Murong Nobunaga was a little lost. To be precise, maybe it shouldn't be called lost. It should be said that he had lost the goal of Genaro.
Although there are only about 10,000 people in the Geluolu people's camp, there are a lot of livestock, not only horses, but also a large number of cattle, sheep and camels.
Part of this was their military rations, and part of it was obtained by plundering the Gaochang Uighurs, which amounted to more than 40,000 heads.
For the Geluolu people who have never had any discipline or planning, it is common for so many people and animals to live together.
But for Murong Nobunaga and Bai Congxin, it was simply a disaster.
Human and animal feces were everywhere, panicked livestock were running all over the ground, the stench was overwhelming, and the cries and howls were loud.
After Murong Nobunaga defeated the four thousand men of Genaro, he immediately fell into this terrifying atmosphere.
He could only order his soldiers to set fire continuously to drive out the panicked Geluolu people, but could not capture the key figures.
"You bastard! If this happens in our Great Liang, your ass will be beaten from top to bottom!"
It was so smelly and unplanned that even Yue Sao Nu, who had never been very fond of hygiene, couldn't help but complain.
In the Liang Kingdom army, there are strict regulations on using the toilet during marching and when stationed.
To go to the toilet during the march, three people must go together, each one of three hundred people, and no more than three people can go to the toilet at the same time.
And since going to the toilet, the officer will take out a cup of tea, which is equivalent to an hourglass for about five minutes.
Those who have not returned to the team after going to the toilet after the hourglass is finished will still be deprived of their first-level rank. Those who have no rank will be relegated to the role of the son-in-law, that is, cannon fodder.
When stationed, there are strict regulations on the spacing, size, location, and number of toilets.
Human and animal waste, toilets for sick people and healthy people must be separated.
After the army broke out of camp, there were dedicated personnel responsible for handling it. Residents would sell human and horse excrement to local residents, and those who did not had to bury it separately.
The biggest reason for doing this is to avoid the enemy passing their excrement and to obtain some information about the army, such as the number of people, health status, and even the food of the army.
The second is to improve hygiene. If feces is not handled well, bacteria and viruses can easily breed.
There are also environmental considerations. Although human and animal excrement is a valuable production material in this era, if there is too much in a certain place, it will also cause certain environmental disasters.
Finally, selling army excrement can not only recoup a little money, but also be regarded as good governance. It can quickly shorten the distance between the army and the people, and can also establish Zhang Zhao's image of caring for the people as quickly as possible.
And this is not Zhang Zhao's new creation, but the real king master has done this since ancient times.
If you shout ten thousand words about the benevolence and righteousness of the king, only the middle and upper class landlords, officials and gentry will know.
But if you sell human and animal excrement for three yuan instead of two yuan, the news will spread throughout the people immediately. After all, what the people care about most is everything related to crops.
Therefore, if there is a situation where feces is everywhere in the Liang Kingdom's army camp, the top and bottom of the butt will indeed be beaten.
"General, I know where Genaro is. I just ask the general to save my little sister's life!"
Just when Murong Xinchang couldn't find him, a petite figure jumped out from the main tent of the Chinese army, speaking in Chinese.
Murong Nobunaga raised his eyes and saw that this was a relatively thin Uighur woman. Behind her was a little girl wearing an ugly men's robe, with no visible figure and an even more unkempt appearance.
"Who are you? How can you speak Chinese? Do you know where Genaro has gone?"
Murong Nobunaga asked with interest, this woman must have good looks, otherwise she would not choose to smear cow dung on her face, which was obviously used to dissuade some people's 'interest'.
But it seems that she still doesn't understand the rough guys in the army. It's just a little bit of cow dung, and the robe will be clean as soon as it is wiped, and it is useless at all.
"The slave was kidnapped by Genaluo. My father was the governor of Gaochang Guoting Prefecture, and he learned Tang pronunciation since he was a child.
