January 10, 1258 Asoganburg

After several days, Count Asugan finally smiled, and he received an invitation to the expedition of Saiga Khan. At the same time, Yi Ye also returned from completing his mission, bringing enough living supplies needed for the expedition. Due to the loss of several capable generals such as Hagur and Khugu in the Kugit Khanate, Saiga Khan had to summon all the border lords in consideration of this, otherwise the manpower would be a little stretched.

In order to weigh the contradiction between the expedition and the defense of the city, the earl still has to put at least half of the troops in the Asogan Fort, which means that the earl can only take out about 2,000 troops, although this is to meet the standard of the expedition, but the face is not enough to be beautiful, every border castle lord is like this, and his own castle must not be considered in the first place.

In addition, there is another thing that makes the earl happy, he has recruited the right-hand man "Yi Ye". According to the information, he traveled all over the continent, worked under a lord of Vecchia, did things for the Swadiaans, defeated the general Voldetrat, won the championship of the Kurau Athletic Conference, and a series of deeds. But none of this matters, the important thing is that Yi Ye is now working under him. Although he had offended him a few days ago, the Earl did not care.

The agreed location of the expedition was in Tulga, and in fact many lords had set off with their troops a few days earlier, and should have been training intensively before the battle. Count Azogan had only one day to prepare for the hurried march to Turga, and the sooner he prepared for such a thing, the better.

The city of Tulga is a noble district

Ten flags had already been planted high in the castle, and for the current Kugit Khanate, this was the majority of the troops. The snow melts quickly in the sun's rays, and there is a constant influx of people, almost all of the troops are stationed here, and everyone knows that there is oil and water to be fished here.

"How many people did you bring this time? Boli. "The Count of Tuoju sat on a sofa encrusted with colorful gems.

"There are 2,500 elite troops, and in addition to that, there are more than 2,000 temporary armed forces, and the total number can reach 5,000." Boli Boye replied.

"It's going well these days, Strategist."

"Where can I compare to you, general, your five thousand iron horsemen are close to the Khan."

"Let's not talk about that, what were our plans the other day?" The Earl of Drag brought his mouth close to the ear of the military advisor Boli.

"It's ready, it's just that the protagonist hasn't appeared yet."

"What did the Khan say?"

"He didn't say much, you know, once the Agull family falls, Saiga can only rely on us."

"That's good, I wish he thought so."

The idea of an armistice between the Kugit Khanate and the Kugit Empire was the idea of Boli, and although he had been called a military advisor before, it was only after this success that his title was completely changed to "military advisor". The truce between the two countries undoubtedly saved Saiga a lot of trouble, and the Kugit Empire later collapsed as the military advisor said, Saiga Khan was very satisfied with this, although he did not make anything, but stopped a lot of losses, and most importantly, he preserved his Khan's dignity.

Saiga has begun to move from middle age to old age, but he has not declared his heirs. Maybe it was for unnecessary trouble, maybe it was for some other reason, but the nobles knew that he must have had illegitimate children.

The purpose of Saiga's expedition was to retake Fort Ahuen, which was necessary, and the Kugit Empire was already terrible, and the Salanders took over the place as if they were beating chickens to prove their existence, not only curbing the development of the surrounding caravans, but also often arresting peasants who went to Rana to do business on some inexplicable charges. The rebellion had only taken place a few days earlier, and although it had been successfully suppressed, the economy had declined. If the situation is better, Sega still has the idea of retaking Halma.

Until the arrival of Lord Imiza and Count Azwagan, the pre-war preparations were basically over. The army began to advance towards Rana as its last reserves, and to take Fort Ahuen with all its might.

The battle of the Saiga expedition did not escape the attention of the towns, and the kings got the news, and the Sultan of Hakim was no exception.

The Sultan knew that this battle could not be avoided, and that it was only a matter of time before Fort Ahuen was captured, so it was better to take this opportunity to greatly weaken the strength of the old man Saiga. The former king of the Kugit Empire, Dastam, and several of his lords were now undoubtedly vassals of the Sultan of Hakim.

In order to fend off the attack from Kugit, the Sultan of Hakim proposed the idea of running for temporary marshal at the Council of Lords, and the nobles knew the Sultan's thoughts, and there was no doubt that Dastam was chosen.

Under normal circumstances, the marshal has great power, and can call on the whole country, and he must know which to attack and defend, and the king cannot refuse if necessary. And this time is different, everyone knows that Dastam cannot be called a real marshal, after all, who will hand over the power to cowards who have surrendered to other countries.

