As soon as the order to siege the city was given, the Mongol soldiers, like a group of enraged lions, let out an earth-shattering roar together: "Capture the false stab, capture the executioner alive, and avenge the victims!"

"If you don't surrender, let him perish!"

The Mongols first stormed the city with artillery fire, causing the defenders of the city to dodge, and then carried the ladder and began to climb the city, and the two armies began to fight face to face. Because the city walls were strong, the artillery fire could not collapse or collapse, the city was high and the pool was deep, and it was difficult for the ladder to reach the top of the city, and the defenders resisted stubbornly, and the besieging teams retreated again and again.

That night, Chagatai said with some embarrassment: "When will we be able to attack the city like this?

Ogedai said with a smile: "Don't worry, we have surrounded the city of Sadhara and cut it off from the surrounding areas, and then we will use the strategy of exhausting our troops to slowly deal with the enemies in the city." ”

Chagatai hurriedly asked, "What is the strategy of exhausting soldiers?" ”

Wokotai walked closer, leaned into his second brother's ear, and whispered for a while, which made Chagatai lean back and fall back with laughter, and said, "You are a big ghost, and you have a lot of ideas." ”

The next day, when the Mongol army switched to a full-scale attack as the main attack, Ögedei asked the generals of each army to select hundreds of marksmen from their own ranks to shoot at the defenders of the city, and he said: "To the defenders of the city, I ask you to see one and shoot one until the enemy dares not move around the city." ”

Because the whole city was besieged, the Mongol army outside the city was divided into pieces, and the defenders were continuously shot to death by the Mongol archers, so frightened that they no longer dared to walk around the city. Wokotai also let people tie a lot of kites, tied the wooden cannon that was not heavy to the tail of the kite, and then followed the wind to put the kite into the sky, and swayed together in the sky above the city of Sadara, fluttering and leisurely, like birds flying.

Underneath each kite hung a large slogan that read: "The Mongols will only pay their blood debts to Yinalsu, and will be lenient with everyone else." ”

"Those who surrender are rewarded for their meritorious service, but those who resist are bound to die. ”

"Working hard for the Yina Technique will never end well. ”

Some of the soldiers in the city shot the kite string, and the wooden cannon fell down and exploded, and the people were either killed or wounded, so that no one dared to shoot the kite again.

When Yina Le Shu learned about this, he came out to see it, and he was so angry that he was about to take a bow and shoot it, but his guards hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't shoot, there is cannon fire hanging under those kites, and once the kites fall, the cannonballs will explode when they hit the ground, which is very powerful." ”

Yinalsu gritted his teeth in anger and said hatefully: "What a Mongolian, you have the ability to call? ”

As soon as the words fell, the kite on his head was shot by someone and broke the rope, or was blown by the wind, and turned over a few heels, and fell headlong, and landed near him, and immediately exploded with a bang, so frightened that he hugged his head and fled into the house, not daring to come out for a long time.

From then on, he had to look at the sky before he went out, fearing that another kite bomb would suddenly fall from the sky, and some soldiers said bad things about him behind his back: "He killed so many Mongols, God will punish him, this is his retribution." ”

The adjutant general, Ha Zhi Bu Ha Racha, did not believe in evil and said, "I don't dare to go to the city, how can I defend the city?"

He appeared openly at the head of the city with a group of soldiers, and in the blink of an eye, the arrows shot from under the city, like flying locusts, shot down more than half of his soldiers, and he was hesitating, when he heard a whoosh, an arrow flew and shot off his hat, and he reached out and touched it, and his tongue could not be retracted, and the arrow grazed his scalp.

So he had no choice but to bend down and walk cautiously along the battlements of the city wall, looking out of the city from time to time, fearing that he would be shot by the arrows that came from the city.

Because of the success of the fatigue tactics of Ogedei, the soldiers and civilians in the city were in a state of panic every day, and they did not dare to walk around the city, and they were also afraid that kite bombs would fall on the streets of the city, killing themselves, and causing everyone to be in danger and panic.

At night, Ogedai ordered all military rockets to be fired into the city, as well as catapults, throwers, and flame launchers. These flaming bombs were like cannonballs, hitting flammable objects and immediately bursting into flames, so that the thatched huts in the city often caught fire, burning a large area, and the inhabitants wept and shouted.

People did not dare to walk outside their houses, and once the bombs with fire exploded on their bodies, they were either killed or burned. Every night, the houses in the city burned either here or there, and the fire was so bright that half of the sky was red.