Genaro is the most greedy person for money. There is a tent nearby that hides his treasures. Even if he wants to run away, he will not be willing to abandon them. "
Very organized, Murong Nobunaga nodded, then leaned down, stretched out his arms, and picked up the woman. He didn't mind her face being covered with cow dung, so he put it in front of him, and took out the silk cloth from his arms, Wiped her face.
"Guide the way ahead. If you catch this Geluolu prince, I will mark your merits with the King of Heaven."
As he said that, Wu Guo'er behind him also followed suit and caught the little girl with deliberately unkempt hair on the horse like a chicken.
Amidst the exclamations of the two women, it was time to catch Gena.
At the same time, at least six to seven thousand panicked Geluolu cavalry frantically fled westward through this passage that was deliberately left for the Geluolu people to escape westward.
But at this time, the main force of nine thousand people led by Zhang Zhao also arrived.
Even though they have the upper hand in terms of strength, one side still flees desperately. There is no suspense in the battle. Strictly speaking, it cannot even be called a battle.
These fleeing Geluolu cavalry were like African zebras crossing the river. They did not care about the interception of the Liang army that looked like crocodiles on the side, as long as they were not blocked and killed.
They abandoned a large number of corpses and used blood and flesh to forcibly cut a road.
At the top of Tingzhou City, Saktu had actually discovered that the troops outside the city had been attacked.
But he was not at a loss like the others, but quickly figured out who was coming.
It's very simple. The only two parties that can organize a raid of this scale are the Khotan Jin Kingdom and the Hexi Liang Kingdom.
According to the report from Gaochang Uyghur Khan Jielibiga, more than 30,000 Khotan troops are besieging Qiuci. It is impossible to send out troops to bypass Gaochang and come to Tingzhou.
Then there is only one possibility. These troops are the Liang army. Just like the Khitan people in the past, they suddenly crossed the floating sand and appeared here.
Saktu now has two choices. One is to go out of the city immediately and use the two thousand fine cavalry in his hands to intercept the Liang army.
Then gather the remaining troops and wait for the 10,000 cavalry near Shenxian Town and the 1.5,000 cavalry further away to arrive for a decisive battle with Zhang Zhao.
But the close confidants around him, especially General Karahan who followed Saktu all the way from Shule to the Land of Seven Rivers, all knew that Saktu did not make this choice because it was too late to rescue him.
Then the second option is to immediately use these two thousand cavalry to rush to Shenxian Town, regardless of the 13,000 people here, and take the remaining 15,000 people back.
The general beside him was about to persuade Saktu to make a quick decision when he heard Saktu let out a long sigh.
The generals looked along Saktu's line of sight, and in the distance between the sky and the earth, a Sanchen flag was fluttering in the wind.
Saktu, who was extremely unwilling, made a decision. Although he was very unwilling before, after seeing the three-chen flag, all his unwillingness was completely extinguished as if being poured out of cold water.
Saktu recalled that dusky afternoon. He came down from Suiye City with great confidence and led 20,000 elite cavalry to besiege thousands of people. They fought continuously for four days, but they could not defeat the opponent.
Until this dim afternoon, he was defeated by the two hundred armored cavalry that the opponent had been hiding.
"Let's go! Let's go to Shenxian Town. Nasr, you lead five hundred people to the rear. After breaking through, I will wait for you at Zhangbao, west of Luntai, for two days."
Sure enough, Saktu is still the same Saktu, who can always make the most correct and bitter decision in adversity.
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Zhang Zhao has actually been paying attention to Tingzhou City, but it is just that although it is shallow, it is wide and sandy Baiyangshui. It is really inconvenient for him to wade across the river to get to Tingzhou City at this time.
Therefore, we can only catch the big ones and let go the small ones, and try our best to severely damage the 13,000 Ge Luolu cavalry outside the city.
However, when he saw the gates of Tingzhou City opened from a distance and thousands of cavalry fleeing to the southwest, he still couldn't help it.
Because Zhang Zhao concluded based on intuition alone that Saktu must be among the thousands of cavalry.
