Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 232 Waiting for you at last

Zhang Zhao arrived in Huwen City in early July, and then stayed here for another two full months. Until early September, news finally came that the Shahi Dynasty of India was ruled by King Madapolo, who led the army to set off for the Northern Expedition.

If Lu Sanlang hadn't been sent to scout for information and confirmed that Modapolo would definitely lead an army, he would hardly have been able to wait.

Because it is different from the weather in the Indus River Basin, during this Little Ice Age, the snow-covered period in eastern Afghanistan around Huwencheng was very long.

If the army of the Xiaxi Dynasty does not come in September, it will not come, at least until June and July next year.

Zhang Zhaoke couldn't wait so long, if the army of the Xiaxi Dynasty didn't come, he would attack.

The road from Peshawar to Huwen City is not long, less than five hundred miles.

If only the distance of the Khyber Pass Valley Road is counted, it is even shorter. It is only about [-] miles from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, to Peshawar.

In order to successfully ambush the army of the Shahi Dynasty in India, from mid-August, Zhang Zhao dispatched [-] elites in shifts to station near the Khyber Pass, and built dozens of bunkers to hide and store supplies.

And in the Khyber Pass, which is only about [-] miles away, it would be incorrect to say that there are no supply points and fortresses.

On the side close to Pakistan, at a small mountain pass named Nalande, the Shahi Dynasty of India built a small fort here as an outpost, which was the predecessor of the famous Randi Kotar Fort in later generations.

Modapolo is a typical Hindu prince. He wears a turban on his head at all times. The facial features of the Western Turks on his body have basically disappeared in the mixed blood of several generations. Instead, he has a high nose bridge and big eyes. Typical Indo-Aryan appearance with darker complexion.

His grandfather was the famous Karal, the ruthless man who ended the Kabul-Shahi Dynasty and established the India-Shahi Dynasty.

But it's a pity that this ruthless person should not be a Tianzhu. If it were elsewhere, Karal might be able to be a profuse, an emir or something.

But in Tianzhu, where the local aborigines have extremely poor combat effectiveness and can only rely on strongmen from the northwest as the pillar of force, Karal has been at a strategic disadvantage since the establishment of the India-Shahi Dynasty.

However, although the force value is a little bit worse, Karal's vision is not bad.

He knew that if the India-Shahi Dynasty wanted to keep the crown on its head safely, Huwen City had to be taken back.

Therefore, the successive kings of the India-Shahi Dynasty regarded the control of Huwen City as their top priority.

"My honorable king, Prince Sadid of Huwen City did not respond directly to our request. It seems that he is still very wary of us.

Isn't it unsafe for us to just go there?How about the king just wait here and let the last general lead the army to go to Huwen City first? "

Just as Modapolo took off his heavy robe and drank a glass of sugarcane spiced water, the kingdom's general Kalmaha, also wearing a flaxen turban, came over.

For going to Huwen City, Kalmaha was not very in favor of going to Huwen City, because years of failure experience made the general of the Shahi Dynasty realize that with their current strength, they could not control Huwen City.

In his opinion, in order to control Huwen City for a long time, it is necessary to train and equip an infantry with at least a thousand sets of armor.

But at present, in the Shahi Dynasty, all armors are equipped with cavalry.

The Shahi Dynasty had an armored cavalry with good equipment and combat effectiveness, but the infantry basically had no armor.

In fact, except for heavy cavalry and war elephants, the Shahi Dynasty did not pay much attention to the protection of infantry.

This is actually determined by the climate of Tianzhu. In this place, if the infantry is equipped with iron armor, it is easy to pass out in minutes. Even in winter, the temperature is not low.

Compared with the long tug-of-war of infantry, the charge of heavy cavalry often determines the outcome in a very short time.

In the face of infantry who barely wore armor, or who wore armor like the Lispartans in the movie, the power of the heavy cavalry was directly maximized.

In addition, Hinduism and the caste system are prevalent in Tianzhu. The Kshatriyas are the ruling class, and there are not many of them. No one would want to be an infantry like ordinary people. Basically, they have been cavalry for generations.

So this has led to a strange phenomenon. In Tianzhu, which is not very suitable for playing heavy cavalry, the best equipment, and what the kings rely on most, are heavy cavalry.

Modapolo considered Kalmaha's opinion seriously, and then slowly shook his head.

In Modapolo's view, Prince Sadid of the Samanid Dynasty is not interested in his proposal to lead an army of [-] (blogging) to help him. It is vague and normal.

As long as Prince Sadid is not stupid, he must know Modapolo's true intentions.

That's why Modapolo insisted on leading the army to attack Huwen City, because if it was a trap, Prince Sadid must be eager for him to go.

