"Quick, let the soldiers prepare to defend against the enemy! Send the crossbowmen over immediately!" Salha heard the shaking and immediately ordered. The people around him were all killed in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and they all understood that the earth was shaking.
Knowing what the shaking sound meant, he quickly ordered the soldiers to prepare.
But it was too late at this time. Before the soldiers could figure out what was happening, they saw several majestic figures appearing behind the narrow road, figures that people could not see fully even if they raised their heads. Seeing these figures
Only then did the soldiers realize what had happened, and they reacted quickly and ran to both sides of the road, but most of them were so frightened that their legs were weak and they stood there blankly, facing the end of their lives in fear.
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"Quick! Rush to the front. Elephants can't run that fast, at least not as fast as horses. In the end, these thousands of people won't be able to hold back, but the people in front must block the elephant!" Salha said when he saw the big elephant.
The moment Elephant Shadow knew that these soldiers were about to turn into corpses, he immediately jumped on his horse and ran forward. Although elephants are huge and scare people when they see them, they are herbivores after all, not carnivores.
For a horse with a biological chain instinct, it is not a terrible thing. Instead, it did not freeze like a human being. When the owner slapped its butt, it started to gallop. While riding on the horse, Salha even looked back a few times and saw
The entire queue was in chaos. Countless soldiers were running away, running into the woods without caring about anything. Several carriages in the queue had also been trampled by elephants. Emmeni and Farid on the carriages should
He was also dead. Salha seemed to see Emene who had fallen off the carriage and wanted to swing a machete to chop the elephant's legs, but was stepped on the arm and the entire arm bones were crushed.
The meat was crushed and turned into a puddle of meat paste. He even seemed to hear Emine's scream before she died.
"Emene and the others came back too slowly! If they had come back a little earlier, even just a quarter of an hour, so that the soldiers could prepare in advance, they would never have been frightened to death by a few elephants!" said the horse racer.
On the way, some people complained. Maybe they just subconsciously couldn't accept such a disastrous defeat and looked for excuses to shirk it.
Salha didn't say anything. Of course he was not satisfied with this kind of excuse-making behavior, but now they are the only people around him. If he wants to arrange the soldiers to defend the enemy later, he will need their help. He cannot reprimand him at this time.
them.
And of course it is wrong to shirk responsibility, but the second half of what they said is also reasonable. Although the elephant is big, it is not impossible to deal with. Fu Youde and Mu Ying were able to think of ideas to deal with the elephant when they led troops into Yunnan. They
Those who have dealt with elephants in India for several lifetimes can certainly imagine that elephants can be dealt with even if the methods are slightly different.
Not long after, when Salha came to the middle of the marching column with lightning speed, the soldiers here didn't know what happened. They just heard screams and horrified shouts from behind, guessing that they were being discovered.
The country's pursuers caught up and were fighting. Everyone couldn't help but slow down their marching speed and took out their weapons to prepare to deal with the enemy.
Salha immediately ordered most of the soldiers to leave quickly, forget about the queue, and leave here quickly. He also ordered his most trusted team of a thousand people to stay. When the enemy attacked, he left a few soldiers and horses to stop the enemy, and most of the soldiers and horses were left behind.
It is quite normal to leave quickly. The soldiers did not doubt that he was there, so they just speeded up and rushed to Babna City.
"Wasim, quickly lead the soldiers and prepare to deal with the elephants!" Salha directly ordered his trusted commander, the captain, without any nonsense.
"Yes." Wasim was stunned when he heard this, but he agreed without hesitation and led the soldiers to prepare to deal with the elephant. When the soldiers heard Wasim's words, they were also stunned, and some of them had expressions on their faces.
They looked scared, but everyone agreed without hesitation.
Salha then ordered a group of soldiers to line up behind and help Wasim's thousand-man team to block the retreating troops. If anyone dared to attack, he would kill them. The fleeing soldiers behind did not dare to flee this way anymore and all went into the woods.
Wasim led the soldiers Ye to quickly form a formation to deal with the elephants, prepared weapons to deal with the elephants, and waited for the elephants to come.
But what they didn't expect was that the rumble of horse hooves suddenly sounded again. Salha, Wasim, and many soldiers suddenly changed their expressions, but by this time it was too late. Hundreds of horses appeared in the blink of an eye.
They rushed in front of them. All the preparations used to deal with the elephants were useless. The formation was overturned as soon as they rushed. Thousands of soldiers were trampled or killed in an instant. These hundreds of cavalry did not stop after overwhelming the formation, even
They didn't even pause for the gorgeously armored Salha who was parked by the road, and continued to rush forward.
But Salha looked ashen. If these hundreds of cavalrymen stayed here for a while, the officers and soldiers who heard the sound of horse hooves in front would always have time to prepare. At least they could rely on their strength after being trampled to death by horse hooves.
The dead bodies made these cavalrymen stop. After all, there were only a few hundred cavalrymen. But the cavalrymen charged so fast and fiercely that the soldiers had no time to prepare. The first reaction must be to flee in all directions and escape into the woods.
Of course the cavalry will not enter the woods, and not too many people will die in the end, but this means that these nearly 40,000 soldiers have completely lost their order, and even Salha cannot collect them anymore. Without these soldiers, he
How to defend Babna City? If he cannot defend Babna City, everything he expected will be out of the question. This not only means that he is defeated in this battle, but also a real annihilation of the entire army, an irreparable defeat.
