The main camp of the Western Qin army and the main tent of the Chinese army.
The butter lamp burned loudly, but Zhao Ziliang's voice was not affected at all, "We set out from Xinjing with more than 60,000 assassins and more than 80,000 prisoners, a total of 150,000 troops.
After a long-distance training, we lost three people.
More than 10,000 people, only less than twelve are left Ten thousand, of the less than 120,000 people, Hun Yao took 15,000.
After more than 20 days of fighting, the weak and unlucky ones were eliminated, and only 75,000 were left.
Wei Gao took away the slave army and was mopping up the army.
Egypt In the southern region of Egypt, Hun Yao is attacking the Nile Delta and the sea.
District, they can't count on it for the time being.
These 75,000 people have to exclude the 15,000 people Zhao Bei took to guard the towns around Cairo.
Therefore, the maximum force that can be mobilized under Cairo City alone is only 60,000.
There are currently about 20,000 defenders in Cairo. , although our strength is three times that of theirs, for us on the siege, three times the strength is not particularly surplus, so the next battle cannot be carried out with the same unstructured fighting style as in the past few days, and we cannot be reckless. , we must pay attention to tactics and tactics and close cooperation.”
Having said this, Zhao Ziliang stopped and looked at the expressions of the leading generals, and then continued: "The logistics have shipped a batch of stone bombs and kerosene bombs, and the siege battalion can be dispatched before the official siege tomorrow.
The machine bombarded the Cairo city wall.
Gu had already sent people to observe it.
The northern city wall had been reinforced, but it was all done in a hurry and the quality of the work was not very good.
If large-scale trebuchets were used to focus on attacking a section of the city wall, it would probably be possible.
"It works" "The attack by the siege battalion's trebuchet unit can not only cause damage to the city wall, but it also has the purpose of attracting as many defenders as possible to move to the northern city wall, leaving the defenders in other sections of the city wall empty.
Mobilize troops as quickly as possible, and the people on the east wall The defenders are undoubtedly the best targets.
Therefore, after the trebuchet's stone egg projection is over, the northern city wall will launch the most violent attack to create the illusion that we are determined to break through the northern city wall, so as to mobilize the eastern wall defenders.
The northern city wall is involved in the defense, so where is Geshu’s dedication?”
Geshu Jingye, the commander of the Third Army Corps of the Prisoner Army, immediately stood up and clasped his fists, saying: "I'm here."
Zhao Ziliang said: "You lead the third legion of the prisoner army to be responsible for the siege of the northern city wall.
You must create momentum for Gu.
The bigger the momentum, the better."
Ge Shu Jingye clasped his fists and bowed: "I accept your order."
Zhao Ziliang looked at the other generals and shouted: "Where is Gao Chongwen?"
Gao Chongwen stood up and clasped his fists and said: "I'm here."
"The soldiers and generals of the Xibei Army are still adapted to the soil and water here."
"Your Majesty, when I first came here, many people were not used to it and had acclimatized reactions.
Wei Chen, General Fan Xichao and others have made arrangements to isolate these people and ask military doctors for diagnosis and treatment.
Now most of them has recovered and others are recovering as well.”
"That's good."
What Zhao Ziliang was most worried about was that the assassination troops coming from the Central Plains area were not adaptable to the desert climate here and lost their combat effectiveness.
Now that the situation has begun to improve, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"After the siege begins tomorrow, once it is discovered that the number of garrison troops on the east wall has decreased, you will be responsible for leading the second legion of the assassination force to storm the east wall.
The two of you go back and think carefully about how to arrange tactics and how to allow the soldiers to work closely together to achieve the best results.
"The greatest combat power" "Yes, Your Majesty" June 15th, Chen hour.
The sun has risen, and its scorching light has caused traces of sweat to appear on the foreheads of the soldiers in the Western Qin army's formation.
Like all the soldiers, Zhao Ziliang did not take off his armor and uniform because of the hot weather.
He sat upright on the handsome platform built by the craftsmen, with a canopy above his head blocking the scorching sun.
I used a telescope to observe the deployment of the Great Food Army on the north wall of Cairo City.
The strength on the city wall is not necessarily superficial.
There should be many troops hidden under the city wall, who can go up to the city wall for reinforcements at any time.
In addition to the soldiers deployed on the city wall, there were also many ballistae, bundles of arrows, rolling logs, thunder stones, iron pots filled with steaming boiling water and thick smoke of boiling oil.
"If the stone eggs and kerosene bombs had been made and delivered earlier, we wouldn't have lost so many people in the siege a few days ago."
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Zhao Ziliang said, putting down the telescope, turning his head to look at the hourglass next to him and the shadow of the flagpole stuck on the ground. , said to Chen Qing: "The time has come.
Let's order the siege camp to start.
