Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 207
Like a thorn in the back, like a stick in the throat, like... uh, anyway, it's very uncomfortable. This is Zhang Zhao's most direct feeling about the Persian army stationed a hundred miles away.

Now the situation of the two sides is like a reverse √, Zhang Zhao is in the middle, the short side is Kesai City, and the long side is the Persian army.

Zhang Zhao had [-] elite soldiers and more than [-] Beishan people who came to seek refuge, but there were many women and children among them.

Of course, more than [-] people are still very scary, and the tents stretch for miles, which is very imposing.

Yusupu in Kesai City has more than [-] troops, and there may be more than [-] people in the city. Although the combat effectiveness of the Kesai City Army has undergone a major cleansing, but with the blessing of Kesai City's defenses, it can easily be defeated. Still not easy.

There are about [-] Persians, and their combat effectiveness must be stronger than that of Yusupu in Kesai City. They set up a fortress halfway up a mountain, one hundred miles away from Kesai City, and it is also easy to defend and difficult to attack.

This formed a balance of power that made Zhang Zhao very uncomfortable. He didn't dare to attack Kesai City with all his strength, because the Persians would definitely come to attack him on the back.

He did not dare to break out of the camp to fight the Persians. As long as he moved, Yusup of Kesai City would cut off his retreat.

Of course, neither of these two dared to provoke Zhang Zhao, and they would not come to provoke Zhang Zhao. Yu Supu wanted to see both sides suffer, and the Persians just wanted to consume him.

The most taboo thing about such things as laboring expeditions is to return without success. The super long supply line and super long preparations result in being forced to retreat without a battle.

Not to mention the loss of a large amount of food, grass, vehicles and horses, it will also cause a fatal blow to morale. For a country of the size of Khotan, it will be difficult to organize an expedition of tens of thousands of people after one or two setbacks. .

"Your Majesty, Pei Shengyuan hastened to report that the cronies sent by Yusupu of Kesai City to Bukhara were caught by them on the way back to Kesai City!"

Zhang Zhao's heart skipped a beat. Yusupu sent people to Bukhara, and they took a wilderness path. Something unusual must have happened.

Sure enough, as soon as the secret report was delivered, Zhang Zhao couldn't help laughing three times.

"God help me too! Adulal and his [-] army are dead! Beat the drums and gather the generals!"

In the big tent, although it was almost night, the generals stationed in various places rushed over immediately.

Zhang Zhao had already put on his helmet and armor, and when Yan Jin and the others saw Zhang Zhao's attire, their hearts immediately felt hot. After more than a month of confrontation in this icy and snowy place, it was finally time to settle.

"Pei Inspector! Let Beishan's ministries draw 10,000 people, give them enough to eat and drink, and tell them that after capturing Kesai City, I will let them enter the city and let them go for three days!

You lead the 3000 people from the headquarters to supervise the battle, and I will leave you the catapults, and you must attack day and night, regardless of casualties.

The captives captured by An Dukang were also taken away, and they were escorted and let them go first! "

"Here! But Your Majesty, there are only tens of thousands of people in Kesai City, how can we afford to let go and rob for three days, if we let the other ministries of Beishan rob first, what will our son-in-law do?"

Governor Pei had no opinion on Zhang Zhao's arrangement, but he had a lot of opinions on letting the Beishan tribe seize the thirsty city first.

Zhang Zhao smiled slyly, and tapped his fingers on the map, "So I mean, the key is not to let them go, but to be able to attack or not!"

Pei Jieshi immediately understood, he crossed his hands and stepped back.

"Li Ruotai! Bai Congxin! Each of you leads You Yidu and Jiaqi from Bao Daying to leave tonight!"

Zhang Zhao said, pointing to a small forest on the map, "The Persian army will definitely break out of camp and set out to approach us in about five days at the most. I want you to stay lurking here. When the battle is in full swing, after receiving my order, go straight in." Where is the commander of the Persian Army!"

"Here!" The two led the order to retreat.

"Ashi Nasili, you bring Basimi's light cavalry, plus four hundred Amozhi Qing cavalry, and give me a firm control over the Persian scouts.

