Chapter 172 Transition
Those who surrounded the city wanted to escape, and those outside the city wanted to rush in.
Adil's army did block the gate of Karak City, but this does not mean that Karak City is really cut off from the outside world.
A city that is completely sealed off is desperate. Not to mention whether the citizens agree or not, even the gentlemen or lords must try their best to find a way out for themselves.
The Orthodox Christians hundreds of years ago were able to dig underground churches in the city of Karak, and naturally they were also able to dig tunnels in the city leading outside the city.
Father Antoine, with two young men, advanced in this tunnel repaired with stone strips for a long time.
The mottled moss on the wall trembled slightly in the echo of their footsteps.
The air in the tunnel is humid and dull, and every breath seems to be packed with dust and the accumulation of time.
Hundreds of years ago, the Greeks also walked through this tunnel, seeking to escape from the attack of the Saracens.
Gradually, the darkness in front of them seemed to become thinner. When they opened a hidden wooden door, the world in front of them suddenly became clear.
The morning light poured down like a torrent, passing through the clouds and mist, illuminating the vast plateau in front of them.
The breeze carried the fragrance of grass and earth, and the sun reflected on the priest's face.
"We should go to Arnon to inform the people over there to be ready to relieve the siege of Karak City."
The priest once again repeated their mission to the people around him.
Nowadays, the influence of the lords in Karak City has been wiped out. As for those MPs who have clearly expressed their willingness to surrender, they have been sentenced to death under the anger of the citizens.
Even Garris has never thought about carrying out any procedurally just and clear punishment at this juncture.
After all, this is the 12th century, and we are still in the midst of a war, so there is not so much truth to be said.
Deciding to cut off from the majority of the people in the city and exchanging the enslavement of the majority for their own safety is essentially cutting themselves off from the people.
At most, Garris provided protective custody to the family members of these congressmen to prevent them from being massacred by angry citizens or suffering inhuman levels of abuse.
Related liquidation issues still need to wait until the siege is over before they can be carried out.
Because of Amedei's awakening, the church in Karak City is also fully supporting Garris.
In this way, there is no real significance in keeping Karak City under siege. It will only delay Garis' time.
In this current situation, time is everything, and even Garris has no way of knowing when Saladin will set his sights on the territory of Transjordan.
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While Father Antoine rushed to the Arnon Valley to deliver the message, Adile also ordered someone to send the lost Humphrey away.
Adil knew everything about the identities of these corpses and heads.
He also felt the determination of the defenders in Karak City.
In order to defend themselves, the people in the city brazenly killed their lord Stephanie. They also killed the congressmen who were planning to surrender and sent them to demonstrate near their military camp.
Malik on the side looked at the woman's head with her mouth wide open, shook his head, closed the wooden box again, and asked someone to take it out, so that it wouldn't be exposed here anymore.
"Uncle, do we still need to continue to persuade people in the city to surrender now?"
Adil shook his head and said directly: "Nowadays, there is a complete mob in the city."
"Malik, you are still young. You must always remember one thing. When facing the mob, whether it is us or the Christian lords, the only solution is to give those mobs the harshest punishment. ”
"Riots are like plagues. They will not be restrained by faith. The only thing that can stop riots is more powerful violence."
"Nowadays, the reason why the city guilds in Alexandria and Cairo can retain their autonomous armed forces is because during the Fatimid period, those useless Shiites failed to deal heavy blows to the mob. As for leaving me such a mess.”
When it comes to the city guild armed forces in Alexandria and Cairo, Adil gets confused.
City guilds were indeed not a rare thing in the medieval era, but city guilds had their own armed forces and were able to engage in unlimited fighting competitions with local governors like the Emir.
This has become a characteristic of the Arab Middle East.
Of course, as the emir, Adil will definitely not look for the cause of the problem in himself.
In fact, if it were not for the long-standing political chaos in the Middle East, coupled with the "unlimited power" tyrannical politics of various sultans and emirs.
There is no need for city guilds to develop to this point. If you don't hold a weapon in your hand, the Sultan Emir will not regard you as a human being at all.
As an older generation feudalist fighter, Adil sympathized with Stephanie's experience with simple emotions.
