Thirty thousand iron horsemen, and an equal number of horseback servants, were in Delhi Sultan Gias-al-Din. Balban surged in front of and behind him.

All the horseback servants had torches in their hands. It was already a starry sky, and night covered the land around Delhi, except for the northern sky, which shone faintly red. Red light does not come down from the sky, but rises from the ground. Apparently a fire had been lit in the same place where the Delhi army had set up its camp on the west bank of the Yamuna River.

It seems that the fierce battle continues! I don't know how long the new army there will last?

Whether it was the Knight of Iqtar or the soldiers of the Graham Guard, everyone was nervous, and from time to time they looked back at the sky red by the firelight.

The new army will not be defeated, right? If they can't hold Dazhai, there won't be any problems in Delhi, right?

Delhi is everyone's nest! If lost, will the Sultanate still exist? If you retreat to Lahore, how much territory does the Delhi Sultanate have? Can you still feed so many Iqtars and Ghulam?

Everyone was worried, but there was nothing they could do, so they had to wave the whip vigorously and urge the war horse under the crotch to run faster. Now I don't care about saving horsepower, run as fast as you can, it's a big deal to get off the horse and fight on foot when the time comes!

In the night, tens of thousands of torches formed a huge fire dragon, which traveled south along the Yamuna River like a torrent.

The climate of Tianzhu is divided into rainy season, cool season and dry season. It is the dry season, the weather is dry and rainless, the water of the Yamuna River is insufficient, the water level is relatively shallow, and there are many shoals that can be crossed. As the head of the land here in Delhi, the army of the Delhi Sultanate naturally knew where to cross the river easily.

The specific location of these shoals is Giastine. The guarantee of the successful detour of the Sultan of Balpan. The nearest shoal to Delhi is just around the corner. Once again, Balban's heart rose to his throat.

Now I wonder if that shoal has been discovered by the enemy?

"Sultan, His Majesty the Sultan, there is a fire! There is a fire on the other side of the river! ”

One of the generals of the Ghulam Guards suddenly shouted. The sound reached the ears of the Sultan of Palepan almost like thunder. The Sultan hurriedly reined in his horse and looked in the direction of the general's finger. I only saw a vast land in the night, and I don't know when a string of fires like stars appeared.

"It's ......," Giastin. Balban took a sharp breath, "This is the enemy's cavalry!" ”

The Sultan of Balpan, who had been fighting for many years, could see at a glance that the distribution and speed of those torches must have belonged to a cavalry marching at night!

"They must have found us!" The Sultan's deputy, Chief Minister Kekobad, rode his horse to the Sultan's side and reminded him in a low voice.

"Of course. They are not blind! "Giastin. Balban gritted his teeth, "But it doesn't matter, a small team of cavalry can't stop my 30,000 iron horsemen!" And there is one true God behind us, the Almighty God! ”

Kekobard said, "Maybe they've sent infantry to block that shoal......"

That's what really worries people, if there is an infantry brigade in the shallows, blockade with spears, and then set up muskets and artillery bombardment, it will be very bad.

"No, it won't!" Giastin. Paleban shook his head. "God will bless us! Now, we are to believe in the true God ......"

The meaning of this is to bite the bullet!

Chief Minister Kekobard glanced at his old boss and smiled helplessly. Now that's all it can be! The enemy is forced to the doorstep, if you don't fight to the death, what is the way to live?

"Sultan, let my men clear the way for you!" Kekobad volunteered. He was not only the most trusted minister of the Sultan of Balpan, but also the Sultan's general and one of the main commanders of the Ghulam's Guard.

"Okay." The Sultan of Balban nodded, "Let the warriors dismount." Cross the river with shields and hammers, and let some men take cover with bows and arrows. ”

The hammers of the Ghulam Guards were not equipped at the suggestion of the Mongols, they already had such guys. The hammer was a symbol of the status of the Ghulam Guards, and was therefore a handy. Such weapons were of little use in India, as none of the enemies of the Delhi Sultanate were heavily armoured. However, this was a tradition of the Qulam, because the Turkic-Persian-Celestial world of the Middle Ages was popular in the heavy sheet armor. The effect of chopping with a scimitar is not good, it is better to make a hard head hammer. Therefore, the Ghulam Guards regarded the hammer as the standard, and it gradually became a tradition.