Mix stone eggs and kerosene bombs and shoot them out.
The kerosene bombs will focus on the places where supplies and equipment are piled on the city wall.
First destroy their defensive equipment and equipment."
Supplies, I want to see what they use to defend the city."
"I obey."
Chen Qing agreed with his fists clasped and nodded to the herald beside him.
The herald immediately gave the order to the banner soldiers: "Sign up the banner and order the siege to begin."
The siege camp had already been prepared.
When the order was conveyed, they only waited for a few minutes to calibrate the target, and saw dozens of stone eggs mixed with kerosene bombs being thrown towards the city wall.
"Dong dong dong" The stone bullets hit the outer wall of the city wall, the city wall and the inside of the city, making a dull cross talk, accompanied by many screams.
The soldiers of the Great Food Army on the city wall were scurrying around one by one.
During the nearly twenty days of siege battles, the Western Qin Army had never used catapults to attack the city.
Now, a dozen stone bombs suddenly hit the defenders on the city wall.
The soldiers were frightened and ran around in panic.
After these days of fighting, they were no longer afraid of fighting the Western Qin soldiers, but being smashed into a puddle of flesh by stone eggs made them feel terrible and frightened just thinking about it.
In addition to stone bombs, there were nearly half of the kerosene bombs.
These kerosene bombs were aimed at the defensive equipment and supplies piled on the city wall.
Although the accuracy of the first wave of kerosene bombs was a little off, Several kerosene bombs still hit the defense materials and equipment piled on the city wall, and soon ignited a raging fire.
Some other kerosene bombs did not hit the defensive equipment and supplies, but the places they hit burned.
Many of them splashed onto the nearby defenders, causing them to scream and roll around in an attempt to put out the burning objects on their bodies. flames, and some kerosene flicked away After entering the city, it hit the crowd of soldiers who were waiting for reinforcements at the bottom of the city.
The fire oil splashed out and everyone within a radius of five or six meters was not spared.
Their bodies were burned very badly.
The flames were still very intense.
It was difficult to extinguish, and for a while there were screams from all over the city wall.
As several waves of stone bombs and kerosene bombs were fired, thick smoke rose from everywhere on the city wall.
The soldiers were just trying to escape.
The defensive materials and equipment piled on the city wall could not be moved away in a short time, so they had to Watching them being engulfed in flames, some of the smoky boiling oil was knocked over.
The boiling oil flowed to the ground and was quickly ignited by the flames.
"ah" "ah" The big food soldiers whose legs and feet were drenched with boiling oil were jumping and screaming.
The big food soldiers whose bodies were burning were also screaming and screaming.
They were bumping around everywhere, setting the bodies of those around them on fire.
There was no way to stay on the city wall, and the food soldiers ran down the city wall to avoid the fire everywhere.
Harun, who was taking command at the north city gate, saw the soldiers running around and rushing to the bottom of the city wall.
He suddenly became anxious and said, "Don't run, don't run.
Come back.
Come back quickly.
If you run away, who will guard you?"
Come back soon" No one listened to him anymore.
At this time, fires were everywhere on the city wall.
The equipment and materials originally used to defend the city now burned and became a reminder for the soldiers defending the city.
If they didn't run away, they would be burned to death.
When cooked, the temperature is too high.
No one can survive such a temperature.
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Harlan saw that the soldiers ignored him and ran down the city wall one after another.
He was very angry.
He grabbed a soldier who was about to flee down the city wall and shouted: "I told you not to mess up and stay on the wall to defend.
You didn't."
Did you hear this prince’s order?”
The soldier said anxiously: "Your Highness, the fire on the city wall is too big and too hot to stay here.
If we stay any longer, even if we don't get burned to death, we will be roasted alive."
After saying this, Harun broke free and followed.
Crowds of people squeezed down the city wall.
Harun was about to issue another order, but before he could speak, a kerosene bomb with billowing smoke fell from the sky.
The guards next to him were horrified when they saw it, and immediately drove him and followed the crowd towards the city wall.
"Boom" the kerosene bombs landed on the city wall and exploded.
The kerosene in the jar splashed out and was ignited by sparks.
The flames splashed onto the nearby food soldiers.
"ah" The direct result after the chaos was overcrowding.
Many people were pushed to the ground and trampled on.
Some people were squeezed directly and fell off the city wall.
Some people were anxious and directly stabbed people with knives, killing those who stood in front of them.
Anyone who stands in the way will be killed, especially a fierce officer.
This battle has been going on for so long, and some people have been unable to control their emotions.
Now at the critical moment of life and death, they all burst out at once, causing large-scale internal strife and fighting.
The Western Qin army outside the city didn't know this.
The people in the siege camp were still firing stone eggs and kerosene bombs, but Zhao Ziliang observed the situation on the city wall through the telescope.
