No one would believe that the Hexi Expeditionary Army would leave the city of Barsi Khan to rescue the supply team. After all, fighting outside the city would make the army surrounded by the Black Khan's army and easily be ambushed or defeated.
But Ye An did the opposite, or it could be said that the troops were moving in danger. Since the Black Khans did not intend to attack Barsi Khan, they used the long supply line as a bait to let Di Qing lead the army to attack and encircle and annihilate them by luring the enemy.
Enemy, destroy Black Khan's effective force to the greatest extent possible.
Black Khan's standing army is called Askar, and its number is about 35,000. These people are equivalent to the Xiang army of the Song Dynasty.
They receive food and salary from the state, but their combat power can only be said to be mediocre. On the contrary, the servant cavalry Iqta under the command of the nobles is more powerful. They are servant cavalry, armed by local nobles, and their number is not large.
But the fighting force is fierce.
However, the shortcomings are also obvious. They are scattered in various parts of the Black Khan and it is difficult to effectively assemble them. Unless the King of the Black Khan issues a war order and recruits from various places, of course this also requires the support of the nobles from various places.
A tentatively powerful dynasty like the Black Khan must have a powerful armed force that is the king's, otherwise the local nobles would not be so law-abiding. The most powerful armed force of this dynasty belongs to the Gulam Guards.
Gulam means slave. The Gulam Guards are found in many Muslim countries in Central Asia. Although they are all collectively called Gulam, they have different names in different places. For example, in the Abbasid Dynasty, they were called Mamluks.
of powerful slave cavalry.
Ye An has been waiting. The main reason why he asked Di Qing to ambush the Black Khan's standing army was to lure out the strongest Gulam Guards of the Black Khan Dynasty.
His tactics are very obvious, which is to attack and kill the effective forces of the Black Khan army as much as possible. Since the standing army like Askar has begun to dispatch to attack the supply line west of Hexi, it means that Suleiman is under great pressure.
Black Khan's Askar standing army only has a size of more than 30,000 people. If placed in the Han family, it would be an insignificant force. It can only be used for defense in border states. Based on this calculation, the ancient army in Suleiman's hands
There are no more than 10,000 Ram Guards at most.
Theoretically speaking, as long as the most elite Gulam guards of the Black Khanate were defeated, it would be difficult for the country's armed forces to form effective resistance. As for the Iqta cavalry in the hands of the nobles, Ye An had never worried about it.
The battle report from Di Qing made the results of the ambush very clear. In just half a month, the cavalry battalion and the enemy camp formed a joint stranglehold to overthrow the Black Khan's standing army, resulting in heavy losses.
Judging from the results on the books, at least 5,000 Askar were killed in the ambush, and the number of defeated troops was initially estimated to be around 15,000. Such a result can be considered a brilliant victory.
You must know that Di Qing only had 3,000 soldiers in his hands, and he lost about a hundred people in several ambushes. This can be regarded as a war that transcends civilization levels.
It stands to reason that at this point, Suleiman should have been unable to withstand the pressure and began to use his ace power, the Ghulam Guards, but Ye An has not found the other party yet.
From this, we can see that Suleiman is similar to the emperor of the Song Dynasty. He belongs to the kind of king who must save his trump card at the end to protect his dominance. Talent and strategy have nothing to do with him.
Under this situation, as long as the supply line could be kept smooth, Ye An felt that there was no need to waste time in Barsi Khan. It was obvious that Suleiman did not intend to dispatch heavy troops to recapture his city.
The Eight-thorn Shagun became the next target of the Hexi Expeditionary Force. Di Qing, who received Ye An's military order, led the soldiers from the trapped camp and the cavalry battalion to return to Barsi Khan again. They needed to rest and reorganize their troops to prepare for the Eight-thorn.
Preparations for the Sagon offensive.
As for the long supply line west of Hexi... Black Khan's Askar has learned wisely and does not dare to harass easily. Of course, the most important thing is that the size of the mercenary group is getting larger and larger, making it increasingly difficult for the caravan to be attacked.
Ye An commended He Fengyuan, the owner of the Fengyi caravan, and Fang Rui, the mercenary leader of the caravan, in the city of Barsihan. The two men were surrounded by enemy forces and could not surrender. Most of the mercenaries and caravan accompanying them were lost.
Hexi will provide the highest level of compensation and publicize his deeds throughout Hexi.
The moment He Fengyuan saw Ye An, he hugged his legs and howled non-stop. Fang Rui thanked him with a military salute. Such a fierce man was naturally promoted to a soldier of Liangzhou Prefecture, which was a kind of protection.
The Hexi army set off from Barsi Khan after three days of reorganization. Of course, before leaving, Ye An almost conquered the people here and asked Barsi Khan to change its name to Qingchi City. In the Tang Dynasty, Issyk-Kul Lake was named Daqingchi.
As for the people in the city!
With the strong Hexi trade, they quickly moved closer to Hexi. After all, people vote with their feet. Whoever can bring them a stable environment and a better life will become their subjects.
There are not only foreigners in the city, but also some Han people and mixed Han people. They do not object to being ruled by Hexi, who also belongs to the Han family. In their words, this is "returning to kingship".
Of course, there will be some "unpleasants" in this process, and there will always be some people who end up in their own country. For these patriots, Ye An did not use too bloody massacres, but he did not indulge in any indulgence. They were all sent to jail to wait.
trial.
As supply teams continued to arrive, officials from Hexi also arrived at Qingchi City and began to manage the place.
They lowered the original black taxes, abolished unreasonable regulations, and replaced them with more reasonable laws.
As for the nobles in the city, I'm sorry that you are a noble of Black Khan. All noble privileges will be deprived. However, the wealth accumulated over the years can be retained, but the premise is to obey the rule of Hexi, otherwise your wealth will be wiped out in an instant.
It was used for the construction of Qingchi Castle.
The officials in Hexi are very smart and pragmatic. The first thing they did after arriving in Qingchi City was to provide job opportunities for the local people.
Starting from the repair of the city wall, although the city wall here has been repaired several times by the expeditionary force, it is only a military construction method and cannot meet the standards of Hexi. So the officials hired local people to repair the city wall in the name of the Hexi government.
And provide pretty good wages.
Literati and scholars from Hexi visited famous local Uighur scholars and asked them to classify the books in Qingchi City, learn from them the customs and habits of local people, and put forward the concept of promoting education.
This move made Hexi win the favor of the scholars in Qingchi City in a short period of time. The Uighur scholars and poets were very willing to spread the glory of knowledge and were willing to learn the knowledge from Hexi. To some extent, the two sides reached a kind of agreement.
Cultural exchanges and a common goal.
A scholar named Mahmud Kashgari even shared his half-written linguistic masterpiece "Turkic Dictionary" with Hexi literati. Another poet named Yusuf Hajif
Compare his long exhortation poem "The Wisdom of Happiness" with Han poetry to learn from their strengths.
For a time, this city that originally belonged to the Black Khan began to quickly return to and even surpass its original prosperity after the baptism of war. It was full of vitality and everything was in full bloom.