The battle was won by the Crusaders! And they quickly regained the defense. Arab attacks was three weeks, during which hops grown and matured, most of the ale was already cooked in postroinyh Crusaders breweries. AND Soon all was ready ale, and sent the caravan directly to the besiegers. During these three weeks, the Crusaders dug up not one, but three pit, lengthened the fence and built a few towers. Three days after sending a caravan to Crusaders come all battered and tattered soldier who was guarding the caravan. He said that during the journey they were attacked, looted and killed all but him.
But Alex and this time is not specified and ordered re-planted hops. But this time everything was going against him: first intelligence report on what the city once again is an army of Arabs, but in four more in the second hmelevody say that the hop plant is now pointless because it is flying beetle. Sweat pressure of these facts, Alex decides to leave camp and retreat to the rest of the soldiers who besieged Arch. Chapter 5: The last storm. Taking Jerusalem. And not breaking the defense Arch, the Crusaders sent to Jerusalem. Their first attack futile because there is no siege engines.
To the nearest forest for more than twenty miles, and the assault is delayed by two weeks. Siege machines are ready and Alex may have to storm the city. But intelligence reports that the aid to go to Jerusalem, the Egyptian troops and the city needed to take fed in time. On the city walls a lot and there are Arab ognemetateley archers. In the city there are swordsmen and asasiny. Before the city goes patrol, consisting of horse archers. While the Crusaders came out of the Arch of Jerusalem, then came across a couple of nomadic tribes, and hired himself out there a little help. Y Alexis about a thousand archers on Intelligence detachment podschetam to replace the entire perimeter of the city come three hundred Arab archers. According to the accounts of other generals who went to Jerusalem, Alex learned that if you attack one hand, the war with the other walls come running to this one. Alex knew that the pots are quite heavy in ognemetateley and throw them away, they can not, at least within range archer. Alex decided to send half the archers the left wall and when all the Arabs come running to repel the attack, he and the rest of the army, drove up to the wall pavoy fort, wander through the wall and attack the city from the inside. But it was not as smooth as I wanted Alex: first with archers attacking the left wall and figured out pretty quickly, and secondly asasiny that Alex had never met, were pretty good soldiers. But the Crusaders much superior to them in number and soon the town was taken. But crusaders are not relaxed, took a defensive position and waited for the Egyptian army. And when the army was three hundred paces, the Egyptians realized that too late, and immediately turned back. The Crusaders held the city in their hands eighty-eight years.