«Тахиййат»: Сборник статей в честь Н. Н. Дьякова

Mongol Warfare and the Creation of the Mongol Empire m 145 n Chingiz-Khan [gave] orders for the [Khwarezmian] Sultan’s troops to be driven out of the town and the citadel ...all the quarters of the town [were] set on fire; and since the houses were built entirely of wood ... the greater part of the town [was] consumed... outside [the citadel], mangonels were erected, bows bent and stones and arrows discharged; and ...inside ballistas and pots of naphtha were set in motion... finally... resistance was no longer in [the garrison’s] power... The moat had been filled ... the outworks ... captured and fire hurled into the citadel; and their khans, leaders and notables... now became the captives of abasement and were drowned in the sea of annihilation... 1 Hülegü’s siege train included only a thousand families, but they produced good results at Maymun Diz and Baghdad, probably because they could man 1 Juvaini, I, 105–107. Fig. 8. Mongol counterweighted catapult at the siege of a city (fragment of a miniature from Rashid al-Din’s World History, Or. Ms. 20, 1314 AD)