There were two thousand Dashi garrison in Bam Castle.
Zhao Ziliang led his army to camp at the edge of the oasis.
Due to the strict blockade of news, the Dashi garrison in Bam Castle did not know that another large army had arrived.
They thought that as long as The forward cavalry battalion was nearby.
On the morning of the second day after Zhao Ziliang's army arrived here, on the tenth day of September, the defender in Bam Castle sent half of his troops out of the city to try to defeat the Western Qin forward cavalry battalion to lift the siege, but the defender overestimated his troops.
The combat effectiveness of the generals also underestimated the Western Qin Dynasty The combat effectiveness of the forward cavalry battalion of the army was defeated in just one round of fighting.
The thousand cavalry troops leaving the city were defeated.
All two hundred cavalrymen were killed.
The other eight hundred infantrymen were killed, nearly seven hundred of them, and nearly one thousand more.
Hundreds of people were all hunted down and killed while escaping back to Bam Castle.
The plan of the defender of Bam Castle failed.
The thousand men sent out were wiped out, and no one survived.
Only one thousand of the original two thousand defenders were left, and there was no cavalry left.
After this incident, the big food guard of Bam Castle was really scared and no longer dared to have any wishful thinking.
In order to supplement the strength of the defense, the defender had to forcibly recruit young and middle-aged local people who had taken refuge in the castle, equip them with weapons, and let them participate in the defense.
September 12, afternoon and dusk.
Wang Can quickly walked into the Chinese army's tent from outside and clasped his fists at Zhao Ziliang who was studying the map: "Your Majesty, Dashi reinforcements have arrived."
Zhao Ziliang turned around: "Where?"
"The Bam Oasis is fifty miles away.
They should camp tonight near Dalzin, which is forty miles away.
Now their scouts have arrived thirty miles ahead, and they have also sent a thousand forward cavalry.
The reconnaissance cavalry is widely deployed.
In the surrounding area, it is almost impossible to conduct a sneak attack at night."
Wei Gao came to the battlefield and clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, I have something that I don't understand.
I checked the map.
The Bam Oasis is located in the desert basin, starting from the Khaft Mountains in the north and reaching the Jebel Barez Mountains in the south.
It has a strategic position.
It is extremely important, why doesn’t the king immediately order the capture of Bam Castle?
As long as Bam Castle is captured, we can advance, attack, retreat or defend.”
"It's not difficult to capture Bam Castle, but if you capture Bam Castle, won't the 30,000 incoming reinforcements be scared away?"
After Zhao Ziliang finished speaking, he turned around and walked back to the main seat, sat down and shouted: "Give me the order, everyone will eat by themselves, and after nightfall, they will all assemble and wait for the order."
The generals and officials were puzzled by Zhao Ziliang's order.
Could it be that they were planning to carry out a sneak attack at night?
More than 10,000 cavalrymen were making a sneak attack.
The noise they made was enough to scare away Dashi's reinforcements.
How could they conduct a sneak attack?
Although everyone was full of doubts. , but still resolutely carried out the order.
On the morning of September 13th, the Dashi defenders on duty on the walls of Bam Castle discovered that the cavalry of the Western Qin Army outside the castle had disappeared.
Except for the garbage left on the ground, not a single ghost could be seen.
Even so, the castle guard did not dare to be careless, fearing that this was a trick of the Western Qin Army, but he knew that it was almost noon, and he still did not find any movement outside the city.
"Send someone out quickly to investigate," the castle guard immediately ordered after weighing the situation.
The people sent out soon came back and reported to the guard: "General, the Western Qin army has withdrawn and retreated to the east.
I saw a large number of horse hoof prints and excrement.
The excrement was very fresh.
It should have been withdrawn."
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Soon, I didn’t dare to get too close.”
The castle guard breathed a sigh of relief, but found a puff of smoke rushing into the sky from the west.
He looked happy and immediately ordered his men: "Maybe our reinforcements have arrived.
Send someone to take a look quickly."
"yes" The castle guard's guess was correct.
This time, it was the 30,000-strong reinforcement army led by Manhard that came from the west.
The forward cavalry force of 1,000 people quickly arrived at the foot of the castle, while the main force of the army was still ten miles away. .
After the Dashi reinforcements entered the Bam Oasis, the soldiers felt some coolness.
The leaves of the tall palm trees in the oasis blocked some of the sun's rays.
Walking under the shade of the trees, they no longer felt the burning sensation of being baked by the scorching sun.
One of the generals said to Manhard: "General, the Bam Castle is ahead of us.
Our soldiers have been very hot these days.
Should we let the soldiers rest here for half a day today and then set off to Shulga tomorrow?"
"Zi Cheng" Manhard shook his head and said: "It still takes three or four days to walk from here to Shulgaz City.
We can only reach the vicinity of Shulgaz City and rest to let the soldiers regain their strength.
Resting now will waste too much time.
We will take a rest outside the castle at noon, eat something and replenish some water, and then set off.”
"clear" Soon, the army arrived at Bam Castle.
The castle guard was already waiting to greet him at the city gate.
When Manhard came over on horseback, the castle guard immediately stepped forward and saluted: "Your Excellency, you are finally here.
