[And then there's.] 】

Yusup Kashgari was looking at the sky with the clairvoyant mirror that had been captured from the scouts of the Maqin people in the past two days.

The enemy on the opposite side claimed to be the Song people, from the east of Ma Qin, that is, Taohuashi. For hundreds of years, it had not been heard of the Maqin army being able to rule the Uighurs again, and now that they were on the border of Kashgar, their sworn enemies for many years must no longer exist.

This was confirmed before Essien's defeat. In addition, the cultists who have been driven out of their homes these days, as well as the mouths of the captured scouts, have confirmed the correctness of this news.

Esin, who fled back, wept bitterly in front of Bogda Khan, saying that there were too many Maqins. He only took 6,000 men out of the country, but he ran into a full 50,000 Maqin and Uighurs, and after killing most of them, he himself suffered heavy casualties and had to flee back.

Essien is an incompetent and liar-mouthed villain, and the number of enemy troops, and the number of enemies he kills, is just a lie that he covers up his incompetence. But there were many people who fled back, and he didn't dare to talk nonsense about how the Ma Qin people defeated him.

The powerful cross bow and the one-man high broadsword dismounted and fought on foot after encountering the enemy, forming the appearance of Ma Qin's army. This is exactly what happened to the enemy forces that appeared in front of Kashgar, with the infantry in the center as the core.

Being able to send troops on an expedition to the Uighurs, it seems that the Ma and Qin people no longer worry about the party and the Qin people.

Kashgari knew a lot because he had a cousin who was a scholar and wrote a lot of books, and was highly regarded by the Great Khan and even the caliph of Baghdad. But in the family, in Kashgar [Shule], in Balasagon [Black Khan Capital], he is more prestigious. Because he has soldiers in his hands, he is the most trusted general of Bogda Khan.

Qin is the Khitan, and Ma Qin and Taohuashi are the Great Song Dynasty, which is the name of the Turkic people for the two great powers of the East [Note 1]. And his lord claimed to be the lord of the East and Qin, and called himself Peach Blossom Khan - Hassan Peach Blossom Stone Bogda Khan, who would shine the sun blessed by Allah in every corner of the East, which was the dream of successive khans.

Khotan had already been conquered, followed by the Uighurs, the Dangxiang, and then the ultimate targets, the Khitan and Taohuashi, that is, Qin and Ma Qin. Across the sea is Chapalkha [i.e., Japan], which will be left to posterity to conquer. However, the Qin people and the Ma Qin people definitely did not like such ideals.

Reflected in the clairvoyant mirror, several hideous grimaces on the round airbags made Kashgar feel funny.

Perhaps the Maqin people felt that it could be used to scare the enemy. But that kind of thing can only scare the ignorant infidels.

How can the people of the Land of Allah's blessing, whose minds have been taught by the Prophet, be frightened by toys that frighten the infidels.

Moreover, those Uighur merchants had brought the Maqin spaceship to Barasagon two years earlier and presented it to Bogda Khan.

According to the Uighur trader. The emperor of the Ma Qin people, in order to fight against the powerful Qin people, let the smartest minister of the court invent a spaceship, buy off the traitorous ministers in the Qin state, and dedicate it to the emperor of the Qin people. The emperor of the Qin people did not know that there was a deception, and when he was riding a spaceship, he fell from the sky and fell to his death.

And that clever minister also invented a cure for smallpox. Just last year, smallpox seedlings were smuggled to Barasagon by a large food merchant by bribing the doctor in charge of pox to plant cowpox for the khan and his princes.

Every year, Uighur merchants went to the East to pay tribute under the guise of the Khan. The stupid Han emperors regarded the greedy merchants as official envoys, and the fabricated national letters as genuine, rewarding them with large quantities of silk and porcelain. Let their camels be overwhelmed. No one cares what the merchants did, they just come back and pay their taxes. And the new things they brought back in the past two years are even more surprising.

Although it was a pagan thing, the Prophet also said that he would go to the East to seek knowledge.

