Chapter 604: A Troubled Alliance
Originally, the Great Khans of the Seven Strong Clans of the Grassland Coalition Army, because they lost 1.5 million people in just three days of war, and decided to postpone the attack on the Broken Army in Xinning City, after all, this time the Broken Army, the Grassland Coalition Army is not the only protagonist, and the Great Khans of the Seven Tribes hope to hear some news that is beneficial to the Grassland Coalition Army from the Dawan Kingdom or the Qingyi Tribe.
The Great Khan of the Seven Clans of the Grassland Coalition Army has always believed that the Broken Army has gathered most of its main forces in Xinning City, otherwise it would be impossible for the Grassland Coalition Army to suffer such heavy losses in just three days.
As long as the army of the Great Wan Kingdom can make some progress on the battlefield of the Western Regions Protectorate, or the Qingyi army can make some progress on the battlefield of Huazhou, then the main force of the Broken Army here in Xinning City will inevitably have to transfer a part of the army to support the Western Regions Protectorate and Huazhou, in that case, the opportunity for the grassland coalition army will come.
However, more than half a month later, the Great Khans of the Seven Powerful Clans of the Grassland Alliance Army received news that shocked them.
On the afternoon of 24 June, in a huge felt bag in the camp of the grassland coalition army, the Xiongnu Great Khan Luan Timao, the Xianbei Great Khan Murong Ke, the Khitan Great Khan Yelu Dilie, the Xirong Great Khan Arishan, the Donghu Great Khan Yishag, the Tiele Great Khan Jirimu, and the Karasuma Great Khan Zhaonastu gathered here, and the atmosphere in the whole felt bag was very depressing.
The Xiongnu Great Khan Luan Ti smiled bitterly and said: "There is a bad news just now from the Western Regions Protectorate of the Jin Kingdom, the ten cavalry corps, twenty infantry legions and more than one million auxiliaries of the Dawan Kingdom have invaded the territory of Bazhou, and the light army has rushed forward, and has been ambushed by the Broken Army, and most of the military rations have been burned by the Broken Army, and now the thirty legions and more than one million auxiliary soldiers of the Great Wan Kingdom have been completely annihilated by the Broken Army, plus these thirty annihilated legions and more than one million auxiliary soldiers, the Great Wan Kingdom has been at war for less than a month, More than five million people have already been lost, and perhaps the Great Wan Kingdom will soon withdraw from this war. β
At the beginning of this war, Dawan used 22 cavalry regiments and 60 infantry regiments, divided into two routes, and attacked Bazhou and Xiangzhou in the Western Regions Protectorate respectively, and the troops of the Broken Army in Bazhou were commanded by Xue Rengui, the commander of the Western Frontier Army, and the troops of the Broken Army in Xiangzhou were commanded by Lian Po, the commander of the Western Regions Legion.
Before the invasion of the Dawan army, Xue Rengui and Lian Po had already agreed that the eight cavalry brigades and twenty-four infantry brigades gathered by Lian Po and the Western Regions Army, as well as the 500,000 garrisons in the various states of the Western Regions Protectorate, would block the Dawan army that had invaded Xiangzhou layer by layer, so as to contain this part of the Dawan army.
The eight cavalry brigades and twenty-six infantry brigades gathered by the Xijiang Legion, as well as the ten cavalry brigades and thirty infantry brigades gathered by the Xichang Legion, as well as the five elite troops of the Tiger Ben Army, the Xuanjia Army, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, the White Horse Congyi and the Beifu Soldiers, will all gather in Bazhou, waiting for an opportunity to annihilate the Dawan army that invaded Bazhou.
When the war broke out, Xue Rengui has been adopting the tactics of showing the enemy weakness, and constantly led the millions of troops of the Dawan Kingdom to the trap he carefully arranged, the commander of the Dawan army in the territory of Bazhou is the second prince Imad, Imad was carried away by the victory on the surface, and did not notice the tactics of the broken army to lure the enemy deeper, and as a result, he led the main force of the Dawan army in Bazhou, that is, ten cavalry regiments and twenty infantry regiments, all the way into the trap designed by Xue Rengui.
After Xue Rengui saw that the army of Dawan Kingdom had stepped into the trap he had designed, he immediately ordered the three heavy cavalry of the Tiger Army, the Xuanjia Army, and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to launch an attack on the auxiliaries who were escorting grain and grass in the ranks of the Dawan Kingdom, and achieved a very brilliant victory, burning about 90% of the grain and grass of the ten cavalry legions, twenty infantry legions and millions of auxiliary soldiers of Dawan at once.
Subsequently, the Xijiang Army, the Xichang Army, the Tiger Army, the Xuanjia Soldiers, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, the White Horse Congyi and the Beifu Soldiers, adding up to more than 3.6 million Broken Capture Army, tightly surrounded the ten cavalry regiments, 20 infantry regiments and more than 1 million auxiliary troops of the Dawan Kingdom in a hilly area.
