After killing the timid and incompetent Stone City Burke, the Chinese Lion King still has to discuss with other timid and incompetent people how to deal with the army that is on the Peach Blossom Stone.

In fact, the one who should cut off his head is the Lion King's favorite general Mahmood Berry. It was his underestimation of the enemy. He did not choose the tactic of retreating and scorched earth to fight the enemy. Instead, he defended Stone City, which was very close to the Peach Blossom Stone. As a result, it turned out to be a big mistake. In addition to going out to fight with powerful enemies, defending Stone City should be the worst choice! Moreover, Mahmood Berry's army has not defended Stone City for very long... In just over a dozen days, he ruined Stone City, nearly 800 Gulams and more than 400 Ikta Knights.

Now is not the heyday of the Khanate. The Gulam under the Lion King's command has less than 2,000, and 800 were lost in one battle. Now there are only 1,200 people left! As for Gulam in the Peach Blossom Army, according to the report of Mahmoud Berry, there are as many as 8,000 to 9,000 people!

In the Tianfang Cult military strategy of this era, calculating the number of Gulams can predict the victory or defeat. 9,000 Gulams can usually defeat 1,200 Gulams, and it will be a complete victory!

As for the number of Iqta knights and militias, it is not important in most cases. Unless it is an emerging Tianfang Cult regime, it will have a group of Iqta with strong combat power. In the a little older Tianfang Cult regime, the Iqta knights usually only provide bureaucrats and scholars, and cannot expect them to have any combat power.

In fact, no Sultan or Emir (of course, including the Khan of China) hopes that his subordinate Iqta will always maintain strong force. Because the consequence of Iqta being too powerful is that the country will not stabilize the Sudan and Emirs have similar ideas to the emperors in the Central Plains, but their approach is somewhat different. The emperors in the Central Plains use the emphasis on culture and over military and the imperial examination system to weaken the force of the elite class.

The Sultan and Emir trained themselves to become slave warriors in Guram (Mamruk, Cherinier) by purchasing small slaves from the grassland or Europe. As the main force of the army, they also weakened the role of the Iqta Knight. It is not surprising that the Iqta Knights who rarely go to the battlefield gradually become bureaucrats.

As for militia, combat effectiveness is even more unreliable. Unless it is employed or mobilized by religion from nomadic tribes or mountain tribes that believe in the Tianfang Sect, there is no combat effectiveness at all.

In the Khan's palace in Khotan City, the Lion King was summoning the military controversy of his ministers.

Another of his palace, Irik, Buzar, known as the "think tank", took a step forward from a group of frowning ministers and bowed: "Khan, neither Yochang City nor Kriya Oasis have scorched earth, and there are no Gulam warriors in the two places to guard there. I am afraid that they will be occupied by the enemies who have been on the Peach Blossom Stone. At that time, the food and cattle and sheep there will be owned by the enemy!"

Yes! Youchangcheng and Kriya Oasis will definitely not be able to defend it, maybe it has been lost now!

The Lion King scratched his forehead: "Buzar, don't keep it a secret. If you have any tricks, just tell me!"

Buzar touched his white beard and said, "The enemy is very powerful, with eight or nine thousand Gulam warriors, and it seems that there are evil wizards who have mastered the black magic. Our strength is too weak. We should shrink our troops and carry out scorched earth resistance while asking for help from the Gassini and the Turks."

"Scorched earth resistance? But Yochang City and Kriya Oasis are likely to have been occupied by the enemy!"

"Then give up the city of Khotan, Yeer Qiang City and Shache City, and the entire army retreated to Kashgar."

Khotan is nearly 1,000 miles away from Kashgar. There are two relatively large-scale oasis cities, Yeer Qiang City and Shache City. If they are destroyed, the army of Shang Taohua Stone advancing west will once again encounter difficulties in carrying grain for thousands of miles.

"But the enemy will still reach Kashgar!" said the Lion King, "Berry's report said that the enemy drove cattle and sheep to march, and they also had a kind of Gulam light cavalry with semi-armored. If they had acted quickly, they should have taken down Yochang City and Kriya Oasis, and most of them would have plundered more cattle and sheep.

Even if we destroy Khotan, Yeerqiang City and Shache City, we cannot destroy the entire oasis and the boundless grasslands. As long as there are oasis and grasslands, the army on peach blossom stones can grazing and advancing westward."

It is definitely not as fast as marching while grazing, but it is not too slow. It takes twenty or thirty miles a day, and it takes 1,000 miles in a month and a half. If you add 1,800 miles from Stone City to Khotan, it will be at most four months. It will take a little longer, but you will still arrive.

"Khan, with three or four months, we can mobilize more troops." The wise Buzar said, "and it can also strengthen the city defense of Kashgardan and turn it into the world's most solid castle!

In addition, we can also get assistance from the Gassenes and the Seljuk Turks, and maybe we can also invite scholars from the Nietzsemian University in Baghdad who can crack the magic of the peach blossom stone."

"Okay!" The Lion King thought for a while, as if there was no better way, "Immediately send envoys to Lahore and Isfahan for help. Be sure to tell them that the army of Shangpeach Stone, which has black magic, is embarking on a large-scale expedition. If they do not come to save us, then the next person who is invaded will be themselves!

