Zhao Ziliang held the hilt of the sword and walked to a stop a stone's throw away from the city wall.
He looked up at the city wall.
The corpses and broken limbs left by yesterday's battle had been cleaned up by both sides overnight, but in the past few days, In the brutal siege battles that took place over the past month, the blood of soldiers on both sides had already dyed the city walls red.
The blood had already turned dark red over time, and the strong stench spread far and wide.
Zhao Ziliang could not even stand so far away.
Can smell it.
On the city wall, a strong man wearing chain mail looked at Zhao Ziliang who was standing not far away, and said to Guy: "Sir, we have blocked the city gate with a lot of stones, and we can't get out by opening the city gate.
You can only put the hanging basket down, but this is very dangerous for adults.
If they want to harm you, you may not be able to come back."
Guy's face was hesitant, his expression kept changing, and he was constantly weighing things in his mind, but he quickly shook his head and said: "No, since the King of Western Qin came here alone and wanted to meet me, how can I be afraid that this will not let them Have you underestimated me?
I want to hear what he wants to say.
Prepare the hanging basket to put me down."
The strong man had no choice but to order someone to prepare a hanging basket to lower Guy down from the city wall.
Being able to see and meet the legendary King of Western Qin was something Guy had never imagined.
As Western Qin's national power became stronger and its territory became broader, there were constantly merchants, troubadours, and monks. , priests, travelers, and literati spread the deeds of the King of Western Qin all over the world.
Guy had long been paying attention to the King of Western Qin, and wanted to see what kind of person he was, who could make a fortune from scratch in just ten or twenty years.
Build a powerful kingdom.
Guy suppressed his excitement and slowly walked towards Zhao Ziliang with his sword in hand, sizing up this extremely legendary king of the generation as he kept moving forward.
Guy was a little surprised by Zhao Ziliang's tall and mighty figure.
Zhao Ziliang was the best model for a general, but he was a king.
You must know that the most important characteristic of a king is not the ability to fight, but the ability to be a king. characteristics.
Guy was sizing up Zhao Ziliang, and Zhao Ziliang was also sizing up Guy.
He broke the silence first and said: "I admire you for being able to lead a group of rabble to guard this city for such a long time, but you can't hold it forever.
Jerusalem is surrounded by my The army captured it, and you are already surrounded on all sides, without any support or supplies, and you will not be able to hold on for long."
Guy was silent for a moment and said: "I admit that what you said is true, but if you want to lead troops into the city, you must step on our corpses."
Zhao Ziliang said: "If you don't want the entire Jerusalem to be destroyed, surrender is your only choice."
Guy shook his head and said: "Finally, the food army withdrew, and we had the opportunity to return to the Holy City again.
Since we stayed, we decided not to leave again.
We Jews don't want to live a life of wandering and migrating from place to place.
This is our place."
The land of our ancestors, we have the right to survive and thrive here.
We are not afraid of threats from anyone, and we will not hesitate to fight back in the strongest possible way against all invaders."
Zhao Ziliang frowned: "Do you really think you can stop my army's attack?
The previous attacks were all carried out by a group of slaves without any combat experience.
Although these slaves of mine suffered heavy losses, I'm afraid you will also have a hard time.
"This is a great city, it is a treasure of human civilization.
I don't want it to be destroyed by war.
If I use my Western Qin army to attack the city, you will not be able to stop it.
You'd better not anger me."
Guy said: "I admit that your Western Qin army has strong combat effectiveness, but before your Western Qin army attacks this city, I will lead our warriors to fight you to the end.
Even if we fail, we will I will drag you to hell.”
Zhao Ziliang's face showed frost and he said coldly: "You actually threatened a king.
My anger is definitely not something that little Guy can bear.
All of you will pay the price for what you just said."
The two sides broke up unhappily.
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Seeing Zhao Ziliang angrily return to the formation, the generals and officials of the Western Qin Dynasty all knew that this was an unpleasant meeting and the negotiation failed.
Zhao Ziliang got on his horse and shouted to the people on his left and right: "Get ready to attack."
Chen Qing nodded to the herald, who shouted at the top of his lungs: "Your Majesty has an order, prepare to attack."
"Prepare to attack" The slaves, who had been distributed with weapons and siege ladders, lined up in an irregular line, led by their centurions and tenths, and walked from the middle to the front of the military formation.
The siege weapons of the Western Qin Army were pushed out by the soldiers. , a crossbow cart and a cart containing bundles of crossbow arrows were pushed out, and trebuchets were also pushed to the predetermined position and began to be set up.
Zhao Ziliang put down the observation telescope, took out a water bag from the side of the horse's belly, pulled out the stopper, poured a few sips into his mouth, and shouted: "Is the commander of the siege camp Han Shusen here?"
A general in his forties stepped forward on his horse and clasped his fists, saying: "Your Majesty, I am here."
