Chapter 41: The Situation on the Battlefield
"Modern China has always had few failed heroes, few resilient resistance, few warriors who dared to fight alone, and few hangers who dared to cry traitors; When they saw the signs of victory, they gathered one after another, and when they saw the signs of defeat, they fled one after another. From the martial spirit of the Tang Dynasty to the present can only be seen in history books, which is a kind of sadness. The people of my life, we should remember the mentality of our ancestors as a great country, just like the Tang Army marching all over the world and standing proudly in the world, only then can we be true heroes. -- Tang Minguo. Lu Xun, Honorary Professor of the School of Liberal Arts, Nanshan Academy......
On the plain battlefield in the valley, the two torrents collided violently, all the soldiers changed into melee equipment, the archers took out the three-edged military thorns on their waists, the Xuanjia soldiers held their shields high, and the soldiers of the Tiger Ben battalion behind them stretched out their swords from the gaps in their shields, and they marched forward in groups of ten and fifty people.
For this style of play of the Tang people, the Arabs are obviously a little uncomfortable, the shield on the opposite side is held high, there is nowhere to start, but as long as they get close to the shield, it is very likely to be stabbed in the stomach by the elusive long knife that sprang out of the shield.
Since the Great Eclipse Legion was driven by the Great Eclipse Gaburo's light infantry, and the Sassanid cavalry pressed the formation, their main cavalry could not join the battle at the first time, which also made them suffer a big loss.
However, the battle line stretched for several miles, and soon, more and more soldiers were able to participate in the battle head-on, and not far from the frontal battlefield, there was a large food elite soldier standing still, like a dormant beast in the long mountain wind and yellow sand, silent and silent like a forest. At the foot of the formation, a general is covered in fish scale armor. Large black cloak. His face was full of beard. Carrying the famous sword of Damascus Haoyue, it is Qi Yad, who is known as the first fierce general of Great Food Khorasan. Ibn . Surrey. Behind him were 3,000 Iron Guards in chain mail and iron spears.
Qi Yade was like a hunting lion, his sharp eyes were fixed on the flying banner in the crowd, and the huge word 'Tang' made his eyes more and more cold.
Behind him were the bravest warriors in all of Khorasan, with infantry armed with spears and huge shields, swords on their shoulders, and archers with Arab longbows on their backs. There were also a large number of white cavalry armed to the teeth with helmets, cuirasses, spears, and battle axes, who rode horses as fast as the wind, and were the proudest warriors of the caliphate, as well as Misius. An ace army in Kyle's hands.
The Tang army has occupied the advantage of Nuo at this moment, the strength of the army is gradually moving closer to the weak links of the two wings, the soldiers are in the camp, the big food army is beaten back again and again, the commander Li Ji ordered to beat the war drum at this moment and adjusted the formation from the sharp arrow array to the yoke array, the yoke array is similar to the long snake in the form of multiple columns side by side, the combat effectiveness is longer, and the snake formation is stronger. The Xuanjia battalion, which has the strongest combat effectiveness, pressed the formation in a staggered way of cover. The whole army marched in the direction of the big food barracks.
"Governor, the Tang army is too strong! The warriors of the empire are dying! Let's charge! "At Ziyard's side. A tall sergeant with yellow sideburns stepped forward and said very anxiously.
Ziyad was still staring at the battlefield in the distance, as if he was desperately looking for something.
Before Sergeant Huang could continue to speak, "The Governor's urgent order!" From a distance, a ten-captain wearing glaive armor rushed by, and he panted and said, "General Qiyad, the governor has an urgent order!" He presented a parchment handbook to Ziyad, spread out the parchment scroll, Ziyad quickly swept the words on the handwriting, raised his head, and shouted: "Allah is above, the governor has an order, Ziyad's army launched an attack on the left side of the Tang army!" Come with me to exterminate these damned infidels! Followers of Allah, rush! ”
With Qi Yade's order, more than 8,000 cavalrymen in white robes, armed with spears and scimitars behind him were also like the wind, rushing straight towards the infantry on the left flank of the Tang army.
However, Qi Yad could not do so, because when his army was still hundreds of meters away from the infantry corps on the left flank of the Tang Army, a white-clothed young general wearing the silver scale armor of the Tang Army also rushed out with thousands of cavalry.
"Hahaha, want to sneak attack the left flank of our army? You cannibals aren't stupid, but if you want to get over, you have to pass our level first, brothers, kill! The silver-armored young general led a kind of Tang cavalry to block the left flank of the Qiyad army and the Tang army, lined up in front, and he was still speaking words that Qiyad could not understand.
On the battlefield, there was no communication, both sides had already killed red eyes, and without waiting for the commander to say anything more, the cavalry of the two sides launched an attack, when the distance between the two sides was about fifty paces, I saw that the cavalry of the big food let out a shout, and a row of shuttle darts was thrown in the direction of the Tang army.
However, the power of these shuttle darts is not great, the Tang Dynasty's new style of well-textured steel Ming Guang Kai effectively protected the cavalry of the Tang Army, only a few people were injured, but only this, it also inspired the ferocity of the Tang Army, many cavalry were loudly reprimanded, and the silver-armored young general led by him was even more angry, and rushed to the front of the army like a bird on his war horse and shouted: "Shameless barbarians, dare to bid to hurt people, grandpa will teach you a good lesson today!" ”
In the blink of an eye, the horse lance flasher at the flat end of the Xuanjia Army, and the cold light pierced the enemy group. The horses of the two sides collided with each other, and the weapons made a dull sound on the people, and more than half of the cavalry of the cavalry corps of Dashi were equipped with heavy armor, and the Tang army did not take advantage of the armor.
However, in the use of weapons, the Tang army's heavy horse lance had a lot of upper hand in the confrontation with the spears and scimitars of the Arab cavalry, and soon dozens of Arab cavalry fell from their horses, and the Tang soldiers were magnificent, and the silver-armored general led by him was even more unstoppable.
Ziyad was a veteran general who had been killed for a long time, and after seeing that the form was wrong, he immediately changed his tactics, and he ordered the Arab cavalry to avoid the frontal edge of the Tang army, and took advantage of the light and swiftness of the Arab horses to carry out harassing attacks on the Tang army's formation. At this time, the Tang army began to become a little difficult, the horses of the Tang army were not as strong as the big cannibals, and they were inferior in speed and endurance, on the one hand, the speed was not as good as the other party, and in addition, they had to maintain the formation, although it was easy to break up the small-scale impact of the Arab cavalry, but the battle was not large, so that the archers on both sides killed and injured each other. Compared with the archers of their old rivals, the Turkic soldiers, in terms of strength and skill, the archers of the Arab cavalry were much inferior......
The battle continued in such a stalemate atmosphere, both sides were numerous, and there were no particularly obvious advantages and disadvantages for a while, you came and went, and there were mutual damages, if the fight continued like this, it was very likely that the two sides would sound the gong and collect their troops when it was getting late, send a small number of soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and wait until the next day to fight.
But no one noticed that while the army was fighting, a group of men and horses equipped with strange weapons quietly bypassed the foothills, and behind this army, there were more than a dozen huge monsters spitting black smoke, and their main commander was a bald man...... (To be continued......)