After returning to Zaire's mansion, Li Mu continued to practice as his otaku, and in addition to exchanging experiences with Zaire every day, more time was spent refining the bronze-level magic materials in the elemental ball, and he had a premonition that his promotion copy was approaching, so he accelerated the refining of the elemental ball, striving to be able to upgrade the elemental ball to the bronze level before and after the promotion copy.

And the time from Zaire to Li Mu has gradually decreased, and Li Mu feels that he is getting busier and busier, and it seems that he is frequently mobilizing and training the army. Li Mu sensed that war was coming.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for news from the direction of Jerusalem that Baldwin IV, King of Jerusalem, had died and his nephew had been enthroned as the new king, and within a few days, news came that the new king was also suffering from leprosy......

Soon after, because she could not bear to suffer her son with leprosy, Princess Sibila poisoned her son. A struggle for power ensued, and in the end, the powerful Gai was finally crowned king, and his ally and number one thug, Reynard, fulfilled his promise to provoke war.

Reynard killed Saladin's sister with his own hands, and Gay beheaded Saladin's emissary and gathered an army to prepare for a crusade against Damascus.

During this period, it was naturally another big drama, but unfortunately because Li Mu had been staying in Zaire's mansion, he didn't have the opportunity to watch it. This information was given to him by Zaire during his small talk with him. As for Gai gathering troops to prepare for an attack on Damascus, it was only when Zaire took Li Mu to gather the army that Li Mu heard about it.

"It would be self-defeating for Gai himself to come with a large army, and we may not be able to deal with them if we hide within the high walls of Jerusalem, but since they dare to step out of their tortoise shells, then they can go to their gods." Zaire said with a sneer.

"Where is the location of this ambush, it can't be Lake Tiberias." Li Mu asked casually.

"How do you know?" Zaire looked at Li Mu and asked in surprise. This plan had just been heard by Saladin in the morning, and he hadn't told the second person yet, and now he was naturally surprised when he heard it from Li Mu's mouth.

"If you look at the map, if I were Gai, I would definitely march along this route, and this is the necessary route, and depending on the amount of water and food carried, as well as the state of the personnel, this is the most suitable ambush location." Li Mu pointed to the map and talked eloquently. What he said in the world was summed up by some hindsight on the Internet, and now that he said it, Zaire was naturally shocked.

"Alright, don't look surprised. I was just able to analyze it. And the people who were able to lay out this battle were the real geniuses, and thankfully the geniuses were on our side. ”

"Indeed, Saladin is a messenger from God." Zaire nodded yes.

The scorching sun scorched the earth like a fireball, and the armoured crusaders were far less demoralized than they had been when they first set out. The spears and shields that had been held aloft had been dragged to the ground by this time, and everyone was exhausted from the heat and lack of water. People keep falling. People are dying all the time, and none of the people behind them will look at them more, and no one will come to bury their bodies, because they themselves don't know how long they will live, and perhaps, they will be the next to die. They could only be numb, dragging their tired bodies forward step by step, towards the abyss of death.

"Keep going, there's Lake Tiberias ahead, and once we're there, we'll have water." The herald spread the uplifting news. The originally numb soldiers ran desperately forward as if they had found a life-saving straw. However, as they passed through a hilly area, they saw the Saracens, who had been waiting in formation.

"Archer, prepare, ignite, put!" A squad of Saracen archers surrounded them, lit the arrows wrapped in strips of oilcloth, and threw them into the bushes near the Crusaders.

Whew, piles of bonfires were lit, dead trees and hay were lit and a raging fire emitted steaming black smoke, and the Saracens not only laid out a large number of dry grass and dead branches here, but they even dug many ditches in the ground at the suggestion of Li Mu, and the ditches were filled with oil. It was covered with grass and trees as a disguise.

Rumble! The oil in the ditches was ignited by the flames, the ditches were set ablaze, and the dragons of fire flew wildly among the ranks of the Crusaders.

"Trebuchet, put!"

One by one, the trebuchets were set up to throw huge stones with a pre-calibrated target.

Boom, boom, huge stones coated in brimstone and saltpeter were ignited and thrown into the Crusader formation.

Huge boulders can instantly smash a dozen or so crusaders gathered together into meat sauce, and some of the round boulders can even crush a tunnel of flesh.

Although these huge stones are impressive, their lethality is limited, and in fact, they do not even do as much damage as a single round of bows and arrows.

However, the morale of such weapons is devastating. No one wants to be stoned to death by themselves. Even when they saw a few unlucky people whose legs were crushed by the rolling boulders and their upper bodies were still screaming miserably, many of the resolute crusaders flinched.

Thirst and heat had drained most of their energy, and they were gasping for breath from the rising smoke, and now they had to watch out for boulders falling from the sky, and the once fairly neat formation was shattered by the rocks and empty soldiers.

"Archer, put."

Rows of Saracen archers came out of the ranks, standing at the top of a nearby hill, condescendingly throwing arrows into the enemy's ranks, without worrying about the opponent's return fire, not needing to aim at the target, not even thinking, just shooting the arrows in their hands as fast as possible.

Rows of arrows were fired at the crusaders. Some of them resisted with their shields, some waved their weapons, and some simply hid under the corpses.

Saladin looked at the struggling crusaders in the depression and nodded to the general beside him.

When the general saw this, he immediately gave the order, "By the will of God, charge." ”

"God's will!" Tens of thousands of Saracen cavalry shouted slogans and rushed towards the Crusaders. Tens of thousands of infantry followed, slowly charging up.

Seeing this, Li Mu said hello to Zaire and rode a white horse to follow the Saracen cavalry and rushed into the Crusader position.

His targets were King Gay, the current king of Jerusalem, and Reynard, the latter, Saladin's enemies, and Raynald, who would have been able to exert greater influence among the Saracens if their capture would have increased his weight in Zaire's mind.