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Chapter 32 The Battle of Biguocheng (1)

Not long after, news came from the semen wave and it reached Ula Yucheng and Muguocheng one after another.

First, Yusuf from Ulayu City (Atamurat) received news from his Patan general Karim.

"Governor General, it is estimated that the Thunder Ye Army learned that the Great Food Army was about to arrive, and also learned that our reinforcements were huge. They were frightened and were not ready to siege the city for a long time. They transferred a Thunder Ye Army camp in Nasebo City to Samoe City, preparing to take down this city as soon as possible, rob and then run north."

"Therefore, there are not many defenders in Nasebo City. After the Patan army arrived at the north shore of the Wuhu River, they did not respond at all. We robbed the manor near Nasebo City and surrounded the city. They sent Qingqi to attack near Qishi City. The enemy still had no reaction."

"How to act next, please tell me the Governor."

When Yousuf first received this news, he naturally didn't believe it. He even suspected that the Patans had colluded with the Thunder Ye Army.

His suspicion is not without reason.

Most of the Patans were descendants of the tribes where the Kushan Empire was located. After the Tang Dynasty occupied Tochar, it set up many governor's offices in various places. The farthest was Jiling City 700 miles south of Herat (Zabol, an eastern city in Iran, and the Tang Dynasty set up Persian governor's offices here). Among the various tribes of Tochar, the Patan tribe where the Kushan Empire was located was the most powerful.

Among the Patan tribes, the Karim family near Herat is the most powerful.

But no matter which governor's mansion is in, the Patans there are said to be favored by the Tang Dynasty because of the direct descendants of the Great Yuezhi, and have a good relationship with the Tang Dynasty. The Karim family used to believe in Buddhism, but later changed to Zoroastrianism, and there was no sign of actively converting to the Great Food Church. It is very likely that he would be in secret with the Great Food Church if he colluded with the Thunder Ye Army.

But the Snow Ye Army was nominally the Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty, but in fact it was an independent force. The situation seemed to be with the Governor General Khurashan and the Dashi Empire. Moreover, the Snow Ye Army fought with the Tang army many times, saying that it was the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty, so there were probably more enemy territory.

After thinking about this, Yousuf suddenly realized.

"According to the arrangement of Bingbosilin, there are nearly 100,000 troops near Muguo City, and there are also as many as 100,000 pagan troops coming to Ashgabat. Such military power is an emerging country, so anyone will be frightened."

So, he decided to dispatch the entire army to reinforce Karim!

After carefully crossing the Wuhu River, Yousuf led his army to the path leading to the color wave at a normal speed.

Among his 20,000 troops, except for the 10,000 Patans, the rest were tribal cavalry that had converted to the Great Food and passed the test of Imam in various places, and were also tribes that were not descended from the Kushan royal family. Although their combat power was almost the same as that of the Patans, their equipment was still slightly better.

Originally, there were some farmland and pastures on the north bank of the Wuhu River north of Ulayu City. However, after the rise of the Black-clothed Food Festival and fought with the Tang and the Sacred Ye Army, the farmers and herdsmen here had already run away.

So, all Yousuf saw was a wilderness.

Half a day later, Yousuf received another news that surprised him and was delighted.

"Governor General, I am very happy. Karim's army unexpectedly captured the city of Sepo!"

Yousuf quickly asked the person who reported the news, "How did he win it?"

The man replied, "The Snowy Ye Army attacked Samoe City in a very urgent manner, so he transferred the last regular army in Nasebo City. After that, only more than a thousand Bahan's army were left in the city. When Lord Karim learned about it, he launched an attack and captured the city in one fell swoop after losing about three thousand people!"

Yousuf was still skeptical at this time, but he made the army speed up and finally arrived at Sebo City before dark!

As soon as he approached Nasebo City, the four tall minarets in the city suddenly jumped into his eyes. The sound of the prayer of the Great Food Army came immediately at dusk. He sniffed his nose, and there was a faint smell of blood in the air.

At this time, he finally let go of his guard and led the army into the city under Karim's personal leadership.

In the city and on the streets, there were a large number of great food priests crawling, each with tears in their eyes. It seemed that they had been looking forward to Yousuf's arrival for a long time. Yousuf was also mixed with emotion, holding tears while waving his hands and signaling.

Karim said: "Next to the former Governor's Office, there is a military camp, which was set up according to the size of 10,000 people. Dinner has been prepared, so please come in."

The last bit of remaining wariness at this time also disappeared.

He looked at Karim and said, "You did a good job, I will report your achievements to the Great Imam of Belsilin. Not to mention anything else, just regaining Nasebo City is a wonderful achievement."

That night, Yusuf's men entered the camp next to the Governor's Mansion. After a meal of food and drink, they all fell asleep.

......

To the west, Muguo City (Turkmenabad), after learning that Yusuf had recovered Nasepo, Hasim, who was still waiting for Simbad, was moved.

"Simbad is about five days away from here. If the Shattered Ye Army defeats Samoe City and kills Ziad and Dazhe Rui, even if my battle is defeated this time, I must fight with the Shattered Ye Army in Biguo City before the Shattered Ye Army takes Samoe City. It would be nice to say if I can catch the Shattered Ye Army's captives."

