Night combat is extremely dangerous, the army itself has no way to distinguish between friend and foe from a distance, a careless will cause their own people to kill each other, this time is the first time that the Great Food Army has carried out night operations, the casualties are particularly serious, some of the casualties are killed by the Western Qin army, and the others are basically caused by their own people killing each other.

After Burke retreated to a distance of thirty miles with the rest of the Great Eclipse Army, he joined up with Jamal and ordered someone to count the losses, only to find that the losses greatly exceeded his imagination, only to find that the losses greatly exceeded his imagination, only three thousand of the five thousand cavalry remained, and half of the five thousand infantry were lost, especially in the process of retreating, the upward attack on the high ground itself was not good for the infantry of the Great Eclipse Army, and the ground could not be seen clearly at night, and many people were injured due to falling down, trampled to death by their own people or unintentionally hacked to death by their own people, countless! Especially in the process of retreating, one by one scrambling, resulting in a large number of soldiers being pushed down, trampled to death, or hacked to death by their own people to open the way.

Jammel looked miserable and reported to Berke: "General, we only have 4,500 people left, and when we retreated, we were fortunate not to be pursued by the Western Qin army, otherwise the casualties would have been greater, and I lost most of the loss in just one battle, I don't have much confidence in whether I can hold back the Western Qin army!" ”

Burke said expressionlessly: "This is the will of the caliph, even if we are about to all die, we must fight until the last moment!" ”

Seeing that Berke couldn't say anything more, Jamal asked, "Then what do we do now?" The morale of the brothers has dropped very seriously, and it will be dawn soon, and I am afraid that it will not work to fight with the Western Qin people again! ”

Berke stared in the direction of Tahe Heights for a while, then turned his head and commanded Jamal: "The infantry can still play some role in the process of attacking the fortification, but it is almost useless in the process of containing the Western Qin army, you take the infantry to withdraw first, catch up with the main force of the caliph and return to the Behedashir Castle, I will continue to stay here with the remaining three thousand cavalry to contain the Western Qin army, I hope to buy you some time!" ”

Jammel hesitated, opening his mouth to say something but not saying it.

Burke saw his strangeness and said, "You don't have to worry that the Caliph will punish you, if the Caliph asks, you will say that I ordered you to withdraw with your infantry!" ”

Jammel sighed: "Well, I hope you can come back with your brothers intact, I will wait for you at Behedashir Castle!"

Jammel quickly withdrew with the infantry, and Berke beckoned to the cavalry general, who rode forward and saluted: "General? ”

Burke instructed: "Send some outposts to keep an eye on every move of the Western Qin army on the Tahe Heights, and report any of their movements immediately; In addition, he ordered the other brothers to rest on the spot, and if necessary, they should camp with swords and armor! ”

"Yes, General!" The general agreed, turned and left, and began to set up.

Except for the caliph's guards, which had a unified standard of equipment, the equipment of the other armies of the Great Food Country was varied. In terms of weapons, some people are armed with scimitars, some people hold Roman swords or broadswords, some people hold spears, and some people only have short swords and short knives, and some are equipped with bows and arrows; In terms of armor, most of the big food soldiers basically have no armor, no different from ordinary people, the difference is that they tie their trousers and tie their robes around their waists for the convenience of combat, a small number of soldiers wear leather armor, officers and generals basically have armor, the richer tribal leaders will equip their own personal guards with good weapons and armor, and some rich believers also arm themselves to the teeth, as for those mercenaries, although they make money by fighting, they know the importance of saving their lives, Therefore, everyone's weapons and armor are of the highest quality, and those gamblers, drunkards, and mercenaries have no money and can only equip some rags.

Under Tahegao, the cavalry officers and soldiers of the Western Qin Army were resting, eating and drinking, and some of them even went to the latrine. After a night of fighting, the soldiers were not much tired, but they were all hungry, and after a full meal, they were all alive again.

Erzhu Xianzhong took the meatloaf and bit it fiercely, but his mind was still thinking about what the great food general Berke said when he left, he bit the meatloaf fiercely, and seemed to treat the meatloaf as Burke.

A sentry rode his horse back from the darkness, jumped off his horse and climbed to the highest point of the high ground to find Erzhu Xianzhong and reported: "General, the main force of the Great Food Army is no longer in the town of Nabid, and the news from the brothers of the Huya Army that the main force of the Great Food Army withdrew in the direction of Behedashir Castle after the battle for the high ground between our army and the Saeed army late last night. The group of big food army just now was divided into two parts, more than 2,000 infantry retreated to the west, and the remaining more than 3,000 cavalry stayed in the south of the small town of Nabid thirty miles away to rest, they sent some guard posts, and some people were staring at our army, it seemed that they wanted to monitor and contain our army! ”

"Oh?" Erzhu Xianzhong was a little surprised when he heard the news, the three thousand Great Food Cavalry who stayed here didn't matter, the main force of the nearly 100,000 Great Food Army actually retreated, which one did the Great Food Eater play?

After thinking about it, Erzhu Xianzhong thought that he had to report the news to Zhao Ziliang quickly, so he immediately called the captain of his own army and instructed him: "You quickly go and report the news of the main force of the Great Food Army to the direction of Behedashir Castle to the king, the news of our army's battle with the Great Food Army last night and the news that the Great Food Army left 3,000 cavalry here to monitor and contain our army were also reported to the king, so I said that Weichen is here to wait for the king's next will!" ”

"Yes, General!"