And he repeatedly promised Humphrey that he must impose the most severe punishment on Karak City.
In such a situation, Adil intensified his siege on the city.
However, even in this situation, facing Adil every now and then, he would attack the city on a large scale and use trebuchets to launch stones. Garris still did not use his full strength. In fact, Garris now controlled the frequency of his arrows when Adil was attacking the city, and did not stand out too much.
Just shoot the key figures in the siege army more accurately to disrupt the rhythm of Adil's siege.
The reason why he did this was actually because he was worried that he would use too much force and scare the troops on Adil's side.
With Garris's current physical fitness, he could stand there and draw a 160-pound bow for almost half an hour.
Ten arrows per minute can still be shot, and three hundred arrows will hit. Even if only one-third can hit the target, that is 100 casualties.
As for Adil's army, there was no way it could withstand Garris's full output when defending the city.
But in this case, it is quite unsightly.
After all, Gareth will leave the city of Karak, and sooner or later the city will need to face its own difficulties. At the same time, the army on the Arnon side also needs a chance to see blood.
If Garris had to do everything by himself, how would they deal with the problem when Garris was not here in the future?
For this reason, under the deliberate control of Garris, the city of Karak always gave Adil's army a feeling.
There are actually not many people defending the city. As long as we increase our strength, we can capture the city.
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It's already August, the dry season.
Agriculture in the entire Transjordan region has almost come to a standstill, with only some fruit trees such as figs still in need of care.
During this slack season, all districts in Arnon County are intensively training their militia.
Even the National Army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem under Isabella also expanded one professional company to two companies.
The new professional company is the second company, which is different from the original first company.
Although the first company is made up of spearmen, sword and shield bearers, and crossbowmen, it is still a pure infantry company.
The Second Company was a mixed cavalry company formed by relying on a large number of horses captured from the Bedouin.
Of course, the infantry of the second company are actually mounted infantry. They have faster mobility and can support the battlefield faster. They can even keep up with the cavalry's maneuvers and help the cavalry provide support.
After receiving the letter from Yanen, relying on the authority of the county governor and county council to guide each district council, the militiamen in each district were mobilized intensively.
These mobilized militiamen need to be temporarily organized into higher-level battalion-level combat units and undergo a period of intensive training before they can be put into real combat. Avoid all kinds of hectic military orders due to temporary formation.
Different from the feudal armies of the same era, all the armies in Yann currently have established a clear power and responsibility system under the advice of Gairis, which stipulates in detail the authority and responsibilities of officers and non-commissioned officers at all levels, and also regulates each level. The military's combat missions are clarified.
It can be said that although the weapons of the Arnen army are still of ordinary medieval standards, the organization and construction are in line with the modern 17th and 18th centuries.
Even though it is just a poor imitation at the moment, the organization of the army has indeed been improved.
Moreover, this improvement is still equivalent to the improvement of the original Kingdom of Jerusalem, and it is much higher than that of the ordinary Muslim army.
After the three-day training session ended, Arnon County's army of 1,500 people finally set off.
Through the interaction in the secret passage in the city, Garris also received the news.
Garris even organized a team of elites to carry out small-scale attacks on Adil's army through secret passages at night.
The main purpose is to interfere with the opponent's rest and put the siege troops in a nervous state.
These smaller raids were very successful because of Gareth's participation in the war.
Most of them attacked the enemy's sentries, then threw rockets towards Adil's camp and made various noises.
Adil's coping methods were also quite limited. He could only continuously send light cavalry to try to hunt down the team led by Garris.
But every time, every time, all the light cavalry sent out never came back.
When Adil realized this, he couldn't help but gasp.
Just like a stone cow entering the sea, those light cavalry sent out at night would only have horses and no one when they came back the next day.
After similar things happened several times, the morale of Adil's army was severely damaged.
Adil has even begun to consider whether to withdraw his troops.
At such a juncture, when the morning light shone on the earth again, Yanon's reinforcements finally arrived.
The reason why I have been in a very bad state these past two days is because I have been doing a lot of work in the past few days. I will do two updates today to try to support myself. I'll make additional updates after I adjust the situation.
(End of chapter)