Chapter 56 Scout Battle A horse lance with a whistling wind stabbed fiercely between the chest and abdomen of a large food eater, and the big food eater turned sideways to block with an iron shield with his left arm, and the sharp lance was cut open in a grinding sound that made people's teeth ache.

The scimitar of the great eater's right hand slashed horizontally, and swept it along the lance. The left hand of the Tang army sentry rider who made the horse lance immediately abandoned the lance, and with a shake of the lance with his right hand, the scimitar flicked upward, and the left hand was like electricity, and when the two horses were wrong, a punch hit the right hand of the big food cavalry holding the knife.

Da Shi's right hand swung outward, and the round shield of his left arm slapped towards the Anxi cavalry. The Anzai cavalry turned sideways, but the left shoulder was still hit. At this time, the two horses had already staggered, and the Anxi cavalry endured the sharp pain in the left shoulder, still refused to give up, and the right wrist shrank, and the horse lance retreated half a section. He held the middle of the horse's lance, and pushed the tail of the lance back hard, and the red copper lance slammed the back of the Great Eater Cavalry.

The big food cavalry had a sweet mouth in his mouth, and a mouthful of blood spit out, and the whole person couldn't get up for a while while lying on the horse. The Anxi cavalry rushed forward a few steps, turned the horse's head, and prepared to go back to make up for it. But a horse rushed out next to him, and a horizontal knife slashed at the neck of the big food cavalry who had just stood up half-straight, and a big human head flew up, and blood gushed from his neck, splashing him.

"You're a shit." The Anxi cavalryman, who was wounded in the left shoulder, glared at this fellow who picked up the bargain viciously, and said angrily: "Lao Tzu has already wounded him, and he can stab him to death in one fell swoop, but you have come to pick up the bargain." ”

The Anxi cavalry who mended the knife was not angry, and said with a smile: "Dog, this head is yours, Lao Tzu won't rob you!" ”

He held his head high and surveyed the battlefield, the skirmish was nearing its end. More than 20 of the Great Eclipse Cavalry were killed and wounded, and four Great Eclipse Cavalry escaped and were galloping wildly. He immediately slammed the horse's belly, slapped the horizontal knife on the horse's buttocks, and chased in the direction of the Great Food Deserter. After running a hundred paces, he had already sheathed his sword, took out a well-wound single-bowed crossbow, and before the other Ancy pursuers, he pulled his teeth and shot the last big food deserter in the back.

"Okay, the third one!" He shouted "yes", put away his crossbow, drew his sword, rushed over to cut the head, and tied it to the horse's neck.

"Zhang Xiaogou on a dog day, it's fast to grab people's heads!" It was the other Anxi cavalry who did not grab the head of the man who spoke. But when you look closely, each of them also has one or two large cannibal heads hanging more or less from their horses.

Zhang Xiaogou still looked like he was smirking, glanced at them and said, "Holy shit, you didn't cut your heads, but you came to me!" ”

After saying that, he continued to look down at the corpse of the great food cavalryman, and from the pocket of his clothes, he took out a dozen dirhams of silver, and he put them into his bag with satisfaction. Then he went to check the Arabian horse to see if there was anything good. There was an order that all captured Arabian horses should be confiscated first, and then rewards would be given according to who had paid them.

This is happening in many other parts of the region as well. After learning the news of the annihilation of the 4,000 forwards he had sent, Ziyad immediately set up camp in his place, dug deep trenches, and built fortifications. At the same time, he immediately sent someone to report the news to the robber of Bhutana, and this was the first bad news that he had sent back and the total annihilation of the army.

At the same time, Ziyad also sent hundreds of scout sentries to the east to guard and inquire about the intelligence of the Anxi army.

On the other side, Xiao Qubing sent more scout sentry riders. The spirit of guerrilla warfare was soon conveyed, and two hundred scouts and eight hundred sentries were mixed into twenty teams. Each team is divided into two squads, led by scouts, and there is also scout communication between squads.

In the process of sentinel exploration, ten horsemen are in front and more than ten horsemen are behind, and they must be absolutely superior in numbers before they can attack. If the opponent has only more than 10 people, a small detachment will destroy them; If there are twenty or thirty people in the place, they will use the chirp to notify another small detachment in the vicinity to flank them; If the opponent is still outnumbered, send scouts to contact other teams to surround and annihilate them.

In short, it is to bully the weak and fear the hard, to fight more and less, to fight if you can pass, and to entangle the other party and wait for support if you can't fight. If there are hundreds or thousands of enemy troops, immediately notify the ten teams of 500 people who follow behind. At the end of the day, this flexible style of play knocked out the hundreds of sentry scouts sent by Qi Yad in one fell swoop.

In the big camp of the Chinese army, in the big tent of the Chinese army, Qi Yad and his lieutenant Bassel sat opposite each other with a sad face, and kept sighing. No one expected that the four thousand Khorasan religious warriors would be wiped out by the Anxi army before they arrived in a day, and only a few horsemen escaped with their lives and came back to report the news.

At the beginning, the minds of the defeated soldiers were still a little confused, and Qi Yade and they thought that the four thousand forwards were surrounded by the main force of the Anxi army, and they were outnumbered and annihilated. Later, a few people were more sober and asked to understand, it was not clear whether the main force of the Anxi army had arrived, but it was only a few hundred Anxi cavalry that defeated them in the night attack.

