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Winning the battle

John then ran to the commander of the city guard to see what he was doing, when he got there the commander was already dead. The commander was either in so much shock that he died or he was poison, Now there was no leader for the soldiers in the town. But determine to not give up, he took the commander armor and weapon. Now that john put on all the armor he look more like the commander, but knowing this wouldn't fool the soldiers he covered his with wrapping looking like a mummy, then he put on the helmet, Now he looked like the commander. john then headed back to the wall, and when the soldier saw him they greeated him respectfully. Then john give out orders "Send out a messanger to ask for reinforcemen now" one of the soldier nodded and went to do that. Then john said "gather 200 soldiers each in the area of the wall where the siege tower will attack" 3 soldier noddef and went to that. Then there was only one officer with john so john said "and you will be my protector got it" the soldier nodded and then followed behind john. john then told the soldier to aim their scorpio at the trabuchet, doing that the enemy were unable to launch boulders anymore. Then when the seige tower then arrived soldiers jumped out from it, but were met by spears and sword and they were slaughtered. John also notices that the enemy weren't well armored and armed, "So they were just trying to overwhelm us with numbers" john said. This made thing easier for john as he brilliantly formation and ordered his troops.

On the other side there was a man with a beard and bald head who was watching as the battle unfolded, then his messenger came and said to him "sir we lost 1000 of soldiers, we didnt even managed to take any part of the walls". Hearing this the beared bald man said "then send in more troop" the messanger then said "they have destroy 36 of our trabuchet and the other 14 is coming under heavy fire by the enemy scorpio". Hearing this the beared bald man said "we dont need them then, Just send troops into the seige tower to overwhelm them" then the messenger nodded and then went to give the orders out of to the general and commanders.

Back to john side they were holding the enemy off but john looked at the enemy who were leaving the 14 remaining trabuchet and blended into the other thousands of soldiers. Seeing this john thought foolish you could of use it to traget my scorpio but instead abandon it. Then john give out orders to his scorpio to target enemy on horses who were their leaders and officers. John also send 100 reserves to each of the area where they were fighting the enemy who were coming out of the seige. Enemy soldiers who went up the seige tower were met with spears and sword, one by one for 5 hours.

The messenger of the enemy ran into the tent of the bald man who was having fun with 6 ladies, The messenger said in a serious tone '' sir we lost 6000 troops and we still haven't taken any part of the wall". hearing this the bald stopped playing with a loud tone "how is this possible, I had their commander killed, how could we have lost 1/5 of our soldiers" the messenger then said "sir maybe we should call back our soldiers and camp out". Then the bald men said "No, I Beized will not be humiluated, send all the soldiers now". The messenger wanted to stop his general but couldn't so he went and carry out the order.

Back to john side morale was high and they had lost 50 soldiers. john looked at the enemy panicking since their commander and officer were being killed by scorpio, This lower their morale. John then saw all the soldiers on the enemy side were all attacking, so he send all his last wave of reserve troops to where the battle were happening. Now there was 400 of his soldiers surrounding each seige. and 250 who was using the scorpio or shooting the enemy with arrows.

Another 7 hours later, it was now 8 pm. John man were exhausted but because of john formation which was having 200 men in front fighting and when their tired they went in the back where another 200 men replace them. They do this every hour. This give time to rest and fight. It was like night shift and day shift,but this time at a battlefield. Bodies started piling up so they would throw them down the wall until the dead bodies would reach as high as the walls which was 200 feet high. The enemies lost another 8,000 soldiers.

In the enemy side having lost 15,000 soldier out of 35,000 soldiers and losing 20 commander out of 35 and 100 of officers. The enemy soldier stopped climbing the seige tower and deserted themselves. Until there waa only 2000 soldiers left looking at the dead bodies on the ground that went up to the wall, Beized was so dumbfounded he stumbled to the wall and were met with 10 scorpio piercing him into pieces. Seeing their general body on the ground they try to retrieve it, but then the gates of the wall open and soldier was coming down from the seige tower. About 1000 men covered in blood were staring at the 2000 enemy soldiers, seeing this the 1500 of the 2000 men fled and the remaining 500 men who couldn't move because of fear or because of so call honor were shot by scorpio and were slaughtered to death, there was no prisoner.

John then cut of the head of the Enemy general and said "this is what happens when they mess with us" then the soldier scream all "hail commander for getting us through this bloody battle".