The Khorasan cavalry rushed forward desperately, and they did not dare to stop at all, because the longer they stayed, the greater the losses they would suffer, so even if there was a sea of swords and fires in front of them, they would have to rush over desperately, as long as they rushed over, they would have a greater hope of survival.

A large number of tripping horses are ahead, and the most feared thing about the war horses is the tripping horses, as long as the legs of the war horses are tripped by the tripping horses, then, the war horses will be completely wasted, and even directly lead to the violent death of these war horses.

Therefore, since ancient times, the tripping horse rope has been a killer weapon against cavalry, and there is really no war horse that can shake the power of the trip horse rope.

There are very few examples of rushing towards the tripwire even though they know that there is a tripwire ahead, but the Khorasan cavalry has been cornered, and they must rush over.

The three soldiers with long weapons in their arms took off their armor and rushed over at an accelerated pace, they wanted to cut the tripwire in front of them in one fell swoop, opening up a way for the soldiers and horses behind to escape.

There is a certain risk in this work, they must cut the rope very accurately in advance, if the reaction speed is a little slow, it will be very fatal, and it will definitely fall to the ground with people and horses.

The rope that acted as a tripwire was in front of them, and the Khorasan cavalry who rushed to the front could not pull too far from the team behind, which gave them not enough time to break the rope, so they could only rush over and slash.

The three warriors raised their spears and picked up the rope at the moment when they were close to the tripping horse, and they did pick the rope, but unfortunately the rope was a relatively strong hemp rope, and if they used a sharp spearhead, it was possible to break the rope, but the time was pressing, and they were more nervous, so the head of the spear was not aimed at the rope, but the body of the gun picked up the rope, and the sharpness of the body of the gun was not enough to break the strong hemp rope.

The speed of the war horse gallop is relatively fast, since the rope was not broken once, then, there will be no second chance, the war horse directly crashed into the rope, and even the people and horses fell heavily on the ground, and can no longer move.

The three cavalrymen in front were not very far from the cavalry behind, so there were always some cavalrymen who did not have time to react, so they collided with the cavalry in front of them, causing a series of rear-end incidents, causing many cavalry to fall off their horses.

The Khorasan cavalry continued to suffer blows, and the losses were already extremely heavy, and after the tripping rope, they again inflicted heavy casualties, which made the remaining Khorasan cavalry even less.

Every time they pass through a tripline, many cavalrymen will fall from their horses, and not all of them are clear, and some are buried in the ground, and the horses will also trip if they are not careful.

The cavalry archers and horses deployed a lot of stumbling ropes, which caused at least 200 casualties to the attacking Khorasan cavalry, and in the end less than 200 cavalry rushed out, and almost all of them were wounded.

When a thousand cavalry archers and horses chased out of the valley, they saw a large number of Khorasan cavalry in front, in this case, if they continued to pursue, it would be more dangerous, and the cavalry archers and horses were not invincible forever, besides, they had been fighting for so long, and the soldiers and horses were very tired, and it was time to rest.

"General Tang, the enemy army has come with a bigger wave, do you want to attack again and strive to destroy more enemies."

The bearded generals were addicted, after all, in two consecutive battles, they annihilated at least a thousand Khorasan cavalry, which was equal to their strength, which filled everyone with confidence.

The Tang junior general said: "We can't fight anymore, our soldiers are already very tired, besides, you should check carefully, how many arrows we have left." ”

"It's not much, I only have fifteen arrows left, haha, what a fun shot just now! On average, we have killed one enemy per soldier, and we have won a great victory! ”

The bearded general was so happy that he was a little trembling when he spoke.

The young general of the Tang Dynasty said: "The main force of the enemy army still has two miles of land, what we have to do now is to consolidate the results of the battle, and eliminate all the wounded enemy cavalry in the valley, in addition, all the war horses that can be used are taken away, of course, there are also enemy weapons, if you can take them, you must also take some away, quickly." ”

"Good idea, but if the enemy has anything of value on him, he can't keep it, he must take it with him."

