The thatched houses were ablaze with fires, and the cavalry of Alain, with their compound bows pasted from sheep's horns, cheerfully circled around the burned villages like wolves, and the peasants had a little grain, chickens, ducks, and livestock were mercilessly swept away by these nomadic tribes from Central Asia in the cry of one after another.

As the earliest civilization of mankind, Mesopotamia, the Great Plains is dotted with the ruins of ancient Babylon and Assyrian Empire, after the fall of these civilizations, the Persian Empire took over so many cities, and now, one after another white star and moon banners have replaced the beating Zoroastrian banners of Sassanid Persia, and hordes of desert warriors have replaced the original Persian guards.

Listening to the shouts of the Persian peasants outside the city, the Arab tribesmen at the head of the city were all angry and shouted angrily, not that they sympathized with the old peasants who worked hard for their fields, these Alans burned their farms and robbed their livestock.

Finally, there were still Bedouin warriors who couldn't help opening the city gate, also carrying compound bows unique to the East, and five or six hundred Bedouin cavalry shouted Allah to help, angrily killing these steppe wolves who dared to come to the tiger's mouth to grab food.

First bows and arrows flying, and then scimitar hand-to-hand combat, the Arabs in this era are really as fierce as tigers, a few rounds of games, the steppe wolves from Central Asia have retreated, and these Arab warriors are overjoyed one by one.

But after only a few moments, all the Arabs who had left the city turned earth-colored again, their hooves rumbled, and countless Sogdian cavalrymen dressed in leather armor and carrying stubborn sheep's horns and bows appeared from the vicinity of the fields, and arrows flew down like rain in all directions.

In just a few minutes, hundreds of Bedouin warriors who left the city were either turned into ghosts or dejected prisoners, and led these captives, and tens of thousands of Fujian light cavalry slipped around the city, but under the frightened gaze of the Arabs, they drove all the way to the west.

What are the Min people doing in order to do it? So a great man, going deep into the plains of Mesopotamia and ambushing hundreds of tribal warriors?

Staring at these departing Central Asian cavalry, the Islamic imam, who was already gray-haired and wrinkled, couldn't help but be full of doubts.

However, it didn't take a day for countless Fujian infantry soldiers to come to the city, and the imam came to his senses.

First, the cavalry is like a pack of wolves wandering in the wilderness, striking at all targets active in the wilderness, and when they encounter a city town with weak defense, they will directly gnaw down, and the well-preserved city wall will bypass it, pursuing the fastest speed to break through the enemy's depth and disrupt the enemy's position.

Then the remaining isolated enemy strongholds, naturally there are extremely powerful infantry groups to gnaw, this tactic, in the World War II MacArthur invented the frog jumping tactic, now, by Li Jie vividly used.

In contrast to the last Arab war, the reason why Li Jie seemed to be arrogant in using such tactics this time actually has an internal reason, the last time the Arab Empire still had a unified regime, Mu'awiyah was able to gather the scattered Bedouin tribes stationed in various places, and this time, the unified regime disappeared.

The Min army did not send troops, there was no pain, and the local sectarian warlords who divided the Arab Empire into countless pieces could not gather together because of selfish interests, and this war was fought at a speed, before all the warlords reacted, try to maximize the annexation of the territory of the Mesopotamian Plain, and achieve a situation that is in line with the interests of the Great Min.

This tactic was extraordinarily powerful in the vast plains of Mesopotamia.

Kufa City.

It seems that since the last time the Min people built, Kufa has not changed its appearance, the brick-covered city wall, as well as the corner tower pavilion with Chinese characteristics on the city gate pavilion is still standing there, and the famous Arabic architecture in later generations is still the unique work of the Persians.

Same, with incredibly pale cheeks of shock.

"How is this possible?"

Lying on the east gate, the former governor of Kufa, Ziyad, who proclaimed himself the sultan of Kufa after the defeat of Hou Jie's regime, roared in shock, and the face of the rare national character among the Arabs was wrinkled with a layer of fine wrinkles on the originally well-maintained skin, mixed with fine goosebumps.

At the head of the city, the elite Arab soldiers brought out of Mecca hurried up the city walls, nervously raising their bows and arrows to the city. In the distance, on the dry land, a large force of cavalry and beasts shook their bows and arrows excitedly and arrogantly, and shouted in the Central Asian native language to the city.

Messy all kinds of leather armor and clothing, some with scimitars, some with iron guns, a change from the appearance of the Fujian army neatly turned into one, there are all races, a swarm of bees piled up on the ancient river platform not far from the east gate, shaking people are dizzy.

