Chapter 167: Chess Pieces, Chessboards, Chess Players
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1,000 paces, 1,500 steps, 2,000 steps......
There are more and more rebels in Aguba under the city of Loop. Although the 500 reinforcements that joined the third wave looked like a civilian army that had been urgently assembled, Niazi did invest 2,000 men in Abduli.
That's 2,000 people. For the western part of Khotan, which is now full of devastation, with a total population of only about 10,000 people, this is still plus the garrisons of each city. How much energy must that be? Niazi is definitely giving it her all.
If Abdul really only has about 200 men, and the four-day attack, Niazi should already get Abduli's head. But Abduli had six hundred men, and he had just slaughtered six hundred of Lopu, and whether it was the old team of the Ibibula family or the newly recruited strong men, they knew in their hearts that they had to resist. Not to mention Liu Xian outside, there are only 300 corpses buried in a deep pit in a corner of the city, and he and others will never be forgiven by Niaz.
In the four-day attack, Niazi wounded 200 men, and more than 100 people were killed and wounded in the city. After all, the soldiers on the side of Niazi are stronger than Abduli.
But Lope remained firmly in Abduli's hands. With Liu Xianjun in the background for them, the Abduli army in the city of Lopu is as confident in victory as the diamond diamond.
Niyazi's men were also hopeful of victory. Like their leader, this group of people is also haunted by the words Ibibra. They all participated in the original Khotanese massacre. If Abdul rises again, will they still be good?
The True God Cult has a scripture in one hand and a scimitar in the other. Everywhere he went, there was always blood, fire, and killing. The fighting between their own people is even more tragic, and the stubbornness of hatred is not something that the people in the interior can understand. They know themselves, so some things are called extremely determined. That's what happened to Lope's fight. The Niyazi army had already suffered a tenth of its casualties, but the morale of the army was high, and they still had the strength to not give up until they cut off Abduli's head.
"Kill, the more you kill, the better!"
A mountain depression more than forty miles south of Luopu, Liu Xian has been stationed here in the past few days. His left hand is the Yulong River, which originates in the Kunlun Mountains, which ensures the drinking water problem of the whole army. At the same time, the pasture is also abundant, which ensures the food of the whole army's war horses.
This big drama of Lope has reached its climax. The time that Liu Xian was waiting for was about to come, but the traces of the large army he was looking forward to still did not appear on the virtual map. The news came back from the east that the main force of the expeditionary army had only now reached Nya, and that place was still six or seven hundred miles away from Lope.
In the final showdown of this battle with Khotan, if nothing else, they will not be able to catch up.
"Your Excellency, you're all ready."
Wei Ming appeared behind Liu Xian and interrupted Liu Xian's musings.
"Let's go!"
Clean and neat commands. turned around and went down the mountain with Wei Ming, and the people and horses under the mountain were lined up. Although there was one squadron of Qin cavalry and one squadron of the Fourth Brigade of the Hussar Battalion, there were still 1,500 horsemen.
Along the way, the losses of the expeditionary army are small and not worth mentioning. And the garrisons of the two cities of Claudia and Qierla, although most of them were killed, still formed three squadrons. In addition, because the area where the Agubo rebels were located was vast and sparsely populated, in order to facilitate the rule and later expansion to the western part of Khotan, all the troops were cavalry.
After deducting 200 men and horses to escort grain and grass, and then subtracting the casualties in the army, there were still 1,500 horsemen in front of Liu Xian.
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Under the city of Lopp.
A tall soldier of the Niaz Army, holding a round shield and shouting in a garbled voice, stepped over the corpses of his companions lying under the wall, and charged for the third time towards the gates of Loop.
A pair of blood-red eyes seemed to ooze blood.
Today, Niazi took advantage of the arrival of reinforcements, and at the same time knew that he could only concentrate so many forces, and took advantage of the high morale of the whole army to continuously send troops to attack Lope.
This humble city has brick and earth walls that can be climbed up by a simple long ladder. When the city was destroyed and slaughtered last year, the traces of the gaps in the walls were still vivid.
Niazi has invested thousands of people in two batches today, and the losses have been close to 100 so far. However, the effect of the shock was still obvious, and Niazidu saw Abduli appear at the west gate of the main attack of the troops.
At the foot of the wall, unquenched fires were everywhere in the wind. This was caused by the meat oil poured down by the defenders of the city. As a nomadic Xinjiang that is more important than farming, and the Abduli army, which slaughtered more than 300 residents of Luopu, it is still very simple to find enough meat oil.
For four days, Abduli's army did not know how many times they had set fire to the ladder in this way. But the good thing is that now these have been overcome, and the Abduli army in the city has long been out of meat oil.
The fire that is still burning is the last struggle.
The fire was extinguished, and the black ground was steaming. The will of the Abduli army in the city was also strong, relying on the long and high walls, they still let the rebel soldiers fall to the ground despite their superior numbers.