Suppress their exploration range to within fifteen miles, and I want the Persians not to know what happened twenty miles away! "

"Here! The general will definitely complete the task!" Ashina Sili also hurriedly stepped in to say hello.

"The rest follow my orders and take a good rest for three days. They will set off in three days and wait for the Persians to bump into them head-on!" Zhang Zhao ended the military discussion with a wave of his hand.

Only then did Governor Pei suddenly realize that although he didn't know where King Zhang got the news, it seemed that the Persian Army had to go north to ask for a fight for some reason.

Asking him to attack Kesai City with all the ministries of Beishan is just to scare the defenders of Kesai City so that they dare not leave the city, or simply make the defenders of Kesai City think that the large forces are still outside the city.

. . . .

The sun was just rising, and the golden light covered the earth, making people feel warm.

The horse, which has been harassed by the cold air for more than a month, is also led by the soldiers, while carrying heavy loads, enjoying the rare sunshine again and again.

For the Fergana Basin in November, this is a rare good weather, and it is also a very good opportunity for the army to launch.

It's just that Adulal, the coach of the first army, is wearing a thick fur, and his serious eyes hide unwillingness.

"Father, are we really going to break camp and go north? What a great situation now! We don't have to do anything to force Ju'erhan's army away.

Shule is said to have traveled more than a thousand miles to this place, and Ju'erhan would probably lose at least a hundred thousand silver coins on this trip.

So what if he can occupy Andukang?He happened to use him to contain Yu Supu who was thirsty for the city. Before Ju Erhan came, Yu Supu would not be so obedient. "

Hearing his son's words, Adulal shook his head slowly. He didn't know that Ju'er sweat could be consumed by energy consumption alone, but time was not on his side.

Prince Hamid is his benefactor and also his backer. If something happens to His Royal Highness, as a local official sent by the Crown Prince, only Adulal will be killed. If people show kindness, it is more likely that the whole family will die together.

So he had no choice but to venture north in order to repel Ju'er Khan's army. Only in this way could Prince Hamid's position in Bukhara be stabilized.

"You personally lead a cavalry detour to Kesai City to inform our army's movements, so that Yusup is ready to go out of the city and attack!" Adulal said softly, and Arpte shook his head.

"Father, Yusupu won't leave the city easily, he will definitely wait for us to lose!"

"You also said that he won't leave the city easily, but it doesn't mean that he won't leave the city. This old fox is really waiting for us to lose, so he will definitely come out to pick up bargains.

I don't want him to make much effort, as long as he can come out to pick up the bargain when our army has the upper hand! "

As he said that, Adulal patted his son on the shoulder, "Remember, our goal is not to win Kesai City together, nor to settle accounts with Yu Supu, but to repel Ju'erhan.

As long as Ju'er Khan recedes, it doesn't matter even if Yu Supu dominates.

Because we completed the mission of Prince Hamid and helped His Royal Highness overcome the difficulties, our family can maintain its wealth and honor with Prince Hamid.

Remember, as a general, you must know what you want before going to war!Do not covet, nor seek in vain. "

Sanshui Bay is about forty miles away from Kesai City. It is located by the Yaosha Water, with the raging river on the left.

On the right is the boundless great plain, mixed with some small hills, and at the end of the plain is the mountain forest where Bai Congxin and Li Ruotai are hiding.

Zhang Zhao didn't set up a cavalry formation, because it was only used in the special situation of riding with a rifle.

Now although his main force is heavy infantry, there is no shortage of cavalry. The Saman Persian army on the opposite side is also dominated by infantry and supplemented by cavalry, so there is no need to form a formation.

Zhang Zhao took two hundred of his personal guards to occupy a hill, with Fengtian Camp and Bao Day Camp lined up on both sides of the hill.

On the left side is the Khotan Amo army, on the right side is Liu Zaisheng's Khotan palace guard, and the cavalry has basically been dispersed.

During the two days when the Persian army marched northward from their station, the Youyi troops and scouts on both sides engaged in extremely cruel dog fights and strangulation.

In order to cover the advance of the army, the Persian cavalry tried their best to maintain a range of about fifteen miles, and more than 200 people were killed or injured.