Even this cavalry doesn't want the Min army in the past impression, the Min army in the eyes of the Arabs, always has a black uniform, the team is neat and forbidden, and even the cavalry is about the same, how can it be so scattered?

In the past, Li Jie always tried his best to reorganize the foreigners who defected to the Fujian army, issued them with neat armor and uniforms, and also paid them a monthly salary, striving to treat them equally, this practice was not without effect, the original enemy, the She people in Lingnan, the slang people, the Miao people, and many ethnic minorities in the southeast peninsula were integrated into the government soldiers, and these people could account for three layers of the huge war base of the Great Fujian.

But it was also the last Arab war, the Byzantines hooked up a little, and Armenia, which took a large number of subsidies from Damin, the Armenian mercenaries, who were highly valued, immediately rebelled, like a stick that woke Li Jie up.

Foreigners are foreigners, they have different cultures and different beliefs from the Tang people, so why bother to treat them as their own? Therefore, this time the foreign cavalry recruited from Central Asia, Li Jie directly retained its original tribal structure, and did not set up a unified leadership at all, and did not even have military salaries, so he provided some military rations, and also revoked the military discipline that was restricted, and wanted to loot, so he let these Hu troops loot at will.

However, in this way, it seems that the morale of the Hu servant army is better.

There was no strong attack, and seeing that the Arabs at the head of the city had no intention of going out of the city to fight, these chaotic Central Asian Hu soldiers and light horsemen suddenly scattered in all directions, like a pack of foraging wolves scattered to the countryside.

In a few moments, visible billowing wolf smoke billowed out of the villages around Kufa City, and beckoned to the Arabs at the head of the city as if mockingly.

Kufa is different from other areas, it is a reservation of the Arabs, there are no Semites, Persians and other Mesopotamian natives living nearby, and the countryside is also full of fields opened by the Arabs.

"Sultan, please give me an army, and the last general will be willing to chop up all these damned pagan godless believers and throw them into the Euphrates to feed the fish!"

Angry and angry, his eyes were red, and several Arab generals from Mecca were bloody, and they knelt on the ground in anger and kowtowed to Ziyad and pleaded.

The same solemn gaze at the smoke billowing from the burning of the large winter wheat fields outside the city gate, his shoulders were trembling, and he watched for a long time, pinching the dark silk sleeves, but Qi Yade shook his head with difficulty.

"Don't attack, hold the city."

A group of generals were immediately full of disappointment, the Arabs lacked manners, and some Bedouin generals actually stood up directly, scolded and went down to the city, and Ziyad's face was gloomy again.

It's no wonder that he is careful, Ziyad has too little capital in his hands. During the former Kufa governor's time, Ziyad had an army of only 20,000 former Meccan nobles brought by Mecca, and although his combat strength was strong, he was unable to deal with 100,000 or 200,000 poor relatives from Oman.

After the fall of Damascus, the situation became more complicated, and the troops under Ziyad were even more insufficient, so this old fox had no choice but to take out the extra supplies allocated to him by Hou Jie over the years to buy off the rest of the Arab tribes who moved to Mesopotamia, which could be regarded as maintaining the strength of 50,000 troops, but unfortunately the leapfrog tactics of the Fujian army made his efforts fail.

Most of the tribes are scattered in the two river valleys to graze and cultivate, from the Min invasion has only been three days now, the Min cavalry has already hit the city of Kufa, where is the time to gather these tribesmen to help the war?

Holding a pitiful hand, he had to stare dryly, even if the countryside was ravaged by barbarians from Central Asia.

Fortunately, Ziyad was cautious, and the fire burned up the winter wheat outside the city, and behind the parched wilderness, another army that could not be hidden was revealed.

This is the Arab impression of the Min army, the whole army is uniformly draped in Xuanshui black, inlaid with heart goggles and iron pieces of Tang cavalry armor, three or four meters long horse lance like a bloodthirsty jungle, although the war horse is sweaty because of galloping, but still restlessly shaking its head forward.

It can be called the most powerful army in Damin, the Guanning Iron Cavalry, used the Central Asian cavalry as bait to lure the enemy out of the city in three days, and they don't know how many living forces they annihilated.

Looking at the strong and immovable Kufa city wall that once belonged to Damin, the crossbow loss pill Ge Luo, who had already entered the hussar general, licked his lips bloodthirstily and shook his head in disappointment.

"Old boy, count him lucky, let's leave!"

The elite cavalry attacking the city is simply a waste, after all the major battles, Yao Geluo Shuangli led the army to retreat, looking at the elite cavalry recruited between Hangu Pass and Ning County from a distance and slowly retreating, the city, Qi Yade, who was shocked into a cold sweat, reached out and wiped the already soaked turban.