In addition, the Ghulam Guards also had a tactic of fighting with a hard-headed hammer, that is, fighting in a row and swinging the hammer downward in unison under the command of the officer. The movements are neat and uniform, and they are very good-looking.

In addition to being able to put on heavy armor and hammer people with a hard head, the Gulam Guards are not bad at archery. However, the Ghulam Guards were not very good at cavalry, they were heavy cavalry, and they were charging hand-to-hand combat on horseback. It is said that the best Ghulam guards can fire five arrows in 2.5 seconds! This is a remarkable rate of fire that even the Mongol cavalry may not be able to achieve.

……

"King, there are at least tens of thousands of people!"

"It's supposed to be the Ghulam Guards, right?"

"Just across the Yamuna River, they ...... I think I want to cross the river, but it seems to have stopped. ”

Several young generals of the Yongqing Historian were surrounding Shi Tianze, the king of Su, at this time. Marching tens of thousands of troops with torches at night was of course a big goal, and it was impossible not to be discovered by the light cavalry of the historians.

Of course, if the Sultan of Palepan did not walk at night with torches, the march would have slowed down. Surely he will not be able to complete the detour tonight, and by tomorrow his village on the banks of the Yamuna River will most likely have been occupied. At that point, even if the detour is completed, it will be useless.

Moreover, even without torches, the sound of tens of thousands of horses stomping on the ground is enough to reveal their location. A truly experienced horse ranger can hear it by putting his ear to the ground and listening.

Therefore, the Sultan of Balban simply let his subordinates march with torches, and he was not afraid that the other party would find out. Now it's all about speed, and it's about getting ahead of the opponent before he has time to adjust the battle line!

"It's supposed to be the Ghulam Guard!" Shi Tianze said, "Put the rocket and gather all the children." ”

"Old prince, do you really want to fight with them?" A nephew of Shi Tianze's confidant lowered his voice. "These eight thousand sons are your old hard work, it's not worth it to fight for the surname Chen......"

Shi Tianze waved his hand, "Grasshoppers on a rope, don't be half-hearted, even if the dog eats the dog, it will be a matter of the future." With this victory, our historians have been in the world for at least 200 years. Your children and grandchildren will enjoy the glory. If defeated. We are thousands of miles away from our home country, can we go back? Let's release the rocket! By the way, how many people have been gathered? ”

"Back to the old prince, the brothers who have come one after another have exceeded a thousand."

"Good! Then let's stop them. Shi Tianze stroked his white beard and asked with a smile, "Sons, have you ever left behind your kung fu in riding and shooting?" ”

The people around laughed and replied: "How can you leave it down, that's our eating craft!" ”

Shi Tianze laughed: "That's fine, let those Tianzhu nobles take a look at the skills of our Beidi sons." ”

The crowd laughed and agreed. Shi Tianze said again: "Leave the torch here and find some branches to plug in." We crept by. Mo fought with them in close quarters, and only dealt with it with a return shot. ”

……

In the night sky, a fireball suddenly exploded, and then turned into countless sparks, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye. Then another flash of fire rose as if it were flying, turning into a dazzling fireball in midair. Then another flame rose......

This is a signal rocket that someone is firing into the night sky, one after another, and it can be seen clearly from hundreds of miles away.

On the other side of the Yamur River, the Ghulam Guards and the Iqtar Knights were no exception. They had reached a ferry crossing called Burwall. There is a shoal that can be waded in during the dry season.

Kekobad led the 3,000 Gullam Guards in his headquarters. By this time they had already dismounted their horses and put on their heavy armor under the service of the servants. The Delhi Sultanate ruled the richest territory in India, and it was no less good than Jiangnan, and the level of handicrafts, especially metallurgy, even surpassed that of Jiangnan under the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty - the world-famous Damascus knife was made of Indian steel!

Therefore, the protection of the heavy sheet armor of the Delhi Sultanate is not under the steel armor of the Ming army, but the weight is too great. Even the highly trained Ghulam Guards soldiers could only put on their armor before going into battle, otherwise they could stand it. Horses also had to be exhausted - the Ghulam warriors were accompanied not only by servants but also pack horses, and the heavy cavalry of this era was a costly noble army!

The Ghulam Guards were the heavy infantry, with the Ghulam Guards in front of the line with shields with hammers, and the Ghulam Guards with composite bows and quivers followed behind the Ghulam Guards.

