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The soldiers quickly dragged Bo Xilin away, and Liu Shan stood up and hugged his fists and said, "King, how to deal with Ji Bo Xilin?" You can't keep it closed, can you? Sooner or later, word of this will get out."

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said: "It doesn't matter if the news spreads, this person has a high reputation in the Great Food Country, especially among the Persians, there are many followers, if we kill him like this, wouldn't he become a hero who died generously?" The Great Cannibal needs such a hero, and we don't, so we can't fulfill him. Lock him up first, send someone to take strict care of him, don't let him commit suicide or have any other accidents, don't treat him harshly in terms of diet and other treatments, and find a beautiful and knowledgeable aristocratic woman to take care of his diet and daily life! How can a hero be without a beautiful woman by his side? ”

Liu Shan promised: "Obey!" ”

The city of Mahiz, a hundred miles southwest of the castle of Behedashir. Wei Gao set out with 3,000 cavalry from dawn, and arrived at dusk twenty miles east of the city of Mahiz, a place in southern Persia on a plateau with difficult roads, and it was already a very fast march to be able to travel a hundred miles in a day.

The army was rushing to the road, and a horse sentry galloped from the northwest direction, and ran directly to Wei Gao panting and clenching his fists to report: "General Qiyu, twelve miles in the northwest direction, I found a large food army horse advancing in the direction of Mahiz City, the number of troops is about 10,000, all of them are cavalry, this big food army is full of flags and horses, and the style is extraordinary, as if it is the emperor of the Great Food Country in it!" ”

"The caliphate of the Great Food Nation is in this army? Impossible, right? Wei Gao was taken aback when he heard this, "Isn't Mansur at Behedashir Castle?" How did it come out of here, and how did we not receive the news? ”

The sentry knight said: "This military horse did not even arrange any guard posts around, the villain and the brothers touched the close observation, and saw very clearly, this army of soldiers and horses is indeed the imperial car of the emperor of the Great Food Country, and only the emperor is qualified to enjoy some flags, equipment, and the specifications of chariots and horses!" ”

Wei Gao thought about it, this place has left the front line far away, there is actually no big road from Mahan Town to come here, he found a guide to follow the path to come here with the army, this big food army may not have expected that the people and horses of the Western Qin Army would suddenly appear here, thinking that it would be safe after staying away from the front line, so there was no guard post around the army, which is also reasonable.

In this era, when the army was marching, only outposts and pioneers were arranged in front of the army to reconnoiter and explore the way. Historically, the practice of arranging sentry guards on both flanks during the march of the army was not pioneered until the establishment of Genghis Khan's Mongol army! The effect of arranging sentinels on both flanks of the army is very great, it can know in advance whether the flanks of the army are safe, if the flanks on the march are attacked, it is almost the result of being defeated, but if the vigilance and probes are arranged, there will be enough time to prepare for the battle, so as not to be caught off guard.

The reason why all the armies did not arrange sentry guards on both wings before was not that no one thought of it, but because the way of contact was backward, even if the guard posts were arranged, they could not notify the commander in time, because both sides of the marching road were basically not a flat land, and there were either rivers, mountains, or a large number of fields, or woods on both sides of the marching road, and only in the vast prairie would it be a smooth road, and the detective sentry could only ride horses back and forth on the two wings of the army in the vast prairie. In other areas it doesn't work at all.

But this situation did not change until the destruction of the Jin Kingdom by Genghis Khan's Mongol army, the Mongol army found the fireworks made by the Han people after the destruction of the Jin Kingdom, as long as the fireworks rushed high enough, this colorful thing released in the sky can be seen from a long distance, the Mongols used fireworks to transmit news, arranged a large number of reconnaissance and reconnaissance posts on both wings of the army's march, as long as the enemy was found on the flank, they could immediately use the fireworks to transmit information, this method can almost eliminate the possibility of the flank being attacked or ambushed.

And now although gunpowder has been discovered by folk Taoist priests in the process of alchemy, it is far from being used in the military, Zhao Ziliang has also been refraining from using gunpowder, but the use of fireworks to communicate was used by him as early as 20 years ago, and has been used to this day, even in the Western Qin Army, the fireworks used for communication are also very strictly controlled strategic materials.

Wei Gao did not personally observe the situation of this Great Food Army, but since the Sentinel said that it was the royal car of the Great Food Caliph, then there is a chance that Mansur is preparing to return to Baghdad, after all, no one dares to use utensils and banners that exceed the specifications, this is a taboo matter, this kind of thing is a big taboo in any country, unless someone is impatient.

"It's better to believe what you have than what you don't!" Wei Gao thought for a while and said to the generals under his command, "Even if Mansur is not in this army, there must be another big man in this army, and in front of him is Mahiz, according to the current marching speed and distance, we should arrive at Mahiz City ahead of them." I thought we should stop advancing, and immediately ordered the whole army to halt and wait for the caliph's army to arrive in the city of Mahiz! ”

"Yes, General!"

After the army stopped, it began to rest on the spot, and widely deployed sentinel scouts to probe the surrounding enemy, while the outposts of the Caliph al-Mansur's army did not relax in the slightest and continued to star.