Qi Yade was stunned for a moment, this does not match his own intelligence, the combat power of the Anxi army should not be much different from his own side, when did the combat power become so strong? If all the Anxi army had such combat strength, a few hundred could completely annihilate 4,000 Khorasan warriors, then this battle would not be able to be fought. You must know that there are 20,000 Anxi troops in the river this time, plus 14,000 mercenaries from Gelulu and Dongbahana, although the number is not as large as on his side, but the combat effectiveness has far exceeded it!

He immediately ordered the men to be held without any contact. If such a shameful news leaks out, the morale of the army will be astigmatized at once!

Several of the defeated soldiers did not say very clearly about the course of the battle, except that suddenly a rain of fire fell from the sky, and what fell to the ground was a rocket about three cubits long (an ancient Arabic unit of length, equal to the length of the forearm from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow, the cubit). Many soldiers were burned to death, and later the horses were frightened, killing and injuring hundreds of soldiers. Then Asim took more than a thousand Khorasan religious warriors to fight the enemy, and then inexplicably defeated.

"General Ziyad, judging from our subordinates, are we going to withdraw to the city? Anxi Dog will do magic, if you also give them a fire rain tonight......" Bassell asked cautiously.

"Withdraw?" Ziad sighed: "The four thousand forwards are gone, and now we don't even see the face of the enemy, and we don't even know how many men and horses they have." Just withdraw like this, and the morale is not lost! When have we been in the river for so many years? Doesn't this tell those Jiuguo Hu that we are afraid of the Anxi army? ”

"It's weird." Bassell grumbled with an anxious face, "Why haven't those sentry scouts come back today?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound of footsteps outside the tent, and then the curtain was lifted, and the two soldiers helped in a bloody Khorasan religious warrior, one of the scouts that Ziyad had sent out this morning.

"What's going on? Met the Anxi Army Brigade? Where did they meet, where did they go, how many men and horses were there? Ziyad grabbed the bloodied scout's shoulder and asked.

The scout, with three wounds on his body, two knife wounds in the front and one arrow wound in the back, had been briefly bandaged and the bleeding had been stopped. But at this time, there was still a small amount of blood oozing from the three major wounds. Holding back the pain, he said in a trembling voice, "We met them fifty miles from the camp...... Didn't touch their main ...... It was also encountered by a team of scouts. There were thirty of us at the time, and there were only ten of them, and we fought......

They began to fight us with their bows and crossbows, and it was not long before more than forty people appeared at once and surrounded us...... Then we were killed and wounded and began to break through...... In the end, I was the only one who escaped. ”

"How are they going to catch up if you want to run?" Basel said suspiciously, according to the information he knew, the Anxi army war horses could not outrun the Arab war horses on his side.

"Their horses are not much slower than ours, and some of their scouts have two horses and strong crossbows. General, the bows and crossbows of the Anxi army are too powerful, and we have suffered a big loss. ”

"Go down and rest, and ask the healer to take care of the wound again. Heal your wounds, and then follow me to kill these Anxi dog thieves! After inquiring about the situation in detail, the scout was already a little exhausted, and Ziyad hurriedly sent him down to rest.

It didn't take long for several more scouts to return to the camp, and like the scout in front of them, they also took them with them and escaped with their lives. The information I waited for was almost the same, and I met the scout team of the Anxi Army and Qarluq, and was beaten by the enemy; Not much useful information was obtained, and it is not known where the main forces of the Anxi army have arrived.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that the scout sentry cavalry of the Anxi army has pressed westward, less than thirty miles from the main camp; Another is that the combat effectiveness of the light cavalry on both sides is not much different, and the advantage of the Anxi army is that they always fight more and less, and the bow and crossbow are superior. Especially when the Great Eclipse Cavalry turned around and fled, because at this time, the Great Eclipse Cavalry could not protect their backs with a round shield.

"Quick, immediately send someone to rob the Emir of Bhutana and Posilin." Ziyad beckoned a few guards and ordered: "It is said that the Anxi army is fierce, and it is proposed to immediately and urgently mobilize all the Arabs in the river to participate in the battle." Secondly, the Anxi army has strong bows and crossbows, and asks to send a batch of chain mail from Samatjian, Capture and Drink City, and Mulu City. ”

(And Posilin is the name of the Tang people, and the actual context Ziyad should be called Abu Muslim; There are also place names such as Samajian that are also the names of the Tang people, and Qi Yad should say Samarkand, but in order to avoid confusion among readers, the text still uses the name of the Tang people. Emir, governor, governor means. ）

At the same time, less than thirty miles away from the Great Food camp, Xiao Quying was commanding three hundred cavalry of the Anxi Army to surround a military station of the Great Food in Zhongcao State. Together with the original dozens of garrisons and dozens of sentinel scouts who fled here, a total of more than 100 food soldiers were trapped.

A small soldier asked puzzledly: "General Xiao, we don't have siege tools, what's the use of surrounding it?" ”

Xiao Quai's face was radiant, and he smiled faintly: "Is it useful, I will know tomorrow, pass the order, leave a small gap in the western direction, but don't make it too obvious." ”