Hearing Tai Shici's words, the low morale of the militia soldiers rose again. They all looked at the charging enemy cavalry with red eyes. Humiliation was death, and resistance was death. They were the Chinese army. They would rather die fighting than be killed. The enemy is scared to death.
The morale of the militiamen increased instantly, and their resistance increased instantly. They launched a suicidal attack on the enemy cavalry that broke into the army formation. They wanted to use their own lives to stop the enemy and give the people behind them hope of survival.
"Um?"
Seeing that the speed of his cavalry advance had slowed down and that there were also a lot of casualties, Enter knew that the opponent was trying their best. As long as they could withstand the pressure and break through the opponent's defense, the enemy would not be far from collapse.
"Charge, all troops charge. As long as we can kill them, the enemy will be defeated."
After hearing Enter's words, the cavalry under his command also regrouped and continued to attack the militia's position.
The battle fell into a stalemate in an instant. The militiamen wanted to resist the opponent and buy time for the soldiers in the rear, while the Guihuang cavalry wanted to break through the opponent's defense and kill all the fleeing enemy troops.
This sniper battle lasted for an hour. The militiamen suffered more and more casualties, and Enter's cavalry suffered more and more damage. At this time, the militiamen no longer had any illusions about escaping, and their only belief was to kill them. The longer you can block the enemy, the better.
"withdraw."
Taking a look at the sky, under the current situation, even if they really broke through the opponent's defense, it would be impossible to catch up with the retreating enemy. Moreover, the road is now narrow and there are many people, so it is a bit impossible to defeat the opponent. If they continue to fight, There is no point in going down. If we don't retreat, we will lose troops and horses in vain.
"The general has orders to withdraw."
Upon hearing Enter's order, the attacking cavalry immediately turned around, broke through the obstruction of the militia, and retreated towards Xia Xingcheng.
Seeing the enemy retreat, Tai Shici was relieved. You must know that the militia is now at the end of its war effort. If the opponent really ignores them and insists on annihilating them all, these people may not be spared. Fortunately, it's okay.
"withdraw."
Taishi Ci gave an order, and under his leadership, the remaining few thousand militiamen headed north and retreated towards Zhongxing City.
When Taishi Ci was heading north, he rode several fast horses from north to south and finally collided with Chen Ye's militia heading north.
"Who are you?"
The militiamen surrounded the opponent, drew their swords from their sheaths, and asked him questions.
"I am a scout sent by Master Jia Xu. I have urgent military information to report to General Taishi Ci."
Seeing that the vigilante group was in a bit of a mess and was in the wrong place, the scout immediately asked them questions.
"General Taishi Ci is behind."
Hearing that the other side had an urgent military situation, the scouts went south directly to meet Tai Shici.
After the scouts went south, they finally saw the real master. Thousands of soldiers surrounded Taishi Ci, dejected and without morale.
"General Taishi Ci, urgent military situation, urgent military situation."
When Taishi Ci saw the other party, he couldn't help but feel depressed. Urgent military situation?
There is nothing more urgent than the opponent's cavalry going south to sneak attack on you.
"read."
"Lord Jia Xu sent an order that the enemy's nearly 10,000 cavalry are likely to move south from Upper Star City. He ordered Taishi Ci's troops to postpone the attack on Lower Star City to prevent a sneak attack by the opponent."
The scout read Jia Xu's order directly.
"It's already too late. Let's go. Follow me to Zhongxing City to apologize to Lord Jia Xu."
Taishi Ci was even more depressed now. To be honest, he did not lose to the opponent's cavalry attack, but to himself. If he hadn't been worried about the casualties of the soldiers and resorted to underestimating the enemy, Xiaxing City would have been captured long ago.
It will not be attacked by the enemy's cavalry.
Taishi Ci went all the way north and retreated towards Zhongxing City, while Enter led his cavalry and retreated to Xiaxing City.
"General, Enter is incompetent. He was blocked by nearly ten thousand enemies on the road and failed to expand the results of the battle. Please punish me."
