Chapter 758: Heading North
These Khorasan cavalry were all elite soldiers and horses of the Apos Dynasty, and their combat effectiveness was still very strong, but they were caught off guard, so they seemed quite flustered.
Once they are effectively organized, the combat effectiveness will immediately burst out, but it is a pity that they are facing the siege of a strong enemy at the moment, it is wishful thinking to calmly organize resistance, the only way to survive is to escape as soon as possible, and then, find a way to regroup, the best way is to retreat to the city in the rear, and then obtain various combat resources from the city, hold the city and ask for help in the direction of Khorasan.
To put it simply, it is important to flee for your life quickly, as long as you escape first to have a chance to turn the tables, if you resist on the spot, you will definitely be annihilated, there is no doubt about this.
The defense facilities of the large camp were quite good, although it was no longer possible to stop the enemy troops attacking from three sides, but it was impossible for the enemy troops to pour into the large camp from a few gates that were not too wide in an extreme time, which gave them a little time to retreat.
The leading generals gave an order to let some of the men and horses to block the enemy troops entering the camp, and let more men and horses retreat from the direction of Beizhai Gate, they have already observed, the enemy forces outside launched an attack from three directions, only the north has no enemy, in addition, they can only retreat from the north, in order to reach the nearest city in the rear more quickly, so as to facilitate the recovery of strength as soon as possible.
The armor is completely too late to wear, it can only be left for the attacking enemy army to make trophies, and the weapon can only be grabbed what is what, and if you don't grab it, you can only run away empty-handed, however, in order to escape faster, many soldiers rushed to the stable, ready to escape on horseback, however, because the enemy came too fiercely, they only had some generals and soldiers, and they could only have time to go to the stable to lead the horses, and most of the soldiers could only flee north on foot, and for a time the Beizhai gate was squeezed full.
The soldiers who were fortunate enough to squeeze out of the gate were running desperately, while the soldiers who did not escape from the gate were scolding their mothers, letting the soldiers in front of them run a little, and if they didn't run, they wouldn't be able to run away.
In order to avoid hurting their own people, all the firepower of the five artillery pieces was aimed at the Beizhai Gate where the enemy fled, making the fleeing soldiers miserable, and many soldiers were killed by shells before they escaped from the camp, and the scene suddenly became even more chaotic.
Fortunately, the direction of the North Zhaimen is facing its own opposite road, the defense is the weakest, and the standard of the walled wall is much lower than the rest of the directions, the soldiers are in a hurry to cut with swords, and the walled wall is knocked down, so that a large number of soldiers began to flee on a large scale, and the soldiers and generals on horseback can also escape faster.
There is also a thing that makes them happy, is that the Ottoman army that attacked the camp is not very active in killing the enemy, they only have some men and horses in front of the enemy in the camp to kill the enemy, and more men and horses are flocking to the camp grain depot, armory, soldiers' tents, and stables and other places, and these discarded items, as their own trophies, and even have begun to transport these materials, transport them back to their own camp, anyway, the enemy camp has a baggage cart, and these war horses can also be used to transport materials, in short, The main army under the command of the Ottomans was busy fighting for the spoils of war.
The soldiers and horses under the command of Artik received the order to kill and injure as much of the enemy's living force as possible, however, only the soldiers and horses under the direct jurisdiction of Artik can carry out the order well, more mercenary soldiers and horses, seeing the booty in the camp are unable to walk, where will they take care of what military orders, all run to grab the spoils, what is worth grabbing, gold coins and other items suitable for carrying, is the focus of these mercenaries to rob.
To the north were the fleeing Khorasan cavalry, followed by the pursuing 3,000 Artik men and horses, and 2,000 Ottoman troops, and the rest of the troops and horses were all in the enemy's camp to snatch the fruits of victory, even to the point of using force against each other for the spoils of war.
