Despite being accompanied by six heavily armed knights, Haidar was extremely careful to stop within five of his opponent's horses.

Seeing the general wearing a strangely shaped cuirass on the opposite side walk forward a half-horse from the guard, Haidar grabbed the reins of his horse and shouted to him without moving: "Why did you Yarkand invade our country for no reason? If you lay down your arms and surrender to me now, I may let you go back alive..."

Ma Shouying watched the actions of this Andijan general, and his heart couldn't help but relax. Fortunately, these Andijanians are not all reckless people like yesterday, otherwise the other party will attack again like yesterday, and he will have to leave the camp and run away.

Although an Andijan attack was thwarted yesterday, the morale of the Yarkand army was not fully restored, but many emirs wanted to take advantage of the retreat of the Andijanians and advocated an overnight retreat to join the rear army.

The biggest problem with this kind of army composed of feudal lords is here, everyone can still obey the commander's orders when fighting a good battle, but once they encounter a defeat, the lords below want to withdraw from the battlefield first and save their own strength.

Outsiders like Ma Shouying, because of the favor of Kreqi Khan, were able to serve in the court of Yarkand, if in front of the Khan king, these emirs might still be afraid of him, but after staying away from the court, these emirs who were intertwined with each other began to reject him, intentionally or unintentionally.

Had it not been for the death of the commander-in-chief, and yesterday on the verge of total annihilation, the remaining emirs in the battalion would not have obeyed his orders. Now, relying on yesterday's victory, Ma Shouying has initially established his prestige in the army, but he still doesn't have so much confidence in wanting these emirs and Andijan's soldiers to fight hard.

Fortunately, he was not really a small businessman who came to Yarkand to do business and was favored by Kreqi Khan, as a spy sent by the Ming to the Yarkand Khanate to spy on intelligence, it was an accident to be favored by Kreqi Khan, and Daming was also happy to use this accident to install a person of his own by Kreqi Khan, so he still provided a lot of resources for Ma Shouying, so that he could gain a firm foothold in Yarkand Khan's country.

There were as many as 700 or 800 people who came to him in the name of Ma Shouying's relatives and fellow villagers, and these people included not only retired border soldiers, but also officers on active duty, as well as some talented people who had been trained in clerical and administrative affairs. It was with the help of these personnel that Ma Shouying was able to resist the attack of the eastern Yarkand Khan in Aksu and initially gain a foothold in the court of the Yarkand Khanate.

In addition to these personnel support, there is also a lot of material support, such as the 300 personal guards around Ma Shouying are equipped with the most advanced flintlock muskets and cuirasses of the Ming Dynasty, which resisted the impact of the Andijan Guards cavalry in yesterday's street battle, firmly sealed them in the alley, and finally turned into piles of barbecue.

In order to calm the emir in the camp, Ma Shouying also transferred his personal guards from the village to the first line of defense of the camp, which can be regarded as calming their desire to retreat.

In fact, Ma Shouying's grasp of this war was not much greater than that of the emirs, but as an outsider official of the Yarkand Khanate, he had previously assisted Kreich Khan in purging the nobles and Montenegrin priests in Yarkand City, which had already made him accumulate a lot of resentment among the emirs, and if he was defeated at this time, he felt that his fate was not much better than that of Shahbaz Berk, who died in battle.

It was precisely because he did not want to pin his fate on the game between Kreč Khan and those emirs that Ma Shouying firmly wanted to hold the camp and wait for the arrival of the rear army.

Ma Shouying looked at the other party and replied calmly: "The priests of your khanate instigated and Zhuoshadi to murder our ministers, and the khans and princes of your country humiliated the envoys of our khans and claimed to teach our country a lesson.

Setbacks on the battlefield are commonplace, and our army has indeed lost a few troops, but it is not enough to determine the outcome of the entire war, and it would be too arrogant for you to make us lay down our arms now. There are more than 200,000 strong men in the Yarkand Khanate, how many people do you have in a mere city of Andijan?

I would like to advise Your Excellency, that you should treat our captives well, and do not mistreat the corpses of our soldiers, so that when our army takes the city of Andijan, we will maintain the fear of the true God, otherwise..."

Ma Shouying suddenly stopped, and only let out a few sneers. But the threat in his words was heard by the guards and knights around Haidar, which made them stare at Ma Shouying and several of the guards behind him with fierce eyes, and two of them even pressed their hands on their blades, as if they wanted to make a move to leave the hateful Yarkand general behind.

The actions of the knights of the guards made Ma Shouying's personal soldiers also vigilant, and the atmosphere between the two sides suddenly became tense, as if they were going to make a move in the next moment. However, Haidar stared at Ma Shouying, who looked relaxed without saying a word, and became more and more suspicious of what kind of trap Ma Shouying had set in the camp to provoke him.