Zhao Ziliang was woken up, and at this time, the sky was just numb, and the captain of the personal soldiers who came to report the news was waiting anxiously outside the big tent of the Chinese army.

Zhao Ziliang took the wet towel handed over by the guard, wiped his face, rinsed his mouth again, and then shouted to Nur who was on duty outside the tent: "Let him in!" ”

The door curtain was lifted, and the captain of the personal soldiers walked in cautiously and bowed to Zhao Ziliang and said, "The villain greets the king!" ”

Zhao Ziliang tied the waist knife to the general, and said: "Say, what news did Erzhu Xianzhong ask you to report?" Has he successfully taken the Tach Heights? ”

"Yes, King! But last night we had just arrived at Tahe Heights when we were confronted by the Great Eclipse Army, who also wanted to occupy Tahe Heights, with 13,000 men, 3,000 cavalry, and 10,000 infantry, led by the Great Eclipse General Said??????"

The captain of the personal army spent a quarter of an hour cooking fish to recount in detail the events of several consecutive battles last night, and then left the main force of the Great Food Army, leaving 3,000 cavalry to monitor and contain the Western Qin Army.

Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment after hearing this, and said to the captain of his own army: "The situation is already clear to the king, you go back and tell Erzhu Xianzhong that the king does not want this big food cavalry to become an obstacle to our army's westward advance, in order to prevent this big food cavalry from attacking the main force of our army, let him lead the cavalry to destroy this big food army cavalry that monitors and pins down our army, and bring the head of their leading general Berke to see this king!" ”

"Yes, King!" The captain of the pro-soldier agreed, saluted, and turned to leave.

The soldiers in the battalion have begun to assemble, breakfast has been prepared, the soldiers lined up to go to the men of each team to receive food and soup, a guard brought Zhao Ziliang a big bowl of rice, a big bowl of soup and a roast sheep, and the two guards specially removed the sinew from the roast sheep for him.

After a full meal, marching Sima Chen Qing walked into the big tent and hugged his fists and said: "King, all the soldiers of the army have been assembled, and you can set off from the camp!" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said to Chen Qing: "You sent someone to call the officials and generals, the situation has changed, let's discuss it and make a decision!" ”

Chen Qing was stunned for a moment, hugged his fists and agreed: "Yes!" ”

The officers and generals who were notified came to the big tent of the Chinese army, and when everyone arrived, Zhao Ziliang said: "The situation has changed, last night General Erzhu was ordered to occupy the Tahe Heights, and met with the Great Food Army who also wanted to occupy the high ground under the high ground, the two sides fought a big battle, the Great Food Army was defeated, and the leading general Saide was captured by our army, this battle has just ended, and the main force of the Great Food Army withdrew to the Behedashir Citadel under the leadership of Caliph al-Mansur, Left an army led by the general of the Great Food Burke to sneak attack the Tach Heights, this Polk still has some skills, actually thought of using the strategy of luring the enemy to divide the troops, first let the adjutant general use 2,000 cavalry to lure the thousands of cavalry of General Erzhu away, and then ordered 5,000 infantry to attack the Tahe Heights garrisoned by our army from the front, and later personally led 3,000 cavalry around the back of the heights to attack, if it were not for General Erzhu in the process of pursuing the enemy army to detect Berk's plan, and lead the army back in time to help, this Tahe Heights is only afraid of changing hands! Now Berk's infantry has been withdrawn by the adjutant general, and he personally left 3,000 cavalry near the town of Nabid, according to the information obtained by our forward outposts, it is speculated that the purpose of Berke's army to stay may be to monitor and contain our army! General Erzhu sent someone to report that when he was pursuing the cavalry of the Great Food Army, he found that they were handy in the use of light cavalry, and they had obtained the essence of the elements of light cavalry warfare, and that Berke led the army to stay probably to use the light cavalry's rapid reaction and high-speed mobility ability to deal with our army, and constantly use small light cavalry to attack and disturb the main force of our army, so as to achieve the purpose of containing our army and hindering our army's westward advance, the Great Food Country is a large cavalry country, and their weapons and equipment may not be as good as ours, but their cavalry riding skills will not be worse than our soldiers, We need to be vigilant and attentive when engaging the Great Eclipse Cavalry! ”

The generals clasped their fists together and agreed: "Yes, King!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and continued: "This king has ordered General Erzhu to lead the cavalry to deal with Berke, and now that the main force of the Great Food Army has withdrawn to Behedashir Castle, will our army continue to pursue, or let the soldiers rest for two more days?" What do you think? ”

Wei Gao stood up and said: "Great King, these days the soldiers have not actually fought any battles at all, the siege of the city is all done by the servant army, Wei Chen thinks that our army should pursue the caliph's army closely, in order to achieve the goal of forcing him to fight a decisive battle with our army, if he faithfully avoids the battle, this will be a great blow to the morale of his army." Although the caliph sent a cavalry to stay and want to attack our army, but Wechen didn't think it was a big deal, with the fatigue tactics of light cavalry attacking and harassing the enemy, our army has already used it well, and naturally there are ways to deal with this tactic, Wechen believes that General Erzhu will not let the king down! ”

The generals came forward to second.

Zhao Ziliang saw that all the generals demanded to pursue the main force of the Great Food Army, and immediately ordered the whole army to pull out the camp and set off to pursue it to the west.