Salha seemed to have returned to the battlefield in Yiwu, the battlefield in Urumqi, and the battlefield in Alashankou, witnessing with his own eyes one soldier after another being killed by the Ming army until they were finally annihilated.
It was as if he had been hit in the shoulder and fell to the ground unconscious. He was led off the road by the guards in a daze and went deep into the woods.
After a while, Salha slowly came back to his senses and saw a person supporting him on both sides of him. He threw them away, took out the knife from his waist, laughed miserably, and seemed to want to kill himself with the knife.
"General Salha, you can't think too hard!" Wasim immediately advised: "This battle is indeed defeated, but General, you are still one of the generals with the most experience in fighting the Ming army, and you are still useful in resisting the Ming invasion.
How could he die like this?"
"I should have committed suicide at Alashankou when the last army brought to the east by the Great Khan was completely wiped out. Until today, I have already lived for several more years. If I can continue to play a role in resisting the Ming Dynasty's invasion
Useful, living a few more years can be regarded as worthy of the soldiers who died in the battle. But not only was I unable to be of any use, but the situation that I could have maintained was so bad that not only more than 100,000 soldiers were wiped out, but also the entire
Bangladesh has also been lost. How can I be worthy of Said, who trusted me and appointed me as commander-in-chief, and worthy of all those who died in the war?" Salha said with another miserable laugh.
Wasim felt a little relieved. Although he was only a captain, he was already over forty years old and had been fighting in the army for more than twenty years. He had seen many people who were either really or pretending to commit suicide after losing a battle.
Just now, when Salha pulled out the knife, Wasim could feel that he really wanted to commit suicide, so he hurriedly tried to dissuade him, speaking from the bottom of his heart. But after hearing Salha's words, he felt that Salha really wanted to commit suicide.
Erha no longer had the will to die, and of course she felt more relaxed.
'Even if you are going to die, you can't die here. I must bring you back to Delhi alive and bring you to Sultan Said, and let the Sultan deal with you!' Wasim thought in his heart. He actually didn't care about Sultan.
Erha is dead or alive, but in his opinion, it was Said Sultan who appointed Salha as the commander-in-chief. Of course, the Sultan must personally deal with Salha. Even Salha himself cannot deal with himself. So he
You must persuade Salha to stay alive and return to Delhi with him.
After some persuasion by him, Salha gave up the idea of committing suicide, but still refused to return to Delhi. Firstly, he felt that he had no shame to see Said, and secondly, he knew that he had fought the battle like this and would not be able to see Said.
Yide couldn't survive, so he wanted to escape back to his hometown or anywhere, as long as he didn't go to Delhi. Wasim finally persuaded him to give up the idea of committing suicide. For the time being, he didn't force him to return to Delhi, but just thought about staring at
Tighten him.
"Are we still gathering the remaining soldiers?" After a few more words, an officer who escaped asked.
"Why are we gathering them together? Everyone is running away in the woods. At most, a few hundred people can be gathered back. What's the difference between not gathering them together?" Salha said with a bitter smile.
But despite what he said, they still gathered more than 300 soldiers one after another, and fought with the Ming army's scouts twice before retreating. They had to gather the defeated troops. From here, there are still two or three days to go to Babna City.
During the journey of 2 days, we will encounter 2 villages on the road. If these 2 see that there are only a dozen of them left, they may kill them all under the call of the Kshatriyas in the village. For the sake of their own safety
To escape back, they must also gather their soldiers.
"As soon as we return to Pabna City, we will immediately lead the soldiers guarding the city to evacuate. No one will be left behind. Not only the soldiers, but also everyone in the city will be taken away. The same is true for Sara City and Jalkat City.
You can only take a rest in Rajshahi city."
"The navy will also have to move back. Fortunately, the Adrai River, Brahmaputra River and Ganges River are all very wide, and the army alone cannot stop them. The combat power of the Ming Dynasty's navy is no better than that of our navy.
If you are strong, you can retreat. But I won’t say more about what to do, and let the naval generals make their own arrangements." On the way to escape, Salha was still talking. Although he knew that his orders may not be valid for other generals now.
Will listen.
"I persuaded the garrison of Pabna City to agree to retreat," Wasim said. There were only a few thousand people in Pabna City at this time, and they could not stop the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops. Retreating was the best option.
He believed that the general would know what to do as long as he heard about the size of the Ming army and the fate of the 120,000-strong army.
At this time, it was already dark, and they had run far away. They estimated that the Ming army would not pursue them, so they found a cave to rest. Salha leaned against the cave and sighed, saying: "Now we can only save a little bit."
It’s one o’clock.”
"Is the situation in Bangladesh irreversible?" Wasim said.
"It can't be saved. No, there is another possibility of recovery, which is to hold on to the city of Rajshahi and wait until the Delhi Sultanate and Bahmani Sultanate defeat the Ming army from Central Asia, and then send soldiers to Bangladesh to support
, this is a possibility." Salha said.
"The Sudan will definitely be able to defeat the Ming army from Central Asia and come to Bangladesh for rescue!" Wasim said firmly.