Chapter 370: Defeat
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In this regard, Scurry just calmly said: "Wait a few more days." ”
Two days later, news came from Anatolia that Damascus had indeed fallen.
Bogard assembled a large army of elephants, placed crossbowmen in their saddles, and was escorted by elite Sassanid heavy cavalry.
As soon as the Seljuk cavalry archers approached, the elephants would stop to form a phalanx, and the crossbowmen on them would fire a salvage of arrows at the Seljuk cavalry archers.
Relying on this tactic, the Persian army formed a mobile crossbow fortress, making it difficult for the Seljuks to exploit their cavalry and archery superiority.
Compared to the crossbowmen who spent their time firing arrows on the back of elephants, the range and accuracy of the Seljuk Assault were undoubtedly inferior.
After all, the Persians were an agrarian people, and even the Parthian archers were skilled in archery, but they could never be compared with the Seljuks, who grew up on horseback, and it was a very wise decision to choose to use a crossbow to deal with mounted archery.
Unable to rely on mobility to harass the Persian army, they could only let the Persian army rampage through Syria, harvest grain, and wreak havoc, and the two brothers Mosi and Kemal were tossed and turned.
On the one hand, Kemal had to control the grain and grass in Egypt and transport it to the front line by sea - Anatolia was not a grain-producing area. On the other hand, he had to lead Egyptian troops and often enter Syria to fight fires.
Eventually, Kemal stockpiled a large number of firearms on a high hill near Damascus, preparing to set fire to the company camp while Bogard harassed Damascus again.
However, Bogard knew more about the geography of Syria than he did. Kemal's plan was entirely in Bogard's calculations.
Bogard, who pretended to be a plan, moved to the valley where Kemal had set up an ambush with a partial division, causing Kemal to lose his vigilance, but relying on the cover of the mountain, a large army appeared from another direction and penetrated Damascus.
Finding that Damascus was in danger, the boss Mo Si hurriedly brought reinforcements and rushed to the rescue, at this time Bogard's strange soldiers had already climbed up from behind Kemal's firearms camp and caught Kemal off guard.
Kemal's troops deserted, and Bogard took advantage of the situation to throw these firearms down the mountain, burning the reinforcements of the boss silently, and by the way, lighting a raging fire in the city of Damascus.
The Murphy army was attacked by fire, and was attacked by Bogard's troops, and fled for his life in a hurry, Bogard immediately turned his troops and stormed Damascus, which was fighting the fire, and broke the city within half a day, and the city lord Junxi Juan was martyred.
Scurry's command, including his three sons, had a total of eighteen wise and brave generals, collectively known as the Eighteen Generals of Tuli.
Juan was one of the eighteen generals, and Scurry left eight people to assist in this expedition to Constantinople, in addition to leaving his eldest son Mo Si and his third son Kemal.
However, the result was not only that he was pressed and beaten by Bao Jiade with not a very large number of elite troops, but he was also defeated even after a while, and among the eighteen generals, someone died on the battlefield for the first time!
Juan and Scurry are the same age, and they are the generals left behind in Scurry's father's time, and his death in battle can be imagined as a blow to the morale of the Turkish army.
Scurry looked up at the city, the Byzantine army had regained its fighting spirit and looked like a rainbow of morale.
"It's you kid again......" Scurry smiled and muttered.
He remembered the scene when he met the wolf king and Bogard for the first time many years ago.
At that time, in the splendid palace of Ctesiphon, he prostrated humbly, and raised his eyes to look at the king on the throne.
is over 70 years old, and he looks like he is more than 50 years old, and the imposing momentum that he invisibly exudes is like a mountain, but his clear face still retains his peerless masculine charm.
People say that the wolf king Khorasan is a beautiful man who comes out once in a thousand years.
The moment Scurry saw the Wolf King, he immediately believed this, because he was also a famous beautiful boy in Anatolia at that time, but in front of the Wolf King, he felt ashamed of himself.
"Little one, your name is Scurry?" asked the man on the throne calmly and calmly.
"Yes, Scurry, Turley. Scurry replied respectfully.
"Tuli ......," the Wolf King muttered, "This is the surname of your Seljuk royal family, do you want to become the Great Khan of the Plateau?"
This sentence made Scurry almost tremble at that time, and it took all the strength of his body to suppress it: "Weak as our tribe, but it is just an extremely distant branch of the Tuli clan." In this troubled world, I just want to survive, how dare I think about the others?"
Khorasan smiled slightly: "I heard that your younger brother wanted to rebel with the help of the power of the governor I sent to the Anatolian Peninsula, but you put him down and killed him. Don't you hate me?"
"The law in troubled times is like this, there is nothing to hold grudges about. The head of the Egyptian side listened to the rumors and supported the enemies of our tribe, and if our tribe stood in that camp again, it would no longer be able to survive, so we could only offer a modest gift and ask His Majesty the Honorable Wolf King to take it in......"
He knew that the wolf king was resourceful, and slightly shorter than a head-on duel. Moreover, Persia is not as rich as Egypt, and it was only unified by the wolf king after a long civil war a few decades ago, and the financial resources cannot support too many major wars, he will not refuse the new spokesman.
But in the face of Khorasan's penetrating gaze, Scurry was still worried at that time.
Because he knows that the other party sees through his ambitions.
At that time, Scurry, in front of the king of the wolf, still looked a lot tenderer.
"Go down, and I'll organize troops to help you attack your enemy's allies. Khorasan said lightly: "But your tribesmen must be the vanguard and take on the most dangerous tasks. If you're not competent enough, your people will be wiped out. ”
The wolf king chose the most honest words to deal with this young man.
But Scurry understands that this is both a good thing and a bad thing.
Be honest, prove that you will not calculate yourself for the time being, and affirm your own use value.
But it also means that if you are strong enough to threaten Persian rule over the Anatolian Peninsula, you may face a devastating blow from the other side!
However, for Curry at the time, he couldn't think about it so much, he could only take it one step at a time.
When he turned to go out of the hall, he saw a young man in beautiful clothes trotting into the hall at the age of eleven or twelve, and the wolf king held him in his arms dotingly.
"Grandpa, that guy looks like a dog. ”
The boy whispered.
Bogard must have thought that Scurry hadn't heard.
Scurry was almost ranting in humiliation.
But today, I am completely relieved.
If it weren't for crawling like a dog again and again, sublimated in the grind, how could it become a generation of "lonely masters of the Western Desert"?
The two ancestors and grandsons of the wolf king gave him too much humiliation, but without these humiliations, there was no so-called god of war.
Counting up, Bogard and himself, entangled so far, can be regarded as a half-life enemy.
The Wolf King didn't really die.
He had suppressed himself for so many years, making himself use all his scheming and servile knees, so that it was difficult to save the lives of his family.
And when he surpassed him, his soul continued to be his enemy through his grandson Bogard, and he was still his most powerful opponent.
Then look forward to the next encounter.
Curry smiled and gulped down the steaming cup of coffee. (To be continued.) )