Kabul riverbank!

As always, shouts of killing rang out on both sides of the riverbank.

The Arab soldiers ran along the riverbank, killing the east bank of the Kabul River with some fanaticism.

Today, there is no need for boats and other means of crossing the river.

After a year and a half of offensive and defensive battles, the most tragic and frequent part of the Kabul River battle was unconsciously filled in half a year ago.

Countless rocks, broken boats, broken weapons, and corpses of both sides piled up into a dam that blocked the Kabul River.

Pei Min has always thought that some similar passages in the book have decorative exaggerations: for example, Xiang Yu Pengcheng attacked Liu Bang, Xiang Yu pursued the Han deserters to Suishui east of Lingbi, beheaded more than 100,000 Han troops, and forced them to flee into Suishui.

Another example is Cao Cao's Xuzhou Massacre, in which hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou were killed, and Surabaya was not flowing.

It wasn't until the battle with Mosley Massa that Pei Min really realized what it meant to be "water doesn't flow".

Even though Pei Min has been in the army for more than ten years, he can't help but be shocked when he sees the scene in front of him,

Now the Arabs threw a layer of sand and wooden planks on it to build an improvised bridge.

The Arab soldiers were able to come directly across the river, avoiding the landing battle across the river, which greatly weakened the advantage of the Tang army.

This is also the reason why Pei Min is struggling more and more hard.

is also because of this, Pei Min has no time to take care of other things, and he can't even take care of his family letters, let alone other things.

Today, Pei Min came to the battlefield again in person, watching the Arab soldiers rushing over without fear of life and death, and had to admit that it is not for nothing that in just 80 years, Arabia has become the largest country in the world across the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa.

The excellent military system has created a group of wolf-like warriors, and they have also been baptized and brainwashed by faith, and their will to fight is particularly firm.

This is something that even the Tang Army can't compare.

The Confucian idea of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism is still inferior to that of the faith warriors cultivated by the church.

Tough soldiers, coupled with the belief that they are not afraid of death, make them turn into monsters who do not know what to retreat and fear, and only know how to charge and fight to the death.

It is not surprising that Arabia has a present day.

It is also because of such soldiers that Pei Min will keep pressing and beating.

But today!

"Up!"

Pei Min watched that the Arab soldiers were about to cross the wooden bridge and prepare to land on the beach, and gave an unprecedented order to attack.

For the first time in a year, the defense turned to offense.

"Kill!"

The first general on the Tang Army's side is Kendrick.

This descendant who was born in Sparta in the West was one of the first people to follow Pei Min.

As early as when Pei Min first led the troops to command the defense of Jincheng, he formed an indissoluble bond with him.

Since then, he has been Pei Min's foot soldier in commanding the Shence Army.

Kendrick was a generalist in the West, because his father lost to Arabia, and wandered into a mercenary, and he was extremely famous in the Western mercenary community.

After joining the Shence Army, Kendrick taught the soldiers the sword and shield techniques he had honed on the battlefield, and also taught the tactics of the West.

After losing to Li Siye, this warrior with Spartan blood also knew the truth that there are people outside the world and there are heavens outside the sky, and worked hard to learn the fighting skills of the East, integrating the strengths of the East and the West, and training a strong pawn.

Kendrick has not had any great achievements over the years, but his role is unquestionable.

The sword and shield soldiers lack their own specialties and are very mediocre in all aspects.

However, no specialty means no weakness, and moderation equals omnipotence.

As a balanced offensive and defensive force, mountain warfare, water warfare, land warfare, and forest warfare are golden troops.

The value of the Sword and Shield Soldier at a critical time is often more useful than that of special classes that are built with a lot of money.

For example, now, the wooden bridge with gravel, sand, soldiers, and corpses is not smooth, crooked, and if you slip under your feet, you may fall into the river.

Cavalry and heavy infantry are obviously not suitable for fighting in this kind of field, but the light and flexible sword and shield soldiers can perfectly exert their strength.

Kendrick and his men were brisk on their feet, but they could walk as fast as they could on the crooked wooden bridge.

They strapped their long shields to their chests and, in a phalanx, crashed directly into the Arab soldiers.

The shields of the Tang Dynasty were not the round shields of the West, nor the kind of large shields that could cover the whole person, but long shields in the shape of inverted triangles, which were generally large in size and could protect most of the sides from the shoulders to the feet. And because of the inverted triangle relationship, the narrow lower part will not get stuck when used, and you can flexibly change the attack left and right.

