Two You Yijun knights, whose faces were red with shame, led their horses to Zhang Zhao. They had just been thrown thousands of miles away by the Pegasus. They felt that they had not completed the task of intercepting him well, so they came to take the blame.
"Colonel Lieutenant Langjun, these two people have embarrassed you! Please punish them, Langjun!"
Zhang Zhao looked at the two people on the ground dumbfounded. What kind of crime was this?
"What are you two doing? That's a bloody horse! Back then, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent General Li Guang of the Second Division to lead tens of thousands of troops and besieged the capital of Dawan for several months without water. He only managed to get two horses per year. How can you keep up? That's weird.
If you really feel that you have lost someone, just kill a few more Karakhan thieves! "
"Is this the Sweat-blooded BMW? No wonder he is so handsome!" Everyone around was shocked. The name Sweat-blooded BMW is engraved in the genes of the Chinese people.
Ma Yaozi was full of curiosity and wanted to touch the legendary sweaty horse. As a result, the horse had a long face, suddenly opened its mouth and bit at Ma Yaozi. Fortunately, Ma Yaozi reacted quickly, otherwise his hand would have been useless!
There was a burst of laughter around him, and Ma Yaozi retracted his hand. If he hadn't seen how precious this horse was, he would have really wanted to give it a leather whip meal.
Yan Jin bowed his hand to Zhang Zhao and said, "I congratulate Mr. Erlang. It is said that sweaty horses are rare even in Ningyuan Kingdom. If I can get this one now, I will choose a strong mare to mate with it in the future. I will definitely get a good one." Countless horses!"
The Ningyuan Kingdom is the Bukhanna Kingdom, and its predecessor was the Dawan Kingdom in the Han Dynasty. In the third year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty gave the Bukhanna Kingdom the name Ningyuan, and married the clan daughter Princess Yihe to the Bukhanna King, so there are many Tanger in Anxi. It is called Ningyuan Kingdom.
Zhang Zhao smiled and shook his head, "This horse! It's good! But its usefulness is not as great as its reputation. It can run fast and is durable, but it has a slender body. It is best used to convey military sentiments. Really. Fighting on the battlefield while carrying a weight of one to two hundred kilograms is not his specialty.
Liu Zaisheng, find some reliable people to give this bloody horse to my uncle. He will definitely like it! "
As Zhang Zhao said, the sweat horse is good at everything. It runs fast, lasts well, and looks handsome, but it is not good at carrying heavy loads. This kind of horse is used in this era to convey emergency military information. In later generations, it is the best for horse racing and fancy equestrianism. of.
But it is not suitable on the battlefield. It is obviously too expensive to use unarmored light cavalry, and it cannot carry it when riding with armor.
The horses that armor riders like have the same characteristics as heavy-armored warriors who are good at hard battles. They must choose the kind with big feet, thick hands, and a big belly. Strength is king.
The biggest role of this kind of sweat-blooded horse is actually to be used for breeding with other horses. If you are lucky, you can breed a red rabbit horse that can run fast, have good endurance, and can carry heavy loads, but the probability is more favorable. The first prize for Shuangseqiu is almost the same.
Liu Zaisheng was the handsome palace guard who was tricked by Zhang Zhao into igniting gunpowder in Tonghe Palace.
As a result, he was left dizzy and dizzy for several days, and a small pockmark was burned on his fair and handsome face. He has not recovered yet, so Li Shengtian safely sent him to Zhang Zhao. .
"Yes!" Liu Zaisheng seemed to have no grudge against Zhang Zhao, and he was quite obedient to the command.
"Erlangjun, that bloody horse rushed out of Esquesa Castle!"
Zhang Zhao comforted the two Youyi Army knights, and his cousin Yin Yaozi hurriedly asked about the specific situation. As a result, he found out that the knight whose head had been punched with a big hole by Master Zhitong actually rushed from Esquesa Castle. from.
Well, he also shot an arrow to the top of Shule City. Needless to say, the arrow must have been tied with a letter for help. It seems that it won't be long before Ittihad in Shule City will discover the truth.
hey-hey! Zhang Zhaoyin laughed twice, just in time to give this Persian a surprise! Maybe he could be lured out of the city.
"Leave Shandu Erlang to guard the stronghold, Liu Zaisheng asked fifty of your palace guards to be on guard, and the rest, except Shi Chongmin and others who were preparing to dig a tunnel, went to look for stones.
Master Zhitong, please write down a complete tutorial. You are ordered to train me eight hundred men who can use slings within three days. They will also be under your command for the time being, which is called... ugh! Just call it Shenjidu! "
"Here!" Liu Zaisheng, Shi Chongmin and others all followed the order and left.
