It may be that Sun Hao and his men successively defeated several thousand-man cavalry and infantry teams of the Gule army, which gave courage to the Liang people outside the city, and they began to wave their weapons at the white soldiers of the supervision team behind them.
"Brothers, let's fight these bastards!"
"Sisters, we're all going to die anyway, so let's fight them!"
Seeing that many Liang people began to resist, Sun Hao and others were greatly encouraged and rushed straight to the flag of the third prince Magaji's commander to kill him.
The third prince Magaji no longer dared to be arrogant at this time and chose to avoid the enemy's attack. After all, this heavy cavalry, which was invincible on the battlefield, was getting closer and closer to him.
"Move the Ninth Legion over here. Even if it costs lives, I will kill these two or three hundred heavy cavalrymen!" The third prince Magaji shouted with gritted teeth as he urged his horse to escape.
The second prince Sadik in Iron Lion City saw that the third prince's commander's flag was forced to move back, and immediately ordered the east gate of Iron Lion City to be opened. He sent out the only 6,000 cavalrymen he had to join the melee outside the city.
When Sun Hao and his men saw that the enemy commander had fled and the defenders in the city had rushed out again, they began to try their best to rescue the Liang people who were fighting with the white soldiers.
The brutal fighting lasted until dusk. Finally, with the help of Sun Hao and others, about 30,000 people of the Liang clan managed to escape from the control of the army under the command of the third prince.
However, in the previous siege and the subsequent melee, nearly 20,000 Liang people died outside the Iron Lion City, most of whom were the elderly, the weak, women and children.
Riding on his warhorse, Sun Hao looked around at the remaining subordinates around him, his face full of gloom.
There is a price to pay for being a hero. The fighting lasted from afternoon to dusk, and almost all the brave generals who survived Sun Hao were injured. Even Sun Hao's left shoulder was shot by a crossbow arrow.
Fortunately, Sun Hao not only wore fish-scale iron armor on the outside, but also wore a piece of leather armor inside. After the crossbow arrow penetrated the fish-scale iron armor and leather armor, it only left a very shallow wound on Sun Hao's left shoulder.
The nine Tiger and Leopard Riders, the eight Xiliang Iron Riders, and the four Whirlwind Riders, three Frost Rain Riders, two Thunder Riders, and three Lightning Riders among the four Riders of Wind, Rain, Thunder, and Lightning have now turned into cold corpses.
Sun Hao said bitterly to Qin Qiong, Yuchi Gong and others: "Try to recover the bodies of our brothers as much as possible. I must at least bring back their ashes."
Qin Qiong then said, "My Lord, I will immediately arrange for some young men to go to the battlefield to collect the bodies of our brothers."
Of the more than 30,000 Liang people rescued by Sun Hao and his men, except for a few who had escaped on their own, most of them gathered together and expressed their willingness to obey Sun Hao's orders.
These Liang people who were forced to attack the city were all from Lishui City, and many of them were family members of the Seven Flags Gang.
It turned out that when Xie Dongkui escaped from Lishui City that day, Zhao Guangsheng, the head of the Blue Flag Hall of the Seven Flags Gate, was not so lucky and died under the powerful crossbows of the Lishui City garrison.
You should know that Lishui City can be regarded as the base of Lanqitang. After Zhao Guang's life and death, the gang members of Lanqitang were filled with righteous indignation and directly raised the banner of rebellion in Lishui City, and at one point occupied most of Lishui City.
Previously, Lishui City was controlled by the third prince Magaji. When he learned that the Seven Banners Sect had rebelled in Lishui City, he immediately mobilized several legions to Lishui City.
In just three days, the uprising of the Lanqi Hall of the Seven Flags Gate was declared a failure, and tens of thousands of Lanqi Hall gang members and young and strong people of the Liang clan who participated in the uprising were beheaded.
Tens of thousands of rebels' families were implicated. Not only were their property used to pay for military expenses, they were also brought to Iron Lion City and became cannon fodder to consume the defenders' equipment.
Sun Hao looked back at the tens of thousands of Liang people he had rescued, frowned, and said to everyone, "I'm afraid there are at least 30,000 Liang people behind us.
What should we do next to accommodate them? Does anyone have any good ideas?"
Yuchi Gong smiled bitterly and said, "My lord, if possible, the best way is to bring them back to Ganyang City for resettlement.
But we don't have enough food and fodder to feed 30,000 mouths, so we can only let them disperse on their own."
Sun Hao sighed, "Let's see if we can collect more warhorse corpses on the battlefield.
At least tonight, let these tens of thousands of Liang people, especially the children and the elderly, have something to eat."
At this time, the surviving cavalry under the command of the second prince Sadik had retreated back to the Iron Lion City, but the third prince Magajj had sent a large number of soldiers to clean up the battlefield.
Many of the warhorse corpses were dragged away by the soldiers under the command of the third prince Magaji.
Qin Qiong, Yuchi Gong and others led 4,000 young and strong men from the Liang tribe, and finally seized more than 500 dead war horses while cleaning up the battlefield.
As a result, in just one dinner, these more than 500 dead horses were eaten up by more than 30,000 Liang people, leaving only piles of bones.
After Sun Hao handed a piece of roasted horse meat to Princess Aimier, he turned to Qin Qiong and asked, "Can we defend against the night attack by the Gule army?"
Qin Qiong sighed and said, "These four thousand young and strong men were reluctantly selected from the people of the Liang clan. Although they are equipped with some weapons and armor picked up from the battlefield, they are untrained and will probably be of little use in a real fight.
If the Gule army launches a night attack tonight, we will have to rely on our own brothers.
However, we are too few in number to take care of so many Liang people."
After a pause, Qin Qiong continued, "My lord, why don't you let the 30,000 Liang people disperse now?
With us blocking them, at least no Gule cavalry will come after them."
Sun Hao nodded, "Okay, let's notify them!"
Just as 30,000 Liang people were evacuating from outside Iron Lion City, Sun Hao found a secluded place and used up all four of his reserved sign-in opportunities.
Originally during the day, Sun Hao was planning to use up the four sign-in opportunities reserved in the "annual sign-in system", but because the charge had been going smoothly, Sun Hao did not use them.
Considering that the Gule army outside the city might launch a night attack tonight, and they had to help the 30,000 Liang people to block the pursuers, Sun Hao decided to increase some troops under his command.
"Congratulations on signing in the powerful generals: Yu Juluo and Han Qinhu."
"Congratulations to the signing of the powerful generals: Shi Wansui and He Ruobi."
"Congratulations on signing in as cavalrymen: Sixty-four Tiger and Leopard Cavalry centurions!"
"Congratulations on signing in as cavalrymen: Sixty-four Xiliang Iron Cavalry Hundred Commanders!"
Among them, the combat power values of Shi Wansui (Sui and Tang Dynasties) and Yu Juluo (Sui and Tang Dynasties) are both 98 points, while the combat power values of Han Qinhu (Sui and Tang Dynasties) and He Ruobi (Sui and Tang Dynasties) are both 97 points.
The combat power values of the Hundred-Man General of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the Hundred-Man General of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry are still 80 points.
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