Chapter 32: The Decisive Battle in the Western Regions (9)
The reason why everyone was so surprised was because they saw a scene that they would never forget.
This scene is so weird, so shocking, and it makes people's hearts beat.
Forty thousand crossbow arrows were woven into a huge net, and they were covered against the Great Eclipse Army, and all the Great Eclipse soldiers who were shot flew into the air. In the air, they danced as if they were dancing in space, shouting and screaming, terrified, as if they had seen the devil.
Imagine thousands of people flying in the air, dancing and screaming.
It's shocking!
That's not all, there's even more amazing happening in the air.
Whoever shot the crossbow not only flew into the air, but also had huge blood holes in their bodies. At first, because of the strong force of the crossbow arrow, not to mention the body of the great eater, the crossbow bolt swept past and continued to shoot forward. Due to the high speed, the holes in the body are not filled with blood, and can transmit light, and beams of light can be seen coming out of the holes. In the next moment, the hole was filled with blood, and blood splattered, splashing like a faucet.
In their eyes, they saw bright blood flowers suddenly blooming in the air, shining in the light, indescribably beautiful, indescribably enchanting.
One or two, dozens of such blood flowers are nothing, they are just amazing. The question is, it's not dozens, but thousands, blooming at the same time, what would that look like?
It's a spectacle! A breathtaking spectacle!
Some of the Great Eclipse Soldiers were shot by several crossbows at the same time, and some of them were shot by several people, and in either case, they would fly in the air and fly backwards. If a crossbow arrow hits several people, it is a string of human flesh skewers, and I see a string of people flying in the air, screaming and howling in the air, dancing "space dance steps" in the air, which is indescribably weird.
When everything was calm, these great eaters piled up together to form a mountain of corpses.
The vitality is not endless, although the Great Food Soldiers are dead, they are still convulsing, and the corpse mountain keeps shaking, as if these Great Food Soldiers are still alive.
This scene, not only the Great Food Army was shocked, but even the Tang Army was so shocked that they couldn't speak, if nothing else, because they had seen such a shocking scene for the first time in their lives.
Needless to say, the Great Eclipse Army was shocked, because they had never been shot so powerfully, and it was impossible for them not to be shocked.
The reason why Tang Jun was shocked was that they had seen it for the first time in their lives. Although the Tang Dynasty destroyed dozens of countries, the wars that occurred were the most in Chinese history, and no dynasty had wars as frequent as the Tang Dynasty, but there were not many things in the entire history of the Tang Dynasty when the surname concentrated so many troops for a big war, and there was only one such time in decades.
That is to say, even in the Tang Dynasty, such a shocking scene can only appear once in decades, although the Tang army has long known that it is earth-shattering to concentrate tens of thousands of strong crossbows to shoot, it is only the ancestors who talked about it, and they did not see it with their own eyes. Now, seeing it with my own eyes, I know that this power is far better than rumors.
"Mother!" Li Changguo saw it in his eyes, his mouth opened wide, and his face was shocked, and he called his mother directly.
Li Changguo came to the Tang Dynasty for a long time, he fought a lot of battles, but he has never concentrated so many strong crossbow shooting, that is, to pacify the battle of Tubo, because of the special geographical surname of Tubo, although there are many Tang troops dispatched, there is no such a huge lethal crossbow array, yes, he is also the first time to see it.
"How can I feel like I bombarding barbarian peoples with airplanes and artillery?" Lee Chang-kook felt this way for no reason.
Perhaps, such a metaphor fits the reality of the situation.
The Tang army shot with a crossbow array, while the Great Food Army did not have the slightest power to fight back, although it was shot with a sharp weapon in the era of cold weapons, giving Li Changguo the same feeling as using aircraft and artillery.
"This ...... There were 3,000 dead and wounded. "Abu? The Muslims looked at the still shaking mountain of corpses and immediately estimated how many of the great cannibals had been killed or wounded.
"The Chinese are devils!" Abu? Muslims howl in their hearts.
Since the rise of the Arab Empire, there have been hundreds of years of war, dozens of countries have been destroyed, I don't know how many battles have been fought, and there has never been a case of 3,000 people killed or wounded without even touching the corner of the enemy's clothes. For the first time in their lives, Muslims encountered it for the first time in the history of the Arab Empire.
"Woohoo!" However, just as he was stunned, the second batch of crossbow arrows of the Tang Army appeared in the air, weaving a huge arrow net and enveloping the Great Food Army.
When the smoke and dust passed, there were many mountains of corpses, still shaking, and the corpses of the Great Food Soldiers were twitching.
"Two thousand." Abu? The Muslims looked at the mountain of corpses and estimated the casualties.
After the first wave of shooting, the Great Food Soldier was no longer so forward, no longer so dense, and the casualties were fewer.
"Woohoo!" Immediately after that, the third wave of shooting of the Don Army began.
In this round of shooting, the casualties of Da Shi were fewer, more than a thousand.
After the first release of 20,000 strong crossbows, more than 6,000 people were killed and injured in the Great Eclipse, which is an astonishing result and will make people shocked.
