After Zhao Weiji crossed back to the Song Dynasty, he was also considered to have been in battle for a long time, he led his troops to fight on the plains, marched on the high slopes of the loess, and attacked the city in the Shu Road, basically he had a lot of battlefield experience, but he had never fought in the desert, not once.

When the attack of the Kamalt faction came, although Zhao Weiji's men had been prepared in advance, they had been floating on the sea for most of the last half of the year, and it was really unsuitable for them to fight on land or in the desert that they had never experienced before.

However, it was precisely this kind of discomfort that made the soldiers of the empire here have an illusion that Zhao Weiji and his party should not have much combat effectiveness.

Therefore, they did not show any intention of letting Zhao Weiji's team participate in the battle, and directly encircled Zhao Weiji and his party together with those scholars into the protective circle they formed with camel herds.

Then they formed another ring of protection with their shields outside the protective circle, and when the two layers of protective ring were built, the group of soldiers took out their bows and arrows and prepared for battle.

Just as the Imperial soldiers were ready for battle, the attacking force sent by Kamalt arrived.

In fact, there is not much difference between them and the Central Plains battle, they are still ordinary cavalry, and things like camels are okay to hurry, so don't count on a battle.

It's just that the Arab soldiers are different from the Central Plains soldiers in that their armor is quite scarce, and after a few days of contact with the Imperial soldiers, he found that only the armor of the command staff is slightly more, but it is also not up to the armor that basically covers the whole body of the Central Plains generals.

They only have armor in a few key areas, such as the head, chest and abdomen. Elsewhere it was still ordinary clothes.

It was for this reason that bows and arrows became the dominant weapon in battle, and when the Kamalt soldiers rushed within range of the Imperial soldiers, they were immediately shot down by a platoon.

It seems that the archers here have great lethality to the cavalry, but Zhao Weiji, who was in the camel protection circle and secretly observed the battle situation with a telescope, found that Kamalt's cavalry had a serious flaw, that is, the lack of impact.

It is possible that because of the desert battle, the horse's hooves sink into the sand and pull out with every step the horse runs.

The lack of rebound and the friction of the horse's hooves as they left the sand greatly limited the cavalry's ability to impact compared to the Khitan cavalry at the time of the battle with the Khitan. These Arab cavalry can only be described as slow.

That feeling is like the speed difference between a motorcycle and a bicycle, and the Khitan cavalry is naturally a motorcycle.

After seeing the scene in front of him, Zhao Weiji's heart was roughly at the bottom, and even if the imperial army was defeated, he was very sure that he would quickly deal with these soldiers of the Kamalt Sect.

So he handed the telescope to Wang Dayuan, and then took out a bag of cheese and began to eat.

Although Wang Dayuan didn't know why Zhao Weiji was so leisurely, he was not too nervous when he was surrounded by two layers, but after observing the battle situation with a telescope, he sighed and said: "Fortunately, the prince is wise, and the young master and the young lady were sent to the Black Pearl in advance, along with the books and gold, it is really not a good thing if the two of them go through the battle formation at a young age." ”

"That's true, it doesn't seem like I'm too unfounded." As he spoke, Zhao Weiji threw another piece of cheese into his mouth.

"But Lord Wang, why are you so leisurely, even if we are in a protective circle, it will not be so leisurely." Seeing Zhao Weiji so leisurely, Wang Dayuan was a little confused.

"Huanzhang, have you ever seen the Khitan people charge?"

Wang Dayuan shook his head, "No, I have been dealing with the sea since I was a child, how can I have the opportunity to see what the Khitan charge is like." ”

After listening to Wang Dayuan's return, Zhao Weiji smiled dumbly, "No wonder Huanzhang can't see the way, if the same number of Khitan iron cavalry charges, the speed and impact are definitely three times that of these big food cavalry." Of course, the power of these Great Eater Cavalry charges may have something to do with this desert, but in any case, that kind of charge is still relatively easy to deal with, so Huanzhang should not keep staring at it, come and eat something. ”

Although he can't be as leisurely as Zhao Weiji, Wang Dayuan is very clear about Zhao Weiji's experience of fighting with the Khitans in his early years, and since the prince said that it was okay, it would definitely be fine. So he stopped watching the battle situation, sat down, and as a result, Zhao Weiji handed over a piece of cheese and threw it into his mouth.

The battle situation is just like what Zhao Weiji said, because Kamalt's cavalry does not have too strong impact power, so the imperial soldiers are quite comfortable at this stage.

Soon, however, Kamalt's soldiers noticed the problem, so they stopped charging with their spears and began to shoot with bows and arrows.

But then the problem arises, that is, because the Arab soldiers did not use strong bows and crossbows like the soldiers of the Central Plains, the range of bows and arrows is not too long.

In this way, the flat shot cannot penetrate the shield circle, and the distance of the upward fire is not enough, and if you want to enter the range of the upward shot, your own people will be shot to death long ago.

