Besides, after a day of siege, Arslen Khan returned to his tent to discuss tomorrow's siege with the tribal leader.
When asked who would take the lead tomorrow, everyone from the tribal leaders bowed their heads and remained silent.
Alsileng Khan really had no way to deal with these old foxes. But he couldn't give strong orders because the soldiers who were attacking each tribe today suffered heavy casualties. In one day, the total casualties of each tribe exceeded 3,000, which was completely beyond what they could accept. If
In addition to the fact that Jia Ke stole the camp last night, they suffered more than 6,000 casualties, which was one-tenth of their army.
Seeing that they were all silent, Arslen Khan knew that if he did not express his position, this joint attack would probably come to an end.
So Arsleng Khan said in public: "Tomorrow we will attack the city. My plan will be to attack first. You should attack in sequence as you did today. There must be no mistakes."
From the tribal leader, I heard that Arslen Khan's tribe was the first to attack. His expression softened a little, but it still didn't look good. The Tatars are a people on horseback. They were not good at attacking cities, but now they are.
Want them to attack the fortified city. Even if they capture the city, they cannot make up for their losses.
Alsileng Khan looked at the many tribal leaders below and said with confidence: "You don't have to worry about losing too many men. In the past two days, we will step up the attack. After a while, I will have a way to capture Kaipingwei."
Alsileng Khan attacked Kaipingwei this time. In the first few days, he just wanted to protect Sobud. But as time went by, he felt more and more that this siege was a good way to gradually weaken the tribes. So in the past few days, he
He just kept insisting on attacking the city. On the surface, he said it was because of Sobud's revenge. Secretly, he watched the tribes suffer heavy losses and felt more and more happy. But he also knew that enough was enough, so he decided to send his own troops tomorrow.
The next day, the siege continued with the same pattern as the previous day. The Tatars carried ladders and rushed towards the city wall. A few people held the ladders at the bottom while others climbed up the ladders.
The soldiers of Kaiping Guard each carry a young man today. This is to allow the soldiers to have time to rest, and to replace the elite soldiers with young men, so that the old can lead the new and give full play to the manpower of Kaiping Guard.
Seeing the Tatars climbing up the ladder, the soldiers directed the young men to use rolling wood, thunder stones or gold juice, and kept throwing it down and pouring it. The soldiers also started to shoot arrows at the Tatars.
The Tatars also sent archers today to shoot at the Kaiping Guards outside the city. From time to time, people on both sides were hit by arrows.
The archers of Kaipingwei are now completely bad at it. Before shooting an arrow, they must mix the arrowhead in the golden juice, stir it, and then shoot it.
As time went by, the Tatars suffered more and more casualties. At night, they withdrew their troops. The Tatars returned to the camp as if fleeing for their lives. They were all dejected. Due to lack of time and technology, they could not make more advanced siege equipment.
Only ladders are available. But using ladders to attack a city gives the defenders so much advantage that they suffer very serious casualties and the blow to morale is even more serious.
When Alslen Khan returned to his tent, he was immediately greeted by complaints from the leaders of various tribes. In the past, they could swallow their anger, but this time they completely ignored his face.
Alsileng Khan felt that if he continued to be tough, the following people might mutiny, and he would not be able to control the tribes on these grasslands when he returned to the grasslands.
In order to appease the tribes, Alsileng Khan could only tell his plan in advance. He was originally going to implement this plan in a few days to paralyze Jia Ke, but now it seems that it will not work if he does not implement it.
Alsileng Khan said to the head of the tribe: "Don't worry, we will be able to defeat Kaipingwei tomorrow. This is my guarantee to everyone."
The tribal leaders were all doubtful when they heard what he said. Although Kaipingwei is a small town, it has high walls and thick walls. They have suffered a lot in the past two days. According to their ideas, let alone tomorrow, it will be next month.
Nor may they be able to conquer Kaipingwei.
Alsileng Khan saw the doubts of the leaders of each tribe, but he was not prepared to explain. He just ordered people to prepare food and wine for these old foxes to drink heavily to temporarily suppress their complaints.
After sending these old foxes away, he ordered his soldiers to light three huge bonfires in front of his tent.
Let’s talk about the Kaiping Guard side. Today’s fierce battle has resulted in more Kaiping Guard losses than yesterday. Mainly because the young men went into battle on the first day and didn’t know how to protect themselves, so the losses were relatively high. However, the losses of the elite soldiers were greatly reduced. This is
A little bit, which is both gratifying and painful.
After Jia Ke had dinner in the evening, because he asked about the injured soldiers and young men, Jia Ke now set up a medical team in Kaiping Guards, gathering all the doctors in the city to treat the injured soldiers. Since the main
It was a traumatic injury. Jia Ke traveled from modern times and had some experience with these things.
Before the war started, he prepared a lot of white cloths. He washed them all and boiled them in boiling water. After applying various wound medicines to the wounds, he used these white cloths to bandage the wounds of the soldiers.
Jia Ke did not use liquor, another artifact of the time traveler, to clean the seriously injured soldiers. This was because no matter how strong the liquor in this era was, the alcohol content was not high. He did not have time to distill it, and he started distilling it now.
The most important thing is that he doesn't know how to distill wine. Unlike other time travelers, he can't remember the process of distilling wine at all. If he wants to distill wine, he must experiment step by step. He doesn't have that time now.
After condolences to the injured soldiers, Jia Ke returned to the city for inspection. While looking towards the Tatar camp, he suddenly saw three huge bonfires rising on the opposite side.
When Jia Ke saw these three bonfires, he suddenly felt like laughing. Such tricks have long been written down in various novels. This is using the bonfire as a sign to prepare to steal the city tonight.
Seeing these bonfires, Jia Ke almost knew who would be the internal agents. The people who could be the internal agents were the few fur traders or horse traders who often traveled on the grassland. The most likely ones were
We are still those businessmen who sell horses. You must know that in this era, horses are important as military strategic materials. Without strong connections and backstage, it is impossible to engage in this business.
Jia Ke immediately called Feng Mo to the city. After Feng Mo came over, he saluted Jia Ke and then asked, "What do you want, sir?"
Jia Ke pulled him and pointed out the three bonfires to him with his hand. Feng Mo saw the three huge bonfires in the Tatar camp and didn't think there was anything unusual. It was common for Tatar camps to light bonfires.
Something.
Jia Ke saw his puzzled expression, and then expressed his opinion to him, "These three bonfires were lit suddenly. We have confronted the Tatars several times, and nothing like this has ever happened. I guess this is
The secret code for communication between Tatars and spies in Kaiping Guards."
Feng Mo thought for a moment that this was indeed a possibility, and admired Jia Ke's caution. Only Jia Ke could be the commander-in-chief of an army by not letting go of even the smallest details.
"After I came to Kaiping Guard, I suspected that the deaths of the previous Qianhu were strange. I am afraid that there were Tatars working in Kaiping Guard to inform them. This is why the Qianhu of Kaiping Guard were repeatedly attacked by Tatars.
An ambush by Tatars." Jia Ke then explained to him.
Feng Mo was suddenly startled after hearing Jia Ke's words. The previous deaths of Qianhu were either due to car accidents or horse shocks. There were also several assassinations that were committed by Tatars. Now after listening to Jia Ke's words, there are details.
The tip-off is almost certain.
Jia Ke saw Feng Mo's stunned look and knew that he had understood the key. So he went on to say to him, "Now the Tatars have lit three such huge bonfires. I suspect that the Tatars will attack the city tonight. If they
A sneak attack is most likely to be in the direction of the city gate, and there will definitely be a spy who will open the city gate for them."