Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1594 Ambush
Ogurchak is resting in a village.

He is more satisfied now, because the leaders of various ministries have flattered him, and he has regained the feeling of commanding the Quartet back then.

Prairie is realistic.

When you can't bring benefits to everyone, the Geluolu people are the first to show you face, followed by the Turkic people, the Yangmo people, the Shatuo people, the Oguz people, and even the Uighur headquarters are constantly complaining.

But when you can bring benefits to everyone, everyone will compliment you constantly.

The last time I sent troops was not very good. I snatched it, but I was also beaten by the Persians.The Uighur headquarters and the Geluolu people suffered losses to a certain extent, so they withdrew quickly.

Just wanting to gain benefits, not wanting to fight tough battles, this is the true thought of the grassland chiefs.

Perhaps because of the lessons learned from the past, even if the Xia people sent troops to help this time, not many tribes responded.Ogurchak sent envoys to various ministries, but only gathered more than 2 cavalry.I asked if there were more people, and the answer was "There are only so few people in a hurry, and follow-up calls are needed."

As soon as the words came out, Ogurchak understood.This is actually just prevarication, not optimistic about this operation, and an excuse not to send troops.

He didn't want to waste any more time, so he rode westward with more than [-] troops from Uighur, Ge Luolu, Turkic, Yangmo, and Shatuo. After waiting for the Xia army who rushed over, he joined forces with [-] troops and marched westward to Kuliang. (Julan).

The benefits since sending troops are huge!
Although the Persians stepped up their vigilance because of the first looting before, they were still caught off guard by the overwhelming cavalry raid.The small strongholds where dozens of soldiers were stationed were directly uprooted, and many creator temples in the countryside were directly slaughtered—not specifically targeting them, but mainly because there were a lot of money in the temples.

The students of the religious school fled one after another, and were soon chased and killed by the cavalry, and fell to the ground one by one.

Dihkan raised his troops to resist and died in a large number of nomadic invasions.

The grain, cattle, sheep, and goods in the village were all looted, men and women were tied up, and taken to Balasagun, Rehai and other places.

Everyone was beaming, and they all said that it was the right thing to send troops this time.

"Going back this time, I have to let those people who despise me and insult my authority take a good look." Ogurchak laughed, walked out of the room, and looked at the cavalry walking around, feeling very comfortable.

The soldiers' horses were piled full of things.

Some people have only one horse and would rather walk by themselves than put the stolen package on horseback.After a closer look, they are just worthless and clumsy gadgets for daily use, and they have to be brought back to the tribe, which makes people laugh and cry.

Someone was holding a large pile of looted cloth and clothes, and packed them in a hurry.Upon closer inspection, there was a piece of women's underwear around his neck, which I did not know where he got it from.

Someone was squatting on the ground, carefully counting coins one by one, giggling silly.That worthless look made Ogurchak want to go up and kick him.

"Grandfather, isn't it good to go on like this?" Dun Yu frowned, and said, "King Zhao still wants to seize a few big cities. With the current situation, are you still willing to fight to the death?"

Ogurchak was aware of this too, but he couldn't help it.

Tribal soldiers are like this, they are not professional warriors, and they must rob when fighting.It's not enough to grab less, you will feel a loss, and you will be even less willing to fight hard next time.

To put it bluntly, he is now the leader of the horse bandits.And this big boss was launched jointly by many small bosses.You can't interfere too much with what the little bosses like to do and what they want to do.

Authority is so weak!

"Grandpa?" Seeing that Ogurchak was silent, Dun Yu raised his voice.

"Hmph!" For some reason, Ogurchak suddenly felt disgusted with that King Zhao.

Even you come to humiliate me, don't you?

Everyone thinks that the male camel king's majesty has been discredited, and it can't be done, right?
Do you think you can command those tribes with me or without me?
"Just listen to King Zhao's order." Ogurchak said: "Persia is not a good person, so is Xia Bing a good person? If they really helped me, why didn't they return Karasa and Balujia ?”

Dun Yu was speechless.

"What's the most important thing now?" Ogurchak glanced at his eldest son and asked.

