Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 179 The Art of Running

"Damn it, he entered his mother's house! A certain family was only a few dozen steps away, it was all luck!
If I'm lucky, I, Li Erlang, will be able to take the head of the enemy general among thousands of armies!What a pity!What a pity! "

Li Ruotai patted his thigh while holding a leg of lamb, gnawing and cursing.

It is indeed a pity that the surrounding Bai Congxin, Hu Guang, and Guo Guangcheng felt sorry for him. They interrogated the prisoners and found out that the high-ranking official they were chasing today turned out to be Ali Duraf, the coach of the Saman Persian invaders.

This is the commander of the first army with [-] troops!It was Wazir and the provincial governor of Saman Persia. If Li Ruotai could capture or kill him today, what would it be?That is to take the head of the enemy commander with one hundred and fifty riders among thousands of troops!
Such a great contribution is to be famous in history, and maybe he can enter the Wu Temple to accompany him after his death.

Isn't it heartbreaking that such a brilliant record is gone?
Hu Guang took it to himself to think for a while, and almost couldn't eat the heartbroken mutton.

"Lieutenant Li, be careful, although the thief Du Lafu escaped to death, we burned at least [-]% of his granary today.

His defeat has been decided, and it will be a matter of time before he withdraws his troops. If he travels thousands of miles from Balasakon back to Talas, is he afraid that there will be no chance to kill him? "

Bai Congxin wiped the oil on Shou's hands and comforted him.

"Yes! Two captains, we'd better send someone to notify the county magistrate as soon as possible, so that the magistrate can adjust the strategy in time."

Hu Guang added a bowl of wild vegetable soup cakes for the two veterans before he spoke.

"That's right, General Hu is right, we should send someone to notify Lord Erlang immediately!" The two nodded in satisfaction, not knowing whether they were satisfied with Hu Guang's idea or his attitude.

The joys and sorrows of people cannot be the same. When Bai Congxin, Li Ruotai, Hu Guang and others were intoxicated by today's great success, and they were quite regretful, the Saman Persians, to be precise, among the officers above the banner, were very popular. Panic.

Officers who can command a thousand soldiers are already mid-level and upper-level officers, so they know what kind of blow the army has received today!
First, dozens of hundreds of people were eaten by a combination of light and heavy cavalry outside the city. The heavy infantry of a banner was beaten to death, and the warriors of a thousand-man team could not continue to fight after a few days of repairing. Later, they were burned. up the granary.

What's even more frightening is that the significance represented by the one hundred and fifty armored cavalry is too unusual!

This is not something that ordinary forces can afford. A country that can have armored cavalry is at least a country with a population of several 100,000 people.

In addition to the 600 people in the city, all the evidence shows that there may be a huge omission in their intelligence.

But who is this force with armored cavalry?

The Peach Blossom Stone King who claims to be the King of the Kingdom of Jin?But aren't they in the far east?
It is said that the base camp of Saktu is called Kashgar, and there are more than two hundred Balashan from here?The Kingdom of Jin must not have five hundred Balashans?
In fact, we can’t blame these Persians for failing to do a good job of intelligence, because since the decline of the Silk Road, the communication between the East and the West has been far from being as smooth as it was 200 years ago.

Balashan is the unit of length in ancient Persia. One barashan is about eleven miles, and Kashgar is Shule. There are indeed more than two hundred barashan, that is, more than one thousand kilometers.

Zhang Zhao's army was lightly armed and had enough horses to travel, so he walked for almost three months. Li Ruotai traveled day and night, and also ran for nearly two months.

Such a long distance, let alone in the tenth century, is quite a long distance even in later generations, farther than Shanghai to Wuhan.

With the development of modern information, when an epidemic broke out in Wuhan, people in Shanghai would not know about it for a while, let alone in a society like this in ancient times. It is conceivable how difficult it is to inquire about the news from such a distance.

The current situation is that the Saman Persian invaders headed by Ali Dulav are qualified if they can know the situation of Balasakon three or four hundred kilometers away.

It is indeed too demanding to ask them to figure out what is more than a thousand kilometers away, and there are snow mountains and glaciers blocking them.

Not to mention figuring out where these armored cavalry came from, in fact they don't even know exactly where the Khotan Jin Kingdom is.

Decades later, in the fantasy travel notes written by Saman Persians, Li Shengtian was also regarded as the king of China, and he was called Taohuashi Khan.

So you expect them to figure out the situation now, how is it possible?
But the situation is unclear, but Ali Dulav, who almost sent Li Ruotai to the martial arts temple yesterday, knew that he could no longer fight.

It's even time to think about how to get out instead of winning or losing.

Today, the amount of grain burned in the granary is far more than [-]% that Bai Congxin and others thought. In fact, nearly [-]% has been burned.

Although the remaining military rations can still supply the entire army for ten days, due to the continuous attacks on the food roads, the delivery speed of the military rations is far behind the speed of consumption.

If the granary hadn't been burned today, Ali Dulav could have persisted for more than a month, but today it was [-]% burned, and it would be very difficult to persist for fifteen days.

However, in just fifteen days, when the grain road was attacked, the enemy cavalry continued to harass outside, and the soldiers defended inside, it was absolutely impossible to break through Bala Sagon.

Moreover, one of the three trebuchets had been damaged due to long-term use, and the repaired wood had to be cut several miles away, so the battle could no longer be fought.

In the dull and anxious atmosphere, Ali Dulav could only speak by himself.

He originally wanted some of the officers under him to suggest a retreat, but after waiting for a long time, no foolish officer came out to suggest a matter that was likely to be blamed in the end.

