It has to be said that as the most famous caliph of the Abbasid Dynasty in history, Harun Rashid was very capable.
He quickly integrated the forces in Cairo and concentrated all money, food and other materials.
They were used to defend the city, and even the door panels, benches, and tables of each household were moved near the city wall for craftsmen to make them into defense equipment.
In just one day, all the men over the age of fifteen in the city, except for the nobles, were gathered together.
Since there were not so many weapons in the city, these newly recruited men had to bring their own weapons.
They must Most of them only had knives for cutting meat, and Thomas quickly completed the redeployment of the city defense and sent people to train the more than 30,000 newly gathered men so that they knew how to obey orders.
He divided these people into Three batches, the first batch is for those aged 18 and above The first and second group are adult men under forty years old, these people participate in the defense of the city; the second group are men over forty years old, these people usually carry the city defense equipment, assist in the defense of the city, and are responsible for standing up when there is a hole in the city defense. ; The third group is men under the age of eighteen and over fifteen.
These are only half-grown children.
They can only be used as substitutes to defend the city as a last resort.
Their main task is to patrol and maintain law and order in the city.
They also assisted in carrying corpses and defensive tools and equipment.
Harun Rashid, Thomas and others were making defensive arrangements in the city, ready to welcome the attack of the Western Qin army at any time.
However, several days passed and Cairo's city defenses were all ready, but the Western Qin army outside the city The army had no intention of attacking the city.
Zhao Ziliang originally planned to wait for two days to rest before attacking the city, but the situation in the city was not clear yet.
Without knowing how the enemy was deploying, a hasty attack would only increase casualties.
Therefore, Zhao Ziliang temporarily changed his mind and ordered the army to stand still.
Let Dongchang's spies actively collect information about Cairo and surrounding towns.
Dongchang's ability to collect and transmit intelligence is still very strong.
This is mainly due to Dongchang's sufficient funds for intelligence collection.
Zhao Ziliang has always been willing to spend money in this regard.
"Your Majesty, it has been found out that Harun has been making great moves these days.
He has integrated the forces in the city and persuaded the nobles, officials, grain merchants, and other businessmen to give up grain and money.
The money is used to motivate the soldiers.
To defend the city, food rationing was implemented, and each person was given a daily quota of food.
They He also collected all the usable things in the city and made them into various defense equipment.
In addition, Harun also ordered that all men over the age of fifteen in the city be gathered to help defend the city, numbering about 35,000.
Enough, plus their original strength of 15,000, the total number is 50,000."
After listening to Wan Qingming's report, Zhao Ziliang said to the generals and officials: "Cairo is a big city.
As you have seen in the past few days, the city wall is very tall and strong.
It has been reinforced and it is difficult to attack the city.
Now they have another want Gather all the men in the city to fight with us.
It is not particularly difficult for us to capture Cairo, but there will definitely be some casualties.
Dagu has never advocated or supported a war of attrition.
Now Chu Ge and Wei Meng have already led their own troops. to solve The food army returned to Cairo for reinforcements.
I thought about it and decided not to attack the city for the time being.
Let their high morale relax first.
We first captured the surrounding towns, and then attacked Cairo.
Most of the surrounding towns All the troops have been transferred to Cairo City, so there are not many troops stationed there.
It will be easy for us to capture these cities.
Zhao Bei, take your men and horses to knock down all the surrounding towns and kill the cannibal black slaves.
All sent to the promise” Zhao Bei stood up and clasped his fists and said: "I obey the order."
Zhao Ziliang said to Chen Qing again: "Give orders to all the people and ask them to send all the captured black slaves here.
Harun mobilized all the men in the city to defend the city in an attempt to shorten the gap in strength between us.
I want to take all the slaves they have."
All the black slaves are gathered together and let these black slaves be used by me.
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I want to see how Cairo alone can resist our army's attack."
Africa was originally the birthplace of black people.
In just ten days, Zhao Bei captured all the towns within three hundred miles of Cairo and sent more than 10,000 black slaves.
Other people from all walks of life also wanted to come.
Black slaves, Zhao Ziliang can use more than 30,000 black slaves.
May 25th.
The Western Qin Army camp outside Cairo.
This army, which was composed of prisoners of the Tang Dynasty and prisoners of the Western Qin Dynasty, was undergoing intense drills in the military camp.
The drills were conducted in batches.
On the one hand, it was to prevent the food army in the city from leaving the city for a sneak attack.
One is to restore morale.
Harlan, Thomas and others on the city wall were observing the situation in the Western Qin Army camp.
After watching for a while, Harlan asked: "General Thomas, are there any possible loopholes in the city defense?"
Thomas thought for a while and said: "We have deployed enough troops on the city wall.
If there is a loophole, it can only be the city gate.
After all, the city gate is only made of wood.