"Beat the Persians?" Dun Yu asked.

"Wrong." Ogurchak shook his head and said, "The most important thing is to rebuild the prestige of Bugla Khan. This Khan position is mine, and it will be yours in the future. It was a bit shameful before, and it has become bleak." It's gone, many people don't respect Bugla Khan anymore. But this time is a good opportunity to feed those wolf cubs and they will turn into dogs and wag their heads and tails in front of us. Dunyu, you understand, there is nothing like this Things are more important."

Dun wants to be silent.

Indeed, if you can't ask for Karasha, you can already see the true face of the Xia people.They are also doing everything possible to weaken the authority of Bugla Khan, let them fall into pieces, and then use the means of division and disintegration to control them.

Persia is the enemy on the surface, and Xia is the enemy in the dark.

It's just that for now, the two sides still have common interests, and they have to hold their noses and cooperate.It is impossible to support the authority of the Camel King by relying on Balasagon alone. If possible, Talas, one of the former capitals, must be recaptured, which will greatly enhance the strength and prestige of Bugla Khan.

Of course, that is the future goal.

The most important thing now is to reunite the scattered hearts, try to unite them with the Camel King, and twist them into a single rope, so that they cannot be easily manipulated by the enemy.

"Feed those wolf cubs", this is what my father said just now, and Dun Yu deeply agrees.

"Is it going to go according to plan?" he asked.

Ogurchak's face turned dark, and after pondering for a while, he sighed: "Now we have to rely on the Xia people, let's cooperate with them first."

Mingming wanted to find a chance to get rid of Xia Ren's control, and the father and son also reached a consensus.But in reality, what they are doing is consolidating and enhancing the prestige of the Xia people, so what a fuck!
But at this moment, the south ran back to count the riders, and said loudly: "The Persians have chased them out."

finally come!The father and son looked at each other, knowing what to do.

"Dunyu, gather your troops immediately and lead them to retreat." Ogurchak ordered.

Dun Yu didn't talk nonsense and did as soon as possible.

Ogurchak led another group of people to meet him.At the same time, the rangers went out, some went to contact the tribal cavalry who were hiding elsewhere waiting for orders, and some went to inform the Xia people.

Obviously, this is an attempt to lure the enemy.

There is no loss if you are unsuccessful. If you succeed, you will have the opportunity to eat the enemy soldiers who are chasing out.Why not do it?

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Suddenly there was a wave of vibrations higher than the waves from the distant land.

Safar's face changed, and his expression was full of surprise.

In Persian, "Safar" means coppersmith, which is actually the name of a bad street.

The most famous "Safar" is the coppersmith who made his fortune by suppressing uprisings and founded the Safar dynasty.

But this Safar is not Bi Safar, he is not an emir, he is just a middle-level general in Kuliang City.

However, his war experience is very rich.

A veteran on the grassland can judge a lot of information through the sound of horseshoes——

With such a large-scale shaking, it was obvious that many cavalry came, numbering in the tens of thousands, and they rushed from all directions.

The voice was very hurried again, and it seemed that he was running wildly.

The vibrations were scattered and disordered for a while, and hurried and orderly for a while. It sounded like someone was chasing the fleeing people.

Based on this information, Safar had some bad guesses in his mind. Could it be that the Camel King led the army, defeated the forwards who were chasing them, and then fought back all the way?
Well, the Creator didn't keep Safar waiting too long, and the answer was revealed soon, just as he imagined.

In the northern skyline, hundreds of cavalry frantically hit their horses and galloped back.Behind them, a group of cavalrymen in leather armor were holding bows and calling their names one by one.

Safar's face suddenly became very ugly.

This must be the elite soldier beside the Camel King!It turned out that this old thing set up an ambush, so shameless.

"Ready to fight!" Safar raised his lance.

"Get ready to fight!" The order was passed on quickly, and in a short while, a full two thousand cavalry formed an attack formation.

The unarmored light cavalry will be the first to confuse the enemy with their bows and arrows.

Armored heavy cavalry behind them, they will crush their enemies with a powerful impact.

