Chapter 53: Siege of Jerusalem

In the following period, the battle between the two sides was unremarkable. (!duka) was assigned by Saladin to make meritorious contributions and led his light cavalry to attack frequently, but the end result was that the loss of troops and generals was lost. Only a small number of camel cavalry achieved unexpected good results. When fighting with the Norman Hussars, the stench emitted by these camels made the Norman war horse unbearable. The usually trained No. 4 war horse became difficult to control, and thus suffered some small losses.

After learning this news, Egil ordered that when encountering camel cavalry in the future, he would not send cavalry to fight if he was not surprised. Try to use heavenly flame pots and iron cannons to scare the camels, so as to achieve the goal of letting the enemy troops collapse without fighting. At the same time, a large number of long-range projectile troops were used.

However, things were not as serious as Egil imagined. Although a small number of desert camel cavalry units performed well in skirmishes, the Arabs did not seem to want to use such troops on a large scale. Most camels were still used as transport tools and baggage teams. Such intelligence made Egil breath some relief.

In addition, another trouble is the continuous flow of jihad troops from various regions of the Islamic world. Saladin, who controls the Arabian Peninsula, owns the two holy cities of Mecca and Medina, and has the title of caliph. He is the well-deserved supreme person in the entire Islamic world - even the Turkish Sultan and Timur Khan are not as good as him. With the order of such a monarch who is a country with a unified politics and religion, he also launched a general mobilization order for religion while mobilizing domestic secular armed forces.

"This is a general mobilization and war between two civilizations, two races, two religions. The believers of the other side gathered together in large numbers. And isn't it the same?" At that time, Egil expressed a similar feeling: "If all the Christians in the world are armed, and the Muslims in the world are organized, and the two sides have a general decisive battle, then the scale of this war will probably be more than ten times larger than now... However, it is most likely that Jesus Christ will come back to earth and Muhammad will be resurrected."

Although Saladin's prestige is not as good as the Prophet. There were no radio fax machines or planes and trains in this era. There were indeed many Muslim believers, but not everyone was willing to sacrifice their families and leave their homes to come here to fight their lives. However, the Muslim jihad legion gathered in the Holy City still exceeded 100,000 people, and it was increasing every day.

Although these people responded to Saladin's call and were extremely respectful to the kind Caliph. But this does not mean that they were willing to obey Saladin's orders—a situation similar to the spontaneous mobs that were entangled in the crusaders. They usually use the territory as a connection and select the most prestigious of them as commanders. They enjoy great autonomy. After simple training, or skip this process directly, they will leave the holy land after a pilgrimage in Jerusalem. They will find an opportunity to fight the crusaders alone.

The rabble in the Crusaders usually do this. The closer they are to the holy land, the more restless they become. They do not understand Egil's steady tactics, nor do they know Egil's strategy to hide behind them. They do not even understand the stable camping, scouts, patrol commands, etc., or their extremely weak brain capacity and the shallow connotation of not knowing a word, which makes them unable to understand what these are.

For things that they don't understand, smart people will learn and try to understand. Fools will be afraid and denounced as heresy - these rabble cannot be called smart people in any way.

Therefore, a large number of crusaders left without saying goodbye. They left Egil's army and marched to the holy land alone. Driven by the chaotic brain and blind optimism, they believed that with their small troops of dozens and hundreds of people could save the world. Those refugees could not tell the difference between the decisive battle between the two civilizations and the armed battle between the two villages for water sources. The wandering knights had limited knowledge. Although they might have walked a lot, they usually encountered small-scale battles, which were rare for a thousand people.

Of course, to be honest, these two types of people are better, and what's worse is the third type, fanatical believers. These guys think that as long as they are protected by God/Allah, they will be invincible, and they have turned on various golden thigh plug-ins to the protagonist mode. A million troops can be destroyed with one look.

But then again, those Islamic jihadists and others are basically the same level. Both sides are half-doubled, and no one is much better than each other. Therefore, in the battles outside Jerusalem, both sides are half-doubled and half-doubled. No one is much worse than each other.

