Chapter 99 Fighting Guram (Part 2)
In Gaochang City, the Black Khan army had been besieging the city for several days. The coalition guarding the city suffered heavy casualties, the Uighur army had all died, and the army of the Uighur King and the Datar Khan also suffered heavy losses. The 20,000 Xia army led by Li Yanzong also suffered a lot of losses. Under such huge losses, the Uighur King and the Datar Khan had already thought of retreating.
The royal palace in Gaochang City had become the command center of the coalition forces at this time. Li Yanzong, the Uighur King and the Datar Khan all stood together with anger on their faces. Just now, the three of them had a big fight. As for the Uighur generals, no one cares about the Uighurs' thoughts at all.
"I won't fight this battle. I want to withdraw my troops. It's impossible for me, the Uighur warriors, to be here. It's only been a few days! I have lost more than 15,000 people. If I continue to fight, my old capital will be gone." The Uighur king said angrily.
"Ben Khan also wants to withdraw his troops, and more than half of the troops brought by Ben Khan have lost. If he beaten Ben Khan, he will have no shame to see the herdsmen in the tribe again." Datar Khan also said.
Li Yanzong looked at the two of them with no good face and said, "Do you think our Xia army is a good life? Now, withdrawing troops is seeking death. Let me tell you the truth! You have to fight this battle, and you have to fight if you don't fight. All the city gates of this general except the West Gate have been blocked by this general."
"Hmph!" The Uighur King sneered.
Li Yanzong continued: "You'd better not make a plan without a plan, don't think about sliding down the city wall. The black sweat army outside the city is not a vegetarian. Now I dare to pat my chest to assure you that as long as I leave the city now, I will definitely be completely wiped out by Suleiman. He is waiting for us to go out now!
Besides, our losses are huge, but the Black Khan Army has also suffered a lot. According to our general, the Black Khan Army has lost at least 50,000 troops, which means that the enemy troops outside the city are only about 100,000 now. As long as we persist in fighting, this victory must belong to us."
Datar Khan sneered: "If we continue to fight, I'm afraid that the two of us will die before the Black Khan army has been killed."
Li Yanzong sighed and said, "Since the two kings have this attitude, the general is not trying to keep you. Since you want to leave that general to help you, you can hand over the city defense to the Xia army today and you can leave from Ximen at that time."
Hearing Li Yanzong say this, the Uighur King and Datar Khan's faces were better. They bowed to Li Yanzong and said, "Goodbye."
After the two left, Qin Hu asked Li Yanzong: "General, are we really going to let them go?"
Li Yanzong sneered: "It's not that simple to leave. It's just that we let them go. Do you think Suleiman will let them go?"
"General, this will lose our troops guarding the city." Qin Hu reminded Li Yanzong.
Li Yanzong walked to the city defense map with his hands behind his back and said, "How can I not know about this general? But if they didn't let them try it once, I'm afraid there would be trouble in the future. Only when they knew that we were surrounded by the Hei Khan army would they be at ease to defend the city with us! Qin Hu, let the ten thousand heavily armored knights be prepared and take them back to the city at any time."
Qin Hu thought for a while and said coldly: "General, why should we pick them up? Wouldn't it be better to let them be bait?"
Li Yanzong glanced at Qin Hu and said, "What do you think of, tell me what you think."
Qin Hu said to Li Yanzong: "General, once the soldiers on the city are replaced by Xia army, Suleiman will think that the Uighur army and the Datar army will break through, and with his wisdom, they will definitely lay ambushing troops in the middle. At that time, we will send a large army to attack his camp. This time Suleiman will be defeated."
Li Yanzong nodded and said, "You are right, but Suleiman is not a fool. Be careful when acting, and if you don't work, you will withdraw."
"Yes, the last general will take the order." Qin Hu took over the military order.
On the other hand, Suleiman received the news of the change of defense in Gaochang City, and laughed, he immediately sent people to lay ambush halfway, waiting to annihilate all the troops leaving the city. Due to the huge losses of Suleiman's army in recent days, it has lost nearly 40,000 troops since the first day of siege, which made Suleiman hate the coalition forces defending the city.
Suleiman sat in the Khan seat and ordered: "Harrison obeyed."
"The last one will be there." Harrison stood up and said.
Suleiman handed a command arrow to Harrison and said, "Ben Khan will hand over all the 30,000 heavy armored Gulam cavalry to you. He will give you 20,000 light cavalry, ambush thirty miles south of Gaochang, and wait for the enemy to pass away and be wiped out."
"The last general will receive the order." Harrison took the military order and said, "But Khan, since this, there are only 30,000 troops around him. Should we transfer all the troops from both left and right battalions?"
Suleiman smiled and said, "No, I will use these 30,000 troops to make a good dish for the defenders in the city."
Late at night, the gate of Gaochang City creaked open. The Uighur King and Datar Khan led an army of more than 25,000 people to slowly drive out, and then rushed westward. Looking at the leaving tribal cavalry, Qin Hu sneered.
"General, the general sent someone to send a secret letter." A deputy general said to Qin Hu.
Qin Hu opened the secret letter and read it, then burned it directly, and then ordered: "Tell the ten thousand heavy armored knights to prepare to fight at any time."
"As for orders..."
Half an hour later, there was a shout of killing in the south of Gaochang City. Qin Hu quickly opened the city gate and led the heavily armored knights out of the city, heading straight to the Black Khan Army camp thirty miles away from the west gate to kill. Qin Hu suddenly stopped when the army reached twenty miles.
"General, why did you stop suddenly?" the deputy general asked Qin Hu.
Qin Hu said to the deputy general: "Something is wrong. In this way, this general leads three thousand people to attack Suleiman's camp first, and you can respond outside."
"General, no." Qin Hu, deputy general's mansion, said; "General, you are the chief general of the first army, and if you want to go, the last general will go."
"Okay, but you have to remember that you must not stop after entering the enemy camp. Burn me at the enemy camp. I will accept you at any time." Qin Hu told the deputy general.
"Yes, the last general will receive the order." The deputy general solemnly took over the military order.
After the deputy general said that, he led the three thousand heavily armored cavalry to Suleiman's camp. The reason why Qin Hu felt something was wrong was because he read the secret letter given by Li Yanzong. In fact, Li Yanzong only wrote one sentence in the secret letter, beware that Suleiman was cheating.
On the way to march just now, Qin Hu found that Suleiman's camp was too quiet, so he became suspicious and planned to lead an army to raid first to test the situation.
The deputy general led the three thousand heavy armored knights to successfully break into Suleiman's camp. Suleiman indeed ambushed the heavy soldiers in the camp, but these three thousand heavy armored knights were not vegetarians. They rushed in the camp and burned Suleiman's camp. Suleiman miscalculated, and he did not expect that there would be heavy armored cavalry in Gaochang City.
Seeing the ambushings in the enemy camp, Qin Hu immediately felt that it was very dangerous. If all the ten thousand armored knights rushed in just now, even if they could retreat to Gaochang City, the loss would have been quite large. But now it is different. Qin Hu led the remaining seven thousand armored knights to attack quickly and rushed towards Suleiman's camp. A raid in the dark night was inevitable.
Chapter completed!