This is their usual tactic.

For herdsmen who are not highly organized, you don't need to defeat everyone at all, just defeat one in person, and then stare at them and hunt them down.

Even if other people are not involved in the battle, they may not necessarily fight to the end, and it is more likely that they will run away.

The well-organized steppe cavalry is not so easy to deal with, but that often requires a prestige Khan.Does Ogurchak have the prestige now?Obviously not.

Then, the next choice is actually very easy to make.

"Charge!" Seeing that there were also cavalry approaching from the left and right, Safar no longer hesitated, and decided to rush through the wave in front of him first and break through their encirclement, so that the rest of the matter would be easy.

The sound of horseshoes soon sounded.

The Persian cavalry was a little flustered, but they suppressed their uneasiness, followed closely behind the officer, and charged forward without hesitation.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer, and they soon entered the range of riding a bow.

The prairie cavalry on the opposite side fired a shot of arrows in a hurry, and then dispersed to both sides.

Sure enough, I didn't dare to head-on!
The Persian calmed down a bit and speeded up.

But soon, a scene that stunned them appeared: after the Uighur cavalry spread out to the two wings, they directly revealed the people behind them.

It was a group of knights riding tall horses, wearing iron armor, and holding "long lances".

They lined up in a tight formation, and they didn't panic at all during the gallop, as if they had long been familiar with everything on the battlefield, and they didn't care about life and death at all.

This is definitely not a Uyghur!

But there was no time to think, and the two sides quickly collided.When the wrong horse passed by, the Persian cavalry suffered a heavy loss that had not been seen in many years: almost a quarter of the horses were running empty, and the rider on the horse had disappeared.

The prairie cavalry came back again, taking advantage of the opportunity when the Persians finished a wave and their formation was scattered, arrows rained down like rain.

The screams of the Persians continued.

After a wave of prairie cavalry shot, they rushed to the distance, and the second wave rushed over again, firing all arrows.

The Persians who were gathering their formation were in chaos.

"Hey!" Xia Jun's cavalry had already turned their horses and charged again.

They were as fast as lightning, and rushed in front of the Persians in the blink of an eye, and the opponent's formation that had not yet been closed was blown away.

After the Xia people rushed past, the prairie cavalry surrounded them ferociously like a pack of wolves, firing their bows...

It's like rehearsing it in advance.

If the Lancers charge first, they may not be able to crush the enemy, nor may they be able to kill many of them.But they made the enemy "stiff" for a moment, and then a large number of grassland cavalry archers quickly surrounded them, biting them endlessly, causing the enemy to lose blood, weaken their strength, and finally be unable to resist.

"Pfft!" When the last wave of charge was launched and Gao Siji shot into Safar's broken armor, there were almost no Persians left on the entire battlefield.

Soon, the grassland cavalry archers fired a salvo, and the last Persian also fell.

The battle is over.

"Oh!" Ogurchak, who had watched the battle from a high place for a long time, sighed.

It is different whether there is a backbone or not.

The Xia army withstood the charge of the Persian cavalry head-on, and the prairie cavalry cooperated with harassment and killing, and fought so simply and neatly.

Don't say anything to ambush people.

He also set up an ambush before, and was directly pierced and ran away, okay?
I think back to when my father was alive, there were many craftsmen who made armor and weapons for them in Balasagun and Talas. At that time, the Uyghur Kingdom could even pull out a large number of heavy cavalry, so it was able to compete with the Persians on the battlefield .

It has only been more than 40 years, and the Great Uyghur Kingdom has weakened to this point. It is really sad and deplorable!

Ogulchak made up his mind. Next, he would plunder more Persian craftsmen and farmers, let them farm for themselves, support a group of full-time warriors, and let them make excellent equipment for themselves and arm their own warriors.

This is especially important after the loss of Karasa.

Otherwise, they really can only live in the shadow of the Xia people, lingering on their last breath.And the final outcome should be no better than the Persians, or even worse.

"Let's go to Kuliang and grab something!" Ogurchak greeted his son, went down the high slope, and headed for Julan City.

(End of this chapter)