In the past few decades, Saman Persia has been blooming with flowers, and the fire is like cooking oil. Which officer can still understand a little politics?Those who don't understand politics have long been unable to get along.

"Ben Wazir suspects that this expedition is completely a tragedy of being misled by wrong information.

I have reason to suspect that the pagans in Talas and other places deliberately misled us for some unexplainable reason. They are traitors! "

Ali Dulav had a serious face, his voice was sonorous and forceful, and with his big waving hands, his speech was really just!
And the group of officers below immediately understood what Ali Duraf meant. He was worthy of being the governor, and he was Wazir. He looked at the problem farther than them.

Because although the Emir of Bukhara does not care much about the governors of various provinces, the premise is not to discredit my great Nasr II.

The previous governor of Tashkent was imprisoned and ransacked his home because he lost Balasagon and Talas, which made Nasr II look very bad.

But this time, counting the God Warriors this time, nearly [-] troops were mobilized. If they were beaten back to Tashkent like this, wouldn't it be equivalent to discrediting the great Emir Nasr II again? .

Tens of thousands of teachers were killed, and Bukhara must be given an explanation.

Then if you want to save your life, you can push this matter to the Karakhans in Danros, Julan City and other places!
Although they believe in the Tianfang religion, most of them are Turkic races with black heads, black eyes and light flaxen skin, which are quite different from the blond-haired and white-skinned races of the Eastern Iran-Scythian-Sogdian lineage.

Deep down, Ali Duraf and a group of generals, including Nasr II in the Forbidden City of Bukhara Arka and Grand Wazir Baal Ami in Jacques Castle, have never fully understood these Turkic peoples. Live as one of your own.

Their status is only slightly higher than that of the conquered pagans, and it is completely feasible to use them to top the tank.

Moreover, there is only enough food for ten days, and the food roads are constantly being attacked, so it is impossible to bring so many people back to Tashkent. It is estimated that it would be good to run back with the most core 4000 people.

Tashkent is fine, but everyone has suffered such a big loss. Do you have to explain to the superiors and not to the subordinates?

In this case, wouldn't the Karakhans who believed in religion in Talas, Julan City and Baishuihu City be the best blood bag?
Sure enough, he is someone who can be the governor of Tashkent!As soon as Ali Dulav spoke, he immediately calmed down the flustered senior officer.

Now that the scapegoat has been thought out, and there is a place to make up for the loss, the only thing left is to simply think about how to run back.

"Your Excellency Wazir! If we are considering the issue of retreat now, then the small group of troops that wantonly attacked our food road must be cleaned up first.

Otherwise, it would be very troublesome if we were attacked by them when we retreated.

Your loyal Jackal Banner Qianhu Ismar is willing to lead five hundred elite warriors to clean up these nasty cockroaches! "

A Banner Qianhu named Ismar was the first to stand up and speak.

Someone finally came out and proposed to retreat. Ali Dulav smiled secretly in his heart. He just said that the war was wrongly misled, and he didn't say that he would retreat.

He also knew what it meant for Ismar to stand up and speak out. Since he wanted to run away, someone had to arrange it.

And it is indeed necessary to eliminate those enemy troops who are constantly ambushing the grain road, but, in the current situation, the farther away from the battlefield, the safer it is, right?

"I agree, brave General Ismar, you can take 500 people from the headquarters to carry out your mission.

Remember, all those nasty guys who attacked us in the jungle must be cleaned up. "

Ali Dulav pretended to appreciate it, and took a look at the chief scapegoat who was the first to jump out and say to retreat.

Ismar was also delighted that he would be able to stay away from the battlefield immediately. There are almost 1000 people guarding the food road, and even the nephew of Governor Duraf has been sent there. If he can bring another 500 people, there will be one Thousands of 500 people.

If these people still need to guard the food road and destroy the enemy, it is indeed not enough.

But if you don't need to deliberately guard the grain road and only use it to hunt down the mice hiding in the woods, it should still be a very easy task.

Of course, he never imagined that the commander of the army who dared to eat 20,000 of them with [-] people was not in command of Balasagon, but on the mountain.

"Wazir, since this is the case, tomorrow we will attack the city even more aggressively. Your loyal Masudi requests that you lead the warriors to storm Balasagon regardless of casualties!"

The second one to speak out was Masudi. Since he was going to retreat, the warlords would definitely not be able to take them away. It would be better to consume them in the city of Balasagun.

Only the onslaught of the warriors can paralyze the enemy, making them unaware that they have the intention to retreat.

You must know that there are two or three thousand light cavalry who came to carry out the task of burning down the granary today. Of course, these light cavalry are very reluctant, and it should be called herdsmen, which is why the other party did not let them fight at all.

But these two or three thousand herdsmen still posed a big threat to our side, because although they were not strong in combat, once our side started to retreat, their pursuit ability was too strong.

In my army of close to 30,000 people, there are less than [-] cavalry. If you can't make the illusion of continuing the onslaught, once you are entangled by these herders of the enemy on the way to retreat, you will be in trouble.

And as Ali Duraf's relative confidant general, Masudi is well aware of the character of this Wazir and Governor of Tashkent.

What he likes most is to find a scapegoat. He just suffered a failure in the siege, so he has to quickly get a little more courage, or it will be bad if he goes back.

Ali Dulav is satisfied, there are those who lead the way, and those who are behind the palace. As long as these thousands of elites can be brought back, and then manipulated to cover up, it can still be whitewashed as a return without success.

"Okay! Tomorrow the three armies will give out rewards. We will have enough meat and cakes, and then we will attack Balasagon!"

(End of this chapter)