Ten days passed quickly. Memory

Under the pressure of Mu Tianbo's strong order and the sense of urgency to rescue the trapped friendly troops, the officers and men of the three brigades of the sixth town assembled in Kyzyl Oda as scheduled.

Outside the city of Kyzyl Odar, more than 30,000 soldiers of the sixth town have been assembled, and the battalion is a unit, forming a neat large phalanx one after another.

In front of the soldiers of the Third Brigade, there was a stage that had been temporarily erected, and Mu Tianbo was on the stage under the gaze of tens of thousands of soldiers, accompanied by a group of generals, and stood on it condescendingly looking down on these loyal soldiers of Great Xia.

Then he coughed lightly and said in a loud voice with that special loudspeaker:

"Soldiers of the Sixth Town, you must have heard that the comrades of the Fourth Brigade who fought all the way from the Central Plains with us are now under siege by Xiyi, who is cunning and treacherous, resulting in the death of Hezhen, the deputy capital of the Great Xia Mengchi, the commander of the Fourth Brigade and the three generals, in Shiva City.

If this revenge is not avenged, how should the surrounding countries laugh at my Great Summer Dynasty? When it is a joke that my Mengchi soldiers are incompetent and let the thieves go unpunished, whether it is to maintain the majesty of the Celestial Empire or to avenge the robe, all the soldiers of my sixth town should share the same hatred and kill the enemy!

I, Mu Tianbo, the Duke of the Great Xia Qianguo, swear once again that this expedition will not destroy the Khiva barbarians, not destroy the Persian thieves, and swear not to return to the dynasty!" Memory

"If you don't destroy Khiva, you won't destroy Persia, and you won't return to court!"

"If you don't destroy Khiva, you won't break Persia, and you won't return to the court!!

「……」

The soldiers of the three brigades shouted in unison, and the sound of the sound converged together, almost making the walls of Kyzylorda tremble, and within the city walls, the Kazakh civilians all looked in horror in the direction from which the sound came, although it was not aimed at them, they could still directly feel the undisguised murderous aura from this army of a hundred battles!

"Knort!"

In the echo that kept echoing from afar, Mu Tianbo suddenly drew his sword, pointed high at the dazzling sun, and said angrily, "Go on the expedition!"

"Most of the capital has an order, and the whole army will go on the march!" Memory

"All the troops are on the march! All the troops are on the march!"

Mu Tianbo's voice fell, and the heralds who were guarding under the stage immediately raised their heads, tore their throats and let out a roar that cracked through the clouds, passing on the orders of the Dadu Protector, and the other heralds in the army immediately followed the long roar of the sky, so that the orders could reach the ears of every soldier.

"All of them, turn back and go!"

Then the officers of the battalions and companies gave a loud order, and the soldiers turned around in an orderly manner and walked in the direction of the city of Khiva.

Mu Tianbo stood on the stage and watched the phalanxes begin to squirm, the expression on his face was full of solemnity, his eldest son Mu Zhongxian greeted him at this time, he was draped all over his body, hugged his fists and saluted: "Dadu Hu, the whole army has set off, please step off the stage and get on the horse!"

"Please protect the horses!"

The generals echoed in unison. Memory

Mu Tianbo nodded majestically, flicked his cloak, and strode off the stage, Mu Zhongxian and other generals immediately followed, and after walking under the stage, the war horses had already been prepared.

Mu Tianbo refused the support of his eldest son, turned over and got on his horse with agility, he grabbed the reins with both hands, snorted lightly, and rode his horse forward, the guards and his eldest son followed closely behind, and soon caught up with the front army that set off.

This was followed by a long, boring march into the wilderness.

To get from Kizil-Oda to Khiva, an important town in the south of Mengchi, is to bypass the vast Kizilkum Desert, which has swallowed up so many travelers and caravans, that without an experienced guide and ample baggage, it is a dead end to enter the desert.

Even the Xia army was also respectful of this desert, and Mu Tianbo preferred to choose a more secure plan, bypassing the Kyzylkum Desert and passing through the equally barren Gobi to the west to reach the Amu Darya Valley, rather than rushing for time

And there were many non-wartime deaths.

Because the Xia army did not deliberately cover up the movement of the troops, the combined forces of Khiva and the Persians quickly obtained this information, of course, when they knew about it, it was more than half a month after the Xia army set out from Kyzylorda.

