February-March 1238
Novgorod, Took was Smoking the second week. Large scale Batu Khan has seen a lot. But to a tiny fortress 14 days repelled several attacks by the forces of the peasants. This is something new. Batu thought, watching the flight of the next projectile of the stone thrower.
Bloody Guy must be happy. Batu sent him under strong Yaroslavl with 1 Lumen. To have Guy, the Emperor's son, break his teeth. Guy took Yaroslavl for 5 days. And the head of the Western a hike with 3 tsunami powerlessly whines have torch...
Torzhok. Southern fortress of Novgorod Principality. No enemy had ever come this far into the North. The Mongols were greeted with amazement. Meet was really nothing special. There were no troops. The closest neighbor is the brother of their ruler, Grand Duke Yuri Vsevolodovich. No one to fight.
Despite the wilderness, Verify Novgorod invested a lot in the fortress. Earthen ramparts up to 10 Rostov girded the city impregnable ring on the shafts-a wooden wall. With three sides protected the city, the river Versa in the winter is useless. And on the fourth-a deep moat.
After division with Guy at Nureyev — Pol sky, Baby moved to Novgorod through small Over. The first Mongol horse patrols appeared at Took on February 21. Then the whole Horde poured in from the South...
The first assault
The Mongols saw the fortifications of little Took. Its shafts are encased in ice. Crowds of citizens on the walls. Black smoke in the sky boilers boiling resin. The Mongols understood that the assault would not be a walk. But Batu was in a hurry. Spring is coming.
Hardly a glimmer of the dawn of the 2nd day, he sent Lumen in a quick attack. At the same time from all sides ran the Horde. Driving before him Khazar Russian slaves with armfuls of branches...
Hundreds of arrows howled, stabbing into walls and towers, flying through the loopholes of battlefields. Flew down oratory as call themselves and are now inhabitants of Took. But as soon as the Mongols reached the ditch and the foot of the shaft, went Russian response!
Arrows, arrows, and blocks of ice whistled, mowing down the first ranks of the fleeing Tartars. Filling up a ditch with brushwood, Khazar was lost under attack. Batu's pierced nukes rolled back from the icy shafts. But with axes and hooks, others managed to take the ice shaft. Stairs rattled on the walls of Took.
But the climbing Tartars were flooded with tar. Siege ladders citizens brought down long slingshots, along with a swarm of warriors on them. Some Mongols reached the edge of the wall. But dozens of spears were thrust into their bodies. There was no success, and the losses grew. The drums of the thousands beat, calling off the assault. Slowly, snarling arrows, has diverged Horde ago.
And over Took floated bell ringing. Muffling the Tartar drums and announcing the victory of the defenders, filling them with hope...
The kamnenosov
Rebuffed, Batu changed tactics. Took was surrounded by a siege fence, and the Chinese siege mist deployed stone throwers.14 days in the Mongol ring. 14 days of continuous shelling. The Chinese spent hours throwing wooden blocks in one place, loosening the strong walls.
The townspeople fought for their lives, daily repairing cracks and strengthening the walls. It was hard and deadly work under the fire of Mongol archers. All the while they looked to the North in supplication, awaiting the approach of the splendid Novgorod army.
Took's...
But there was no help. And with every new day grew despair and fear in souls. People knew that without army not survive, that the end of the close. The feeling of shame in Verify Novgorod will then be so strong that it will be reflected in the Novgorod Chronicles.
And Biscay that Annie vices for two weeks, and iznemogoshasya people in the city, and from Novgorod they would not help, but who some became be in perplexity and stress (Novgorod 1st chronicle)
Escape
Beating in one place gave the result. On March 5, the walls collapsed and lumens poured into Took. Batu ordered not to spare anyone, burn everything to the ground. But before the astonished Khan's eyes, the impossible happened.
While his nukes poured into one breach and plundered the city. From others, with terrible abuse, crowds of Russians, black with soot from the conflagrations, poured out. Cutting through, overturning the Mongol barriers, they went into the forest!
Damn rusty fled from his vengeance! Batu left in pursuit of what was next — a personal cavalry guard of torgautov
For three days 2,000 Mongols wandered the Larger forest route in search of the fugitives. The guard could not return without obeying the Khan's orders. Prowling through the roadside forests, cutting down everyone, the Mongols reached Ignach-cross. Only 100 versus remained to Verify Novgorod. It became an extreme point of invasion in the North of Russia.
If the RAID had gone further, the threads would have perished unknown in the Russian taiga. But he was smart enough to turn back. After the capture of Took Batu stood up. He had to decide the fate of the invasion of Russia.
A heroic Took covered the capital. Crucified and abused, and did not wait for Novgorod's help, he fought to the death, overshadowing Verify Novgorod. Only in 100 years the city will revive. But the city, it's just rocks. Lives are precious. Took saved some lives in a brave battle. Never surrendering to Batu.