Chapter 208: War Horse
At this time, the river is the most abundant time of the year, and it can cover most of the riverbed on weekdays, but it was stopped by Bagheri and the people of Shabul City for five or six days, and the amount of water accumulated in the upstream Pinghu Lake is extremely large, and once it is released, it directly fills the entire riverbed.
Downstream in the riverbed, the Kufa cavalry were given a respite, unaware of the impending danger.
The remnants of the Kufa cavalry were less than 10,000, all within range of the Anthi army's crossbow arrows, and the opposite side was blocked by Abdullah's Syrian regiments. Both the Syrian legions and the Dons had stopped attacking, but the Kufa cavalry knew that they were in a desperate situation.
At such times, it is useless to resist at all. Several leading generals of Kufa deliberated and decided to lay down their arms and surrender to the enemy.
Abdullah attacked them from behind, and the proud Kufa cavalry naturally disdained to surrender to such a vile villain. The Tang showed their terrifying strength, and there was no shame in surrendering to such an opponent.
After several Kufa generals deliberated, they quickly made a decision. Several people raised their heavy swords above their heads, rode their horses across the shallow river, shouted loudly towards the river bank, and cautiously walked in the direction of the Tang army.
"General, they are going to surrender to us." Listening to the shouts of several Kufa generals, the translator whispered.
Ma Ling nodded, these guys are all Persian, and they speak Persian, so he can naturally hear it clearly.
"General, will they surrender?" Tian Mingyuan asked.
Ma Lan glanced at a faint white line upstream, and smiled: "It's too late, it's too late!" The whole army retreated, fifty feet away from the river! ”
The junior officers gave short orders, and six thousand cavalrymen turned around at the same time and slowly left the riverbank.
Several Kufa generals who came to surrender did not know why, and they did not dare to approach any more while standing in the riverbed.
At this moment, there was a thunderous sound from the upper reaches of the river, and the Kufa cavalry, who had been fleeing towards the river, shouted in panic, and one by one urged the horses to stagger downward.
The Kufa cavalry, which was dense by the river, heard the shouting, and at the same time looked in the direction where the shouting sounded, and their faces suddenly changed.
The white waves were surging and filled the entire riverbed, and the waves in front of them were like mountains, knocking the fleeing Kufa cavalry to the ground, and then continuing to rush downward!
"Allah above, where is this flood!"
The faces of several Kufa generals changed drastically, and they urged their horses to rush to the shore desperately. On the other side is the Tang people, and they can't care so much.
In the middle of the riverbed, thousands of Kufa cavalry shouted in terror at the same time, urging their mounts to scurry around like headless flies.
"Stand back! Stand back! On the other side of the river, the Syrian governor Abdullah's face changed dramatically, and he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to quickly retreat to the rear. The flood was so fierce that the waves were higher than the riverbed, and if you stood on the shore, you might be swept into the river.
At this time, Abdullah understood why the Tang people ordered to stop the attack, it turned out that there were such methods!
No wonder the river is not deep, but the riverbed is full of silt!
The surging waves swept down the river at high speed, engulfing the scattered Kufa cavalry one by one, and finally smashing like a wall into the gathered Kufa army. Most of the Kufa cavalry grew up in the desert and did not know anything about water, crying and struggling in the flood, and being swept downstream by the flood.
The flood rushed in front of the Don army, and the waves at the front were high above the riverbed, and several Kufa generals were swept into the river by the huge waves as soon as they rushed up the slope.
The huge waves directly rolled over the riverbed, rolling up the dense corpses of people and horses on the bank, and swept into the river, plus there were already tens of thousands of corpses in the riverbed, and they were all floating at this time.
The white waves crossed this area, and the head of the wave instantly turned red like blood, and after the wave passed, there was a river of blood behind it!
Most of the Kufa cavalry were beaten by the huge waves, and their horses were carried and floated in the flood, and they struggled in vain, and soon sank into the water. The horses that have lost their owners scream loudly in the river, they are natural swimmers, and they quickly adapt to the waves after they pass, and without the control of their masters, they look extremely dazed in the flood.
If the Kufa cavalry can catch the war horse, they may be able to escape, but the power of the wave is too great, they can't maintain their balance at all, almost all the poison is directly photographed off the war horse, plus they don't know the nature of the water, how can they escape the fate of death.
The Tang army retreated to the shore fifty zhang away, and when the waves came, it was at most not to the horse's belly, and the water head in front was the highest, and the follow-up slowly no longer exceeded the riverbed.
Abdullah's army on the other side was not so lucky, Ma Lan did not give them a signal at all, and hundreds of Syrian fighters who did not have time to retreat were swept into the huge wave and disappeared without a trace in an instant.
Abdullah, the governor of the Great Food, stood on the shore, and when the waves rushed in, the head of the water rushed directly to the back of the war horse, and his whole body was wet and he was also frightened. Now that the water had passed, Abdullah breathed a sigh of relief, and was extremely shocked as he watched the blood-colored torrent of the huge waves rolling by.