Fortunately, there are a lot of booty in the enemy's camp, and the strength of both sides is not weak, and it is the Mansur group that finally takes advantage of the fight, so after scaring each other, they will divide the spoils according to the number and strength of both sides, and the Ottoman legions have divided sixty percent of the spoils, while several mercenaries have shared less than forty percent of the loot, who makes them not a rope? It can only be a little less.
The fleeing Khorasan cavalry, looking at the five thousand soldiers and horses pursuing behind them, the pressure in their hearts was still very great, their armor did not have time to wear, the weapons were not very complete, and there were many empty men without weapons, who were not the opponents of the pursuers at all, the only advantage was that their weight was far inferior to that of the pursuers, and they ran more smoothly, while the well-equipped pursuers were not very fast because of their higher loads, which gave them the hope of escaping successfully.
In order to further increase their chances of escaping, some generals slashed and killed wounded soldiers along the way, letting the corpses of these soldiers block the pursuers behind, and some soldiers threw away the only gold coins and soft pieces on their bodies, so that the pursuers behind were busy picking up money, so as to slow down the pursuit of themselves and give themselves more chances to live.
In the face of life, everything has to give way, in order to save your life, you have to give up what you should give up, if you can't even save your life, then what do you keep money for, after life disappears, money becomes a meaningless thing.
Although it is night, the moonlight in the sky is still bright, and the gold coins scattered on the ground are still obvious, and the pursuing soldiers and horses have a heart of snatching after seeing the gold coins on the ground, and the discipline of these armies is not strong enough, so it is natural that the phenomenon of snatching gold coins will occur, and Artik personally supervises the army can not solve the problem of soldiers greedy for money.
Fortunately, however, Artik knew the details of the battle very well, and he knew that somewhere ahead, another group of Ottoman men and horses had already laid an ambush, and these routs were destined to be impossible to escape.
In the ambush to the north, the Ottomans scattered their 3,000 men and horses, 1,000 crossbows on the left side, 1,000 volts on the right side, 400 archers on each side, and finally 200 archers in the narrowest place to guard against the fish. Moreover, they also opened up a considerable distance to be able to attack more enemy soldiers at the same time, causing great results.
The fleeing Khorasan cavalry soon entered the Ottoman ambush circle, but they did not find themselves in the encirclement at all, and thought that they were about to get rid of the pursuers, after all, they saw that the pursuers were getting farther and farther away, and the gold coins thrown everywhere hindered the speed of the pursuers.
In a relatively open place in the ambush circle, the Khorasan cavalry stopped the rout, they were resting for a while, they were too tired to break all the way, they couldn't walk a little, and if they continued to walk hard, they would break their legs, they had to wait for the soldiers behind them, and then they would leave after the people gathered more.
Many soldiers with dry mouths took water from small puddles on the side of the road to quench their thirst, and many tired soldiers lay on the ground weakly, ignoring the dirt on the ground and the small insects that crawled into their bodies, as if none of this had anything to do with them.
Some of the wounded soldiers were busy tearing their clothes and bandaging their wounds.
The generals gathered to study which city to go to the north and who was responsible for the attack, and even angrily yelled at Osman and Artik for killing them.
A smile appeared on the corner of the mouth of the Osman who was ambushed halfway up the mountain, he was not in a hurry to attack, he had to wait a little longer, wait for more enemy soldiers in the ambush circle, and then suddenly launch a rain of arrows attack, so that he could get more results.
The pursuers were not very fast, but they were approaching step by step, so the soldiers who were resting could not stay long, and before the time had come, they got up again and prepared to go to the city to the north.
"General, they're leaving."
A sneer appeared at the corner of Osman's mouth, and he ordered: "Release the arrow immediately." ”
"Whoosh ......"
A large number of arrows flew quickly towards the enemy soldiers, leaving these newly relaxed soldiers facing the catastrophe of annihilation.
They really didn't expect that there would be ambushes halfway up the mountain on both sides, and besides, this ambush was quite patient, and they actually waited for a full moment before launching a surprise attack.
