, the Western Qin army once again came to the city.
This time, Zhao Ziliang did not kill any more slaves, but directly ordered an attack on the city.
The remaining 6,000 stubborn slaves had all been executed by his order last night, and the remaining 10,000 The nine thousand slaves were all people who voluntarily participated in the siege in order to survive.
In order to prevent slaves from turning against each other with sharp blades during the siege, and to be able to extinguish the incident promptly after it occurred, Zhao Ziliang ordered that a thousand slaves participate in the siege at a time, and that slaves without combat missions should stay at the rear.
Weapons are not issued until they participate in combat, and weapons must be collected at the end of the combat mission.
Zhao Ziliang rode to the commander's platform, dismounted and climbed onto the commander's platform.
Chen Qing and other staff-type generals had been waiting for him to come again.
When he sat down, Chen Qing stepped forward and clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, the first echelon is attacking the city with a thousand soldiers."
The slaves are ready.
They have received weapons, siege ladders, well rails and other siege equipment. , in view of the high precision and technical nature of siege equipment such as siege engines, catapults, and crossbows, it is not suitable to be operated by them.
The officers and soldiers of our army's siege battalion are responsible for operational support, but there is currently no specific command for their operations.
General, please appoint a general to command the battle on site."
Zhao Ziliang used a telescope to observe the defense deployment of the city wall.
He looked at it again and was about to put down the telescope when he found some stone slabs soaked with white lime water in the open space in front of the military formation.
He was startled, and then used the telescope to look at it again.
On the city wall, he found that there were tall things covered with branches at every distance on the city wall.
Combined with the stone markers used for marking in the open space, he judged that the tall things covered by branches on the city wall must be equipment such as trebuchets. .
"Chen Qing" Chen Qing immediately stood up and clasped his fists and said, "I'm here."
"Have you seen those white stone barriers in the open space in front of the military formation?
If I guess correctly, they should be markers used by the defenders to measure distances.
The pile of stone barriers closest to the city wall should be one hundred feet, in order.
The distances are two hundred feet, three hundred feet, Four hundred feet, five hundred feet, six hundred feet, seven hundred feet, eight hundred feet, nine hundred feet and one thousand feet.
Their walls must have equipment such as trebuchets or ballistae.
After the siege begins, , first let the siege battalion use trebuchets and ballistae to knock out the opponent's equipment."
Chen Qing promised: "I will obey my order" Zhao Ziliang's eyes swept over the surrounding generals, pointed at Ma Sui and said: "Ma Qing, you will command the slaves to fight."
Although Sui was unwilling to command this group of slaves to fight, it was also an opportunity.
If he could use slaves to capture Jerusalem, it would be a special honor for him.
Moreover, not every grand prize who accompanied the army had the opportunity to lead troops.
To participate in combat, some battles require active participation, otherwise the opportunity will be passed to other generals.
Ma Sui led the military orders and quickly walked down from the command platform and rode to the front to prepare for the war.
His first batch of one thousand slaves was divided into several parts.
The first part was responsible for carrying the siege ladders, and the second part was responsible for the well fences.
Let the well fence advance with the overall siege team He approached the city wall and rushed up the city wall from the well railing.
The third part was the slaves who were specially responsible for climbing the siege ladder to attack the city.
In addition, the war team was also under his command.
The war team had to press to the front and urge the slaves to attack the city desperately.
Once there was an attack, Anyone who retreats will be killed immediately.
"Your Majesty, General Ma Sui is fully prepared and will launch an attack just after your Majesty's order."
A communications soldier came to report.
Zhao Ziliang raised his hand and waved forward: "Give Ma Sui an order to attack."
"promise" Ma Sui got the order, drew his sword and pointed forward: "Attack" The slaves, who were not in a neat team, started to move towards the city wall with swords in their hands, because they were still far away from the city wall.
In order to save their strength, Ma Sui asked them to move forward slowly.
The slaves in charge of the siege ladders and well railings also moved at this time.
They carried the ladders and manhole rails respectively and followed the other slaves forward.
More than a dozen manhole rails stood high and were pushed forward slowly by the slaves, with the wooden wheels making a creaking sound.
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Ma Sui led the war team to supervise the battle behind these thousand slaves.
As the slaves moved forward as a whole, he also led the war team to move forward.
As the slave army advanced, the tall objects covered by branches on the city wall were finally unveiled by the defenders.
Just as Zhao Ziliang guessed, those were trebuchets and ballistae, and they were preparing to attack the advancing army.
The slave army fired stone bullets and crossbow arrows, but they didn't know that the trebuchets and crossbows of the siege camp were also aimed at them.
When the slave army advanced to the vicinity of the thousand-foot white stone, the trebuchets and crossbows on the city wall finally began to show their power.
Stone bullets were thrown into the air one after another, and then fell into the slave army in a parabola.
After the rocks hit the ground, some of them directly hit a slave, and then continued to roll forward, rolling over several slaves one after another, and rolled out for a considerable distance.
Li Cai stopped.
Although he hit several slaves along the way, many slaves dodged.
The bed crossbow also began to shoot crossbow arrows.
Crossbow arrows were shot out in a whoosh, and some crossbow arrows penetrated the bodies of several slaves. , some were shot on the ground, and some hit the manhole railings.
