Ma Chao did not stop his horse this time and was still moving forward.
"The Kushan people have taken the bait and are engaged in a fierce battle with Gao Shun and Zang Ba in the direction of Shuizhai. How long will it take for your cavalry to reach the battlefield? Please call me back as soon as possible."
The content of Jia Xu's telegram was very simple. Now everything is ready and all we need is Ma Chao's east wind. As soon as they arrive, they can start the final encirclement and suppression of the Kushan people.
"Reply to the military advisor. Our troops will arrive at the water village battlefield within an hour."
Ma Chao didn't even look back. He galloped forward with his Xuanwei army. This hour was not only time for him to arrive at the battlefield, but also a certain amount of time for the soldiers to put on their armor.
Can't afford the delay.
"Military advisor, General Ma Chao called back. The first unit of the Xuanwei Army will arrive on the battlefield within an hour."
Taishi Ci came to Jia Xu again and told Jia Xu Ma Chao's reply.
"Instruct all the soldiers to prepare individually and set out in half an hour to encircle and suppress the Kushan army."
Hearing that Ma Chao could reach the battlefield within an hour, Jia Xu had nothing to say. He was only a quarter of an hour away from the water village, and he would set off in half an hour. The time was just right.
"Military advisor, why don't you send a telegram to General Xu Huang? He can start taking action."
Taishi Ci looked at Jia Xu and asked, now that the encirclement and suppression battle was about to begin, should he inform Xu Huang about attacking Heldvar?
"No need, he can seize the time himself. If he can't even do this, he, a general, can't do it now."
"promise."
Jia Xu did not launch an attack immediately. The Kushan people were attacking the water stronghold occupied by Gao Shun and others. Ma Chao was also advancing towards the battlefield non-stop. Xu Huang, who was far away near the city of Heldvar, was just as Jia Xu expected.
, and the action began.
"The whole army is here, rush to the city of Heldvar as quickly as possible, and then capture it neatly."
Xu Huang rode his horse forward and gave the order to attack to his soldiers.
Now Xu Huang not only has his most elite Hengye army, but also the soldiers and horses supported by Gao Shun. It can be said that the soldiers and horses are strong. Facing a city of Heldvar that is almost out of soldiers and horses, if he cannot take it, Xu Huang will
Akira shouldn't be a general anymore, he could just grind a piece of tofu and commit suicide.
"promise."
Tens of thousands of troops rushed out from their hiding place, carrying the ladders they had built long ago and started running towards Heldvar.
"what is that?
There are so many soldiers and horses, could it be that the general has returned in triumph?"
There are currently no more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the city of Heldvar, and most of them are wounded who cannot participate in the fierce battle. He is resting peacefully on the city wall. Everyone is stunned when they see the soldiers and horses rushing towards them.
"It must be the general's triumphant victory. He is preparing to open the city gate."
The lame Kushan general was running around. Saqila couldn't help but curl his lips. He just injured his leg. He had to place himself in the rear area and watch the great achievements of defeating China and saving Kushan, but he couldn't get through.
I can't say how depressing it is.
"General, something's wrong. It doesn't look like the general's troops. The color of the flag is also wrong."
After hearing this, Saqila was also stunned. He immediately leaned out of the city wall and took a closer look. It didn't matter if he didn't look at it. The first look really scared him.
The Kushan flag is mainly green, symbolizing that they come from the grassland. However, although the group in front cannot see who they are, they can still see the general color of the flag, which is not green, but red and yellow.
This is clearly the flag of the Chinese Empire. Could it be that these soldiers and horses are not General Hariwan, but soldiers and horses of the Chinese Empire who have returned.
"Hurry up and beat the drums, the whole army is on alert, the Chinese army is coming to kill, hurry up, hurry up."
Thinking that it was the Chinese army that had left and returned, Saqila sat down on the city wall and shouted to his soldiers.
"Bang the drum, beat the drum."
"Dong dong dong."
"Dong dong dong."
"Dong dong dong."
The thunderous war drums instantly exploded on the city wall. Upon hearing the sound of the war drums, the entire Heldvar city wall immediately went on alert.
Although these were only the old, weak, sick and disabled, and everyone had fear in their eyes, they still held their swords without hesitation, preparing to fight to the death with the incoming Chinese.
"These Kushan people are quite alert, but so what, I, Xu Huang, have decided on the city of Heldvar today."
Xu Huang glanced at the city in the distance and couldn't help but sneer at the corner of his mouth.
Xu Huang's army marched very fast, and it didn't take long to reach the gates of Heldvar. Seeing the sparse garrison on the wall, he directly sent an interpreter to persuade them to surrender.
"Soldiers of Heldvar, listen, your general has been ambushed by us, and his entire army has been wiped out.
If you know how to open the city gate now and let us in, then the soldiers guarding the city will be safe and the people will be safe too.
If you don't know how to commend yourself and resist stubbornly, when the city is broken, not only will all the soldiers defending the city be killed, but also all the people in the city will be killed one by one, leaving no chickens or dogs behind."
The translator came to the bottom of the city wall and directly delivered Xu Huang's words to the defenders on the wall.
"General, what should we do?"
After hearing the translation, the Kushan troops on the city wall were also a little confused and didn't know what to do.
If they died defending the city and being loyal to the country, everything would be fine. This is the fate of soldiers. However, the other party has now tied themselves to the people of the city, which makes them Alexander.
