625 Conquering Herat
On the hillside in the far side of Herat City, Xiaoqi and Asher arrived here day and night. After seeing the deployment, they discussed and saw how to fight. After all, they only had five thousand men. , Only more than 2,000 people can really fight, but the opponent has more than 20,000.
"Ahhir, I think it's better not to charge, after all, we only have five thousand people, and half of them are recruits."
"It's nothing. The big boss fights more with less every time. You have to believe me. Although they are 20,000 people, they have no combat power. The camp on the east is the largest. We just need to knock down that camp. Then they attacked the west camp, their troops outside the city would be finished, and the rest was siege. This tactic has been used many times in the Khorasan area by the chief, and it is very effective every time. Don’t worry. I will not bet on the lives of my men."
"I know all of this, but now, can you guarantee that no reinforcements will arrive here?"
"Don't worry, we are cavalry. It's easy to retreat. You only need to ask some people to guard the carriage and the artillery. If there are reinforcements, let them see, we will withdraw east. If we win, You let them follow to the city, we don’t have much time."
Xiao Qi nodded and said: "Okay, then do it, I'll go and notify them."
Herat City is not big. There are two military camps outside the city, so that they can hold the 20,000 troops. When Ahhir and Xiaoqi rushed to attack, there was no reinforcements here yet. As for how to fight, That would be very simple and rude. There are musketeers brought by Xiaoqi and more than two thousand elites in Ahir's hands head straight to the barracks outside the city. The remaining recruits only need to follow suit, with veterans. With the recruits attacking together, the effect is naturally not bad.
Asher knew the strength of the 20,000 people. Every time Heizi brought people to Khorasan to sack, he would fight them more or less. Every time they were killed and wounded seriously, they disappeared directly behind him. He didn't dare to fight with the Huoxun Army at all. After being looted several times, there were only so few people left. The real daring fighters were long gone.
Although there are thousands of troops in the entire Khorasan area guarding the cities everywhere, it is absolutely impossible for these soldiers to be deployed, and the combat strength is still the same. Otherwise, how could the Khorasan rebels survive until now? , It is indeed the reason for the loss of the elite, and the rest is just a make-up.
Now they retreated to the city of Herat. The Fire Hunting Army had still killed them. Although they knew that they had their own army behind them, they were the only ones here. They wanted them to fight the nearly five thousand Fire Hunting Army. Absolutely, this is what the food army guarding Herat thinks. New Bayi Chinese website first released https://https://
The recruits didn't know what to do at all. The opponent's long-range shooting was too powerful, and they were all cavalry in armor, which the infantry couldn't deal with. Immediately after the fighting broke out, the eastern barracks collapsed. Some of them fled, some surrendered on the spot, and others ran into the city. Of course there are also people who are resisting, but their fate is not very good. Daying in the east has the largest number of people, reaching 8,000, and there are about 6,000 in the west, and the rest are stationed in the city.
Shortly after the offensive, before the Xiying and the people in the city came out to support, the east camp was defeated. Ahill has already taken people to Xiying to kill. As for whether the opponent can defend it, it doesn't need to be considered at all. It is estimated that there will be no more people when the kill is over.
At noon, Xiaoqi and Ahill had already sent five thousand prisoners of war to the east camp, and now all that was left was the siege, and the artillery had been arranged at the gate of the city.
As for what the defending army thinks, no one knows. Anyway, everyone is waiting like this, as if waiting for the other side to break the city gate. As the iron bullets fired by the cast iron cannon hit the city gate, the defending army began to panic. It was never known that as long as the cannon was there, the city gate could not be kept, and the long-range shooting of those musketeers was even worse It's so hard that they can't hold their heads up.
Before the city gate was smashed open by the cast iron cannon, the south gate opened and the defenders had fled. What to do is naturally clear. In the afternoon, the city of Herat has changed hands. This time, not many people died in the battle, less than two thousand people. Nearly ten thousand people were captured, and the rest were gone.
As for the captives, Asher still has a lot of methods. Today, these soldiers are not volunteers to join the army. Soldiers are all forcibly recruited from various places. These Asher all know that this is similar to the previous army in Khorasan The essential difference is that for these people, those who are willing to go will be let go, and those who are willing to join the rebels will stay, without embarrassing anyone. In this regard, Xiao Qi doesn't know if it's right, anyway, these are what Ahill and Kraft did during this time.
In the evening, two teams came from Herat City. One team was led by Li You with more than 10,000 people, and the other team was led by Akberinamu with 20,000 people. All of them were cavalry. Those big eaters might have to wait a while before they arrive.
Akberinamu really did not expect the Huo Xun Army to come so quickly. He has only 20,000 here. He is not an opponent of the Huo Xun Army. Moreover, the opponent has already taken the city of Herat. There is no way to stop this army.
For Li You, he also didn't dare to touch this army. He was really able to fight only a few people here. At most, the female soldiers were to organize a defense. To speak of offense, he still didn't dare. What Li You didn't expect was that this eater army took the initiative to retreat for twenty miles, and chose an easy-to-defend mountain col to be stationed there.
In the military camp outside the city, Ahir came to visit Li You and told him about the prisoner. More than 3,000 people were willing to join the rebel army and asked Li You how to arrange it. How could this matter be arranged, they could only go to the city of Anchitia to join the rebels of Kraft, and then wait until the end of the war before they fight back.
Let alone these prisoners of war, Li You guessed that he would have to lead his troops there. The original idea was to go west when he arrived in Herat, and then return to Mulu City. Now there are 20,000 cavalry guards in the west. So, if you want to pass, most of them have to fight a battle. Li You doesn't want to do this. At most, it's just a harassment.
"Ahir, you let the prisoners of war leave overnight, take away the food, carts and horses from the city, and select five thousand people to follow. Those who do not want to join the rebels will leave them in the camp and take care of them temporarily. That’s it."
"Yes, Your Highness, I will make arrangements now."
After Ahill left, Li You said to Urguya who was on the side: "I am optimistic about a place where you can lie in ambush. This requires your female soldiers to do it. When we came over, there was a hillside with some Low shrubs, do you remember?"
"Remember, but Your Highness, there is no hiding place there. We can't do an ambush."
"The mountain is not high. You can hide behind the mountain. As long as the food army passes by, you can be condescending. I believe there can be a thousand or five hundred people." (End of this chapter)