The bearded lord will be delighted.

The Tang junior nodded and said, "That's nature, how can you let go of something valuable?" However, we are running out of time, we must hurry, we must leave before the main forces of the enemy enter the valley, and we must not let them catch up. ”

"Okay, it won't be."

The bearded general gave the order to return to the valley and shoot the Khorasan cavalry that was not dead along the way, and then pick up a large number of items of interest, including of course, the arrows stuck in the Khorasan soldiers, which were their weapons, the most important thing that kept them alive.

After completing their mission, the cavalry retreated and ran farther away, and for at least two days they would not attack again, they would have to rest well, and then continue to harass and deplete the Khorasan cavalry in this way.

Of course, the greater role of these cavalry archers was to combat the logistical forces of the Khorasan cavalry, rather than to devote too much energy to confronting the main Khorasan forces.

When more of the Khorasan cavalry rushed over, they saw a very miserable scene, their soldiers had lost nearly a thousand men in a very short time, and the opponent was only a thousand men, and the loss was too great.

Eight thousand elite cavalry, so easily annihilated a thousand people, the general in charge of the cavalry is not only very angry, but also very afraid, such a tragic result, he does not know how to report to his superiors, is it so honest, said that the thousand cavalry under his command was completely annihilated by the other party's thousand cavalry, and the other party has almost no losses.

If this is really the case, it is estimated that Abu *** will not let him be flayed alive, at least he will not be allowed to continue to command the army.

"General, the enemy cavalry has fled, they are so hateful that they actually killed all the wounded soldiers of our army."

The injured youngster shouted angrily.

"It's not all your fault, who let you make your own decisions and lead a thousand troops to pursue the enemy, now it's okay, our army has lost more than a thousand, how do you let me explain to the general."

The general said angrily.

"General, the enemy army has 6,000 people, sneak attack on our army in the valley, our army struggles to resist and kill 1,000 enemies, and there are 1,000 descendants, so report, the general will be fine."

The young general said.

"Can you really report like that?"

"Why not, our army will pay attention next time, it will not suffer heavy losses, if we don't report it like this, we will be unlucky."

"Alright! That's it, it's just a report, however, it still has to be changed, it can't be said so exaggerated, a small defeat can show that we have encountered a strong enemy, just say that our army 1,300 cavalry patrols, encountered 3,000 enemy cavalry, our army fought hard, but the enemy army has a large number of people, and equipped with advanced heavy crossbows in the Tang Dynasty, our army has lost nearly 1,000 people, and the enemy has lost more than 500, yes, just report like this, the general has any dissatisfaction, I will bear it. ”

The general has already made up his mind, he doesn't dare to report too fake, after all, the enemy's cavalry is less than 10,000 in total, and moreover, scattered in many positions, how can most of them run to one place, all 3,000 is more reasonable, and there is the enemy's losses, saying 500 is about the same, if the enemy is described as too weak, in case it causes the rest of the soldiers and horses to underestimate the enemy, the consequences will be more serious.

In the camp of Abu *** not far north of Ar City, the main general Abu *** and his subordinate Ziyad are watching the heavy transport vehicles that have just been manufactured, these transport vehicles are not much different from the previous transport vehicles, the only difference is that the wooden surface of the transport vehicle is inlaid with a layer of iron sheet, in addition, in order to further improve the fire resistance of the vehicle, some cotton is sandwiched between the iron sheet and the wood.

These cotton is not for shock absorption, not for warmth, but for fire prevention, yes, cotton is a flammable material, used for fire prevention does make people feel a little strange, but that is because many people take it for granted that cotton should be dry, but cotton can also be wet, and cotton water absorption is very good, as long as enough water is injected into the cotton in the sandwich, then, it can play a very good fire and temperature insulation effect.

