Cairo is different from Jerusalem because Cairo has a moat. So the siege army needs to cross the moat, unlike Jerusalem, where they only need to fill up the trenches!

Another difference is that Egypt is a powerful country in the Middle East. It is far from comparable to Jerusalem. In other words, when Yunhao besieged Cairo, he encountered reinforcements from the enemy.

The enemy's reinforcements were very tough. They wore helmets made of fine steel and chain mail made of densely woven steel wires. Their weapons and equipment included a strong bow, a spear, a sharp Damascus scimitar and a shield.

The Mamluk strong bow is one size larger than the Turkic strong bow. It has a long range and strong penetrating power, but its shooting speed is slightly slower. The mount is a famous Arabian purebred horse, which is tall and long-legged, with amazing sprint speed and endurance.

Not bad either.

The first time Yunhao saw this cavalry, he knew that it was the Mamluk heavy cavalry that once made the Mongols tremble. Even Napoleon praised this cavalry quite highly, but he never expected that he would encounter such a thing in the Middle East.

The combat effectiveness of the Mamluk army is second to none in the Arab world, due to its recruitment and training. Every year, Arab traffickers abduct or kidnap tens of thousands of children from the Caucasus and the grasslands of Central Asia, and send them to Baghdad, Damascus, and Cairo for sale in the slave markets.

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The Arab sultans selected the best-quality children, bought them and sent them to military schools to become future Mamluk soldiers. The most popular Mamluk "raw materials" came from the Georgian and Central Asian Turkic tribes in the Caucasus.

The Caucasus mountain people and the Central Asian Turks have strong bodies and aggressive personalities, making them excellent soldiers. In the five hundred years after the establishment of the Mamluk regime in Egypt, almost all Mamluk soldiers came from the Caucasus.

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The Mamluk Military School has a very scientific training system. Children first learn Arabic and teachings, and are instilled with loyalty to their masters. When they reach the age of fourteen, they begin to receive systematic physical and military skills training, including the proficiency in the use of scimitars and spears.

and weapons such as bows and arrows, as well as basic riding skills.

Archery is particularly valued. Students first practice archery standing on the ground, then learn to shoot on horseback, and finally learn to shoot while riding a horse. After the basic military skills are fully mastered, students begin to receive the so-called "riding training", that is, cavalry.

Tactical unit maneuver training. Here students practice maintaining formation and taking care of each other during various tactical maneuvers such as advance, retreat, and roundabouts.

The Mamluk army combined the advantages of European knights and Central Asian light cavalry in terms of equipment and tactics. The Mamluk soldiers were well-trained, disciplined and tenacious. The Mamluk dynasty relied on this powerful army to last for more than five hundred years.

Year.

Yunhao flatly rejected Cheng Chumo's idea of ​​going forward to fight. Even Napoleon was optimistic about the army, so Yunhao didn't think Cheng Chumo would get any benefits. And looking at the well-organized troops, the Mamluks were not easy to deal with.

Seeing the reinforcements, the drawbridge of the city gate was lowered. The Egyptian army began to go out of the city to counterattack. They believed that as long as they cooperated with the outside, they could definitely defeat the Tang army. After all, there were only one or two thousand infantry blocking the city gate.

If they knew enough about the Eight Ox Crossbow, they would never rush out so recklessly.

The moment the city gate opened, the Egyptian army surged out like a tide. At almost the same time, the thick arrows of the gunpowder crossbow also flew into the crowd.

"Boom! Boom! Boom...!" After more than a dozen explosions, the crowd seemed to hit the rocks and was smashed into countless waves. The city gate was filled with broken corpses and the wails of dying people. The city

The wall of the doorway was covered with minced meat almost instantly. It became red and sticky, and the broken bones were splashed everywhere.

On the top of the city gate hole, there is a femur stuck strangely. The white bone is covered with plasma, and bone marrow oil is dripping down drop by drop along the broken area. The pungent smell of blood and gunpowder smoke

Mixed together, they create another flavor.

Such scenes were staged in almost every city gate, and the dense formation of the Egyptians caused huge casualties.

Some brave people stepped on the broken corpses at their feet and continued to attack. However, the gunpowder crossbow arrows of the Tang Dynasty were replaced by kerosene crossbow arrows. Gunpowder crossbows are too precious, and the most valuable thing in the Middle East is actually kerosene.

