However, the tone of the war was set from the very beginning, and Temujin had to defend.

In fact, Temujin had a deeper idea in it, which he never told anyone, including his closest generals and brothers. Temujin didn't feel the need to lose all his money in a war.

Temujin had already realized at this time that the war he was going to fight in the future would not stop this time, if he had exhausted all his belongings here, even if he could defeat Zamuhe, it would be a crushing victory, and in the end, both would be defeated, allowing the other tribes to choose the advantage. I have to defeat more enemies in the future, and the war in front of me is only one of them, so how can I stop here without taking a few steps? Therefore, he decided that it was not necessary to win this battle, but to keep the losses to a minimum.

The thought of the vulture-like eyes of his neighbor Lehan gave Temujin the feeling of a thorn in his back. He saw the other party's intentions very clearly. The reason why he supports himself as Khan is only because of everyone's recommendation and his own strength, which can be a help for him to dominate the grassland. Once his strength is lost in this war, then his face will be predictable.

"Someday, I'll fight against Kreyiti!" Thinking so, Temujin looked at the positions of his own army again, and found that the various Guleyan had been ravaged by the Zamu army to varying degrees, especially the several people who were in the vanguard, and they were even more devastating, showing the momentum of collapse.

"It's time to retreat." Mu Huali reminded in a whisper beside him.

Temujin nodded, raised his hand and waved it into the air, and the white man behind him began to slowly retreat, the trumpeter blew the horn, and the order to withdraw flew to all directions of the battlefield through the sound.

With the order to retreat, Temujin found that the morale of the troops had miraculously recovered, and they were full of vitality. This is like a retreat, it's clearly a posture of chasing the enemy. It can be said that he happily carried out his orders. Infected by this emotion, Temujin also had a wonderful mood in his heart:

"It seems that the result of the so-called defeat is not completely unacceptable." Temujin glanced one last time in the direction of the battlefield, then turned his horse's head and joined the retreating crowd.

When all the troops withdrew to the mouth of the valley, Temujin immediately ordered the self-troops who were still in full formation to set up a defense at the mouth of the valley, and completely sealed the mouth of the valley with the large trees cut down by the people who had withdrawn into the valley in advance, as a defensive barrier. The other units with heavy losses were ordered to rest and regroup on the spot. The old and weak women of the tribe were also mobilized to treat the wounded soldiers.

To Temujin's relief, his direct subordinate troops had hardly suffered any losses as they had fully carried out their intended war intentions, and the main generals had not been wounded.

However, the main beggar and other troops who fought the vanguard suffered heavy losses and almost collapsed. Among the generals, Altan, Taritai, and Sacha were also slightly wounded. This is also in line with the original purpose of cutting off the dissident by the hand of the enemy. These people thought that being a pioneer was both glorious and convenient for snatching property, but they never expected that they would end up stealing chickens and not eating rice.

However, even if these people understood it afterwards, they had nothing to say, who made them make an oath like "when we go out to fight, we will be your vanguard" when they were in Lihan?

As expected, the swampy terrain limited the speed of the Zamu's pursuit, giving Temujin's troops time to prepare calmly. When they pursued them to the mouth of the Jerek Valley, they were immediately met with strong resistance from Temujin's troops, and they became unable to move an inch. When Zamuhe's Chinese brigade arrived, it attacked for several more days, but because of the narrow terrain of the valley mouth, the troops could not deploy, and each charge could only leave a group of corpses on the slope in front of the valley mouth and return in vain.

"Temujin, you coward! If you have the ability, you will come out, and the real knife and gun will be compared! Why is it like a little lamb that has not grown up, hiding and not daring to make a sound? Zamuhe was very angry that he couldn't catch Temujin, but the successive failed attacks made him realize that this place was not suitable for continuing the attack, otherwise it would only increase casualties, so he could only scold Taniguchi, hoping that those people inside could not stand it and could rush out and fight with him.

However, Subutai, who was in charge of Taniguchi's defense, was not angry, but ordered his men to ask loudly, "If you are bold, come over and attack us." Doesn't Zamuhe like to attack? Could it be that his horse's hooves were entangled in his wife's belt? ”

The offensive and defensive sides fought back and forth for a long time, and it was not until the sun set that they stopped scolding. Seeing that this trick was ineffective, Zaki resumed his attack on the valley the next day. Unfortunately, for the Mongols, who are not good at attacking fortifications, it is more difficult to cross this valley than to ascend to the sky.

After three days of stalemate, Zamuhe became extremely agitated. In order to intimidate the defenders of the valley, he ordered seventy cauldrons to be set up in the open space in front of the valley mouth, and all the prisoners captured in the previous day's battle were thrown into it, boiled alive in boiling water, and then eaten at a public feast. He also tied the leader of the Wu tribe, Chahe'an Wu'a, who was unfortunately captured in front of the battle, to the front of the battle and beheaded, and then tied the head to his horsetail and galloped back and forth to drag it back and forth, until it became thin and could not see the original appearance, and the scene was very bloody for a while.

However, instead of frightening the Mongol army, this "masterpiece" on a whim aroused the anger of all the defenders, and everyone resisted even harder.

Moreover, Zamuhe did not notice that the chiefs of the tribes whom he had forced to eat the meat sauce cooked by his captives were resentful of this brutality, and many even openly displayed expressions of disgust on their faces, which had taken him by surprise and the windfall for Temujin shortly thereafter.

After all, although the other party is an enemy, everyone still has the most basic humanity in their hearts at this time, and if even the most basic humanity is extinguished, then it cannot be called a human being.

With the failure of a series of tactics such as assault, name-calling, and intimidation, Zamuhe's patience also reached its limit. He felt that he had punched the cotton sleeve with a hard punch, and there was nowhere to focus. The plan to swallow Temujin in one fell swoop with this battle was finally aborted, and although he was not reconciled, he could only order the army to retreat.