The army of nearly 10,000 Kufa, who was still alive just now, was carried away by a wave of floods. Except for a few lucky ones who dragged the mane of the war horse, the others were all loaded and floated in the flood, and with the rolling water flowing downstream at high speed, they couldn't survive.
If Khalid had handed over his military power and he had launched a strong attack on the Tang army with 60,000 soldiers, he would have been in this river of blood by now.
Thinking of this, Abdullah was terrified for a while. The Tang general's methods were really vicious, but they were extremely effective. Fortunately, Khalid did not give up his military power, otherwise he would have died now.
Ma Lan urged the horse to the river, looking at the fat and strong Arab war horses in the river, with a smile on his face. This time, one person and one Arabian horse should be no problem.
After the initial panic, these miraculous mounts swam with great ease in the blood-colored floods, most of them being swept downstream along the river, and a few of them swimming to the banks.
One by one, the Great Eclipse War Horse rushed to the shore from the current, and under Ma Lan's order, hundreds of Anxi athletes got off the war horse and grabbed the reins of the Great Eclipse War Horse and gathered them together.
It's a pity that too many horses have been shot, otherwise they would have been able to get more. For the war horse of the big cannibal, Ma Ling has long coveted it. This time he shot and killed tens of thousands of Arabian horses, and he also felt extremely sorry in his heart.
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The blood-colored flood surged through the valley for more than ten minutes, and then slowly began to fall, and the color began to fade. Most of the nearly 10,000 Kufa cavalry perished in the flood, and only a few narrowly escaped.
After half an hour, the water in the riverbed finally returned to its original appearance, but it was not only a few zhang, but it filled most of the riverbed, but the depth was not deep, and it was clear and surging.
Now is the time when the river is at its most abundant, and that's what this great river is.
Six thousand Don troops stood on the shore, opposite Abdullah's Syrian corps. The two Tang armies, which were reserves, scattered upstream and downstream, one part stepping directly into the river, and the other part on the riverbank, began to gather the big food war horses everywhere.
Abdullah gave the order, and the soldiers of the Syrian legion divided into parts, and also galloped up and down the river bank, collecting all the horses.
Abdullah was also a smart man, and understood that the Tang army finally drowned the remaining Kufa with water, and the purpose was to want these mounts, so naturally he wanted to collect the mounts and give them to the Tang people.
In the upper reaches of the river, Pinghu had disappeared, and the three hundred Tang army scouts ignored Bageri and the citizens of your Shabul city led by him, and galloped downstream along the river, while collecting the Kufa cavalry mounts they encountered.
If it was just the total annihilation of the Kufa cavalry, where would it be so troublesome, this time it took so much manpower to build a dam and release water, and these divine horses were their target.
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The reserve searched for more than ten miles downstream, and obtained a full seven or eight thousand war horses, all of which were driven back.
The soldiers of the Syrian legion collected thousands of horses left behind by the Kufa cavalry, and Abdullah ordered the group to set up camp by the river, and he himself led hundreds of soldiers to drive the herd of horses across the river to the opposite bank.
Abdullah is over forty years old, he has always been proud of his height and fitness, and when he saw Ma Lu, he found that he was half a head lower than Ma Luan, and then looked at Tang Jun up close, all of them were extremely tall and long, and he was secretly amazed in his heart.
"General, this is my master, Abdullah, the governor of Syria." The earless Persian merchant walked at the front and introduced to Marla.
Ma Ling sat on the horse's back and nodded faintly.
"Greetings to you, General Marlin, your most loyal friend, Abdullah of the Prophet's family." Abdullah bowed slightly to Ma Lu, looking extremely humble, "These war horses should be what the general wants, I will give them to the general, and the general should be able to see Abdullah's kindness." ”
Ma Ling nodded, and hundreds of Anxi athletes walked over and took the reins from the Syrian warriors.
With these additions, there are 15,000 war horses, and this harvest is also extremely good.
"The General's army is the most powerful I have ever seen. It is impossible for any army to continue to exist in the face of the army of the general. It was Abdullah's honor that the General chose to work with me instead of with the stupid and arrogant Mansour. Abdullah continued to speak humbly.
can judge the situation, but he is also a character. No wonder he can be the number one political enemy of a generation of British lord Mansour, and this Abdullah is not an idiot.
Abdullah's posture was low enough, and Ma Lan no longer held the shelf, jumped off the back of the war horse, stepped forward and patted Abdullah's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Friends from afar, Ma Lan welcomes your arrival." Please come to my tent for a drink, we still have a lot to talk about. ”
Abdullah smiled and nodded, and turned back and ordered the hundreds of Syrian fighters who had come with their horses to go back the way they came, leaving only the guy who had no ears.
Seeing this, Ma Lu couldn't help but look up at this guy, and ordered someone to bring a war horse to Abdullah, and the two galloped to the camp in the rear together. (To be continued.) )