Enter directly clasped his fists at Harriwan and told him the situation he encountered.
"It's okay. We have already won this battle. Those are just trivial matters."
Hariwan was smiling. He finally won the battle. No matter how big the result was, he was happy.
"General, what are you going to do next?"
Enter looked at Harriwan's smile and knew that this battle gave the opponent the confidence to defeat China again, which was a good thing.
"What are you going to do?
Let’s rest for a while, and then go north to prepare to ambush the enemies in Star City. After so many days, they must have relaxed their vigilance.”
Hariwan thought for a moment. Although they won this battle, they suffered a lot of losses. Moreover, the cavalry soldiers were tired as they marched south, so it was time for them to rest and recuperate.
"yes."
At noon the next day, Bloom finally led thousands of remaining soldiers southward and arrived at Xiaxing City.
"General, General Broome is here."
Bloom arrived, and someone immediately came to report to Harrivan.
"What?
Why did Bloom come to Star City?
Let him come here immediately."
When Bloom came over, Harrivan was completely stunned. His mission was to defend Zhongxing City, but now he was here. He thought something must have gone wrong there.
"General, Zhongxing City has been captured by the enemy, and I am guilty."
Bloom glanced at Hariwan in the first seat and couldn't help feeling depressed. He never expected Hariwan to be here.
“Where’s Parmati?
where is he?"
Hariwan glanced at Broome. He had nothing to say if Zhongxing City was lost. After all, there were more than 100,000 enemies outside the city. It was normal for him to be unable to stop them. But where were his personal guards?
"General Parmati is wearing heavy armor and has limited mobility. He knew that it would be difficult to break through the opponent's defense, so he volunteered to cut off our rear. It was only because of the general's efforts that we were able to escape smoothly."
Bloom had already thought of a countermeasure. After all, Parmati was the general's personal guard. If Harrivan found out that he had abandoned him, there would be no good consequences.
"Parmati has indeed lived up to my hopes. Time is fate, and this is also their fate."
After hearing that Parmati had died for Broome, Harrivan also shook his head. There was nothing he could do about it. It was normal that his personal guards were heavy armored infantry and could not escape the enemy's siege.
"General, now below Zhongxing City, the three-legged power of Sanxing City has been broken. Now the isolated city cannot be defended. Our situation is over, so we should retreat to Guishang."
When Enter heard the news that Zhongxing City was breached, he couldn't help but knit his brows together. Originally, they were on the defensive, but even if the three stars defended each other, they were not incapable of defending. Now that Zhongxing City was breached, their defense had completely collapsed.
, if you continue to defend, you can only be defeated one by one by the opponent.
"What do you think?"
Hariwan glanced at Broome, his eyes full of depression. He finally won a victory, but now he had to lead his troops to withdraw and return to Kushan. He was really unwilling to do so.
"General, the situation has indeed reversed now. We are now alone and unable to support ourselves. The enemy has just been repulsed. It is better to retreat earlier than later while they are not in the mood to care about us."
Bloom also saluted Hariwan. Now the situation has completely shifted to the Chinese side. Once the troops from Zhongxing City move south, it will be difficult for them to escape.
"Hey, then hurry up and evacuate to Kushan."
Seeing that the two had the same opinion, Hariwan had no choice but to agree to their suggestion and withdraw his troops and return to Kushan.
Taishi Ci led his troops to Zhongxing City and came directly to plead guilty to Jia Xu without hesitation.
"Tai Shi Ci is guilty and I hope you will be punished."
Taishi Ci knelt down on one knee to avenge Jia Xu.
"Hey, I already know the situation here. You are also considerate of the soldiers and don't want them to lose so much. If they are hit by the opponent, it is their fate. It is not easy for you to bring back so many soldiers and horses.
"
Jia Xu helped Tai Shici up. Although he said so, he still felt very unhappy. After all, it was such a coincidence that he was hit by the enemy. If it had been an hour later, not half an hour, Xiaxing City would have been there.
It's in my own hands.
