cpa300_4(); Even the hard brick city stomp was broken in half under this blow, and the soldiers hiding behind screamed miserably, breaking in two from their waists, and the blood was dripping in the sunset to form a rainbow. (To see the latest chapter, please see the book pavilion-)

In recent years, the Fujian team has been continuously strengthened, and the Arabs have not lagged behind, especially the Arabs are not a pure nomadic people, and the Arabs who cultivate in the oasis have the spirit of being good at learning from other peoples.

After the annexation of the Persian Empire, the Arabs learned the technique of ironclad cavalry, defeated the Byzantium, and the Arabs learned a small part of Roman engineering, and the famous Roman crossbow in the Western world played a more glorious side in the hands of the Arabs.

The crossbow body became more concise, learned the ballista of Fujian, the Arabs combined the crossbow arm with a catapult bow compound bow, and for the cavalry combat parts can also be assembled, several horses dragged a pair of ballistas, more than 10,000 Arab cavalry actually set up more than 80 guns outside the east city gate, these ballistas made the Fujian army defending the city suffer in one day.

Perhaps seeing the sunset, knowing that it was impossible to capture today, the last attack of the Arab cavalry was particularly fierce and vicious, mixed with ballistas, a wave of arrows and a wave of stone shells, heavy ballistas can even break the female wall, and the catapult into the city is to smash the houses near the city wall, and many city guards hiding at the root of the city wall have also been affected.

Fortunately, the detachability of the ballista sacrificed accuracy, a hundred shells, there is also a shot that can play a fatal blow to destroy the city, most of them still hit outside the city wall, the fierce artillery battle lasted until the last rays of the sun shone on the horizon in the evening before it ended, the Arabs evacuated the city wall about two miles, trampled on the original rose field, thousands of purple and red by the horses' hooves, camels' hooves trampled into scattered red mud, seems to exude a certain sadness.

A quarter of an hour late, after confirming the retreat of the Arabs, the Fujian army soldiers, who had tensed their nerves for a day, poked their heads out from behind the scarred city, and were so tired that they didn't even have time to express their grief for the dead comrades beside them, so they hurried down to the city to rest.

At the head of the city, two groups of people changed guards, and the newly arrived soldiers didn't have time to handle the position for a while, and the city head seemed empty, making Xue Ne's lonely figure quite lonely, looking back at the broken and broken city stampede, looking down at the city wall, the outer layer of the brick-covered city wall was torn apart under the ballista fire, and a large area was peeled off, revealing the ancient city wall of Shiraz that had been more than ten centuries inside.

Seeing this, Xue Ne was worried.

The results of the battle were counted until very late, and on this day, there were about 500 people who lost their combat effectiveness, and there seemed to be more Arabs killed and wounded, but don't forget that the enemy was outnumbered, and there were only eight guards in Shiraz, all of whom had more than 4,000 soldiers, and yesterday and today, almost one-fifth of the combat strength evaporated the entertainment imperial system.

What's more deadly, Shiraz's hearts are not even, even the subordinate government soldiers also have a belonging, this time, the dispatched government soldiers are mostly subordinates of the left and right Qianniuwei, and the officers are mostly retired veterans of the left and right Qianniuwei.

In the morning, the reason why the Guoyi Commander hurriedly went to ask Xue Ne was because the enemy army was about to attack the city, and the seven Zhichong Commanders did not quarrel over who was in charge of that section of the city wall, and in the end it was not so much Xue Ne's prestige as the aggressive Arab cavalry forcing these captains to guard the city wall in the order assigned by Xue Ne.

The western, southern, and northern cities were harassed by small groups of Arab cavalry, and had to be guarded, and Xue Ne left a lower capital at the three city gates, about 450 to 600 people to defend, which shared more than 1,600 people, and the remaining forces fought a decisive battle with the Arabs on the city wall, and all of them suffered heavy losses.

At the military meeting in the evening, the three lieutenants who had not suffered losses were a little nervous, and they were still thinking about whether there could be a way to reduce their losses, and the remaining four were all plus the two Guoyi lieutenants of Shangdu Yinshan Zhichong Mansion, who had been guarding the east city gate, all had ugly faces, and some even had injuries.

The rice porridge was gurgling in the pot, but none of them were in the mood to eat it.

Deathly silence.

"General Xue Zhonglang, your father is also a famous general, just tell me, how to fight tomorrow's battle, right?"

Finally, Captain Guo Yidu, who had come to invite Xue Ne today, broke his calm and asked him heavily, which caused more than a dozen other officers to also look over.

Everyone knows in their hearts that although the Arabs are attacking the city fiercely today, they have not done their best, and they still have some tentative taste, and tomorrow is the most critical day, they have been dormant at the foot of the mountain for so long, and they have deliberately avoided Li Yexu's main force, and the Arabs are just to plunder Shiraz City again, but they only have about two or three days of limited time, and they can't get out of the city tomorrow, so they must go.

Tomorrow will be the last madness of the Arabs, and it will be tragic.

This is also the day of life and death, if you can fight, you will live, if you can't fight, I am afraid that the soldiers of these eight capitals will also have to fight to annihilate the whole army like the previous Shiraz defenders.

Seeing the nervous cheeks, Xue Ne's brows were also wrinkled into Sichuan characters, how could he not know the key to tomorrow's battle, following his father Xue Li for so long, it was the first time he had dealt with such a life-and-death matter.

