Anbalturi's troops were a few days slower than Abicheril had expected, and the number of troops was not as large as expected, at 227,500.

To say that Anbalturi did not want to raise a larger army would be false, in fact he could not raise more troops. After the eastern frontier was conquered by Abicielil several tribes in succession, more tribes chose to submit in order to preserve their strength; On the one hand, the vassal states in the west were unwilling to get too involved in the battle with the East Turks, and on the other hand, they were worried that the lord of Bataana, the lord of the Paz Empire, Babasbahn, would take advantage of the situation, and they all sent a statement to Anbalturi that they had to leave enough standing troops to protect the border, so they only sent a minimum number of soldiers. In fact, this also illustrates the decline in Anbalturi's de facto control over the country. Those who were really able to send a large army to fight with Anbalturi were those who were close to his court and feared both the threat of Anbalturi and the attack of Abichili, so they did their best to assist Anbalturi in resisting the invasion. The only amount of troops he could muster in the time left for Anbalturi to prepare was the result of Anbalturi's efforts since the last defeat, otherwise these small countries and tribes would have been completely scattered.

Despite having twice as many troops as Abichilir, Anbalturi was uneasy. Because compared with the previous two times, his advantage is not so prominent, and the main force of the first two times is the elite cavalry of the Tukhi, and this time nearly half of the men and horses are put together by the vassal countries and other tribes, and their combat effectiveness is not the same as that of the Tukchi soldiers.

Abicilir had beaten Anbalturi with fewer wins on the previous two occasions, which made Anbalturi's reputation fall dramatically. And he himself lost faith in the victory over Abicheril. If there is not enough army to support him, and the sense of responsibility that makes him the Great Khan. Anbalturi probably didn't dare to confront Abicilir head-on like this.

Since Anbalturi himself did not want to go head-to-head with Abicilir, he wanted to drag down his opponent with a stalemate. The Turks are good at quick battles and don't like to procrastinate for a long time, and he knows it. The patchwork troops under his command did not have many cavalry in number, and their fighting quality was poor, and if they really had to fight head-on, they would probably not be able to stop Abicheril's shocking onslaught. Therefore, as soon as the army arrived at Xuanchi and heard the news that Abicheril's troops had only one day to go, Anbalturi immediately ordered to set up camp, and then strengthen the defenses to prepare for entrenchment, and use time to exhaust Abicheril's attack momentum and force him to withdraw.

In the afternoon of the next day. Badr's vanguard arrived, and the first attack ensued. The effect of the attack was not ideal, and Anbalturi was not incompetent, otherwise he would not have been able to sit on the throne of the Khan. He used his army to hold the camp, and then used his cavalry to flank Badr. Badr's attack was frustrated and threatened by the flanks, so he did not like to fight and immediately withdrew from the battle.

For the next two days, Badr remained actively looking for an opportunity to make a move. But Anbalturi coped well and never let Badr succeed.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, Abiciel's army had already appeared in front of Anbal Turi and immediately launched the first wave of attacks.

Abiciel's Tukchi Riders rained down hundreds of thousands of rockets into Anbalturi's camp. The fire destroyed a considerable number of tents and defences, but Anbalturi remained unfazed and contained the fire in time to prevent it from spreading. Still holding on. Seeing that the fire attack did not work, Abiciel did not attack strongly. Instead, they began to set up camp.

That night, Anbalturi received an important piece of information: an East Turkistan Einsatzgruppen had been spotted west of Xuanchi. The number was about fifteen thousand.

Anbalturi was taken aback, and then turned to joy. Last time, Abicielil also sent a special team to raid, and it seems that this time he has done it again. But God won't help him all the time, and this time the whereabouts of this Einsatzgruppen were revealed prematurely. Anbalturi immediately decided to send 50,000 cavalry to attack this special force overnight, and also sent 20,000 elite cavalry to cover their flanks and rear, in case Abicheril rushed to help, and tried to completely annihilate this enemy army to boost morale.

Early the next morning, Abicheril's army attacked the camp in Anbalturi. Due to the fact that Youzhou, which attacked the Silk Country, gained a lot of siege experience, and also obtained a group of craftsmen from the Silk Country, the siege ability of Abiciel's troops has been greatly improved, but due to the limited materials that can be obtained on the grassland and the transportation is very troublesome, they only have light siege equipment. But even that would have been disastrous for Anbalturi. He never thought that Abicheril could have such a powerful siege weapon, and the defense ability of his camp could not withstand such an attack at all, no, even if the city faced such an attack, it would not be long to sustain it.

Soon the perimeter defenses were destroyed, and Anbalturi had to retreat to the second line of defense. However, he was very happy in his heart, because Abicheril's onslaught showed that he did not notice that his troops were rushing to Xuanchi to destroy his Einsatzgruppen, so as long as he continued to hold on, he could create the conditions for the complete elimination of this Einsatzgruppen. Moreover, Anbalturi also saw some clues from the use of Abicilir's siege equipment, and there were similar equipment in the western annexes of his country, some of which were more powerful, and Anbalturi had also learned the advantages and disadvantages of these siege equipment. Although Abicielil's weapons are also sharp, the materials are too poor, and if they are used continuously, they will quickly break. As long as he survived until that time, Abicil would not be able to rebuild new siege equipment in a short period of time.

Therefore, he tried to boost morale, showing that the enemy's attack would soon run out of all its strength, and that it was time to counterattack, and arranged a counterattack plan and sortie sequence. Under his calm command, the panic of the troops gradually subsided.

Sure enough, in the early afternoon, Abiciel's siege equipment began to deteriorate one after another. Seeing that the time was ripe, Anbalturi commanded his troops to kill, and the enemy army, which had lost the cover of siege weapons, was suddenly counterattacked and forced to begin to retreat, and the battle was fought until sunset, when Anbalturi recaptured the outlying camp, and Abichlir retreated again. The cheers of the soldiers of the Western Turks echoed throughout the battlefield.

Through this battle, Anbalturi has regained his confidence a little. However, he never expected that the news of the Einsatzgruppen had been revealed to him by Abicilir in order to let his cavalry troops attack the Einsatzgruppen. And Abicil had already informed Ye Erxian, the protector of the left capital, that he would hold back the enemy's attack no matter what.

Abicilir was anxious to win, but he was not yet hot-headed because of this, he knew very well that the key to victory in this battle was to delay time, to give the friendly Baibasbahn a chance to attack the enemy's rear, so the timing of the decisive battle must wait until the bad news of the loss of the rear reached the ears of Anbalturi, and before that, it was necessary to delay the decisive battle as much as possible without Anbalturi finding out that he was deliberately delaying, and the Einsatzgruppen could buy a few days for this. (To be continued......)