Unknown Knight

Soon, under the pressure of the Niza army's shield formation, the divided and surrounded coalition forces of the three princes were pressed to the limit.

Thinking of the consequences they were about to face, some unwilling people even roared to the sky. Just as they were about to push these desperate people to the point of recklessness, someone suddenly shouted from within the shield formation:

"Sultan Niza has issued an order that all of you rebels have been coerced and instigated by the rebellious princes. For your own selfish gains, you have colluded with the Kugits and sold out national interests and land. You are truly traitors to Sarande and the public enemy of every Sarande.

Now, as long as you lay down your weapons and surrender, obey the orders of Niza Sultan, and become his soldiers, the Sultan will forgive your past mistakes and give you a chance to reform. If you still resist, you will be killed immediately! "

These words were like a breath of fresh air to the travelers who were almost dying of thirst in the desert. They gave them hope of life and immediately destroyed the fighting spirit of most of the night raiders. They obediently laid down their weapons and raised their hands in surrender.

Some diehards made loud noises and tried to encourage everyone to fight to the death to break out of the encirclement, but they were quickly disarmed by the people around them and taken to the shield formation of the Niza army.

Just like that, a night raid that the three princes thought could turn the tide of the battle and turn defeat into victory ended so abruptly.

The three princes hiding in the watchtower on the city wall felt inexplicably terrified. They only faintly heard a noisy clamor from the elite troops who were attacking at night, and then everything soon returned to calm.

The expected sounds of hacking and screaming did not come out at all, not to mention the burning of the camp after the successful night attack. The three princes were so terrified that they did not dare to open the city gates, let alone send troops to attack Niza's camp.

After dawn, the three princes, who had not dared to sleep all night, stared with red eyes in the watchtower, carefully observing Niza's camp in the distance, with disbelief on their faces.

They clearly saw that the Niza camp in the distance had hardly changed from yesterday. People were busy coming in and out, building the camp in an orderly manner.

The key point was that they could not see any signs of fighting, such as mess, burning, blood, corpses, etc. The 600 elite soldiers who participated in the night attack seemed to have evaporated from the face of the earth, leaving no trace, and no one knew where they had gone.

An inexplicable fear arose in the hearts of the three princes, making them tremble with fear and never dare to think about leaving the city to fight again.

The reason why such an effect was achieved was all due to Aix's work. On the way to Dukuba, he had already thought of a strategy for how to deal with the current situation.

In fact, there is nothing new. There are countless similar cases in our five thousand years of history. Any Chinese who has read a little bit of books may be able to come up with these strategies, let alone Aix's enhanced brain.

Previously, Niza's army alone could not defeat the three coalition forces. Although they lost their composure when retreating from Kafra Castle because their base was stolen and were pursued by the light cavalry led by Jeb, and lost all their equipment, supplies, and temporarily recruited militiamen and laborers, most of their core forces were still there.

This is also the main reason why Niza failed to capture Dukuba City despite a great victory. Once the three princes react, they will most likely go out of the city to counterattack, and the outcome will be uncertain at that time.

So when Aix arrived at Niza's camp, he had already prepared a strategy to confuse the enemy. This tactic was very common in Chinese history, and the most famous one was when Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang.

Aix learned from this treacherous minister and, like him, selected some of the elite troops from Niza's army. They would sneak out of the camp every night and then enter the camp in a grand manner during the day. He repeated this for several days, giving the three princes the feeling that their reinforcements were constantly coming in.

In order to prevent the three princes from being pushed into a corner and making them desperate to rush out of the city for a decisive battle, and to make them confused about their true strength, Aix deliberately deceived and exposed a flaw, making the coalition of the three princes think that there was an opportunity and luring them out of the city for a sneak attack.

Specifically, they used the unfinished camp as a pocket to give the enemy the illusion of an opportunity, so that they would take the risk of launching a night attack.

So for several days in a row, Aix left the newly built camp unfinished, leaving a gap, like an open pocket, waiting for the enemy to rush in.

As Aix had expected, the three princes in the city saw that troops were coming to support Niza every day. They believed that if things continued like this, they would surely be defeated, and they were all panicked.

Once they discovered any flaw in the Niza army, they would definitely take action as if they were grabbing a life-saving straw, which led to the night attack by 600 elite soldiers.

After this defeat, the coalition forces of the three princes retreated to the city of Dukuba and never dared to fight outside the city again.

They also sent several groups of envoys to the camp in the name of peace talks.

One is to spy on the situation and see when Niza will launch another attack on the city.

One reason was to delay time, under the guise of surrender, hoping to postpone Niza's siege of the city. In fact, they still placed their hopes on their allies, the Khergit army led by Saiga Khan. As long as they could reach the city of Shariz, Niza would have to choose to retreat.

However, these envoys were all turned away. Niza Sultan seemed very determined and did not see any envoys at all. He only sent a message to his three brothers, saying that there was nothing to talk about and asked them to wash their necks and wait in the city.

In fact, as early as the night when Aix arrived at Niza's camp, after communicating with Aix, Niza obeyed Aix's arrangements and set off at full speed with a cavalry team of 100 people.

He was now heading to the last stop of his journey, the city of Barie.

Along the way, the new Sultan entered castles and passed through cities, stayed in villages and villages, and stayed for some time in every Sarand village and every chief's castle fortress along the way.

The purpose was to preach to every Sarand person along the way and tell ordinary Sarand people about the shameless behavior of his three brothers.

Make all Sarranids believe that they are selling out national interests for their own selfish interests, colluding with the Khergit Khanate to attack their country and occupy their land. They are traitors to the Sarranids, and every Sarranid should stand up against them.

At the same time, whenever he arrived at a place, Niza would summon the local chiefs who stayed behind in the name of the Sultan, and tell them that the three princes of Nubia and others had been besieged in the city of Dukuba by his royal army. Now they were like locusts after autumn, and they would not be able to fly for a few days. He would soon win, and hoped that these remaining chiefs would recognize the situation and take the initiative to join his camp.

Niza also promised them in the name of the Sultan that as long as they fully supported him, even if some members of their family had joined the rebellious prince's army, he would forgive them for their sake.

Some time ago, Niza won a great victory over the coalition of three princes. After so much time, the remaining chiefs have learned the news from the sporadic escaped militiamen or travelers and merchants. They are afraid of being liquidated in the future and are worried about what to do.

Now that Niza Sultan has come in person to show his goodwill, it is undoubtedly like handing them a pillow when they are sleepy, which is of course what they want most.