The villain is already at the castle."
We have prepared wine and meat for you, just waiting for you to come and enjoy.”
A slight smile appeared on Manhard's face, "Thank you very much for your enthusiasm.
I won't go in.
You can ask someone to bring out the food and wine.
I will eat here with the soldiers."
The castle guard did not dare to disobey and agreed: "Okay, I will send someone to get it now."
A table was placed under a huge palm tree.
Manhard sat on the left, waiting for the castle guard's soldiers to bring wine and meat.
When he was about to eat, he suddenly heard someone next to him shouting: "What is that like?"
Another army is coming this way."
Everyone in the surrounding area couldn't help but turn their heads to look, and saw billowing smoke and dust rising in the western sky.
Just as Manhard and others were guessing who Mansour would send to bring the army, the ground began to shake.
Manhard The expressions of the generals and his subordinates all changed.
This was caused by the rapid movement of large-scale cavalry.
Manhard immediately shouted: "Come here, send someone to investigate quickly.
I, the general, want to know where this army comes from and who is leading it."
As soon as he finished speaking, a large food cavalryman with a sharp arrow stuck in his back and covered in blood rode over on horseback.
The horse ran to Manhard and stopped.
The large food cavalry rolled off the horse and was killed.
The people next to him supported him, and he said with difficulty to Manhard: "General, there are nearly 10,000 elite cavalry from the Western Qin Dynasty coming around from behind us.
They are less than 20 miles away from here."
"Ten thousand elite cavalrymen of the Western Qin" Manhard's face changed drastically.
He turned around and looked at the surrounding terrain and environment.
He immediately realized that he had been plotted by the Western Qin people.
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Although there were many trees and fertile fields here, the terrain was flat. , is suitable for large-scale cavalry group charges.
In such terrain, it is a nightmare to face off against a cavalry legion of 10,000 people.
It is a nightmare for the 22,000-strong army with crude equipment.
Although Manhard advocated taking the initiative to attack, he was not stupid.
He knew very well the combat effectiveness of his generals.
The reason why he dared to bring 30,000 reinforcements was because there were more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in Shulgaz City.
Although The cavalry of the Western Qin Army is powerful, but if it can arrive in time and get in touch with the defenders in Shulgaz City and cooperate tacitly, no matter how powerful the cavalry of the Western Qin Army is, they will still have to worry about being attacked from both front and rear, and retreat will be certain.
But what Manhard didn't expect was that the Western Qin army sneaked up behind him, cut off his retreat, and blocked him and his army outside Bam Castle.
Under such terrain, he could not advance or retreat.
The generals were extremely anxious, "General, we have 6,000 cavalry who can fight the Western Qin Army, but the remaining 22,000 infantrymen will not only be unable to help in the battle with the cavalry, but may also be severely damaged."
What a heavy loss.”
The country of Dashi is a cavalry country rich in good horses.
The generals of Dashi are very aware of the natural advantage of cavalry in attacking infantry.
Their infantry is poorly equipped, let alone the infantry of the Western Qin Army.
Even Eastern Rome Even the heavy infantry of the empire can't compare.
It would be absolutely terrible to expose the infantry with almost no protective capabilities to the attack of the cavalry.
Manhard thought for a moment and shouted: "Custer" A middle-aged food general found him and saluted: "General" Manhard said in a deep voice: "I order you to lead our six thousand cavalry to fight against the Western Qin Army."
Custer said: "Yes, General" After Custer left, Manhard said to the other generals: "The others followed me and immediately deployed a circular defense.
Order all the pikemen to be deployed in the front, the sword and shield men to be deployed in the middle, and the archers to be deployed in the circular defense circle.
My generals, it would be best if our cavalry can defeat the Western Qin Army, but if they fail, then our infantry will have to face the Western Qin Army's cavalry attack, and we must be prepared."
The advantage of a circular military formation is that it can cope with attacks from all directions.
The purpose of placing the archers with the worst defense capabilities and the worst close attack capabilities in the center of the circular military formation is to protect them, while placing relative restraint on the cavalry.
Placing the spearmen at the front can effectively kill the enemy cavalry that rushes over.
Deploying the sword and shield bearers between the archers and spearmen can strengthen the defensive effect.
The circular military formation also has shortcomings, that is, it lacks offensive capabilities and can only passively defend.
However, in the face of large-scale cavalry, infantry itself does not have an offensive advantage.
Rather than looking for death, it is better to stay in place and defend.
At the western edge of the Bam Oasis, Zhao Ziliang and the Western Qin cavalry finally returned here after a night of detours.
They took a circuitous route for the first half of the night, rested in place for the second half of the night, and set off to fight in the morning.
"Your Majesty, the Great Food Army has sent six thousand cavalry to fight, and their infantry is deploying a circular military formation outside Bam Castle."
A scout cavalry galloped over and reported to Zhao Ziliang.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Ziliang smiled at Er Zhu, Zhang Ben, Wei Gao and other generals: "It seems that this Manhard is quite self-aware.
He knows that the infantry under his command have not received any training.
Even if he brings them here, they will only serve us food.
It’s better to just stay where you are and set up defenses to avoid causing more trouble.”
The generals laughed
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