Zhao Ziliang held the handle of the war knife and walked to a place a stone's throw away from the city wall and stopped, looking up at the city wall, the corpses and stumps and broken arms left by yesterday's battle had already been cleaned up by both sides overnight, but the blood of the soldiers on both sides in the tragic siege battle in the past month had already stained the city wall red, and the blood had already turned dark red after the precipitation of time, and the strong fishy smell came far away, and Zhao Ziliang could smell it from so far away.

On the city wall, a strong man wearing chain armor looked at Zhao Ziliang who was standing not far away, and said to Guy: "My lord, we have blocked the city gate with a large number of stones, and we can't go out from opening the city gate, so we can only put the hanging basket down, but this is very dangerous for adults, if they want to be bad for adults, you are afraid that you will not be able to come back!" ”

Guy was hesitant on his face, his face kept changing, and his mind kept weighing, but he quickly shook his head and said, "No, since the King of Western Qin came here alone and wanted to meet with me, how could I be afraid?" Didn't that make them look down on me? I'd like to hear what he has to say! Prepare the hanging basket to put me down! ”

The strong man had no choice but to order someone to prepare a hanging basket to lower Guy from the city wall.

As the national strength of Western Qin became stronger and stronger, the territory became more and more extensive, and there were merchants, troubadours, monks, priests, travelers, literati and writers who spread the deeds of the King of Western Qin all over the world, and Guy had long been very concerned about the King of Western Qin, and wanted to see what kind of person he had built a powerful kingdom from scratch in just one or two decades.

Guy suppressed his agitated mood, held his waist knife and slowly walked towards Zhao Ziliang, looking at this extremely legendary generation of kings as he continued to advance.

Zhao Ziliang's tall and mighty figure made Guy feel a little surprised, Zhao Ziliang's side is the best model for military generals, but he is a king, you must know that the most important characteristic of a king is not to be able to fight, but to have the characteristics of a king.

Guy was looking at Zhao Ziliang, and Zhao Ziliang was also looking at Guy, he first broke the silence and said: "I admire Your Excellency for being able to hold this city for so long with a group of rabble, but you can't hold it forever, Jerusalem is surrounded by my army on all sides, you are already surrounded on all sides, and you can't hold it for long without any support and material supplements!" ”

Guy was silent for a moment and said, "I admit that you are right, but if you want to lead troops into the city, you must step on our corpses!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "If you don't want the whole of Jerusalem to be burned, surrender is your only choice!" ”

Guy shook his head and said: "Finally, the Great Food Army has withdrawn, and we have the opportunity to return to the Holy City again, since we have stayed, we have decided not to leave, we Jews do not want to live the days of wandering and migrating everywhere, this is the land of our ancestors, we have the right to live and multiply here!" We are not afraid of anyone's threats, and we will not hesitate to give the strongest counterattack to all aggressors! ”

Zhao Ziliang frowned: "Do you really think you can block the attack of my army?" The previous attacks were carried out by a group of slaves who had no combat experience, and although these slaves of mine suffered heavy losses, you are afraid that it will not be easy, right? This is a great city, it is a treasure of human civilization, I don't want it to be destroyed in war, if I use my Western Qin army to attack the city, you can't stop it, you'd better not provoke me! ”

Guy said: "I admit that your Western Qin army has strong combat effectiveness, but before your Western Qin army breaks through this city, I will take our warriors to fight with you to the end, even if we fail, we will drag you to hell!" ”

Zhao Ziliang's face was frosty, and he said coldly: "You actually threaten a king, my anger is definitely not something that a little Guy can bear!" All of you will pay for what you just said! ”

The two sides talked unhappily, watching Zhao Ziliang return to his own camp angrily, the officials of the Western Qin generals all knew that this was an unpleasant meeting, and the negotiations failed!

Zhao Ziliang stepped on the war horse and shouted to the left and right: "Prepare to attack!" ”

Chen Qing nodded to the herald, and the herald opened his throat and shouted, "The king has an order, prepare to attack-"

"Prepare to attack—"

The slaves who had already been distributed weapons and siege ladders lined up in an untidy line, led by their respective centurions and tens, from the middle of the military formation to the front, the siege weapons of the Western Qin army were pushed out by the soldiers, a ballista cart and a cart loaded with bundles of crossbow arrows were pushed out, and a trebuchet was also pushed to the predetermined position to start erection.

