Ziade's premonition was very effective, and after the elite cavalry under his command entered the urn city, they were immediately attacked by the crossbowmen on the urn city.

At the same time as sending 300 dead soldiers out of the city to attack, Artik sent 3,000 elite soldiers and horses from the city, and deployed them all near the walls of the urn city and the gate tower of the main city, waiting for the Khorasan cavalry to throw themselves into the net, and finally they waited.

After crossing the screen, a small number of members of the death squad who successfully escaped into the city of Urn were surprised to find that the main city gate was closed, and they slapped the city gate hard, but no one opened the door for them, and the Khorasan cavalry behind them had already rushed over, and they had no way out.

Looking up at the countless companions on the city wall, they had a feeling of being betrayed, and they suddenly understood that they were just outcasts, that they had been completely abandoned.

Of course, the soldiers on the city wall are also in pain, they can recognize their companions, and their hearts are also twisted when they see their companions trapped in the urn city, but they can only obey orders, and they can't rescue their companions at all, so they can only accept this reality.

However, the Khorasan cavalry who rushed into the city was also in a very bad mood, they just rushed in, they found that the city wall was full of crossbowmen, the density surprised them, at the same time, they also found that the main city gate was not opened, they could not rush into the city in one go, and it was obviously quite difficult to retreat, after all, behind them, there were more cavalry rushing in brainlessly, completely blocking their retreat.

All parties are not in a good mood, but the mood of Artik and the young generals of the Tang Dynasty is beautiful, because they will not care about the casualties of these death squads, as long as they can achieve the final victory and defeat the Khorasan cavalry, that is the goal has been achieved, what does it matter if some people and horses are lost?

It's like playing a game, as long as you can win, what does it matter if you lose some soldiers and horses, as long as the enemy loses more soldiers and horses, it's worth it, no one cares about losing a small number of soldiers and horses, compared to the joy of victory, losing a little soldiers and horses is a little insignificant.

"Attack with all your might, kill them all."

Artik shouted.

The soldiers have already begun to attack, they almost don't need to aim, they can shoot the Khorasan cavalry that entered the urn city, after all, there are too many Khorasan cavalry rushing in, there are three or five hundred people, and there are more soldiers and horses pouring in later, which does provide very good conditions for arrow attacks, so that the soldiers can kill the enemy to their heart's content.

The soldiers on the city wall, in addition to receiving orders to attack the Khorasan cavalry, also had a reason to save their comrades in the urn city, as long as they quickly shot all the Khorasan cavalry who rushed into the urn city, the death squad that fled behind the screen still had a glimmer of hope for survival, of course, this hope was very small.

After a rain of arrows, the Khorasan cavalry in the city of the urn suffered heavy losses, because they were cavalry and were not equipped with shields, and there were so many soldiers on the walls that they had nowhere to hide.

Since it is already a dead end, then pull a cushion before dying, the Khorasan cavalry who has not yet been shot to death, quickly kill the death squad, to kill these guys before the temporary, after all, it is these death squads who lure them here, in addition, some soldiers feel that it is safer to get close to the death squads, and the crossbowmen on the city wall will not even kill their own people!

When the soldiers on the city wall attacked the Khorasan cavalry close to the death squad, they did have some slingers, and some of them couldn't let go of their hands and feet when attacking, but this could not help the death squads in the urn city at all, because they were surrounded by angry Khorasan cavalry, and many Khorasan cavalry were hit by sharp arrows, and they also shouted and rushed over to fight with a small number of death squads.

Only a few dozen members of the death squad remained, and they were quickly overwhelmed by the Khorasan cavalry, and none of them remained, they fought and died in despair, and the Khorasan cavalry that attacked them, almost with them met Allah, and none survived.

After a commotion, the follow-up Khorasan cavalry reacted and began to retreat from the gate, but the soldiers and horses behind did not know the situation and continued to rush forward, which caused a lot of chaos inside and outside the gate of the urn city.

"Retreat, retreat all."

After many shouts, the cavalry behind finally began to retreat, but it was too late to retreat, and a large number of rolling logs and stones were thrown from the gate tower of the city of Wengcheng, blocking the way for the cavalry to retreat, forcing them to abandon their horses and flee on foot.