The fire almost flooded the entire north wall.
If it was just This effect cannot be achieved with some kerosene bombs.
The key is that these kerosene bombs ignited the defensive equipment and supplies piled on the city wall, as well as the hot oil burning in many iron pots.
Under such fire, almost no one could be seen on the city wall.
Zhao Ziliang put down his telescope and said to Chen Qing: "Send an order to the siege camp and ask them to concentrate their firepower on the left side of the city gate from a distance of ten to twenty feet."
"Yes, Your Majesty" This Cairo used to be a military fortress of the Eastern Roman Empire.
At that time, the Great Cannibals attacked Egypt and besieged the fortress with heavy troops.
They attacked day and night, resulting in countless casualties, and finally occupied the fortress.
Later, the fortress was called Kahel by the great people, which means conqueror and victor.
However, the fortress was soon expanded into a city by the cannibals, called Fustat City.
The name Cairo had to wait.
It would not appear until two hundred years later.
After the cannibals expanded the fortress of Cairo into a city, most of the fortress walls that had been destroyed were basically abandoned.
Many cannibals came here one after another to build houses and streets outside the original walls of the fortress.
It's relatively far away.
In the past hundred years or so, there have only been giant cannibals.
To fight others, no other country came to fight the cannibal.
Therefore, the rulers of Egypt have always lived in Alexandria, and the governor's palace is also located in Alexandria.
They do not pay much attention to Cairo, but only built a relatively short city wall around Cairo. , only one foot six tall, and it is still hollow inside.
Before the Western Qin Army came this time, Da Shiren got some news in advance and hurriedly organized manpower to carry out some reinforcement and heightening.
Although it looked stronger and taller than before, in fact its defensive capabilities did not increase much. .
The hollow city wall cannot withstand the continuous attacks of stone bullets.
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The reinforced city wall is only coated with a layer of rammed earth on the outside.
After being dried in the sun, it has no defensive power and is continuously hit by stone bullets.
After multiple hits, cracks appear. , around the circular craters that were blasted out on the wall.
The cracks spread in all directions, and as the number of hits from stone bullets increased, layers of dry and cracked rammed earth continued to fall down, and soon bare city wall bricks were exposed.
These wall bricks were still Made of clay, it has weathered a lot after more than a hundred years.
Another wave of stone bullets hit it, and the soldiers of the Food Army who were hiding from the fire on the city wall felt that the city wall shook a few times, and even the inner walls of the city wall began to fall with clods of soil.
When Harun saw this situation, he immediately ran towards the city wall.
Several guards were so frightened that they couldn't catch him in time, so they could only run after him.
When Harlan climbed up to the city wall despite the scorching heat, he saw a wave of stone bullets falling from the sky again, hitting the outer wall of the city wall on his right.
He stretched out his head to look at the outer wall of the city wall, and saw only Countless holes of different sizes have appeared, and some wall bricks have fallen off, exposing the dark hollow inside the city wall.
He realized that he was in big trouble again.
The flames on the city wall were not the most terrifying thing.
It would burn out sooner or later, but once the city wall collapsed, the Western Qin soldiers outside the city would definitely come over like a tide.
With their number of troops, He and his large food army may not be able to withstand it.
No, once the city wall was broken down and the Western Qin army rushed over, they would definitely not be able to withstand it with the existing strength.
Harun immediately ran down the city wall and grabbed a guard and ordered: "Go tell General Thomas quickly and say that the Western Qin army is fast."
He has used trebuchets to smash down our city wall.
Our troops here will definitely not be able to withstand it for long.
Let him deploy some troops to strengthen the defense.
Go quickly."
"Yes, Your Highness"
After the men were sent out, Harun did not sit idle.
He immediately stopped the men and stood in line behind the section of the city wall that was about to collapse.
Once the city wall collapsed and the Western Qin army came over, he would lead his soldiers and rush forward to block the gap.
After half an hour, fires were still burning in various parts of the city wall.
The fire could not be extinguished for a while.
However, the section of the city wall that was constantly attacked by stone bullets could no longer withstand it.
With a crashing sound, the city wall finally collapsed. , a large number of bricks, stones and earth collapsed, and billowing dust rose into the sky.
The food soldiers who were waiting in the city were choked by the billowing dust and coughed.
When the dust cleared and his vision became clear, Harlan immediately pulled out his machete and shouted: "Come forward and block the gap.
Follow me."
When they rushed to the top of the gap, the Western Qin army outside also rushed up.
As soon as the two sides met, they were like enemies, with their eyes red.
"Kill!"
Brother Shu Jingye, who was leading the team in person, roared.
He had just wielded his sword and chopped down a large food soldier on the opposite side when a spear was thrust diagonally across from him
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