More than a dozen kerosene crossbows rushed into the city gate hole, and with a soft "click" sound, the fire spread in an instant, and those brave people suddenly became burning people. The flames clung to their bodies.

The armor was scorching their bodies. The severe pain made them immediately run madly on the corpse, because the corpse under their feet was also full of flames.

They wanted to escape as soon as possible, but most of them could not escape from the city gate until they died.

The fire oil crossbow was continuously fired in, and the corpse was burned by the flames and twitched. Large drops of corpse oil fell into the flames, and the flames burned even more vigorously.

The billowing smoke made this place a hell on earth. The attack stopped in an instant, and no one dared or could walk out of the city gate. The Egyptians' plan to cooperate internally and externally went bankrupt almost instantly. And those who restrained them, every

There are only a dozen eight-oxen crossbows in front of the city gate.

After one plan failed, the Egyptians climbed down the rope from the city wall. Some warriors held scimitars in their mouths and climbed along the tall city wall. Unfortunately, these warriors became the targets of the eight-oxen crossbow. This time

, an ordinary crossbow bolt fired by the Eight Bull Crossbow.

The powerful crossbow bolts often penetrated the chests of warriors and nailed them to the city wall. No matter how hard they struggled, they could not get out the crossbow bolts that were nailed deep into the city wall.

However, crossbow arrows are not always so accurate. The wind speed, the shooter's judgment, and the obstruction of smoke all affect the accuracy. Some people were shot in the thigh by the thick crossbow arrow, and the root of the thigh was shot into two pieces. There was blood.

It was gushing down like a waterfall, and the screams of those warriors fell into the moat with whistles.

The Egyptians' method of dealing with it is very simple. Throw down more ropes and let more people climb down along the ropes. You only have a dozen eight-oxen crossbows, and you can only fire a dozen crossbow arrows at a time. What about you?

Things don't fire continuously, so reloading always takes time.

Soon the rate of fire of the eight-oxen crossbow could not keep up with the speed of the Egyptians climbing down the city wall. Although there were many people nailed on the city wall, more people could successfully climb down the city wall!

However, the Egyptians encountered a problem, that is, the moat that blocked the enemy's attack became an obstacle for them. If you want to get into the river, you have to take off your armor. No one is stupid enough to jump in and swim wearing dozens of kilograms of armor. That is not brave.

That's seeking death!

When more Egyptians arrived at the city, the Eight Bull Crossbows were immediately replaced with kerosene crossbows. The thick crossbow arrows carried green smoke into the crowd under the city wall, and then orange flames rose into the sky. Huge crossbows

Shrouded in black smoke, countless people with bodies burning with flames jumped off the moat.

Even if you are extremely strong, trying to swim while wearing armor weighing dozens of kilograms is absolutely impossible!

People began to sink as soon as they entered the moat, and those who could swim wanted to flop a few times. However, human physical strength could not withstand the force of gravity after all! The warriors in armor struggled under the water like weights. After a while, they stopped

Moved.

Some people wanted to take off their armor and jump into the water. But the armor required the help of servants to put on, so it was not easy to take it off at this time.

Death always inspires people's infinite potential. Even under the burning flames of crossbow arrows, some people actually accomplished this feat. They took off their armor, jumped into the moat with scimitars in their mouths, and then swam hard.

When I reached the other side, I charged forward bravely regardless of my fatigue.

It can be seen from their ferocity that these are fierce soldiers. After swimming across the moat, they can still run like flying.

Once people cross the moat, there is no need to worry about the Eight Bull Crossbows. Because Yunhao left behind one or two thousand people, most of them are crossbowmen.

These people don't have any armor on their bodies, but they have to face the most terrifying Tang Dynasty crossbow in the world. As long as the crossbow arrows are shot on the body, a large living person can be shot in pairs. No matter how powerful the body is, more than two can't be allowed.

Penetrating wounds from crossbow arrows.

The cavalry of the Tang Army may not be as good as the Mamluk cavalry, but the crossbowmen of the Tang Army are definitely the best. Yunhao always trains his soldiers with crossbows first. If he fails to hit the target in the assessment, he can only eat steamed buns and pickles for a week.

Not everyone can bear the loss of flesh stars.

If you want to eat meat, you have to practice hard. After long-term training, Tang soldiers almost all have the ability to be a sharpshooter.