To people at this time, Saktu was just a defeated general under Zhang Zhao who suffered repeated defeats.
And having been driven to the relatively bitter and cold land of Seven Rivers, it is absolutely impossible for him to have the strength to compete with Zhang Zhao.
But as a soul from later generations, Zhang Zhao deeply knew what role Saktu had played in the entire Western Region.
Although he and his descendants have always regarded themselves as Chinese for a long time.
It also successfully exported to Persia, Arabia and Europe the concepts of the Kara Khanate's Lower Peach Blossom Stone, the Khitan's Middle Peach Blossom Stone, and the Song Dynasty's Upper Peach Blossom Stone.
And it was recorded in ancient books, leaving an irrefutable legal basis for the Western Regions to belong to China.
But it still cannot conceal the serious disasters that Saktu and his descendants brought to various parts of the Western Region after they introduced the Tianfang Sect.
Especially in his later years, Saktu converted to the Tianfang religion with 200,000 tentacles, and the religious wars that followed for hundreds of years put the people of the Western Regions in a terrible disaster.
Therefore, with such a strange historical understanding, Zhang Zhao was unwilling to let Saktu escape from Tingzhou City.
Even if we can't keep him now, we can't let him retreat easily.
So he personally ordered six hundred elite cavalry, took Li Cunhui, Zhao Kuangyin, Wang Shenqi, Zhe Deyuan and other brave generals with him, chose a narrower river channel, and pursued them.
When he saw Zhang Zhao personally leading his army across the river, Bai Congxin, who had almost completely cleared the northern tent of the Geluolu people, immediately followed him.
However, Bai Congxin misunderstood Zhang Zhao's meaning. Zhang Zhao wanted to pursue the fleeing Saktu, and he thought that Zhang Zhao was afraid that the Geluolu people would destroy Tingzhou City.
So Bai Congxin quickly led more than a thousand cavalry and went directly to Tingzhou City.
At the same time, Murong Nobunaga in the main tent, led by the Uighur woman, and in the stinky chaos, actually blocked Genara who wanted to escape.
This time, Murong Nobunaga has caught a big fish!
In addition to himself, Genalo was surrounded by dozens of Geluolu nobles and generals, as well as the gold and silver treasures they had plundered, but they were all blocked by Murong Nobunaga.
Zhang Zhao, who had waded through the Aries River, did not enter the city and went directly to Saktu to pursue him. However, he soon met Nasr's five hundred elite cavalry who were in charge of the rear.
Compared with the few armored stomachs of the Geluolu people outside the city, the equipment of the two thousand fine cavalry around Satu is still good.
They have at least four to five hundred sets of iron armor, and the rest have well-made leather armor, and their war horses are also very good Yinli horses, which are later generations of Kazakh horses.
This kind of horse is very fast and good at walking in the mountains. Coupled with the armor and stomach on their bodies, this is why Saktu can say that he will guard the city in Zhangbao and wait for Nasr.
He was confident that these five hundred elite cavalry could complete the interception mission and then leave.
Zhang Zhao glanced at the hundreds of cavalrymen on the opposite side with some reluctance. Under their obstruction, Saktu had already run far away and was probably unable to catch up.
But that's okay, the Geluolu people are not wealthy people like the Khitan.
The Khitans lost hundreds of Pishi troops by the Hun River, and Yelu Deguang just trembled in distress.
But if Saktu lost these hundreds of fine knights, it would probably be more heartbreaking than losing the thousands of people outside the city!
"King of Heaven! Please let me kill the general and capture the flag for you!"
Wang Shenqi jumped out of the horse. Zhao Kuangyin's family conditions were still good at this time, and he was a little reserved.
But Wang Shenqi was no longer reserved. He was very jealous of Zhe Deyuan and wanted to become sworn brothers with his eldest brother Murong Nobunaga after he made great achievements.
"Okay! Let me see the bravery of Liaoxi Erlang!"
Zhang Zhao is going to go in person, and he must leave these hundreds of cavalry behind.
