The burning of a large area of fire caused the temperature on the city wall to rise in a very short period of time.
The soldiers defending many sections of the city wall were unable to stay.
They constantly had to resist the continuous attacks of the slaves and withstand the high temperature.
Roast, many people were swallowed up in the fire, and were burned until they died screaming.
"No, it's too hot, and the fire is too strong.
We can't stay on the wall any longer.
We will all be burned to death if we continue to stay.
Everyone obey my order and retreat to the bottom of the city."
Guy hacked to death two of the people who came over.
The slave then shouted to the garrison soldiers on the left and right.
Under the leadership of Guy, the defenders retreated under the city wall.
Although they withdrew, the large area of fire also caused great trouble to the slaves who were attacking the city.
They tried to follow the defenders.
They pursued them in the direction of retreat, but the fire was too strong for them to endure the high temperature.
Many slaves were burned to death during the pursuit, and they would be roasted alive if they stayed for a long time, so the slaves had to withdraw.
Ma Sui did not expect that attacking the city wall with kerosene bombs would cause such a situation.
It not only made it impossible for the defenders to stay on the city wall, but also blocked the slaves' attack.
Seeing the slaves retreating down the city wall in embarrassment, Ma Sui sighed and ordered to the herald: "Wait until the fire weakens to the point where it is extinguished before attacking.
Order the slaves to retreat 200 feet and wait for a rest."
"Yes," the herald responded with clasped fists, and immediately rode over to convey the order.
Ma Sui left two lieutenants and supervisors to sit in place, and rode to the commander's platform to plead guilty to Zhao Ziliang.
"Wei Chen's attack went poorly.
He originally wanted to use kerosene bombs to burn the opponent's trebuchets and crossbows, causing casualties to the defenders and damaging their morale.
However, he did not expect that this move would shoot himself in the foot.
Wei Chen I have fulfilled the king's trust, and I ask the king to punish him."
Ma Sui climbed up to the commander's platform and came to Zhao Ziliang and bowed down to plead guilty.
Zhao Ziliang stood up and helped Ma Sui up, and said with a smile: "We have just fought for less than an hour, how can Ma Qing say defeat?
This is a strong city.
It is common sense that even if you attack hard for a month or two, you cannot break the city.
You Don’t underestimate yourself, the use of kerosene bombs this time was not without gain, didn’t it burn the defenders’ trebuchets, crossbows and all the defensive equipment and materials on the city wall?”
"Ma Qing, this is a rare opportunity to lead the slaves to attack the city.
If the city is to be broken, I will personally command it and use my troops from the Western Qin Dynasty to capture the city in less than two days.
However, I will not I don’t want to do this.
The generals need more training opportunities.
I believe that if you command my Western Qin soldiers and horses to attack the city, you can quickly capture this city.
But if you can command without any training and without any It will be helpful for slaves with combat experience to conquer this city to improve your command ability."
Ma Sui quickly clasped his fists and said, "Thank you so much, Your Majesty, I will never give up even if I die."
Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "There are so many generals here who also need the opportunity to lead their troops to attack the city, so I don't give you much time.
Including today, there are only three days.
If you cannot break the city within three days, Then someone else will take over your command and continue to command.
After another three days, there is still no breakthrough.
If the city is destroyed, others will take over the command until the city is destroyed.
However, I don’t want you to destroy the city regardless of the death or injury of the slaves.
You must stay rational at all times.
It is not enough to act recklessly.
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You must Use your brain more, you can be considered a wise general, I don’t need to remind you of this."
Ma Sui immediately felt a sense of urgency, clasped his fists again and said, "Wei Chen understands."
Zhao Ziliang asked the generals again: "Have you all heard what the lonely king said just now?
Take turns to command one by one until the city is broken."
All the generals clasped their fists together and said in unison: "I understand."
The fire burned for a whole hour, burning the bricks on the city wall red.
Because the temperature was too high, neither side dared to get too close.
The fire also burned the city wall stronger and stronger.
It was already noon when the fire went out, but at this time the bricks on the city wall were burnt red and the temperature was still very high, making it impossible for people to set foot on it.