The second prince of the Great Wan Kingdom, Imad, in order to speed up the march, did not carry too much grain and grass, but now it has been burned by the three heavy cavalry of the Broken Army by almost 90%, so that the grain and grass in the hands of the second prince Imad is only enough for nearly four million Dawan troops to barely eat for three days.
The second prince Imad and the surrounded Dawan army, of course, will not sit still, the Dawan army in the following days, launched a crazy breakthrough, but unfortunately this pocket of the broken army is very tight, and the many breakthroughs of the Dawan army have not succeeded.
Even if the second prince Imad minimized the distribution of military rations, after five days of being surrounded, the army of Dawan still ran out of food, and the army of Dawan without food collapsed all of a sudden, surrendering to the broken army in batches, and even the entire legion surrendered to the broken army under the leadership of the corps commander, and finally felt that the second prince Imad had no way out, so he had to give an order to surrender to all the Dawan troops in the encirclement.
The ten cavalry legions, twenty infantry legions and more than one million auxiliaries led by the second prince of Dawan Kingdom, Imad, were wiped out, and the number of surrendered alone exceeded 3.2 million, and the second prince of Dawan Kingdom, Imad, also became a prisoner of the broken army.
After learning that the millions of troops led by the second prince Imad were surrounded by the broken army, Yeman, the king of Dawan, immediately ordered the infantry legions of the other ten Dawan countries in Bazhou to hurry to rescue the second prince Imad, and mobilized four cavalry regiments from the territory of Dawan to rush to the territory of Bazhou, but the nearly four million troops led by the second prince Imad were defeated too quickly, and the reinforcements of Dawan had not yet arrived, and nearly four million Dawan troops were wiped out.
In fact, the Great Khans of the Seven Powerful Clans of the Grassland Alliance, there is still news that has not yet been received, Xue Rengui led his troops to annihilate nearly four million Dawan troops, and learned that the other ten infantry legions of Dawan in Bazhou were rushing towards the encirclement he had designed, and discussed with Jiang Wei, the commander of the Xichang Legion, and sent most of the cavalry units of their two legions, as well as the four elite cavalry of the Tiger Ben Army, the Xuanjia Army, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and the White Horse Congyi. Immediately split up to meet the remaining ten Dawan infantry legions in Bazhou.
As of June 24, the main force of the ten Dawan infantry corps in Bazhou has been defeated by the cavalry troops of the Broken Army, and only the remaining hundreds of thousands of Dawan troops have escaped from the territory of Bazhou.
The army that invaded the other Dawan country in Xiangzhou learned that the Dawan army in Bazhou was almost completely annihilated, and immediately shrunk the defense line and stopped the onslaught on the troops of the broken army in Xiangzhou.
After the Xiongnu Great Khan Luan Timao finished talking about the situation in the Great Wan Kingdom, the Xianbei Great Khan Murong Ke sighed and continued: "The performance of the Qingyi army is even more unbearable, according to reliable intelligence, the two million troops of the Qingyi tribe who attacked Huazhou, after losing more than one million, have withdrawn from Huazhou controlled by the Broken Army, although the Qingyi have not announced that they will withdraw from this alliance against the Broken Army, but the Qing Yi Nationality should be unable to attack the Broken Army!" β
The two million troops of the Qing Yi people who invaded the territory of Huazhou have been pressed and beaten by the Eastern Barbarian Legion, the trap camp and the white pole soldiers of the broken army, and the 250,000 Wei soldiers in Xiangzhou have also joined the battlefield of Huazhou, the situation of the Qing Yi army is even more difficult, and the western king of the Qing Yi army, Wumeng Ergu, who commanded these Qing Yi army, had to give an order to withdraw the army, and at this time the Qing Yi army that can withdraw from Huazhou is less than 900,000 people.
The Great Khan of the Xirong Clan, Ah Rishan, said incredulously: "How is it possible for the Broken Captives Army to gather so many troops in the Western Regions Protectorate and Huazhou, isn't the main force of the Broken Captives Army here in Xinning City?" β
The Khitan Great Khan Yelu Lie shook his head helplessly and said: "It seems that the strength of the Broken Army far exceeds the estimation of our various ethnic groups, and the army that the Broken Army can gather will definitely exceed the strength of our grassland coalition army in its heyday, and even exceed it by a lot, otherwise it is impossible for the Broken Army to deal with the battlefield in three directions at the same time, our Grassland Coalition Army, Dawan Kingdom and Qingyi Nationality combined, have invested more than 20 million troops, but they are still helpless against the Broken Army, alasββ"
At this time, the Great Khan of the Donghu tribe, Ishag, said in a deep voice: "Now there is a cavalry of the Broken Army with a strength of hundreds of thousands, which has entered the grassland to which our Donghu belongs, and divided the troops into several ways to burn and loot, and our Donghu tribe has nearly forty tribes destroyed in the hands of these cavalry units of the Broken Army, and now the main force of our Donghu army is gathered here in Xinning City, and it is impossible to gather troops to expel the cavalry of these Broken Army, so the Great Khan hopes that the coalition army can send a force to rush to the grassland of our Donghu tribe, Destroy or drive away the hundreds of thousands of cavalry troops of the Broken Army! β
These troops of the Broken Army that entered the territory of the Donghu tribe were composed of five cavalry brigades of the Guards Regiment and five cavalry brigades of the Native Legion, and these ten cavalry brigades were sent to the territory of the Donghu tribe by Liu Ji before the grassland coalition army arrived in Xinning City, and the task of these ten cavalry brigades was to attack all the Donghu tribes they encountered.
