Henglus City is a historical city, and for the Central Plains Dynasty, it has this extraordinary significance.

During the Tang Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Imperial Protectorate, with Samarkand to the south and the trade route to the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea to Ukraine to the north, and was a meeting point of the northern and southern routes of the Silk Road.

The 30,000 Han feudal coalition troops of the Tang Dynasty were defeated by the Great Eclipse here, and the Central Plains Dynasty's westward expansion stopped here.

After that, except for the Mongols, the Central Plains Dynasty never set foot on this land again. This city was gradually abandoned because of the severance of the Silk Road, and slowly abandoned, leaving only broken arms and ruins.

After the Jin Kingdom opened the trade route, many caravans passed through it, going to Samarkand in the south or the Mongol tribes in the north, where they could spend the night in the ruins.

If it takes a long time and there are more caravans passing by, this place may be able to recover again, but if the Rakshasas are allowed to fight here, the trade route will be cut off, and this already dilapidated city may be completely eroded by the wind and sand in a hundred years, and finally slowly disappear, becoming a legend like Loulan.

At this time, the monk took the lead and rushed into the ruined city, and Heng Ross basically had only a few walls left, and the loess wall that could be knocked down with a few hits, but despite this, this still gave the Mongols who fled for their lives a sense of safety.

In fact, this situation is not suitable for hiding in the city, it is easy for people to catch turtles in the urn, but if the Mongols continue to flee all the way to Kulan City, I am afraid that even the Yuzi people will be swept away by them, and the entire Central Asia will be lost to the Rakshasas.

The monk rushed into the city, immediately reined in the war horse, and the cavalry behind him entered the city, somewhat calmed down, no longer because of the panic of the group, and was coerced to run east.

"Geril and Dedema, each of you take two thousand men up to the earthen wall and shoot back the Rakshasas with bows and arrows." As soon as the monk entered the city, he hurriedly commanded, "Huercha, you should take people around the city and scatter some thistle terrestris, and the speed should be fast." ”

It's not enough to just enter the city, and now the Mongols are demoralized, and if the Rakshasas rush in as well, it will be over.

Several Mongolian commanders, after listening to the order, hurriedly beat their chests and received the order.

Two groups of Mongols rode to the left and right sides of Xicheng, and then dismounted, took bows and arrows and quivers from their horses, and some took arquebuses bought from the Jin Kingdom, and quickly climbed the earthen wall that had become a small hillside, occupying the top, and some were holding shields, forming a shield wall at the gap in the earthen wall, and several Mongols with firearms stood behind the shield soldiers.

The other group of cavalry galloped out of the gap in the eastern city, and then divided into two groups, one on the left and one on the right, galloping along the city, and sprinkled thistles where the horses could rush directly into the city, or rush against the crumbling earthen walls.

There were 20,000 Mongols, and when the Mongols who entered the city set up defenses, the Mongols who fled into the city continued to pour into the city.

The city of Henglus was not a big city, and even in the Tang Dynasty, it was only a transit point for trade and a place for merchants to rest, and it did not have a large population.

Soon the city was crowded with Mongols, and as soon as the Mongol cavalry rushed into the city, turned over and dismounted, they sat on the ground, panting, and did not look like a steppe overlord.

Soon, when the two groups of cavalry scattered thistles along the city wall from the left and right sides went around from the east city to the west city respectively, the tail of the Mongols and the Rakshasas almost reached the west city, and the cavalry who threw the thistles immediately clamped the belly of the horse, merged into the tail of the Mongolian cavalry, and rushed into the city at the risk of being shot off the horse by the Rakshasas.

Several cavalry in the back of the Mongolian cavalry, while sprinkling thistle, while urging the horse to gallop, but the sound of hooves behind them is getting closer and closer, the cavalry behind them rushed to the front, has reached within thirty steps, only to hear the sound of "boom boom" continuously, one arrow after another, shot from the side of the Mongolian cavalry, "whoosh" nailed to the ground, some cavalry dodged, some were in the back, and fell off the horse together with the cloth bag containing thistle.

Just when the Mongol cavalry was shot down, the Cossack cavalry who rushed in front suddenly screamed and fell down one after another, and the cavalry above was thrown directly away, smashed heavily on the ground, rolled away, and splashed a piece of yellow dust.

Several of the war horses running in front of them neighed and fell forward one after another, and the fallen war horses mixed with the war horses behind, and the war horses and cavalry also fell.

At this time, the Mongols standing on the earthen wall began to shoot arrows and firearms, and the Cossacks who were close were shot down again and again, and the later large group of cavalry could not stop, and the galloping horses trampled on the fallen cavalry, and the soldiers were suddenly blurred with blood and flesh, and the screams were loud, and the Cossack cavalry behind was so frightened that they turned their horses' heads and did not dare to continue to march in the direction of the city.

Ivan Zolotarenko originally wanted to lead his troops directly into the city and cut down the Mongols who fled into the city, but the sudden change surprised him, hurriedly reined in his horse, and stopped outside the city.