The heat wave could be felt from a distance, so Ma Sui had to order the slaves to eat. , until after noon in the afternoon, the temperature of the city wall dropped, and Ma Sui ordered the deployment of manholes and other siege equipment from the siege camp to continue the siege.
After several rounds of trebuchets, Ma Sui quickly discovered that the stone bullets hitting the city wall in the morning could still make holes of different sizes, with gravel and soil flying everywhere.
At this time, the stone bullets hit the city wall.
Only some gravel can be smashed down.
"Trouble, I didn't expect this fire to burn the city wall even stronger.
The stone bullets fired by the trebuchet have extremely limited damage to the city wall."
Ma Sui frowned deeply as he spoke.
A deputy general next to him said: "General, why not send out the siege convoy?"
Ma Sui shook his head and said: "I'm afraid it's of no use.
The city wall is made of stone.
The siege engines can't break it.
The city gate has been burned out, and many stones are exposed inside.
They blocked the city gate with stones."
The city car is not only helpless against the city wall, it is also helpless against the city gate.
If we want to break the city, we can only climb the city wall, occupy the city wall, and then send troops to attack through the city wall.
Entering the city, there are almost no defensive materials on the city wall, which means that the lethality of the defenders to us has been reduced to the lowest point.
This is the best time for us to attack.
Send the order to increase the intensity and intensity of the attack.
Every time The number of people attacking in each wave is doubled, and each echelon attacks continuously, wave after wave, wave after wave, without giving the defenders a chance to breathe."
"Follow your orders" Ma Sui's command brought great trouble to the defenders.
The pressure on the defenders was no longer a simple one plus one.
Now that the defenders had no time to transport the defensive equipment and materials in the city to the city wall, the Western Qin Army had already ordered The slaves came to kill him.
Without the equipment to defend the city, Guy only Neng led the garrison soldiers and slaves to engage in hand-to-hand combat on the city wall.
Every inch of the city wall became a bloody battlefield for both sides.
The newly calcined city wall was once again stained with blood, and some places were even very hot.
It was hot, and the blood sprinkled on it made a hissing sound.
Although the defenders have little combat experience, they are soldiers who have undergone some informal training.
There are also a large number of mercenaries and fanatics among them.
These people are quite powerful in combat.
If the slaves were not outnumbered, they would , was not an opponent at all.
Even so, the slaves were driven off soon after climbing the city wall.
Under the pressure of Ma Sui and the war supervisors, they had to return to fight with the defenders again, and so on.
Ma Sui was considered a great general, but in front of the city of Jerusalem, he was unable to command a group of slave farmers without any combat experience or training to break through the city in three days.
Three days later, Ma Sui sadly handed over the command, and his replacement was Wei Gao.
Wei Gao was good at cavalry operations.
In terms of siege operations, he had never commanded such a large-scale siege operation.
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After taking over the command, he was very excited and used all the siege tactics he was familiar with.
The siege force and intensity commanded by Wei Gao was not inferior to Ma Sui's at all.
The defenders, under the command of Guy, Moulisardin and others, had an extremely difficult time resisting, but they still managed to survive.
During the day, they took down the defenders on the city wall.
After the city's equipment and supplies were used up, they mobilized the residents in the city to help transport the city's defense equipment and supplies from the city so that they could be used during the day the next day.
In this way, the defenders could have a good rest.
One night, you will have enough energy and strength to prepare for the next day's battle.
After half a month of this, the city of Jerusalem has still not been breached.
Five generals have been rotated under the command of the Western Qin Army.
Moreover, every surviving soldier of the garrison has gained combat experience through this half-month battle.
Very rich warriors, slaves suffered a lot of casualties, 19,000 people, more than 10,000 people were lost in this half month, and the corpses filled several large pits.
As the weather began to get hot, in order to To prevent an outbreak of plague, Zhao Ziliang ordered all the corpses to be burned and then the bones buried.
The sixth day of April, night.
There were many generals and officials in the Chinese army's tent.
Zhao Ziliang looked at everyone and said: "It has been more than half a month since the siege began.
Dear sirs, this Jerusalem is not that easy to fight, right?"
