Alekjiang weighed again and again, and out of consideration for the hegemony of Western Xinjiang, he had no choice but to accept Li Jiangyao's conditions, and immediately ordered his 10,000 cavalry to temporarily abandon their weapons and surrender, and be guarded by the Zhenjiang army as hostages. Subsequently, he appointed two more Loulan generals to stay behind to restrain the troops, waiting for him to return and prepare money to ransom them.

After everything was properly mediated, Alikjiang made one last request to Li Jiangyao: be sure to completely annihilate the Turkic iron cavalry of the Turkic deputy marshal Mohadi.

This idea is actually not surprising, because only when this matter is done can Alikjiang have sufficient conditions to take the opportunity to lead the Loulan army out of the crusade.

In response to his request, Li Jiangyao nodded very happily and agreed: within ten days, Mohadi and his Turkic iron cavalry will stay here forever.

Seeing that Li Jiangyao was full of confidence in this, Alekjiang couldn't help but turn his mind around again, and immediately proposed that although he promised to withdraw from the crusade, he could not provide Li Jiangyao with any military information about the Turks, let alone cooperate with the Zhenjiang army to carry out military operations.

If you want to defeat the Turkic elite iron cavalry, everything has to rely on Li Jiangyao himself, while Alikjiang and Loulanguo are just waiting for the final result on the side.

Regarding this point, Li Jiangyao also agreed on the spot without hesitation. In addition, he said that he can understand the difficulties and worries of Alikjan. Li Jiangyao only reminded Alikjiang that after returning to the Turks, he should try to find an excuse to avoid the battle, so as not to be severely damaged by the Zhenjiang army.

"Your Highness, I can let you go once, but I can't let you go twice, if you have to hit my knife, then don't blame me for not being merciful."

Alekjiang didn't expect Li Jiangyao to be so good at talking, and hurriedly agreed: Loulan Jun promised never to provoke the Zhenjiang Army again, and the friendship between the two sides lasted forever.

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Watching Alekjiang ride away accompanied by a small team of guards, Horia scolded fiercely: "Shameless! ”

Li Jiangyao comforted him warmly on the side: "County Lord, don't worry." Sooner or later, we will find his door and avenge your father and relatives. ”

Horia stared at Alikjiang's back and nodded silently, tears already shining slightly in her eyes.

At this time, Xu Youchang and Du Jian urged Ma to come closer, and Li Jiangyao asked, "Is everything done?" ”

"It's all done, sir." Xu Youchang took a few steps forward: "I have already sent Wang Chenglong to lead two thousand cavalry to escort those captives back to Metasequoia City. Just wait for Effantia and Kurban to come forward and go to the king of Loulan to settle accounts and ask for money. ”

Wang Chenglong is the deputy commander of the First Army, and he is also the old department of Xu Youchang in the forward battalion of the Xuanjia Army.

Li Jiangyao bowed slightly: "Okay, then let's also set off as a whole army!" It is estimated that Deputy Marshal Mohadi has been waiting impatiently, haha! With that, he whipped his horsewhip and galloped away.

Xu Youchang, together with Huo Liya and Du Jian, also hurriedly followed Li Jiangyao closely, led the main force of the Zhenjiang Army, and marched at full speed in the direction of the Wulundu River in the west.

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At dawn the next day, Alekjiang finally returned to the camp of the Middle Route Army with the stragglers who had gathered along the way.

He didn't bother to take a breath, so he ran directly to the big tent of the Chinese army commander to meet Durham and the others who had been waiting for a long time. At this moment, the Turkic general Duolun, who was in charge of the task of luring the enemy, had also arrived here, and was having breakfast with Durham and Mohadi at this time.

As soon as Alekjiang entered the big tent, he saw several Turkic bigwigs leisurely drinking goat milk tea, eating roast beef and oil fruits, and then thinking that he was almost eaten alive by Li Jiangyao last night, he couldn't help but be angry in his heart.

Alekjan scolded secretly: Damn it! These lambs, let my grandfather and I go to the Zhenjiang army to fight for life and death, and almost put their own lives outside, and finally blew the cold wind for a whole night, and drove dozens of miles overnight, so they came back alive after a lot of hard work. They are good, they are all relaxed, enjoying the food, but the reinforcements blowing in their mouths are not even half a ghost!

Durham saw that Alekjiang had a calm face as soon as he came in, and his heart was indeed a little weak because of guilt. However, he thought about it, he was a dignified Turkic marshal, how could he bow his head to the people of Western Xinjiang for such a trivial matter?

Thinking of this, Durham picked up the marquis's shelf again, and said with a big grin: "Alekjiang, are you back?" Yesterday, you were asked to lead troops to pursue Li Jiangyao, what happened later? ”

Alekjiang was stunned when he heard this.

He originally thought that no matter how arrogant and arrogant Durham was, he should always be reasonable and humane, and he should be gentle and caring, and invite him to sit down and have a full meal. But it didn't come to pass, not only did the other party not apologize in the slightest, but he didn't even bother to "say hard to him", and he didn't even mean to let himself, the leader of the Western Frontier Alliance, sit down to eat, but instead seemed to scold his subordinates, and asked how the results of the battle were as soon as he came up.

