Chapter 341: Running away is the wisest choice
After receiving an urgent report from the Governor of the East, King Mujhid of Gaochang quickly replied to Khanger Apdu, who promised that 100,000 reinforcements would rush to the city of Talas in the near future, and at the same time, King Mujhid would urge the other three governors to send reinforcements to the Eastern Governorate. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
King Mujshid demanded that Khail Apdu must thwart the Jin state's attempt to reinfect the Western Regions and drive the Jin people out of the land of Gaochang State.
Soon after receiving a letter from King Mujshid, Khail Apdu received letters from three other governors, all of whom expressed their willingness to send troops to support the Eastern Governor's war against the Jin state, but did not mention how many troops they would send.
With the support of the king and the other three governors, Han'er Apdu immediately ordered the transfer of Gaochang troops and the armies of the client states in the area under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Governor's Office, preparing to once again crusade against the Jin army that had captured the Zhuqi and Suju kingdoms.
In addition, Haner Apudu has ordered the Gaochang army in the Shiqu country to withdraw from the Shiqu country, which is equivalent to giving up the Shiqu country and the surrounding Daoxu country, Wenda country, Qiwu country, Dana country and Yuanba country, and the Gaochang army originally stationed in the latter five client states has long been lured to Zhuqi's country to be disarmed and incorporated by the Ju'an army.
In this way, the Jin army faced by the second crusading army of the Gaochang State is likely to capture the eight client states of the Gaochang State.
When the commander of the Gaochang Army, Mu Taichile, told the king of Shiqu Country about the news that he was going to evacuate Shiqu Country with his army, Ai Shlefu was dumbfounded, if the army of Gaochang State withdrew from Shiqu State, then with the military strength of Shiqu Country itself, it would not be able to resist the army of the Jin people at all.
King Ashlefer still knows a lot about his country's army, don't look at the army of Shiqu Country is 10,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry, but because the officers at all levels eat a lot of empty salaries, it is not bad that half of the army of 40,000 Shiqu Country can actually have half of them.
It has become a common practice for the army of Shiqu Country to eat empty salaries, so although King Ashlefer knows that the officers at all levels are paid empty salaries, but there is nothing to be done, this practice has existed in Shiqu Country for hundreds of years, even if Ashlefer is the king, don't want to change it.
"Count Murtenchle, you can't go! You withdrew with the Gaochang army, so what should this king do? What should I do in Shiqu Country? King Ashlefer said anxiously.
Legion Commander Mutai Chile sighed and said, "King Ashlefer, this is an order from the Grand Duke, and I must carry it out!" The Metropolitan Governor said in the letter, because of our fiasco this time, the strength of the Eastern Governor's Mansion suddenly became very tense, and we can only wait for the reinforcements sent by His Majesty the King and the other three Metropolitan Governors to arrive in the territory of the Eastern Governor's Mansion before we can crusade against the Jin people's army again, and then I need to take the 50,000 Gaochang troops to withdraw to Smosco Province, strengthen the strength of Smosco Province, and prevent the Jin people's army from advancing westward! ā
There were only more than 20,000 people who could finally escape back to Shiqu Country with hundreds of thousands of troops, of which nearly 4,000 were cavalry from several client countries, plus the 30,000 Gaochang troops who originally stayed in Shiqu State, and there were only more than 50,000 people left in the hands of the corps commander Mu Taichile.
King Ashlefer said in a mournful voice: "Count Mutaichile, you withdrew to Smosco Province with the Gaochang army, which is equivalent to giving up the Shiqu Kingdom and several other surrounding Gaochang vassal states to the Jin people, and our Shiqu State and several other Gaochang vassal states are not the opponent of the Jin people when their armies are combined!" ā
"Alas, King Ashlefer, this is also no way, in my opinion, you might as well withdraw to Smosco Province with you, you must know that the people of the Jin Kingdom have wiped out the royal family of Zhuqi's country."
"This king is gone, what about the king's country?"
"King Ashlev, let's save your life at this time!"
"This ...... Let this king think again. ā
The sister of King Ashlefer is a concubine of the Eastern Governor Haner Apdu, and she is still a very favored concubine, so although Haner Apdu has the intention of annexing Shiqu State, in a letter to the army commander Mutaichile, he asked Mutaichile to bring Shiqu Kingdom King Ashlefu to Smosco Province to avoid the Jin army.
After retaking the Shiqu Kingdom from the hands of the Jin army, Ashlefer, the king of the Shiqu Kingdom, could not prevent the Gaochang Kingdom from annexing the Shiqu Kingdom.
When the commander of the legion, Mu Taichile, led his troops out of Shiqu State, King Ashlev finally chose to save his life, and took the royal family members and many nobles of Shiqu State, as well as more than 10,000 Shiqu State troops, escorted a large amount of property, and retreated to Smosco Province in Gaochang State in disarray.
The news of the withdrawal of the Gaochang army from Shiqu was soon learned by the other five surrounding vassal states of the Gaochang State, and immediately the royal families and nobles of these five countries left their countries one after another and fled to the Smosco Province of the Gaochang State.
Liu Ji's purge of Zhu's royal family and nobles has frightened the royal families and nobles of the surrounding countries, and the military strength of the six surrounding Gaochang states is not strong, and in the face of the Jin army that can defeat hundreds of thousands of Gaochang troops, running away is the wisest choice.
After Liu Ji returned to Zhuqi with more than 200,000 prisoners and a large amount of booty that day, he did not immediately rush back to Zhuqi City, but stayed in Mili City, the westernmost part of Zhuqi Kingdom.
Among the more than 200,000 prisoners, in addition to the more than 70,000 people requisitioned from some vassal states by the Gaochang State, there were more than 40,000 prisoners of war in the Gaochang army, and as many as 90,000 prisoners of war in the armies of several client states.
With so many prisoners, Liu Ji was of course unwilling to waste them, and immediately ordered to start screening the officers of the Gaochang army and several client state armies inside, Liu Ji asked that the officers above the centurion must all be singled out, as for why these officers were singled out, it is self-evident.
Only by slaughtering these officers can Liu Ji forcibly recruit the prisoners, Liu Ji knows very well in his heart that he has defeated the hundreds of thousands of troops of Gao Changguo this time, and he must not let Gao Changguo stop there, Gao Changguo will definitely organize an army to crusade against him, and he must continue to expand the number of troops in his hands.
Of course, the recruitment of prisoners of war, loyalty is a very big problem, this time the 20 cavalry battalions carried out a night attack on the army of Gaochangguo, and more than 3,000 Gaochang prisoners of war who joined the Jue'an army took the opportunity to escape, but the flaws were not concealed, if it were not for the previous forced collection of a large number of prisoners of war from Gaochangguo and Zhuqiguo, Liu Ji would not have been able to use more than 200,000 cavalry at once to take the initiative to attack the hundreds of thousands of troops of Gaochangguo.