"The hateful Yusuf in the east actually took down the Sepo City and captured hundreds of Bakhan's army! This person is a caliph's confidant. If he decides to tell me about it, I have reached an agreement in advance, how can I walk in the Great Ima in the future?"

So, despite the dissuasion of others, he immediately led a large army of 100,000 across the Wuhu River and arrived at the city of Biguo in less than half a day.

Facing the tall city walls of Biguo City, Hasim chose to attack three camps outside the city first.

He left only 10,000 elite soldiers composed of disciples of Bingbo Silin to stay by his side, and then left the remaining 90,000 people with 30,000 people as a large camp, and 10,000 people as a small camp, and guarded the other 20,000 people with 4,000 people as a small camp, with a total of five small camps, and at the same time launched an attack on each camp!

According to Hasim's estimate, all he brought were soldiers from Khorasan and extremely loyal to Bingbosilin. Although his armor and military equipment were not as complete as Ziyad and Hassan's army, his victory was due to his courage and fearlessness. A small battalion of four thousand people, and there were thousands of people on each side of the enemy camp. In this era, a thousand people could last at least half a day.

Then in the afternoon, another small camp will continue to do so. Within three days, you will definitely take down the camp outside the city!

If the enemy comes to rescue from Anguo, Heguo and other places, there will be 10,000 people in each camp to fight, and the enemy's army is not large, so such an arrangement will be completely foolproof!

(This is how the cannibals in the Battle of Talas fought in history, but they almost returned in vain under the attack of the Tang army's crossbows)

......

Looking at the enemy troops coming like a tide outside the camp, the three large camps in Pin-shaped shapes approached the high platform in the center of the camp in Biguocheng, Ma Lin, who was observing, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

He had arrived in the river for a while, but Sun Xiurong ordered him to stay in the camp and not to go out. He had been bored these days, but it was already a big cannibal that he had not come. As soon as he came, there were so many people.

Fortunately, the Thunder Ye Army had already had firearms at this time. Otherwise, if they were completely fighting against the enemy with crossbows, swords and guns, they would definitely not last for three days.

Although Hasim was a civil servant, he had been in charge of supplies for Bingbosilin for a long time and knew some military affairs. He had also heard of the thunder and earth fire of the Sailing Ye Army. Although he did not care about the lives of the Khurashan soldiers, because it was also a blessing for them to go to heaven.

But he still asked the people who rushed in the front to equip the shields. Unlike ordinary generals who arranged warriors behind the shield soldiers, Hasim also had more skills. He asked the people with the weakest combat power to follow the shield soldiers, preparing to use the most brave people after these people consumed the Ye Jun for a while.

If he had commanded the battle in Talas, he might have been stronger than Ziad, but unfortunately he met the Broken Ye Army!

This time, the Raole Camp, Bogra Camp and Tala Camp brought by Ma Lin are all camps with long battle formations. However, even so, if the opponent is allowed to fight close to the enemy, it may not be able to fight ten times more than his own enemy. When the enemy approaches about fifty feet, the artillery on all sides of the camp began to roar!

This cannon was naturally intended to destroy the enemy's shield and to dismantle their thoughts of using the shield to approach the camp.

According to the understanding of the Great Food and Practice at this time, compared with the Mobei tribe, they were not as brave as the Tang army, and were not as strict as the Tang army. However, they were not afraid of death and the battle was the most tragic, but they were only slightly slow, but they would still rush forward regardless of casualties.

Sure enough, after seeing that its shield was not working under the enemy's cannon, the Dashi Army simply gave up the shield and rushed towards the wall in a swarm with the Imams who were accompanying the army!

This hit Ye Jun's thoughts.

As mentioned earlier, although Ma Lin only brought three battalions, none of them were configured according to the standard configuration of Bogda Battalion, with 800 side vans and forty cannons, enough to fight for two months at full capacity!

In the first round of cannons fired just now, five solid bullets were loaded on each side, and this time they were all shotguns!

The fan-shaped barrage formed by the five shotgun cannons can almost completely cover the open space opposite the front wall. In an instant, all the Dashi Army that was running over was wrapped. After the yellow-brown barrage that the big cannibals were not familiar with the smell of gunpowder smoke, the thick layer of enemies on the front of the camp suddenly lost one layer!

An imam in a black robe in the enemy camp was also hit, but he shouted before his death.

"Heaven is right in front of you!"

As soon as these words rang, the Dashi Army, who was still standing there on the spot, ran away again!

This time, they were greeted by blockbusters thrown out of the sky!

After the thunder of the sky was blown up, the effect was naturally not as powerful as the shotgun, but it still divided the enemies that were originally surrounded by them into small teams.

At this time, the powerful crossbow and bows of the Shattered Ye Jun began to shoot!

The enemy who barely ran to the wall of the camp was naturally assassinated by the spearmen of the Thunder Ye Army without any mercy. At this time, the ten artillery pieces were loaded again.

After a new round of metal storm, although there are still many enemies on each side, they don’t have the courage to continue fighting, and it’s useless to shout loudly in the Imam.

This is something that Hasim, a loyal believer in the Great Food Church, could tolerate the cowardice of pagans and even those who had just converted to this religion, but he would never tolerate the children of Khorasan.

He asked the cavalry among the ten thousand left behind to lean on the surveillance soldiers.
Chapter completed!
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