"Sir, now that it is confirmed that the enemy's cavalry has moved south, can we inform General Gao Shun to attack Shangxing City?"
Xu Huang glanced at Jia Xu. Now that he had confirmed that the opponent's cavalry had moved south, he could start attacking from the Shangxing City side.
"Well, now we can take a two-pronged approach. Now we will send people north to inform Gao Shun to capture Upper Star City, while our army will go south to Lower Star City to try to capture the enemy directly."
Jia Xu nodded. Now is the time. Since it has been determined that the only variable is in Lower Star City, Upper Star City can be launched. He will just go south and annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop.
"promise."
"promise."
"promise."
Zhongxing City mobilized instantly, riding a fast horse to the north to find Gao Shun and asking him to take Upper Star City. The army went south to Lower Star City to annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop.
Gao Shun received the military order and began to attack Upper Star City. The trapped army, equipped with soldiers and horses who sneaked into the city through secret passages, captured Lower Star City in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, Parmati had just escaped to Upper Star City and could only evacuate in embarrassment. He left Upper Star City to pay homage to Gui
Running wildly within the Frost Empire.
Jia Xu led his army southward, and after reaching Xiaxing City, he found that the enemy was deserted. He also set a fire in an attempt to burn down Xiaxing City, but they misjudged the strength of Xiaxing City and their plot failed.
"what to do?"
Seeing the state of Xingcheng, Taishi Ci couldn't help but frowned. Now that the enemy was empty, what should he do?
"The army is resting for the time being. Since the enemy has withdrawn, we are not in a hurry."
Since the enemy had withdrawn, there was nothing he could do. The army was exhausted from the hard battles and needed to take a short rest before attacking the Kushan Empire.
Hariwan retreated, Jia Xu took a break, but the dispute in the Kushan court continued. Now the entire Kushan empire was completely divided into two factions, one was the war faction, and the other was the peace faction.
The main fighting faction is the military and those nobles. They hope that the emperor can issue a national mobilization order and mobilize the whole country to go to war with the Chinese Empire, so that they can take the opportunity to expand their strength. If they can really defeat China, they will win the war.
In the vast land there, their descendants can continue to be rich and prosperous for hundreds of years.
The Peace Faction is a civil servant headed by the minister in charge. They do not want the Kushan Empire to go into full-scale war with China. Now the military and nobles are already very powerful.
The empire's Western expeditions for consecutive years have consumed a lot of strength, but the benefits gained have been divided among the opposing military and nobles.
If they were really at war with a big empire like China, they were afraid that the country would be victorious and the emperor would not be victorious in the end, which would ultimately give people in the military an advantage. Therefore, they strongly opposed war with China and wanted to negotiate a peace.
Of course, there is the most crucial person here, that is Prime Minister Darau. He originally supported the attack on China because he saw China's new political situation and unstable political situation, and thought it was an opportunity to take advantage of it.
The war on the front line is not going well now, and the general has suffered repeated defeats and suffered heavy losses. He knows that he has misjudged the strength of the Chinese Empire and cannot see through the current situation, so he does not take sides.
"Your Majesty, the general's messenger has arrived."
The Kushan Emperor is also extremely worried now. Although the two sides are currently arguing, he sincerely supports the side of the minister in charge.
Now Kuishang seems to be strong, but in fact it is not stable internally. There are endless wars in the west, which is depleting the country's national strength. There are floods and droughts in the country, and bandits are emerging one after another.
Moreover, the power of the military nobles was huge, and he was slightly uneasy. If this were not the case, he would not be entangled now, but would have already sent troops.
“The general’s messenger?
Xuan."
Hearing that it was Hariwan's messenger, Vesudeva I hurriedly asked someone to come and see him.
"Your Majesty, the general has an urgent report."
The messenger bowed directly to Vesudeva I, and then handed over Hariwan's autographed letter.
Vesudeva I took Harivan's letter, opened it and looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but frown.
"You go down, and we will announce that the Prime Minister will come to the palace to discuss matters."
