On the eighth day of September, the Western Qin Army has been besieging Shulgaz City for seven days.
Until now, the Western Qin Army has not started to attack the city.
In fact, the siege equipment has been built long ago, but it lacks infantry to attack the city.
Among the second legion Although there were 7,000 infantry, these 7,000 were too few to capture the city of Shulgaz.
There were more than 30,000 defenders in the city.
In the Chinese army's tent, Zhao Ziliang asked Du Fu: "Is there any news from the Fifth Army Corps?"
Du Fu said: "No news has come yet.
The king's military order should have only arrived at the Fifth Legion for a few days.
It will also take time for Ogus and Huazizimo to assemble their troops.
Wei Chen estimates that it will take at least ten days to get it."
New news: The 30,000-strong food army in Mulu City has not moved, and the Eighth Army of General Chu Ge and General Huo Kan are still in Jiling City."
Zhao Ziliang looked at Wang Can: "The food army in Kerman still hasn't sent reinforcements?
It should be said that their troops and horses should have arrived in Kerman?"
Wang Can stood up and clasped his fists and said: "Yes, your Majesty currently has one hundred thousand food troops gathered in Kerman, and the other one hundred thousand are scattered throughout Khorasan Province.
There is no sign of reinforcements being sent from Kerman yet."
Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and ordered: "Come here, call Obot and Wahid."
Obote and Wahid arrived soon.
They saluted Zhao Ziliang and said, "Meet your Majesty."
Zhao Ziliang said: "We have been besieging the city for eight days now, and all the siege equipment has been built, but we do not have enough infantry to attack the city, so I hope that you two can recruit local Persian warriors and start today To proceed, 10,000 people must be recruited within five days.”
When Obot and Wahid heard this, they looked bitter.
Why?
"Your Majesty, it is simply unrealistic to recruit 10,000 people within five days.
Even if the recruitment fee is increased, it may not be possible to recruit many people."
Zhao Ziliang waved his hands and said with a bad expression: "I don't care what method you use, in short, you must recruit 10,000 people within five days, otherwise they will all be killed."
The two had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree: "Yes" After walking out of the tent, Obote and Wahid began to discuss.
Obote said: "Do you think the effect will be improved if the recruitment fee is doubled?"
Wahid said: "The effect must be there.
The higher the price, the more people will apply, but even so, it is impossible to recruit 10,000 people in five days."
"Then what should we do?
If we don't recruit so many people, we will be beheaded."
Wahid thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said: "If there is no other way, we can only capture the young men."
Obot was stunned and sighed: "This is the only way."
Just as Obote and Wahid were trying to capture young men, Mansour in Kerman finally responded.
A reinforcement force of about 30,000 people set off from Kerman towards Shurgaz city.
Soon after the 30,000 reinforcements set off from Kerman, the news was reported to Zhao Ziliang in the Western Qin Army camp under Shulgaz City by Dongchang spies as quickly as possible.
"There are 30,000 reinforcements, 8,000 cavalry, and 22,000 infantry.
The number of trained people is about 10,000.
The leading general is Hardman.
Hardman is one of the Dashi generals who advocates taking the initiative to attack.
However, his suggestion was not adopted by Mansour precisely because he advocated taking the initiative to attack, so this time Mansour sent him to lead troops to reinforce the city of Shulgazi."
Zhao Ziliang was shocked after hearing Wang Can's report.
He stood up and came to the map.
This map was drawn in great detail and was drawn by Dongchang a few years ago.
"Bam Oasis" Zhao Ziliang tapped the map and turned around and shouted: "Come here, send your horse over immediately to find the sentry who has explored the terrain of Bam Oasis.
I have something to ask."
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"yes" Zhao Ziliang did the math.
There were 22,000 infantry in the 30,000-strong army.
The march could not be fast.
The cavalry could not leave the infantry and come alone.
They would have to march together.
Therefore, it would take at least eight days for the reinforcements to set off from Kerman. time to arrive, giving him enough time to deploy.
Soon, a Huya Army reconnaissance sentry who was resting in the military camp was brought to the Chinese army's tent.
"The villain pays homage to the king."
Zhao Ziliang waved to the scout: "Come on, don't be nervous, I have something to ask you."
"Yes" the detective took a few steps forward.
Zhao Ziliang asked: "I saw on the map that in addition to large wheat fields, there is a castle in Bam Oasis called Bam Castle.
Please tell me about the topography of this castle and Bam Oasis."
"Yes" Detective Cavalry agreed and stepped forward to explain to Zhao Ziliang.
On the big map, the mapper drew the terrain of the entire Big Food Country in great detail, but he did not detail every oasis and city.
Therefore, in order to figure out the specific terrain of a certain place, he had to send people to explore and Again, a more detailed topographic map was drawn.
The scout squatted on the ground and smoothed a piece of sand, and then used his fingers to draw the terrain of Bam Oasis in great detail, especially the terrain around the oasis and the location of the castle.
"There are more than 12,000 people living in Bam Oasis, and 2,000 troops are stationed in Bam Castle.
The walls of this castle are two feet high and surrounded by thirty-eight towers.
The buildings in the city are made of mud bricks, Built of clay, straw and palm trunks, the people of the oasis can all hide in the castle when necessary."
Bam Oasis is an extremely important oasis on the Silk Road.
Businessmen traveling between Western Qin and the Great Food Country often stop here to replenish drinking water, food and other supplies.
Zhao Ziliang asked: "In addition to the local people, can Bam Castle accommodate another 20,000 people?"
