After the eldest prince Songfan Sangji ordered the beheading of 170,000 prisoners of war from the three kingdoms of Yanzi, Yuli and Shache, he did not rush to launch an attack on Fengshou City.
Instead, they began to mobilize more troops from the Songfan Kingdom and gather them towards Fengshou City.
According to the idea of the eldest prince Songfan Sangji, Fengshou City is surrounded by endless plains, which is very conducive to the combat of Songfan's cavalry, so he prepared to implement the tactics of besieging the city and attacking the reinforcements.
Use the Zhenxi Army trapped in Fengshou City to eliminate more Zhenxi Army. It would be best to have a decisive battle with the main force of the Zhenxi Army outside Fengshou City.
Now, there are still more than 17,000 people from Zhenxi Youwei, 38,000 people from Huzu, and 20,000 people from Xizhou Xiangjun left in Fengshou City.
In fact, even if the eldest prince Songfan Sangji wanted to attack Fengshou City by force, he probably wouldn't be able to take it down in a short time.
After retreating to Fengshou City, Xue Rengui, the commander-in-chief of Zhenxi Youwei, fell into deep self-blame.
Not counting the armies of Yanzi, Yuli and Shache that were completely wiped out, a total of 130,000 soldiers of the Zhenxi Army were killed on the battlefield. Even Shi Wengong, a general of the Fifth Brigade of the Zhenxi Right Guard, was missing.
Lü Bu looked at Xue Rengui, whose face was filled with pain, and could not help but comfort him, "Brother Xue, victory and defeat are common in war.
Moreover, the defeat in this battle was mainly caused by the armies of Yanzi, Yuli and Shache.
If the armies of these three countries hadn't held us back, we wouldn't have suffered such heavy losses."
Lü Biao, the Tiger Soldier Commander, whose arms and head were bandaged, followed up with this statement: "Brother Lü Bu is right. It's all because the armies of Yanzi, Yuli, and Shache are too weak, which has also affected our Zhenxi Army.
When the Lord knows we are trapped in Fengshou City, he will definitely send a large army to rescue us. Then we can settle accounts with the Songfan army."
Xue Rengui gnashed his teeth and said, "The blood of 130,000 Zhenxi Army soldiers cannot be shed in vain. I, Xue Rengui, swear to avenge the blood debt of the 130,000 Zhenxi Army soldiers who died in battle!"
After Sun Hao learned about the disastrous defeat outside Fengshou City, he immediately decided to lead his troops to rescue Fengshou City himself.
However, before that, the Zhenxi Protectorate issued an order to the million-strong army of the three countries of Qumo, Wuli, and Xiuye, as well as forty small countries in the Western Regions, to rush to the rescue of Fengshou City immediately.
Not long ago, the two powerful countries of Parthia and Cheshi also sent 50,000 and 150,000 troops respectively, and took the initiative to join the Western Regions Coalition Forces led by the Zhenxi Army, expressing their willingness to contribute a little to resist the invasion of the barbarians on the plateau.
Since the Parthian Empire and the Cheshi Kingdom were willing to help, the Zhenxi Protectorate did not refuse.
This time, the Zhenxi Protectorate requested 50,000 Parthian troops and 150,000 Cheshi troops to immediately rush to Fengshou City for assistance.
Xianmuti, the general of the Parthian Empire, who commanded 50,000 Parthian troops, frowned and said to Muzepa, the general of the Cheshi army, who commanded 150,000 troops, "Even the Zhenxi Army suffered a defeat at Fengshou City. Now we are being allowed to go there. I think the Zhenxi Army is trying to kill someone with a borrowed knife."
Mu Zepa, the general of Cheshi, said: "The reason why our two countries sent troops this time is mainly to gain prestige over Liang's Zhenxi Army.
Now, the millions of troops from dozens of other countries are rushing towards Fengshou City. The 200,000 elite troops from your and my two countries will go there and find an opportunity to seize the military power of that million-strong army.
As for whether we can rescue the remaining Liang State Zhenxi Army in Fengshou City, we can act accordingly when the time comes."
However, what the Cheshi general Muzepa had not expected was that the million-strong army of Qumo, Wuli, Xiuye and forty small countries in the Western Regions would be ambushed by hundreds of thousands of cavalry troops of the Songfan Army halfway.
In the end, except for a few cavalry units that escaped, the other nearly one million officers and soldiers from various countries in the Western Regions were either killed or captured.
In order to reduce food consumption, the Songfan Army killed all the more than 600,000 captured officers and soldiers from various countries in the Western Regions.
Upon hearing the bad news, the 50,000 Parthian troops and the 150,000 Cheshi troops were so frightened that they retreated 50 miles that day and never dared to approach Fengshou City again.
In the Zhenxi Marquis Mansion in Emerald City, Sun Hao said with emotion: "Did we go a little too far?
After all, these Western Regions countries are nominally vassal states of Daliang, and this time they also obeyed the call of the Zhenxi Protectorate."
Zhuge Liang, the Chief Clerk of the Zhenxi Protectorate, then said, "My Lord, this is a bad idea, but it is also for the long-term peace and stability of the entire Western Regions.
Only by weakening the military strength of these vassal states as much as possible can our Zhenxi Protectorate truly control them and prevent their possible rebellion in the future."
Pang Tong, one of the deputy chiefs of the Zhenxi Protectorate, followed up, saying, "My lord, although these Western Regions countries nominally acknowledge that they are vassal states of Daliang, they secretly disobey the orders of our Zhenxi Protectorate.
The reason why they were able to send troops this time was also because of the Songfan Kingdom's crazy massacre of the Hu people in the Western Regions.
By using the Songfan Kingdom to annihilate the million-strong army of these vassal states, the Zhenxi Army will no longer have to worry about anything and can focus on dealing with the Songfan Kingdom."
Sun Hao sighed slightly, "But the eldest prince of Songfan Kingdom is really cruel.
Just now, at Fengshou City, they beheaded 170,000 prisoners of war, and then buried over 600,000 prisoners of war from various countries in the Western Regions."
In fact, Sun Hao's notoriety in the Western Regions was much more famous than that of the eldest prince of the Songfan Kingdom, Songfan Sangji. After all, Sun Hao had ordered the massacre of more than 1.5 million prisoners of war from various countries in the Western Regions.
Sun Hao then asked Zhuge Liang, "Are there any problems with the mobilization of 300,000 Xizhou troops this time?"
This time, Sun Hao personally led his troops to rescue Fengshou City. In addition to the front and rear guards of the Zhenxi Army, there were also 20,000 Huben cavalry, 10,000 Xuanjia cavalry, 10,000 Beiwei cavalry, 10,000 Hubao cavalry, 10,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry, 10,000 Baima Yicong, 160,000 Fengyu Leidian cavalry, 60,000 Qinglang cavalry, 20,000 Modao soldiers and 10,000 vanguard soldiers.
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