The huge impact caused the manhole railings to collapse, knocking over some slow-moving slaves.
When the defenders' trebuchets and crossbows were fired, the trebuchets and crossbows of the Western Qin army's siege camp also began to show their power.
A large number of rolling stones were thrown towards the city wall, and a large number of crossbow arrows were shot out.
This was in line with the defenders' attack. military launch The stone bullets are different from the crossbows.
They are fired with a purpose, specifically targeting the defenders' trebuchets and ballistae.
Coupled with the skilled and efficient operation of the Western Qin army's siege battalion, the hit rate is much higher than garrison.
The siege battalion's trebuchets and crossbows were extremely effective in long-range suppression of the defenders' trebuchets and ballistae, which greatly reduced the casualties of the slave army approaching the city wall.
When the slave team slowly advanced to a stone's throw away from the city wall, Ma Sui immediately ordered: "Charge with the order."
The messenger immediately raised the flag, and the Western Qin military captains who led the siege immediately gave the slaves charge instructions.
"charge" "charge" In order to have a full meal, freedom, wealth, and life, the slaves held up their weapons and rushed towards the city wall in spite of the arrows in the sky.
"Kill, kill, kill!"
In order to dispel the fear in their hearts, the slaves yelled and ran forward, while the slaves carrying the siege ladder ran at the front.
They needed to put the siege ladder on the city wall as soon as possible.
Later slaves climbed.
At this time, more than a dozen manholes were pushed by slaves towards the city wall.
There were also a large number of Western Qin army archers on the city wall.
Their task was to provide cover for the slaves and suppress the bows and arrows of the defenders on the city wall. hand.
Before the slaves were within the range of the bow and arrow, the defenders on the city wall fired arrows at the slaves because they had no combat experience and were nervous.
There was no doubt that all the arrows they shot fell into the open space, wasting a lot of energy.
Arrows, the generals guarding the city were all temporarily appointed. , had no experience in leading a battle or commanding an army.
If the Christian Bishop Perici hadn't used the influence of the church to deal with Nicerus, the governor of Syria in the Eastern Roman Empire, Jerusalem would have no defense at all.
It had long been defeated by the Eastern Roman legions.
Zhao Ziliang, who was on the commander's stage, saw through the telescope the panic, confusion and disorganized behavior of the defenders on the city wall and suddenly laughed, "It seems that the king has overestimated these residents of Jerusalem.
After all, they are just ordinary people.
Even if they can barely Putting together an army is just a mere form, and its combat effectiveness cannot be complimented.
Using slaves to attack can be regarded as allowing them to meet their opponents."
The generals share the same sentiment.
The defenders of Jerusalem have a strong will.
If it is a trained regular army, it will only take a lot of effort and some casualties to capture the city.
But in this case, it seems that the defenders will not be able to defeat the city.
It was obvious that these people in the city had not been trained, and the generals and officers leading the troops had no experience in leading troops and fighting.
Military is also included in civilization, and it needs to be passed down and continuously promoted.
Those who have never studied military are considered to have a wild background.
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Whether it is leading troops or fighting, it requires long-term experience accumulation and training.
There will definitely be a price to pay in this process, but it is completely different for soldiers who have learned military skills through the system.
They can avoid unnecessary losses after studying.
This is the benefit of coming from a major, but there are also disadvantages to being a major. , that is too institutionalized, and there will be a lack of flexibility in command, especially in tactics, which are easily affected by the tactics that have been learned.
That is what people often say, too much craftsmanship is a bit unsightly, and those who were born in Yeluzi Military generals have not gone through systematic study and do not even understand a lot of military common sense.
However, this does not prevent them from leading troops and commanding operations.
They just have to pay more tuition.
The advantage of these people is that they are not subject to fixed thinking and thinking when commanding operations.
Tactical limitations.
The slaves had no way out.
If they didn't advance, they would die.
In order to survive, for freedom, for wealth and land, they had to risk their lives and rush forward.
This was what Zhao Ziliang had promised.
As long as Jerusalem was conquered, they would be free. , and were allocated some fields and received some monetary rewards.
They could use the rewarded money to marry a woman and go home.
Once they had the fields, they could Feeding their wives and children, living a happy life, and the wall of Jerusalem is an obstacle blocking their way to happiness.
They must destroy it.
Although they once regarded it as a holy place, this thing is not as good as getting practical benefits.
If there is no more, there is no need to talk about faith.
Those who insist on not attacking the Holy City and would rather die if they want the Holy Land to have no use are definitely out of their minds.
When the siege ladder was set up on the city wall, slaves immediately rushed up.
They held their weapons in their mouths and kept climbing up with their hands and feet, hoping to climb up the city wall as quickly as possible and kill the defenders. people.
But it was obvious that the defenders of the city were not scarecrows.
They immediately shot them with bows and arrows, smashed them with stones, stabbed them with spears, burned them with kerosene, and poured them with boiling water.
The slaves on the ladders and under the city walls were beaten until they screamed in agony.
But this did not stop them from continuing to climb the ladder desperately.
At this time, the well railing had been advanced to the vicinity of the city wall.
The soldiers of the Western Qin Army above were constantly providing powerful support to the slaves with bows and arrows.
There were constant guards on the city wall.
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