التاريخ اليميني 19.125

19.125

The Sijzīs plunged into its thick for a while, supporting one another in defence and joining together in resistance and combat, until, when weapons had weakened them and wounds had exhausted them, they took refuge in burrowing in and sheltering behind the fortress wall. The Sultan's men gained some sides of the wall in the darkness of night and called out the battle-cry of the victorious king. The wicked fled, the fortress was taken from them, and the hands of slaughter and smiting were stretched out against those whom the houses shook out and the dwellings and palaces spat forth: heads cast aside, necks severed, faces thrown down, and blood poured out on the ground.