Although Saladin had already heard a lot of rumors about the skilled craftsmen of the Norman Empire and the powerful war machines. After seeing those huge and diverse war machines, he thought he had an intuitive understanding... However, when the Norman Empire's engineers and gunners began to attack with all their might, Saladin knew how good he was. His previous thoughts and his knowledge were accompanied by the roar of huge artillery and the ashes of gunpowders were wiped out. When the Norman Empire's crossbow guns and turbulent oil tanks fell from the sky, Saladin instantly had the illusion of the end of the world...

"No! You can't give up hope. This is just the beginning!" Saladin cheered himself up and issued orders continuously. At the same time, a large number of Islamic imams also ran up to the city at the risk of being shot and burned, loudly inspiring people and chanting the Koran in order to calm the soldiers. In this way, after a brief chaos, the Islamic soldiers regained their courage. Although their bodies were still trembling, their faces were still pale. On the hot weather, they felt chill all over. But after all, they had calmed down.

Under Saladin's order, the soldiers carried a large amount of sand and put out the flames on the city wall. They bent down and tried their best to endure the enemy's shooting - from time to time, some unstable brick and stone snares collapsed and smashed the soldiers below to death. The angry guns shot in from the gaps also took away the lives of a large number of soldiers. The screams were heard from the head of Jerusalem, like hell on earth. In the city not far from the city wall, many buildings were injured by accident. Arab soldiers were not in the mood to care about these things. Some civilians who didn't know what to do were panic and wanted to use water to put out the fire. However, the result was that the flames became more and more prosperous.

In the end, Saladin was afraid that such a fire would cause unnecessary harm to Jerusalem if it spreads. If the wind was opposite and the other party was cruel, he would not say that a big fire could burn half of Jerusalem. Therefore, the King of the Desert immediately issued an order, requiring some reserve troops and the civilians who were temporarily organized to act as temporary firefighters. He shoveled soil on the spot to put out the fire. Then he put out the fire little by little.

In this way, in the first round of battle, the Arab army suffered heavy losses, and the entire Jerusalem military and civilians suffered huge disasters. Of course, if someone thinks that this will happen, Jerusalem can be defeated, it would be a bit naive.

"It's really...it's still solid...or is the artillery technology that is not yet up to date, or is there not enough?"

After an hour and a half bombing, the Norman Empire consumed nearly a quarter of the ammunition. Although it killed many Islamic soldiers, the wall became bumpy, and the storm collapsed a lot, and the defense was reduced a lot. But the wall had no intention of collapse. Egil frowned and thought. Then he stretched out his hand and said lightly: "Stop shooting, order, and siege."

In this way, after an hour and a half bombing, Emperor Norman and the vast majority of the Crusaders were a little impatient. Fireworks performances like this were indeed very exciting at first glance. But after watching them for a long time, it felt nothing big. And the sound sounded annoying. Many guys with slightly worse physical fitness were already shocked and their eardrums were hurt - of course, one more important reason is that the casting technology is still not up to standard. In fact, each of these artillery fired only twelve shells on average. If they were shot, these artillery would explode due to overheating of the barrel...

The crusad soldiers who had been waiting for a long time cheered when they heard this and began to push the trolley, rush, ladder, and baffle truck forward. More people carried temporary worker and rough ladders and rushed forward. In a blink of an eye, they rushed to the front.

At this moment, the other three crusaders and the Greek army commanded by Emperor Basil also began to attack. In addition to the Greek side, Emperor Basil was considering dignity and refused the fire assistance provided by Egir, the other two walled defenders were also bombed to varying degrees. In fact, King Philip of France wanted to continue to bomb the Norman artillery. The gunners told him that the words "the barrel overheated" were used as excuse and guard against him. He had paid attention before, thinking that King Philip, who had learned to control artillery, was furious and ran over to operate the artillery himself. Because of his noble status, other soldiers were not easy to stop. So...

So his hands were roasted with hot gun barrels...

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

"The enemy is here, shoot, shoot quickly!" Seeing the Crusaders launching an attack, the Arab officers and nobles immediately ordered in the opposite city of Jerusalem. So the soldiers rushed to get up, and shot down with bows and crossbows with battlements as cover.