And even if they fled on foot, they did not run away, and the crossbowmen on the city walls kept attacking, shooting most of the fleeing enemy troops, and less than fifty were able to escape back.

"Close the gates of the city and lift the drawbridge."

After Artik finished giving the order, he looked at the young general of the Tang Dynasty with a ruddy face, and said, "General Tang is really a clever plan!" We killed at least 1,000 Khorasan cavalry with only 300 men, and we burned a lot of their equipment, and we won a great victory! Hahaha! ”

The young general of the Tang Dynasty was also happy, nodded and said: "What the city lord said is that this battle is indeed good, and the three hundred death squads are very brave, so they should be credited with merit, so that all the soldiers can learn from them and learn from their bravery and dedication." ”

"Okay, General Tang's proposal is good, so let's do it, and give them a great credit."

Artik said happily.

After the gate of the urn city was closed, the main city gate was opened again, and hundreds of elite soldiers entered the urn city to count the situation in the urn city, and at the same time, carried the corpses of their own soldiers back to the city, while the corpses of the enemy soldiers were thrown directly outside the city wall, as long as Qi Yad was willing, he could send a corpse collection team to collect the corpses under the city wall at any time, of course, the premise was that the number of people could not be too many, let alone carry weapons, and the siege operation must be stopped, otherwise how to collect the corpses while fighting.

Standing on the gate tower of the main city, Artik looked at the busy soldiers below, and said: "This battle not only destroyed many enemies, but also captured a large number of horses, and now the soldiers are blessed, everyone can eat horse meat and drink horse bone soup." ”

Although it is not clear how many horses there are in Urn City, the general number is around a thousand, which should be said to be only a lot more, in addition, most of the horses are injured and killed, and only a few horses are intact.

Horses that are intact can naturally be kept in good condition, while dead and injured horses have to be slaughtered and cooked.

There are only thirty or forty thousand soldiers and horses in the city, but there are a thousand horses that can be eaten, and an average of thirty or forty people share one horse, the amount is absolutely sufficient, and it is absolutely impossible to eat, it is estimated that it will not be able to eat for three or five days, and even for more than a week.

The food standard of the soldiers in Maia City was not high, it was a low standard, and the soldiers could not eat a few slices of meat a day, and this great victory brought enough horse meat to the city, which definitely helped greatly to improve the morale of the army.

As for the matter of giving up the death squad, it is also for the victory of the final battle, although some soldiers may not be able to figure it out, but most of the soldiers can figure it out and will not care too much about this problem.

"City Lord, the city of the urn annihilated more than 900 enemy troops, plus the enemy soldiers outside the city, the enemy annihilated about 1,200, our army lost 300 people, none of the death squads survived, 92 intact horses were captured, 1,000 dead and wounded horses were captured, 830 scimitars were captured, and more than 900 sets of armor and helmets were captured."

One of the subordinates stepped forward to report.

A smile appeared on Artik's face, and he said: "Yes, the results are brilliant, now Ziyad should be in a hurry again, hahaha!" ”

The young general of the Tang Dynasty said with a smile: "With so many casualties of horses, it seems that the soldiers can improve their food very well, and they can't eat meat at once!" ”

Artik nodded, and said, "Give the order to slaughter all the horses that have been killed and wounded, and let all the soldiers eat horse meat, and if there is any surplus meat, distribute it to the people in the city." ”

"Yes, City Lord."

The subordinates hurriedly answered.

Because of the victory, the city was full of jubilation, and most of the soldiers were very happy, and only the soldiers who were closest to the death squad would feel a little uncomfortable.

And in the direction outside the city, the morale of the soldiers and horses besieging the city was greatly reduced, they were very excited when they saw the cavalry rushing into the city, thinking that the city would be broken in a moment, but they didn't expect it to be a trap, most of the cavalry who rushed into the city were killed, only a few dozen people fled back on foot, all the weapons and armor were discarded, and they were embarrassed to the extreme, so that it would naturally affect the morale of the army.

Seeing that the gate of the urn city was closed again, but his cavalry did not come out, the strength in Qi Yade's body seemed to be drained, and he was a little unstable.

Thousands of elite cavalry, all of a sudden, this is too distressing for him, the most important problem is that not many enemies have been annihilated, and the loss of so many cavalry is really not worth it.

