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Chapter 26 Kurdish Cavalry (Part 2)

 As time goes by, Qitad also leaves the battlefield.

As for the heavy cavalry on the front, he didn't care at all. Once such heavy cavalry loses their speed advantage or formation advantage, they can only be a living target for cavalry with the advantage of firearms.

He took a battalion around the battlefield and then turned to the northwest.

He was equally relieved of Paul and Assal, it was only a matter of time before his cavalry could achieve the final victory, but he could not let Faisal go.

He must teach him a lesson himself.

He was right that Faisal, as a governor, would not take action himself. There was always a three hundred guard beside him. This guard had half-body armor, no spear, and was all sabres.

Such a configuration has both certain defense and considerable maneuver power.

He led these three hundred riders to stand at the city gate waiting for the final result.

In a chaotic battlefield, he could not find clues quickly until a man ran to him anxiously.

Saladin!

Seeing Saladin's anxious look, Faisal knew something was wrong.

In fact, Saladin was the one who was about to go around from behind the heavy cavalry legion to attack the Truchen Hussels, but his horse was quickly shot. In a panic, he had to catch a bossless horse and run back.

"Sir, heavy cavalry..."

Faisal grabbed his hat, "What's wrong with the heavy cavalry?"

"The heavy cavalry...is gone!"

"How is that possible?"

Faisal let him go, and he couldn't help but feel dizzy for a moment.

These two thousand heavy cavalry were extremely difficult, but the craftsmen in the entire province of Tabriz took a year to equip them, and the Polish wing cavalry was trained for two years to form. How could it be lost in one go?

Saladin was also a little dazed and said after a while: "Sir, the Truchens' firearms are too powerful, and the heavy cavalry's armor cannot resist them at all. The situation is over now, so let's withdraw back to Persia."

"Retreat? How to retreat? There are still tens of thousands of light cavalry here!"

"Sir, even the heavy cavalry can't resist it, let alone the light cavalry, and they all suddenly encountered the enemy and had no way to deal with the Truchen cavalry."

At this time, it was noon. With the 500 cavalry surrounding Qitade and the Hussars who returned to the main battlefield after dealing with the heavy cavalry, the war in the south of the city was coming to an end.

At this moment, a battalion gathered around Asar. Under their storm, the scattered light cavalrymen who were standing in front of Faisal and others had long disappeared. Seeing that there were still a group of enemies at the city gate, Asar would naturally not let it go.

After shouting, his camp rushed straight over!

"grown ups!"

Saladin shouted.

Faisal had no choice but to sigh and then turn his horse's head.

"Well, let's go back to Parsabad first"

On the south bank of the Aras River, there is a great avenue starting from Fort Sylvan and then leading directly to Tabriz. Although Faisal said this, he might have made up his mind to go back to Persia directly.

More than 300 cavalry rushed towards the southwest like lightning. Such behaviors were not even considered a retreat. They soon rushed for twenty miles and stopped when they saw that the pursuers behind had disappeared.

"Sir, take a rest. If the war horse doesn't drink water, it will be useless."

At this moment, a burst of thunder sounded in front of him.

Smoke rolled on the avenue, and then a big flag emerged from the smoke and dust.

Golden flag teeth, big red bottom, a golden dragon is spreading its teeth and claws on it!

"Qi Tad!"

Faisal couldn't help but gasp.

Saladin sighed in his heart, "Sir, take people around this farmland and go back. I will take a hundred riders to block them!"

At this point, Faisal didn't say much, "I'll give you a hundred riders, be careful."

He quickly stepped into the farmland on one side with the remaining two hundred horses, but he felt something was wrong just after stepping in.

There are large puddles in the middle of the field!

When I looked again, I saw the ditches that ditches from the Aras River between the fields that were still pouring water into it!

"Qi Tad!"

He understood instantly.

"This is the blocking site that Qitad deliberately chose. The water in the Alas River has soared. As long as the stones sealing the diversion canal are pulled open, a large amount of water can be brought in. The silt here is quite deep. It seems that they have been here for a while!"

At the end of the field was a small forest. At this time, more than a hundred cavalry flew out of the woods, flying over from the fields on both sides of the farmland that Faisal and the others entered.

After approaching them, they all raised the muskets in their hands.

On the other side, after being shot by a fire from a firearm, Saladin and others either died on the spot or followed Faisal into the farmland that was already filled with water.

Not long after, more than ten more cavalry flew from the distance of the road, one of which was holding the eye-catching big star!

Qitad used his feet to control the war horse, and held a new rifle and gradually approached Faisal and others.

I stood about ten feet away from them.

