After killing the timid and incompetent Stone City Burke, the Chinese Lion King still has to discuss with other timid and incompetent people how to deal with the army of Peach Blossom Stone.

In fact, the one who should cut off his head the most is the lion king's beloved general Mahmoud. Berry, who was his light enemy, did not choose the tactics of retreating in stride and scorched earth to resist the enemy, but held on to Stone Town, which was very close to Shangpeachstone, and it turned out to be a big mistake - in addition to going out of the city to fight a powerful enemy, holding on to Stone Town should be the worst choice! And Mahmoud. Berry's army hadn't held Stone Town for long...... In just a dozen days, he buried Stone Town along with nearly 800 Ghulam and 400 Iqtar Knights.

This is not the heyday of the Khanate, the Lion King's Guram has a total of less than 2,000, and 800 were lost in the First World War, and there are only 1,200 Gulams left available now! And on the Peach Blossom Stone army of Ghulam, according to Mahmud. Berry's report, as many as eight or nine thousand people!

In the art of war taught by the Celestial Sect of this era, the number of gullams can be counted to predict victory or defeat. 9,000 Ghulam usually beats 1,200 Ghuram, and it's a big win!

As for the number of Iqtar knights and militiamen, in most cases it is unimportant. Unless it is a new Celestial Cult regime, it will have a group of powerful Iktars, and in the slightly older Celestial Cult regimes, the Iqtar Knights class usually only provide bureaucrats and scholars, and cannot be expected to have any combat effectiveness.

In fact, no sultan or emir (including the Khan of Lesser China) wanted his Iqtar to be strong in force forever. Because the consequence of Iqta's overpower is that the country is difficult to stabilize—the Sultan and the emirs think the same as the Son of Heaven in the Central Plains, but in a slightly different way. The emperors of the Central Plains weakened the elite with the emphasis on literature over military force and the imperial examination system.

The role of the Iqtar knights was also weakened by the Sultans and emirs who bought small slaves from the steppes or Europe and trained them as Ghulam (Mamluk, Cheriniye) slave warriors as the main force of the army. It is not surprising that the knights of Iqtar, who rarely go to war, gradually became bureaucrats.

As for the militia, the combat effectiveness is even more unreliable. Unless they were hired from nomadic or hill tribes who believed in the Celestial Religion or mobilized by religion, they had no combat power at all.

In the Khan's palace in Khotan, the Lion King is convening a meeting of his ministers.

Another of his court Illiks, known as the "Wise Trust", Buzar, stepped forward from a group of sad-faced ministers and saluted: "Khan, neither the city of Jochang nor the oasis of Keriya has scorched earth, and there are no Ghulam warriors stationed there in the two places, I am afraid that they will soon be occupied by the enemy of Upper Peach Blossom." When the time comes, the grain, cattle and sheep there will be owned by the enemy! ”

That's right! Yochang City and the Keriya Oasis will definitely not be able to hold it, maybe they will be lost by now!

The Lion King scratched his forehead: "Buzar, don't sell it, if you have any clever plans, just say it!" ”

Buzar touched his white beard and said, "The enemy is very powerful, there are eight or nine thousand Gulam warriors, and it seems that there are evil wizards who have mastered black magic. Our forces are too weak, and we should call for help from the Chalnavids and the Turks, while shrinking our forces and putting up scorched earth resistance. ”

"Scorched earth resistance? But the city of Jochan and the Oasis of Kriya are likely to have been taken by the enemy! ”

"Then abandon the cities of Khotan, Yeerqiang and Shache, and retreat to Kashgar with the whole army."

Khotan is nearly 1,000 miles away from Kashgar. In the meantime, there are two relatively large-scale oasis cities in Yeerqiang City and Shache City. If it is completely destroyed, then the westward army of Shangtaohuashi will once again encounter difficulties in carrying thousands of miles of food.

"But the enemy will still reach Kashgar!" The Lion King said, "Berry's report says that the enemy marched with cattle and sheep, and that they also had a kind of Ghulam with semi-armor. If they had acted quickly, they would have taken the city of Jochan and the Oasis of Kriya by now, and most likely they would have plundered more cattle and sheep.

Even if we destroy Khotan, Yeerqiang and Shache, it will not be possible to destroy the entire oasis and the boundless steppe. As long as there are oases and grasslands, the army on the peach blossom stone can graze cattle and move westward at the same time. ”

It is certainly not as fast as marching while grazing grass valleys, but it is not too slow, and it is twenty or thirty miles a day, and it takes a month and a half to complete 1,000 miles. If you add the 1,800 miles from Stone Town to Khotan, it is a journey of four months at most. It's been a little longer, but it's still coming.

"Khan, with three or four months, we will be able to mobilize more troops." "And it can also strengthen the defense of Kashgar Galdan and turn it into the strongest castle in the world!"

In addition, we can get help from the Chalnavids and the Seljuk Turks, and maybe even scholars from Niezemia University in Baghdad who can crack the dark magic of the Mahogany Stone. ”

"Okay!" The Lion King thought about it, as if there was no better way, "immediately send messengers to Lahore and Isfahan for help." Be sure to tell them that the Upper Peach Blossom Stone army with its black magic is on a major expedition westward, and if they don't come to save us, then they will be the next to be invaded!

