Soon the Northern Turkic king's tent.

The Northern Turkic Khan Mo Regan, who was overjoyed by the large amount of supplies he had plundered from the Western Regions, suddenly received a message from Tira.

After reading the contents of the letter, he asked his attendant in confusion.

"What is this Tatar tribe? It was able to gather 500,000 troops. ”

His squire was a king of the Western Regions who had recently been captured by the Turkic army.

He was specially left by his side and humiliated him as an attendant.

In order to survive, Momothy is also willing to be humiliated, better than being beheaded like other captured kings, right?

Listening to Mo Regan's inquiry, Momothy hurriedly replied: "Great Khan, these Tatars are a race living in the northwestern steppe of the Western Regions.

Together with the Huns, the whole steppe was divided into two parts, one part was the Tatar steppe, and the other part was the Hun steppe. ”

But a few years ago, these Tatars took refuge in the Song people in the Central Plains and became lackeys of the Song people.

I see!

After listening to Momothy's story, Mo Reagan finally had an idea of the Tatars, but then he mocked with disdain:

"These Huns are really a waste, they haven't unified a good grassland, no wonder they were driven to the north of the grassland by those Song people.

I think that when we Turks were on the steppe, they dominated the entire steppe, and where there was any Tatar steppe and Xiongnu steppe, all of them were Turkic steppes.

Hmph, it seems that this Tira is also a kind of goods, and just a Tatar scared him, and he actually asked if he wanted to withdraw from the army?

What a joke! ”

Mo Reagan smiled disdainfully, in his opinion, Tila was too weak, just a Tatar, and they finally took down the entire Western Regions.

He had just seen that countless supplies were being transported back to the tribe, and now that the Huns actually said that they were going to withdraw their troops, where would he agree?

It's only 500,000 people, who doesn't have one!

He immediately sent a letter to the Huns.

When Xiongnu Shan Yutila received the letter and opened it, his originally frowning brows gradually relaxed.

Immediately ordered the requisition of all tribes and prepared to go to the Western Regions!

In his letter, Mo Reagan proposed that the two sides jointly send troops to support the Western Regions, and that they should have a good encounter with the Tatars to see if they had the ability to stop them.

It's just 500,000 people, and each of them has 300,000 soldiers, which is 600,000 soldiers, and it's not easy to fight a small Tatar?

Tila was clearly moved.

In just three days, he recruited 300,000 people and headed towards the Western Regions.

On the Turkic side, Mo Reagan also transferred troops early, but unlike the 300,000 people he said, Mo Reagan requisitioned 400,000 people, which is already more than half of the Northern Turks' troops.

What Reagan was up to, only he knew.

After knowing the current situation of the Xiongnu and Tatars, he didn't just want the Western Regions.

He also took a fancy to the Tatar steppe.

The whole steppe is the most attractive for their Turks!

Just when millions of troops were moving towards Ankang City, Ankang City at this moment was also in a mess.

Ashinadu was not idle while waiting for the order, and sent all his troops to attack the city, he wanted to see if he could take down the city of Ankang before the Tatars arrived.

But apparently, the willpower of the defenders in Ankang City was beyond his imagination.

Five days!

He led tens of thousands of men to attack for five days in a row!

The entire Ankang City is littered with corpses!

But he didn't take down Ankang City!

That's not right! Something is wrong!

Aren't there more than 1,000 people in it? How can you keep it?

But what Ashinadu didn't know was that there were more than 1,000 people in Ankang City at this time.

After the Hungarian and Turkic coalition forces invaded the Western Regions, small countries were constantly destroyed by the coalition forces, and not all of these small countries were killed.

Many people have fled when their countries are ruined.

And most of the people's destination is the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate.

Therefore, when the Hungarian and Turkic coalition forces reached the Western Regions Protectorate, at this time, the Western Regions Protectorate had gathered all the remnants of the entire Western Regions.

At this time, the population of Ankang City was not just more than 1,000, but 13,000!

Of these, 1,000 and a half were garrisons who retreated here, and 3,000 were the aborigines of Ankang City.

The remaining more than 8,000 people are all remnants of the Western Regions countries that have fled one after another during this time.

After the Hungarian and Turkic coalition forces attacked the city, the Ban Dynasty organized everyone to defend the city, and then the city of Ankang was defended.

However, these days, the strong attack of the Hungarian and Turkic coalition forces has also caused suffering in the city.

Outside the city, the Hungarian and Turkic forces were strewn with corpses.

In the city, the remnants of the Western Regions countries were also defeated and suffered heavy casualties.

Of the original 13,000 people, there are now less than 7,000 left.

There are also four city gates to guard, and the troops can be said to be stretched.

But this is not the most important, the most important thing is that there is not much food prepared in Ankang City.

With the addition of the remnants of these nations, the number of troops defending the city increased.

But in the same way, for the entire Ankang City, the consumption of food has also intensified.

At present, the food left in the city is only enough for the people in the city to eat for a maximum of seven days.

This is already barely able to survive after tightening clothes and food.

After that, if there is no food and grass to replenish, then even if the Hungarian and Turkic coalition forces cannot break through Ankang City, they themselves will all starve to death in the city.

Ban Chao now has a headache every day and can't sleep.

It is a time when the class is quickly dealing with official business and arranging tomorrow's city defense.

The door to the study was pushed open.

Li Nianan walked in quickly with blood on his face, and he was not polite, and after coming in, he directly moved a chair and sat opposite the cough class, looking at him quietly.

Seeing him come in, Ban Chao sighed, put down the pen in his hand and looked up and asked:

"Why did Lord Li come from?"

"How long will it take for reinforcements to arrive?"

Li Nianan stared at Ban Chao and asked.

"I don't know."

"I don't know!?"

Li Nian'an's voice suddenly raised, and the whole person stood up excitedly.

"Ban Chao! Do you know how much it costs us every day now!

That's all human life! Everyone has fought hard to hold on until now because of your words of waiting for reinforcements!

But until now, we don't even know how long it will take for reinforcements to arrive! So what's the point of everyone's death?

Do you know how fierce the offensive of the Turks and Huns outside was?

Do you know how many of us died today?!

You ......"

Ban Chao replied in a flat voice:

"I know that one thousand and fifty-eight people died today, the oldest is already eight out of fifty, and the youngest is only fifteen years old.

In addition, one hundred and thirty-six people were seriously injured and one thousand were slightly injured. ”

Li Nian'an's words came to an abrupt end, staring at the man with a calm face in front of him.

After a long time, he sat back in despair.

The voice choked up: "One thousand and fifty-eight!

That's one thousand and fifty-eight lives!

How many fathers of children! How many women's husbands, and how many mothers' sons!

Today! They're all dead! It's dead!

However, we don't even know when reinforcements will arrive.

There's no hope, there's no hope, Bandu protects !! ”

"Reinforcements will come."

Ban Chao said in a firm affirmative tone.

"Huh...... What can you guarantee? ”

"Just because Your Majesty is the prince of the past! The prince will never turn a blind eye to us! ”

"Which emperor killed my uncle for burying the corpse?"

"Lord Li! Be careful! ”

Li Nian'an got up and stared at Ban Chaodao coldly:

"Three days! Three more days at most! If there are no reinforcements in three days, I will break out with the rest of our extravagant men.

Stay here by yourself and wait for reinforcements from your Emperor Majesty!" ”

After speaking, Li Nianan slammed the door and left.

The door creaked and swayed.

Looking at the creaking door, Ban Chao sighed slowly, and then picked up the pen in his hand to quickly review the official document.

The night breeze became more and more noisy, and the candles in the study that blew through the wide open door were flickering on and off.

……

(End of chapter)