Alike Jiang weighed and weighed again and again, and out of consideration for the dominance of Western Xinjiang, he had no choice but to accept Li Jiangyao's conditions, and immediately ordered his 10,000 cavalry to temporarily surrender their weapons and be taken as hostages under the custody of the Xinjiang Army. Later, he appointed two Loulan generals to stay and restrain the troops, waiting for him to return and prepare money to ransom them.
After everything was mediated and arranged, Alek Jiang made one last request to Li Jiangyao: Please be sure to annihilate the Turkic cavalry of the Turkic Deputy Marshal Mohadi.
This idea is not surprising, because only if this matter is accomplished, Alik Jiang will have sufficient conditions to take the opportunity to lead the Loulan Army to withdraw from the crusade.
In response to his request, Li Jiangyao nodded readily and agreed: Within ten days, Mohadi and his Turkic cavalry will be left here forever.
Seeing that Li Jiangyao was confident about this, Alik Jiang couldn't help but twist his mind again, and immediately pointed out that although he promised to withdraw from the crusade, he could not provide Li Jiangyao and others with any military intelligence about the Turks, let alone Will cooperate with the Zhenjiang Army to launch military operations.
To defeat the elite Turkic cavalry, everything has to rely on Li Jiangyao himself, while Alek Jiang and Loulan Kingdom are just waiting for the final result.
Regarding this, Li Jiangyao agreed on the spot without hesitation. Moreover, he also expressed that he could understand Alekjiang's difficulties and concerns. Li Jiangyao just reminded Alek Jiang that after returning to the Turks, he should try his best to find excuses to avoid the war, so as not to be hit hard by the Xinjiang Army again.
"Your Highness, I can let you go once, but not twice. If you insist on hitting my knife edge, then don't blame me for being unkind."
Alike Jiang did not expect that Li Jiangyao was so easy to talk to, and he quickly agreed: the Loulan Army promised never to provoke the Zhenjiang Army again, and the friendship between the two parties would last forever.
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Seeing Alik Jiang riding away accompanied by a small team of guards, Holia cursed fiercely: "Shameless!"
Li Jiangyao comforted him warmly: "Princess, don't worry. Sooner or later we will come to his door to avenge your father and your relatives."
Holia stared at Alik Jiang's back and nodded silently, with tears in her eyes.
At this time, Xu Youchang and Du Jian urged their horses to come closer. Li Jiangyao asked: "Is everything done?"
"It's all done, sir." Xu Youchang took a few steps forward: "I have sent Wang Chenglong to lead two thousand cavalry to escort the prisoners back to Metasequoia City. I am just waiting for Efentia and Kurban to come forward to settle accounts with King Loulan. Want money."
Wang Chenglong is the deputy commander of the First Army, and he was also Xu Youchang's old unit in the forward battalion of the Xuanjia Army. He is smart, capable, brave and good at fighting. With him personally leading the team, it is natural that everything will be foolproof.
Li Jiangyao nodded slightly: "Okay, let's gather the army and set off! I guess Deputy Marshal Mohadi has been impatient for a long time, haha!" After that, he whipped his horse whip and galloped away.
Xu Youchang, together with Huo Liya and Du Jian, also quickly followed Li Jiangyao and led the main force of the Zhenjiang Army towards the Ulundu River in the west at full speed.
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When it was dark the next day, Alik Jiang finally returned to the camp of the Central Route Army with the stragglers he had collected along the way.
He didn't even bother to take a breath, and ran directly to the general's tent to meet with Durham and others who had been waiting for a long time. At this moment, the Turkic general Doron, who was responsible for luring the enemy, had also arrived and was having breakfast with Durham and Mohadi.
As soon as Alike Jiang entered the big tent, he saw several Turkic bosses leisurely drinking goat milk tea and eating roast beef and avocados. Thinking about how he was almost eaten alive by Li Jiangyao last night, he couldn't help but think about it. He was furious.
Alek Jiang secretly cursed: Damn it! These brats asked Grandpa and I to go and fight with the Zhenjiang Army, and almost risked their own lives outside. Finally, after being blown by the cold wind all night, and driving dozens of miles overnight, we finally got there. Come back alive after all the hard work. Fortunately for them, they were all relaxed and enjoying the delicious food, but the reinforcements they were talking about were not even a ghost!
Durham saw Alek Jiang's face sullen as soon as he came in, and he felt a little weak because of guilt. But then he thought about it, he was a dignified Turkic marshal, how could he bow to the people of Western Xinjiang for such a trivial matter?
Thinking of this, Durham acted like a marquis again and said carelessly: "Alic Jiang, are you back? Yesterday I asked you to lead troops to chase Li Jiangyao. How did it happen after that?"
Alek Jiang was stunned when he heard this.
