The fighting did not end completely until the early hours of the next morning. All the 720 soldiers in Dragon City died heroically, including thousands of Tuqi men who were worthy of a battle, and the rest of the old and weak women and children were taken prisoner. The number of rescued people in the Silk Country is about 20,000.

The capture of the enemy's capital was indeed exciting news, but Xue Boren also received bad news. As a result of this day's fighting, most of the children and dependents of the important nobles of Tuqi fled through the secret passages in the city, and most of the nobles he captured were of slightly lower status. In addition, the people of the Silk Country who helped him open the gates from inside the city were a bit too numerous.

Originally, this sneak attack on Dragon City was an act against orders, so there would be no reinforcements at all, let alone supplies, so it was impossible to rely on 5,000 cavalry to hold Dragon City, so you could only destroy it as much as possible and leave immediately. But when he returned, 20,000 more people followed.

Xue Boren's 5,000 elite cavalry, with 20,000 horses, went through a lot of hardships to reach Longcheng, now the marching speed of these 20,000 people is naturally far from the cavalry, plus the burden of supplies, this team will become huge, and to use 5,000 cavalry to protect these people, it doesn't matter if the other party is a small force, once attacked by a large army, I am afraid that not only the people will not be spared, but even these cavalry will be swallowed.

Once in the territory of Turg, Xue Boren's sources of intelligence became unstable, and he was unable to confirm the location of Abicheril's army, which added to his worries that the enemy army could be fatal to the army at any time.

on this. Adjutant General Lu Qinghan said that there are two options, one is to abandon these burdens. Let them find their own way back home; The second way is to take away all the supplies in Dragon City, including cattle, sheep and horses. Use all available means of transportation to bring these people back to the territory of the Silk Country as soon as possible.

However, neither of these methods was adopted by Xue Boren. The first method is simply to let these people fend for themselves, and in the face of the vast grassland and desert, the possibility of these people surviving is almost zero, and if they stay in Dragon City, they will be driven out by the Tuqi people for helping themselves, so out of the duty of a military general and the morality of a person, Xue Boren cannot abandon them. If the second method is adopted, it is indeed the greatest effort that can be done at present, but if all the supplies in Dragon City are taken away, then these Turks in Dragon City will die of hunger and cold. This is also something that Xue Boren does not want to see.

Lu Qinghan advised Xue Boren not to be so merciful to the enemy, but Xue Boren pointed out that if he did this, then before he could get out of Dragon City, these captured Turks would fight to the death and start a riot, and finally his own army would have to slaughter these civilians. Only then did Lu Qinghan agree with his opinion.

After a few hesitations, Xue Boren decided to forcibly requisition all the living livestock and vehicles in Dragon City, cattle and horses for the people to ride, and each person carried ten days of dry food as the upper limit. The rest is made up by slaughtering cattle and sheep.

For the treasures in the Dragon City Palace, Xue Boren ordered that each soldier could carry a handful that could be held by both hands - after running such a long way, these soldiers could not be allowed to work in vain, and letting them make a little fortune was also a means to boost morale. The soldiers, without exception, chose the fine and soft jewelry. The rest of Xue Boren ordered a fire to burn the matter. At the same time, it was decreed that in the event of an emergency, these treasures must be given up first, and life preservation should be the first priority.

After the rectification is completed. Xue Boren asked the soldiers to destroy the walls and palace area of Dragon City as much as possible, but did not damage the area inhabited by civilians. Then he led the cavalry and the people and marched out of Dragon City. Began the long journey home.

The only thing that makes Xue Boren feel gratified is that after the baptism of desert wind and sand these days, the people of these silk countries have become strong and brave. Even though they are not good at riding cattle and horses, they still grit their teeth and persevere. Therefore, the speed of the march in the first few days was quite satisfactory to him. But after a long time, these people were not trained after all, and their physical strength gradually could not keep up, and after the food was consumed, they began to slaughter cattle and sheep to feed their stomachs, and the sheep did not matter, if they had to eat the cattle, the number of vehicles would be reduced. Moreover, the vehicles were more and more damaged, and in order to hurry, Xue Boren had to give up the time-consuming and laborious repairs, and the marching speed of the troops began to decline rapidly.

Eleven days after Xue Boren left Dragon City, Abiciel's vanguard troops returned to Dragon City.

Abicheril can be regarded as acting quickly, but unfortunately he is still one step later than Xue Boren. The commander of the vanguard force was none other than the Right Sage King Badr, who met the children of the nobles and their families who had escaped from Dragon City on the way, and learned the news of the fall of Dragon City. Badr was not flustered, and after roughly ascertaining the situation in the city and the number of enemy troops, he sent someone to report to Abichilir behind, and on the other hand, he led his troops to speed up the march.

In Badr's opinion, the enemy army will not stay in Dragon City for long, and will definitely retreat to the south after a successful blow. Therefore, he sent a detachment of 2,000 men to Longcheng to stabilize the situation first, while he himself turned south with the main force, preparing to intercept this enemy army from the halfway way, so that they would not return.

It was a pity that Badr's estimate was a little worse than the actual line, or rather, his estimate was too accurate, and he did not expect Xue Boren to move faster than he expected, so his main force passed by more than a day and a half behind Xue Boren's team. By the time his right-wing ranger spotted his target, reported it, and turned back, Xue Boren had already sensed the danger, let the people take the first step, and led his cavalry to block the road.

Facing this cavalry, Badr used the wrong formation. In Badr's eyes, the enemy army that had broken through his capital could not be let go, so he commanded the cavalry to surround the enemy army from all sides. Of course, there was nothing wrong with this method of warfare, and there was no mistake in Badr's command, but he ignored one problem, and that was psychology. Xue Boren's troops had gone through hardships and dangers, and each of them had a considerable amount of wealth in their hands, so everyone wanted to return home with this wealth, and if Badr had taken a position to cover from the rear at this time, then it was very likely that this army would have collapsed and be hunted down. However, he used the encirclement posture, and the surrounded cavalry only wanted to break out of the encirclement and return alive, so it stimulated their fighting spirit and became extremely fierce. The Tuqi cavalry, who was also exhausted from a long journey, encountered such a wolf-like army, even if they wanted to stop it, they were powerless, plus Lu Qinghan opened the way in front, after Xue Boren broke off, the cavalry of the Silk Country quickly tore a hole and broke through.

When Badr was about to continue the pursuit, he received urgent reports from all over the country that the Silk Country was marching towards Tuqi from many directions, and the entire southern border exploded, and it can be said that there were flames everywhere. Badr felt that this was an all-out offensive operation of the Silk Country, and that this enemy army had just ventured into Dragon City and happened to touch the Dragon City, or rather, the decoy of the Silk Country, in order to attract his own attention. Therefore, for the sake of the overall situation, Badr had to abandon the pursuit of them and instead deal with the all-out attack of the Silk Country. Of course, he didn't know that this so-called all-out attack was just a disorderly attack triggered by Liu Yan's will, and Xue Boren also escaped by luck because of this reason that he didn't know. (To be continued......)