Although the king really wants you to take turns to command and continue the fight, time waits for no one, and we cannot spend time here.
Mr.
Zheng, who is responsible for the logistics, told the lonely king just now that our existing food and grass have been exhausted.
There is not much time left.
Although the problem of insufficient food and grass can be solved by forcibly plundering and apportioning it from various occupied areas, the problem of declining morale cannot be solved.
So far in this battle, more than half of the slaves have been lost, and the rest have also been lost.
I have no fighting spirit anymore.
I will give you another six days.
If we cannot break through after six days, I will have to use our Western Qin warriors.
Who will be in charge of the next siege?
Which general is willing to take over?"
Xuan Shisan stood up and clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, come here, my ministers."
Zhao Ziliang nodded in agreement: "Okay, let Thirteen take over the command of the ministers.
Do you have anything else to do?
If not, let's disperse."
At this time, Wang Can stood up and clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, there is the latest news from Constantinople.
The Bulgars have retreated.
It is already April.
It is the time when the water and grass on the northern grasslands are abundant.
The Bulgars are going to follow."
They migrated to graze aquatic plants and could no longer continue to attack Constantinople.
In addition, Nicerus and other governors withdrew their troops and returned to Constantine.
The fort greatly increased the strength of the garrison there.
Trilig knew that there was no hope of breaking the city again, so he had to retreat.
Therefore, the threat to Constantinople has been removed, but Constantinople has been besieged by the Bulgars for such a long time. , the losses are very heavy.
Thrace is already covered with desolation and people's livelihood is in ruins.
It will be difficult to recover for at least five years."
Zhao Ziliang was not surprised by this.
The Bulgars were barbarians, and at most they were a powerful barbarian nation.
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It was impossible for them to give up their nomadic characteristics.
Therefore, Trilig would have to retreat sooner or later because the barbarians were not good at attacking.
Due to the characteristics of the city, it is really not easy for them to break through Constantinople.
"Oh, now that we have withdrawn our troops, Constantinople can free up its hands to deal with us."
Zhao Ziliang asked, looking at the generals and officials around him.
Chen Qing cupped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, the Eastern Roman Empire is currently suffering from poor people's livelihood, political chaos, and heavy military losses.
The capital has been besieged for nearly half a year, and the Thracian region has almost become a scorched earth.
How can they still have the strength to attack our tiny army?"
I think Leo IV is worried about whether we will send our troops north to attack Asia Minor after we capture Jerusalem."
Zhao Ziliang smiled and said to Li Muchen: "At this time, we cannot allow the Eastern Roman Empire to rest and rest in peace.
Although Leo IV is young, his ability to govern is not inferior to that of his father.
It is my responsibility to weaken the strength of the Eastern Roman Empire and restrict their development.
The consistent national policy of the Western Qin Dynasty was to convey the instructions of the Solitary King to the Ninth Army Corps and the Khazar Protectorate, ordering them to adopt an offensive posture and increase their troops in the border areas."
Li Muchen agreed: "Yes, the king's ministers have one more thing to report to the king.
The prince sent someone to send a memorial, saying that the war in Silla was over.
The Tang army, led by Li Baozhen and Wei Boyu, divided into two groups to attack Silla. , the main force of Silla has been annihilated, Jincheng has been captured, the King of Silla, The Empress Dowager Jin of Luo and other noble ministers were all captured and are currently being escorted to Chang'an.
The two armies were still stationed in Silla a few days ago.
The prince asked the king what he wanted to do about the aftermath of the incident in Silla.
For those who disobeyed orders "Should Japan and Bohai State send troops to punish?"
After hearing this, Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment and then ordered: "If we want to fight, we must fight Bohai first.
You can find any reason, but you can't accuse them of not obeying orders.
Otherwise, Japan will have trouble sleeping and eating.
They will not sit down Waiting to be killed, so we have to deal with Bohai Kingdom first, and then Japan.
Tell the prince that if the Chang'an imperial court's treasury is full, we can attack.
If the treasury is not full, we will shelve the matter for the time being and wait until the treasury is full in the coming year before sending out troops."
Li Muchen promised: "I will obey the order":