"Rise the shield, raise the shield!"

The soldiers who were pushing the chariots, rushing cars and baffle trucks all had siege machinery to block the arrows. Therefore, not many were killed, but the soldiers carrying long ladders who rushed to the front were not so lucky - it would be better if they were regular troops equipped with fully equipped armor. Unless they were shot in the face without armor protection, they would be very difficult to get injured. However, those temporary recruits, spontaneous Christian Crusaders, and Bavarian troops that had not yet undergone military reforms, etc., these soldiers who were not equipped with excellent armor were a little miserable. Many of them were shot down by condescending Arab archers.

Fortunately, many of the Crusaders and nobles have been through the battlefield for a long time. The shields are not as expensive and complicated as armor. After the officers made such loud orders, the Crusaders raised a large number of shields of various types - some well-made composite shields with exquisite heralds and finely-made skinned wooden shields. Some even look more like pot lids, door panels, and roughly-made rattan cards, which are obviously temporary shoddy... Under the cover of these shields, although the Crusaders' advance speed slowed down, there were fewer casualties.

Especially Basil, the eastern city wall that the Greek army was mainly attacking, sent three heavy infantry brigades of Eastern Rome. With the loud orders of a group of centurions, these guys even formed several slightly messy tortoise shell formations, which made the Arab archers facing them feel that they were unable to start...

"Prepare that method of fire pot, prepare boiling oil and boiling water. Prepare stones!"

In this way, as the Crusaders were getting closer and closer, the Arab officers issued new orders. Immediately, soldiers brought a large amount of defending troops from the city tower from the city wall. The reason they had not taken them before was because of Saladin's order. They were afraid that those tincture oil and other siege machines were destroyed by the Norman Empire's siege machinery. The facts proved that such orders were correct. Otherwise, the previous fire would definitely be even more arrogant and cause greater harm to the Arabs with these help.

After several minutes of march, the first group of crusaders, usually the lowest cannon fodder, had already run to the city of Jerusalem. The soldiers put the ladder on the wall, some people supported it, while more people rushed to climb. Then, boiling oil, boiling water and stones were thrown down on the wall. There was a burst of howling sound under the wall. The soldiers who were scalded by hot water, boiling oil, and even fried were screaming. Those who were hit by the stone fell to the ground without saying a word, and some people held their shields high, so the damage was not too great - scalded and second-class scalded. The difference between being smashed to death and being smashed to death and breaking arms.

Then, many of the ladders were burned, broken, or directly pushed down by the Arabs. However, many crusad soldiers still insisted and continued to climb up.

"Smash them down! Hurry!" As the enemy got closer, the attacks on the city wall became increasingly dense. Bows, crossbows, arrows, javelins and stones, rolling oil, and in addition, there was also the Arab secret weapon, the magic pot. The damage suffered by the soldiers who siege the city was getting bigger and bigger. Under the city wall, the charred and deformed corpses had been laid. There was a tendency to continue to increase.

"It's true. If this continues, many people will not be able to survive..." Egil couldn't help but sigh in emotion as he looked at the tragic scene of the siege. Although the dead were spontaneously organized Christian crusaders, or the Bavarians, French and Italians who had little to do with him, Egil was still a little heavy when he saw such a tragic scene.

"The army of the empire is about to rush forward. Your Majesty." At this time, Alpha, captain of the Death Knights, said next to Egil. Egil nodded and said that he knew.

"I hope that the better equipped imperial soldiers can perform better," Egil said, while watching Mamami running towards him smile: "Thank you for your hard work, Mamami."

Perhaps it was the drunken incident a few days ago, after that, Egil called her by her name. Mamai protested a little, and after the protest was invalid, he also agreed to this title.

"Master, although the firearms troops are temporarily unavailable, other siege machinery can still continue to fight. Why do we need to do this at this time-"

"—Because the time has not come yet," Egil interrupted her and said, "I have never expected that such an important and strongly guarded city as Jerusalem could be captured in one attack."

"Then, then this attack..."

"This is an announcement that I'm here."

(To be continued.
Chapter completed!