Because the frequency of shooting of the repeater crossbow is extremely high, this creates an illusion in the hearts of the attacked Khorasan soldiers, who always feel that there are tens of thousands of archers in ambush in the mountains on both sides, in fact, these crossbowmen are less than 3,000, but the excessively high frequency can indeed cause this effect, making people mistakenly think that there are huge archery armies on both sides.
The soldiers who fled did not have much combat effectiveness, many of them did not even have weapons, and those wearing armor were even rarer, how could a tired division in such a state withstand the attacks of a large number of bows and crossbows, after a few rounds of attacks, there were not many soldiers left who could still move, and the soldiers who had just arrived at the ambush were even more helpless, and they didn't know what to do.
The Ottomans immediately began to persuade the Khorasan soldiers to surrender immediately, and as long as they surrendered, they could have a chance to live.
With no way to escape, and fearing the large number of archers on both sides, the remaining soldiers, including the wounded, all surrendered, threw away all their weapons, raised their hands and surrendered, becoming Ottoman prisoners.
In this way, relying on a perfect ambush strategy, the Ottomans achieved great results, and these captured soldiers, as well as all the supplies carried by these soldiers, were all Ottoman's, and even the soldiers themselves had to become part of the Ottoman army.
Artik's men and horses soon caught up and joined the Ottoman ambush, and the two soon met.
Seeing Osman in military uniform, Artik knew that he had been deceived, this guy was obviously Osman himself, but he disguised himself as Osman's deputy, which was really not honest enough.
"City Lord, we meet again, this battle is really enjoyable, annihilating all the elite Khorasan cavalry, hahaha!"
Osman laughed very arrogantly.
Artik smiled faintly: "It turns out that you are the Ottoman general, but I was clumsy, and I didn't see it last time, which was disrespectful and disrespectful." ”
"It doesn't matter who it is, we're friends now, aren't we? I'm helping you fight the world, and you should thank me. ”
Osman said with a laugh.
Artik smiled: "I will remember the friendship of the Ottoman generals, when you run Egypt, if there is anything you need help, I will definitely do my best to help, hahaha!" ”
"Okay, great, with the words of the city lord, I am relieved, now that our army has won a great victory, we should immediately send troops to capture the city in the north, and use these captured armor and these surrendered soldiers to win the city gate, or we will occupy a city by ourselves, and then continue to attack and advance to the north."
Osman suggested.
Artik recognized it very much, took out a map, and said openly: "The main force of the Khorasan cavalry has been wiped out, and there is no strong enemy in the entire peninsula, since the Ottoman general is going to Egypt to develop, then, it is better to attack along the western city, all the way to the north, and then to the west to capture Egypt, while our army will take the eastern road to capture the eastern city, how about it?" ”
Osman laughed and said, "Okay, of course very good, as long as our army can gain a firm foothold in Egypt, we will gradually withdraw from the cities on the peninsula and give the peninsula to the city lord." ”
"Okay, let's straighten out the soldiers and horses! After an hour march, and before dawn they took a city each. ”
Altic gave his final opinion.
Uthman nodded in agreement, and immediately sent heralds to mobilize a large army to seize a city in the west, and at the same time, let the remaining soldiers and horses move all the booty and all the belongings of their own camp to a city in the northwest, and use this city as a base to develop all the way to the northwest, and finally occupy the land of Egypt.
Because both Ottoman and Artik carried out the task according to the strategy given by Ang Lee, therefore, the cities that Ottoman occupied on the peninsula in the early stage had to be returned to Artik in the later stage, so Ottoman was naturally unwilling to manage these occupied cities well, and was more willing to ask for the resources of these cities.
After the victory in the battle, the viewing group sent by Li An sent several people back to the city of Aden, ready to inform Li An of the detailed battle situation.
Because they couldn't disturb Li An's rest, the soldiers who reported the news could only tell the rest of the generals first, so that they could be happy first, and as for Li An, they would have to wait until they woke up.
"Twitter......"
As soon as he woke up early in the morning, Li An heard the chatter outside, although he didn't hear it clearly, but Li An knew that these guys must be talking about the battle situation last night.