Chapter Eighty-Seven: Raging Like Locusts

When those soldiers managed to rescue a whole group of refugees. Before they had time to celebrate. Among the thousands of refugees, nearly 200 suddenly pulled out the short knives that were hidden close to them. Chop down the Arab soldiers who were too close to each other to the ground. Immediately afterward, the gang went under the city walls. Intent to control the city gates, open them. Put your own army in.

"Damn it—it's the enemy! The enemy has come in! kill them!!" shouted the garrison general in Cairo. At the same time, the garrison, feeling that they had been fooled, also brandished their scimitars and slashed and slashed. In such a chaotic situation, the soldiers did not have time to distinguish which one was the real refugee and which was the enemy disguised as a refugee. So I had to kill indiscriminately. The city wall was suddenly covered with blood. First he was brutally treated by the enemy, and then he was slaughtered by his own people. Some of the prisoners of war and slaves also resisted quite tragically. This also increased the suspicion and anger of the garrison.

"These are all enemies, too! Kill them all!" shouted the soldiers of the garrison, and at last they let go of all their scruples and began to slaughter - only a thousand in number, and the vast majority of unarmed slaves were quickly slaughtered. Although the Norman dead fought bravely, they were unable to control the city gates. The vast majority were defeated and killed. After a small number of prisoners, they took advantage of the unpreparedness of others to commit suicide.

And under the city, the soldiers of the crusaders laughed when they saw each other's scrambled appearance. And Artoria continued to order: "Release another batch of slaves!"

And just like that, another thousand slave soldiers ran over. The previous actions were repeated, and after what had happened, the slaves loudly assured that they were not spies to Allah. At the same time, he put the ladder on the head of the city and began to climb. Only this time, the defenders of Cairo, who had suffered a loss, began to hesitate. Even the most sympathetic Arabs cannot make up their minds. The soldiers looked at their commander. And the officers looked at the general of the Cairo garrison. The general's face tensed, and finally he gave the order: "Release the arrows!"

The soldiers breathed a sigh of relief. And the officers acquiesced to the order, and did not disagree—and, of course, did not approve of it. While most of them thought it was a good idea, they could not afford to massacre their fellow citizens. And the garrison general of Cairo, after giving this order, is also destined to declare that he will sweep the ground, and the end can be imagined miserable.

"Thankfully, I'm not the one to make this decision. At this moment, I don't know how many people think like this in their hearts.

This time, the slaves were greeted not by their compatriots, but by bows, crossbows, javelins, and stones. The Arab soldiers at the head of the city shot downward with their eyes closed, unable to bear to see the appearance of their compatriots who had been killed by themselves. And the Arab slaves, who were caught off guard by such an attack, suffered heavy casualties.

"Why?!We are also believers in Allah, descendants of the Great Prophet, your compatriots! Why do you treat us like this?!" The slaves cried under Cairo. There is no way to heaven and no door to the earth. If you want to run back, you will have to face the slaughter of the Crusaders, and if you want to enter the city of Cairo, you will have to face the massacre of your own people.

In such an atmosphere, the morale of the defenders of Cairo plummeted. Many of the improvised soldiers threw away their weapons and cried with their heads in their hands. Most of them come from towns outside Cairo. Below, most of the slaves under the control of the Crusaders had their relatives and friends—even those they knew. They really can't do it. ...,

"Cairo is already in the pocket of the palace. Seeing that such a trick had taken a toll on the morale of the defenders in Cairo, Artoria chuckled.

Over the next few days. Artoria fulfilled his promise and drove tens of thousands of Arab soldiers to storm Kairo. Eventually, the corpses were used to pave a ramp that led directly to the city. After that, it was the regular army of the Crusaders who attacked.

After several days of nerf-crusting cannibalism, Cairo's defenders had become nervous. The vast majority of people are traumatized. There were also a small number of soldiers who were driven insane. From top to bottom, Cairo has an atmosphere of failed decadence.

It was at this time that Artoria launched a general assault - a total of 20,000 well-armed, well-trained, and physically preserved crusaders, the Celtic and Norman armies, marching on the road paved with the corpses of Arab slaves, marching towards Cairo.

Under the cover of crossbows and longbows, the Crusaders advanced towards the head of Cairo with Celtic heavy shield-spearmen as the front. Heavily armed shield spearmen armed with large tower shields nearly half a man tall held their shields aloft, shielding themselves and their comrades behind them from long-range weapon attacks.