And Ma Shouying's words also made him listen to it a little, and Andijan City was able to put together 4,000 cavalry with all its might, and the rest were civilians with no combat experience. The force in his hand is almost two-thirds of the standing force of Andijan, and Babur's defeat yesterday has already made the city of Andijan lose one-eighth of its strength, and if he attacks the Yarkand camp, even if he defeats this camp, it will be more than worth the loss.

As the other side said, after all, Andijan was only a border city of the Bukhara Khanate, and this was a war between the Yarkand Khanate and the Bukhara, not a war between Andijan and the Yarkand Khanate. If Andijan's strength is consumed in the battle against the Yarkand Khanate, who is the happiest? I am afraid that first of all the Burke of Kokand City, they have one less opponent for the leadership of the region; The second is the princely ministers of Bukhara, how can they not be happy if a war can eliminate two thorns in their eyes.

After pondering it repeatedly, Haidar finally opened his mouth to break the suffocating atmosphere and said: "Your courage is really amazing, but has the courage of the Yarkand people run to your mouth?" I didn't see the Yarkands yesterday taking the city of Andijan, and they fled as fast as the rabbits on the Alai hills.

But you are right to say that the bodies of the dead should not be humiliated, and that even if we continue to fight, we should return the bodies of those warriors to their families.

I swear in the name of the true God that if you are willing to return to us the bodies of those who died yesterday in our army, then I will also return to you the bodies of Shahbaz Burk. And, after I have taken this great battalion, all those who are willing to lay down their arms and surrender will receive my forgiveness..."

Ma Shouying was right at Haidar's proposal, but he did not agree immediately, but asked the other party to return the bodies of all the dead in the war. The two negotiated for a full hour before deciding to exchange the bodies of Shahbaz Berk and the other Yarkand nobles who had been killed in battle for the bodies of the knights of the Guards who had been burned to death.

returned to the formation of Haidar, while ordering his subordinates to prepare for the exchange of corpses; At the same time, he ordered his subordinates to search for the local villagers, to find out the terrain in the camp and the path leading to the back of the village.

As for Ma Shouying, who returned to the camp, in addition to welcoming the cheers of the crowd again, he further arranged for the manpower to build the defense facilities in the camp to prevent the other party from launching a surprise attack after the corpse exchange was completed.

After settling down the affairs at hand, Ma Shouying was also exhausted for a while. As a border soldier in Shaanxi, he did not have a good impression of the Ming court. The imperial court was in arrears of military salaries, and officials deducted money and grain, so that the Shaanxi border army was once in arrears for as much as ten months.

Not to mention, when the border army in Shaanxi kept defaulting on military salaries, the imperial court also collected Liao salaries in severely affected places like Shaanxi, which aroused the anger of the soldiers and civilians at the bottom. Everyone is defending the country and defending the border, why can the Liaoxi Army get full salary, and they have been defeated repeatedly, because they have nothing to do with defending the border of Shaanxi, they will be owed military salaries.

If it weren't for the beginning of the first year of Chongzhen, the new emperor would have carried out a large-scale cleanup of the arrears of the border army and saved the hearts of many border troops. I am afraid that the uprising of the displaced people in Shaanxi in the third year of Chongzhen is not so small, and it is precisely because the border army that saw hope was stabilized under the pacification of the imperial court, and the uprising of Gao Yingxiang, Wang Er and others was finally suppressed by the imperial court officials and soldiers.

Ma Shouying was one of the few soldiers who broke away from the border army to participate in the uprising, but the defeat and killing of Gao Yingxiang and others made him realize that the Ming Dynasty's qi was not exhausted, so he chose to obey the order of the imperial court and move to the Hehuang Valley. Because of his ability and eloquence, coupled with his religious background, he was favored by Shangguan and turned from a reclamation officer under residential surveillance to a spy merchant sent to the Yarkand Khanate.

It should be said that Ma Shouying did not let go of his resentment against the court at the beginning. But after leaving the border, he had to put aside this resentment for the time being. Because outside the borders, he was an outsider no matter where he was, and without the support of the imperial court, he would have been eaten by those emirs long ago, and there were no bones left.

And after he initially mastered a little power in the Yarkand Khanate, he hoped to get the help of the imperial court, so that he could hold more power in the Yarkand Khanate. At this time, his resentment towards the court gradually disappeared, and a closeness to the court arose in his heart.

The war against the Bukhara Khanate was not only the war that the Yarkand Khanate and the Ming wanted, but also the war that Tama Shouying wanted. Only in such a war was he able to get past those emirs and really take root in the Yarkand Khanate.

How could he give up the bright future that he had struggled with his life. Ma Shouying's delaying tactics did not disappoint him, and after the two armies exchanged corpses, the rear army finally arrived in the afternoon.

Hearing the cheers erupting from the Yarkand camp, Haidar finally realized that he seemed to be missing something. However, he was more knowledgeable than his younger brother, and when he realized that the Yarkand reinforcements had arrived, he ordered a retreat and gave up his plan to attack the Yarkand camp.

The ensuing war will depend on whether the Bukhara army can arrive before the Yarkand army captures the city of Andijan.