After several attacks, the defenders were still impregnable, but the attacker Jiang Langcai couldn't come up with any way, but his side suffered heavy casualties.

But at this moment, among the Kalmat soldiers, the veteran who had solved the doubts of the minions suddenly stood up, and he gathered all the camels they had used to drive together.

"What are you going to do, brother?"

"With a camel."

"Brother, you're not planning to let our cavalry ride camels, are you?"

"Of course not, I'm going to use these camels to push the shield on the other side."

"Isn't it, brother, use camels to open the shield, then these camels must not die a large piece, what will we do when we go back?"

"You're stupid, aren't there camels on the other side? Come over and help light the fire. ”

"What are you doing with a fire?"

"Burn the camel's tail."

Just when the Kamalt soldiers were assembling the camels, Wang Dayuan stood up again and observed the battlefield with a telescope, and after seeing this scene, he immediately reported it to Zhao Weiji.

As soon as he heard Wang Dayuan's report, Zhao Weiji's curiosity rose, so he also stood up and took the telescope and began to watch what was going on.

Just as Zhao Weiji picked up the binoculars, the group of camels began to charge, and the parts of their tails seemed to be smoking.

"I'll go, "Fire Bull Formation", there are capable people on the other side. After saying this, he handed the telescope to Wang Dayuan and asked him to take a look.

As soon as Wang Dayuan heard the fire bull array, he immediately took the telescope handed over by Zhao Weiji, and when he just put the telescope on his eyes, he saw that this group of camels with smoking tails was about to rush to the shield array.

"Lord Wang, what should I do now? The camels went mad and rushed towards the shield. ”

Although Wang Dayuan was a little anxious, Zhao Weiji didn't take it too seriously, he said: "It's okay, although this method is somewhat similar to the legendary Fire Bull Array, but after all, in the desert, the camel that is already running slowly still has no impact.

It's just that the person who wants to use the physical characteristics of the camel to resist opens a gap in the shield array, and in the end, the person who is dealing with it still has to fight with us through the gap. ”

Things were just as Zhao Weiji expected, the camel opened a gap, but that was the result of carrying it all the way, and the shield was casually opened, but there were not too many casualties.

The Kamalt soldiers did not expect any casualties from the camels, and they soon followed the camels through the gap, ready for a hand-to-hand battle.

When the Imperial soldiers saw the opposing soldiers pouring in through the gap, they also gave up their bows and arrows, drew their scimitars, and began to engage in hand-to-hand combat.

But when the two sides began hand-to-hand combat, the biggest shortcoming of the Imperial soldiers' side was exposed, that is, they did not have an advantage in numbers.

The Kamalt soldiers didn't dare to send many people because they needed to pretend to be robbers, but there were more than a thousand people, and although some had been killed before, they still had a certain advantage in numbers.

And when the soldiers of the Imperial Army are in close combat, they do not have much advantage in individual combat effectiveness.

As a result of this situation, the Imperial soldiers began to be gradually overwhelmed by the numerical superiority of the Kamalt soldiers, and people on both sides began to die.

Seeing the scene in front of him, the deputy commander of Kamalt's army asked the commander anxiously: "My lord, is it too much for us to do this?" ”

The commander shook his head and said, "These costs are nothing for the sake of the imams, and besides, we have an advantage in numbers, and it will only be us who will survive and win in this way." ”

And many scholars in the innermost protective circle guarded by the Imperial Army hesitated and couldn't stand the shouts of killing outside, and began to cover their ears in order to escape reality.

Of course, there are also smart people who ran over to find Zhao Weiji, and begged him to send his team out to support: "My lord, help them, don't you have a weapon, although I don't know what kind of weapon it is, but it shouldn't be weak, you help them." ”

Zhao Weiji did not turn a blind eye to this scholar's request, and in order to win people's hearts, he still had to accept the scholar's advice.

And after seeing that death had not been saved for so long, it should have been almost over, so he gathered all his men and asked them to prepare to go out to meet them.

It's just that Zhao Weiji took advantage of the fact that the scholars couldn't understand Chinese and gave his team an order, that is, to shoot indiscriminately.

"How many bullets do you have in each of you?"

The sailors replied in unison: "There are fifty more." ”

Twenty-five people, fifty each, that is, one thousand two hundred and fifty, if you hit it right, it is enough to kill everyone outside.

"Well, put on your bayonets, and get ready to go into battle, just like we did on the boat, shoot all those who are far away, and bayonets if you are close."

After saying to the soldiers, Zhao Weiji turned his head and asked Wang Dayuan to say something to the scholars: "Our people will go out to support now, but we have a request, that is, you can't look outside the camel pen, if you do this, we will go out immediately." ”

Because their lives were at stake, all the scholars agreed to Zhao Weiji's request.

Then the sailors opened a gap in the camel ring and joined the battle.