Here he shouted: "Allah!" and charged under the cover of the compound bow, while there he shouted: "Lehovah!" and charged under the cover of heavy crossbows. The enthusiastic Crusaders wore tattered hoods and covered in body, held sticks and rough shields, and fought with Islamic soldiers wearing short shirts, holding axes and scimitars. The Knights of the Crusaders gathered together and launched a powerful charge. The Camel Cavalry and Tribal Cavalry of the Jihad rushed forward and attacked with maces and scimitars...

Such scenes are always and never stopping. On the road from Tripoli in the north to Jerusalem in the south, such scenes are performed several times a day, dozens or even dozens of times a day. Countless guns are broken, countless flags are stained with blood, countless Christians and Muslims are killed in the underworld. Roads, villages, fields, oasis. Every place with a little value is repeatedly fought and fiercely fought. Then, amid a burst of resentful curses and wails, the winner steps on the bodies of the losers and raises his flag - either a cross or a crescent moon - up.

Although the main forces of both sides did not move, in fact, the war was already very fierce. More than a dozen small villages and two small towns within a hundred kilometers of road had been demolished into ruins by the fanatical two sects.

After a break in the Kingdom of Tripolibe, the main force of the Crusader also began to march again, gradually approaching and approaching Jerusalem!

Only then did they suddenly wake up, knowing that these guys, these Muslims who were heavily armed and well-organized soldiers were their greatest enemy, organized resistance. However, these troops, which were almost less than a thousand men, could not touch the body of the Norman army at all, were destroyed by the crusade troops early on - the Hussars directly under the Emperor Norman, the Vadatari Archer Legion in Eastern Rome, and the Hungarian Ranger Legion. These three legions took turns to serve as the vanguard army. One army was on duty for a day and then rotated. In this way, it was to drive away the pagan troops blocking the crusades.

The elite and large number of archers and cavalry units of the Crusaders crushed the opponent's unorganized, undisciplined and small light infantry units, which was extremely easy.

“The other party is simply unstoppable.”

"It's like an unrivaled beast."

"Where the brutal demon king, wherever the Norman Emperor passed, everyone was killed by his extremely savage army, and then tied to the cross and allowed the crows and wild dogs to eat!"

"It's so scary! The Crusaders are here!"

Thousands of dead bodies, and thousands of foul-smelling crosses that were erected with these dead bodies, were like a basin of cold water to give the fanatical Islams a heart-warming heart. Let these mobs understand what a dignified army is, what is the force of Mount Tai pressing the top, what is the use of eggs to strike a stone, mantis arm, and moths to fight against a fire...

In this way, Egil, and other crusade generals, the emperors and kings and dukes were very happy to say that these Baga pagans were no longer worth worrying. We can do this and play Kei until Jerusalem. After defeating Jerusalem, everyone will become rich.

However, after looking at the Near East map produced by the system, which was accurate to the eighth decimal point, when Egil understood that he was still thirty kilometers away from the holy land, an accident—or what should have happened long ago—had happened. Zhaohair, the Sicilian who was defeated by Egil once, and survived death, integrated a large number of jihad troops with excellent eloquence and excellent personal charm, plus a part of the regular army directly under Saladin, as well as some Arab tribal army. It formed a large army with more than 50,000 people!

Such a force ran across the crusaders and the holy city of Jerusalem, setting up camps and blocking the advance of the pagans!

"Cannon fodder troops..." Looking at the position chosen by the other party, Egil murmured to himself - on a rocky and sandstone Gobi Desert, the opponent's army was ready for battle. Light archers and crossbowmen were densely arranged, and behind them were large numbers of shield spearmen and light infantry. On both wings, there were not many light cavalry units, camel cavalry and archers.

A very small number of heavy infantry, heavy cavalry, no gorgeously equipped elite guards, and assault infantry with exaggerated weapons. Such troops look a bit shabby, so that Egil said such words.

In fact, it was basically the same as Egil imagined. When Saladin heard that outside the city, the large number of jihad troops, which were not organized, were destroyed by the enemy without any effort because of the tactics of dispersed attacks, they had such a plan.

"Even a dead mouse, it must make the rotten and smelly, making the pagans feel disgusting. That's all..." Saladin murmured to himself, while giving an order to let Zhaohaier integrate the jihad army...

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