There is a saying that if you don't harm your family, you have to attack the whole city. This makes the Kushan soldiers confused.
"what to do?
How do I know what to do?”
Ben Bo Saqila has no idea now. Although he is a Kushan general, he only got such a military position because of the influence of his ancestors. Now it is really difficult for him to make big decisions that affect the people of a city.
The other party.
"General, if that doesn't work, let's surrender. Judging from the momentum of the Chinese people, they must have planned all this long ago and are just waiting for the general to lead his troops to attack.
This may be true as the Chinese said, the general has been completely wiped out. If the general and the more than 100,000 troops are gone, is there any point in guarding the city?
Besides, the enemy numbers at least tens of thousands, and we only have more than ten thousand sick and disabled people. Even if we want to defend the city, we cannot withstand the Chinese attack.
We are not afraid of death, but the key point is that if these people in the city are implicated by us and are killed, it will really be a huge crime."
A one-armed captain came to the front of Running Saqira and knelt directly on the ground.
"How much I don't want to surrender, how much I don't want to save my life, but if I surrender, how can I be worthy of my ancestors, how can I be worthy of His Majesty the Emperor who gave me the position of general, how can I be worthy of this sword in my hand, tell me, tell me.
"
Hearing the words of the captain, Benzaqila was also a little hysterical. Who can really not be afraid of death? Anyway, he can't.
But if he orders surrender now, his life may be saved, but his family's reputation will be destroyed in his own hands.
Once the news spreads, he is afraid that his family in the imperial capital will be uprooted by the angry Kushan royal family. He cannot do this.
"General, what's more important is one person or the tens of thousands of people in the city. Do you really want to ignore the lives of the people in the city for your own selfishness?
There is no point anymore. The general is finished, Kushan is finished, and your family is finished too. Surrender."
Another captain knelt in front of Running Saqila. What time of day was it now? He was still thinking about who he should be worthy of. No matter who he was worthy of, as long as he resisted, he would be sorry for the tens of thousands of people in the city of Heldvar.
"It's all over?
Is the General really finished?
Is Kushan really finished?
Is my family doomed too?"
After hearing this, Saqila suddenly sat down on the ground. What the other party said was right. If this battle is really like what the Chinese said,
General Hariwan may not be able to escape death. Once the defense line of Haridwar is broken, the Chinese will be able to drive straight north and directly attack the imperial capital. By then, Kushan may really be destroyed.
"General, although you may have lost your family, you can still save the people of this city. Surrender."
"Yes, General, we can die in battle because we are soldiers of the empire, but the people in the city have no such responsibility."
"General, surrender."
As the two captains persuaded him to surrender, the Kushan troops rushing around Saqila knelt on the ground one by one and tried to persuade him.
"Whether it's for your own sake or for the sake of the people in the city, you can surrender, but I can't surrender even though I'm running around Saqira, because I am a nobleman of the empire and a general of the empire. If I surrender, Kushan's
His backbone is gone.”
Benbo Saqila glanced at the soldier kneeling in front of him, and it was a little difficult to speak, but he knew very well what he should do and what he could do.
The soldiers could surrender, the people could surrender, and Heldvar could surrender, but he could not surrender.
After finishing speaking, Saqira picked up the steel knife he had dropped from the ground, looked at the city behind him, then faced the direction of the imperial capital, knelt down on his knees, kowtowed three times, and wiped his own sword with the knife.
neck.
"this?"
Everyone was silent for a while as they looked at Ben Bo Saqila lying in a pool of blood.
"What else are you looking at?
The general is a hero of Kushan. He did not surrender to China even until his death. It was me, Nkotlak, who surrendered."
The one-armed captain saluted Benbo Sakira, and then resolutely took the reputation of surrender on himself.
"And I, Commander Akmunda."
The other captain did the same and stood with Nkotrak.
"And me, Balmoteh."
"Asaak."
"Tanda Covino."
One by one, the Kushan soldiers saluted Benbosaqila and then stood beside Nkotlak.
"Open the city gate and surrender to the Chinese soldiers."
Nkotlak nodded to everyone, and then ordered the soldiers to open the city gate and surrender to Xu Huang's army outside the city.
"Crunch."
With the twisting of the machinery, this important city of Heldvar, which made Jia Xu scratch his head, was easily transferred to the hands of the Chinese side.
Seeing the city gate open, Xu Huang couldn't help but nodded. In fact, he asked the translator to say countless words to persuade him to surrender.
The Chinese Empire has never massacred the people since Yuan Shu was founded. Whether in China or in Kushan now, Yuan Shu would not allow his soldiers to behave like such beasts.
So what Xu Huang said was just to use the people of the city as bargaining chips to get the Kushan soldiers to open the city and surrender.
If the Kushan people were still individuals and knew how to care about the people in the city, it would be best to surrender to Kaicheng.
If the other party really doesn't care about anything, then there is no need for him to coddle him. The people will not kill him when the city is broken, but he doesn't intend to keep any of these soldiers who don't care about the people.
"Every ministry remembers that after entering the city, immediately occupy the four city gates, and then tie up all the enemies on the city walls. The treasuries and granaries must be guarded by heavy troops. Anyone who dares to have any attempt will be killed without mercy.
Also tell your soldiers not to harass the people."