Ziyad was really scared, the previous fire caused him a great shock, so he decided to develop a transport vehicle that was not afraid of fire, so he asked to wrap cotton that could absorb water under the iron sheet, so that it would be difficult for the soldiers defending the city to destroy the transport vehicle and ensure that they could fill the moat smoothly.

"General, the soldiers and horses in the south encountered the enemy's large-scale cavalry, lost more than 1,000 soldiers, and destroyed only 500 enemies, and they reported that the enemy's cavalry was well-equipped, and the range of the hard crossbow far exceeded that of our army, so our army suffered so much and fought a defeated battle."

A subordinate in charge of chores spoke.

"How did you do it, how could there be such huge casualties."

Abu *** looked angry, which was his habitual reaction.

"General, the enemy's cavalry and archery soldiers and horses are indeed more elite, our elite guards, not also suffered dozens of casualties, they use bows and crossbows against the enemy, when the strength is superior, they rush up to shoot, and the troops are weak and flee, so, our army is indeed more passive."

Ziyad said a fair word.

"Forget it, isn't it just a loss of a thousand soldiers and horses? Leave him alone, what we have to do now is to break through Artic, as long as we break through Arcity, we can deal a severe blow to Artik's arrogance. ”

Abu *** spoke.

"General, the fireproof transport truck is almost ready, and it will be able to attack the city tomorrow."

Ziyad said.

"Great, tomorrow, I'd like to see how the defenders of Arl deal with our fire-fighting transports."

Abu said arrogantly.

At this time, the soldiers defending Ar City are also making all kinds of necessary defensive preparations, although they have thwarted the attacks of Abu ***'s army many times, but they dare not relax their vigilance, because no one can figure out what good siege methods the attacking enemy army will come up with, in case the attacker comes up with more powerful offensive weapons, how should they deal with it?

To this end, the defending soldiers made more meticulous preparations, they prepared more rolling logs and stones, and at the same time prepared more fire oil, ready to attack the enemy army besieging the city at any time.

All the resources in the city will have to serve the defense of the city, because as long as the city falls, everyone will be killed by the enemy, for this reason, no one dares to stop the soldiers from collecting all kinds of materials to defend the city, and even, the people in the city have to help carry all kinds of materials to defend the city.

The small number of Tang soldiers in front will send the news back to Aden City as soon as possible, so that Li An can judge the current form and make the most correct choice.

At this time, the construction of the school in Aden City has been completed, many local children have been enrolled in classes, and Li An has gradually taken control of Aden City, even ordinary merchants and ordinary people are all comfortable feeling that Datang is the master of this land.

Don't talk about family and country feelings, let alone patriotism, where will ordinary people understand this, and no one is specifically responsible for teaching this, moreover, most of the people in Aden City are businessmen, and they are a group of people who value profit and ignore righteousness, it is impossible to expect them to have patriotic feelings, what they care about will always be interests, as long as the Tang Dynasty can give them greater benefits, then, they will support the Tang Dynasty, as for who this city should belong to, they don't care at all.

Therefore, Ang Lee easily obtained the very important city of Aden City with almost no effort, and in order to make Aden City an important base for the Tang Dynasty in the future, Ang Lee also made various transformations to Aden City, such as adding a new port nearby to cope with the increasing number of merchant ships entering and leaving in the future.

"Li Shilang, the war report from the north has arrived, Artik has really lived up to expectations, he has repelled two attacks of Abu *** in a row, and the cavalry and archers have also fought a big victory, which can be regarded as a good start."

The subordinate took out the information from the pigeon's calf and handed it to Li An with his own hands.

Li An looked at the battle report, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "The situation is developing well, as long as Artik can block Abu *** and let the other party retreat, in the future, the peninsula will be an independent country, and such a fragmented dismemberment of Arabia will only have benefits and no harm for our Tang Empire." ”

"Li Shilang, the vanguard has arrived on the peninsula, when will we leave?"

The subordinate asked.

Li An said: "Soon, after three or five more days of rest in the city of Aden, we will go north along the Red Sea to see the suitable place for the construction of the Grand Canal." ”