Arrayed in a dense array, the heavily armored shield spearmen wearing heavy chain mail and pot helmets may not have very strong attack power. However, the stability of the array, and the defensive ability, were comparable to the hoplites that the Eastern Romans were proud of. Under the cover of 2,000 heavily armed shield spearmen in the front row, there were about 3,000 Celtic Thunder warriors, these elite assault infantry armed with two-handed swords and armed with composite armor of plates and chains, followed by Norman sailors, pirates, soldiers armed with tomahawks, round shields and hard leather armor. The main force of Artoria marched from the northern wall.

As a place where the slaves attacked fiercely before. The condition here is the best, and it is the only one, without any siege machinery, you can climb to the side of the city by stepping on the corpse. Altoria also had a small number of troops on the other three walls, but they only served as a diversion. The direction of the main attack is the north side. There can be no doubt about it.

The direction of the main garrison of the Cairo garrison is also on the north side. In total, more than 3,000 professional soldiers in armor and scales were armed with spears and round shields. The more numerous improvised militiamen were armed with bows, crossbows, javelins, stones, etc., and threw them downwards to kill and wound - at such close range, little accuracy was required. And a lot of the conscripts are from Orion. Proficient in bows and crossbows. There are also obvious ways to operate.

The defenders of Cairo also understood that the most critical moment had been reached. Either the city will be destroyed and people will die. Either victory. There is definitely no second way to go. Therefore, the soldiers worked very hard, as if they were crazy, and desperately drew their bows and arrows.

However, when these bows and arrows hit the opponent's shield, they were either bounced off or only half pierced and nailed to it. Barely inflicts effective damage on the opponent. The large stone has some effect, and if the angle is right, it will not be able to smash the opponent's brain. However, soon, before the opponent could expand the results of the battle, a soldier immediately came up behind and resumed the formation. Don't give the other party any chance at all.

In this way, a slope of less than ten meters was reached, and it took only half a minute for the soldiers to break through it, even in order to maintain their formation. What followed was that at the head of the city, the two arrays collided together, the earth-shattering shouts of killing, the guns were broken, the sound of weapons colliding with gold and iron, and the screams of dying gathered together, forming a battlefield!

"Our army has the upper hand, and it looks like we will be able to win in a short time!" Seeing that at the head of the city, the heavily armed shield spearmen with the captains of the garrison occupied a large number of beachheads, followed by the powerful Thunder Warriors, and the larger number of Norman light infantry, continued to expand this advantage. The two armies attacked and defended each other, and in just an hour and a half, they occupied a large part of the city wall and began to march towards the bottom of the wall. Beside Artoria, the knights of her guard shouted excitedly. ...,

"That's right! Today, the main palace is going to storm the city!" Artoria also looked excited—and the excitement reached its greatest when the soldiers took the gates with difficulty, but steadfastly, and quickly cleared the stones and logs that the enemy had blocked them, and opened them.

"Knights, rush in! This palace fulfills its promise - ten days, ten days, you can enjoy yourself in Cairo, and all your actions are under the protection of the Norman royal family and the Crusaders - whatever you do, it is all lawful! All are unchecked! Do it!

Artoria shouted with her sword held alof, while her Celtic heavy cavalry and Celtic knights shouted excitedly, their eyes blazing towards the open gate.

......Seeing this, the Cairo garrison general, who was still holding on to a tower, closed his eyes in despair, and then slashed his neck with a knife. In this way, the city of Cairo was finally breached after less than two months. Soon, the cries of the Arabs were heard from within the city, and the smoke from the fierce burning was heard.

In the following period, Artoria burned the whole of Cairo. Later, he led an army to sweep through large areas of Upper Egypt one by one, dividing fields, villages, towns, fortresses, ...... Everything related to civilization, to life and productive activity was completely destroyed. Kill Arabs and plant crosses all over the banks of the Nile.

It is conservatively estimated that the Crusaders led by Artoria plundered more than half a million florins worth more than half a million gold coins from Egypt, and destroyed at least three times that amount. Nearly half a million people were also killed. As a result of the destruction wrought by the Crusaders, millions of people have been left homeless and refugees, and millions have died. The Nile civilization, which was originally a rich civilization, was greatly damaged by this, and I don't know how long it will take to recover......