This kind of shield is particularly powerful with the horizontal sword of the Tang Dynasty.

And the center of the shield absorbs the characteristics of the Western shield, and in the heart is inlaid with a protruding point, which can be used to cover the attack.

When they collided, both sides shook and stood unsteadily.

At this moment, the front of the Tang army took a step back.

The soldier in the rear, who had not participated in the impact, strode forward, waved the horizontal knife in his hand, and slashed at the soldier whose center of gravity was unstable for the impact.

The combination of the front team and the back team is seamless.

"Kill!"

As soon as Kendrick stabilized his body, he immediately exerted his value as a commander.

He was as nimble as a leopard, jumped high, used the shield in his left hand to smash a person in front of him to the ground, stepped on his chest, twisted it hard, and the Tang knife in his right hand pierced a person's chest, pulled down, and directly came to a disembowelment.

Kendrick's original weapon was a red knife captured from Tibet.

But since he had seen Tang Hengdao, he directly abandoned his favorite treasure knife and used Tang Hengdao instead.

In the era of cold weapons, the Tang horizontal knife was almost the pinnacle of props, and even the famous Damascus knife in the West during the same period could not be compared.

Tang Hengdao is also the armor breaking of the sword, and the lethality of the knife is the two major effects, and it is undoubtedly a unique weapon on the battlefield in the short-handed battle.

Kendrick turned out to be a mercenary, and most of the mercenaries in the West were hired by the state to fight for their lives on the battlefield, and they were particularly experienced in combat.

After hundreds of kills, Kendrick has his own set of fighting concepts, ferocious!

The more fierce you behave, the more fearful your enemies will be of you, and the better your chances of survival.

Therefore, Kendrick's shot is not only to kill the enemy, but also to cause a visual shock.

After a knife was disemboweled, someone had already swung a knife at him.

Kendrick flipped his wrist and directly cut off the enemy's right hand, and then held Tang Heng's knife high and stabbed it through the enemy's mouth, twisting his wrist and picking it up.

The faces of the enemy soldiers were all smashed, and the brains and brains were splattered everywhere......

After Kendrick killed the enemy with a single sword, he did not hesitate to protect his body with a shield and avoid the deadly sneak attack.

He pressed the shield down, and the swords of the two attacking people were overwhelmed under the shield, Tang Hengdao swung out fiercely, and the two big heads rose to the sky.

Kendrick's brutal, quick, and effective way of killing made the Arab soldiers quite fearful.

It is true that Arab soldiers were brainwashed by their faith and sacrificed their lives on the battlefield, but fear is human nature.

They instinctively avoided Kendrick and went left and right.

This gave Kendrick the opportunity to tear apart the enemy line.

Kendrick humbly accepted the military training of Huaxia, knew how to grasp the fighters, and launched a strong attack without hesitation.

On the two-zhang long wooden bridge, the soldiers of the 2,000 Shence Army stunned the 5,000 Arab soldiers who rushed to the beach and landed, and pressed them back one after another.

The general who commanded the Arab offensive was none other than Abu al-Muslim, a famous Arab general who was also confused.

After a year-long duel, Abu Muslim subconsciously thought that this was another fierce landing battle.

Their Arab warriors pushed the battle line to the east bank of the Kabul River with their undaunted fighting prowess.

Then the two sides started a battle for every inch of land.

The blood of their Arab warriors almost stained the beach on the east bank of the Kabul River red, and although they had a certain advantage in numerical combat strength, they could not attack in one breath at every critical moment.

Today's Tang army unexpectedly launched a counter-charge, and with only 2,000 soldiers, it was difficult to beat his 5,000 front troops, so that they retreated step by step.

Abu Muslim's face was bruised, how could he not see that the Tang army in front of him was similar to the one he had encountered before.

The previous Tang Army, except for the Hexi and Longyou armies, was inferior to them in terms of combat effectiveness, especially the soldiers of the Western Regions, which were even more ridiculous.

If it weren't for their defensive advantage, their Arab warriors would have been as easy to kill as they were to chop melons and vegetables.

But now the army in front of him is actually stronger than the strong soldiers under his command.

"Maybe only the Lion King's lion army can fight against it?"

Looking at the terrifying combat effectiveness displayed by the Tang Army today, Abu Muslim had some heart palpitations.

At the same time, Abu Muslim's mouth was bitter, knowing that he was underestimating the enemy.

Originally, even if they were defeated, they would not be so unbearable.

