Bahanna, eighty miles east of Andukang, is a small town called Karasu.
Ma Yaozi sat boredly on a large lounge chair covered with animal skins. He took a sip of the slightly cloudy corn wine, and then took a bite of the stewed soft chicken legs. His face was both satisfied and a little uneasy.
Ning's.
"I said, Shanzhuer, why don't you go and make a trip? If this king doesn't come, I will have to fight against Andukang!"
Hearing, pure playing, Ma Yaozi is a little drifting now, he even feels that those famous generals in ancient times are nothing more than this.
Because in these three months, he, Ma Yaozi, only relied on his twenty-odd soldiers, plus the three new Kucha families who didn't have many soldiers, to accomplish a great cause.
He first retreated into New Kucha, pretending to be unable to protect himself, and attracted the remaining Zahu who surrounded New Kucha to go up the mountain to besiege him.
Then a surprise attack was launched early in the morning when the bastards had fallen asleep after being unable to attack for a long time. Ma Yaozi personally acted as the spearhead, and everyone in New Kucha who could use a knife was mobilized.
A bloody battle lasted from early morning to noon. Ma Yaozi led a mob of two thousand people and defeated more than six thousand miscellaneous people at the foot of the mountain in one battle.
In this war, all the Burkes joined together to capture Tang'er's slaves. After five years of fighting, when it was time to harvest, they were defeated by Tang'er from New Kucha.
In this battle, 6,500 miscellaneous soldiers, led by Yusupu's confidant, Kasula Burke Ibrahim, lost their armor and armor. There were more than 400 dead in battle, and a total of 3,000 lightly and seriously wounded and captured.
many.
So much so that Kasula Burke Ibrahim didn't even dare to defend his home base of Kasura, and ran directly to Andukon.
After this battle, Ma Yaozi led the people in Xinqiuchi to replace their guns with cannons. Not only did they gain confidence, but they also gained equipment.
Now Ma Yaozi has mobilized 600 strong men of the three surnames to form an army. Everyone has armor, no matter what kind of armor it is, even if it is cowhide wrapped with a wooden board and placed on the chest, it still has armor.
Coupled with the auxiliary troops composed of other strong men, Ma Yaozi can already mobilize thousands of people.
After occupying Kasura, those nomadic fishing and hunting tribes who had been driven into the northern mountains by Saktu and Yusupu because they refused to convert came to surrender one after another.
In ten days, Ma Yaozi gathered more than 700 men and more than 3,000 dependents, and the number was still growing, heading directly towards the crowd of 20,000.
At that time, Zhang Xiaosong, the ancestor of King Zhang, led an army of 10,000 to Bukhara.
Ban Dingyuan of the Later Han Dynasty also relied on thirty-six people to travel across the Western Regions.
Today, he led 22 people on horseback and pulled up a team of nearly 20,000 people. Although he was worse than the two above, he was the only one in the Fengtian Army, right?
When he returns to the East in the future, he will never be able to act like his original benefactor Luo Xianda.
With his eyes closed, he was enjoying the future beautifully. Unexpectedly, a voice with a narrow smile came from the side.
Ma Yaozi looked to the side and saw the wild boar staring at him with gloating eyes.
"What's wrong? Are there not enough food and grass?"
Ma Yaozi sat up from the recliner in a hurry. He finished chewing the chicken legs in three very unhappy mouths. He was about to drink, but the wine bowl was already pulled over by the wild boar and he drank it all in one gulp.
"I'll save a mouthful for you! You're a plague-stricken farmer!" Ma Yaozi's nose twitched in anger, and then he leaned back in frustration.
"Not only is there not enough food and grass, but there is also a shortage of tents, clothing, and weapons. Have you not seen what happened to those Beishan bastards who came to seek refuge?
Not to mention the spears were made of sharpened sticks, and the arrows were made of animal bones. The men were wrapped in a few animal skins as clothing, and the women and children would wear whatever they found on their bodies as clothing.
In order to be able to hit a good-looking stone, you come to me every day for comment. Damn it, you are not here to take refuge, you are here to torture me to death. Your Majesty, please come quickly. I just want to go to the battlefield to kill you.
What a pleasure!”
After saying this, Shanzhu'er quickly changed from gloating to sympathy, and he returned the wine bowl in his hand to Ma Yaozi.
"Let's wait one more day. If Li Qilang hasn't come back yet, we will break camp and head east. If Andukang's defenders don't come out to fight with us, then we will plunder all the towns around Andukang.
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"It's also a way. It's just a package. This is the only way. There are more and more people, otherwise when Karasu's food is finished, they will eat me!"
There was a rapid sound of horse hooves, and Yang Shouli galloped over on a yellow horse.
Although Ma Yaozi pretended to be exhausted mentally and physically due to internal affairs, in fact he was a completely hands-off shopkeeper, and Yang Shouli was doing everything.
After more than ten days, Yang Shouli was so busy that he had no time to eat. He, Ma Yaozi, could still enjoy eating chicken legs and drinking wine. It was clear at a glance who was really busy and who was pretending to be busy.
"General Ma! The scouts of Beishan Gray Wolf Division reported that there are large wheat fields outside Andukang City. The wheat is about to mature. We only have enough food left for ten days. Should we send out a large army to harvest it?"
Ma Yaozi calmly stepped on the chicken leg bone under his feet, grinned, and as long as he talked about fighting, his mind suddenly became more flexible.