No matter how strong it is, it may be knocked open. , if they bring a large amount of firewood to the other side under the city gate, it will burn quickly as long as it is lit, and the city gate will be burned down before long."
Harun heard this and immediately said: "Then block all four city gates and carry stones from all over the city to block the city gate holes."
Thomas frowned and said: "Your Highness, if we do this, then we will have no ability to fight back at all.
If we don't block the city gate, we may still find opportunities to send troops to attack and counterattack, but if we block the city gate, it will mean that we can't fight back."
Blocking the possibility of getting out, I can only passively be beaten."
Harun shook his head and said: "Although I have never fought against the Holy King of Western Qin, I have heard about this man.
Do you think he will give us a chance to sneak attack on him?"
Thomas was speechless and could only sigh: "Okay, I ordered the four city gates to be blocked."
In the main tent of the Western Qin Army's camp, Zhao Ziliang asked: "Chen Qing, how is the morale of the soldiers recovering?"
Chen Qing stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, after several days of training, the soldiers' energy and spirit have been fully restored."
Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said to Chen Qing: "There are already 30,000 black slaves.
I will give you three days to send people to persuade these black slaves to fight for us.
What I can guarantee is that after the war, they will gain freedom, and give them fields.
If they are willing to continue to fight with us, I am very welcome and can pay them wages."
Chen Qing agreed: "Yes, Your Majesty."
Three days later, Chen Qing reported to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, nearly 20,000 of the 30,000 people are willing to fight for us, and the rest are unwilling.
However, if some coercive measures are taken, there should be no problem."
Zhao Ziliang said: "Well, let's feed them well from now on, and let them follow our people to attack the city in two days.
We will assign two black slaves to each of our soldiers who attack the city, and give them some crude weapons." , if you retreat and run away without orders, you will be killed.”
"Yes, Your Majesty"
On the first day of June, the Western Qin Army's attack on Cairo officially began.
Harlan and Thomas were nervous and worried because no reinforcements had arrived for such a long time.
What did this mean that reinforcements might be on the way?
Ambushed by the Western Qin Army Annihilation, or there may be no reinforcements at all.
The generals who were sent out did not dare to lead their troops to come for reinforcements after receiving the news that Cairo was besieged by the Western Qin Army.
Regardless of the reason, it shows that Cairo City has become a city worthy of its name.
The lonely city.
Seeing the dense soldiers rushing out of the Western Qin Army's formation outside the city, Harlan, Thomas, and all the other Dashi Army soldiers guarding the city felt their scalps go numb.
There were too many, and the number of Western Qin Army's Too many.
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Harlan discovered that there were many black slaves in the attacking Western Qin army, and was surprised: "General Thomas, why are there black slaves in the Western Qin army?"
Thomas thought for a while and said: "These black slaves may be prisoners they captured, or they may have recruited these black slaves, but Cairo is besieged, and we know almost nothing about the outside world.
Maybe many places in Egypt have been They captured it, and we are still here stupidly waiting for reinforcements to arrive."
Harlan's expression was extremely serious, "General Thomas, no matter what, the Western Qin people have begun to attack the city.
We must either surrender now or hold on to the end."
Thomas nodded and told a general next to him: "Give all the archers an order to aim before releasing arrows.
Our arrows are limited and it is impossible to adequately supply them, so they must try their best to kill one with one arrow."
The Western Qin soldiers also told other soldiers to wait until the Western Qin soldiers rushed to the city wall before pouring boiling water."
"Yes, General" The Western Qin prisoner army and the assassin army rushed towards the city wall with weapons, making terrifying howling sounds.
A large number of black slaves followed them with weapons and rushed to the city wall to set up the siege ladder.
On the city wall, soldiers are deployed Under the urging of soldiers or prisoner soldiers, these black slaves held weapons in their mouths and climbed up the ladder with their hands and feet.
Boiling water kept pouring down from the city wall, and the black slaves who were soaked immediately let out miserable screams.
Called to fall from the ladder.
The first siege showed a difference from the beginning.
The intensity of the attack by the Western Qin Army exceeded the expectations of the soldiers who defended the city of Dashi.
The Western Qin Army and the black slaves who attacked the city did not care about their lives at all and were desperate.
Even if he was injured and fell down, he would immediately struggle to climb up again.
This kind of desperate ferocity made the soldiers of the Great Food Army who defended the city tremble with fear.
The assassin army, prisoner army and black slaves who attacked the city suffered heavy casualties, but they also caused heavy casualties to the food army defending the city, which Harlan and Thomas did not expect.
Thomas said to Harun with a serious face: "Your Highness, after today's city defense is over, we have to re-deploy the city defense.
With our current city defense deployment, we cannot stop the Western Qin Army for long."
"Well, the city defense must be redeployed.
Are these Western Qin people and black slaves crazy?
They seem to be rushing to death in a war
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