Dustam also knows that all he can do is fight a good battle, so as to restore the most basic dignity, his subordinates themselves are some impatient, and what Dustam has done makes them extremely dissatisfied, not to mention that Dustam is now reduced to the same lord status as them.

The biggest problem facing Dastam is not how to fight Saiga, but how to gather enough men, no lord is willing to follow him, not even former subordinates, Dastam is extremely embarrassed.

The Kugit Empire collapsed and all the fiefs were surrendered, but the Sultan redistributed all the fiefs to his former vassals, leaving not a single village for Dastam and his party. Dastam knew that everyone was against him, and his only recourse was to beg Sultan al-Hakim to help him, a marshal, to call his men to fight. Dastam knew that if he didn't, the Sultan would blame him for losing any territory, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

Almost all methods were exhausted, and the Sultan was unmoved by Dastam's request, claiming that it was the duty of the marshal and not the duty of the king, until Dastam knelt down and kowtowed three times, and the Sultan gradually smiled, and gave him a temporary 10,000 men, although they were all miscellaneous fish and shrimp, and Dastam was enough to meet them.

Dastam looked up to the sky and sighed, "If the heavens don't help the king, what can the king do!" ”

The force led by Dastam began to move north, and they were to march from the Weiyeha Pass to Halma and then to Fort Ahuen. The only one who can count the combat effectiveness of this north, and the only one who takes the initiative to fight, is the new owner of Ahuenburg, Lord Hurasen, although he doesn't care about this new castle, if he loses it, it doesn't matter, but under all kinds of pressure exerted by the nobles, he must go on the expedition. In fact, he was also forced to be helpless when assigning Ahuenburg, after all, there was no family blessing.

The Cypriots marched all the way west and recruited militia from various villages, which was a common trick of the Kugit Khanate, and the total number continued to rise, providing a great fighting force for the expedition, and the villagers were very interested in this kind of thing, and they did not need to do much to get a satisfactory bounty for joining in, and there were more abundant booty waiting for them to plunder. All they had to do was shoot the bow and arrow in their hands, which was a common occurrence for the Kujits.

Fort Ahuen was much closer to the Dehrim region, but Sega was always worried about something.

Before Saiga ascended the throne, the great battle to capture Dehrim was the pride of all the Kujits, who at that time fought bravely under the leadership of the old khan and miraculously defeated the Swadia knights on the plains. At that time, Kujit reached the peak of both strength and weapon reserves, the number of people once reached 100,000, and the per capita reserves of bows and arrows reached more than 100, and if everyone fired at the same time, it would not be an exaggeration to say that 10,000 arrows were fired at the same time.

While this ideal is at its highest point, reality is at its lowest point. The logistics and grass were cut off, the lord's rebellion, the old Khan's injury, and Dastam's conspiracy shattered the Kujit people's dream of staying in the plains for a long time, but these are not the main reasons, what really made Saiga desperate was the death of his lover, maybe not a lover, but in his mind, it should have been a long time ago, this woman named Touantna completely changed Saiga, most people think that Saiga is just a coward who regresses and seeks peace, although on the surface people say that she is mature and stable, but really inquire in the tavern, There are countless unpleasant words. Few people know that Saiga had a proud lion in his heart, but now it is asleep forever.

I can't say why, Besture always felt that something was wrong, so he took the initiative to find Yi Ye to talk to him.

"Sir, maybe you've noticed something, too?" Besture rode his horse closer to Yi Ye.

"What do you want to say, Admiral Bestur."

"I don't know much about politics, but isn't this invitation a little slower, we went too hastily, this is the case when we came out of Azuganburg, and this is still the case when we came out ......of Tulga."

"Stop, we'll talk about this question when we get to Ranna." Yi Ye whispered, comparing his eyes.

There are a lot of people around here, this kind of thing is not suitable for discussion, and one is going to lose his head if he is not careful, and it is clear that Besture does not realize this.

The invitation was sent very late, almost stuck at the point before departure, and Yi Ye also thought about it for a long time, and finally came to a dangerous conclusion: Count Azwagan was in danger. As to why this conclusion was reached, it can be seen from many aspects, the most obvious point being that Count Azwagan did not attend a single meeting of the expedition. It's just that this place that ordinary people can think about, how could the Earl not know it.

People who don't have a family background can't survive in Calradia for long.