Chapter 167: Thirst

Arslen Khan saw that although the tribal leaders did not help Sud, it did not mean that they did not agree with Sud's idea. Now that the tribes are like arrows, if they hadn't failed in this battle with Jia Ke, maybe they would still be able to accept the attack on Xuanfu Town and obtain greater wealth. But now it is impossible to break through Xuanfu Town, so the tribes have no intention of fighting any further, and they all think that if they continue to fight, it will only increase casualties.

Arslen Khan is also thinking this way now, there is no need to fight any further, and it seems that the main offensive direction chosen in the past two years has been wrong. With Jia Ke in this direction, it cannot be used as the main assault target at all. However, attacking from other places could not threaten the foundation of the Southern Dynasty, so they could only make a small fuss and rob some things back.

And they are not in harmony with the tribes, and they can't be united, if these troops are all under his command, then if they want to get water, they will send a large army together, and Jia Ke can't help him. It's just a loss of manpower. But now that the tribes don't want to lose their soldiers and horses, then he can't send his cronies to go, otherwise he won't be able to suppress the steppe tribes in the future.

Arslen Khan felt how correct he had been, that there were these tribal leaders in the city as-stirring sticks. He will never be able to unify the steppe, and he will never be able to pose a real threat to the Southern Dynasties.

This time he could not compromise any longer, and it seemed that he would have to talk to the high priest when he returned. Otherwise, if this continues, the grassland will always be a plate of scattered sand.

The tribal leaders all looked at Arslen Khan at this time, waiting for him to make a final decision.

Arslen Khan pondered the current situation carefully, and finally said to the people: "If we retreat now as soon as we lose the battle, we will lose our courage in the future." And the people of the Southern Dynasties will lose their reverence for us. So I don't think we can retreat right now. From tomorrow onwards, the tribes will attack the city separately, and the others will guard Jaco. We will attack the city for another three days, and if we can't capture Xuanfu Town in three days, we will retreat to the grassland. If we can capture Xuanfu Town in three days, we will grab it in the city for three days, and then retreat. What do you think? ”

When the tribal leaders heard what he said, they were reasonable, and they had already considered both the attack and the retreat, so they all agreed.

Then there is the choice of candidates for the siege, if anyone would arrange to attack the city before, they would definitely sigh unlucky, and even work hard. But this time was different, and all the tribal leaders rushed to attack the city.

If Arslen Khan had seen this a day ago, he would have been relieved. But now he has a new perspective on these old foxes, who are shameless with these old foxes.

This is obviously a fear of warning Jia Ke that there will be another battle, but his own tribe has suffered heavy losses. Although there were some losses in the siege, Xuanfu Town was now at the end of the crossbow, and it was easier than fighting against Jia Ke.

In the end, Arslen Khan made a decision that the twenty-eight tribes of Tatar would divide one-third of the day to attack Xuanfu Town, and all the others would be on alert. As for the order of siege, it was decided by lot, which pacified them.

And Jia Ke did not disappoint their hopes, and from the next day he sent cavalry to roam around the Tatar camp.

As soon as they were found out of the camp to fetch water, he led a large group of cavalry to come and hunt down all the people who were fetching water. As a result, water became more and more difficult in the Tatar camps, and their numbers were so great that they had to make sure that the horses had water as much as possible, and the men could only hold on a little longer, but thirst was not so good to persevere.

The Tatars were forced to attack the city in such a situation, and there were already many complaints. When people don't have food, they can hold on for a while, but once there is no water, I'm afraid they won't be able to last even a day or two, so a dramatic scene happened.

Jia Ke was patrolling the vicinity of the Tatar camp with his cavalry yesterday, when suddenly the gate of the Tatar barracks opened, and one or two thousand cavalrymen ran out of it.

Jia Ke couldn't help but admire them in his heart at this time, he was beaten so badly, and he didn't drink water for a few days, these Tatars still dared to come out of the camp to fight, I don't know which tribe's warriors this is. When he fights for a while, give him a good time, which can be regarded as a reward for his bravery.

But what Jia Ke didn't expect was that these cavalry came to Jia Ke's army and did not charge. Instead, they collectively dismounted and knelt down beside the horse, this situation completely stunned Jia Ke, and nothing like this had happened in the past.

Jia Ke hurriedly sent a bold cavalryman to ask what was going on. After a while, the cavalryman came back, and when he saw Jia Ke, he replied, "General, these people are here to surrender." I hope that the general will take them in later, and they are willing to be the general's slaves. ”

Jia Ke was completely shocked by them this time, he didn't expect such a thing to happen, when the two sides were fighting, the side with a large number of people actually ran out with a group of people and surrendered to the side with fewer people.

Jia Ke asked in disbelief: "Are you sure they are telling the truth, or are you here to deceive us, so that they should come to attack us?" ”

The soldier touched his head, and Jia Ke said: "General, I think what they said should be true, I look at their appearance, they haven't drunk water for several days, and they are all about to deform." Besides, they were originally slaves of a tribe, and now they surrender, just change their masters, and there is not much psychological pressure. ”

When Jia Ke heard him say this, he felt that it was very reasonable, but he could not take it lightly, so he ordered them to be sent to the prisoner camp, but they were to be separated from the other prisoners.

So from the moment Jake blockaded the Tatar camp and cut off their water supply, the Tatars kept coming to surrender. By the third day, Jia Ke had accepted almost 10,000 men, not only with horses, weapons, but even their own food, as long as they could surrender all these to Jia Ke, it seemed that thirst was indeed suffocating them to madness.

And Arslen Khan is also at a loss in the tent, and today is the third day. According to the agreement, the tribes should be ready to retreat.

In the past few days, the tribes have been driven crazy, and they are weak one by one when they are attacking the city. On the contrary, the people defending the city in Xuanfu Town wanted to fight one by one, and the morale of both sides was diametrically opposite to that of the previous two days. How can this situation be fought?

What made Arslen Khan even more annoyed was that in the past few days, there have been Tatars who have come to the camp of Jake with equipment and food to surrender. Because almost every time they are asked to guard the gate of the village, the next day there will be no one left, and they will all surrender to the opposite side. Now the guards are all the cronies of Arslen Khan, but that's it, it has happened several times that ordinary soldiers have gathered to attack the gate and want to escape.

Arslen Khan had no choice but to punish them too much, because there was too little water to do so, and the leaders like them had not yet felt anything, and there was still some water to drink, although it was already a little stinky. But it's okay to boil it.

And those ordinary soldiers, almost all of them have not drunk water for two or three days, and everyone drinks horse urine, and then there is no horse urine, because there is no drinking water for the horses. The ordinary soldiers below have been driven crazy by thirst, and some of them even secretly killed people to drink blood, compared to these people, it is not a big deal to sneak to Jia Ke to surrender.