Chapter 612: Breakthrough Battle in Khotan
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The cultivators in Khotan City rebelled repeatedly, and burned the grain and grass of the Song army.
At the beginning, the Black Khan King used coercive means to make the 200,000 herdsmen in the Western Regions convert to the Heavenly Sect, and if he can use strong methods, why can't I use it?
Since you can die for your faith, well, go and die!
The 20,000 people were not allowed to bring anything except the clothes that covered their bodies, so they were expelled from Khotan City.
Didn't Hassan consider himself a protector of justice and religion? He will give you food, and He will protect you.
Chong Jianzhong used this thunderous method to empty half of the city at once, and the remaining half of the people in the city were also forced to change their beliefs, if they don't change, you should also go out to find Hassan for food and clothing.
This move not only caused a heavy burden on Hassan outside the city, but also raised enough food and grass for the Song army, and formed an effective deterrent to the people of Khotan, the remaining half of the city, and no one dared to sabotage it again, at least for the time being.
In view of this, Chong Jianzhong decided to use Khotanese to slowly consume Hassan's troops and morale, and then counterattack in one fell swoop, making the Black Khanate half crippled.
Chong Jianzhong's idea is very good, if nothing else, Hassan will be cleaned up by him sooner or later.
It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, and the Uighurs in Xizhou suddenly defected. Immediately afterwards, the yellow-headed Uighurs and the grass-headed Tatars defected one after another, and Guazhou and Shazhou fell............
Shazhou is 1,500 miles away from Khotan. These things are trapped in the construction of Khotan City, which is not yet known.
It wasn't even ten days after the tragedy in the city of Kriya that he learned that the city had changed dramatically. Two thousand Song troops died at the hands of the Uighurs in Xizhou, and Yao Gu's fate is unknown.
After learning of this, Chong Jianzhong could no longer stay in Khotan, Shazhou and Guazhou were extremely empty, and bordered the Xizhou Uighurs.
Chong Jianzhong quickly ordered the whole army to break through, and he still had 16,000 men and horses in his hands, as well as a small number of bullets;
The east gate of Khotan City was opened. Two thousand flintlock musketeers took the lead, rows of bullets whizzing away, and 16,000 men and horses rushed out and galloped eastward.
Khotanese is the Hotan of later generations, the Hotan of white jade, the geographical location where it is located is somewhat special, the east is the White Jade River, the west is the Wuyu River. Two rivers flow down from the Kunlun Mountains and meet in the north of the city of Khotan;
The city of Khotan is sandwiched between the triangle of two rivers, and if the people and horses under construction want to return to the east, they must cross the Baiyu River in the east;
Khotan was an important town on the Southern Silk Road. There used to be a pontoon bridge over the Baiyu River, but now it has been demolished by Hassan's order.
This was expected by Jianzhong, and before he broke through, he had people collect a lot of sheepskins to make sheepskin rafts. Prepare to cross the river with this.
What Chong Jianzhong never expected was that the scouts who crossed the river first to reconnoiter found more than 10,000 Tibetan troops on the opposite bank. This large army belonging to the Achai tribe seems to have just arrived, and as soon as they saw the Song army scouts, they immediately pursued and killed them.
This makes Chong Jianzhong understand. It must be that Achaibu has also defected, and in this case, it is bound to be impossible for Chongjianzhong to cross the river again, otherwise these 16,000 men and horses will have to die in the Baiyu River.
What to do? In front, there were Achaibu's men and horses to intercept, and there were tens of thousands of Hassan's troops chasing behind, Khotan City was lost again, and the bullets of the flintlock pistol were also used up, which made Chong Jianzhong fall into a difficult predicament all of a sudden.
After Hassan learned that the people of the Achai tribe were on the west bank of the Baiyu River, he immediately led an army of 50,000 to force him, and he wanted to move all the people and horses of the tribe to build the army as soon as possible.
There is no way to avoid it in the construction of the plant, and I don't want to avoid it anymore, 16,000 against 50,000, fighting to the death, it may not be impossible to win.
Under the scorching sun, the Song army lined up on the Baiyu River, and showed the courage to fight against the water, hunting with flags, and neighing thousands of horses.
On the opposite side, the army of nearly 50,000 black sweaters spread out for ten miles, and the crescent-shaped scimitars reflected the sun, as if it was a boundless steel jungle;
The whining horns and horns are one after another, and a solemn and solemn atmosphere condenses and takes shape in the battlefield, making people's hearts like boulders.
Under the order of Chong Jianzhong, the Song army took the lead in attacking, and thousands of troops and horses galloped out, just like a volcanic eruption at the bottom of the sea, bringing up monstrous waves, the thunderous hooves, and the tsunami-like shout, making the heavens and the earth boil in an instant.
Although Chong Jianzhong can also charge into battle, he is not a fierce general like Miao Zhu, but a type closer to a Confucian general, and it is Ma Yuan who serves as a forward general;
He is currently the most fierce general in the hands of the plant, carrying a long horse lance in his hand, flying at the front of the army.
The tens of thousands of black Khan armies on the opposite side were launched almost simultaneously, holding high the crescent scimitar, shouting the name of Allah, and rushing with their fanatical eyes, rolling up yellow dust straight into the air.
The two sides were like two black clouds flying with the wind, violently colliding together.
"Kill!" The horse roared like an angry lion, and the moment the two armies collided together, the long horse lance in his hand stabbed out with the momentum of a war horse, and forcibly picked a black sweat general upside down and flew out, crashing into the cavalry that followed closely behind, and the cavalry was also knocked over and off the horse.
A snowy sword light slashed from the left, and behind the sword light was the hideous face of the black sweat soldier, and Ma Yuan raised the tail of the horse lance without pause and headed towards the scimitar;
"Dang!" With a bang, the scimitar of the black sweat soldier was shaken and rebounded, and the tail of the horse lance swept over his face, and the entire nose bone was swept away in an instant, blood spurted out, and the terrible scream was heartbreaking, and the tall body flew upside down and fell from the horse.
Tragic scenes like this are everywhere, tens of thousands of troops are crisscrossing and shutting down, galloping and fighting, like thunderous horses' hooves, such as injected blood, angry roars, dying howls, rolling yellow dust, blood-stained banners, vigorously staged on the banks of the Baiyu River.
Although the number of the Song army was less than that of the Black Khan army, it always maintained a relatively close formation, and the comrades did not abandon each other, and rushed back and forth with the threefold Black Khan army, without falling behind at all.
Bursts of smoke and dust, wave after wave of shouts of killing, the water of the Baiyu River was dyed red by the bubbling blood, and the two sides fought fiercely for two hours.
At this time, the Song army had suffered 3,000 casualties, and the Black Khan side was twice as large as the Song army, with nearly 6,000 casualties, but the total strength of the Black Khan was three times that of the Song army.
Seeing that he could not achieve an overwhelming victory for a while, Chong Jianzhong immediately ordered to leave the battle and gallop away towards the foothills of the Kunlun Mountains to the south.
Hassan was ambitious and ordered the Song army to be in hot pursuit.............
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