On the twenty-second day of the first month of the seventeenth year of Wu'an, the Xia army camp in the north of Khiva City, the fourth brigade of the Xia army was still holding on. Memory

Although the sacrifice of Deputy General Chang Wanyong failed to destroy most of the enemy's heavy weapons, they succeeded in burning many torsion trebuchets and ballistas, relieving the defensive pressure of the Xia army.

The next day, the enraged Persian coalition launched a fierce attack on the Xia camp, their artillery, trebuchets and ballistae caused the wooden walls to collapse in many places, and the allied infantry poured into the camp through the gap and fought the Xia army.

At this time, the artillery that the Xia army had been hiding finally came in handy, and under the bombardment of grapes like scattered flowers, the allied infantry suffered heavy losses, and the gap in the wooden wall was like purgatory on earth, with rivers of blood flowing and corpses all over the field.

With the assistance of the 12-pounder infantry guns, although the Xia army was still under great pressure, it could be regarded as a countermeasure in the face of the onslaught of the coalition forces, and several onslaughts of the coalition forces were crushed by the close-range shotgun bombardment of the 12-pounder infantry guns, and the coalition forces lost thousands of lives inside and outside the unstable wooden wall.

Under the shock of thousands of lives, even the Persian commander Fatil was a little frightened, he refused the Khiva Sultan's urging to attack, and decided to change his tactics and besiege the Xia army for a long time, no longer wasting his troops in the onslaught.

This also happened to be the intention of the Xia army, the 4th Brigade also suffered a lot of losses in several onslaughts to defend against the enemy, and even two artillery pieces were just destroyed by the boulders falling from the sky, and the gunpowder reserves in the battalion were exhausted, and only the part that could be fired was retained, and the infantry could only meet the enemy with cold weapons.

Even so, the soldiers of the Xia army still maintained a high fighting spirit, and those gaps in the wooden walls that were collapsed by the enemy, they directly piled up the corpses of the enemy, plugged the gaps, and poured water on them, so that the water that quickly froze under the severe cold became a coagulant, making the corpse mountain a solid wall of flesh and blood. Memory

After learning that the Xia army was on their way to the city of Khiva, the commander of the Persian army, Noft Ami Fatil, immediately rushed into the palace of the Khiva Sultan and asked the Sultan about the Khiva Khanate's response.

The tenacity of the Fourth Brigade made Fatil full of fear for the Xia army, he believed that such an army could not be dealt with by the two countries, and that they could hold out in the face of extreme inferiority in troops, and that they would pay a heavy price, and that if it were placed in a field battle with fewer differences in strength, the combined forces of their two countries would most likely be defeated head-on by the Xia army.

Therefore, after Fatil learned the news, although he didn't say it directly, he already had an idea in his heart - that is, to escape!

Phew, it should be said that it is a strategic turn!

Continuing to stay outside the city of Khiva, once the main force of the Xia army comes over and the two armies fight, his fate will be a dead end nine times out of ten, but if he retreats to the country, he can still use the complex terrain of the country and the support of the people to resist the Xia army.

As for the Khivas...... What does it have to do with him?

In the face of Fatil's inquiry, Khiva Sultan Anusha also panicked all of a sudden, and he didn't know how to answer at all, he knew that the Xia army would definitely fight, but he didn't expect the Xia army to move so fast, and they didn't even eat the Xia army in front of them. Memory

The original plan has now been completely overturned, and it turns out that they are not Xia Jun's opponents, but he has no way out - killing Xia Jun's high-ranking by despicable means is enough for Xia Jun to cut him with a thousand knives, and if he falls into the hands of Xia Jun, it is the best way to die if he is directly beheaded.

Therefore, after Anusa Sultan came to his senses, he immediately decided that he must not surrender to the Xia army, and he had only one choice, that is, to continue the war with the Xia army and use the strength of the Persians to resist stubbornly.

After confirming his thoughts, the Sultan of Anusa immediately said to Fatil, who came to inquire, "General Fatil, the Xia army is menacing, we must work together to deal with this crisis, I think the Xia army outside the city is a very big threat, we must destroy them before the main force of the Xia army arrives, otherwise they are very much

We may join forces with the main force of the Xia army, and fight the rear of the camp from the camp when we are engaged with the main force of the Xia army outside."

"I agree with you, Sultan." Fatil nodded, agreeing with the Sultan, but he did not have the confidence that he would be able to wipe out the Xia army outside the city, and he preferred to retreat south.

