At dawn, the Great Eater Vizier (Prime Minister) Kalkin straddled a white horse and patrolled along the river with three hundred horsemen. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The minmen were collecting the corpses, and since the end of the battle they have been busy by the river, all night (an agreement was reached with the Tang army), and there are still many corpses.

Yesterday in the first battle, a full 30,000 people died, so many people died, and there were actually corpses piled up at a meander, and people could step on the river to cross the river!

In fact, there were some bold people who stepped on the corpse to collect the corpse, less than three meters from the opposite bank!

Only a little more than 2,000 wounded were lucky enough to escape, and at least 5,000 died of their wounds: bleeding dry, infected and feverish.

The Tang army on the opposite side also sent troops to inspect, and they were cool and unscathed, except for some people who twisted their tendons too hard, they only needed to wipe some bone-setting wine.

"We can't attack like this!" Kalkin went to the royal tent to see the caliph and said.

Janissary General Hassan retorted: "Continuing to maintain pressure on the Tang, we march quickly, do not stop for a moment, and occupy their Ili River before winter comes." ”

"I'm not saying not to attack, but to wait for our baggage to arrive, assemble the catapult and then attack!" Culkin explained: "The catapults of the Don are too much of a threat to us. ”

The Great Food Army came from afar, and it was not easy to transport, and the catapult belonged to heavy equipment and had not yet arrived.

The caliph groaned, the strength of the Tang army, he really understood, the attack will definitely lead to heavy casualties.

However, not attacking will demoralize and prolong the war, resulting in heavy pressure on logistics and supplies. . . Of course, when there are many deaths, morale is even lower.

Nasser, the governor of Khorasan who accompanied the army, proposed: "Send cavalry to both sides of the river, look for the gaps in the enemy's defense, and cross the river." At the same time, priority transport catapults are arriving! ”

The caliph adopted his advice and waited for an opportunity along the river to urge the rear army to catch up.

In the following days, the two sides confronted each other across the river, and the wind and waves were calm.

There were no night battles, which were not easy in those days, and many people suffered from night blindness (lack of vitamins) due to malnutrition, making it difficult to fight.

The troops going to both ends were followed by the cavalry of the Tang Army, but they were never able to cross the river.

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Under strict orders, the catapults of the Great Food Army finally arrived in five days to get all of them, and they found that the Tang army had cleverly set up their camp tents outside the firing range, so they attacked head-on under the cover of catapults.

Led by the caliph and after a religious ritual to encourage morale, the army swarmed around the catapult and headed down the river.

Their catapults, tall and magnificent, well-made, have a long range, and are also counterweight-type, twelve-meter-long rockers that can project a hundred-pound object to a distance of three hundred meters.

After all, the two river basins, the Persians and the Arabs are civilized regions, with historical heritage and better technology.

Therefore, when a full 200 catapults were test-fired, the stone bullets whistled and the fire bombs raged, and the Tang army had only a small number of light cavalry along the river, and did not dare to enter the attack range of the catapults.

In this way, the arrows that attacked the Great Food Army crossing the river were a little inadequate.

The Great Eater marched forward with a drum, shouting and shouting, striding into the water, braving the arrows above their heads, and forcing their way across the river!

The officers took the lead, taking the lead, and their subordinates followed without hesitation, jumping into the water like dumplings, and their bravery can be seen.

The arrows of the Tang army became more and more dense, and the throwing stones and fire bombs flying from the sky also continued to fall, falling into the army formation of the Great Food Army, setting off bursts of bloody wind and rain.

Although people kept falling, the Great Food Army withstood the fierce attack and got closer and closer to the other side of the river.

Finally, they set foot on the riverbank.

The trebuchet of the Great Food Army extended its fire to attack the path of the arrival of the Tang army's reinforcements.

The first to reach the river bank were the infantry units, and the cavalry of the Don Army fired fierce arrows along the edge of their formation, and the big cannibals braved the rain of arrows to advance in depth.

They were now mostly sword and shield soldiers, mixed with a small number of archers, and they did not care, but only forwarded.

Forward, forward, not stopping, one by one, the soldiers of the Great Food Army, with their own lives, opened the gap, so that the comrades who followed up quickly expanded their own team, forcing the Tang cavalry away from the riverbank, and more troops boarded the other side of the river.

When noon came, the Great Food Army finally gained a foothold on the riverbank, and the formation was thick and indestructible!

The Tang army, which had already been prepared, calmly withdrew after pouring oil and burning the catapults that could not be taken away.

They also achieved more than 20,000 victories, and their own losses were insignificant.

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Finally broke the enemy's resistance and crossed the river!

The Great Cannibal shouted for victory, and only Vizier Kalgin looked thoughtfully at the Tang Army's catapult that had been burned to charcoal.

He sent someone to count, and the Tang army probably burned a hundred large catapults (counterweights) and two hundred small catapults!

Culkin also participated in military production, inspected the factory, and knew how difficult it is to produce a catapult, especially this kind of large-scale catapult, which requires a lot of materials and man-hours, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the "heart and soul baby" of the army.

But the Tang army said that it would be burned, one possibility is that the Tang army is afraid of taking them to catch up with the Great Food Army, and the other possibility is that the Tang army has a large number of catapults, which is not regrettable at all.

With the current strength of the Tang Army, Kalkin's preference is the latter possibility.

He couldn't help but marvel that he had a clearer understanding of the huge strength of the Tang Army.

"We must win this war!" Culkin secretly decided that it was not easy to assemble a million-strong army of the Empire, there could be no second time, and it was dangerous to drag on for a long time, and the war must end as soon as possible!

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The Great Food Army continued to advance, and the cavalry of the Tang Army came to intercept it in batches, mainly attacking and harassing, from morning to night, bows and arrows opened the way, and if the enemy saw that there were few people, then the saber PK.

The cavalry of the Tang Army, like a herd of lions besieging wildebeest and bison herds in the African steppes, constantly launched attacks and dragged prey out of the herd.

Of course, sometimes if you are unlucky, you will be torn to pieces by the Great Food Army.

The Tang army was extremely active, giving the Great Food Army continuous bloodletting, but the Great Food Army still advanced firmly, and their large Chinese army was still thick, as if it was indestructible.

They went hungry and starved, and saw an empty city, where nothing could be found, no personnel, no supplies, nothing in the fields, and the Tang army's fortified walls and clear fields were doing well.

Finally, we arrived at the Chu River Valley, where the water and grass were abundant and it was a good place to raise livestock.

There are also a large number of fields that have obviously been treated, leaving traces of the Tang people cultivating there.

Broken Leaf City (also known as Yezhou, I don't know if there will be Li Baibu)! Looking at the huge city across the water, the city was heavily fortified, and the eyes of the Great Food Army shot a blazing light - take the city, destroy the Tang Army, and then seize the nearby Issyk-Kul Lake (Atami), then the White Food will have a foothold in the East!