King Murdo paced back and forth in the palace anxiously. He could hear the shouts of killing coming from the direction of the west city. Fear and uneasiness weighed on his heart like a mountain. He was not afraid of death, but what about his wife and children?
His son would be executed, and his wife and two daughters would be taken to Baghdad to be slaves and prostitutes, and would suffer a tragic fate from then on. Thinking of this, Murdo felt as uncomfortable as a needle pricking his heart.
"Your Majesty the King!"
General Solan's hoarse shouts were faintly heard, and he was locked in the dungeon.
"We will definitely not be able to defend Kesai City. We need to negotiate with them to save the lives of our families!"
Murdo was upset for a while. After the fight, what room for negotiation was left? He ordered the guard: "Tell him to shut up!"
The two guards ran down quickly. Murdo couldn't help it anymore, got up and walked out of the palace, when he met his son Arole hurriedly running towards him.
"How are you doing? Can you hold on?" Murdo asked nervously.
"It looks okay so far, but the casualties are heavy. General Li asked us to take out all the gold coins and distribute them to the soldiers to boost the morale of the army."
"Can!"
King Murdo agreed immediately, "I remember that there are five to six million gold coins in the treasury, all of which will be awarded to the soldiers."
The fierce battle on the west wall was fierce, with 12,000 coalition troops attacking across the northern and southern sections. The soldiers kept screaming and fell from the top of the city, and people kept rushing up. Not only the siege ladders, but also dozens of human ladders were built.
Successfully, countless soldiers climbed up with the help of human ladders.
The long-sword army at the top of the city was specially designed to deal with human ladders. As soon as the enemy soldiers showed their heads, several sharp long-swords slashed hard at the opponent. The heads were chopped off and the headless corpses rolled down.
The bloodshed at first frightened the long-sword soldiers, but gradually they adapted and became more decisive and ruthless in killing.
Li Ye also fought fiercely with the enemy on the top of the city, but he no longer targeted individual enemy soldiers, but used four or two to destroy the enemy's offensive as much as possible.
He is currently mainly targeting the enemy's military ladder and attacking its weakest points.
There are about forty people in the human ladder in front of us, but the backbone of the human ladder is about fifteen people, including eight at the bottom, four on the second level, and three on the third level. The other soldiers are trampling on them
Climbing up the shoulders, the eight people at the bottom become particularly important.
When a gap was exposed, Li Ye seized the opportunity and shot an arrow. The arrow was extremely powerful and shot through the gap. A low-level soldier screamed and fell to the ground dead. The entire ladder collapsed instantly, and all forty people fell down.
He fell to the ground, and the soldiers guarding the city took the opportunity to smash down the rolling logs and stones, and there was a wailing and screaming under the city wall.
Li Ye shot down more than twenty human ladders in a row. At this time, Yu Changyang shouted: "General, the heavy siege ladder is here again!"
I saw a heavy siege ladder rushing up. This was the fourth heavy siege ladder. Hundreds of soldiers pushed it forward and directly crossed the moat. The bottom hit the city wall heavily, and the city wall became a heavy siege ladder.
The fulcrum of the city ladder.
Dozens of soldiers struggled to pull the rope together, and the originally folded ladder was pulled up. The ladder was filled with dozens of soldiers. Li Ye had previously ordered his men to keep an eye on the heavy siege ladder and notify him immediately if it appeared.
They have already experienced the power of this kind of heavy siege ladder. Soldiers can jump directly onto the city head. The defenders suffered more than 300 casualties before finally destroying two heavy siege ladders.
Li Ye stepped back more than ten steps and drew out an arrow with a flat tip. This arrow was specially used to shoot ropes. It was also called a rope-breaking arrow. It was commonly used in water battles and was specially used to shoot the ropes of the opponent's sails.
Li Ye had a better understanding of this kind of heavy siege ladder and knew its weaknesses. He raised his bow and nocked an arrow, and shot an arrow towards the most critical binding belt at the bottom. The belt was hit by the broken rope arrow and collapsed.
It broke, and the ladder that was about to be erected suddenly slammed back with a loud bang. Dozens of soldiers above screamed. More than 20 people died on the spot, and the remaining soldiers were also seriously injured. The soldiers at the top of the city suddenly
There was a cheer.
Just after shooting down a heavy siege ladder, the last heavy siege ladder dozens of steps away was also erected. The ladder was set up on the top of the city. A dozen soldiers jumped onto the top of the city. Dozens of soldiers with long swords
Hand roared and rushed forward.
