Section 739 Sustained Attacks

When the Great Food Army arrived, what they saw was a poignant scene: the sun was setting over the desert, and corpses were everywhere!

There were human bodies and horse corpses everywhere, weapons and supplies fell to the ground, and the ownerless horses were screaming at their masters, but their owners could no longer pay attention to them. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The golden flag was unfurled, and it was Caliph Abdul Malik, surrounded by a large number of generals and ministers, who personally inspected the scene.

Seeing the tragic situation in front of him, Abdul Malik's face turned pale, and when he knew that he had lost 8,500 cavalry, he couldn't help but clench his fists, snort coldly, and moved away, and the courtiers behind him hurriedly followed.

Former enemy commander-in-chief Kalkin said as he walked, a little embarrassed: "We have counted, and the Tang army has about five hundred horse corpses!" ”

Due to the abundance of time, the Tang army cleaned up the battlefield and took away all the dead in their own house, but the dead horses could not be taken away.

There were more than 500 people in the Tang army, but they were not necessarily all killed, and the Tang army would not die thousands anyway.

With such a ratio of one to ten, the Great Food Army was completely defeated!

No one who entered the Caliphate's tent was well-fed.

The Caliph's Imperial Tent has eight pillars, an area of more than 80 square meters, with silk on the top and carpets on the bottom, which is made of fine workmanship and is very luxurious.

Abdul Malik, who was sitting on the throne, pointed his finger and said: "Hassan, you say! ”

Hassan reported to everyone: "In the ten days since the dispatch of troops, the Tang army has eliminated more than 20,000 of our army, and the majority of the cavalry is 18,000 people, and their losses are less than 2,000!" ”

Suddenly, the people in the tent were shocked!

They also knew that there had been losses on the side, but they did not expect that the main forces of the two sides had not yet started the battle, and had been beaten piecemeal by the other side, resulting in the loss of 20,000 people, most of whom were cavalry.

20,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry are different categories, and in field battles, it is absolutely unambiguous that a good general dares to use 20,000 cavalry to fight 100,000 infantry.

The Tang Army is concentrating on dealing with the cavalry of the Great Food Army, and its heart is unpredictable!

“…… Their cavalry is so powerful that our Praetorian Guards can't afford it! Hassan said with a blank face.

The Arab horses of the Janissaries were fast, but when the Don army met the Janissaries, they shamelessly shot their horses.

They were so precise with their arrows that they shot even the fastest horses to their knees.

After all, before the arrival of the Great Food Army, the Tang Army specially conducted targeted training!

With headless arrows, they shoot at the fastest horses.

Focusing on high-speed moving targets, the effect is obvious, and when it comes in handy, the Arabian horses of the big food will be hated under the arrow!

The Tang Army's "large-scale production" is strong enough, and their Hexi horses are inferior to Arabian horses but faster than the native horses of the Great Food Army, and the cavalry of the Tang Army that went out on the expedition is equipped with a horse in the west of the river and three steppe horses (Mongolian horses) as standard.

The advantages of grassland horses are obvious, they are easy to raise, they can eat grass, they are hard-working, they have good endurance, and their tolerance to the cold is also much more than that of Hexi horses.

Their shortcomings are also obvious, they are not explosive enough, and they are much worse than Hexi horses in terms of weight.

Therefore, the ideal state is to charge the battle on a Hexi horse and march on a steppe horse.

However, most of the cavalry of the Tang Army bought an extra Hexi horse at their own expense, which was quite effective in continuous combat.

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The military council in the caliph's tent issued an order to strengthen the vigilance, requiring that the entry and exit should be a large number of people, even if they went to fetch water and mow grass, it was a multi-person action, and when the scouts saw that the Tang soldiers had a certain size, they fled far away.

Orders were carried out, the casualty rate decreased, but the consequences were a slowdown in the march, a decrease in information, and a demoralization of the army!

It's not a confession or something!