On the battlefield in the distance, there was the sound of whining horns.

Kashgar turned his gaze to look over.

Fang Cai's attack failed. It was the Maqin people who dug a trap in the ground. The snow is not thick enough to cover the potholes in the ground. But this time the attack failed again, and it seemed that he had been knocked out of the head by the catapult, and he retreated again.

However, the army composed of the Oghuz barbarians, as well as the Kangli and Kimaks, did not suffer many casualties in Kashgar Geri's mind. As long as the Ghulam and Iqtar armies are fine.

With heavy and solid armor, it can block the bow and crossbow of the Song people, and with the same heavy and strong iron hammer, it can knock open the armor on the Song people.

Two thousand-strong Ghulam guards, along with nearly nine thousand Iqta cavalry, were enough to send the Song and Uighurs to Hell for the infidels.

Kashgar Geri put down the clairvoyant mirror and sent more than a dozen heralds one after another, letting them go everywhere. He now likes this trophy more and more, it will allow him to control the situation better. The next time he has the chance, he can try the spaceship again, but on the airbag of the ship, he will only let the crescent moon shine in all directions.

But now, it's time to get moving.

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Before they could engage head-on, the first wave of attacks by the Black Khans was resolved.

But that's just a temptation. You can see it just by the outfit. The light cavalry, which did not even have much armor, only had the role of harassment on the battlefield, and in the face of a solid military formation, it would only break their teeth.

Wang Sunsin was staring at the reaction of the coach opposite.

Black Khan's light cavalry was trying to attack the eastern and western fortifications. After their probing, they found that there were no traps on the way to the barracks. However, it was quickly dispersed by the thunderbolt throwing stones, and more than 100 people were injured. There is only one way in the front, and after the thunderbolt is aimed, there is no need to adjust it.

But the armored cavalry with the name Ghulam on the front did not move on. It stopped one hundred and forty or fifty paces in front of the formation.

Wang Sunchen snorted heavily.

That was the best sprint distance for heavy cavalry. Far away, the horsepower drops, the speed slows down. When it is close, it is too late to increase the speed to the maximum, and the formation is not adjusted in time, and it will be harassed by bows and arrows. It's only going to be a lot of experience. Sure enough, it's a rare elite.

Judging from the attire, one-third of the more than 30,000 people on the opposite side can be elite.

According to Wang Sunchen's inquiry, one Gulam and one Iqta were both heavy cavalry.

All the standard equipment, the uniformity of the battle armor is the Black Khan Khan's Ghulam personal guards, and the remaining ironclad cavalry, the style of armor is different. Apparently recruited from various tribes, the Iqta cavalry. Maybe there is some difference in combat power, and some of the war horses are also armored, and some are not, but they are all heavy cavalry.

The remaining two-thirds were all supporting the scene, similar to the Uighur army under his command, perhaps not as good.

But the 10,000 heavy cavalry is already very impressive. In the past, even the Great Song Dynasty couldn't come up with tens of thousands of heavy cavalry for a while - where are there so many good horses? can carry hundreds of catties of iron armor and people, such horses are only available in the Western Regions. Only by destroying the Western Xia and opening the passage to the Western Regions did the good horses in the army gradually increase. The thousands of armored cavalry under Wang Sunchen's command will now be all tall and long-legged good horses in the Western Regions.

In other words, as long as this 10,000 heavy cavalry is defeated, the rest will be settled.

A soldier is an elite soldier, and it depends on the ability of the opposing coach.

The position where the Ghulam guards stopped was still within the range of the Divine Arm Bow. With the equipment on their bodies, the Divine Arm Bow would not pose any threat at that distance. And the Iqta heavy cavalry, which followed up, stopped at the positions on both flanks, and also did not come up.

The soldiers sent the scouts on the spaceship with newly observed information, and after reading it, Wang Sunsin once again clenched the note tightly in his hand.

The Black Khans had already begun to build camps in their rear. The result of the delay was that they were able to set up camp without any problems.