While the soldiers were resting, eating, and feeding the horses, Wei Gao studied the map and said to the generals: "According to the indication on the map, this city is just a small city, and the city walls are all adobe walls. Their army will definitely camp outside the city, and Mansour's royal chariot will definitely spend the night here tonight, as for whether he enters the city to spend the night or just spends the night in the camp outside the city, it doesn't make much difference to us, we will wait until the night to go to the raid! It would be best if he were in the camp if he were in the city, but if we were in the city, when we had defeated the army outside the city and then entered the city, this broken adobe wall would not stop us! ”

A subordinate general stood up and clenched his fists and said, "Please give the general an order!" ”

Another general also stood up and hugged his fists and said: "Yes, we have fought so many battles, and we have captured from small soldiers to generals, but we have not captured the emperor, how can we let go of the opportunity to capture the emperor of the Great Food Country now?" This is a great achievement, this is a good opportunity for the ages, and the opportunity must not be lost and will not come again, General! ”

"Good!" Wei Gao immediately stood up and ordered: "Immediately order the reconnaissance and reconnaissance posts to find out the terrain around Mahiz City, draw a map and send it back, send people to watch every move of the Great Food Army, report the situation in time, and all the troops will recuperate in place and wait for orders!" ”

"No!"

The terrain of the plateau is too complicated, this is the first time Wei Gao has led his army here, and even the guide can't tell what the surrounding terrain is like, which shows that the complexity of the terrain can not be explained clearly in a few words. The caliph's escort army did not send guard posts on the left and right flanks, Wei Gao originally thought that he didn't need to make other preparations, and directly led the army to kill from the flanks, but because he didn't know the surrounding terrain, he was worried that the people and horses would be discovered by the Great Food Army before they arrived, and when the time came, the gains of fighting a tough battle would outweigh the losses, he only had three thousand men and horses, and the loss of one was one less, and he could not replenish it in a short time, so he was not ready to fight a tough battle, as long as he could find other ways to win at a small cost, he would not choose to fight with the enemy.

An hour later, the news came from the direction of the city of Mahiz, twenty miles away, that the 10,000-strong army had unsurprisingly camped outside the city, and at this time it was getting dark, but the detective sentry did not dare to get too close, and did not find out who the chief general of this army was, whether he had stayed in the camp or had entered the city.

After hearing the report, Wei Gao thought that he should find out who the chief general of this army was. Isn't it Caliph al-Mansour? Whether to stay in the camp or to have already entered the city of Mahiz, without clarifying the three questions, he could not rashly order an attack. As soon as the order was delivered, the scout battalion immediately went into action and captured a large food soldier who had slipped out of the toilet near the camp of the Great Food Army.

This man was soon escorted by the sentinel, and when Wei Gao saw it, he had the guide called over, and instructed the guide: "Tell him, if he wants to live, tell me who the leader of this army is, and whether he will live in the city or in the camp outside the city tonight!" ”

Not all the big food soldiers are not afraid of death, when they really face death, as long as they are a person, they will be timid, this captured tongue was quickly removed, Wei Gao got the news he wanted, Caliph al-Mansur is indeed in this army, he is old, it is cold outside at night, and his body can no longer bear the wind and food and sleep, so after arriving, he entered the city directly, accompanied by two hundred attendants and all the officers accompanying the army, and everyone else stayed in the camp outside the city.

Late that night, Wei Gao led the army to raid the camp of the Great Food Army outside the city of Mahiz, this camp has no defense facilities, not even the simplest rejection of horses, and there is no protective fence around the camp, Wei Gao led the army commander to rush into the camp, many soldiers of the Great Food Army were awakened and were killed when they got out of the camp tent, and more people were set on fire by the Western Qin army in their sleep and burned alive in the tent.

"The enemy is in, let me out, let me out!" Locked in a wooden cage, your Prince Mahdi screamed in terror when he saw the camp being attacked by enemy troops.

The soldiers of the Great Food Army who were guarding around hesitated, took out the key and opened the chains, Mahdi ran out of the wooden cage and pointed at several soldiers of the Great Food Army around him and shouted: "Quick, you all come with me!" ”

Taking advantage of the chaos in the camp, Mahdi fled on horseback with a few soldiers, and when he left the camp near the horse, he stopped, turned his head to look in the direction of the city of Mahiz, and said to a few soldiers: "Let's find a place to hide first, and then decide to stop when we understand the situation!" ”

Many of the big food soldiers in the camp were killed and scattered and fled in the direction of Mahiz City, the city gate has long been decayed, it has no effect at all, it was knocked open by the rebels casually, a large number of routs poured into the city to hide, Wei Gao was worried that his cavalry could not rush into the city, but he didn't expect the big food rebels to open the road in front of the broken city gate, and the army rushed into the city at once.

Two hours later, the battle in the city was over, a large number of the Great Eclipse Army were captured, more people were killed, only a few were really killed by the Western Qin Army, and many of the Great Eclipse Army were killed by their own people.

Before Wei Gao came to the city lord's mansion, several Western Qin soldiers killed several fierce attendants in a room, dragging the pale-faced Mansur out from under the bed.

Wei Gao held the hilt of the knife and looked at Mansur, who had gray hair but was still quite magnificent, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Wei Gao, the deputy general of the Second Army of the Lower Western Qin, has admired your name for a long time, and I think my king will definitely look forward to meeting you if he learns that we have met here!" ”

Mansur forced himself to calm down, took a deep breath and said to Wei Gao: "Your Excellency, General, I appreciate your bravery and courage, but the dignity of a king should not be violated, if you must let me go to see the King of Western Qin, I hope I will be decent when I meet him!" ”

Wei Gao bowed his head and saluted, and said: "Of course, although you have become a prisoner of Zaixia, you are still the caliph of the Great Food Country, as long as you cooperate with us, I guarantee that you will be sent to my king as the most honorable guest, and no one dares to be rude to you during this period!" ”

Mansour said with difficulty: "Thank you! ”