The detective knight shook his head and said: "It's impossible.
The area of Bam Castle is not very big to begin with.
It is already very crowded if it can accommodate more than 10,000 local people.
If it can accommodate another 20,000 people, it will have to explode, and even if it can be forcibly blocked, Going in, the food stored in the castle is absolutely impossible to support the food of tens of thousands of people.
Our army arrived too fast.
After the soldiers surrounded the city of Shulgaz, the reconnaissance sentry and forward cavalry A battalion has already appeared near Bam Castle.
Only a few of the local cannibals reacted quickly and moved into the castle early.
The locals who had no time to hide in the castle stayed in their homes and did not dare to come out.
Therefore, outside the castle There is no time to move the food, livestock and other supplies into the castle.
If there are a sudden increase of 20,000 people, the food reserves in the castle will be eaten up in a few days."
"Okay."
Zhao Ziliang patted the scout on the shoulder and said, "It's none of your business.
I'll reward you with ten coins, ten pounds of meat and a jar of wine.
Go ahead."
The soldier was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty.
I will take my leave."
After saluting, he walked out.
Zhao Ziliang stood in front of the map and thought about it.
There is already a vanguard cavalry battalion of our Western Qin Army over the Bam Castle.
There are more than a thousand troops in each battalion.
This force can be said to be too large or too small.
For Bam, The large food defenders in the castle are certainly very intimidating, but they are not enough for the 30,000 large food troops who are coming to help.
Zhao Ziliang walked back and forth in front of the map holding the handle of the knife, thinking constantly in his mind.
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The military officials and generals stood quietly on the left and right sides looking at him.
After a long time, Zhao Ziliang suddenly stood still, turned around and said to the generals and officials: "The Guards, Long Guards, and Wei Gao led the first division of the Second Army to follow my king to block the Dashi reinforcements.
Zhao Hu led most of the Second Army to continue.
Siege of the city of Shulgaz” The generals suddenly agreed: "I will do as you please."
In the early morning of September 9th, after having breakfast and preparing enough dry food, the starting army marched towards Bam Oasis.
All the troops dispatched this time were cavalry, and there was no infantry.
The Second Army had not many infantry to begin with, and he had to reserve them for critical moments.
The temperature in the early morning is still cool, but around midnight the temperature begins to rise rapidly.
The hot sunshine shines on the sand, and the heat is reflected.
Even sitting on horseback, you can feel the high temperature baking on the hot sand, let alone The infantry was gone, and the cavalry could not march faster in such an environment.
The people were thirsty and drank water continuously, but the war horses were panting heavily from the heat and even foaming at the mouth.
After Shenshi, the team went up a sand dune.
The soldiers' armor was covered with a fine layer of yellow sand, and even the armor's mask curtain was covered with sand.
Zhao Ziliang licked his dry lips, rode his horse to the side, picked up the telescope on his chest, and looked ahead.
In the telescope, a piece of green appeared in his sight.
Bam Oasis had arrived.
"Come here, tell the forward cavalry battalion monitoring Bam Castle that from now on, any local residents outside the castle are strictly prohibited from going out and can only stay at home.
Anyone who violates the order will be killed.
The leading officer must arrange to strengthen patrols and guards.
There must be no slack in matters.”
"Yes," the flag officer agreed and immediately sent out messengers.
Zhao Ziliang did this to prevent the news of the arrival of the army from leaking and being learned by the arriving Dashi reinforcements.
He knew that the news could not be kept secret for too long.
General Manhard of the Dashi reinforcements would definitely send someone to find out the news in advance, and This Bam Castle cannot be ignored.
He only He wanted this news to be known to Manhard later.
By the time Manhard learned that a large number of Western Qin troops were waiting in Bam Oasis, it was no longer possible for Manhard to withdraw his troops and return.
Zhao Ziliang's idea was to force When Manhard fought with him, he couldn't retreat even if he wanted to, and he couldn't advance if he wanted to, so he could only start fighting.
At dusk, the army arrived at the edge of Bam Oasis.
After entering the oasis, Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered the army to camp on the edge of the oasis, not close to Bam Castle, so as to prevent the Dashi defenders in Bam Castle from knowing that the Western Qin Army had arrived again.
A large number of soldiers and horses arrived.
After dinner, Zhao Ziliang came to Wang Can and asked: "How long will it take for the Dashi reinforcements to arrive here?"
Wang Can replied: "Your Majesty, according to the scouting horse report and the marching speed of the Dashi reinforcements, it will take at least two days to arrive."
"It's just enough for the soldiers to have a good rest for two days.
Let's wait for the hard work."
On the morning of the 10th, Zhao Ziliang rode his horse to the vicinity of Bam Castle to observe the defense situation of the castle.
The castle wall was more than two feet high, which is about six or seven meters.
It was built with adobe bricks.
These adobe bricks had not been fired. , its solidity is limited.
If it is attacked, it will be difficult to withstand the bombardment of siege equipment such as catapults.
Erzhu, the commander of the Guards, clasped his fists at the side and said: "Your Majesty, if you use a trebuchet to attack the city, it will only take half a day to knock down the Tupei city wall.
The general suggested that you send someone back to Shulgaz City to order Zhao.
General Tiger sent people to send catapult parts, which can be reached in just one day.
It will take us another half day to destroy the city wall and then attack the Bam Castle.
It will be much easier to deal with the Dashi reinforcements. " Zhao Ziliang touched his chin, shook his head and said: "I have my own plan":