A steady stream of enemy soldiers climbed up the heavy siege ladder and rushed to the top of the city. This is also the most terrifying thing about the heavy siege ladder. There is no climbing process. The enemy soldiers jumped directly onto the city and blocked it in front.
The defenders formed a defensive barrier, creating an opportunity for the siege soldiers behind. The enemy troops on the ladder quickly swarmed up. In the blink of an eye, seventy or eighty people swarmed onto the top of the city.
Seeing that the situation was critical, Li Ye jumped onto the battlements and rushed up. He rushed to the heavy siege ladder in an instant, flew up with his long spear, and killed seven or eight enemy soldiers blocking the road in one breath, and sieged the city.
The ladder appeared in front of him.
Seven flying knives were shot out continuously, and the seven soldiers on the siege ladder screamed and fell down, leaving a gap in the siege ladder.
Li Ye shouted loudly, hooked the city head with his feet, and swung his sword downwards with all his strength, "Crack!" The five horizontal blocks under the siege ladder were smashed together. Li Ye grabbed the side of the ladder with his hands, and one
He turned over, jumped up, and swung his long arm upwards. The five horizontal blocks above were also cut off, and pieces of wood flew everywhere.
Although the heavy siege ladder is still there, it has been chopped into pieces by Li Ye. When the soldiers climb halfway, they will suddenly find that the rungs on the ladder are gone and they can no longer climb up.
Li Ye rushed into the enemy group of seventy or eighty people from behind. In an instant, limbs were flying everywhere, heads were rolling, and there were screams on the top of the city.
The enemy's momentum was gradually suppressed, and Li Ye immediately ordered: "Attack with fire!"
When attacking with fire, you also need to pay attention to the timing. If you attack with fire too early, the opponent's morale is high. Even if they retreat temporarily, they will continue to attack the city after discussing the strategy of setting fire.
However, if the enemy's large siege weapons are destroyed, the enemy's casualties are heavy, morale is depressed, and finally set on fire, it is likely to destroy the enemy's will to fight.
Li Ye gave an order, and the civilians at the top of the city immediately sent over thousands of barrels of kerosene. This is the locally produced Kanda, which is oil. The quality of the oil here is good, it is light oil, with relatively few impurities, and can be directly used.
Used as lamp oil.
The soldiers poured buckets of kerosene down along the siege ladders and human ladders. The soldiers below were poured all over their heads, faces, and bodies. Immediately, some soldiers threw the kerosene down, and groups of soldiers had faces and faces.
Their bodies were on fire, and there was a sudden roar of ghosts and wolves, and many soldiers screamed and jumped into the river.
The thousand fire-fighting soldiers arranged in advance could not play a big role. Many of the fire-fighting soldiers themselves were doused with kerosene and immediately burned.
The pouring of kerosene caused the siege army, which had begun to lose morale, to finally collapse. All the soldiers scrambled to flee back. The defenders on the top of the city fired arrows together, and countless soldiers were shot down from behind by arrows.
"Dang! Dang! Dang!"
The retreat bell rang in the distance, and the more than 7,000 remaining soldiers retreated hastily. The soldiers on the city wall were jubilant.
The battle lasted from noon to dusk. Bukhan's army killed more than 4,800 enemies and suffered nearly 1,500 casualties.
King Murdo announced on the spot that each soldier participating in the battle would be rewarded with fifty gold dinars, and each civilian would be awarded ten gold coins. The soldiers who died in the battle would be doubled, and the generals would be rewarded separately. The soldiers and civilians in the city were filled with joy.
King Murdo also rewarded Li Ye with 100,000 dinar gold coins. Li Ye divided it into three parts, one for himself, one for twenty subordinates, and the other for three thousand new troops.
On the top of the city, Li Ye said to King Murdo: "I have thought about it for a while. We may be able to send out surprise troops tonight and defeat the Dashi coalition in one battle."
King Murdo asked with great interest: "How to send surprise troops?"
"Our trebuchet has wheels and can be pushed around. It can be pushed out of the city at midnight tonight. If the opponent sets up camp on the other side of the river, we can attack the opponent across the river!"
"But what if the other party comes across the river to kill me?"
Li Ye smiled slightly, "We need to send out a surprise force first to destroy the bridge. For example, burn the pontoon bridge on fire and kill the sentries on the east bank of the river."
King Murdo nodded, "We dug the moat so that we can reach the enemy's pontoon bridge from the waterway!"