Alsileng Khan saw that although the tribal leaders did not help Sud, it did not mean that they disagreed with Sud's idea. Now the tribes were eager to return. If they had not failed in the battle with Jia Ke, maybe they would still have
It is acceptable to break through Xuanfu Town and obtain greater wealth. But now it is impossible to break through Xuanfu Town, so the tribes have no intention of fighting anymore, and they all believe that continuing to fight will only increase casualties.
Alsileng Khan also thinks the same way now. There is no need to continue fighting. It seems that the main offensive direction chosen in the past two years is wrong. With Jia Ke in this direction, it cannot be used as the main assault target. But from now on
Attacking other places could not threaten the foundation of the Southern Dynasty, and could only be carried out in a small way to rob some things and return.
Moreover, he and the tribe are not united and cannot form a unified force. If all these troops are commanded by him alone, then if he wants to get water, he will send out large troops together, and there is nothing Jia Ke can do. He will only lose some men.
.But now that each tribe does not want to lose its troops, it cannot send out its cronies, otherwise it will be impossible to suppress the grassland tribes in the future.
Arslen Khan felt how correct his previous ideas were. With these tribal leaders acting as troublemakers in the city, he could never unify the grasslands and could never pose a real threat to the Southern Dynasties.
This time when he goes back, he must not compromise again. It seems that he needs to have a good talk with the high priest when he goes back. Otherwise, if this continues, the grassland will always be a mess.
At this time, all the tribal leaders looked at Arslen Khan, waiting for him to make the final decision.
Arslen Khan thought about the current situation carefully, and finally said to everyone: "If we retreat as soon as we lose the battle now, we will lose our courage in the future. And the people of the Southern Dynasties will also lose their respect for us. So I think we should
We cannot retreat now. Starting from tomorrow, each tribe will attack the city separately, and others will be on guard against Jia Ke. We will attack the city for another three days. If we cannot capture Xuanfu Town in three days, we will return to the grassland. If we can capture Xuanfu Town in three days, we will retreat to the grassland. If we can capture Xuanfu Town in three days, we will retreat to the grassland.
We will rob the town for three days and then retreat. What do you think?"
After hearing what he said, the leaders of each tribe thought that what he said was reasonable and well-founded, and they had already considered both attack and retreat, so they all agreed.
Then there is the selection of candidates for siege. If anyone had arranged to siege the city in the past, they would have been so unlucky that they would have been unable to do any work. But this time it was different. All the tribal leaders were rushing to attack the city.
If Alsileng Khan had seen this situation a day ago, he would have been greatly relieved. But now he has a new view on these old foxes as they are shameless.
This was obviously because they were afraid that Jia Ke would fight again, but their own tribe suffered heavy losses. Although there were some losses in the siege, Xuanfu Town was already at the end of its strength, and it was much easier than fighting Jia Ke.
Arslen Khan finally made the decision. One-third of the twenty-eight Tatar tribes would be assigned to attack Xuanfu Town every day, and the rest would be on alert. As for the order of attacking the city, they would draw lots to decide, and then they were pacified.
And Jia Ke did not disappoint their hopes. From the next day, he sent cavalry to roam around the Tatar camp.
Once they discovered that they were leaving the camp to fetch water, they led a large group of cavalry to catch up with them. As a result, it became more and more difficult for the Tatar camp to use water, and there were too many of them, so everyone had to try their best to ensure that the horses
Drinking water, and people can only persist for a while, but how can it be so easy to persist when thirsty.
The Tatars were already complaining that they were forced to attack the city under such circumstances. When people had no food, they could still hold on for a while, but once there was no water, they might not be able to hold on for even a day or two, so the dramatic
A scene happened.
Jia Ke was patrolling near the Tatar camp yesterday with his cavalry. Suddenly, the gate of the Tatar camp opened and one or two thousand cavalry ran out.
At this time, Jia Ke couldn't help but admire them in his heart. After being beaten so badly by him and without drinking water for several days, these Tatars still dared to come out of the camp to fight. He didn't know which tribe's warriors they were. Later, when they faced each other, they gave
This pleasure was a reward for his bravery.
But what Jia Ke didn't expect was that when these cavalrymen came to Jia Ke's army, they did not charge. Instead, they dismounted and knelt down beside the horses. This situation completely stunned Jia Ke. Such a thing had never happened in ancient times.
Jia Ke quickly sent a courageous cavalry to ask what was going on. After a while, the cavalry came back, saw Jia Ke and reported back: "General, these people are here to surrender. I hope the general will take them in in the future. They are willing to do it."
The general's slave."
This time, Jia Ke was completely shocked by them. He did not expect that something like this would happen again. When the two sides were fighting, the side with the larger number actually ran out and surrendered to the smaller side.
Jia Ke asked in disbelief: "Are you sure they are telling the truth, or are they here to deceive us so that they can attack us secretly?"
The soldier touched his head, and Jia Ke said: "General, I think what they said must be true. From the looks of them, they haven't drank water for several days, and they are almost deformed. Besides, they are originally
A slave from a tribe surrenders now and just changes his master, so there is not much psychological pressure."
Hearing what he said, Jia Ke felt that it was very reasonable, but he could not take it lightly, so he ordered them to be sent to a prisoner camp, but to be held separately from other prisoners.
So since Jia Ke blocked the Tatar camp and cut off their water source, Tatars kept coming to surrender. By the third day, Jia Ke had accepted almost 10,000 people, and these people not only brought horses
The weapons and even their own food were all given to Jia Ke as long as they surrendered. It seemed that thirst was driving them crazy.
Arslen Khan was also helpless in his tent. Today was already the third day. According to the agreement, the tribes should prepare to retreat.
The past few days have almost driven the tribes crazy, and they are all weak when attacking the city. On the contrary, the defenders in Xuanfu Town want to give blood to each other. The morale of both sides is completely opposite to that of the previous two days. This situation
How else to fight?
What makes Alsileng Khan even more annoyed is that in the past few days, Tatars have continued to surrender in the Jia Ke camp with equipment and food. In the past, each tribe guarded the gate of the camp, but now they no longer dare to attack each other.
People guarded the gate. Because almost every time they were asked to guard the gate of the village, not a single one of them would be left alive the next day, and all of them would surrender to the opposite side. Now the people guarding the gate of the village are all troops of Alslenk Khan's confidants, but that is
In this way, there have been several incidents where ordinary soldiers gathered to attack the village gate in an attempt to escape.
Alsileng Khan had no way to deal with this situation, and he did not dare to punish them too much. He could only reprimand them, because there was really a lack of water now, and leaders like them had not yet felt anything.
, there is still some water to drink, although it is a little smelly. But there is no problem after boiling it.
As for those ordinary soldiers, almost all of them had not drank water for two or three days. All they drank was horse urine. Later, even horse urine was gone because there was no drinking water for the horses. The ordinary soldiers below were already thirsty.
Driven crazy, some people even secretly killed people to drink their blood. Compared with these people, sneaking to Jia Ke to surrender was not a big deal.