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Who says I have no clothes? I share my robe with you. When the king raises his army, I will sharpen my spear. I share the same hatred with you!
Who says I have no clothes? I will share the same clothes with you. When the king raises his army, I will sharpen my spears and halberds. I will work with you!
Who says I have no clothes? I will share my clothes with you. When the king raises his army, I will prepare my armor and weapons. I will go with you!
The loud and majestic song of the Qin army echoed at the foot of Mugojar Mountain. The rumbling sound of iron hooves shook the earth like the raging sea. The Qin army in black clothes and dark armor galloped across the country, taking turns to kill, leaving Mugojar Mountain littered with corpses and blood.
Under the cold moonlight, Ottoman soldiers fled all over the mountains and plains. Their white robes and scarves were particularly eye-catching in the night, and they had nowhere to hide. Wherever there were many fleeing soldiers, they would immediately attract the rumbling of iron hooves and the whizzing rain of arrows.
Qin Mu seemed to have no intention of taking prisoners. Wherever his iron hooves passed, corpses piled up like mountains and blood flowed like rivers. The Ottomans were terrified and pissed themselves in fear.
Artelius was also timid, and under the protection of nearly a thousand personal soldiers, he whipped his horse desperately and fled southward, with thousands of fleeing soldiers following closely behind him, and the Qin cavalry was chasing him closely behind, biting him all night. The sound of horse hooves, screams, and the sound of falling horses, countless waves of sound stirred the night into a boiling.
The Ottoman soldiers were being chased and killed, and they threw away their weapons and armor. Even Artharius was not much better, and was in a miserable state. He still couldn't believe it. How could it be possible? How could it be like this
Even if we lose, it shouldn't be so quick and so miserably!
An army of more than 80,000! There was no three or five days of tug-of-war, no running out of arrows and food, and the fierce battle lasted less than an hour. It collapsed just like a dream.
But this was not a dream. The Qin army, as fierce as wolves and tigers, was chasing and killing them from behind. Countless defeated soldiers were chopped off their horses by the Qin army like chopping melons and vegetables. The rumbling sound of iron hooves was thrilling.
As Artemis fled, he looked back from time to time, and saw a vast sea of light and fire behind him, and the high-pitched military song soared into the sky and blew up the moon!
Artherius, who desperately fled south, no longer had the prestige he once had as the Governor of the Greater Caucasus. At this moment, he, like all the soldiers, wished he could grow wings and escape far away from this hell of blood and fire.
The further we went, the narrower the terrain became. There was a lake to the east. There were many swamps around the lake. The fleeing soldiers rushed into the swamps one after another, like collective suicide.
The galloping warhorse rushed into the muddy swamp and suddenly the lower half of its body was submerged. It struggled to move and wailed miserably. The soldier on the horse rolled off the horse's back like a ball and sank into the mud.
The fleeing soldiers behind them hurriedly reined in their horses, but just as they stopped, they were hit by the soldiers and horses rushing from behind, and they all fell into the swamp with screams.
"West! To the west!"
Artharius remembered that there was a passage two or three miles wide on the west side of the swamp. He screamed hysterically and ran to the west with his soldiers.
The sound of horses' hooves and screams filled the air. This night of escape was the nightmare of all Ottoman soldiers. In the darkness, countless demon armies were chasing them.
At this moment, the front suddenly became bright. Fires nearly ten feet high and three feet in diameter were burning fiercely. These huge fires were made of large and small pine trees. When they burned, the flames filled the sky and the heat waves rolled.
Hundreds of fires were densely distributed, like a nine-square eight-diagram formation, and the skin was burned before you even approached. Between the fires, there were chevaux de frise stakes with wooden spikes as thick as arms.
To the south of the fire, you can see the shadowy Qin army. It is unknown how many there are, with their formations in a grim formation and their gun muzzles showing.
The Ottoman soldiers who were rushing over screamed and stopped their horses. Arthurius never expected that the Qin army would build hundreds of fires here in just one hour! It's over! It's over!
Obahai's army was well-rested and was in high spirits. They were galloping on horseback, getting closer and closer. The high-pitched military songs came to their faces, and the night was filled with the passionate singing of "I say I have no clothes, but I will share my clothes with you..." To the Ottoman fleeing soldiers, this was like the singing of the god of death and the roar of the devil...
