The builder of this embankment is, of course, Alexander. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Alexander the Great, the conqueror 1,400 years ago, followed the oracle and began his assault on this vital city, aided by the fleet of the King of Cyprus. But the tenacious and cunning Phoenicians abandoned the old city on the shore, and withdrew all the soldiers, weapons and treasures to the fortress on the sea, which was completely built on the island, protected by a strong wall around the island, and in the center of it was a large temple with rich reserves "Agono Holy Tomb", the emperor built a stone embankment from the land to attack it, and finally with the cooperation of a large number of ships and the bloody sacrifice of the soldiers, he broke through this "pearl of Phoenicia", razed the homes of the rebels, and plundered great wealth.

In addition, with all of Cyprus and Tripoli in hand, Egypt would face a great threat that the enemy would be able to transport huge armies from the sea between the two places with great ease, and burn the flames of war throughout the sacred land of Egypt.

More than a thousand years have passed, and the stone embankment does not know whether it is still the remains of the emperor, but it has been repaired and supplemented, and cut off in the direction near the inner city and outside, forming a gate valve for ships to pass by, and the defenders have built a large tower to control the iron chain, so that they can not only block the enemy, but also freely dispatch their own ships moored on both sides to be flexible in response to the battle.

But the impregnable facilities were no match for the new Roman army, who had previously had four heavy mortars and a dozen light wheeled guns, and with the help of the tunnel blasting, he had breached the outer city of Tyre a month earlier, annihilating the 2,000 defenders who had been stationed there, including 300 Provençals, who had been chained and sent by Andedodat to Baldwin in Jerusalem.

Because Baldwin's brother, Godfrey, had been insulted by this group of apostates.

Portland, Jordan and Tyre's "Prince Amir" Ibn Ibn Brown of Tyre. Hu Dejie hurriedly retreated to the inner city of the island.

Andodat mobilized all the poor soldiers, border people and people's troops, collected stones from all over the place, put them into cages and tied them to wooden stakes to drive them into the sea mud, and expanded them to both sides along the junction of the Alexander stone embankment to form a fallen "T" shape, and then pushed all the artillery over and spread it out in a row, and the big Prani cannons that were built up bombarded in turn day and night, and the big tower that controlled the stone embankment was beaten to only "half of the country", and the garrison members also suffered heavy casualties.

Anxious, Portland, pinning his hopes on the mediation of Jerusalem and Antioch (he had lost faith in the aid of Fatima in Egypt), let the Venetian ships that had escaped last time break out, and begged Baldwin or Bohemond to put pressure on the besiegers—he himself promised that if the besieging side withdrew, he would abandon all honors and claims and return to his homeland with his men.

However, as soon as the Venetian ships sailed out of the water barrier, they were surrounded by Winmoha's fleet, one was sunk, and the other fled back.

After interrogating the half-dead Venetian crew members, Androdart learned that the city had reached the point of exhaustion and demoralization, so he gave the order to "capture Tyre in half a month".

The defenders of Tyre then saw from the city wall that light boats were anchoring on both sides of the embankment, and the besieging soldiers connected them end to end, laying wide planks, and holding them firmly on both sides with gabion and stakes to prevent them from shaking and disintegrating in the wind and waves, and then the planks were connected to the original stone embankment, forming an extremely wide siege passage.

Then, two hundred feet ahead, Androdat had the frontier people erect two rows of slender and sharp wooden fences, and covered them with the skins of animals that set fire to them, and also erected wooden towers for monitoring and sighting, and then pushed the artillery behind the wooden fences, and continued to bombard the large towers on the opposite side day and night.

Inside the floating wooden grille, the muzzles of the guns continued to spit out long fireworks and roars like monsters, and then retreated, and the gunners shouted and shook their poles in the smoke, ready for the next round of shelling.

The bombarded tower was crumbling, and if it collapsed and lost, the walls of Tyre would no longer be sheltered, so Jordan volunteered to use the last Venetian ship to make a decisive raid and destroy and burn the wooden barricades on the embankment.

Jordan sat on the two-masted ship with twenty daredevils, the deck and cabin were piled with sulfur, wood shavings, asphalt, fire oil and other flammable and burning materials, the ship's side was raised, the mast hung a burning brazier, the chain tied to the brazier was controlled by Jordan's hands at the stern, and of course there were several large iron ingots lined up in the stern, their weight made the bow of the ship high, Jordan thought that this would not only help him conceal himself, but also resist enemy attacks.

In the midst of the surging waves, the gate of the water gate in the east bay of the city opened, and the bow of the fire-attacking ship was furious, and in a strange manner, along the waterway on the south side of the stone embankment, slowly approached the wooden gate: once the distance was right, Jordan would pull down the brazier on the mast, igniting the fire of the whole ship, and he could also jump from the stern of the ship and escape safely—if handled well, he might not have killed two people at all, or even zero casualties.

It was noon, and the soldiers were raining down arrows and crossbow spears on the walls of the city between the north and east bays of Tyre, half of the ocean was illuminated red, and the wooden fence was filled with smoke and fire, which was used to cover Jordan's fireship attack.

But the loyal lookout on the wooden tower soon noticed the uninvited guest coming towards the wooden fence, and sent a signal to the outer city.

Anderodat, Walter, Doruth, and Monomachus, who had been supervising the battle on the Ishigaki in the outer city, quickly demanded that the artillery in the wooden fence concentrate on destroying the warship with its bow cocked.

Behind the wooden grating, the baffle was pushed up, and a cannon turned diagonally and fired heavily at Jordan's fireship.

One of them never fired, and the gunner behind it, with his bare back, clamped a round cannonball coated with mutton fat with iron tongs, and was roasting it on the stove until the cannonball was burned red, and the mutton fat was foaming finely, and the flag officer over there waved the small flag at the bow of the Jordan fireship, "Aim, shoot!" ”

"Bang", the scorching cannonball swirled out of the chamber, and with a loud bang, one wedged into the bow of the ship, and splinters of wood and flames flew wildly.

The shells pierced through the past, igniting everything.

Jordan, who was standing at the stern of the ship waiting to fall into the brazier, and all the crew members couldn't see the cannonball coming in, they just felt for a moment that a sun was expanding and burning in front of them. Then, before he could scream, his fur, body, and bones were completely devoured violently, like ears of wheat that disappeared into the mouths of a swarm of flying locusts......

The fireship burst open at the edge of the stone embankment, and the round waves of water and air spread out, and the white circle was surrounded by red fire and black smoke, and the great tower and the wooden fence were all affected, and the whole stone embankment was on fire and trembling.

But after an hour, the fire was contained and most of it was extinguished.

The next day, the recovered wooden barricade continued to fire, and the tower collapsed that day.