"Let Luo Yu'er take a hundred Qingqi to go first, and the rest will have a good meal later. Let's go to Andukang tomorrow."
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Zhang Zhao thought that Yu Supu, the governor of Bukhan, might be a little weak, because even the red-haired bear under his loving father could not bear the Great Purge, let alone this era.
But he never expected that Yu Supu could be so weak that Ma Yaozi and his men surrounded An Dukang.
You must know that when Ma Yaozi entered Bahanna, he only brought a dozen or so people with him.
Even if the soldiers of Hanshandu can be compared to ten, and the three surnames of Xinqiuci are powerful in combat, then it is not enough to beat a governor like Yu Supu who can mobilize tens of thousands of troops to this level, right?
It made Zhang Zhao think, did he bring too many people this time?
This time, in order to conquer the Bahna Kingdom, a total of 16,000 people were mobilized in Khotan. In addition to all 2,000 Fengtian troops, Zhang Zhao also mobilized nine people from the Bashmi people of Jiashi City who had surrendered to him.
Baiqingqi.
At this point, all the 18,000 people in the Bashmi tribe's 3,000 tents have been basically annexed by Zhang Zhao. About 6,000 of them will be moved to Suiye, and the rest will remain in Jiashi City. Zhang Zhao predicts that
Take half of them and follow him back eastward.
In addition to Zhang Zhao's headquarters of 3,000 men, the rest were more than 7,000 men from the Amo branch of Khotan led by Governor Pei, who were recruited by various feudal lords in Khotan from their own territories.
The remaining 5,000 men were commanded by Liu Zaisheng, who had recovered from his injuries. They were drawn by Li Shengtian from the Shenwei Left and Right Army and the Palace Guard Army.
Li Shengtian did not go to this battle of Bakhna, and the commander of the army was Zhang Zhao.
Because the Gaochang Uighurs have recently been greedy for Khotan and devoured the best parts of the Kara Khanate, the relationship between the two countries is somewhat delicate.
If this works well, they will beat Saktu, the lost dog, together again. If not, the two groups of Uighurs will join forces to attack Khotan.
Therefore, Li Shengtian had to stay in Shule and deal with the relationship with the Gaochang Uighurs.
Don't think this is impossible, because Li Shengtian raised a question that Zhang Zhao had never thought of before.
In Zhang Zhao's opinion, it would be difficult for Saktu, who had converted to Tianfang Religion, to get along in the Land of Seven Rivers, because the Geluolu people there all believed in Buddhism and Nestorianism.
The Gaochang Uighurs are a major Manichaean country and will never join forces with Saktu.
But Li Shengtian didn't think so. He believed that Saktu's belief in Tianfang religion was just for the convenience of seizing power and attracting the power of the God Warriors, and he was not really very religious.
So in order to survive, he is likely to convert again. If Saktu is determined to convert to Manichaeism, Karakhan and Gaochang, two khanates with close ties, may join forces.
Zhang Zhao thought for a while and realized that this was indeed possible, because the complete greening of Karakhan happened after the broken leaves and Talos were settled in Saktu, as well as the Erwu Zaiyu Supu of Ba Khanna, almost in the second year.
It won't happen ten years from now.
At that time, Saktu was about to burp, so he led a total of 200,000 Karakhanites to convert to the Tianfang religion, and then launched a religious war.
But at present, the broken leaves of Saktu were not broken down, and Zhang Zhao even broke his legs.
After losing Shule and Bahanna, and without broken leaves, the only remaining Geluolu people in the land of Seven Rivers did not treat him very much. In desperation, Saktu was very likely to jump again and convert to Buddhism.
Jing, Mani, one of the three religions.
"Your Majesty, urgent report from the front!" Just as Zhang Zhao was thinking about Saktu's possible repeated horizontal jumps, Fanshun ran over with a secret letter.
Zhang Zhao took it over and looked at it, and he was even more speechless. It turned out that Ma Yaozi's army was reporting for duty.
Eight days ago, Ma Yaozi fought a last-ditch battle outside Andukang and actually repelled the Andukang garrison led by Yu Supu himself to fight out of the city.
Five days ago, seeing more and more troops outside the city and the surrounding wheat fields being unprotected, Yu Supu actually broke out from Andukangzhong under the protection of two hundred elite cavalry.
In fact, it was not a breakout, because Ma Yaozi was not able to encircle Andu Kang at all. He was busy harvesting wheat.
Three days ago, after confirming that Yu Supu had escaped, Ma Yaozi tried to hit Andukang once.
However, the Beishan tribes under his command are too small. It is okay to form a formation in the field and fight with a backbone, but it is not enough to lay siege to a large city like Andu Kang with a moat and a urn city.
"Where is your brother?" Zhang Zhao asked Fanshun next to him after reading the secret letter.
"According to the king's order, my brother led 200 elite soldiers three days ago and rushed to the outside of Andukang City at starry night. The ancient road entrance is now guarded by Qiongre Duojin's army."
Zhang Zhao nodded. He was really worried about Ma Yaozi's commanding ability. God knows whether he could control the more than 20,000 people outside Andukang City. If Panquan could arrive in time, he would be relieved.
"Guo Tiance, together with all the officers above the general level, let's hold a military meeting together!"
"Here!" Guo Tiance accepted the order in a loud voice. He was now Zhang Zhao's cangcao in the army, and he was also Zhang Zhao's confidant secretary. He was in charge of the military affairs documents around Zhang Zhao, so he also participated in the march with Zhang Zhao.
This chapter has been completed!