It was really because he had been pressing the Tang Army for a year in a row, and he had already despised the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army in his heart.

Especially the Hexi and Longyou armies, which were not many under Pei Min's command, were tired and lost in the firefighting. Even the elite of the strong soldiers, which are not inferior to the Arab army, are not enough for various reasons.

directly led to his habitual strong attack, intending to compete with the Tang army on the other side of the river, but he didn't want the Tang army to attack directly, which caught him off guard.

In this white-knuckle melee fight, the Arab soldiers are more than one grade inferior to the Divine Army, both in terms of armor and weapons.

As the son of the Tang Dynasty, the armament of the Shence Army is on par with the Forbidden Army of the Son of Heaven.

Not to mention the martial arts and formation, at this time, the Shence army was in groups of five or six, either defending with shields or slashing with knives, like mowing grass, the Arab soldiers who had already shown defeat were constantly chopping down and falling into the water from the Kabul River, and the blood stained the river in large areas.

Arabia, which had already lost the lead, had already shown a rout under the strong strength of the Shence Army, but in just half an hour.

The 2,000 Shence army directly drove the 5,000 Arab soldiers and horses back to the west bank of the Kabul River.

Pei Min watched his most proud pawn show his might, and finally felt comfortable in his heart, and vented the grievances in his heart these days.

Seeing that Kendrick had the intention of grabbing the beach and landing, Pei Min hurriedly called Jin to withdraw his troops.

He didn't mean to attack it.

Kendrick calmly retreated as he dismantled the wooden bridge.

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Abu Muslim pleaded guilty to Mosremassa.

"Lion King, his subordinates are incompetent, and he has fallen for Pei Min's calculations!"

Mosley Massa didn't mean to blame, not only the beloved general in front of him, even he himself made mistakes many times, and the title of Chang Sheng was given away, how could he have the face to blame, but frowned and said: "So, the Tang Army reinforcements have arrived?" Much faster than we imagined, damn Tibet, incompetent. ”

At this moment, they naturally knew that the battle at Qinghai Lake ended in a complete victory for the Tang army.

As for Pei Min's transfer of troops to Qinghai Lake, this has long been expected by Mosley Massa.

It's just that based on the strength information of both sides, they judged that it would take at least half a month for the Tang army to reach the Kabul River.

But I didn't want reinforcements to be half a month in advance.

"Probably not, only to a small part!"

Abu Muslim analyzed bitterly: "Qinghai Lake is a road to the Western Regions, but the road is very steep, the mountains go down the mountain, it is difficult to walk, and only light foot soldiers can cross it in a short time. I heard that Pei Min's Shence Army is brave and unmatched, but just a few thousand people can overwhelm the people of the three armies and kill the generals of 10,000 people, today's battle, nine times out of ten, it is the Shence Army......"

Mosley Massa said solemnly: "How about with my lion army?" ”

Abu Muslim hesitated for a moment and said, "It's comparable." ”

Mosley Massa was silent for a long time.

The two remained silent for a long time.

Abu Muslim said after a long while: "Tibet is defeated, and our army is afraid that it will be difficult to seize the Western Regions." ”

Mosley Massa didn't say a word.

Abu Muslim continued tremblingly: "There are quite complaints in the hinterland of Tianzhu, and they seem to have been persuaded by the Tang Army to make trouble in the rear. Byzantium is also a little ready to move, and the Franks seem to have sent troops to regain lost territory......"

"Despicable!"

Mosley Massa popped out of his mouth for a long time, and he could think that this was Pei Min's trick.

From the very beginning, this guy who regarded himself as an opponent had no intention of fighting with him in a righteous and bright manner, but kept playing small tricks that he couldn't prevent, causing him a lot of trouble.

Maybe it's time to retreat!

Don't say it, Mosley Massa is like a mirror in his heart, he lost this battle, and he lost it in terms of layout from the beginning.

At this moment, Moslemassa suddenly received news that the Tibetan envoy had asked to see him.

Mosley Massa felt irritable in his heart, if it weren't for the incompetence of Tubo, the defeat was so complete, so that Pei Min received effective support.

He has absolute confidence that he will be able to win the next winter.

"Nope!"

Mosley Massa refused, and immediately gave a face.

Abu Muslim also knew that his boss was angry and did not dare to say anything.

Then, just as the herald soldiers conveyed the situation, they heard the voice of the Tibetan envoy: "Lion King, I have a plan to break the Tang Dynasty." ”