Unknown Knight

Chasing the three princes all the way and watching them escape into the city of Dukuba with most of the elite troops, Niza immediately sent a messenger to Aix to tell him the news as soon as possible.

After hearing the news, Aix felt relieved. He did not expect that Niza could do this and force the coalition forces of the three princes to suffer a great defeat.

Although they did not completely collapse, and eventually fled into Dukuba City with most of their elite troops, which brought great difficulties to the future siege, this was already the best outcome. At least they became monks hiding in the temple, which was better than letting them escape into the vast desert, which would definitely be very troublesome to clear out in the future.

Especially the fifth prince Sharif, who started out as a desert bandit. If he really escapes into the desert, it would be like a dragon swimming in the ocean, and it would definitely bring endless troubles.

Now that all three of them have entered Dukuba City, in some ways, this may not be a bad thing.

Thinking of this, Aix immediately wrote a secret letter and sent a messenger to deliver it to Niza at full speed.

In the letter, Aix carefully instructed Niza to make sure to seal off the city of Dukuba, especially not to let any of the three princes escape.

After receiving Aix's letter, Niza immediately ordered Jeb to gather all the light cavalry and stop chasing the defeated soldiers in the vast desert. Instead, they gathered outside the city of Dukuba and patrolled around the city day and night, trying not to let anyone escape from the city.

Anyway, those defeated soldiers who fled into the depths of the desert were just militiamen and the old, weak and disabled who were abandoned by the three princes. The elite soldiers were all taken into the city of Dukuba. Without anyone to lead and organize them, these stragglers would not amount to anything. Most of them would die of thirst, starvation or even heat in the desert.

Even if some people survive, most of them will just become desert bandits. At most, it will take some effort to eliminate them in the future. They are not a big hidden danger and will not pose much threat to their side in a short period of time.

Sometimes things are just like this. Don't try to do everything to the best of your ability, just focus on the main parts. This time, Niza's troops were not at an advantage, so it was already very good to achieve such results.

Seven days later, Aix, who arrived late, arrived outside the city of Dukuba with more than 300 cavalrymen and successfully joined forces with the army of more than 3,000 people led by Niza.

In fact, Aix did not come with a large and powerful army as the third prince had learned from the intelligence.

He originally brought only a thousand men with him, and with limited manpower, he had no choice but to take risks and resort to surprise attacks. So he first sent some elite troops disguised as a merchant caravan to raid the gate, and then a large group of cavalry broke into the city and occupied the city of Amrad.

Then he used his elite troops to climb over the city wall at night, killed the guards at the gate, opened the city gate, and captured the city of Barie in one fell swoop.

Fortunately, these two cities are located in remote areas and have been peaceful for too long. In addition, in order to defeat the increasingly powerful Niza, the two princes spared no expense and took away all the elite troops from these two places, which made Aix's raid successful.

However, most of the chiefs in these two places have already defected to the two princes. Their families are powerful, and although most of the relatives' armed forces have followed the princes to the war, there are still many young and strong people left, posing a great threat to Aix, which has a small number of people. Aix has to leave most of its troops stationed in these two cities to prevent any accidents.

As for the villages and castles near the two cities, except for those located in important transportation locations, Aix chose to give up attacking and occupying them directly. Even this took Aix a lot of trouble. This was very different from the original idea that these places could be easily captured as soon as the army arrived.

Later, after finally stabilizing the situation, he learned that the situation in Fort Kafra was becoming increasingly serious. Although based on the current situation, Aix no longer had extra troops to launch an attack, he still resolutely decided to continue attacking Dukuba City.

The news of his capture of two cities should have almost reached Kafra Castle, which should cause panic among the coalition forces of the three princes. I wonder if Niza can seize this good opportunity.

Although he no longer had the strength to attack Dukuba City, in order to end Niza's predicament as soon as possible, Aix still decided to send troops.

He first selected 300 cavalrymen and led them to drive away a large number of local elderly, weak, women and children, organizing a team of nearly 2,000 people. Then he took this superficial team and made as much noise as possible, pretending to attack the city of Dukuba.

This operation was so effective that the three princes who received the letter did not hesitate at all and immediately chose to withdraw their troops overnight. However, due to panic and Niza's follow-up attack, they were eventually defeated.

These messages were passed back and forth, and coupled with the fact that Aix's army was already marching slowly, they could not cover more than ten miles a day in the hot desert.

After Aix received the news that Niza had defeated the coalition of the three princes, he had not gone far from the city of Amrad when he immediately decided to dismiss the elderly, weak, women and children who were pretending to be there, and hurried over with 300 cavalrymen.

Seeing that Aix only came with 300 cavalrymen instead of the expected army, Niza was inevitably disappointed.

He has not been idle these days. He originally wanted to take advantage of the momentum of victory to capture Dukuba City in one fell swoop, but he still thought it was too simple.

Not to mention that although the armies of the three princes were defeated, the Jeb who was responsible for the pursuit had limited troops and could not achieve full success.

Most of those who fled were militiamen and farmers who were temporarily recruited. However, the elite Mamluks and family warriors with armor and even horses did not all flee. Instead, most of them gathered around the three princes.

Zhebu gathered all the pursuing light cavalry to attack, but he could not pose any threat to these concentrated Sarande elites. He could only watch as the three families brought most of their elites into Dukuba City.

Now there are more than 2,000 elite soldiers in Dukuba City, plus the militia temporarily recruited in the city, the total number of people participating in the war has reached more than 4,000, while the army of Niza outside the city, including the civilians, is less than 4,000.

Siege warfare is difficult to attack but easy to defend. Niza's army came in pursuit without much siege equipment, only simple ladders for attacking the city.

In addition, the proportion of elite troops in the city far exceeded that of Niza's army. The armor and weapons of these elite troops were no worse than those of Niza's army outside the city. Although they had just experienced a defeat, they relied on their rich combat skills and advantages in defending the city to fight on equal terms with Niza's attacking army and finally repelled Niza's attacking army.

To be honest, the army of the three princes' coalition had just suffered a major defeat, and the people were in panic and did not dare to act rashly. If they were bolder and dared to go out of the city to fight, the outcome would be uncertain.

Therefore, Niza, who had been unsuccessful in siege these days, had to pin his hopes on reinforcements from Aix. He was inevitably disappointed when he saw that Aix only brought a mere 300 cavalrymen.