Unknown Knight

Chapter 410: Tortoise Shell Collision

Since learning that Fort Sagechir was actually occupied by Aix, Saiga Khan felt fooled and regarded the incident of Fort Sagechir as a great shame. He vowed to take Fort Sagechir back and make Aix pay for it.

But Saiga Khan was also very clear that with the old man Toju Nayan around, it would be impossible for him to successfully recapture Sajche Fort.

Toju Nayan and his family are not only very influential in the Khanate, but their strength is growing stronger. Over the years, they have been doing business with Lord Aix, not only accumulating a large amount of wealth, but also arming themselves with an armed force that is capable of rivaling him as the Khan.

Therefore, Saiga Khan had to suppress his anger and pretend that he did not know about the incident at Sageche Fort. However, the news gradually spread to everyone in the Khanate and became a thorn in his side.

Since its establishment, the Khergit Khanate has been expanding outward. He was the first Khan to lose his territory. How could Saiga Khan, who claimed to be a wise ruler, tolerate this? He had been trying to find ways to erase the biggest stain in his life.

Finally, the Eternal Heaven had eyes. The insidious and cunning Aix aroused public anger, causing the Swadia Kingdom and the Rhodok Kingdom to send troops to attack him.

This made Sega Khan see that the opportunity to defeat Aix had come, and he readily agreed to send troops during the secret meeting.

The Khergit Khanate was a grassland country, also known as the country on horseback. The herders could chew dried meat and drink kumis while traveling on horseback for several days and nights, so the mobilization speed was very fast and it was easy to raise a large army.

Therefore, Saga Khan was not in a hurry to assemble troops, but instead sent a large number of spies to sneak into Vijia to collect intelligence, and even sent spies to the city of Aichmor.

According to the intelligence sent back by the spies sent by Saiga Khan, Aix has already learned that the three countries are about to send troops to attack him, and is carrying out a nationwide mobilization. The roads everywhere are filled with teams of conscripted soldiers and convoys of supplies.

In contrast, Fort Sagechev did not seem to react much. Apart from sending some civilians to strengthen the city's defenses, Aix only added more than two hundred garrisons. Together with the original garrisons, the total number of garrisons was less than five hundred.

"You don't take me seriously, do you?"

Saiga Khan was indignant, and this time he was going to gather an army of 4,000 people, preparing to capture not only the Sageche Fort, but also the Kudan City that he had been longing for.

This deployment of troops made Saiga Khan feel insulted, and he was determined to use the results of the battle to teach Aix a lesson for his disrespect.

Soon, an army of more than 4,000 people was assembled by Saiga Khan.

Aix's policy towards the Khergit Khanate only enriched the Toju Nayan family. If the Nayans on the grassland wanted to sell horses and livestock, or leather, woolen and other products to Aix, they had to go through their family. They were exploited by them and had long been dissatisfied.

Coupled with the previous defeats in the wars against Vijia and Aix, the Nayans, who suffered heavy losses, became even more distressed and their wolf-like hunting nature was aroused. They wished they could immediately rush to the wealthy territory of Aix to fight and plunder in order to quench their hunger and anger.

Therefore, after receiving the call from Saiga Khan, the Nayans from various tribes no longer hid themselves as they had done in the past, and those who went to respond to the call were all the brave warriors and young men in the tribe.

Saiga Khan also invested a lot of money this time. In order to make up for the shortcomings of siege equipment, he ordered people to research a tortoise shell ramming machine.

This new type of crash car looks like a huge turtle shell, which is covered with pieces of tortoise shell made of a whole piece of polished iron plate. The tortoise shell can be removed at any time. This is specially designed to deal with your Aix's flaming oil attack. When the crash car is hit by the flaming oil tank and catches fire, the people in the crash car can push away the iron plate with flaming oil stuck on it at any time, and then take out a new tortoise shell from the inside of the crash car to replace it.

With this new tortoise-shell ramming vehicle, there is no need to fear X's fierce fire oil attack anymore. Saiga Khan is confident that he can capture Fort Sageche soon.

However, he was still confused by the small number of troops deployed by Aix, and he always had a feeling of uncertainty.

Of course, what Segar Khan felt more was contempt and humiliation. Several failed wars against Vigia and Aix made him, who was ambitious and self-proclaimed wise, become unconfident. He thought that Aix used such a small force to deal with him, and that it was a sign of contempt for him as the Khan. This made him so angry that he gritted his teeth and determined to capture the Sajche Fort and teach Aix a lesson.

At the same time, Saiga Khan became suspicious, suspecting that he would be stabbed in the back at any time, so when the army passed through the city of Aichemor, he deliberately divided more than a thousand troops and stationed these thousand troops near the city of Aichemor to specifically guard against Toghunayan in the city of Aichemor.

After the three thousand elite Kugit troops set up camp near the first checkpoint, Saiga Khan immediately ordered the assembly of five tortoise-shell ramming vehicles.

At the same time, he launched attacks from multiple directions, sending elite troops up from the narrow paths on both sides, trying to occupy the high ground on both sides of the mountain pass to further increase his advantage.

However, Aix understood the power of three-dimensional attack better than him. As early as after the last war, he ordered the complete destruction of the narrow paths on both sides of the Sageche Fort Pass and further expanded the previous platform. Now a more defensive bunker has been built on the platform.

Early the next morning, five assembled tortoise-shell rams set out from the Kugit camp and attacked the first checkpoint of Fort Sageche. Behind each ram, there were fifty experienced Kugit horse archers holding iron shields for protection.

The tortoise shell ramming machine that was made with great effort is really a powerful weapon to counter flaming oil. Although the catapults at the checkpoints and the mountain bunkers kept launching flaming oil tanks, and occasionally a flaming oil tank hit the target, the smooth iron tortoise shell could not stick to much flaming oil. Most of the flaming oil flowed down the tortoise shell to the ground, and the little flaming oil that stuck to it quickly burned out and extinguished itself.

There are continuous hits on a place where the tortoise shell hits the chariot, causing continuous burning. The soldiers inside the chariot will kick off the burning tortoise shell before the iron tortoise shell burns red, and then take out a new tortoise shell from the inside to replace it.

In this way, except for one of the five tortoise-shell ramming machines that was destroyed, the other four actually arrived at the gate of the checkpoint wall.

The tortoise-shell ram that was destroyed was Count Ran Hu, who was in charge of defending the city. He discovered that something was wrong and ordered his men to change their strategy. He had the catapults switch to stone projectiles for attack. After four or five consecutive hits, they managed to destroy the leading tortoise-shell ram.

Seeing that the Kugit people's battering rams were beginning to destroy the village gate, Ran Hu knew that the wooden gate and the bricks and stones blocking the gate would not be able to withstand the battering ram attack, so he immediately ordered two hundred soldiers in formation to block the vicinity of the village gate.

Soon the village gate and the blocking bricks were broken open by the tortoise-shell ramming car, and the Kugit people who followed behind swarmed in. The two sides started a bloody battle near the village gate.