Chapter 499: The Conquest of Bolgar
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In the steppe where the Bolgar Khanate is located, the ice and snow have not yet melted, but the Rouran Army of the Chinese Empire has already fought with the Bolgar Khanate several times.
However, it was repeatedly blocked by heavy snow, so it did not completely engage in a major decisive battle with the army of the Bolgar Khanate.
But as the weather gradually improved, and the heavy snow drifting in the sky gradually lightened, and when the general Zien saw this scene, he knew that the opportunity to decide whether the Bolgar Khanate would survive or die was coming.
However, Zien did not immediately send troops to attack the army of the Bolgar Khanate, he was waiting for the arrival of the general of Zhengdong, Dream Lionheart.
Zien is now as stable as a mountain, and he will not take the risk of sending troops casually.
Zien was waiting for Dream Lionheart's army to join his side, and then pushed the Bolgar Khanate's army with more than half the strength of the Bolgar Khanate.
Qi En is not young now, and since his son Qi Yi is taking risks, he can't take risks like Qi Yi.
Not to mention whether the body and bones can hold up, the consequences of failure alone are not acceptable to Qi En.
And he had no intention of leading his army to destroy the Bolgar Khanate.
Even if Qi En hadn't read a book before, Qi En had read some of the books since he joined the Huaxia Empire.
Qi En still understands the truth of the bird's bow and hides, although Gao Yang Yajun, the Holy Son of Heaven of the Chinese Empire, is not necessarily that kind of person.
But there are no absolutes in the world, Qi En has enough credit now, and even his son Qi Yi has a great merit, if nothing else, Qi Yi's post-war title should be the same as Qi En.
It can even be higher than Qi En, and in this way, Qi En has no need to monopolize the credit at all.
Now the Holy Son of Heaven Gao Yang Yajun dispatched the general of Zhengdong Meng Shixin to come over, and Qi En gladly accepted.
His army and Dream Lionheart's army share the credit, and Qi En is naturally happy, and the relationship between Dream Lion Heart and Qi En has always been good.
It's normal that all the cavalry under the command of both sides are cavalry, but the cavalry of Dream Lionheart is different from Zien's cavalry.
Qi En's cavalry is mainly cavalry shooting, supplemented by iron cavalry collision, and Dream Lionheart is mainly based on iron cavalry trampling and collision, supplemented by cavalry archery.
It can be seen from this that the two sides are not in conflict, so they naturally have no contradictions.
However, Dream Lion Heart didn't know what Qi En was thinking, and when Gao Yang Yajun sent him to cooperate with Qi En, Dream Lion Heart was still worried about whether he would make Qi En resentful.
Will Qi En think that he is going to grab the credit, so Meng Lionheart also specially wrote a letter and sent it to Qi En in advance to explain that he did not mean to take the credit.
And the reason why he went north to assist Qi En was because of the request of His Majesty the Son of Heaven, which he did not know about before, and he asked General Rouran for forgiveness when everything happened suddenly.
It seems that Dream Lionheart has no courage to write this letter to Qi En, in fact, Dream Lion Heart and Qi En's official rank and title are the same.
There is no need for him to curry favor with Qi En, but after all, he is an official in the same dynasty, and there is no need for Meng Lionheart to offend Qi En.
What's more, Mengshi can be regarded as half of Qi En's disciple, after Qi En joined the Huaxia Empire, he led his fellow clansmen to teach the Huaxia Empire army cavalry archery.
It can be said that 80% of the cavalry shooting of the Chinese Imperial Army was learned by relying on Qi En's teachings.
Therefore, Dream Lionheart still respects Qi En more in his heart, and Qi En never hides his secrets when he teaches them, which can be seen from the habits of the Rouran Army.
The Rouran Army, both in war and peacetime training, used the tactics that were originally handed over to the Huaxia Empire, and of course they were not complacent.
It's because their tactics have been improving, and every time they improve their tactics, they will hand over a blueprint to the Huaxia Military Department.
Although the Rouran army was supplemented by a collision, it was generally impossible for them to collide, and when they started the war, they did not come first to rush, but lined up and began to hunt and shoot.
The Eastern Army was different, they generally started a surprise attack, starting with a collision and ending with an arrow.
It can be said that the Rouran Army and the Eastern Army are the two poles of the cavalry of the Chinese Empire.
Rouran General Qi En smiled helplessly when he received the letter from Dream Lionheart, he thought that Dream Lion Heart was good everywhere.
He just likes to think about it, and he doesn't think that Dream Lion Heart has the idea of competing for merit at all.
Therefore, Qi En deliberately asked the scout of Dream Lionheart to bring a sentence: General Dream has thought too much, and the old man has never had such an idea.
That's right, when such a straightforward sentence was brought to it, Meng Shixin's originally somewhat apprehensive heart finally calmed down a little.
At the same time, the Bolgar Khan personally led his army and encamped not far from the Rouran Army of the Chinese Empire, although now their Bolgar Khanate seems to be in tat-to-tat confrontation with the Chinese Empire.
The two sides fought back and forth, but in fact every war was won by the Chinese Empire, but every time the army of the Bolgar Khanate ran away.
The troops of the Bolgar Khanate thought that they had escaped with their abilities, but in fact it was the general of Rouran, Zien, who deliberately let them escape.
Rouran General Zhao Yuanan just wanted them to go back, and if they were left behind, the Rouran army would have to waste food.
Although the Chinese Empire had a lot of food, the Rouran general Zhao Yuanan was not willing to give the grain to the captives of the Bolgar Khanate for free.
What's more, it would be of greater benefit to the Chinese Empire to put these captives back, and these captives of the Bolgar Khanate were all wounded.
Their return to the barracks of the Bolgar Khanate would naturally be a burden on the Bolgar Khanate.
They could not march and fight, and they had to consume the food of the Bolgar Khanate every day and night, and the Bolgar Khanate was equivalent to raising a large number of unworkable lords every day.
The Bolgar Khan even repeatedly had in mind the soldiers of the Bolgar Khanate, who had been wounded by the Bolgar Khanate.
But in the end, the Bolgar Khan resisted this idea, and now during the war, the Chinese Empire wants the Bolgar Khan to have internal strife.
If he kills these remnants of the Bolgar Khanate, I'm afraid that without the troops of the Huaxia Empire, these armies of the Bolgar Khanate will mutiny!
Therefore, Bolgar Khan could only grit his teeth and forcibly raise this group of people.
But now he learned that the Cuman Khanate had been defeated by the Chinese Empire, and that the rear of the Cuman Khanate had been outflanked and occupied by the Khazar Khanate.
Now Bulgar Khan can be said to be isolated, and the southern countries are okay, they are connected to each other and can rely on each other.
But the Bolgar Khanate has nothing to rely on! From time to time, Bulgar Khan even regretted what he had done.
He regretted why he peeked into the Chinese Empire, and he regretted that he underestimated the Chinese Empire.
But he had to fight the Chinese Empire, and if he didn't fight the Chinese Empire, then his position as Bao Gar Khan would not be stable.
After all, he had killed the former Bolgar Khan to seize the throne of the Khan, if he had not proposed to attack Huaxia and plunder the population, materials and food.
Then he is not sitting in the position of Khan, and now the various armies of the Bolgar Khanate have begun to accumulate grievances in their hearts for a long time.
They found that they seemed to be no match for the army of the Chinese Empire, and they already had the idea of retreating to Bolgar.