Once there was a camp of the Black Khan army in the vicinity of the city, it was difficult for the officers and troops to bypass and attack the large camp in the rear, while the Black Khan army could attack from the nearest place when it wanted to attack the city, avoiding the need to travel several miles.

The new camp was a mile and a half away, and it was the perfect location. This is to force Wang Sunchen to stop it, let the army go to war, and stay away from the walled city behind it.

'To the sake of the general, to the man, but not to the man'.

Wang Sunsin read softly, handed the note to his soldiers to put away, and grabbed a handful of soybeans from the saddlebag and stuffed it to his old horse.

Hu Rendang did not understand "Sun Tzu's Art of War", but he was not stupid enough to rely on the superiority in military strength to press on a large scale, but chose to suppress people with power, which shows that he is also a good general.

However, it is freezing cold, and if you want to repair a camp, it will take at least two hours, and you don't have to be in such a hurry.

From the cavalry on both flanks of the Han army, two teams of soldiers with a big axe in one hand and a bow in the other came out. They all walked carefully on the snow after dismounting to avoid potholes under their feet. If it hadn't snowed again two days ago, they would have moved a little faster. But it was enough for them to catch up with the Black Khans who had not yet had time to flee back and were struggling on the ground.

First, he shot at close range with his bow and then chased after him and cut off his head with an axe. Not only the Han army camp on the front, but also the camps on the east and west sides have opened small doors, and a group of soldiers who dare to fight have come out to harvest the heads.

Human heads hung from the tips of their guns, and trees were in the middle of the two armies. Not only the demonstration, but also informed the Black Khans that no traps had been set in front of the military formation.

The elite of the Black Khan people, as Wang Sunchen wished, really dispatched. However, not the most elite Ghulam guards, but the Iqtar heavy cavalry.

A team of 1,000 people, equipped with all kinds of iron armor, but all of them were elite and skilled Ikta cavalry, slowly left their previous position. At the orders of the commanders and centurions, one of the warriors pulled down their helmets and began to charge.

Iron hooves kicked away the snow in front of them. In the blink of an eye, the Iqta cavalry was drawn into several horizontal rows, and the long iron spears pointed far ahead. Snowflakes scattered in front of and behind them, like waves of white flowers, rushing towards the Han army.

The earth trembled, and even the charge of the group of light cavalry that was far superior in numbers before did not have such an earth-shattering momentum.

Wang Sunchen looked at the rear of the 'waves', and the old horse of Hexi under his crotch was chewing soybeans, one man and one horse, all of them turned a blind eye to the onslaught of the enemy.

If it was that group of Ghulam guards, if it weren't for the armor-piercing crossbow and the special armor-piercing arrows, it would be really a bit of trouble. However, the current team of heavy cavalry with unarmored horses is enough to deal with it.

Note 1: Peach blossom stone is a transliteration, which is the name given to China by the Turks and Arabs in the Middle Ages. There is a theory that it was named after the Tuoba clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and another theory is that the Han people who conquered the Western Regions during the Tang Dynasty claimed to be the son of the Tang family. In addition, in the Great Dictionary of the Turkic People, which came out in the 11th century, the Khitan and Song are also referred to as Qin and Ma Qin.

Note 2: The Great Khan of the Black Khanate, also known as the Great Khan of the Qarakhanid, claimed to be the lord of the East and Qin. As for the history of the Song Dynasty, it is claimed that the Black Khanate once sent an envoy to China in the fourth year of Yuanfeng, and in the name of 'the Black Khan King of Khotan's minions and grammar', he claimed that Shenzong was 'the uncle of the Han family, the landlord of the great world of the sunrise in the east', and the author guesses that it was a national document forged by a great food merchant. The Chinese emperor is called an uncle's great official because the Khotanese king Wei Chisheng once married the daughter of Li Tangzong, so his descendants can compare themselves to their nephews and call the Chinese emperor by their uncle. The khans of the Qarakhanid were the conquerors of Khotan, so how could they depreciate themselves and use the name of the king of Khotan to worship Song Shenzong?