Zhao Ziliang put down the telescope for observation, took out a water bag from the side of the horse's belly, pulled out the plug and poured a few mouthfuls into his mouth, shouting: "Is Han Shusen, the commander of the siege camp, here?" ”

A general in his forties stepped forward and hugged his fists and said, "King, Weichen is here!" ”

Zhao Ziliang pointed to the gate of Jerusalem in the distance and asked, "Look at this city gate, is there anything unusual about it?" ”

Han Shusen was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the city gate in the distance, at first he still felt that this city gate was no different from other city gates, but after looking at it for a while, he found that it was indeed a little different, this city gate was not in the middle of the entire city wall, but deviated to the south by a distance, he immediately hugged his fists and said: "King, this city gate seems to be closer to the south, and the middle of the entire section of the city wall is about thirty zhang away!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded: "Yes, but generally speaking, the location of the city gate should be in the middle of the city wall to connect the central axis street in the city, but this city gate has been moved to the south thirty zhang, you look at the middle of the city wall, what do you see?" ”

"It seems······ There seems to be traces of reconstruction! Han Shusen said after observing for a while.

Zhao Ziliang said: "It's not to rebuild, but to repair!" The spies reported that when Mahdi led his army to evacuate two years ago, there was a small earthquake here that knocked down the gate, and Jerusalem was not ruled at all at that time, and it was not until the arrival of the Eastern Roman Empire that several sects in the city united to form an autonomous council, and at that time, in order to resist the Eastern Romans, the autonomous council hurriedly organized people to repair the collapsed city gate again, but because of the rush of time, only two walls were rebuilt on both sides of the wall, but the middle was empty, The original gate hole was not filled in. After the withdrawal of the Eastern Roman army, in order to connect the city gate with the main street in the city, the Autonomous Council rebuilt the city gate directly at the end of the main street, which is the current city gate, but the original city gate has been forgotten! You go and give the order to the trebuchets of the siege camp, and once the order to siege the city is given, let them concentrate their fire on the original gate position with stone bullets until it is knocked down! ”

"Obey orders!" After Han Shusen clenched his fists and agreed, he immediately hit his horse and turned around and galloped away in the direction of the siege camp.

Here, Zhao Ziliang beckoned to the three commanders who had been arranged to be slave soldiers, and the three of them came over and hugged their fists and said, "King!" ”

Zhao Ziliang pointed to the middle of the city wall and said: "After the siege begins, let the slaves avoid the middle of the city wall within ten zhang of the city wall, attack in other sections of the city wall, and vacate this section of the city wall!" ”

"Yes, King!"

Zhao Ziliang arranged the offensive task again: "Divide your respective men and horses into three echelons, and each echelon will attack in turn." Liang Chao, your men and horses attack the city wall on the left; Gu Cheng, your men and horses attack the city wall on the right, and it will be bounded by the empty middle section; Bai Gang, your men advance to a stone's throw from the middle section of the city wall and stand by! During the siege, each ten-man squad is the combat unit, the centurion is responsible for commanding in the front, and the three of you are dispatched in the middle, and the second and third echelons are transferred in time to take over and support; Tell the centurions to take the lead with the bravest of each ten-man squad after storming the walls, with the others covering the left and right! After forming the slaves, they will automatically take ten people as a combat group, unite with each other, this does not need to be taught, their survival instincts will make them automatically unite together, the role of the centurion is extremely critical, they need to constantly command their subordinates to break through to the weak points of the defenders, once blocked by many defenders, they must mobilize other squads to reinforce in the past, break through their blockade, and kill them! ”

The three of them clasped their fists and agreed: "Obey!" ”

Although these slaves used to be some farmers, herdsmen, and handicraftsmen, the situation in the Middle East has been chaotic for a long time, bandits are rampant, and the local people have a little means of survival and self-protection in order to protect themselves. Although these people had not undergone formal military training, Zhao Ziliang knew that they did not lack courage, and all he needed to do was to organize them and let them exert their maximum strength.

At this time, Chen Qing came over and hugged his fists and said, "King, you are all ready, you can attack at any time!" ”

Zhao Ziliang raised his hand and waved forward: "Attack!" ”

The herald shouted: "Attack—"

When the slaves who had traveled slowly to the land of a stone's throw heard the order, they immediately ran quickly in the direction of the city wall with their weapons and siege ladders, shouting: "Kill, kill, kill······"

"Huhuhuhu······" Stone bullets were thrown from the trebuchet positions in the Western Qin army's formation, and roared away in the direction of the city wall.

"Knock ······" The stone bullets fell on the wall within the range of 30 zhang of the middle city wall section, after all, it was the wall that was hastily repaired two years ago, and it was much more fragile than the solid city wall of other city wall sections.