He originally thought that no matter how arrogant and arrogant Durham was, he should still be reasonable and humane, and at least be gentle and caring, and kindly invite him to sit down and have a meal with him. But unexpectedly, the other party not only showed no apology at all, but even didn't bother to "send him a hard time". He didn't even mean to let himself, the leader of the Western Xinjiang Alliance, sit down for a meal. Instead, he seemed to be scolding his subordinates. He came up and asked about the outcome of the battle.
The fierceness in Alik Jiang's heart was suddenly aroused. He stared at Durham and refused to reply.
When Durham saw this, he immediately felt that Alekjiang had severely humiliated him in front of everyone, especially in front of his old enemy, Deputy Marshal Mohadi, and he couldn't help but get furious.
He slapped the table and was about to get mad when Duolun next to him hurriedly stopped him: "Master Marquis, His Highness Alek Jiang had a hard time fighting last night, so let him sit down and drink a bowl of hot goat milk tea first to warm himself up. . Your Highness, come here quickly, come and sit here, and use some while it’s hot.”
Alek Jiang looked at Duolun, then at Durham, who was blowing his beard and staring, reluctantly responded, and then sat on the felt mat next to Duolun. He sat across from Durham across the case, with Doron on his left and Mohadi on his right.
Because Alikjan and Mohadi had only met once during the Battle of Crescent Bay and were not familiar with each other, the two did not exchange greetings and only nodded slightly to each other as a greeting.
The Marquis of Durham was still depressed and asked reluctantly: "Hey, Alekjiang, you burst into tears as soon as you entered the tent. Who are you showing it to? I just asked you, what happened yesterday?" How is the battle going? Did you let Li Jiangyao run away? "
"Master Hou..." Alek Jiang suppressed the anger in his heart and said in a deep voice: "The question you asked is really funny."
"How funny?" Durham glared: "What's so funny about it?"
Alike Jiang held the goat's milk bowl and shook his head: "You three, don't let Li Jiangyao run away. I was lucky to be able to run away yesterday!"
Hearing this, the three Turkic generals present could not help but be stunned.
According to their previous expectations, the Xijiang troops led by Alek Jiang were very likely to be unable to retain the Zhenjiang Army, which was determined to retreat. Facing the powerful Li Jiangyao, Alek Jiang could only watch as the opponent fled back to Metasequoia and stayed in the city. .
But no matter what, he himself will not suffer much loss.
But now listening to Alek Jiang's words, the actual situation is far from being as simple as they thought.
Durham and Doron were very curious and quickly asked what was going on.
Alik Jiang drank half a bowl of goat milk tea, then grabbed a large piece of hand-meat, and wolfed down a meal, then calmly and embellishedly told the three of them what happened yesterday.
When Duolun heard that the main force of the Zhenjiang Army suddenly appeared and surrounded the Alik River in a pursuit battle in the plains and wilderness, he suddenly realized: "No wonder they withdrew so quickly yesterday. They were going to fight your ambush." .”
Alek Jiang showed an expression of "Thank you for having the nerve to say it" and said angrily: "Yes, General Duolun. The moment I was completely surrounded by Li Jiangyao's main force, I also felt very baffled. .Weren’t you able to contain all the Zhenjiang Army successfully?”
Listening to the other party's words that were full of sarcasm, Duolun suddenly felt very embarrassed and couldn't help but said: "Shengtang Barbarian is so cunning, he actually saw our plan. I only regret that the troops in my hands were too strong at that time. Less, otherwise we will definitely not let them run away easily."
Alek Jiang smiled faintly: "Who says it's not the case? It was because I was too hasty when I set out yesterday and failed to bring enough troops. That's why I was helpless in the face of Li Jiangyao's various methods."
As soon as these words came out, the three Turkic generals all sighed in unison, not knowing what to say for a while.
To be fair, there were no big flaws in Temple Prince Ronya's battle plan. From a certain perspective, this operation can even be regarded as a replica of the original Battle of Crescent Bay.
First of all, Ronya deployed troops with comparative advantages to attract the attention of the Zhenjiang Army from the front. At the same time, he used flank harassment to disperse Li Jiangyao's troops to the greatest extent.
After these two steps are completed, the real killer move appears behind the opponent.
If this plan can be implemented smoothly, then the command center of the Zhenjiang Army guarding the east coast of Ulundu will inevitably be torn to pieces by the Turkic cavalry that suddenly came from behind like the Shengtang Army in Crescent Bay. The whole army was wiped out under the attack from the front and rear.
It's a pity that the combat strategy is fine, but the people are not right.
Although Roniya is a well-known commander in the Turkic army, in terms of "far-reaching planning", he is not as good as the talented Ashina Zhijin; in terms of "cunning and cunning", he is not as good as the wily Lao Jianhua .
And more importantly, his opponent is no longer Zhang Sanpi, the Deputy Protector of the Zhenjiang Protectorate.
This time, it was Li Jiangyao, the little captain of the Zhenjiang Protectorate.
If Zhang Sanpi could have noticed the anomaly of the rebels in Western Xinjiang early, judged the approaching danger, and led 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.