In these days, Chagatai himself led a group of men and horses to the surrounding forests to loot grain and property, and drove back people, animals, cattle, horses, and sheep. During the siege, they followed the old method used by the Mongol army in the Central Plains, allowing the captured Khwarazmians to walk at the front of the line and forcing them to shout to the city, using this tactic of attacking the heart to force the defenders to resist fiercely.

In the face of the siege of the Mongol army, the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city of Zara was increasingly depressed, and there was a sense of despair and panic everywhere, and the war-weariness was very serious.

One day, the adjutant general Hajbharatcha went to the house of Yinalshu, and when he saw him drinking and having fun with a group of women, he turned around and came back, and said to his assistant Wetman: "We are risking our lives in the city to defend the city, and he is all right, and he is hiding in the house to have fun.

Wetman said: "This war was all caused by him, I heard that the king was so angry that he wanted to kill him several times, but he was worried that the old queen would not agree, so he did not do it, he is really an unknown person." ”

He said: "If this continues, the people in the city will lack food and drink, and if there is a disturbance, the Mongols will have a chance to take advantage of it, and where will this city be defended?"

Wittman told him worriedly: "There is something I didn't dare to tell you, that day I was called to the city by Dare Yihe, and he whispered: You are by the side of the lieutenant general, you should persuade him to make up his mind early, don't be too desperate, can this city be defended any longer? I have not dared to tell you about this, and it has been several days since then." ”

After hearing this, Haqibu Hara hurriedly asked him, "What is the attitude of the other generals towards defending the city?"

Wetman hurriedly said: "Obviously, who hasn't counted after being surrounded for such a long time?"

At this point, he looked up at his commander and said, "I dare say that none of the generals are willing to defend any longer, although there is no head-to-head confrontation, it seems that the Mongol army is really powerful." ”

At this time, Yinalsu suddenly came, and when he entered the door, he said: "I have been surrounded by the Mongols for so long, I am really a little greedy!"

With that, he waved his hand behind his back, and two soldiers, one carrying a roast lamb, walked in, put it on a table in the middle, and walked out. Then two more soldiers carried a case of Russian vodka, came in and put it down, and went out.

Enalshu said to Hajbharatsa, "Come, let's both drink two cups of pleasure!"

However, his lieutenant was not enthusiastic about this, and showed a listless look, but said in disappointment: "You feel greedy, the soldiers and the common people are not only hungry, but after a while, they will not even be able to eat." ”

After hearing this, his face was red for a while, blue for a while, and white for a while, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Don't always think about the worst, now you can only have wine today and get drunk today, and eat, drink and sleep three meals a day." ”

"I can't be as optimistic as you, I can't eat, I don't want to drink, and I can't sleep. ”

Yinalsu had already heard the meaning of the lieutenant's words, so he had to take out his trump card and persuade him: "What can be done? Since the king has sent the two of us to guard this city, even if we suffer a little, there is nothing we can do. ”

Ha Bu Harata also had to say: "Don't think that I am afraid of hardship and fatigue, now not only the soldiers are tired of fighting, but even the generals do not want to go to the city. ”

"Ah, who would dare to do this?" said in a loud voice, "I will go up to the city to-morrow to inspect it, and it will not work until I kill a chicken and show it to the monkeys." ”

Ha Zhi Bu Harata hurriedly waved his hand and said: "I advise you to forget it, when is this? If so, it annoys them and provokes them to mutiny, then it is still necessary?"

"What are they going to do?"

"No, it's not about surrendering. Hajbharatsa continued: "They proposed to break through the siege and rush out to the city of Kuyu, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. ”

"What kind of breakthrough? is to escape, that is, to surrender to the Mongols, isn't this a betrayal? I can't promise it. ”

In fact, Yinalshu knew very well in his heart that he was the cause of this war, even if he dedicated the city of Sadhara to the Mongols, he might not be able to expect Genghis Khan to spare him from death, the Mongol army besieged the whole city, and he had no way to escape. Therefore, he did not advocate a breakthrough, and the Mongols spread a wide net outside the city, didn't they throw themselves into the net?

But Hajbharatsa sneered and said, "In this case, they will not listen to your words or my words, and they will do anything to survive." ”

"If we are not faithful to King Mohammed, how can we justify our apostasy, and what justification do we use to avoid the condemnation of the Muslims?"

The two talked for a while, but finally did not get along, and because they had their own opinions, they broke up unhappily. That night, Wittman brought Dang Yihe and discussed with Ha Ji Bu Haratcha until midnight, and the three of them decided to lead their troops to break through the siege the next night and find another way out.