As the chilling singing voice got closer, Arthurius could only shout, "Go!"
Teams of soldiers whipped their horses and rushed towards the fire, but before they entered the fire, their hair was already singed, and the heat waves rolled in the wind, burning people. The horses couldn't stand the heat, and no matter how you whipped them, they were unwilling to rush forward. They crowded in front of the fire and neighed, and some simply rushed around like crazy.
Aobai's 20,000 or 30,000 cavalrymen marched forward like a hurricane, and wherever they passed, blood flew into the sky and broken limbs fell like rain. There was no way out in front, and the pursuers were chasing them like wolves and tigers from behind. Thousands of defeated soldiers had nowhere to escape and knelt down to beg for mercy.
Abahai and his men were ruthless enough. After surrounding the fleeing soldiers from all sides, they took turns to attack them, especially targeting the Ottoman soldiers in white robes and white turbans, leaving no one alive.
Yes, Oboi and his men did not intend to leave any of the more than 40,000 Ottoman soldiers alive. This was a war, not a game of house. You may call it cruel, but it was necessary.
When the Mongol Empire marched westward, they slaughtered almost all enemy troops wherever they went. This was not only to establish their authority, but also to avoid being burdened by captives.
Li Ding and his men only have tens of thousands of troops, and they have to continue the westward expedition. Countless bloody battles are waiting. If these tens of thousands of prisoners are left behind, it will take a lot of manpower just to guard them, and they also have to be fed. Where can you get so many supplies in this vast grassland
Besides, you don’t know when these tens of thousands of prisoners will turn against you and inflict fatal damage on you.
As for letting them go, what a joke! I fought so hard to win this war, and now you are letting them go and letting them pick up their weapons to fight against you again. Do you think I am stupid
However, as long as the Kazakh soldiers stopped resisting, Aobai and his men did not continue killing them.
After a night of pursuit, nearly 50,000 enemies were killed. On average, each Qin soldier killed one enemy. Most of the dead were Ottomans. Of the more than 40,000 Ottoman troops, less than 5,000 escaped. Most of them abandoned their horses and climbed up the Mugojar Mountain to escape.
When the sun rose the next day, the corpses of people in white robes and white scarves were scattered all over the mountains and plains on the battlefield covering dozens of miles in radius. Countless vultures and jackals began to enjoy the sumptuous feast.
In addition to Arterius, Buter Khan and Hulaiqin Khan, nearly 30,000 Kazakh soldiers were also captured.
These Kazakh soldiers were terrified. Under the supervision of the Qin army, they helped clean up the battlefield, collect the ownerless horses, weapons, supplies, and property, and bury the bodies.
Artharius looked at his men who were slaughtered and their bodies were scattered all over the ground, his eyes were frozen and his face was ashen. When he was brought in front of Li Ding and Aobai, his first words were: "You are devils! You are devils! Allah will not forgive you!"
Li Ding, who was biting into the roasted mutton, could not help but look at Aobai, then sniffed and said, "But God will forgive us and even reward us."
Yu Xingguo, the deputy chief, could not help but spit out the tea in his mouth with a "pu" sound, and he kept coughing due to the choking.
Arthurius's face was also covered in blue and purple, looking extremely ugly.
The war between Islam and Christianity has lasted for thousands of years. From a secular perspective, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so God is indeed happy to see all this, and it is reasonable for him to give some rewards.
Of course, God’s reward was not important to Li Ding and others. As long as they had the reward from the Qin Emperor, it was enough.
The conflict with the Ottoman Empire during this Western Expedition was unexpected, but also reasonable. In fact, before Li Ding and his men set out on the expedition, the main task given to them by the Emperor of Qin was to crush the Russian Empire and prevent it from ever rising again and crossing the Ural Mountains.
Li Ding and his men still had a long way to go before they could march west. At this point, they absolutely could not be burdened by tens of thousands of captives. Otherwise, they would have to slaughter them. War itself was a life-and-death struggle.
A kind army cannot be commanded, this is an eternal truth. Anyone who violates this iron rule will sooner or later be trampled under the feet of the enemy.
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