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At least 100,000 Arab light cavalry from three angles 'approached' the Fujian army formation, using the same tactics as the rest of the empire to deal with the invading Roman legion Crassus army, the cavalry formed a circle formation, relying on the power of horses galloping back and forth to 'shoot' arrows violently, from the oriental animal tendons and horns and elastic 'sex' wood composite bow to play a powerful effect, and the Arab soldiers did not even need to aim, just throw 'shot' out against the huge Fujian war array.

In particular, it was close to Ctesiphon, and thanks to the hard work of the Bo's craftsmen, there were plenty of arrows to be transported by camels from the rear for the front-line soldiers.

Crassus conquered dozens of large and small countries and nationalities, the battle-hardened Roman legions in the Battle of Calais, was defeated by the light cavalry mobile plus long-range throwing 'shooting' of the Oriental nomadic cavalry, batches of Roman heavy infantry were directly nailed to the ground by arrows, a day of hard fighting did not even 'touch' the enemy's 'hair', the morale of the weakened Roman legions also began to break and flee, and finally was annihilated by the pursuing Parthians.

The tiger head round shield of the extended sword and shield hand formed a huge shield wall, which was beaten like a lotus leaf in the rainstorm under the dense arrow rain, and some of the shields even pierced hundreds of arrows, becoming heavy and abnormal, and some of the powerful arrows also 'shot' through the iron-clad tiger head shield, pierced on the arm of the Tang Army, and some people even bled like a note, and still held it under the Fujian * Ji, and from time to time there were arrows along the gap 'inserted', and one after another sergeants fell.

However, unlike the heavy infantry of the Roman legions that were passively beaten, the Fujian had the best weapon to deal with the nomads in the era of cold weapons, the crossbow!

Absorbing the experience of the Punjab regiment being beaten by the rain of arrows, the 'bed' crossbow that was pushed to the outside was covered by the thick folding shield wall, and the good arrows were not reached, so that the pangolin scale-like shielding shield was opened a little, and the enemy galloped horses, camels and camels violently 'shot', each time it could bring a place of blood, the well-trained crossbowmen wound under the cover of the shields of their comrades, and then 'shot' out of the gaps in the shield array, and the same bushes of crossbow arrows fell on the heads of the Arab light cavalry.

The Bedouin cavalry stationed in Iraq is not as rich as the Syrian army, and it is good for the average soldier to be equipped with a piece of leather armor, and the crossbow arrows pierce the crossbow arrows, almost to the 'flesh', and at every moment, the two sides of the 'warring' are suffering huge casualties.

However, if a good archer 'shoots' eleven to fourteen arrows in a row, his arms will be so tired that he can't lift them, and he needs to go down and rest for a long time, and the steel crossbow of the Tang army? The more powerful crossbow needs to pull the crossbow string with both hands and step on the crossbow arm with both feet on the arrow, the speed of 'shooting' is much slower than that of the bow, but the 'shooting' hand who evenly uses the strength of the whole body can 'shoot' twenty-three to twenty-five times, and the crossbowman who knows how to adjust the strength of breathing can keep more, and the crossbow arrow is far smaller than the bow and arrow, and the carrying capacity is more, and the Tang army crossbowman also has a shield wall protection, and the casualty rate is much less than that of the Arabs.

Of course, this is also based on the tenacity of the brave and warlike Tang army enough to hold the shield array under the desperate rain of arrows, if it was the later Song army and the late Ming army, it is estimated that it would have collapsed long ago.

In short, under such huge casualties, the Bedouin chieftains, the imam's great 'Mao' Lamen were distressed with blood, and the generals of the Fujian State also had their faces trembling with pain.

"Report! Your Highness, the left guard general Hei Tooth Changzhi asked for the sergeant's casualties to be too heavy, and asked His Highness to approve the use of the tiger squat cannon to return fire. ”

"Your Highness, the right prison 'gate' Zhonglang will start the blood of Lord Shapur, more than half of the casualties in the department, please ask Your Highness to quickly send the red-clothed cannon of Fujian to drive the enemy to help!"

One herald after another rushed back from the front line with sweat, kneeling in front of the command platform and pleading, standing through the Chinese military binoculars watching their troops tremble in pain under the rain of enemy arrows, Li Jie's cold face under the golden crown was also sweaty, but unfortunately, these requests were rejected by King Min with gritted teeth.

"The dead will be rewarded with a first-class knighthood, the military merits of the fighters will be doubled, and the wounded will be rewarded heavily, tell the soldiers to withstand the lonely!"

The first day of the battle turned into a contest of perseverance, one by one the heralds gritted their teeth and returned to the queue, and under Li Jie's will, the entire army was also gritting its teeth and persevering.

Although there was no short-handed battle, but the same cruel and bloody arrow battle finally ended at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, not that the Arabs could not bear it, but did not expect that the scale of the arrow battle would be so large on the first day, 200,000 light cavalry took turns to fight, Ctesiphon's arrow inventory was exhausted, and as a last resort, the Bedouin light cavalry finally withdrew from the bloody position on horseback, leaving a lot of corpses on the ground, countless horses and camels were nailed to the ground with short crossbow arrows with their masters, and the grass that had just grown on the steppe was trampled bald by the horses' hooves, The bright red liquid rendered the earth red, and some people and animals were even torn in two by the 'bed' crossbow.