In the battle of Meng Tian to recover the Hetao, Meng Tian set up a crossbow array and shot and killed 80,000 Huns in one burst, which is how he came.
In the face of the infinitely powerful crossbow array, the flesh and blood can only be slaughtered, and there will be no resistance at all.
"Sizzle!" There was a sound of inhaling cool air in the Great Food Army, and the Great Food Soldiers all drooped their heads, and their morale was greatly low.
They are the elite of the Great Food, and they have fought a lot of battles, but they have never encountered such a thing without the slightest power to fight back, even if they have never faced the Anxi Protectorate before, they will not be demoralized.
"My lord, what shall we do? What should I do? ”
"My lord, get an idea, get an idea."
"If there's no way, we'll shoot it."
Although the Great Food General is against Abu? Muslims have twelve points of respect and fear, and they can't care about it, and they roar loudly regardless of etiquette.
They knew very well that if they could not deal with the crossbow array, they would surely die.
"If only there were trebuchets!" Abu? The Muslims looked at the mess of trebuchets and closed their eyes in pain.
If the trebuchet can be used, as long as a large array is set up to counterattack the Tang army, it is enough to smash a lot of strong crossbows, right?
His idea was very good, but the reality was cruel, the trebuchet was stuffed in front of the camp gate, huddled together, and it was not used at all.
The reason why Li Changguo wants to launch an attack today is because Li Changguo knows very well that today is dealing with Abu? The best opportunity for Muslims. If it's tomorrow, Abu? The Muslim will change his course, and it will not be easy to deal with him.
Even if today's battle does not achieve the goal of annihilating the Great Eclipse army, as long as these trebuchets are killed, it will be a great victory. It can be said that no matter what the outcome of the next big battle was, the Don army was victorious.
However, manpower is sometimes poor, although Abu? Muslims are very wise, but they are also exhausted and helpless, and there is no other way but to sigh.
In the face of absolute strength, any strategy is superfluous, and this is the case at the moment.
What made the Great Food Army even more horrified was that the Tang Army, which was blocking the two wings, moved. Of course, it was not that they were disrupted by the Great Food Army, but that the Tang Army began to compress the Great Food Army, and wanted to drive the Great Food Army together, so that they could be more concentrated and easy to shoot in crossbow formations.
After a few rounds of shooting, there are only a few Great Food Eaters in the range of the crossbow array, and only by driving them together and letting the Great Food Army concentrate can the power of the crossbow array be brought into play.
The Great Food Army tossed for a day, was already tired, and was ruthlessly shot by the crossbow array, their morale dropped, and they had no intention of fighting.
"Don't retreat! Don't retreat! ”
"Don't go to the range of the crossbow array!"
"Don't retreat, if you retreat, you won't die!"
The shouts of the Great Eclipse soldiers rang out, but they were in vain, unable to stop the Tang Army's offensive at all, and could only retreat towards the range of the crossbow array.
Soon, the Great Cannibals were driven into range of the crossbow array, and they were greeted by an overwhelming barrage of crossbow bolts, turning them into corpses.
It's another spectacle.
The Great Eclipse army was driven into the range of the crossbow array, densely packed, as dense as straw on a field, however, as soon as the crossbow arrows arrived, they could only be "trapeze", turning into corpses and piling up into a mountain of corpses.
The crossbow array of the Tang army did not stop, and the crossbow arrows shot one after another, and there were more and more corpses on the ground.
Soon, as far as the eye could see, there were mountains of corpses everywhere, shaking slightly, as if to make a silent accusation: "Great Allah, how come you are so incompetent to save your faithful servant?" ”
Not only are the Tang armies on both flanks compressing the Great Food Army, but even the Tang Army's military formation is also moving, squeezing towards the center, to compress the Great Food Army together. It's just that the Tang Army's military formation is moving a little slower because of the heavy crossbow.
Even so, as time went by, the Tang army compressed the entire battlefield a lot, and there were fewer and fewer Great Food Soldiers still alive on the battlefield.
Soon, it was dark, the Tang army fought at night, lit torches, hundreds of thousands of torches illuminated the battlefield as if it were day, under the firelight, I saw that the battlefield was full of corpse mountains, pressing black and black, I don't know how many corpse mountains.
Up to now, there are no less than 30,000 people in the Great Food Army who have died under the crossbow of the Tang Army, and it has only been an hour. If the fight continues, by dawn, these 200,000 Great Food Army will inevitably be killed.
The reason why the Tang army achieved such fruitful results was that the Great Food Army had nowhere to hide, and there was no other way out except to be shot.
"My lord, if you can't think of a way, we'll be finished."
"Yes, my lord, you can figure it out quickly."
The generals looked at the Great Food Army, which had suffered heavy casualties, and all of them were terrified, rushing to Abu? Muslims roared loudly.
"I am not Allah, where is the way?" Abu? The Muslim would have liked to have responded in this way, but if he had said so, what little morale had of the Great Eclipse army would have been lost.
"Don't worry, there will be a way." Abu? The Muslims kept comforting the generals.
"You've said it a million times." The generals retorted in unison.
"Hmm. Pregnant! "Suddenly, Abu? The eyes of the Muslims are as bright as the stars of the night.
(To be continued)