In addition, they sent people to Barasagon and transferred all the Gullam and Iqta cavalry there to Kashgar. Then he took the treasure out of the treasury of Barasagon and went to Muhammad in Bukhara and asked him to send his army at once. ”

"Khan," Buzar reminded, "Barasagon is already very empty, and if the Gullam and Iqtar knights are transferred there, in case the heretics of Gaochang send troops......"

"Don't worry about the heretics of Gaochang!" The Lion King waved his hand, "They are of little use, the Persian and Tajik mercenaries of Barasagon will be enough to deal with them." ”

The Qarakhanid army in the west (west of the Tien Shan) also included a contingent of Persian and Tajik mercenaries, whose origins were the Samanid armies, who captured a large number of Samanid troops during the Qarakhanids' fall on the Samanids. In the later wars between the Qarakhanid Dynasty and Khotan, the main army of the Qarakhanid Dynasty suffered heavy losses (the Khotan-Gaochang-Guiyi coalition army was still very capable of fighting), so it had no choice but to recruit a large number of troops from the captives of the Samanid Dynasty to guard Samarkand, Bukhara, Barasagon and other large western cities.

Most of the descendants of these Persian-Tajik mercenaries also continued to serve as soldiers and became the backbone of the Qarakhanid army's forces in Central Asia. By now, although this army has been inherited for a hundred years, it has long since decayed. But no matter how corrupt they were, they were not something that the Uighurs could deal with.

"Khan, will the army of Peach Blossom Stone use Gaochang to sneak attack Barasagon?" Immediately there was an objection.

"By Gaochang?" The Lion King smiled, "Balashagon is more than 3,000 miles away from Gaochang, and you can't go for 6 months." Moreover, does the emperor who went to the peach blossom stone have another eight or nine thousand gurams that can be used? If there were, then even if Ghulam and Iqtar of Barasagon were not transferred, it would be useless. ”

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At the same time that the Lion King convened a military council and made a decision that was later considered to have ruined the national fortunes of the Eastern Qarakhanid Dynasty. 2,000 miles away, near the Yemili steppe, Yelu Dashi was immediately on a high slope, coldly watching the cavalry of the Hexi Army destroy the tribal cavalry of the Qarakhanid State with a devastating force.

The defeated Qarakhanid cavalry belonged to a Qarakhanid tribe that was placed in the Yemili steppe to monitor the 30,000 Khitan herdsmen. This tribe has about a few thousand tents of herdsmen, and according to the mobilization ratio of one tent and one soldier, seven or eight thousand people can be dispatched.

And their equipment and tactics were no different from the Khitan tribesmen in Yelu Dashi's opinion. They are all based on the cavalry that nomadic cavalry is accustomed to, light but not neat, and swimmer but not brave. There was no problem in fighting the "soft-hearted" Uighurs of Gaochang, and it was enough to fight against the Khitan tribesmen with similar tactics. However, the Hexi cavalry, which had been tempered in the Song-Xia War and carried out a round of military reform, was really not something they could deal with.

In particular, those Western Liang cavalry, which were only equipped with "front heart" armor, were better than armored cavalry when dealing with nomadic cavalry. Because these Western Liang cavalry moved much faster than armored cavalry, and could take on the task of forming a surprise attack and dispersing the pursuit at the same time.

That is to say, when the nomadic cavalry adopts the customary "return horse shooting" and uses the method of retreating and shooting at the same time to deal with the Xiliang cavalry, the Xiliang cavalry can also disband the queue, carry the spear, and use the stubborn horn bow to shoot at the enemy. Due to the excellent quality of the horn bows used by the Hexi army, and their ability to shoot arrows on horseback was also more skillful, and they had a certain amount of armor protection. So you won't suffer in mounted archery battles!

Of course, if the cavalry of the Western Liang surpassed the nomadic cavalry of the Qarakhanid army, then there was no need to disband the queue, and just stab the enemy in the back with a spear.

In short, a few thousand Qarakhanid nomadic cavalry, which looked good, collapsed at the touch of a blow from the 9,000 cavalry of the Hexi Army, and collapsed in a blink of an eye.

Yelu Dashi's brows gradually twisted, and the Hexi Army has obviously become stronger after the military reform! And the Song army itself was carrying out the same, but more radical reforms. Once the reform is completed, will the cavalry of the "weak Song" have the ability to hang the Khitan iron cavalry?

If the Qarakhanid cavalry on today's battlefield is replaced by the Khitan palace tent army, can it achieve better results?

Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at Xiao Heda, Xiao Heda seemed to guess his thoughts, and smiled faintly at Yelu Dashi; "The general trend of the world has changed, if Da Liao continues to stick to the old ways, the future fate will not be much better than that of the Qarakhanid Dynasty! You are a nobleman of the royal family, and this time you can be famous in Anxi, and you can ask the Son of Heaven to reform in the future. If my hundreds of thousands of iron cavalry in Daliao can be like the Hexi cavalry, it is not impossible to dominate the world in the south! ”

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