Monk Zhitong also proclaimed the Buddha's name to Zhang Zhao. Although his repeated petitions were not taken seriously by Amo Zhi (meaning governor-general) who saw Ya'er, he still taught a group of people in private through his disciples. Now, Just in time to use it.
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Shule City, Governor's Mansion, Ittihad's face was livid. This letter shot into the city was a letter from Fort Isaac asking for help. The letter said that the fortress was being besieged by tens of thousands of troops from the Khotan Kingdom and that it was likely to be captured at any time. Due to the danger, the governor must send troops to attack the Khotanese army's rear route to rescue them.
This was indeed Ittihad's original arrangement. When the Khotanian army besieged Fort Isaac, he sent cavalry to attack and harass them.
The distance between Shule City and Esquesa Castle is less than ten miles. If you can't defeat them, you can easily retreat into the city.
But as soon as the Khotanian army moves, the attack on Esquesa Fort will slow down. After one delay or two, Bugla Khan will return reinforcements from Balashagon.
But..., if the Khotan army is really besieging Isaacs Castle, where did the more than 10,000 troops and elites under Shule City come from?
The scouts from Jiashi City came several times, but they really did not find that the Gaochang Uighurs had any intention of cooperating with the Khotanese!
Moreover, Khotan and the Gaochang Uighurs only had a conflict a few years ago over the Zhongyun Kingdom, and the Khan, the mother-in-law of Wu, was seriously ill and her three sons were fighting. No Gaochang prince would dare to decide to start a war, right?
"Emir, the soldiers at the top of the city have confirmed that the golden horse just captured by the Khotan army is indeed the Pegasus of Askar Qianhu of Esquesa Castle! The handwriting and seal also match!"
General Adumu, who still had a wound on his face, came over and said softly that if the smoke in Fort Essask a day ago, they could also think that it was a false signal sent by the Khotan army, or that thousands of households in the garrison at Fort Essask were besieged. I was so scared that I let it go.
So now, it is almost certain that the main force in Khotan is indeed besieging Esquesa Castle, and they are not under Shule City.
Ittihad closed his eyes and thought back to the battle outside the city two days ago. That army of only a few dozen soldiers was indeed a very rare elite. Ittihad felt that they had even surpassed the Great Khan's Ghulam Guards. Army.
Could it be...? Ittihad thought of a possibility. Could it be that among the more than 10,000 people in the city, only these few dozen were elites, and the rest were just some bastards pretending to be?
General Adumu also obviously thought about it, but he touched the scars on his face and couldn't say anything.
Recently, his status as Governor of Ittihad has dropped sharply. There are more than 400 cavalry. Although they are not elite cavalry, they are still cavalry!
All the people who could ride horses in Shule City were given to him. As a result, less than an hour after leaving the city, they were defeated by the Khotanese with less than a hundred infantry.
Only less than 300 people fled back to the city, a total of 1,560 people were lost, especially the 50 heavy archers who lost almost 70%. The distressed Governor Ittihad just wanted to slap him. Big mouth, those heavy archers are weapons for defending the city! Almost all of it was gone in one fell swoop.
Seeing that Adum was deflated, the newly favored Abdul couldn't help but have a proud look on his face.
With five hundred cavalry and less than one hundred soldiers, you can be defeated by others. How did you have the nerve to climb to this position?
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As expected, the high positions are filled with incompetent people’s corpses!
hehe! Now you are dumbfounded! Your Excellency the Governor and the Great Khan, you are all optimistic! When the real war comes, a battle-hardened warrior like me, Abdul, is the most reliable!
"Your Majesty the Governor! If the general's guess is correct, there must be a small number of elites and a large number of mobs outside the city who are deceiving us.
Once Fort Isaac falls, we only have six to seven thousand people. It is probably difficult to hold on until the Great Khan returns for reinforcements. It is better for General Mo to lead his elite troops to defeat the infidels outside the city first, and then save Fort Isaac! "
Ittihad thought about it in his mind for a long time, and finally took a deep breath. He looked at Abdul, who had a big beard and a fierce look on his face.
This guy is notoriously cruel among the generals in Shule City, but he likes wine and sex, so Ittihad didn't think much of him before. Now it seems that he is probably more reliable than Adumu. Compose some music.
"General Abdul, go to the city to summon the warriors! Prepare to fight!"
Ittihad made up his mind. Esquesa Castle had to be saved, but he couldn't send out the entire army. What if there were really Khotan elites outside?
well! That means we can only suffer these God warriors temporarily. Anyway, they came from distant Baghdad and Isfahan just to spread the will of Allah!
