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Chapter 568 Escape from Karashar City
"Pack up all your belongings, the hateful Central Plains army is coming!"

The panicked Yarkand soldiers yelled on the dirt road.The guard of Karashar City has issued an order. He will give up his defense of Karashar City, which is closer to Turpan City, and retreat to Kuqa City to join the defenders of Kuche City.Before retreating, the guard of Karashar City planned to remove the people of Karashar City and clear the walls, so that the huge military strength of the Kyushu Army could not be used due to the shortage of food and grass.The guard of Karashar City believed that the "10 Army" of the Kyushu Army would go south to attack the Yarkand Khanate in the near future, so he temporarily formulated such an action plan.The [-] army, plus the logistics force must have at least [-] people, and thousands of carriages, right?With such an astronomical figure of food consumption, I am afraid that the food in the entire city of Karashar will not be able to support their consumption.Soldiers in battle eat twice as much food as ordinary civilians every day.

"Why did the army from the Central Plains attack our city of Karashar? What did we do wrong?"

"I heard that our Great Khan sent people to attack the Zhungeer tribe, which angered the empire of the Central Plains, and they sent troops to attack us!"

"Where is Commander Suli? Didn't he lead the most heroic warriors of our Yarkand to Turpan? The Kyushu Army was able to hit our city of Karashar. Did something happen to Commander Suli?"

"Don't talk nonsense! Commander Suli is the most outstanding general of our Yarkand tribe and Khan's younger brother. If he hadn't led our army to resist the intrusion of the Jungar tribe, our city of Karashar would not have been safe and sound. .”

"Hey, what's the use of talking about it now, let's pack up our belongings and leave this city."

Thousands of residents of Karashar City have different opinions, but most of them are ready to pack up and leave Karashar City.In their view, although there is no direct conflict between the Central Plains Empire and them, they are not all the same, and it is better to avoid them, otherwise they don't know how the exaggerated Central Plains army will deal with them.

"Hurry up, the Central Plains army doesn't know when it will arrive. We must transport the food away in advance, otherwise it will fall into the hands of the Central Plains army and it will become their supply!" The guard of Kalashar City personally supervised Grain trucks, bags of grain being pushed onto the grain trucks, these are the accumulations of the city of Karashar over the years.

The retreat of the guard of Karashar City was in a hurry. After the guard made the decision to abandon Karashar City, hundreds of horse-drawn carts left the city first carrying the grain of Karashar City.It has to be said that the guard's vision is very precise. He expected that the biggest shortcoming of the Kyushu Army with sufficient firearms and troops might be food, so he wanted to transfer the food in Karashar City in advance, and did not leave enough for the Kyushu Army. food.

"Not even a single piece of wheat can be left for them." After the grain cart set off, the guard of Karashar City personally led the [-] defenders of Karashar City to leave Karashar City, and at the same time protected the grain cart .

After the defenders and food of Karashar City left, the people of Karashar City also left in groups, and Karashar City began to become an empty city. Only a few hundred people were unwilling to leave Karashar The civilians in the city stayed in the city of Kalashar, and the streets became very deserted.

To the northeast of Karashar City, a cavalry force from the dust swept in, the smoke and dust billowed, and the black dragon flag with its fangs and claws fluttered!

"Oops..." An old man from Kalashar City fell down on the way to retreat to Kuqa City in the south.

"Old brother, are you alright?" Another old man helped him up and asked out of breath.

"This is really a pain. It's been a long time since we have experienced such a thing. This old body can't stand the toss." The old man who fell said with emotion.

"Old brother, you forgot that when we were young, we fought against the Zhungeer tribe in Turpan, and you killed two enemies with your own hands. You were number one in the army at that time," said his old companion.

"That's all happened in the past, and now our Yarkand Khanate has provoked a more powerful Central Plains army, which is a powerful army that can even drive away the Golden Family. I really don't understand what the Khan and the commander are thinking, or Old Khan is more cautious," said the old man.

Suddenly, the pupils of his cloudy eyes dilated.

"What happened?" His companion turned his head to look north, his pupils also widened.

Behind the fleeing residents of Kalashar City, at some point, a cavalry came with billowing dust.

"The Central Plains army is here?!" The two old men were shocked.

Except for the battle-tested veterans, the residents of Kalashar City who fled were panicked, causing a riot.They couldn't understand why the Central Plains army came so fast!
"Everyone, run away! If we are caught by soldiers from the Central Plains, we will most likely be killed!" Some residents of Kalashar City were afraid of the demonized Central Plains army, and hurried away on their own horses.

Most of the poor peasants who did not have horses, as well as the rich peasants who brought a lot of property and drove their flocks and were reluctant to abandon their property, huddled together and watched the Central Plains cavalry galloping.They didn't know that this cavalry was actually a regular cavalry unit formed by the Mongolian tribes in Monan.

"Corps commander, I found a group of people from the Yarkand Khanate in front of me. They should be the people who fled to the south from Karashar City. I didn't expect them to come here!" A Monan cavalry regiment assaulted the Yarkand Khanate The general said to Wu Keshan.

"I saw it. Since the people of Karashar City are here, it means that the defenders of Karashar City and the food we need are not far away. Let this group of people go, and we will pursue south. The defenders of Kalashar City stopped them before they reached Kuqa City, and took their food for us!"

With a big wave of Wu Keshan's hand, two thousand Monan cavalry passed by the fleeing residents of Karashar City, and drove away under the fearful eyes of the residents of Karashar City, leaving a large group of people stunned.

"Why is the Kyushu Army still taking the opportunity to rob us?" A resident of Kalashar City scratched the back of his head, puzzled.

"Do they think we are worthless to rob?"

"Impossible! The people here bring their families and mouths, and everyone has a lot of rations, which is enough for them to eat for a long time. How can we let us go."

The people in Kalashar City were arguing a lot, arguing why the Central Plains cavalry did not plunder them, and at the same time began to hesitate whether they should go to Kuqa City, because now they have Central Plains troops in front and behind, a team The Central Plains cavalry had already rushed towards Kuqa City, where a great battle was about to break out. If they continued to flee to Kuqa City, they might be involved in the fierce battle between the two sides.

(End of this chapter)