Abicheril's army was overwhelming, quickly sweeping through the land. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time that Ye Er first captured the Gaochang Kingdom, the 20,000 right-wing troops led by the Right Xian King Badr ransacked the thirteen tribes along the Tianshan Mountain Range, killing the rest of the thirteen tribes without leaving a piece of armor, but did not find the main force of the thirteen tribes who rebelled.

And Abicheril's main force went all the way to Anbalturi, and Anbalturi was also panicked at this time, because his army was not all at hand, but was attacking the city everywhere. To this end, he recalled all the troops he could recall as quickly as possible, including the main force of the thirteen tribes led by Dimi Kabul, and more than 30,000 Turki prisoners.

At this point, Anbalturi must prioritize the thorny issue of what to do with the more than 30,000 captives. Anbalturi hopes to convince these 30,000 men to join his camp, they are all regular Turks, if not elite, at least much better than the poorly equipped and loosely disciplined rabble under his command. But the problem is in the loyalty of these troops, there is no doubt that a significant proportion of them were his subordinates back then, and it is not impossible to get them to join their command, but it is difficult to say for the rest of them, especially when facing a tough opponent like Abicheril, whether the soldiers have the confidence to continue fighting.

Thinking about it, he decided to take a risk in Anbalturi, and he personally lectured the captives, then returned his weapons to them and let them fight for themselves. It was a risky move, and Anbalturi didn't really trust the soldiers, but because if he killed all the captives, it would only arouse the resentment of his subordinates, and it was really impossible to confront Abichir with his military strength alone, so it was almost his only choice, although he himself was very reluctant to do so.

Surprisingly, almost all of the more than 30,000 captives chose to submit, perhaps because they were afraid that if they did not submit, they would be killed by Anbalturi. Anbalturi didn't want to think about it, anyway, whatever the reason, at least the troops were temporarily subjugated, so his best option was to choose a decisive battle with Abichilir while the troops had not yet begun to flee.

Anbalturi did not hold out because the morale of his troops simply could not hold on for a long time, so he could only use the time when there were still many to maintain their morale and fight in the field. Putting all the forces together, Anbalturi has an army of nearly 70,000, compared to Abicheril's army in the middle is only about half of his, if he does not take advantage of this opportunity to fight, when Badr on the right flank and Ye'er in Gaochang converge first, Anbalturi will have no hope of winning.

The two armies eventually met in the vast Gobi. Abicheril did not give his opponent a chance to breathe, and directly commanded the exhausted army that had been running for a long time to attack. This is not that he is brave or unstrategic, but he keenly discovered the weaknesses of the other party, and at the same time avoided unnecessary psychological pressure caused by the soldiers discovering the true number of the other party.

At this time, the weakness of the Anbalturi army was exposed, although they were also regular troops, but they were the armies of various oasis countries in the Western Regions, and they could not be compared with the Tuqi army in terms of equipment, training, combat ability or morale, and more importantly, they were all infantry. They were slow to react to the sudden attack of the Tukchi cavalry, and they were very frightened, and if it had not been for the timely adjustment of the deployment of Anbalturi to bring them together in a dense formation, I am afraid that they would have broken up long ago.

At the moment, the only armed forces that Anbalturi could trust were the Thirteen Tribes and the army of Gao Changguo, and it was ironic that these two armies, who did not like each other, were now at odds with each other because their own homeland had been sacked by the Turks. Another force that can be expected is the 30,000 Tuqi army that has just returned to Shun.

Anbalturi ordered his 30,000 Tukish troops to attack in a roundabout way towards Abichlil's flank, while he himself withstood the onslaught of the enemy with his infantry units. Of course, this was not his real plan, the so-called infantry formations and mobile units were all bait, and Anbalturi would not pin his hopes on the surrender troops that he did not fully trust. His real main attack was the cavalry of the Thirteen Tribes, and Anbalturi hoped that the 30,000 Tukhe soldiers would attract Abicheril's attention and buy time for the Thirteen Tribes' attack.

If his strategy had succeeded, it might have been a commendable example for posterity, but Anbalturi overlooked two points: he overestimated the combat capabilities of the infantry units he was defending and miscalculated Abicheril's vision.

From the outset, Abichilir judged it to be a feint, for he knew that it was impossible for Anbalturi to trust these improvised patchwork troops, so the correct thing to do was to gather them together to preserve morale. So Abicheril did not slow down the pace of the attack towards the infantry formation, and under the iron hooves of the Tukchi cavalry, the poor infantry were constantly slain like lambs in front of the lion, and even though they kept trying to fill the void that had been dug up, they still could not stop the breakthrough of the Tukish army. The rout began when the blood of their own soldiers turned into heavy shackles and crushed the psychological defenses of the infantry.

The rapid collapse of the infantry formation contributed to another incident, and that was the backlash of the Sudden Surrender Pawn. Originally, these soldiers were forced to surrender to Anbalturi, although they did not mutiny for various reasons before, but when the rear of the main formation began to collapse, they were no longer fetters, and these more than 30,000 people all turned their guns and joined the Tukchi army.

By this time, the assault of the Thirteen Tribes had become meaningless, because even if they could disrupt the array of the Turkish army, they would no longer be able to recover the defeat of the whole group. So these cavalrymen also turned their horses and went to find their own way of life.

Abicheril didn't care about these little episodes at all, what he really cared about was the person of Anbalturi, and as long as he was alive, then his influence was a great threat. He had made a mistake before that didn't kill him, and this time he must not make the same mistake again. Abicheril charged towards the royal banner of Anbalturi like never before.

At this point, Anbalturi understood that the tide was turning, and that the only people who could still fight around him were some of his direct troops and Gao Chang's army. He tried to break out with these troops, but the Turkey cavalry rushed up overwhelmingly, and if they were entangled, he would not be spared.

At this time, a group of men and horses were killed in the midst of the rebellion, and it was none other than Dimi Kabur of the Ramandel division and his 200 elite cavalry.

"Great Khan! I'm here to get in the way, you go! ”

"Sure enough, in the end, you are the only one who is my loyal servant."

Dimi Kabul smiled bitterly and said, "I have been torn between the interests of my clan and my conscience all my life, and now that I have entrusted my clan to my son, I can finally fight once by my own will!" ”

"I won't forget your kindness!" Anbalturi said this, and put a whip on the horse's rump, and the horse neighed and ran away. (To be continued.) )