Although these Egyptian warriors were very fierce, they had no armor on them, and no one brought out their shields. Under the intensive fire of crossbow arrows, they could only fall down on the charging road with hatred.

The Egyptians sadly discovered that the soldiers who climbed down the rope were in a disadvantageous situation from the beginning. The outstanding soldiers could only look at the Tang army's formation with hatred, and then fell in a pool of blood and died in heaven.

No one could rush to the Tang army's formation and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Tang army. Those who were carrying gunpowder exploded under the scorching flames, and in the end no one was left alive.

The generals of the Egyptian army sadly discovered that their men were only wasting the Tang army's crossbow arrows and kerosene arrows. God knows how many of these the Tang army had. Anyway, before their own army was exhausted, they would definitely not be able to use up all the Tang army's supplies.

Almost as soon as they launched the attack in the city, the Mamluk cavalry also began to charge.

Their charge was very characteristic of nomads. The skirmish line was widely spread out and the men were leaning very low on the horse. At first glance, they looked like they were guys who had been practicing equestrian all year round, and they had basically achieved the unity of man and horse.

With them as the vanguard, behind them were the Egyptian infantrymen rushing towards them like waves. It was no longer clear how many infantrymen there were, as the smoke and dust in the sky obscured the view. The only dull sound of footsteps made people wonder if it was an earthquake.

"Rockets, altitude three, covering fire!" Division Sheng Yan shouted when he saw the Mamluk cavalry rushing past the ranging stone. Behind him, the unique "whoosh" and "whoosh" sound of a rocket launcher could be heard.

Countless rockets shot up into the sky amid the thick smoke, and then the smoke in their tails traced a trajectory and fell into the charging formation of the Egyptian infantry.

The characteristic of rockets is that their accuracy is terrible. However, they are very good at dealing with large-area targets. Especially in this salvo state, a covering shot is simply a nightmare for any surface creature.

Dull explosions came one after another, and there was smoke everywhere and it was difficult to see what the battlefield looked like. Yunhao was still sweating in his heart. If this was a trick by the Egyptians to lure the enemy, he would have to face it.

Hand-to-hand combat is the last thing you want to face.

"Trebuchet launch!" After seeing the Mamluk cavalry pass through the second ranging stone, the trebuchet was launched. It was still kerosene bombs, and Yunhao didn't have many gunpowder bombs in his hand. As a last resort, kerosene bombs were fired.

became the best choice.

Hundreds of kerosene bombs flew towards the enemy's position with green smoke, and the orange flames even formed a wall of fire. Many Mamluk cavalry emerged from the wall of fire with flames on their bodies.

The sharp tip of the knife pointed with flames in the direction of the Tang army's formation, and they continued to charge.

"Eight Oxen Crossbow, gunpowder bullets. Distance 200, launch!" There was no other way, Yunhao could only use gunpowder crossbow at this distance.

Huge explosions rang out, and countless shrapnel shredded the armor of the Mamluk cavalry. The Mamluk cavalry were thrown down, and there were less than 400 Mamluk cavalry who rushed out of the smoke.

"It's really tough!" Yunhao saw that the Mamluk cavalry had already taken off their bows and arrows and used the speed of their horses to throw the bows and arrows over from a distance.

However, this kind of projectile was not very lethal to the Tang army. Most of them were blocked by people with shields. Even if they were not blocked, the armor on their bodies also protected them very well. Even if someone was injured, they were all injured.

Not too heavy. As for those who were shot to death, it can only be said that swords have no eyes on the battlefield.

"The distance is a hundred, crossbowmen launch!" Despite all the attempts to block, the powerful Mamluk cavalry still rushed over. But what greeted them was a torrential rain of arrows. Tens of thousands of crossbowmen fired at the same time, and the sunshine

They were all dimmed by it.

Yunhao was surprised to find that under such a rain of arrows, there were still Mamluk cavalry charging over. Although the number was only about a hundred, the ferocity of their charge was still heart-stopping.

These people were covered with arrows and held bloody Damascus steel knives in their hands. Snowflake patterns shone on Sunshine Mountain!

"Cheng Chumo, use your sword to fight for your honor. Today's glory belongs to you!" Yunhao patted Cheng Chumo on the shoulder.

Cheng Chumo's nose was almost crooked with anger. He had five thousand cavalry under his command. He went to kill a hundred people and said it was an honorable thing.
Chapter completed!