At this time, under the dazzling sunshine at one o'clock in the afternoon, the gold-clad silver-clad plate armor on Faisal's body was particularly eye-catching.

Qitad pointed the musket at him and squinted his left eye...

"Slow down!"

Faisal screamed, he was speaking Turkic words.

This was what Qitad waited for and slowly put down his rifle.

......

At night, Sabilabad.

Since Faisal himself was captured, the Azerbaijanis here naturally did not stick to the city, so Qitad took over the former Faisal's official residence.

"Sweat"

Assal's face was filled with excitement.

"The statistics are out"

"oh?"

"There were 15,000 people brought here by Faisal, of which 300 were placed in the Castle of Silvan, and the rest were all here. After a whole day of fierce fighting, our army killed about 7,000 cavalry, captured about 5,000 cavalry, and about 2,000 cavalry ran away."

"The captured intact war horses are also around 5,000."

"Faisal is very domineering. When he occupied Sabilabad City, he plundered all the food from the nearby rural farmers' homes, leaving them with only one month's reserved food, all of which were piled up here, plus what they carried themselves, it can meet their needs for half a year of combat."

"There are still five thousand Persians with camels here, all of whom are real Persian farmers. They were brought here by Faisal just because they believed in the Sufis."

"There are still five thousand light cavalry in Palsabad, and its leader is a general under Faisal. After learning that Faisal was captured, he did not surrender, but took his men back. Before going back, they massacred all the city of Palsabad and withdrew their property with young women."

"When our army arrived, they had already walked away."

“Where are the Georgians?”

"Khan, according to the interrogation of the prisoners, Faisal indeed colluded with the King of East Georgia, Geimulazar II. Their idea was to repel our army and divide Azerbaijan equally, but Geimulazar continued to pay taxes to Persia."

"But Faisal was not completely relieved that Geimuzara, he destroyed all the pontoon bridges on the Alas River. If Geimuzara had any other intentions, he could only detour the upper reaches of the Alas River."

"Because our army came suddenly, Diemuzara might still be in the dark at this time."

"However, due to the arrival of our warships, he may have captured some information, you see..."

"It's still necessary to ask, send an envoy to him, just say that the war here has begun, so let him go out immediately."

"Who will send?"

"Naturally a prisoner"

"Can......"

"Not afraid, let our people send the prisoners across the river, and then when they return, they say that the war is in full swing. Continue their help. The Kurds have already set up a pontoon bridge near Sabilabad City."

"What if the prisoner ran away?"

"There are many father-son soldiers among the Kurds. They ask their son to serve as envoys and detain his father. If he fails to complete this task, he will kill his father."

"The Kurds are notorious here, and the Persians have a deep hatred with the Georgians, but because our existence has barely united."

"Who is the most beneficial to the Kurds in Tabriz is naturally the Georgians. From their perspective, I naturally hope that the Georgians will be weakened."

"In addition, even if this person has not completed this task, I believe that Diemuzara will never sit idly by in Bellagan. Maybe they have come out now."

"Since that's the case, you bring two thousand riders to hide in the dense forest far away from the pontoon bridge, and then let the scouts dress up as Kurdish riders to explore everywhere, and once they find their traces, they will immediately launch an attack."

......

Qitad is right.

Just when Truchen's fleet arrived, the series of roaring ship guns had long been heard by the Georgian scouts, and they quickly informed the news of Diei Muzara, who was a hundred miles away from Belagan.

Dieimuzara, a Georgian man in his forties, was speaking, and after a long period of hesitation, he finally came out with 15,000 troops.

The so-called 15,000 troops, in fact, there are only 5,000 real Georgians, including 2,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry. The remaining 10,000 are all servants of Western Azerbaijan, all of which are infantry soldiers. Each one has a knife and a spear.

It has merged too many Scythian, Turkic, and Mongolian nomadic bloodlines with Azerbaijan. For thousands of years, Georgia has maintained relatively independent.

Their tactics basically retained the cavalry and infantry tactics of the Roman era, and played a very important role in the last fight against Azard Khan of Azerbaijan.

During that battle, as the de facto commander, Diemuzara also showed his power. His tactics were very simple. He used serfs as consumables, then used heavy infantry to resist the siege of the enemy's light cavalry, and finally killed his own heavy cavalry. This move left Azart Khan helpless.

This time, he did not carry his own serfs, and the ten thousand Azerbaijani vassals actually became his consumable.

After taking over West Azerbaijan, in order to win the hearts of the people, he reduced taxes by about 10% to Azerbaijan farmers who had lost their nobles, and gave up corvee service and only served in the military. Such measures naturally stabilized the situation in West Azerbaijan in a short period of time.
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