Wei Gao's men and horses rested during the day, and at night they were alive again, and nearly 3,000 people soon occupied the camp left by the great cannibals. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The actions of the Western Qin army were seen by Manhard on the city wall, the light was too dim at night, and the soldiers of the Great Food Army could not see his facial expressions clearly, but he was extremely remorseful in his heart at this time: "Why am I so stupid that I didn't order the camp to be burned?" In this way, the threat of the Western Qin army stationed under our noses is too great! ”

After all, Manhard was grateful to the generals, he was very experienced, and he knew that his words and deeds would affect the morale of the generals of the army, so he hid the expression on his face very well, and the soldiers did not notice it, but the Western Qin army occupied the camp close at hand, and they all instinctively felt the danger, and their emotions were a little restless.

A subordinate general beside him asked, "Your Excellency, if only we had burned down the camp before!" ”

Manhard shook his head and said, "It's useless, if they really want to do anything with this camp, even if we burn it down, they will still build it again." If we don't burn it, maybe they won't think about what they're going to do with the camp! ”

After Manhard said this, the surrounding soldiers and generals also felt that it was very reasonable, and they didn't say anything more.

After a whole night of fear, early the next morning, the big soldiers on duty on the city wall were awakened by the noise outside the castle, they got up and looked down the city, only to see countless local people living in the Bam Oasis being driven from all directions by the Western Qin cavalry, men, women and children, the old old people were already faltering and dying, and the young were still in swaddling clothes.

The locals who had been driven over stood under the castle and cried in a chaotic manner, almost all of them shouting at the walls.

"Just open the castle door and let us in??????"

"The Western Qin army is killing people everywhere, we have to enter the fort, otherwise we will all be killed!"

"Open the door!"

Seeing that more and more local people were coming in with their families under the castle, and everyone was crying loudly to enter the fort, the lieutenant general beside Manhard said, "Your Excellency, do you want to open the gate of the fort and let them in?" ”

Manhard didn't say anything, and another general next to him immediately said: "No, there are already too many people in the castle, and it can't fit so many people at all, and letting those people outside come in will crowd this castle!" ”

Another general supported this man's claim: "That's right, they can't be let in, the castle is already extremely crowded now, and there is no room for more population!" ”

The adjutant general sighed: "I know that all the generals are right, but I ask you to think about it, they are all brothers who believe in Allah like us, if we turn them away today, then they will be killed by the Western Qin, and Allah will blame us for not helping our brothers at the critical moment!" You are the Lord, Your General, and your decisions will determine their life and death, and will determine whether Allah will punish us ???????".

Manhard knew that what the generals said was right, the castle is so big, the population that can accommodate is really limited, if you want to forcibly open the gate of the fort to let the people outside, of course it is possible, but this will greatly shorten the survival time of everyone, and it will also make the castle more crowded, as a wise person, he will never allow those people outside to enter the castle, but the lieutenant's words are also very reasonable, if he refuses to let the people outside enter the castle today to avoid the pursuit of the Western Qin people, then even if he can survive this timeHe will also be spurned by all his brothers who believe in Allah! He would have drowned in a lot of saliva and crusades, and he couldn't afford to bear such a great culption!

After a long time of consideration, Manhard sighed: "We are all brothers of Allah, I can't watch them being killed by the Western Qin, open the fort gate and let them in!" ”

Several generals who opposed the opening of the fort gate were shocked: "Your Excellency, General! ”

Manhard waved his hand and said: "Needless to say, open the gate of the fort and send people out to pick them in, the speed must be fast, and the people of Western Qin must not be given a chance!" ”

The adjutant general was overjoyed and immediately saluted: "Yes, General!" ”

During the period when the big cannibal opened the door of the fort and took the big eaters outside into the fort, the Western Qin army did not take action, and the big eaters outside the fort entered the fort smoothly, and it was inevitable that there were spies who had succumbed to the Western Qin army and were not noticed by the big food army for the time being.

The small castle of Bam has accommodated more than 40,000 people at this time, the degree of crowding is beyond imagination, almost crowded, many times can not find a place to lie down and sleep, because there are a large number of local people entering, both the elderly, and there are still baby babies, and there is no one to maintain order, causing great chaos in the city, some people defecate everywhere, throw garbage everywhere, within two days, the castle began to stink, the smell is disgusting, but this and the danger is not at all nothing.

No one cares about the environmental sanitation of the castle, but everyone in the castle is under increasing pressure to survive, because on the second day when a large number of local people poured into the castle, Zhao Ziliang ordered to increase and strengthen the height of the camp wall outside the castle, and the big food captives undertook these tasks, and the Western Qin army forced them to increase and strengthen the wall with swords and bows and arrows, and in just two days, the height of the wall exceeded three zhang, and it was more solid, in addition, the wall was still extending in the direction of the castle, The soldiers of the Western Qin army on the wall of the fortress could even jump to the city wall by a horizontal ladder, which made the soldiers and civilians in the castle even more frightened.

September 16, afternoon, under the castle of Bam.

