The siege battle was very fierce, however, as the drawbridge was burned, the follow-up siege soldiers were unsustainable, and only a small number of soldiers passed through the ladder across the moat, and the speed of passage was very slow, and it was very easy to be attacked by the defenders, and the losses were very huge.

Seeing that the follow-up siege soldiers and horses were no longer sustainable, the defender of the city greatly increased his confidence and ordered his soldiers and horses to attack with all their might, destroy the enemy soldiers and horses that attacked the city as soon as possible, and end the battle as soon as possible.

Several Tang Dynasty soldiers who came to watch the battle also joined the battle with bows and crossbows, and their skills were outstanding, and almost every time they released arrows, they would harvest the life of an enemy soldier, which made the soldiers next to them envious.

The siege soldiers and horses who rushed into the city gate in one go were only one or two thousand, and more soldiers and horses were still blocked behind, and the main soldiers and horses defending the city were all dispatched, so it was not too much pressure to annihilate the small number of soldiers and horses that rushed into the urn city, and it was easy to do.

After a fierce attack, the Khorasan cavalry and infantry that rushed into the city were all annihilated, and correspondingly, the soldiers and horses defending the city also lost a lot, and the casualties actually reached two-thirds of the attackers, which can be said to be very huge casualties.

But the offensive method is surrounded, and the casualties refer to all the deaths, and most of the casualties on the defending side are wounded, and the proportion of casualties is only one-fifth, and the wounded soldiers, after being wounded, can still continue to fight, so that the losses of the defending side are much smaller.

The soldiers who attacked the city, seeing that the follow-up soldiers and horses could not keep up, some of the soldiers rode their horses and fled, fled from the city of Ar, and swam across the moat, and fled back in embarrassment, because the soldiers on the city wall have been attacking outside the city, so there are very few Khorasan cavalry who have escaped from the city, and most of them will be shot by the soldiers on the city wall when they flee to the moat.

After clearing the Khorasan cavalry that had invaded the city, the soldiers of the city joined forces to close the city gates.

"General, the gates of Ar City are closed, so don't we rush into the city?"

One of the soldiers looked in horror at the slowly closing gates.

Qi Yad said angrily: "All of them are killed, and all the two thousand soldiers are killed, it's too hateful." ”

"General, the situation is very unfavorable for us now, we can't continue the attack, we should retreat immediately."

One of the subordinates said.

Ziyad had already attacked with all his might, and the current situation was indeed very unsuitable for continuing the attack, so he had to order a retreat.

Abu *** also came to watch the battle, and when he saw that Ziyad failed to attack Ar City, he was very annoyed, such a good time, he actually did not attack the city, and wasted an opportunity.

Not enough, he also knew that he couldn't blame Qi Yade, he saw all the process of the battle, it was not Qi Yad's fault, it was the soldiers and horses who rushed into the city and failed to complete the task, maybe the enemy's will to defend the city was much stronger than they imagined! In short, their siege failed.

"Give the order to go down and kill all the people who have fled, and the corpses will be piled up in front."

Abu *** said fiercely.

He was really a little angry, this time he used the people to cover, he still failed to break through the city, if he gathered the people, if he did it again, it is estimated that it would not have any effect, in this way, it would be useless to keep these people, since these people failed to help them complete the task, what was the use of keeping them, so he ordered the killing.

In addition, through a siege, the soldiers and horses under the command of Abu *** lost thousands of people, but did not achieve decent results, so, it will inevitably greatly affect the morale of the army, and many soldiers have lost their comrades, and the resentment in their hearts is relatively large, in this case, if the soldiers are not allowed to vent well, the soldiers' grievances will have nowhere to vent, and the morale will be even more low, and it may even cause a terrible camp roar, so it will be a big trouble.

Although the people here were once part of the Umayyad Dynasty, the local people in Khorasan are not the same ethnic group, so even if the soldiers are asked to slaughter the local people, the soldiers will not refuse.

Even if it's the same nation, it's useless, as long as it's not your own relatives, it's not good, for example, in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms in China, Cao Cao's soldiers and horses slaughtered the people of Xuzhou at will, because these soldiers are all Qingzhou people, they Qingzhou and Xuzhou are not the same region, naturally they will not have their own relatives, so a massacre is very easy to start, this is the real same nation.