"What's going on?" He was very unhappy, originally the Mongols rushed into the city, which was equivalent to the rats themselves getting into the box, purely looking for death, but he didn't expect that at the critical moment, the Mongols actually stabilized their position.

Many Russian generals looked at each other, not knowing what was happening, but someone who was familiar with the Mongols said: "It must have been sprinkled with thistle." ”

This kind of weapon was available in China during the Warring States period, and when the Mongols attacked the Jin State, they were injured by this thing and many people, and later learned the past, and liked to arrange some outside the camp when they were stationed in the camp to prevent the enemy cavalry from kicking the camp, so they were carried with the army.

When he heard that it was thistle, Ivan Zolotarenko immediately understood that it was a weapon with four long thorns, so sharp that it could pierce the horse's hooves and make it unbearable for the horse.

Ivan Zolotarenko looked at the city wall in the distance, and saw that the Mongols were standing on it, and he did not want to let the Cossacks fight on foot, so he led the cavalry to turn to several other sides, but there were Mongols on the earthen walls, and on the way suitable for the cavalry to charge, they all threw thistles.

When he saw that several more Cossack cavalrymen had fallen because of this vicious method, he was furious, and he must sell all these Mongols as slaves in order to relieve the hatred in his heart.

At this time, it was already dark, and the Russian army did not know how much tribulus terrestris the Mongols had sprinkled, so they could only stop tempting the Mongols.

Ivan Zolotarenko waved a communications soldier, "You go to Marshal Morozov overnight and tell him that we have trapped the Mongols and tell the army to come quickly." ”

The Cossacks were cavalrymen, and they rarely gave up their superiority and dismounted on foot. Ivan Zolotarenko thought about it, or handed over the matter of attacking the fortification to the army, and when they crushed the Mongols with a cannon bombardment, the Cossacks could cover up and kill the fleeing Mongols, without paying casualties, and went to melee with the Mongols.

The herald saluted at once, and then rode away, only then did he turn back and order: "Stand back and go down to the camp, and arrange for enough sentry to keep an eye on the Mongols." ”

The Mongols in the city of Henglus were relieved to see the Russian army retreating, but no one thought of pursuing.

10,000 Russian troops surrounded 20,000 Mongols in the city, and it is unbelievable to say.

In fact, this is also a problem of "potential", in the battle on the banks of the Volga River, the Mongols were defeated too badly, more than 200,000 people said that they were defeated, and even the khans were killed by others, and the corpses were not snatched, which made the Mongols a little frightened.

This is just like the panic caused by the Eight Banners to the Ming army after the first battle of Salhu, falsely rumored that "Manchu is invincible", sometimes it is not that the enemy is too strong, but that he is frightened by himself, and he is frightened by the enemy he imagines.

When the Russian army sent soldiers to call the main force to come, the monk also called a few scouts, gave them a few letters, and instructed: "You take advantage of the night, rush to Kulan City overnight to tell Yuzi Khan that the Rakshasa people are coming, let the Yuzi people send troops over, and then continue west, go to the Jin country for help, and ask the king of Anxi to send reinforcements." ”

Several of the scouts nodded, and the monk handed them the letter and explained it again, telling the scout to repeat it to him before letting them leave.

Not far to the east of the city of Henglus, is the royal court of the Great Yuz Khanate, the city of Julan, the distance between the two is only more than two hundred li, and the old and weak women of Jungar are all there.

The monk originally wanted to withdraw to Kulan City, join forces with the Yuzi people, and deal with the Rakshasa people, but now he has been bitten and can only stay in Henglus City. Fortunately, the location here is crucial, with the desert in the north, the Syr Darya River in the southwest, and the mountains in the southeast, which is the barrier of the city of Kulan, and also the node of the Silk Road, the node of the north-south bifurcation, which is equally important for Yuzi and Jinguo.

There is also a reason why the Tang army met with Da Shi here during the Tang Dynasty and fought a big war.

It's actually not bad to choose this place as a battlefield, but the monk has no confidence in his heart. The Yuzi people have no choice, after Henglus City is Julan City, they have no way to retreat, most of them will come to reinforcements, but Jin Country is not necessarily.

King Anxi may not have fought with the Rakshasas because of them, and if this battle had not been intervened by the Jin Kingdom, in the eyes of the Sangha, they would probably have lost.

Thinking of this, the monk couldn't help but feel irritated in his heart, and after waiting for the scouts to leave, he turned around and suddenly shouted loudly: "The men and horses are divided into two teams, each team of 10,000 people, one team builds fortifications, and the other team rests immediately, and then rotates in the middle of the night. ”

Hearing this, the Mongols immediately began to move, but they had nothing to build fortifications, so they could only level the ruins of the city one by one, pile the stones and sand they got on the earthen wall, and simply plug the gap and the door hole without the city gate.

While the soldiers were repairing the walls, the monks summoned men and told them to scatter the remaining thistles outside the city.

The next day, the Cossack cavalry outside the city was only watching from a distance, no longer approaching the city walls, while the Mongols inside the city were busy repairing the walls with sand and earth, looking for some comfort.

Both sides are waiting for reinforcements to come over and fight a battle that will carry the annals of history······

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