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The coalition forces that arrived outside the Red Stone City consisted of about 160,000 Gule troops, 70,000 Wensu troops, and 20,000 troops from the four small Western Regions countries surrounding Gule.
However, the coalition army of 250,000 was almost defeated by the 10,000 heavily armored cavalry under Sun Hao. Even the second prince of Gule, Sadiq, and the commander of the Wensu army, Yadakun, died in this night attack.
Seeing that the coalition forces were completely defeated, more than 10,000 infantrymen from the left and right guards of the Western Region Army in Red Stone City, as well as more than 10,000 newly recruited soldiers, immediately rushed out and began to help hunt down the defeated soldiers and collect prisoners.
Finally, the heavy cavalry under Sun Hao's command chased a large group of defeated soldiers to the outside of Iron Lion City and annihilated them all, thus bringing the night attack to an end.
In this night attack, the first 2,500 Black Armor Cavalry, 2,500 Beiwei Cavalry, 2,500 Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and 2,500 Xiliang Iron Cavalry had a total of less than 400 casualties.
A considerable number of them were killed because their horses fell on the snow and they did not have time to get up and were trampled to death by the horses behind them.
Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Huang Zhong and Gan Ning led more than 3,000 cavalrymen, and lost more than 1,000 of them. Most of those killed in the battle were cavalrymen from the left and right guards of the Western Region Army.
Later, more than 20,000 infantrymen who left the city lost about 2,000 people due to the desperate fighting of some defeated Allied soldiers.
Of the 250,000 allied troops, at least 150,000 were killed or trampled to death, and about 60,000 were taken prisoner. Less than 40,000 managed to escape, including Meccaji, the third prince of the Gulu Kingdom.
After Sun Hao learned about the casualty ratio of the two armies, he became more determined to form the Western Region Army using all the brave generals and soldiers summoned from the "Annual Signing System".
In addition, Sun Hao and his men seized mountains of food and fodder, hundreds of thousands of weapons and armor, and more than 70,000 intact war horses in the allied camp.
The coalition forces carried a lot of gold and silver coins. Combined with the gold and silver coins confiscated from corpses and prisoners, Sun Hao increased the conversion value of the "Hero Converter" to more than 2.5 million points.
Because they were about to attack the capital of Gule State, Tieshi City, Sun Hao directly used 2.4 million conversion points to exchange for 4,000 Wei Wuzu centurions and 4,000 Qin Ruishi centurions.
In order to prepare for the decisive battle with the Western Expedition Army, the second prince Sadik had withdrawn most of the troops in Iron Lion City.
After the coalition forces were defeated by Sun Hao's Liang State Western Region Army, there were less than 6,000 defenders in Iron Lion City, many of whom were white civilians who were temporarily recruited.
When 4,000 Wei Wuzu centurions and 4,000 Qin Ruishi centurions arrived outside Tieshi City with 10,000 heavily armored cavalrymen, the gates of Tieshi City were opened before they began to attack the city.
A deputy army commander of the Gule Kingdom who was in charge of the defense of Iron Lion City chose to surrender to the Liang army without hesitation.
After all, hundreds of thousands of coalition forces were defeated, and the Iron Lion City, with only less than 6,000 defenders left, how could it resist the ferocious Liang army?
What Sun Hao didn't expect was that he actually met an acquaintance in Iron Lion City.
Aimu, with a big belly, looked at Sun Hao with a complicated expression, "I am pregnant with your child."
When the "Intermediate Exploration Eye" is used on a woman, although the intelligence value cannot be seen, the combat power value can be seen.
Aimu, charm value: 96 points, combat power value: 87 (73).
If Aimu wasn't pregnant, her combat power would be higher than Sun Hao's.
Thanks to the guidance of many powerful generals in martial arts, Sun Hao's combat power value has increased rapidly, but recently it has been stuck at 79 points.
Sun Hao had used very brutal means to get Aimu. Aimu had once sworn to the True God Mosha that he would kill Sun Hao with his own hands.
Seeing that Aimu was pregnant with his child, Sun Hao naturally wanted to keep her by his side, but he was worried that Aimu still hated him.
Sun Hao doesn't want Aimu to chop off his head with a knife when he sleeps with her in the future.
“Since you are pregnant with my child, I hope you can stay and I am willing to marry you as my co-wife.
Of course, if you don't want to, I won't force you, but I hope you can give birth to the child before leaving." Sun Hao said softly to Aimu.
Aimu snorted coldly: "I will never abandon my child. If you really want to marry me, I have one condition, which is to let all the Mosha priests and missionary priests in Iron Lion City leave."
Upon hearing this, Sun Hao immediately nodded in agreement and said, "No problem, Daliang has no hostility towards you, the Mosha Sect.
All Mosha priests in Iron Lion City can leave at any time."
Hearing Sun Hao's happy agreement, Aimu softened his tone and said, "I don't want to lie to you. As long as your Liang Kingdom enters the Western Regions, the Mosha Sect will definitely become your enemy.
Perhaps we will even organize believers from all over the Western Regions to form a church army and wage another holy war against you."
More than two hundred years ago, the State of Liang dispatched an expeditionary force of 300,000 troops, attempting to establish the Protectorate of the Western Regions in the State of Gule.
The reason for its failure later was that in addition to the assistance from other countries in the Western Regions to the Gule Kingdom, the Mosha religion organized a church army of 250,000 and launched a sacred war against the Liang expeditionary force. This was also one of the important reasons why the Liang Western Expedition did not succeed.
Sun Hao said nonchalantly: "Don't even mention that the Mosha Cult has not yet launched any sacred war against my Western Regions Protectorate. Even if the Mosha Cult has become an enemy of the Western Regions Protectorate.
For your sake, I will also let all Mosha priests leave Iron Lion City."
Aimu then sighed, "Don't worry, because the judges and missionary priests of Iron Lion City are all very familiar to me, and many of them are my friends, so I hope you can let them go.
I am now pregnant with your child, which is against the teachings of Mahasis. From today on, I will completely sever ties with Mahasis.
If the Mosha Cult really launches a holy war against you in the future, you don't need to show mercy. I don't want my child to be without a father."
If Sun Hao had not led his army to capture Iron Lion City, Aimu might have secretly left soon and found a place to give birth to the child in hiding.
In the teachings of Mosha religion, the Liang people are dirty, and Mosha believers are not allowed to intermarry with the Liang people.
Once Aimu gave birth to a mixed-race child, as the biological daughter of the current Pope of the Mosha religion, her life would not be in danger, but the child would definitely not survive.
When Sun Hao heard Aimu say this, he knew that he would no longer have to worry about his head when sleeping with Aimu in the future.
“Haha, if Emile knew that you had become my wife, he would definitely be very happy.
By the way, Emil is also pregnant, but she has only just gotten pregnant for a short time."
Huang Zhong and Gan Ning brought more than 300 Tiger and Leopard Cavalry back to Ganyang City. They not only brought 260,000 taels of gold, but also brought the news that Emile and the last white concubine, Heinie, were pregnant.