Chapter 87: Ravaging like locusts

After the soldiers finally rescued a whole group of refugees. Before they could celebrate, nearly two hundred of the thousands of refugees suddenly pulled out the short swords hidden close to each other and chopped the Arab soldiers who were too close to the ground. Then, the group of people killed under the city wall, intending to control the city gate, open it, and put their own troops in.

"Damn it - it's the enemy! The enemy is infiltrated! Kill them!!!" Cairo's garrison general shouted in anger. At the same time, the garrison troops, who felt that they had been fooled, also waved their scimitars and slashed them. In such a chaotic situation, the soldiers had no time to tell which one was a real refugee and which one was a disguised as a refugee. So they had to kill indiscriminately. The city wall suddenly became bloody. First, they were treated cruelly by the enemy, and then they were massacred by their own people. Some prisoners of war slaves also resisted tragically. This also aggravated the doubts and anger of the garrison troops.

"These people are all enemies! Kill them all!" The soldiers of the garrison shouted, and finally let go of all their worries and started massacre - the total number was only one thousand, and most of the slaves without weapons were quickly massacred. Although the Norman dead soldiers who were infiltrated fought bravely, they were unable to control the city gate in the end. Most of them were defeated and died. After a small number of them were captured, they committed suicide while the people were unprepared.

Under the city, the Crusaders all burst into laughter when they saw the other party's rush. Artoria continued to order: "Let another group of slaves go!"

In this way, another thousand slave soldiers ran over. They still repeated their previous actions. After the previous events, the slaves loudly promised and swore to Allah that they were definitely not spies. At the same time, they put the ladder on the top of the city and began to climb. However, this time, the Cairo defenders who suffered losses began to hesitate. Even if the most sympathetic Arabs could not make up their minds. The soldiers looked at their commanders. The officers looked at the Cairo garrison general. The general had a tense face and finally ordered: "Shot the arrows! Drive them back!"

The soldiers breathed a sigh of relief. The officers also acknowledged the order and did not object - of course, nor did they agree. Although most of them thought it was a good idea, they could not afford to massacre their compatriots. After giving this order, the garrison general in Cairo was destined to declare that they would be ruined, and the fate could be imagined.

"Luckily I'm not the one who wants to make this decision." At this moment, I don't know how many people thought in their hearts.

So, this time, the slaves were not the rescue of their compatriots, but the bows, crossbows, arrows, javelins and stones. The Arab soldiers on the city wall shot down with their eyes closed, unable to bear to see the appearance of their compatriots who were killed. The Arab slaves who were caught off guard were immediately injured and suffered heavy casualties.

"Why?! We are also believers of Allah, descendants of the great prophets, and your compatriots! Why do you treat us like this?!" Under Cairo, the slaves cried like this. There was no way to heaven and no way to enter the earth. If you want to run back, you have to face the massacre of the crusaders. If you want to enter Cairo, you have to face the massacre of your compatriots.

Under such an atmosphere, the morale of the defenders in Cairo dropped sharply. Many temporary soldiers threw away their weapons and then hugged their heads and cried. Most of them came from the town outside Cairo. At the city, most of the slaves controlled by the Crusaders had their relatives and friends - no matter how bad they were, they knew people. They really couldn't do it.

"Cairo is already the object of my palace." Seeing the attack on the morale of such a move, Artoria chuckled like this.

In the next few days, Artoria fulfilled his promise and drove tens of thousands of Arab soldiers to attack Luo by forcibly. Finally, with the bodies and ruins, a ramp that could lead directly to the city. After that, the regular army of the Crusaders was attacked.

After several days of neurasthenia, the defenders of Cairo were already neurasthenia. Most of the people were mentally traumatized. A small number of soldiers were driven crazy. Cairo was filled with a decadent atmosphere of failure from top to bottom.

At this moment, Artoria launched a total attack - a total of 20,000 well-equipped, well-trained, and physically preserved Crusaders. Celtic and Norman troops launched a total attack on Cairo on the road paved by the bodies of Arab slaves.

Under the cover of the crossbow and the longbow, the Crusaders used Celtic heavy shield spearmen as the front drive and advanced towards the city of Cairo. The heavy shield spearmen equipped with large tower shields nearly half a man high held high, holding their shields for themselves and for their comrades behind them to block the opponent's ranged weapon attack.

