Chapter 37: Defeat
To the west of Panjiapu is a dense forest, in the middle of summer, the forest is lush with vegetation and lush green.
At the edge of the forest, an army was lurking here, numbering more than two thousand, and it was the cavalry unit that Pan Xiaohe and Liu Wu had brought.
In fact, it is a bit reluctant to call this army cavalry, most of the cavalry did not even have decent weapons, and most of the weapons were used by herdsmen to catch wild horses, and only a small number of people were equipped with rudimentary knives and guns and hunting bows for hunting.
But if anyone thinks it's a rabble because of their poor equipment, they're going to have to suffer. After more than a month of training, these cavalrymen already have a basic organizational system, a slightly rudimentary army, an uncommon rabble.
Pan Xiaohe and Liu Wu have been lying in ambush here for almost a whole day, during which the Turkic sentinels have come, but each time it is just a routine, they take a look at it from a distance, and do not enter the forest to investigate.
After the sky was bright, the horn and shouts continued to be heard in the direction of Panjiapu, which lasted until the afternoon, and it was about to be seen at the agreed time, and the two commanders who led the team for the first time were nervously fidgeting, and they had to look at Panjiabao in the east every once in a while.
Panjiabao only has a city gate on the south side, and the other directions are "cliffs", and the top is similar to the Hakka tulou, along the edge of the cliff to build most of the outer walls of the houses together, these houses have extremely thick outer walls, there are no doors on the ground floor, only narrow windows, and play the same defensive role as the city wall.
Pan Xiaohe was turning around and walking back in disappointment, when he heard a herald shouting next to him.
"Red flag, red flag, I see red flag!"
Pan Xiaohe turned back suddenly, looked towards Panjiabao, and sure enough, he saw a red flag on the top of the tallest house in the west of the city, and Ren, who was holding the flag at the bottom, was still shaking the flagpole, so that the flag was completely stretched out, and it was particularly conspicuous against the blue sky.
"Quick, order everyone to get on their horses!" Liu Wu ran behind Pan Xiaohe at some point, and when he saw the red flag, he immediately gave orders to the heralds around him.
Seeing that the heralds were leaving, Pan Xiaohe hurriedly added an order
"Let the teams get on their horses and assemble outside the forest!"
The heralds took the order, and in a short time the otherwise quiet forest boiled over, and the noise of men and horses could be heard everywhere.
After about a quarter of an hour, the two thousand cavalry, led by the captains of each team, regrouped on the plain outside the forest
"Attention ~ Forward!" The battle flag stopped dancing, and the flagpole pointed towards Panjiabao not far away.
Two thousand horsemen almost simultaneously trotted their mounts under their hips.
The cavalry formed a cavalry group in units of 100 people, staggered each other's travel routes, eliminated an attack line more than a mile long, and accelerated towards the south side of Panjiabao.
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There were so many people crowded at the city gate that Keha squeezed through the crowd for a long time, barely getting close to the city gate, but after arriving here, Keha regretted it again.
Keha was close enough to hear the Turkic wails coming from inside the city!
"Let's get out!"
"Ahh I got an arrow in the knee! β
But the people behind the voices couldn't hear it clearly, because they were also shouting feverishly.
"Don't get in the way, rush in!"
"Grab money, grab food, grab women!"
"Long live the Khan!"
Originally, Keha was one of these fanatical shouters, but he had to stop because his voice was hoarse, and only then could he hear the wails and screams coming from the city.
Keha wanted to quit, but it was too late, he was tightly sandwiched in the middle of the crowd and could only move with the crowd.
"This can't be done, once the Han people in the city shoot arrows, they can't even fight back..."
Keha shuddered suddenly, raised his head and looked upstairs, and sure enough, he saw more than a dozen Han people sneering and looking down at him!
"Disperse, it's a trap!" Keha shouted in horror at the people around her.
Unfortunately, Keha's reminder came too late and his voice was too quiet, and he watched as the Han people in the tower lifted two huge cauldrons with black smoke on top of him and poured them down at him.
The last thing Keha saw was that two waterfalls of flames fell towards him, completely drowning himself!
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"Ah~ damn Han Chinese!" Watching the battle of the Turkic Khan in the rear, he saw his own soldiers crowded at the gate of the city being swallowed by the flames, and wailed loudly.
"I'm going to kill them all, kill all the Han people! Kill all the Han people! The Turkic Khan, with red eyes, tried to rush to the city gate like crazy, but was stopped by the guards beside him
"Why did you stop me!?" The Turkic Khan, like a mad dog, drew his scimitar and glared at the guard who was holding him, but the last shred of reason he had left did not cut it directly
"Khan, this is a trap! Reinforcements from the Han Chinese are coming! Hurry up and retreat! The guard dodged the Khan's blade in fear, and pleaded with his finger to the west
The Turkic Khan turned his head to look, only to find that a cavalry rushed out of the west at some point, and there were thousands of them!
Seeing the sudden appearance of the cavalry, the Turkic Khan seemed to be poured a bucket of ice water on his head, and immediately woke up from his anger.
"It's over, it's over, my Gilikreh is all done, it's all overβ" Gilikreh muttered in despair, allowing his guards to flee with his horse.
"This city is a trap, why did I step into it, why... Kuchiha! Gilikret suddenly remembered the culprit who had caused all this
"Where is Kuchiha, bring him here, I'm going to peel him and cramp him, chop up his heart and liver and feed it to the dog!" Gilikret stared around and searched, but except for the crowd fleeing in a panic, he didn't find Khuchiha's figure
Pull the fleeing guard of Gilikreli and tell him when he calms down
"Khan, as soon as the Han cavalry appeared, Kuchiha took advantage of the chaos to injure the guards, snatched a horse and fled!"
"Ah~" Gilikret howled angrily to the sky, his heart full of remorse
However, no matter how much remorse there is, it is useless, the most important thing at the moment is how to escape the pursuit of the Han cavalry.
The timing of the appearance of the cavalry coincided with the time when the Turks who were blocked outside the city gate were thrown into chaos by the boiling oil flames, and most of the Turks did not have time to run back to the camp to get their horses, and were easily caught up by the cavalry chasing behind them.
Only those who did not participate in the siege of the vassal tribes were the fastest to escape because they were originally on horses.
When Gilekret and his guards finally escaped from the pursuit and fled to Xiaotuling to collect the men and horses, they only found more than 300 horses, most of whom were soldiers of vassal tribes with low loyalty, and the rest either fled alone or were wiped out by the Han cavalry.