The speed of the Xiqiang army was really fast, and it came to the battlefield in a blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Chen Mu ordered the cavalry to meet him and charge around him.

The Xiqiang army did not directly engage the Great Xia cavalry, and when they saw the Great Xia cavalry coming, they divided into two teams and turned to the outside of the battlefield, and then took out their bows and arrows, sprinkling a rain of arrows.

Although the cavalry of Great Xia wore iron armor and was fine with arrows, there were many war horses that fell with arrows, and the cavalry fell from their horses.

The Great Xia cavalry continued to rush forward, while the Western Qiang army continued to run, shooting arrows while running, and the Great Xia army could not catch up at all.

Chen Mu noticed that the Xiqiang army did not have battle armor, not even leather armor. He had only a scimitar, a bow, and a pot of arrows on his back. On horseback, too, there is only a burden and two quivers, and the weight is very light.

The Great Xia cavalry wore iron armor and held long knives, and their weight far exceeded that of the Xiqiang army. Now let alone catch up with the Xiqiang army, you can't even shoot a crossbow.

The range of a bow and arrow is much longer than that of a repeater.

It is unrealistic to want to exhaust the arrows of Xiqiang, although it is said that the Xiqiang army is only 5,000, and the cavalry of Daxia has 10,000. But the Xiqiang army had three pots of arrows per person, and when the arrows were gone, the Great Xia cavalry was gone.

Chen Muyi gritted his teeth and ordered to abandon the Xiqiang army and exterminate the Persian army with all his might.

The Great Xia cavalry immediately turned around and went to encircle the rear army of the Persian army, and on the main side of the main force of the Persian front army, the invincible flying army, the Wudang flying army, and the reserve army also increased their attack.

Seeing this, the Xiqiang army also followed the Great Xia cavalry to the battlefield and poured a rain of arrows on the Great Xia army.

The Bactrian army could not fight back, so they could only transfer all their anger to the Persian army.

The Persian army was in danger, and the Bactrian army suffered heavy casualties.

Chen Mu looked at the battlefield solemnly, and did not have the slightest idea of changing his order.

This is also a way that there is no way, and people will definitely die in a war. In the current situation, we can only fight hard.

If it is just to deal with the Xiqiang army, Chen Mu still has a way, because the biggest weakness of the Xiqiang army is that it cannot fight in close quarters, as long as the Great Xia army puts on a defensive formation and steadily advances with a shield, the Xiqiang army has no way.

However, with the Persian army present, the Xiqiang army can only manage the guerrillas, and let the Persian army be responsible for attacking and containing, so that the Great Xia army cannot maintain the formation.

The Persian army struggled to support itself in the encirclement, while the Western Qiang army kept firing arrows, but it could not change the situation on the battlefield.

After a while, the Xiqiang army finally made up its mind, rushed into the war group, paid the price of several hundred horsemen, and robbed the former Persian king.

And then walked away.

Chen Mu saw it in his eyes and nodded secretly. There are masters in the Xiqiang army.

They understood the importance of the former Persian king, and knew that this political bargaining chip was more important than 10,000 Persian troops. If the former Persian king died, the opponents of Bactria in Persia would have no core and would not be able to form a unified army.

Moreover, it is also a smart move for Xiqiang to help the former Persian king "quell the rebellion". You must know that the relationship between Persia and Xiqiang was not very good, and they were competitors for natural resources.

Xiqiang's move seemed to help the enemy, but in fact it was to destroy the war potential of Persia with war. After the original Persian king succeeded in "quelling the rebellion", Xiqiang could ask for all kinds of returns, and once the Persian state did not give it, he would lead the army to rob it.

At that time, the Persian state must not be an opponent.

Now that the Xiqiang army has run away with the Persian king, the Persian army that has been left behind is also extremely desperate.

At this time, Chen Mu gave an order and shouted to the Persian army: lay down your arms and don't kill.

At this time, the Persian army completely lost the meaning of resistance and laid down their arms and surrendered.

After counting, the Bactrian army captured 3,000 Persian soldiers and killed 7,000.

On the side of the Great Xia Army, the Invincible Flying Army and the Wudang Flying Army lost 3,000 people, the cavalry killed 2,000 people, and the reserve army lost 2,000 people.

Counting the more than 500 cavalry left by the Xiqiang army, the battle loss ratio of Great Xia to the combined army was almost 1 to 1, which was the heaviest loss since Chen Mu led his troops to the expedition.

However, Chen Mu's harvest was also great, as soon as the Persian army was wiped out, although the remaining Xiqiang army suffered little losses, Chen Mu had the confidence to deal with them.

After cleaning up the battlefield, the Great Xia army rested for three days, and then went to the next city of Persia, Dongping City, with the new Persian king.

From a distance, the gates were closed, and the city was guarded by soldiers. But when you look at the state of these soldiers, they are rushing to the army.

Chen Mu asked the king of New Persia to come forward and shout for the people in the city to surrender, but the general who defended the city scolded and said that the king of New Persia was a traitor.

Chen Mu thought for a while, and did not immediately let people attack the city, but ordered to rest.

Zhang Zhong asked, "His Royal Highness the Prince, what kind of siege equipment are we building this time?" ”

According to Zhang Zhong's own point of view, he only needs to rush over with a ladder, and if there are catapults and wells, it can reduce casualties, but it will increase the time.

Unexpectedly, Chen Mu said: "No need, you don't need to build anything, you go to the reserve army to find hundreds of archers to come over, and then let them and the invincible flying army have a full meal and prepare to go out at night." ”

Zhang Zhong was confused, even if it was a sneak attack at night, there must be a cloud ladder, otherwise how could he get to the top of the city? And why send only more than a thousand people?

But His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had an order, and Zhang Zhong didn't dare to ask more, so he went down to make arrangements.

At night, the defenders of Dongping City were patrolling the city, and found that there were torches lit up in the Daxia military camp, and hurriedly sounded the alarm to let everyone rise up to face the battle.

However, the Great Xia army only came over with more than 1,000 people, and there were no people behind who were even watching the battle and preparing to participate in the battle, and the military camp in Great Xia was quiet.

The Persian soldiers were wondering when they saw the Bactrian army rushing closer. The defender gave the order to release the arrows, and the Great Xia army raised their shields to resist.

Then the archers of the reserve army, under the cover of the invincible flying army, fired arrows into the sky.

The Persian soldiers also raised their planks to resist, only to find the arrows flying high above their heads and falling into the city.

The Persian soldiers thought that the Great Xia army was not good at archery, and laughed.

Immediately afterwards, the Great Xia army turned around and walked along the city wall to the side, firing arrows as they went, all of which fell into the city without exception.

The guard felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly called someone down to check the arrows.

When a soldier came up to the city with an arrow, the guard opened the note tied to the arrow and saw that there was a sentence written in Persian:

There is a prize for opening the city gate.

The guard was taken aback and quickly asked people to retrieve all the arrows.

But it was too late, there were many people who picked up the arrows, and there were also people in the Persian army who supported Bactria and were only forcibly conscripted.

The next day, Chen Mu led his troops to line up outside the city and ordered to attack Dongping City.

However, they just let the invincible flying army and the Wudang flying army step forward and fire their crossbows at the head of the city, and when the crossbow arrows ran out, they withdrew to the main camp.