After receiving the order, the angry Khorasan cavalry immediately scattered in pursuit, and cut down the people when they saw them, and even cut a few more knives to vent their grievances after the failure of the siege.

The soldiers defending the city on the city wall saw the enemy cavalry chasing and slashing the fleeing ordinary people, their eyes were red, and they strongly demanded to go out of the city to fight and fight to the death with the enemy army.

The lord of the city guard will know that the soldiers and horses in his hands are all new soldiers, and if he goes out, he will be sent to death, so he forcibly suppressed the soldiers' request to go out of the city to fight, and asked these angry soldiers to live well, only alive can there be hope.

The city wall is full of the sound of soldiers crying, the sound is very sad and miserable, outside the city is a very painful howl, many people have not been hacked to death, at most they are only injured, but if the injury is very serious, they will not survive, most of them will not survive, for example, there are many cases of broken arms and short legs, especially the elderly and children, where is it possible to live with a broken arm.

"General, the soldiers are about to get out of control, do you want to collect their weapons?"

One of the soldiers asked, looking at the commander.

The defender of the city will be very embarrassed, if the weapons of these soldiers are confiscated, it is estimated that the conflict will be further intensified, and these soldiers will have a grudge against their lord, and even if they are not handled well, it may even cause rebellion.

"Don't continue to irritate them, there are thousands of enemy corpses in the city, and there are still some who are not dead, let them vent on the corpses!"

The defender of the city will come up with a good idea to let the angry and sad soldiers vent the corpses of the enemy, which may greatly ease the wounded hearts of these soldiers and allow them to vent their grievances.

After receiving permission, these bereaved soldiers roared and rushed to the urn city, and completely hacked to death the Khorasan cavalry who had not yet died, and the dead soldiers were also dismantled.

Some soldiers felt that this was not enough to relieve their hatred, so several people worked together to carry the dead Khorasan cavalry to the city wall, put a rope around their necks, and then hung the corpse on the city wall for public display.

When the other soldiers saw this, they followed suit, and hung more Khorasan cavalry on the city walls, thus demonstrating to the besieging soldiers and horses, showing that they would not back down.

The Khorasan cavalry outside the city was very fast, and in a relatively short time, they killed all the fleeing civilians, and then dragged them out of range of the city's bows and crossbows with ropes, and piled them up.

The corpses of 10,000 people are piled up together, forming a very high mountain peak, which can be seen clearly even from a long distance.

And the corpses of the soldiers hanging on the city wall are also eye-catching, especially after the number increases, it is more obvious to see.

The attacking side piled up a mountain of corpses, while the defending side hung a wall of corpses, neither side showed weakness, and a bigger battle seemed to be waiting for both sides, and a strong aura of slaughter permeated the surroundings of Arcity, as if the air was about to freeze.

"So many unarmed civilians were killed like this, Abu *** is really inhumane, it's too much."

The city keeper said angrily.

The young general of the Tang Dynasty said: "War is inherently cruel, even if it is our Tang Dynasty, there have been many cases of slaughtering people since ancient times, there is a good saying, the anger of the emperor, millions of corpses, thousands of miles of blood, want to open a little!" ”

"This time it's a complete killing, if the enemy army doesn't break through the city of Arr, it seems that it won't stop, can we really hold it? Reinforcements really won't come to the rescue? ”

The Lord will be worried.

"Don't worry, we still have a great advantage in relying on the city to defend, and the enemy army has 100,000 people, and they come from afar, the daily consumption of grain and grass is very large, we can afford to consume, and our cavalry will harass the enemy from time to time, and it is even possible to cut off the enemy's transportation line, once the enemy's food and grass supply is not available, it is their withdrawal time, and we only need to carefully guard the city."

The young general of Datang suggested.

"I just don't know when the enemy's grain and grass will not be supplied, if it is too long, I am afraid that we will not be able to withstand it first, the grain and grass in the city can only support three or five months at most, and the materials for defending the city are also limited, and the crossbow arrows will be one less, and the fire oil will also be exhausted, if there is no weapon to defend the city, the city will not be able to hold it."