The Xiongnu Great Khan Luan Timao, the Xianbei Great Khan Murong Ke and the Khitan Great Khan Yelu Enemy Lie immediately exchanged glances, the three of them had already learned that the Broken Army had sent cavalry troops into the grassland belonging to the Donghu tribe, and the three of them also discussed the strategy of dealing with it.
The Xiongnu Great Khan Luan Timao immediately said loudly: "Our seven tribes have once again formed a coalition army against the Broken Army, just to safeguard the common interests of all ethnic groups in the grassland, and now the Broken Army has sent hundreds of thousands of cavalry into the grassland of the Donghu Nationality to burn and loot, and our coalition army must send troops to clean up, this Great Khan thinks that the Donghu Tribe, the Tiele Tribe, and the Karasuma Tribe, each send 200,000 elite cavalry, to form a clearing team, I don't know what the Great Khan thinks?" β
Xianbei Great Khan Murong Ke nodded and said: "There are 600,000 cavalry, which should be able to exterminate the hundreds of thousands of cavalry of the Broken Army who entered the grassland to which the Donghu clan belongs!" β
The Khitan Great Khan Yelu Dilie followed and said, "This Great Khan agrees with this plan!" β
The Great Khan of the Donghu tribe, Yishag, the Great Khan of the Tiele Tribe, Ji Rimu, and the Great Khan of the Karasuma Tribe, Zhao Nastu, heard that the Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Khitan tribes were not ready to send troops, but let them each send 200,000 cavalry, and they couldn't help frowning slightly.
The Great Khan of the Donghu tribe, Ishaag, pondered for a moment and said: "According to our Donghu intelligence, the cavalry units of the Broken Army that entered the grassland to which our Donghu tribe belonged this time are at least more than 500,000, and the coalition army only sent 600,000 cavalry troops, which may be somewhat insufficient in terms of strength. β
After a pause, the Great Khan of the Donghu tribe, Ishag, continued: "Our Donghu tribe and various affiliated tribes lost nearly 80,000 people in the three days from June 1 to June 3, and there are only more than 420,000 people left. β
It is obvious that the Great Khan of the Donghu tribe Yishag saw the alliance of the grassland coalition army, the Dawan Kingdom and the Qingyi tribe, and still had no choice but to break the army, and wanted to use the excuse that the grassland belonging to the Donghu tribe was invaded by the Broken Army, and he wanted to get out of this war against the Broken Army.
The Xiongnu Great Khan Luan Timao immediately said categorically: "From the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Khitan and Xirong armies, each of the 50,000 elite cavalry, plus the 600,000 cavalry of the Donghu, Tiele and Karasuma tribes, tomorrow will rush to the grassland to which the Donghu tribe belongs, and strive to eliminate the hundreds of thousands of cavalry of the broken army, and the various tribes of the Donghu tribe must cooperate as much as possible!" β
It is easy to get on the boat and difficult to get off the ship, since the Donghu people have already boarded the ship of the grassland coalition army, it is impossible to get off the boat halfway, and the Great Khan of the Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Khitan tribes will not agree.
Xianbei Great Khan Murong Ke nodded and said, "This arrangement is very reasonable!" β
The Khitan Great Khan Yelu Enemy Lie also said: "That's it! β
Seeing the attitude of the Great Khan of the Huns, Xianbei, and Khitan, Yishag of the Donghu tribe had no choice but to smile awkwardly and said: "With the 800,000 cavalry gathered by various ethnic groups, it should be enough to destroy or expel the cavalry troops of those broken armies." β
At this time, the Great Khan of the Tiele tribe, Jirimu, and the Great Khan of the Karasuma Clan, Zhao Nastu, swallowed what they were going to say back into their stomachs, in fact, the two of them were also frightened by the strength of the Broken Army, and they both regretted joining the war against the Broken Army, and the two of them also hoped that the invasion of the Donghu tribe would take the army of the Tiele and Karasuma tribes away from Xinning City.