About the book: 2013 / NEW historical action movie from the bestselling author of “Batu’s Invasion”, “Evil City” and “Stop Batu”! Continuation of the grandiose epic about the struggle of the Russian Land against the Tatar-Mongol Yoke. In the fierce winter of 1238, Kozelsk was not the only one that became an “evil city” for the steppe hordes, the assault of which was too expensive. No less bloody was the battle for Torzhok, where at this terrible time there was no princely squad, no boyars, or governor, but the inhabitants at the assembly elected a thousand from their midst and decided to fight to the death. Having learned that the Tatars possessed the secret of unquenchable fire and knew how to build powerful stone throwers, the defenders of the city ahead of time doused the walls and towers with water, which in the cold turned into an indestructible ice shell that neither catapult shells nor incendiary mixture could take. The “filthy” are forced to attack with hand-held battering rams and ladders. They will wash themselves with blood, filling the ramparts and ditches with thousands of corpses! They will pay such a price for a two-week siege that Batu will have to turn back before reaching Veliky Novgorod!