The eldest son of the red mansion

Chapter 168 Thirst
Arslen Khan saw that although the tribal leaders did not help Su De, it did not mean that they did not agree with Su De's ideas.Now all the tribes are eager to return. If they hadn't lost the battle with Jia Ke this time, maybe they could still accept breaking Xuanfu Town and gain more wealth.But now it is impossible to break through Xuanfu Town, so the tribes have no intention of continuing the fight, and they all think that if they continue to fight, it will only increase casualties.

Arslen Khan also thinks this way now, and there is no need to continue fighting. It seems that the main attack direction chosen in the past two years is wrong.With Jia Ke in this direction, it simply cannot be used as the main assault target.However, attacking from other places could not threaten the foundation of the Southern Dynasty, and could only make a small fuss and rob some things to go back.

Moreover, he and the tribe are not on the same mind and cannot be united. If these troops are all commanded by him, if he wants to fetch water, he will send a large army together, and Jia Ke can't do anything about him.It's just a loss of manpower.But now that the tribes don't want to lose their soldiers and horses, he can't send his cronies there, otherwise he won't be able to suppress the grassland tribes in the future.

Arslen Khan felt how correct his previous thinking was, with these tribal leaders acting as shit-stirring sticks in the city.I will never be able to unify the grasslands, and I will never be able to pose a real threat to the Southern Dynasty.

This time, he will never compromise again when he goes back. It seems that he will have a good talk with the high priest when he goes back.Otherwise, if things go on like this, the grassland will always be a mess of loose sand.

All the tribal leaders looked at Arslen Khan at this time, waiting for him to make a final decision.

Arslen Khan thought about the current situation carefully, and finally said to everyone: "If we retreat now as soon as we lose the battle, we will lose our courage in the future. And the people of the Southern Dynasty will also lose respect for us. So I think we should We can’t retreat right now. Starting tomorrow, each tribe will attack the city separately, and the others will guard Jia Ke. We will attack the city for another three days. If Xuanfu Town cannot be captured in three days, we will retreat to the grassland. If we can capture Xuanfu Town in three days Fuzhen, we will rob the city for three days and then retreat. What do you think?"

After hearing what he said, the leaders of the various tribes all agreed with him.

Then there is the choice of candidates for the siege. If anyone would arrange to siege the city before, they would definitely sigh bad luck, or even fail to work hard.But this time is different, all the tribal leaders are rushing to attack the city.

Arslen Khan would have been greatly relieved if he had seen this situation a day ago.But now that he is shameless towards these old foxes, he has a new view.

This is obviously because they are afraid of warning Jia Ke that another battle will happen, but their own tribe has suffered heavy losses.Although there were some losses in the siege, Xuanfu Town is now at the end of its battle. Compared with fighting Jia Ke, it is simply not easy.

Arslen Khan finally made a decision that one-third of the 28 Tatar tribes would attack Xuanfu Town every day, and everyone else would be on alert.As for the order of attacking the city, it was decided by lottery, which appeased them.

As expected, Jia Ke did not live up to their hopes. From the next day, he sent cavalry to wander around the Tatar camp.

Once they found out that they had gone out to fetch water, they led a large group of cavalry to catch up with all those who fetched water.As a result, it became more and more difficult to use water in the Tatar camp, and there were too many of them. Everyone had to try their best to ensure that the horses drank water, and the people could only persist for a while, but how could thirst be so easy to persist.

The Tatars were forced to attack the city under such circumstances, and they were already full of complaints.People can persist for a period of time without food, but if there is no water, they may not be able to persist for a day or two, so a dramatic scene occurred.

Yesterday, Jia Ke led the cavalry to patrol the vicinity of the Tatar camp, when suddenly the gate of the Tatar camp opened, and one or two thousand cavalry ran out from inside.

At this time, Jia Ke couldn't help admiring them. After being beaten so badly by him, and without drinking water for several days, these Tatars dared to come out of the camp to fight. I don't know which tribe's warriors they are.When you face each other in a while, give him a good time, which is a reward for his bravery.

But what Jia Ke didn't expect was that these cavalry came to Jia Ke's army and did not charge.Instead, they dismounted and knelt beside the horses. This situation completely stunned Jia Ke. Such a thing had never happened in the past.

Jia Ke hurriedly dispatched a brave cavalryman to ask what was going on.After a while, the cavalryman came back and saw Jia Ke reporting back, "General, these people are here to surrender. I hope the general will take them in in the future. They are willing to be the general's slaves."

This time, Jia Ke was completely shocked by them. She never thought that such a thing would happen again. When the two sides were fighting, the side with a large number of people actually ran out to surrender to the side with a small number of people.

Jia Ke asked in disbelief, "Are you sure they are telling the truth, or are they here to deceive us so that they should cooperate and attack us?"

The soldier rubbed his head, and Jia Ke said: "General, I think what they said should be true. I can see that they haven't drank water for several days, and they are almost out of shape. Besides, they are originally A slave of a tribe, surrendering now, just changes to a master, and there is not much psychological pressure."

Hearing what he said, Jia Ke felt that it was very reasonable, but she couldn't take it lightly, so she ordered them to be sent to a prisoner camp, but they had to be separated from other prisoners.

So since Jia Ke blocked the Tatar camp and cut off their water source, Tatars kept coming to surrender.By the third day, Jia Ke had accepted almost 1 people. These people not only brought horses, weapons, and even their own food. As long as they could surrender, they would all be given to Jia Ke. It seemed that thirst had almost suffocated them. crazy.

And Arslen Khan was also helpless in the tent, and today was the third day.According to the agreement, the tribes should be ready to retreat.

The past few days have almost driven the tribes crazy, and they were all weak when they attacked the city.On the contrary, the defenders of Xuanfu Town wanted to fight their blood one by one, and the morale of both sides was completely opposite to that of the previous two days.How can we fight in this situation?
What annoyed Arslen Khan even more was that in the past few days, Tatars have been bringing equipment and food to Jia Ke's camp to surrender. In the past, each tribe guarded the gate of the camp separately, but now they dare not people guarded.Because almost every time they are asked to guard the gate of the village, none of them will run away the next day, and all of them will surrender to the opposite side.Now guarding the gate of the village is Arslen Khan's cronies, but that's it. There have been several incidents where ordinary soldiers gathered to attack the gate of the village and wanted to escape.

Arslen Khan has nothing to do about this situation, and he doesn't dare to punish them too much, he can only reprimand them, because the water shortage is really too much now, leaders like them haven't felt how it is yet , I still have some water to drink, although it is already a little smelly.But it's okay to cook it.

As for the ordinary soldiers, almost all of them hadn't drank water for two or three days. What everyone drank was horse urine, and then there was no more horse urine, because there was no drinking water for the horses.The ordinary soldiers below were already driven mad by thirst, and some even secretly killed people to drink their blood. Compared with these people, sneaking to Jia Ke to surrender was not a big deal.

(End of this chapter)