Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Fatimids sun jagoranci Vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah, wanda ya umurci watakila mutane 20,000 (wasu ƙididdigar sun haɗa da 200,000 na Gesta Francorum). Rundunarsa ta ƙunshi Seldjuk Turks, Larabawa, Farisawa, Armeniyawa, Kurdawa, da kuma Habashawa. Yana da niyyar kewaye da 'yan Salibiyya a Urushalima, kodayake bai kawo kayan aikin kewaye da shi ba; duk da haka yana da rundunar jiragen ruwa, wanda kuma ya tara a tashar jiragen ruwa ta Ascalon. Ba a san ainihin adadin 'yan Salibiyya ba, amma lambar da Raymond na Aguilers ya bayar ita ce jarumawa 1,200 da sojoji 9,000. Mafi girman kimantawa shine mutane 20,000 amma wannan tabbas ba zai yiwu ba a wannan matakin na yakin basasa. Al-Afdal ya yi zango a cikin filin al-Majdal a cikin kwari a wajen Ascalon, yana shirin ci gaba zuwa Urushalima da kuma kewaye da 'yan Salibiyya a can, a bayyane yake ba tare da sanin cewa' yan Salibiyya sun riga sun tafi don saduwa da shi ba. A ranar 11 ga watan Agusta 'yan Salibiyya sun sami shanu, tumaki, raƙuma, da awaki, sun taru a can don ciyar da sansanin Fatimid, suna kiwo a waje da birnin. Dangane da fursunonin da Tancred ya ɗauka a cikin wani rikici kusa da Ramla, dabbobin suna wurin don ƙarfafa masu tsattsauran ra'ayi su warwatse su kwashe ƙasar, yana sauƙaƙa wa Fatimids kai hari. Duk da haka, al-Afdal bai san cewa 'yan Salibiyya suna cikin yankin ba kuma a fili ba su sa ran su ba. A kowane hali, waɗannan dabbobin sun yi tafiya tare da su washegari da safe suna wuce gona da iri game da bayyanar rundunarsu.A safiyar ranar 12 ga watan, 'yan leƙen asirin Crusader sun ba da rahoton wurin da sansanin Fatimid yake kuma sojojin sun yi tafiya zuwa gare shi. A lokacin tafiya an shirya 'yan Salibiyya zuwa rukuni tara: Godfrey ya jagoranci hagu na hagu, Raymond na dama, kuma Tancred, Eustace, Robert na Normandy da Gaston IV na Béarn sun kasance a tsakiya; an sake raba su zuwa kananan ƙungiyoyi biyu, kuma wani rukuni na sojoji suna tafiya a gaban kowannensu. An kuma yi amfani da wannan tsari a matsayin layin yaƙi a wajen Ascalon, tare da tsakiyar rundunar tsakanin ƙofofin Urushalima da Jaffa, dama ta daidaita da gabar tekun Bahar Rum, kuma hagu yana fuskantar...  Tambaya: A ina ne Al-Afdal ya yi zango a kan hanyarsa ta zuwa Urushalima?
filin al-Majdal a cikin kwarin da ke waje da Ascalon