"Artik, this cunning fox, when he catches you, he will definitely break you to pieces."

Ziyad yelled angrily.

"General, our army suffered considerable losses, more than 30 catapults were destroyed, 50 arrow-blocking vehicles were destroyed, 20 transports were destroyed, more than 1,200 cavalry losses were lost, and 300 enemy infantry were annihilated."

One of his subordinates came running over to report the results.

"It is a great shame to annihilate three hundred enemy troops after such a loss, and the order is to go down, and the army continues to attack, and orders the large battalion of soldiers and horses to speed up the construction of more equipment, and the city of Maia must be breached."

Ziyad said angrily.

"General, the enemy will still have the corpses of our army outside the city, whether to suspend the siege, contain the corpses, and then continue the attack."

The subordinate asked.

Qi Yad was angry, shook his head and said: "No, you can't give Artik a chance to breathe, you have to keep attacking until all the defenders in the city are exhausted, so that the city can be destroyed by itself." ”

Collecting the corpses of the fallen soldiers is a very important thing, but Ziyad is unwilling to do this, because collecting the corpses means temporarily stopping the attack on the city, which will give the soldiers and horses defending the city a chance to breathe, and he obviously will not give the soldiers and horses of the city such a chance, so he asked his subordinates to go all out to attack the city.

That is to say, although the defending soldiers and horses won a big victory and dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the siege soldiers and horses, it did not play a much role in slowing down the progress of the enemy's siege, and the soldiers and horses outside the city were still attacking the city, and they were not given a chance to breathe.

Fortunately, the defenders of each city gate are defending the city in three shifts, replenishing new recruits twice a day, otherwise, they may not be able to withstand it for a long time.

However, as the siege continued, the reserves defending the city became less and less sufficient, and it was estimated that they could only hold out for more than a day at most, and then the most elite soldiers and horses would have to fight.

If the most elite soldiers and horses are also consumed, it will be difficult to hold the city, but if the soldiers and horses in the city are really consumed, the soldiers and horses outside the city are estimated to be exhausted, and it is really difficult to say whether the city can be broken.

However, the heavens seemed to favor Artik, and just when the two sides were inseparable, Ziyad's logistics went into serious trouble, and a thousand-strong cavalry force ventured deep into enemy territory, attacked the grain and grass that should have been supplied to Ziyad's army, and burned all the grain and grass in one fire.

This batch of grain and grass is enough to support the army of Qi Yad for ten days, and it was burned all of a sudden, which is very unfortunate news for Qi Yad's army, because he has too many soldiers and horses, and the consumption of grain and grass is very great, especially the consumption of grain and grass by war horses far exceeds that of soldiers, and the consumption of grain and grass of 100,000 cavalry is equivalent to the consumption of grain and grass by three and five hundred thousand infantry troops, which shows the huge demand for grain and grass.

"What, the grain and grass of the army were attacked by a sneak attack, and all of them were lost."

Hearing this unfortunate news, Qi Yade was greatly surprised, if this batch of grain and grass could not be arrived in time, the army under his command would have to eat the soil, and in three or five days at most, the army's grain and grass would be exhausted.

At the time of the expedition, Mansur gave them a month's time, so the preparation of grain and grass was also prepared according to the amount of a month, because the siege has not been smooth, and it is estimated that the scheduled time will not be able to complete the task, so Ziyad repeatedly asked for more food and grass, and Mansur managed to piece together from Khorasan, which was regarded as additional military rations for the Qiyad army, so that the army could have more time to siege the city.

But now that the military rations have been burned, it means that they are about to run out of food, and only he knows how serious the consequences of the food rations are.

If you can capture the city within three or five days, you can obtain the abundant grain and grass in the city to survive the immediate crisis, but if you can't break the city, the army will be very dangerous.

It was clear that an immediate withdrawal would not work, and Mansur would not agree, so the best thing to do was to step up the siege and breach the city as quickly as possible, and then all the problems would be solved.

"Send the order to increase the siege of the city, draw 10,000 horses from the camp, increase it to the city walls, and within three days the city must be broken, and on the day the city is broken, all the things in the city belong to the soldiers."

Ziyad gave the order.