When the army withdrew and returned to the camp, there were even imam chiefs howling and crying, and similarly, there were not a few injuries in Fujian, and the medical officers with red gourds tattooed on the back of Taoist uniforms commanded the sergeants to sweat profusely to carry one after another blood-stained soldiers back on stretchers.

Approaching sunset, the two huge armies no longer have any interest in fighting each other, they have set up camps on the spot, the remnants of the sun are like blood, one end is three bread copy, one nomadic felt bag tent is scattered, the huge herd is scattered in the west or south, the north is the rolling Tigris River, on the other side, from the Fujian Workshop one by one thickened canvas tents are also neatly planned like a chessboard, the outer circle of the camp, the sappers are tirelessly digging up the protective trench, at this time the Arabs did not have the heart to come to attackTens of thousands of sappers who had not gone into battle rolled up their sleeves together, and the soil of the Paris steppe was still loose and soft, and several wide and deep trenches were quickly formed.

Looking at the sweating of the Fujian people, the Arabs on the periphery couldn't help but be full of mockery, after all, they were farmers who cultivated the land, and they didn't forget to dig ditches wherever they went.

The Arabs, who had a great sense of superiority, had no idea that in a few days, these ditches they despised would become their nightmare, and every space in the ravines would need to be filled with flesh and blood.

In the evening, the smoke of cooking rose from both camps, and in the cauldron of dried dung of cows, horses, camels, and camels, the red dates and the "fat" mutton "meat" were thrown into it in large pieces, exuding a strong fragrance of "tempting", and finally their own chieftain was so generous, such a tough and nervous nomad, groups of Bedouins were waiting on the edge of the pot with drooling, and some even sang pastoral songs, completely forgetting the bloody battlefield.

Carrying the sunset, a team of Arab cavalry about 100 people with a green flag and no weapons to the Fujian * camp to ask for negotiations, received by Xiao Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, only talked about a stick of incense, the Fujian side accepted it, reached an agreement, under the vigilant surveillance of the Fujian State, more than 10,000 Arabs without weapons to the battlefield began to collect the corpses, whether broken, blood 'flesh' blurred or internal organs were carried back.

In the other direction from the battlefield, the dense north-south direction of a one-foot deep pit was dug by the nearby 'Bo' people, wrapped in a white cloth and buried on the spot, without even letting the family take a final look.

Although the traditional Confucian culture is the need to enter the ground for peace, but such a long-distance battle, or the hot Middle East, it is obviously unrealistic to bring the body back, just the Tianzhu Buddhists occupied by the Fujian State popular cremation, can bring the ashes back is also regarded as the "spirit" of the sustenance, so cremation in the army became popular, facing the red sunset, in the military Taoist priest or monk under the blessing, the northeast of the Fujian camp also turned into a red sea of fire.

"What, thirty thousand!"

Mu'awiyyah jumped up in disbelief in the majestic Islamic tent, the main camp of the Arab army, and he could never have imagined that with the best methods of warfare in the Arab Empire, the casualties on the first day would be so heavy.

The army of 300,000 is equivalent to one-tenth of the defeat, and if it continues like this, ten days later, he Mu'awiyah will become the commander of the light pole.

"There are indeed so many dead and seriously wounded together, and I don't know how many of the lightly wounded have died these days, and the caliphs, the imams of all the ministries and the sheikhs already have opinions, the war cannot be fought like this!"

Amur also said sadly, he didn't expect that the crossbow of the Tang people was so strong, and the combat effectiveness of the Tang people was so brave, and such an army was now an enemy of himself and hit near the capital of the Arab Empire, so the future of the empire was really unknown.

"The tribal chieftains of the Hejaz still refuse to respond?"

"They still do not recognize the authority of the caliphate and will not send troops." Amur said even more sadly.

The Arabs followed the four caliphs out of the desert of the Arabian Peninsula on a huge scale, and these people formed the main forces of Syria, Egypt, and Iraq today gathered under Mu'awiyah, but there are still a considerable number of Arabs who remained in the great desert and the Hejaz generation on the side of the Red Sea. These people refused to recognize Mu'awiyah as caliph and refused to come from the Arabian desert to help.

"These apostates, traitors to the Empire, deserve to be sent to Hell!" Muawiya couldn't help but lift the table even more furiously, smashing the tents of the Chinese army, starting with the crushing defeat under Constantinople, he became more and more unable to control his emotions.

Witnessing Mu'awiyah's crazy destruction, his face was 'cloudy' and sunny under the swaying of candlelight, but Amur did not dissuade him, but waited quietly, for a long time, the war report and food were knocked over the 'chaos' and 'chaos' everywhere, Mu'awiya calmed down, gasped and sat on the ground, and after a while, his wolf-like eyes 'shot' a fierce light again.

"Sent a message to the Governor of Kufa, Mukirai. Ibn let him take his army from the south to bypass the army of Min and go back to attack the city of Kufa, and the caliph will cut off the back road of the Min people, and see who consumes whom? ”

"As you wish!"

Seeing that Muawiya had regained his senses and calmly gave the order, a smile bloomed on the corner of his mouth, Amur respectfully urged his head and immediately left the tent.

Just after dinner, 20,000 Arab cavalry gathered again, led by an Arab general with a yellow beard and a leopard's head and eyes, and wanted to roll south to attack ...... - 74968 + dsuaahhh + 26654019 - >