Chapter 719: Mongol-style siege warfare

Amar looked up, stuck his scimitar at his waist, and pulled the girl briskly towards the outside of the village.

The familiar aura of her body was constantly stirring up his mind.

He didn't know where he was going, he only knew that he had to leave before the Tatars came again.

He would never have imagined that the world he was familiar with would begin to crumble from this day on.

The drums of war were noisy, and the sound of horseshoe people stepping on the ground shook the earth. The Mongol army advanced to twenty zhang beyond the moat, that is, where the bow and arrow could not reach, and stood still at the sound of an order.

A trumpet sounded, a Mongolian warrior took the lead, screaming and rushing to the edge of the city, and immediately the arrows on the city were like flying locust arrows raining down, and the moat was popping, and the Mongol army charging outside the moat lay down one by one.

The Mongolian warlord flashed with the sword in his hand, the knife qi was vertical and horizontal, wrapped in the power of thunder and lightning, and he forced straight to the place outside the moat, and easily cut two troops who were charging backwards.

The Mongolian soldiers behind the Mongol warriors with shields drew their bows and fired arrows at the Arab soldiers at the head of the city, and the arrows of the Mongol army rushed up to the city head in an arc in the air, and some of the soldiers on the head of the city fell to the ground or fell from the city wall when they landed. But soon someone made up for it and continued to shoot, but it was still difficult for the Mongol army to advance.

The Mongol warrior did not retreat for half a step, and swung his long knife to shoot down the arrows around his body one by one.

A group of shield soldiers rushed up from behind, holding their shields diagonally to cover their limbs, and the wall slowly pushed forward. Each shield carries an archer behind it, and as soon as it comes into range, it immediately shoots outward. As the Mongol army approached, the casualties on the city became more and more significant. The arrows fired by each other were as dense as flying locusts, and the Mongol soldiers would be shot through as soon as an inch of their skin was exposed outside the shield. Thousands of soldiers were inadvertently shot and killed, and the sound of misery was heard incessantly.

Half an hour later, the battle of several other city gates began at the same time, and the shouts, screams, shouts, and sonorous sounds were intertwined, and the sound spread for hundreds of miles.

Although the Mongol warriors were brave, they were oppressed by the arrows on the head of the city, and their progress was slow, and finally the ladder was set up on the moat, and countless altars and jars were suddenly thrown down on the city, which were filled with fire oil, and the fire oil smashed on the ladder, followed by countless torches thrown down on the city head, and hundreds of ladders and soldiers who had just rushed up the ladder were burned to ashes at the same time.

The Mongol generals were furious and personally charged with ladders, and with his desperate efforts, hundreds of Mongol troops finally broke through the death blockade by the moat and rushed to the city. There was a shout on the city wall, and the wooden rolling stones were thrown down together, plus wooden barrels and fire bricks, and the soldiers under the city were suddenly blown into a blood-colored meat sauce. Fortunately, thanks to the Mongolian general's strong martial arts and sharp sword skills, he escaped this catastrophe and desperately retreated back from the other side of the river.

The Mongol warriors shouted angrily, lifted off their armor, strode forward with their bare swords and organized a second charge. In just two hours, at a distance of 20 zhang, the Mongol army suffered countless casualties, overlapping corpses, and rivers of blood. Crushed to death by the soldiers defending the city.

The Mongolian generals launched four or five charges in a row but could not kill the tower, so angry that he stood by the moat and jumped to his feet and scolded his mother, there was nothing he could do.

The commander of the Mongolian army looked at the city with a cold gaze, waved his hand, and the horn sounded again, and the Mongolian general snatched a bow from the guards, mounted an arrow, and shot down the Arab soldiers ten zhang away with an arrow.

At the same time, twenty cannons were lined up outside the formation, and two Mongol officers commanded two teams of gunners, waiting for the commander-in-chief to give orders.

The Arab soldiers defending the city had never seen such a new weapon, and many of them stopped their bows and arrows and watched the Mongols in a daze.

When the cannon roared with earth-shattering roar, the soldiers realized that their destruction was inevitable.

The first round of shells fired from twenty cannons flew up the city with a loud bang, and immediately debris and shrapnel flew over the city, and the roaring shock wave blew the Arab soldiers into a mess. An Arab general was commanding the battle with a scimitar in his hand, but he did not expect the city to suddenly shake, and everywhere was filled with gunsmoke and blood, and the soldiers were blown to the ground of flesh and blood, and the heads of people were rolling. As long as it is affected to a point, it is either half of the head or missing arms and legs, and the scene is terrifying to the extreme. The stone under his feet suddenly loosened, and he almost rolled off the city. The whole city shook as if it were in the midst of an earthquake.

The spirit of the Arab soldiers was broken, many of them threw down their swords and fled, and the officers shouted and cursed, but the soldiers still listened to the same thing, except for the dead, the crippled, and those who could not run, all rushed down to the city with their heads in their hands, and it was useless for an officer to swing a knife and slash indiscriminately.

The artillery of the Mongol army began to roar again, and the flames rose above the city, and a sea of fire was blazing.

The battle immediately entered a white heat, the Arab moat position was immediately lost, tens of thousands of Mongol troops erected siege ladders on the top of the city, and centipedes climbed up the tower from the collapsed mouth one after another. The city tower was being bombed with flying sand and rocks, and the Mongolian army braved the rain of bullets to follow one after another, and the courage was extraordinary.

Seeing the success of the Mongol army's landing in the city, a smile appeared on the face of the commander of the Mongol army, he immediately ordered to stop firing artillery, looked up at the time, it was not yet noon, it seemed that there was no problem in clearing the stubborn enemy before dusk, and there was no problem in crossing the border with a long drive.

A small number of Arab defenders at the head of the city, led by the commander, fought in an attempt to drive the Mongols out of the city. At this time, the Mongolian generals jumped on the city tower, with a long knife in their hands, a flash of white light, two human heads flew to the city, and the cold and suffocating blades turned the land around him into a bloody hell, opening the beachhead for the follow-up troops coming in a steady stream.

As soon as many Mongolian officers came up, they rushed to the enemy generals, and the so-called capture of the thief first captured the king, and it was not as good as killing a general to kill a thousand small soldiers. The Arab general, wounded by an arrow in his left arm and shrapnel in his right leg, looked like a broken bottle from a distance, with blood gushing from everywhere. He is also a fierce person, stunned that he is seriously injured and cannot get out of the line of fire, and blindly resists to the end. Lead the guards everywhere to plug the gaps.

The walls of the city were beaten into a pot of porridge.

The numerical superiority of the Mongol army was immediately apparent, and they rushed up to the city tower like pieces of mustard that could not be killed endlessly, and surrounded and strangled the remaining handful of Arab troops piece by piece.