"Tomorrow, there will be a brigade in Xicheng to defend, and the rest will be gathered in Dongcheng, and the general will decide to mobilize the people of Dongcheng to go to the city to defend the city, tear down the beams and stones near the city wall to prepare for a battle, and the defenders of the south gate and north gate will be halved, leaving 500 people to be stationed in Siping Street, and the war in any direction will be tight, so immediately rush to support."

"As for who guards the north and south gates, and who responds in the center of Siping Street, let's draw lots and let the heavens decide!"

Such a military event, regardless of the fatigue of the soldiers, it seems a bit child's fun to deal with it by drawing lots, but at this time, Xue Ne is not in the mood to persuade every lieutenant to sacrifice wholeheartedly, rather than letting him go to the battlefield with resentment, it is better to use this way.

Sure enough, the lieutenant who caught the middle or secondary door hole breathed a sigh of relief, and although the lieutenant who caught the main battlefield was unwilling, he also accepted his fate.

But it was only at this time that Xue Ne suddenly woke up and patted his head.

"By the way, there are 1,500 Confucian soldiers under the command of this general......"

"General Zhonglang, forget it, forget it!"

Didn't wait for Xue Ne to finish speaking, seven Zhichong Lieutenants, more than a dozen Guoyi Lieutenants actually waved their hands together to veto, they have heard of the glorious achievements of the Confucian soldiers, more than 2,100 were beaten by eighty-two Arab spies The whole army retreated, and died 500 before killing the other party, and in the end, Xue Ne's cavalry crushed the Arabs, relying on the people between the Li Fang and the Wuhou to wipe out these spies.

This combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the people, and the captains don't want to have more screaming and jumping students on their positions tomorrow and love their cold wives.

Seeing the rejection of the word, Xue Ne had to swallow his words back in frustration.

Assign tasks, supply supplies, and was busy until ten in the middle of the night, Xue Ne was able to return to the barracks, at this time, the Confucian soldiers who had worked all day did not read late to read, but went to bed early, seeing such a scene, Xue Ne couldn't help but shake his head speechlessly.

"This group of scholars has a big heart, and they can sleep soundly."

Tired and energetic, Xue Ne also yawned and walked towards his Chinese army, who knew that as soon as he walked to the door, two people, one fat and one thin, stopped his steps.

"General Xue, the Confucian soldiers are also ready for battle, please send us to the battlefield tomorrow."

Looking at the earnest and sincere eyes of Yao Chong and Song Jing, Xue Ne was irritable for no reason, when it came to Confucian soldiers tonight, the disdainful expressions of the captains of all the armies made Xue Ne can't help but feel angry, and waved his face angrily: "Stay where it's cool." ”

The two couldn't help but be stunned, and a fiery shadow suddenly came out of the corner, pinching their waists and shouting angrily.

"Why despise our Confucian soldiers. You don't know how hard they worked when you weren't there, they were all soldiers, why couldn't they give Confucian soldiers a chance to go to war? ”

Seeing Li Ming's pungent little face pinching his waist with both hands, Xue Ne suddenly had a headache again, how could he forget this ancestor?

In desperation, pulling the arms of Yao Chong and Song Jing, Xue Ne simply bypassed the menacing Li Ming and entered the Chinese army house that belonged to him.

"How about it, did Xue bitter gourd agree?"

As soon as she came out, Li Ming eagerly greeted her again, and her question made the two look at each other more and more strangely, and then nodded together.

"Lord Xue ordered our Confucian soldiers to assemble at the south gate tomorrow, waiting for an opportunity to act, and attack the enemy as guerrillas."

"Isn't that done? Then what are you still doing with a sad face, go, go and tell everyone! ”

The scheming and simple-minded Li Ming excitedly pulled the two arms of a fat and a thin man and walked towards the camp, not noticing the strange faces of the two.

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Lying on the bed, his head was full of tomorrow's decisive battle, even if the third watch was white every day, Xue Ne didn't fall asleep, until the fourth watch, the strong sleepiness made Xue Ne fall asleep dimly, but unfortunately this rare rest didn't take long before it was disturbed again.

"General, there is movement on the city wall!"

Listening to this short sentence, Xue Ne suddenly had nothing at will, immediately turned over, followed the captain who reported the news, took the horse, and hurried out of the door.

It is not Dongcheng District that has movement, but the West Gate, which is the farthest away from the battlefield, and the Fujian army officers who were hung up by the night vigil soldiers with hanging baskets have more than ten arrows stuck in their backs, and their whole bodies are soaked in blood, but they are holding on to their breath without dying.

It wasn't until he saw Xue Ne's Zhonglang general's armor that he struggled to hand over the wax pill in his hand.

Twisted open the wax pill and quickly read the secret letter on it twice, and for a while, Xue Ne, who was not afraid of heaven and earth, turned pale.

A moment later, more than a dozen officers of the seven Zhichong Commanders were also summoned at the East City Gate, listening to Xue Ne's newly arranged military movements, everyone's cheeks trembled violently, and even the Yinshan Guard's Zhichong Commander screamed in disbelief.

"Your Excellency, you're not crazy, are you?"

With an expressionless face, by the morning light, Xue Ne held up the secret letter, and a large red seal came into the eyes of more than a dozen officers......

The Tang Expeditionary Force

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Chapter 984. Unbelievable orders