In addition, we will send people to Balashaguen and transfer all the Gulam and Ikta cavalry there to Kashgar. Then we will take out the treasures from Balashaguen's vault and go to Bukhara to see Muhammad, and ask him to send troops immediately!"

"Khan," Buzar reminded, "Balakshaguen is already very empty. If the Gulam and Ikta Knights there are transferred, what if the pagans in Gaochang send troops..."

"Don't worry about the pagans in Gaochang!" The Lion King waved his hand, "They are of no use, and the Persian and Tajik mercenaries of Balashagun are enough to deal with them."

The Karakhan Dynasty also had a Persian and Tajik mercenaries in the army in the west (referring to the west of the Tianshan Mountains). Their origin was the army of the Saman Dynasty. During the Karakhan Dynasty's destruction of the Saman Dynasty, a large number of Saman troops were captured. In the later wars between the Karakhan Dynasty and Khotan, the main army of the Karakhan Dynasty suffered heavy losses (the Khotan-Gaochang-Guiyi coalition was still very capable of fighting). He had no choice but to recruit a large number of troops from the Saman Dynasty's captives to guard the western cities such as Samarkand, Bukhara, and Balashaguin.

Most of these descendants of Persian-Tajik mercenaries continued to work as their military profession and became the pillars of force of the Karakhan Dynasty in Central Asia. Until now, although this army has been passed down for a hundred years, it has long been corrupt. However, no matter how corrupt they are, they are not something that the Gaochang Uighurs can deal with.

"Khan, will the army on the Peach Blossom Stone use Gaochang to attack Balashaguon?" Someone immediately raised objections.

"Borrowing Gaochang?" The Lion King smiled, "Balakshaguen is more than 3,000 miles away from Gaochang, and it will not be possible for 6 months. Moreover, can the emperor who climbed the peach blossom stone use another eight or nine thousand gulams? If so, it will be useless even if the Gulam and Ikta of Balaakshaguen are not transferred."

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Just as the Lion King convened an army discussion and made the decision that was later considered to have ruined the fate of the Eastern Karakhan Dynasty. Near the Yemili Grassland 2,000 miles away, Yelu Dashi was immediately on a high slope, watching the cavalry of the Hexi Army breaking the tribal cavalry of the Karakhanate with a destructive force.

The defeated Karakhan cavalry belonged to a Karakhan tribe placed on the Yemili grassland to monitor 30,000 Khitan herders. This tribe has about a few thousand herders, and according to the mobilization ratio of one tent and one soldier, seven or eight thousand people can be dispatched.

In Yelu Dashi's opinion, their equipment and tactics are no different from the Khitan tribal soldiers. They are mainly cavalry and shooting that nomadic cavalry is accustomed to, and are light but not tidy, and are not brave. There is no problem in fighting the "rude and soft-hearted" Gaochang Uighurs. It is enough to fight the Khitan tribal soldiers with similar tactics. However, the Hexi cavalry that was trained in the Song and Xia war and carried out another round of military reforms is really not something they can deal with.

Especially those Xiliang cavalry that are only equipped with "Foreheart" armor are better than armored cavalry when dealing with nomadic cavalry. Because these Xiliang cavalry act faster than armored cavalry, and can also undertake the tasks of formation assault and dispersed pursuit at the same time.

In other words, when the nomadic cavalry adopts the usual "return horse shooting" and uses the method of retreating and shooting against the Xiliang cavalry, the Xiliang cavalry can also disband the queue, carry a long spear, and use a stubborn horn bow to shoot against the enemy. Because the horn bow used by the Hexi army has excellent texture, and their ability to shoot arrows on horseback is also more skilled and has certain armor protection, so they will not suffer any losses in cavalry and shooting!

Of course, if the horse speed of the Western Liang cavalry exceeds that of the Karakhan Army's nomadic cavalry, then there is no need to disband the queue and just use a spear to stab the enemy in the back.

In short, thousands of Karakhan nomadic cavalry that looked pretty good were defeated by the attack of 9,000 Hexi cavalry, and in a blink of an eye, they collapsed all over the line.

Yelu Dashi's brows gradually frowned. The Hexi Army became significantly stronger after the military reform! The Song army itself is also carrying out the same, but more thorough reform. Once the reform is completed, will the cavalry of the "weak Song" have the ability to beat the Khitan cavalry?

If the Karakhan cavalry on the battlefield today were replaced with the Khitan palace tent army, could they achieve better results?

Thinking of this, he turned to look at Xiao Heda. Xiao Heda seemed to guess his thoughts and smiled faintly at Yelu Dashi. "The situation in the world has changed. If the Daliao is conservative, the future fate will not be much better than that of the Karakhan Dynasty! Chongde, you are a nobleman of the royal family, and this time you can become famous again. You can submit a memorial to the emperor in the future and request reform. If hundreds of thousands of cavalry of the Daliao can be like the cavalry of Hexi, it is not impossible to go south to unify the world!"
Chapter completed!