Abdul smirked. The rebel army attacked again, and he didn't look at it. Because he knew that the more Niazi was like this, the sooner the time would come for him to finish.
On the battlefield he was just a pawn, and Niazi was no better. Throughout the battle, there is also a standard-bearer ready to eat him at all times. As long as he can drag down the Niaz army, Liu Xian will definitely kill him like a thunderbolt.
Under such circumstances, how could Abdul Li still be afraid of wave after wave of attacks from Niaz? He wished for.
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Late at night, ten miles outside of the city of Loop. Liu Xian rode his horse and walked slowly on the grass, and behind him was the 1,500 horse team. They set out in the afternoon, and after galloping all over the country for thirty miles, they stopped. The whole army cowered behind a ridge, not to regain its horsepower, but to wait for darkness.
Until now, the pocket watch showed that it was one o'clock in the morning, and on the virtual map, Liu Xian clearly saw the branch of the Niaz army outside the city of Luopu, continuing to sleep east and west, as before. The clatter of iron hooves shattered the silence of the night.
Fifteen hundred cavalry each squadron had a queue, and fifteen not very large cavalry groups looked so huge under the light of the stars and moon.
Suddenly, a cloud covered the moon, the whirring night wind drowned out a faint sound, and there was a cold silence on the grass. The conceit trapped Abduli to the point of death, and he fell asleep peacefully. Especially the western battalion of his two soldiers and horses, which was the main force of the Niazi army, originally numbered 1,500 men. The vigilant at night is afraid that there are not even a hundred people. For a long time, Liu Xian could not see the red dots of a mobile patrol on the virtual map.
A cavalry silently approached.
Ten miles, five miles, three miles......
Not far away, the campfires in the Niazi army camp were already faintly visible.
"Da Da Da ......"
The sound of horses' hooves approached from the front, and a dark cavalry hurricane could be seen in the dark night, galloping from the front.
"Brethren, the largest and highest tent in the middle of the camp is the dwelling place of Niaz. Whoever cuts off the head of Niazi will be rewarded with a hundred gold! Liu Xian's voice sounded like thunder, reaching the ears of every soldier.
"Whew......"
Fifteen hundred cavalry responded with a howl, and the rich reward instantly lit up an irrepressible murderous intent in their eyes. Whether it is an officer or an ordinary pawn, they are all aroused by Liu Xian's words.
"Kill!" Liu Xian raised his knife and slashed forward.
At this moment, the dark clouds drifted away, and the cold moonlight sprinkled on the earth.
At this moment, Liu Xian seemed extraordinarily calm. With 1,500 cavalry behind him, like a dragon whirlwind sweeping the heavens and the earth, swept towards the Niazi military camp.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
Fifteen hundred cavalry shouted in unison, and in the silence of the night, how loud and loud it was.
In the shouts that soared into the sky, a hundred horseback teams rode their horses with sabers in high air.
The distance was rapidly shortening, and the camp of the Niyazi army in front was flying closer, and the scorching killing machine burned in the eyes of every soldier. As if he had found the prey of the wolves, he opened his bloody mouth and exposed his fangs coldly.
At the moment when Liu Xian's army ran wildly, the Niazi military camp not far away had already reacted.
"Blow the trumpet, blow the trumpet—"
"There's an enemy attack—"
Six thousand horses' hooves struck the ground, and the thunderous sound woke everyone in the Niazi military camp, and the military camp was suddenly in chaos.
In her confusion, Niazi felt as if the ground was shaking. If it is a battle-hardened general, he must know that this is a large cavalry group charging. But despite his high status, Niazi did not establish a meritorious position under Aguba. He was originally the hereditary Aqimu Boke of Yarkand, and when Tuo Ming rose, he threw himself into Tuo Ming, and when Agu Bai attacked Yarkand, he colluded with Agu Bai and made great contributions to Agu Bai Shun to take Yarkand. Therefore, he was arranged by Aguba to Khotan. When Niazi was born, the Zhanger rebellion had been put down by the Qing court, and the growth environment was not generally peaceful and peaceful, so he never heard the shouts of war.
But the captain of his guard understood what the shaking of the ground meant. Horrified, he opened the curtain and rushed in, "My lord, it's a cavalry sneak attack-"
The panicked exclamations of the soldiers of the Rinyaz army in the camp had reached his ears. Niazi hurried out of the tent, and when he looked out, he saw countless cavalry rushing from the south. My heart is like counting nine cold winters and being poured with a basin of cold water!
Liu Xian had retreated from the front of the charge line to the middle of the ranks. The unsuspecting Niazi army, facing a sneak attack by 1,500 cavalry, was doomed. All he had to focus on now was whether he could capture Niazi.
Cavalry sneak attacks, especially night raids, the possibility of Niazi escaping is not small. R1152