Zhao Ziliang pointed to the gate of Jerusalem in the distance and asked, "Look at this city gate.
Is there anything unusual about it?"
Han Shusen was stunned, and then looked towards the city gate in the distance.
At first, he thought that this city gate was no different from other city gates, but after looking at it for a while, he realized that there was something different.
This city gate was not in the middle of the entire city wall.
Instead, it deviated a distance to the south.
He immediately clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, this city gate seems to be closer to the south, about thirty feet away from the middle of the entire city wall."
Zhao Ziliang nodded: "Yes, but generally speaking, the location of the city gate should be in the middle of the city wall connecting to the central axis street in the city.
However, this city gate has been moved thirty feet south.
Look at the middle of the city wall.
What did you see?"
"There seems to be signs of re-construction," Han Shusen said after observing for a while.
Zhao Ziliang said: "It is not to rebuild, but to repair.
The spies reported that when the Mahdi led his army to withdraw two years ago, there was a small earthquake here, which collapsed the city gate.
At that time, no one ruled Jerusalem at all. , it was not until the arrival of the Eastern Roman Empire that several sects in the city united to form an autonomous committee.
At that time, in order to resist the Eastern Romans, the autonomous committee hurriedly organized people to repair the collapsed city gate, but due to the rush of time, it was only in city Two walls were rebuilt on both sides of the wall, but the middle was empty, and the original city gate hole was not filled in.
After the Eastern Roman Army withdrew, the Autonomous Committee directly built the city gate in order to connect it to the main street in the city.
The end of the main street was rebuilt The city gate is the current city gate, but the original city gate has been forgotten.
You go and give orders to the trebuchet crew of the siege battalion.
Once the order to siege is given, let them concentrate their firepower to attack the original city with stone bombs. door position until it is knocked down.”
"I obey," Han Shusen agreed with clasped fists and immediately turned his horse around and galloped away in the direction of the siege camp.
Here Zhao Ziliang waved to the three captains who were assigned to serve as slave soldiers.
The three came over on horseback and clasped their fists and said: "Your Majesty!"
Zhao Ziliang pointed to the middle of the city wall and said: "After the siege begins, let the slaves avoid the ten feet in the middle of the city wall and attack other sections of the city wall to free up this section of the wall."
"Yes, Your Majesty" Zhao Ziliang arranged the offensive task again: "Divide your respective troops into three echelons, and attack each echelon in turn.
Liang Chao, your troops attack the left city wall; Gu Cheng, your troops attack the right city wall, use the vacated center Duan is the boundary; Baigang, your man Advance to a stone's throw from the middle section of the city wall and stand by during the siege.
Each team of ten people will be used as a combat unit.
The centurion will be responsible for commanding from the front.
You three centurions will dispatch in the middle and promptly mobilize the second and third echelons to take over.
Support; tell each centurion to attack Behind the city wall, the bravest person in each ten-person team should take the lead.
The others will cover the left and right and form the slaves.
They will automatically form a fighting group of ten people and unite with each other.
This does not need to be taught.
Their survival Instinct will make them unite automatically.
The role of centurions is extremely critical.
They need to constantly direct their men to break through the weak points of the defenders.
Once they are blocked by many defenders, they must mobilize other teams to reinforce and break through them.
Stop them and kill them."
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The three of them clasped their fists and agreed: "I obey."
Although these slaves used to be farmers, herdsmen, and handicraftsmen, the Middle East has been in chaos for a long time and bandits are rampant.
In order to protect themselves, the local people have some means of survival and self-preservation.
Therefore, the folk customs are fierce, and the men and women of the local families Almost all of them carry swords with them.
Once bandits attack, they can hold the weapons to fight with the bandits, and sometimes fight with the officers and soldiers who are robbing property.
Although these people had not received formal military training, Zhao Ziliang knew that they did not lack bravery.
All he needed to do was to organize them and let them exert their greatest strength.
At this time, Chen Qing came over with his horse and clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, we are all ready and can attack at any time."
Zhao Ziliang raised his hand and waved forward: "Attack" The ordering soldier shouted: "Attack" After hearing the order, the slaves who walked slowly to a stone's throw immediately ran toward the city wall with their weapons and siege ladders raised, shouting: "Kill, kill, kill."
"Huhuhuhu" stone bullets were thrown out from the trebuchet position in the Western Qin army's formation and whizzed away in the direction of the city wall.
"Dong dong dong" stone bullets landed on the walls within thirty feet of the middle city wall section.
After all, the wall was hastily repaired two years ago.
Compared with the solid city walls of other city wall sections, it was much more fragile.
The stone bullets hit this section of the wall, making a bang bang bang sound.
This was the sound made by the hollow force.
Holes were smashed into the wall, and a large amount of masonry debris flew everywhere
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