A cold wind swept the dead leaves, the ground swirled and rolled, and there was a silence everywhere.

The garrison outside the city has been completely broken.

Although there are really a lot of troops guarding the Eight Thorns Sand Roll.

The 30,000-strong main force of the Eastern Kara itself, which brought together the best of the Guards, the Standing Army, and the Iqtar Cavalry, was the basic strength of Ibrahim Khan and the foundation of his rule.

With the tens of thousands of elite soldiers sent by Karim Hassan, it is a pity that there are no soldiers and horses of the Qarluqs, otherwise it is the great united front of the entire Eastern Kara - all forces gather together, and the people of all ethnic groups like to be united.

Then there were the reinforcements sent by the Western Karama Heimu, the reinforcements sent by the Seljuks, the reinforcements sent by the Ghaznavids.

When the three parties gather in one place, the elite force is roughly more than 10,000 people, and more are irregular forces led by the elder group.

The Seljuks had the least number of troops, and even these centaurs were mostly drawn from the Flowery Zim. But the Seljuk general Buhari is the well-deserved leader of this force.

For both Sikara and Ghaznavid were subjects of the Seljuks.

The Ghaznavid dynasty was another important celestial kingdom in Central Asia in modern times. At its peak, it controlled most of Persia, parts of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, and northern parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tianzhu, forming a powerful centralized military feudal empire.

But it flourished and declined, and more than a hundred years ago, the division and chaos of its royal family caused the empire to irreversibly decline. Especially in the Battle of Dandankan, the Ghaznavids were defeated, and Tugril Beg led the Seljuks to march into Western Asia, stepping on the shoulders of the Ghaznavids and establishing the powerful Great Seljuk Dynasty.

The Ghaznavid Dynasty fell into a long period of decline, gradually losing a large territory in Persia and Central Asia, Khorasan and Khorezm fell into the hands of the Seljuk Empire one after another, and a number of independent small dynasties began to appear in the Tianzhu region.

But even after seventy or eighty years of decay, the Ghaznavid dynasty was still an important force in Central Asia.

Until more than ten years ago, when the Central Plains was still under the reign of Emperor Huizong, another battle for the throne caused the Ghaznavid kingdom to decline again. Bahram Shah bowed to the Seljuk Empire in exchange for reinforcements from the Seljuk Sultan Sanjar, and eventually defeated several of his brothers and became the Sultan of Ghaznavid. But then Bahram rashly decided to break away from the Seljuk control, but was defeated by the Seljuks, and the Ghaznavid dynasty was further weakened, not to mention that it became a vassal state of the Seljuks completely.

In this battle, the situation obviously has little to do with the Ghaznavids, but the troops dispatched by the Ghaznavid Dynasty are the largest reinforcements from the Three Kingdoms, accounting for as much as half of the total, more than the elite mobilized by the cold-mouthed Xikara.

The Ghaznavids were not willing, but who made them defeat in the first place? Bahrum did not dare to disobey Sanjar's orders.

There were 20,000 or 30,000 reinforcements from the three sides, elite and miscellaneous soldiers, but following in their footsteps, there were more civilian forces that flocked to the Eight Thorns Sand Roll under the slogan of 'high praise'.

The two are added together, and there are 70,000 if not 80,000!

In this way, counting the foundation of Ibrahim Khan, the Eight Thorns Sand Roll is enough to have an army of 100,000.

And what about the irregular armed forces in the Eastern Kara at the end?

Under the call of Ibrahim Khan, in the face of the crisis of the country's demise, many elders from all over the country led the militia to arrive.

The whole of Dongkala was mobilized under the banner of 'Shengzan', and a large number of civilian armed forces gathered, some of which had been wiped out in the previous battles, but there were still 50,000 or 60,000 people who had gathered in the eight-thorn sand roll.

In other words, the entire Eight Thorn Sand Roll has now gathered 167,000 horses, which is definitely an astronomical number for Central Asia!

It's a pity that most of them are undisciplined rabble, no matter how brave they are, they are as vulnerable as bubbles in the face of the Song army's medicinal powder and strong bows.

In the midst of the roaring explosions, the militiamen who were deployed to camp outside the city to defend the main city (Eight Thorns and Sand Roll) were like sparrows seeing an artillery battle, and they had no resistance at all.

Defeated by Gao Changbing and Saibei Rangers and fled!

At this time, the camp of the Tianfang camp outside the city had been broken, and looking out from the head of the Eight Thorns Sand Rolling City, the black pressure outside was full of the banners of the Song army and the vassal soldiers and horses, dense layers. The barracks formed a huge chain, completely chaining the Eight Thorns Sand Rolling City to death.

Ibrahim stood at the head of the city and looked out over the east, his face as gloomy as water, and his heart as calm as water.

He will not have a heartache for those dead militiamen.

As a wise man, as a former king, he knew very well how unpopular a man with two ends of the ladder was.

Ibrahim always reminds himself that he is a person who has already made a choice, and if he has made up his mind, he must be categorical, and he must not store those superfluous 'kindness'!

There is no doubt that the Great Song Dynasty wanted to rule the Eastern Kara and get rid of some of the staunchest opposition.

Those who died, the kara people they died were valuable and meaningful.

They used their own deaths to bid farewell to the past of the Dongkala, so that the remaining Dongkala people could "better" welcome the arrival of the new era. At the same time, their death also allowed the Dongkala people to maintain their backbone and dignity. It's a dedication to all the Donkala people!

Return to the royal palace in the city.

Ibrahim's ears seemed to be faintly recalling the inhalations of the soldiers, the low voices of discussion.

The Song army did not attack the city, but even so, standing at the head of the city, he could clearly feel that the courage of the soldiers was declining.

In the main hall, the elders, nobles, Dongkhara, Xikara, and even the Ghaznavids, everyone was already arguing, and Ibrahim had a headache for a while.

The man leaned into the large ornate chair, and a palace man waited for the opportunity to get behind him and gently massage Ibrahim's head.

Ibrahim's health has not been very good in recent times because of the mental stress, and one of the most obvious features is that he often has headaches.

Probably because of the comfort of being massaged, Ibrahim's eyes were half-squinted, and everyone was about to fall asleep.

Bukhari of the Seljuk was like a wooden man, not saying a word.

What do you say?

In the final analysis, these quarrels were directed at Ibrahim's 'sticking' decision.

As the Song army approached more and more, the severe cold and wind and snow in winter did not defeat them, and the voices of 'moving the capital' and 'leaving the green mountains without worrying about no firewood' became louder and louder in the city.

No one is not afraid of death, is there?

Especially after the two cities of Saike and Jile were broken by the Song army in turn, the restlessness in the Eight Thorns Sand Rolling City was even greater.

The Song people's firearms are sharp, and when they are put in the heavenly world, this is completely a dimensionality reduction blow. Bullying people is not such a bullying method.

A city wall that was blown down without paying attention was blown up, so how could they defend it?

Unless it was a great god descending from the earth, they didn't win a chance at all.

And what about taking a step back?

Of course, the vital place of the Eight Thorns Sand Roll is lost, but there are other lands in Dongkala.

Without the eight-thorn sand roll, there is also Talus, and you can even run Shule.

For those who are bent on escaping from the Eight Thorns Sand Rolling City, they don't care if Talas and Shulean are not safe, whether they have a future or not, now they are the first to escape from the Eight Thorns Sand Roll!