Moreover, there is a dark idea that cannot be known to the Khiva people has been rooted in his heart for a long time, and it is the Khivas who betrayed the Xia people and killed the Xia people's high-ranking people, what does it have to do with their Persians? Maybe as long as the Xia army eliminated the Khiva Khanate and completed their revenge, they begged for mercy at this time, and the Xia army would let them go.

After saying that, Fathir paused and continued: "However, with all due respect, the soldiers of the coalition army no longer have the courage to continue attacking the camp of the Xia army, you did not go to the camp outside the city to see, every time the soldiers mentioned that camp, their faces would show sincere fear, and in this case they were driven to attack, and it was very likely that there would be a mutiny."

What he said was not a lie, because the heavy losses caused by several strong attacks had already made the soldiers resist the attack, and the Xia army also made a corpse wall from the corpses of the coalition soldiers, which greatly shocked the coalition soldiers and hit the morale of the coalition army. Memory

No one wants to be buried properly after their death, but to be thrown into the pile of corpses by the enemy as a wall to defend their own people, which is a shameful death in their eyes, and even if they can go to heaven to eat seventy-two delicious little raisins after death, they will not hesitate to refuse.

When Sultan Anusa heard Fatil's words, the expression on his face became more solemn, and he hesitated for a long time and asked, "Then what should we do according to you?"

"Get out of here." Fatil did not hesitate and replied categorically: "There is no danger to defend the city of Khiva, even if the city wall is strong, but under the threat of the Xia army's artillery, no matter how strong the city wall is, it will be destroyed sooner or later, and it will be a dead end at that time.

Rather than being trapped and dying in the city of Khiva in the end, it is better to retreat to the south decisively, and only by withdrawing our troops to the south can we have a chance to continue to hold on to the Xia army, and I will also report to the council later, requesting that the army continue to expand in the country and resist the Xia army with all our might."

As soon as he heard that he was going to abandon the city of Khiva and retreat south, Sultan Anusha's first reaction was to refuse, but before he could say anything about his refusal, he swallowed it back again.

Yes, Fatil's answer makes sense, continuing to hold on to Khiva will only lead to a dead end, and retreating south with the Persians still has a chance to turn defeat into victory, even if this chance now seems to be a little less likely to succeed.

Seeing that the Sultan of Anusha was in deep thought, Fatil was not in a hurry to urge, and continued to stand there quietly watching the other party think, and after waiting for a few minutes, Anusha finally raised his head to look at him, he still maintained hesitation, and asked, "General Fatil, after retreating south, where should I and the royal family be placed?" Memory

"If you don't mind, Isfahan will prepare a new and comfortable place for you and your family to live in." Fatil looked him straight in the eye and replied.

Isfahan ......

Anusa Sultan was a little moved, he had already heard of the prosperity of Isfahan, but he was also worried, he and his family went to Isfahan was equivalent to sending himself headlong into the hands of the Persians, and the Persians did not have to worry about how they wanted to deal with them at that time.

However, if he continued to stay in the Khiva Khanate, he had no doubt that Xia Jun knew where he was hiding and would definitely push desperately where he would, and when he thought of this possibility, a cold sweat broke out uncontrollably on his back.

In contrast, Isfahan is safer.

After thinking for a long time, Sultan Anusha nodded and said, "Okay, General Fatil, I agree with your suggestion to retreat to the south with the coalition forces."

Seeing that the Sultan of Anusa accepted his proposal, a look of satisfaction flashed in Fatil's eyes, he bowed his head and said, "Sultan, this is the wisest decision you have ever made, only by temporarily retreating and avoiding the edge of the Xia army can you exchange for a chance to win, please rest assured, swear to Allah, giving up Khiva is only temporary, it won't be long before you can return to this city that is loyal to you." Memory

"Oh, I hope so."

……

The order to retreat south soon spread among the upper echelons of the Khiva Khanate, and the bureaucracy and nobility were shocked and humiliated, shocked at the abandonment of the century-old capital before the arrival of the Xia army, and ashamed of the abandonment of the capital and the retreat to the south.

Although many of them were opposed to this, the will of the Sultan was irreversible, and with the Persians standing behind the Sultan, the bureaucrats and nobles had to humiliately acquiesce in this outcome despite the reluctance of the Sultan to retreat south, and were ready to retreat south with the army.

In the city of Khiva, the rumors soon leaked out, and the residents of the city panicked, and the rich among them did not hesitate to pack up their belongings, take everything they could with them, and move south first.

And the ordinary civilians, they either joined the wave of southward migration, or they hid in their homes and shivered, waiting for the day when their sultan would truly abandon them.