The Lord of the City will say.

"Don't worry! Abu ***'s goal is to capture the entire peninsula, he will not spend too many troops in order to get Ar City, if he loses too many soldiers and horses in order to break through Ar City, then Abu *** will not have the strength to attack Maia City, so he will not be too desperate, he will not lose his old capital, and this is also our opportunity. ”

The young general of Datang said.

"Well, I hope so! We just need to defend Ar City with all our might, and we must not let the enemy army take advantage of it. ”

The city keeper will say seriously.

Observing with a telescope, you can see very clearly the painful expressions of every ordinary person on the corpse mountain, but the main general only looked at it a few times and stopped looking at it, because the scene was too tragic, and he didn't want to see more.

On the hillside outside the city, Abu *** is enjoying the scenery, there are two scenic spots, one is a mountain of corpses piled up by ordinary people, and the other is the corpses of Khorasan soldiers hanging on the city wall.

Ziyad was beside him, but he didn't dare to say a word.

"Look, this is the real war, so many corpses, only in this way can the cruelty of war be expressed, do you say, Ziyad."

Abu *** said.

"General, it's me who didn't complete the task, and I haven't broken through the city this time, I'm guilty."

Ziyad didn't want to explain, he just wanted to confess.

"Your mission has indeed not been completed, but neither has my mission, and we have all failed the Caliph's trust in us."

Abu *** said.

"General, today is no longer a siege of the city, we must make siege equipment as soon as possible, this time the general will definitely send heavy troops to protect the equipment, and will definitely not let these weapons be attacked by the enemy again, only with a large number of siege equipment, we can easily break through the city of Ar and minimize the loss."

Ziyad said.

"Let's talk about it! What are you going to do? ”

Abu asked.

Ziyad stretched out three fingers and said loudly: "General, I plan to build three hundred catapults, which are heavy catapults, which can cause huge losses to the enemy army when they are put into battle at one time, as well as ladders and transport vehicles, hundreds of rushing vehicles must be built, and thickened shield carts, shield carts that can resist giant crossbows, let the soldiers push the shield carts forward, and suppress the enemy archers with bows and arrows, so that we can break through the city of Arr with smaller losses." ”

Abu *** nodded and said: "Your idea is very good, if you really build so many siege machines, you will definitely be able to break through Arcity, however, we don't have much time, when you build all this, it will take a long time, the caliph will not give us so much time, he asked us to capture Artik alive within a month, if it takes so much time just to break through Arth, and it is estimated that it will take longer to break through Maya City, so we might as well give up attacking Artic, Directly pounce on the city of Maia, leave a small number of cavalry to surround the city of Ar, so that we can have time, when our army arrives in the city of Maya, you are fully responsible for the construction of all kinds of siege equipment, we have to use a large number of siege equipment, as well as our brave cavalry, in one fell swoop, to break through the city of Maya, capture Artik alive. ”

"Is it really okay to bypass Arr City and attack Maia City directly? Isn't our back road dangerous? ”

Ziad said with some concern.

"There are a group of shrunken turtles in Al City, we only need to leave 20,000 horses to contain them, and there will be no problem with our back road, and the soldiers and horses in the city will not dare to go out rashly, otherwise, there will only be a dead end waiting for them."

Abu said confidently.

"I'm not worried about the infantry in Arcity, but the enemy still has a number of cavalry troops, and these cavalry and horses come and go without a trace, and they pose a great threat to our grain routes."

The reason why Ziyad was most worried about the problem of the grain route, the reason why he was in a hurry to attack Archeng was to use Archeng as the base for the next attack after occupying Arcity, and all kinds of weapons and grain and grass could be stored in Archeng, which was the most beneficial for the attack.

In the case of not capturing Archeng, all kinds of military supplies can only be hoarded in farther cities, or hoarded in the field, which is inconvenient and not safe enough, but now there is not much time to attack the city, and they have no choice but to bypass, hoping that the 20,000 soldiers and horses left behind can completely guarantee the safety of the grain route.