After the military discussion, Qasim and Rashid looked out together.

They were a pair of brothers and sisters, both of them were cut down and retained, and Rashid was defeated outside Baghdad, and only 10,000 of the 100,000 troops had to flee back, and suffered heavy losses, and were immediately swept to the end, if it were not for the vizier Karkin's protection, he would have almost been imprisoned.

Although Qasim did not lose his troops, he patronized the city, sat back and watched the Tang army rage, penetrated deep into the border, and removed all titles.

But he still led the troops, but Qasim was not optimistic about the attack of the army, and said: "The Tang army is waiting for us to come, they are waiting for work, and our army's chances of victory are not high." ”

"But your method of defending the city is useless!" Rashid said disappreciatively, and the two sighed.

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How could it be easy for a million-strong army to march with, and as they walked, they walked out of the deviation, and as a result, the scouts of the Tang army discovered that a 10,000-strong infantry team on the far right of the front army was coming forward, separated by the friendly troops on the side and the friendly troops in the rear.

Now the former commander-in-chief of the Tang Army is Tang Tian, she has been doing the work of sweeping the four realms and gathering the tribes before, and she has not received much success, and she doesn't care.

However, when the Great Food Army invaded, she immediately grabbed the position of the former enemy's commander and commanded 50,000 Tang troops to carry out the combat mission of delaying and consuming the Great Food Army.

"They camped ten miles away from their friendly forces, occupied a small hill, less than 50 meters high, and built a fortress around it."

"Hit him! Don't stop stressing on them. Tang Tian ordered categorically.

Although the opponent's 10,000 infantry is not a large force, it is ten miles away from friendly troops, and once friendly troops rush to support, it will also be troublesome.

"Ten miles apart, it's enough to block their reinforcements!" Tang Tian is a woman, and her pride is no worse than that of Xu Mei.

The generals are furious, hit him!

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This 10,000-strong brigade thought that it had tens of thousands of strong forces, and if the other party wanted to eat them, they would have to break a few teeth, and they had enough time to wait for the arrival of reinforcements.

Unexpectedly, at dawn, the Tang army roared in, so that they didn't even have time to pack up their tents, and even barely stayed in the camp.

Due to the lack of timber, the camp was not very tight, but a trench was dug outside the camp

The Tang army rushed to the outside of the camp like a whirlwind, and giving the Great Food Army was a "Ten Thousand Arrows" that they hated so much! ”

Arrows rained down, and the sky that had just dawned fell into darkness again, the strings kept turning and popping, and the sergeants who had not yet entered the battle position lay down.

"Tototo......" hit the shield like rain hitting plantains, and the big food army couldn't raise its head.

Then the darkness brought light, and the Don Army launched rockets!

It fell into the tent and immediately burst into flames.

What's more, the Tang Army used hand-thrown fuel bombs at close range, which is actually the indigenous version of the "Molotov cocktail"!

Molotov's cocktail is an earthen fuel bottle, the Great Mao invaded Finland, Finland has insufficient anti-tank guns and artillery, but to deal with the tanks of the Great Mao Country, so the Tufa is on the horse, using a glass bottle filled with gasoline, lit it and thrown it to attack the tank.

Similarly, Tang Jun also used a pottery bottle, which was filled with oil and sulfur, rosin, resin and other accelerants, and the two horses cooperated, one was lit with a torch, and the other was responsible for throwing it.

"Peng!" It smashed on the wood of the barracks and burned immediately.

For a time, thousands of clusters burned happily.

The big food army that burned the side of the camp pillar jumped around and had to open the door to fight.

However, the Tang army blocked the camp gate with arrows, and in the face of crossfire on both sides, the charging big food army took care of one or the other, and fell under the attack of the arrow rain, and the dead people at the camp gate were piled up half a person high!

The big food army in the camp has no way out, either it will be burned by the fire, or it will be shot by arrows, the blood is red, the fire is also red, and the whole camp has become a hell of flames!