The ruthlessness in Alekjiang's heart was suddenly aroused, and he stared at Durham and didn't answer obediently.

Seeing this, Durham immediately felt that Alekjiang had lost his face in front of everyone, especially in front of his old rival, Deputy Marshal Mohadi, and couldn't help but be furious.

He slapped the table and was about to go crazy, but Duolun next to him hurriedly stopped: "Master Hou, His Royal Highness Alikjiang fought hard last night, let's let him sit down and drink a bowl of hot goat milk tea first, and then talk about it warmly." Your Highness, come here, come and sit here, and use some while it's hot. ”

Alekjan looked at Doron and then at Durham, who was blowing his beard and glaring, and reluctantly responded, and then sat down on the felt mat next to Doron. He sat across from Durham across the case, with Doren on his left and Mohadi on his right.

Because Alikjiang and Mohadi had only met once during the Battle of Crescent Bay, they were not familiar with each other, so the two did not greet each other, but only nodded slightly to each other, which was regarded as greeting.

The Marquis of Durham was still depressed, and asked reluctantly: "Hey, I said Alecjan, as soon as you entered the tent, you cried and lost your face, who are you looking for?" Just now, Ben Shuai asked you, how was the battle yesterday? Did you let Li Jiangyao run away? ”

"Master Hou......" Alikjiang held back the anger in his heart and said in a deep voice: "The question you asked is really funny. ”

"Funny?" Durham glared: "What's funny?" ”

Alekjiang held the goat's milk bowl and shook his head: "Three, don't let Li Jiangyao run away, I was lucky to be able to run yesterday!" ”

Hearing this, the three Turkic generals present couldn't help but be stunned.

According to their previous expectations, the soldiers and horses of the Western Frontier led by Alikjiang are very likely to be unable to retain the Zhenjiang army that is determined to retreat, and in the face of the powerful Li Jiangyao, Alikjiang can only watch the other party flee back to Metasequoia and stay in the city.

But no matter what, he himself will not suffer much loss.

But now listening to Alekjan's statement, the actual situation is far from being as simple as they think.

Durham and Duolun were curious, and hurriedly asked what was going on.

Alekjiang poured half a bowl of goat milk tea, then grabbed a large piece of hand-handled meat, first devoured a full meal, and then told the three of them what happened yesterday without hurrying and adding oil and vinegar.

When Duolun heard that the main force of the Zhenjiang Army suddenly appeared, and actually besieged the Alikjiang in the pursuit battle in the plains and wilderness, he couldn't help but suddenly realize: "No wonder they withdrew so quickly yesterday, it turned out to be to fight your ambush." ”

Alikjiang showed an expression of "I'm embarrassed to say it" on his face, and said stupidly: "Yes, General Duolun." The moment I was completely surrounded by Li Jiangyao's main force, I also felt very inexplicable. Didn't the Zhenjiang army all succeed in containing you? ”

Listening to the other party's sarcastic and mocking words, Duolun also suddenly felt very faceless, and couldn't help but sneer: "The Holy Tang barbarian is too cunning, he actually sees our plan. I only hate that I had too few troops at that time, otherwise I would definitely not let them run away easily. ”

Alekjiang smiled faintly: "Who said it wasn't." Yesterday, I was also in a hurry when I set off and failed to bring enough troops, so I had nothing to do in the face of Li Jiangyao's various means. ”

As soon as these words came out, the three Turkic generals all sighed softly, and they didn't know what to say for a while.

To be sure, there were no major flaws in the battle plan of the Templar Prince Ronia. From a certain point of view, this operation can even be regarded as a copy of the original Crescent Bay War.

First of all, Ronia deployed troops with relative superiority to attract the attention of the Zhenjiang army from the front, and at the same time, he used the flank attack to disperse Li Jiangyao's troops to the greatest extent.

After these two steps are completed, the real killer move will appear behind the opponent's back.

If this plan can be successfully implemented, then the command center of the Zhenjiang Army guarding the east bank of Ulundu will inevitably be torn to pieces by the Turkic iron cavalry that suddenly covered up from behind, just like the Shengtang Army in Crescent Bay before, and finally annihilated the entire army under the front and rear attacks.

It's a pity that the combat strategy is fine, but the people are not quite right.

Although Rohnia is a well-known commander in the Turkic army, when it comes to "far-reaching planning", he is not as good as the eloquent Ashinajin; When it comes to "treacherousness", he is not as good as the scheming Lao Jianhua.

And more importantly, his opponent is no longer Zhang Sanpi, the deputy protector of the Zhenjiang Metropolitan Protectorate.

This time, he was replaced by the small captain of the Zhenjiang Metropolitan Protectorate, Li Jiangyao.

If Zhang Sanpi had been able to detect the abnormality of the rebels in Western Xinjiang earlier, and then judge that the danger was imminent, and lead the army to withdraw in time, then the situation in Western Xinjiang would have embarked on another development trajectory.

It's a pity that Zhang Sanpi is not Li Jiangyao.