There were bursts of noise in the distance, and the Persian army, wearing hundreds of flags of various colors, slowly entered the battlefield in black, and Zhang Zhaojun had already made preparations, and even rested for a long time.

The kind of war that plunges headlong into the encirclement and is surrounded and wiped out actually rarely occurs in the battles of large corps.

Because everyone has enough scouts to inquire about information, it is not so easy to hide an army of tens of thousands of people.

What's more, if there is not enough information to report the horse, the army will not march rashly.

Zhang Zhao didn't take the risk of directly bumping into them while taking advantage of the Persian army's unstable foothold to launch a fierce attack. This is actually a dangerous move, and it is the same for both sides.

The attacker is so open and close, if he can't penetrate the enemy, he will be very dangerous.

Because the battle of large corps with cold weapons is very dependent on the integrity of the formation, and a swarm of bees rushing and fighting is definitely not as good as fighting in formation.

So for Zhang Zhao, the most beneficial thing is actually to fight a majestic battle.

Because he had intercepted the intelligence of Yusupu in Kesai City, he knew that the Persian army had to go north for a decisive battle, and he had already made arrangements, so there was no need to take risks.

'Boom!Boom!Boom! 'A passionate drum beat sounded in both camps.

When the soldiers on both sides began to put on their armor and the formation began to gather, there would usually be an appetizer, that is, the fighting generals!

The so-called fighting generals are warriors in the two armies. When the formation has not been completed, a method of warfare is used to show one's own strength, show off force, and improve morale.

In the period of cold weapons, morale is the most important thing in war, and fighting generals is the method that can best damage the morale of the enemy.

Because both sides sent out the most ferocious warriors in their own formations, the killing of such warriors would have an extremely serious blow to morale.

As for if you don't go out to fight with others, it will be even more uncomfortable. If others provoke and scold you, you can't even choose someone who is in the top, so you can't even beat the fart, and the morale will drop even more seriously.

Although it will not cause the morale of the army to collapse, nor will it determine the outcome of the war to a large extent, but the blow is not small.

Especially for the non-elite troops on both sides, this is the most direct way to judge whether the opponent can fight.

Therefore, Doujiang actually runs through the entire history of Chinese cold weapons, especially before the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty.

Unless it is a decisive battle with hundreds of thousands of troops, or a battle where the strength gap between the two sides is too large.

With three 50,000 people in formation like today, the probability of a general fighting among the two armies fighting a dignified battle is very high.

Of course, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the most impressive to the later generations, which almost turned the fighting generals into the whole of the great war.

The most famous one in history is the duel between Bai Congxin's ancestor Bai Xiaode, the king of Changhua County, and Shi Simingxiao's general Liu Longxian.

Liu Xianlong's sentence, "What pig and dog?" ''s cursing, not only made him famous in history, but also fulfilled Bai Xiao's reputation as a general of Germany.

As for this era, the brave general of the later Tang Dynasty, Zhou Dewei, was a rare fighter, who defeated the enemy's ten thousand brave generals several times, and greatly defeated the spirit of Hou Liang and other troops, not to mention Li Cunxiao and Wang Yanzhang.

With the sound of drums, a strong man galloped out of the Persian army, wearing a typical Persian mirror armor.

Mirror armor, the shape of this thing is especially popular in Central Asia and the Middle East. The ancient Chinese armor equipped with a heart mirror can also be called mirror armor.

The actual situation is that this is a heavy armor with a large iron plate tied to the chest, and then surrounded by Persian chain mail.

It is the ancestor of the Persian four-mirror armor and the Ottoman disc armor hundreds of years later, and he wears a round-topped helmet on his head.

"Where did Kafir come from, dare to come here to provoke? In the face of Allah's mighty power, he will be captured without a fight!"

The brave Persian general jumped off his horse three and 400 meters away from Zhang Zhaojun, then lifted the stump on his head, and shouted loudly in Uyghur.

"Your Majesty! General, please kill this thief!" The barbarian bear was furious. He quickly put on the cotton armor, held a huge ax and mounted a hard bow on his back and galloped out!

"What pig and dog Hu'er is it? The heavenly soldiers are so great that they kneel down and beg for mercy, so as to avoid death!"

(End of this chapter)