But push three resistance four, vague, just prove the authenticity.

But Kalmaha's worry is also normal, and it is a manifestation of prudence. Madapolo felt that he could not cool the heart of his loyal ministers. He thought for a while, and then said to Kalmaha.

"Recapturing Huwen City is the last wish of our ancient kings. I have to go, but your suggestion is also a very good idea.

How about this, let General Sinha lead 3000 people as the vanguard first, and then you lead the main force of 5000 people in the center, and I will come to the rear, so that even if there are problems, we can deal with them. "

"It seems that we should not underestimate the heroes of the world!" When the vanguard of the Three Thousand Shahi Dynasty passed through the Khyber Pass, Zhang Zhao turned and said to the officers behind him.

The imagined Shahi Dynasty was in a mess and rush, and 30,000 people passed through the Khyber Pass together, which did not happen.

On the contrary, they dispatched 3000 people forward in a very orderly manner, followed by the large army of the Chinese army with colorful flags waving. The distance between the two armies was only about five or six miles, and there were messengers galloping back and forth to communicate.

In this way, when the forward is attacked, the Chinese army can quickly support it, and when the Chinese army is ambushed, the forward can also turn around and come back to rescue.

Moreover, these two troops obviously do not have 30,000 people in total, and there should be some rear troops and supplies behind them.

"According to the plan B! Only a small number of scouts are left to monitor, and all the ministries retreat to the mountain bunker, waiting for orders!" After thinking for a while, Zhang Zhao made a decision.

He placed 500 elites at the entrance of the Khyber Pass, which is the later city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan, and he also recruited [-] local rich children, a total of [-] people.

The forward and central army of the Shahi Dynasty look like 20,000 people, and Yin Yaozi will definitely be able to withstand it.

The reason why three thousand elites were used to ambush the rear army of the Xiaxi Dynasty was because Zhang Zhao had to capture King Modapolo of Xiaxi.

Although the Land Fort looks simple and the defenders may be less than 500 people, the terrain is really dangerous.

On the left is a steep mountain wall, on the right is a cliff of at least ten meters leading directly to the Kabul River, and the pass of the fortress is stuck in the middle.

Although Zhang Zhao thought that he would definitely be able to capture it, there were exceptions to everything, and if he couldn't capture it, it would be ridiculous.

So Zhang Zhao is going to capture Modapolo and let him be called the emperor, so that my classmate Zhu Qizhen will not be alone in the long river of history.

And he didn't have internal support, and he didn't know whether Modapolo was in the forward, central or rear army, so he could only simply block the [-] troops of the Shahi Dynasty in the Khyber Pass.

Sure enough, half an hour later, You Yi's army came to report that the Xiaxi Dynasty's rear army had entered the valley. There were about 20,000 people including soldiers and civilians in charge of logistics.

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Modapolo rode on a blue war horse, and carefully wore a chain mail inside. Anyway, he didn't have to go to the battlefield to kill people, so he couldn't deliberately save his energy.

The king of Shahi, India, found a rocky path in front of him. Both sides of the path were full of fallen stones of all sizes. His brows not only twitched slightly.

It would be incorrect to say that Modapolo did not consider that someone would ambush him here.

For example, now, he first asked the scouts of the former army to search, and divided the team into three parts to keep a distance from each other, just to avoid being ambushed. In fact, he was very careful.

But since this is the case, Modapolo still didn't have the brain to think that the elite from Khotan would ambush him here, it was just out of his usual caution.

Of course, the scouts of the Xiaxi Dynasty would not have thought of this, nor did they do their best.

After all, they are feudal soldiers, or Tianzhu soldiers with bad martial ethics. It is absolutely impossible to expect them to treat the affairs of the king and general as their own affairs like the modern national army.

Therefore, the scouts of the Xiaxi Dynasty did not search everywhere, and their strategy was still the same.

That is, simply search a certain area in advance, and then come back a few days later to see if the dark mark he put last time has been destroyed, so as to determine whether there is an ambush.

Five days passed, and of course there was no result, but these scouts of the Shahi Dynasty never imagined that in the harsh environment of the Khyber Pass, the five-day limit they thought was only the minimum requirement for the warriors of the Fengtian Army.

After receiving the news that the Xiaxi Dynasty was about to send troops, Zhang Zhao and the warriors of the Fengtian Army stayed here for a full fifteen days.

They ate dry food and jerky, slept in earthen nests, and used corn wine mixed with a little water to replenish water.

Even in order to cover up the traces as much as possible, they didn't bring a single horse, and all the weapons and armor were carried in by themselves.

This kind of excellence and tenacity beyond this era is what Zhang Zhao's Fengtian Army warriors rely on to be invincible.

(End of this chapter)