The heavy shield spearmen arranged in dense arrays, wearing heavy chain armor and wearing pot-heels, may not have strong attack power. However, the stability and defense ability of the formed array are comparable to the heavy infantry that Eastern Rome are proud of. Under the cover of two thousand heavy shield spearmen in the front row, the number of Celtic Thunder warriors in the number of about three thousand - these elite assault infantry holding big swords and equipped with chain composite armor, followed closely behind, and further behind were Norman's sailors, pirates, and soldiers holding battle axes, equipped with round shields and hard leather armor. The main force of Artoria marched from the north wall.

As a location where slave soldiers attacked fiercely before, the situation here is the best and only. You can climb to the top of the city without any siege machinery and step on the body directly. Although Artoria has arranged a small number of troops on the other three walls, it only serves as a constraining function. The direction of the main attack is the north side. This is unquestionable.

The main direction of the Cairo defenders was also on the north side. There were more than 3,000 professional soldiers wearing armor and scales holding spears and round shields in full swing. The number of temporary recruited militias held bows, crossbows, javelins, stones and other objects and threw down to kill - at such a close distance, no accuracy was required. Moreover, many recruited soldiers were hunters, proficient in crossbows, and had a scheming eye to operate.

The Cairo defenders also understood that it was now the most critical moment. Either the city was destroyed or the people were killed. Or they were victorious. There was absolutely no second road to go. So the soldiers worked extra hard, as if they were crazy, and they tried their best to pull the bow and shoot arrows.

However, after these bows and arrows were shot on the opponent's shield, they were either bounced open or shot through half and nailed to it. They could hardly bring effective damage to the opponent. The large stone had some effect. If the angle was opposite, it would be impossible to break the opponent's brain. However, soon, before the opponent could expand the results of the battle, soldiers immediately rushed up and restored the formation. They did not give the opponent any chance at all.

In this way, even if the soldiers were less than ten meters away, they could only take half a minute to break the formation. What followed was that on the top of the city, the two sides collided together, the sound of killing, the sound of gun bars breaking, the sound of metal and iron clashing when weapons collided, and the screams of dying gathered together, forming a battlefield!

"Our army has already gained an advantage. It seems that we will win in a short time!" Seeing the heavy shield spearmen on the top of the city, the heavy shield spearmen of the garrison captain occupied a large number of beachhead positions, followed by the powerful attacking Thunder warriors and a larger number of Norman light infantry, continuing to expand this advantage. The two troops attacked and defended each other, and occupied a large area of ​​the city wall in just one and a half hours, and began to march under the city wall. Next to Artoria, her guard knights shouted excitedly.

"That's right! Today, I will break through this city!" Artoria also seemed very excited - and when the soldiers were in a difficult position, they unswervingly occupied the city gate, quickly cleared out the stones and wood blocking the city gate, and opened the city gate, the excitement reached the greatest.

"Knights, rush in! I fulfilled my promise - within ten days, within ten days, you can enjoy it in Cairo, all your actions are protected by the Norman royal family and the Crusaders - no matter what you do, it is legal! No matter what you do, it is not restricted! Do it! As you like!"

Artoria held her sword high and shouted like this, while her Celtic heavy cavalry and the Celtic knights shouted excitedly, their eyes lit up with flames and rushed into the open gate.

"It's over..." Seeing this, the Cairo garrison general who was still holding on to a city tower closed his eyes in despair, then waved his knife to cut off his neck. In this way, Cairo City finally stood for less than two months and was declared to be broken. Soon, the crying of the Arabs and the rolling smoke from the violent burning came from the city.

In the following period, Artoria burned the entire Cairo. Later, he led his army to sweep away a large tract of Upper Egypt one by one, destroying all things related to civilization, life and production activities. He killed the Arabs and inserted crosses along the Nile River.

Conservatively estimated that the crusaders led by Artoria plundered wealth from Egypt was more than 500,000 Florin gold coins, and destroyed at least three times that of this number. The number of people killed was nearly 500,000. Because of the damage caused by the crusaders, they became refugees, and there were millions of people who died. The originally rich and civilized Nile civilization was greatly damaged, and I don’t know how long it would take to recover...

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