Kekobad also dismounted, and stood at the back of the line, surrounded by several personal guards. Looking at the fireballs that kept exploding in the air, the expression on his face did not change in the slightest. After fighting these enemies from China for so long, of course he knew that the other party would use rockets to warn the police.

But what if the other party knows? At this point, the detour is considered a success. When the army has crossed the river, it will continue to rush at great speed, and it will be in place before dawn. The other party has been fighting hard for a day and night, how much strength do you have to fight again? As long as you engage in hand-to-hand combat with the opponent before dawn, you can also fight a great victory with the endurance of the Ghulam Guard.

"Cross the river!" Seeing that his subordinates had finished the team, Kekobad waved his hand without hesitation. The 3,000 Ghulam guards replied in Persian: "God is greater!" ”

Then they waded across the river......

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, rocket warning, in the south!"

While Chen Defang was intently paying attention to the fierce battle that was taking place in front of him, Li Tingzhi had already discovered the rockets rising one after another in the southern sky.

Chen Defang's face was full of spirit at this time, and it seemed that today's battle was won again. However, in half a day, the opponent's two breastworks have been captured. If it weren't for the decisive burning of the pontoon bridge over the Yamuna River by the generals of the opposing side, creating a situation of fighting on the backwater, the army of the Delhi Sultanate would have collapsed long ago.

But now, the broken army of the Delhi Sultan is only barely surviving, and has been compressed to the embankment by the Yamuna River, relying on the embankment to make a final resistance, but it is only a matter of time before the whole army is destroyed.

"Alert, southside?" Chen Defang turned his head to look at the southern sky, and just as a rocket exploded, it turned into countless orange-red stars in the air as if it were a fireflower.

"Is there really a move?" Chen Defang smiled contemptuously, turned his head to Li Tingzhi and said, "Since the Sultan of Delhi is still not dead, then let's fight him until he dies!" He pondered, "Is it enough to transfer seven brigades and one artillery battalion?" ”

Li Tingzhi frowned slightly, and calculated: "King Shi Su has 8,000 horsemen, when he can delay the enemy army until early in the morning, I might as well wait and attack strongly, first solve the enemy in front of me, and then turn around to deal with the enemy behind him." ”

Chen Dexing shook his head and chuckled: "If you break the thief in front of you, then the Sultan of Paleban will still crash into us?" ”

"He can't run, we have 8,000 light riders, and we can follow and disturb him." Li Tingzhi frowned, and patiently explained to Chen Defang, "The so-called Gulam guards of the Delhi Sultan are all heavily armored soldiers, and a pair of heavy armor is fifty or sixty pounds, which is almost the same as the infantry armor of the Song Kingdom in the past. With such heavy armor, they couldn't run fast at all, and they couldn't compare to the infantry if they walked two or three hundred miles. We only need to chase them all the way, and we can chase them down for 500 miles. ”

Li Tingzhi's method is of course the most standard, the heavy armor and heavy cavalry are opponents that no one wants to touch, even if it is the strong Mongolia in the past, and they are not willing to use their old capital to fight the heavy armor soldiers of the Song State, and generally let the vassals of the Han army use them as cannon fodder to consume the opponent. But Tran is certainly an exception.

"This is not appropriate, the enemy only needs to abandon his armor to escape, if they are allowed to enter the city of Lahore, I am afraid that the battle of Tianzhu will be protracted. It's better to use a dignified array to annihilate them all! ”

Majestic Array...... Do you want to be wiped out in one battle? That's a bit louder, isn't it? Even your brother Chen Dexing wouldn't dare to say this here, right?

Li Tingzhi wanted to persuade again, but Chen Defang waved his hand and said: "Saving soldiers is like fighting a fire, there is no need to discuss this matter again, I will lead the Seventh Brigade...... The Eighth Brigade, well, the elite of the Ninth Brigade went to aid King Shi Su. Auxiliary Duke (Li Tingzhi's own Auxiliary Duke of the Song Kingdom) You are here to oversee the army, you must break the enemy on the banks of the Yamuna River as soon as possible, do not care about casualties, you must know the way of mercy and not the way of the army! ”

Li Tingzhi grinned, what is this called? I don't know how to pretend to know blind command, and you still come to teach me a lesson? Can Ci Bu's soldiers be used here? This is obviously sending his subordinates to death! (To be continued.) )