Zhao Ziliang sat in the tent and quickly reviewed the urgent recitals sent from Xinjing and Chang'an, which must be reviewed by him personally, and no one else can replace them.

After reviewing the last recital, Zhao Ziliang rubbed his temples, got up and moved his muscles, and Chen Qing, who was draped all over his body, walked in and hugged his fists and said: "General, our plan to send people to infiltrate Shulgaz City and drug the well has failed!" ”

"Oh? Let's talk about the specifics! This was somewhat unexpected by Zhao Ziliang, it stands to reason that the big cannibal should not be so vigilant.

Chen Qing said: "There is almost a well for every ten households in Shuergaz City, and the spies we sent to mix in have attracted the attention and suspicion of the Great Food Army due to their frequent activities, and one person was caught when he was drugged in the thirteenth well, and his body was hung on the outer wall of the city wall by the Big Cannibal, and several other spies have stopped their relevant actions and are waiting for the next order!" ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at the map and said: "It seems that this area has abundant groundwater, Shuergaz City is a big city in the east of the Great Food Country, and there must be a lot of wells in the city, we didn't think about it this time!" ”

Chen Qing asked, "Do you want to give orders to the other spies in Shulgaz City to let them continue to implement this plan?" Or let them find a way to burn the grain and grass in the city of Shulgaz? ”

Zhao Ziliang thought about it for a while, shook his head and said: "No need, after this incident, the big food army in Shulgaz City will definitely be more vigilant, they are not stupid, since we think of poisoning the well, they will definitely strengthen the protection of food safety in the future, don't make fearless sacrifices, don't give orders to the remaining spies, let them lurk, at least wait for the vigilance of the big cannibals to relax!" Give Zhao Hu an order to continue the siege, there is no food in Shulgaz City, we quickly killed and besieged the city, they were not prepared, and the hoarded food could not be eaten for long! We must be patient, fighting a war is not something that can be achieved overnight, and when the big cannibals die first, they will have civil strife! ”

Chen Qing clenched his fists and agreed: "Understood! In addition, news came from the north that Wei Meng had led the Fifth Army and cooperated with Oghuz and Hua Thorn Zimo with a total of 50,000 horses to march to Guchang and Mashad City, and the specific battle situation had not yet been reported! The king, Weichen is a little puzzled by the king's strategic deployment??????"

Zhao Ziliang glanced back at Chen Qing, "Say!" ”

"Yes, although Mulu City, the capital of Khorasan Province of the Great Food Country, is heavily garrisoned, it is lonely in the northeastern corner of Khorasan Province, and its connection with the rest of Khorasan Province is only the Karak Canal Corridor, which is only ten miles at its narrowest point, and if our army cuts off the Karak Canal Corridor, the Mulu City area will become an enclave, and we can fight whenever we want, but the King does not cut off this canal corridor, but lets the Fifth Army, the Oghuz Army and the Flower Thorn Zimo Army attack Guchang City and Mashad Dhad, Could it be that the king wants to attract the soldiers and horses of Mulu City to the area of Guchang City and Mashad City? ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled and said: "There is no real enclave, the legs are long on the body of the big cannibal, even if we cut off the Karak Canal Corridor, they suddenly don't want Mulu City, we can't stop them." Moreover, there are oases in a radius of 100 miles around Mulu City, there is plenty of food and grass in the city, and the ordnance and city defense are complete, if their will to resist is stubborn and resolute, if we want to attack, I am afraid that it may not be captured in a year and a half! Besides, there are no less than 20,000 people in Guchang City and Mashad City, if we attack Mulu City, these two places will definitely come to the rescue, cut off the canal corridor, and cannot cut off their reinforcements, there are roads everywhere, cutting constantly, only by destroying their army, can we occupy their territory! When attacking Guchang City and Mashad City, if the Great Food Army of Mulu City comes to the rescue, the Fifth Legion can surround the point and send reinforcements! If the army of Mulu City does not move, wait for us to capture Mashad and Guchang City, and then quickly send cavalry to ravage the surrounding areas of Mulu City and weaken their resistance force, and now the Dongchang side can also send people to Mulu City to carry out activities, create panic, and weaken their will to resist, and then it will be much easier to attack Mulu City! ”

Mulu City was built as early as Antigonus I, and later the East and West began economic and trade exchanges, Mulu City played an important role as a town on the Silk Road and a transit of goods, when a number of canals were dug around it to connect the east and west.

This has always been the location of the capital of Khorasan Province, and also as the advance base of the Great Food Country's eastward invasion of Central Asia, which is extremely important for the Great Food Country, and later Zhao Ziliang took advantage of the opportunity of the black-clothed Great Food to overthrow the white-clothed Great Food to set up the Taixi Protectorate, and severely damaged the eastward invasion of the army of Bo Xilin, and also encroached on a large area of land that originally belonged to the Great Food Country, so that Mulu City was almost captured, although the Great Food Country had better keep the Mulu City, but also made the Mulu City almost alone outside the territory of the Great Food Country.