Chapter 489: A Fierce Messenger
The sound of heavy horses' hooves was extremely neat, like a drum, and the horses' hooves were wrapped in hooves, which were not affected by the mud. The cavalry of the Tang Army formed a small front arrow formation and galloped towards the city of Isfahan at high speed. The athletes on horseback did not hold the Yuanrong crossbow in their hands, but all carried heavy Mo knives.
Although there are less than 100 people, it has its own momentum like a sea of mountains. The cavalry approached the city at high speed, and the Persians saw the arrival of the cavalry in the barracks outside the city, but they would not leave the camp until they received the order to attack.
The most devout Mavari have all been killed in battle, they have all been driven over, and they do not have much will to fight, so they naturally refuse to fight the enemy casually.
The closed city gate suddenly opened, and hundreds of food eaters rushed out with shouts and rushed towards the Tang cavalry.
For Ibrahim, such a provocation is intolerable. Such a small cavalry actually dared to come to the city of Isfahan to show off its might, if it didn't give the Tang people a little color, it would inevitably make the morale of the people who had just been raised drop again.
These hundreds of people are his elite, and they are all old subordinates who have followed him in the battle since the establishment of the army under the city of Rai. He didn't have many cavalry, and if it weren't for the fact that the Tang people were too arrogant, he wouldn't use them easily.
The air was extremely humid, neither side used their bows and arrows, and the soldiers at the head of the city shouted loudly to cheer up the great cannibal cavalry below. The two cavalry approached at high speed in the mud and suddenly collided with each other.
The cavalry of the Tang Army lined up in a sharp formation was like a sharp knife, and the distance between them was almost the same, the moment they pierced into the Great Eclipse Cavalry. In an instant, blood splattered. Between the swings of the Mo knife. One by one, the Great Eater Knights fell straight down.
Although they did not have an advantage in numbers, they were all good hands, and the Great Eater Knights who were in front of them were cut down one by one, and the Sharp Arrow Formation broke into the Great Eater Cavalry at high speed, and soon completed a perfect chisel piercing.
Ma Xuan held the Mo knife with one arm, and the spur lightly hit Qinghai Cong, Qinghai Cong hissed and turned around, turned around and continued to rush towards the Great Food Cavalry. Behind him. The strongest Anxi athletes followed closely and rushed into the midst of the Great Eclipse Cavalry, which had been scattered in formation.
The athletes of the new army in Anxi can use the Mo knife on horseback, all of them are grown up and powerful, and those who followed Ma Lu here this time are all lieutenant generals and colonels, and they are all highly skilled people in the new army. Among these people, there are many characters who are like a hundred enemies, and although the Great Food Cavalry is more numerous, they can't take advantage of them at all.
War horses are the most spiritual creatures, and they will not really collide with their kind when hedging, and Qinghai skulls rush into the crowd. Ma Lan let out a long laugh, and had already cut a big food knight in front of him into two with his horse.
The generals and lieutenants behind him followed closely. Shouted and waved the knife, the sword light flew like snowflakes, just like harvesting wheat, and where the knife light passed, the successive big food knights were killed by the Mo knife.
This time, he just played the role of a messenger and put Jafar. The news of Sadiq's capture was sent to the city of Isfahan, and at the same time he saw the city with his own eyes, but since the big cannibal himself sent it to the door, it would be good to practice the sword with his hands.
Although there are less than 100 of the most elite athletes in the new army of Anxi, they are definitely a force to be reckoned with. Ibrahim's army was formed under the city of Rai, and the battle time was not long, and his cavalry was not even comparable to the knights of the Syrian army in Abdullah's hands, and they could not be compared with the Anxi elite cavalry after a hundred battles, and these people in front of him were the best of the Anxi elite cavalry, and the two sides were not of the same level at all. Therefore, although the Great Eclipse cavalry had a clear numerical advantage, the battle quickly became a one-sided situation.
Another perfect chisel pierced, and only half of the Great Eater cavalry rushed out was left, and the formation became even more scattered. On the side of the Anxi army, only a few people were slightly injured.
High in the city, Caliph Ibrahim's heart was bleeding. These Tang cavalry don't have bows and crossbows at all, but they are so strong!
Naturally, he couldn't guess that the enemy's commander had personally arrived at the city, and if he knew, he was afraid that he would have to think of leaving this cavalry here at all costs.
These cavalry were his treasures, but they were so vulnerable to the enemy. Ibrahim's face twitched sharply, and he looked at the soldiers struggling to survive under the long knives of the Tang people, and quickly gave the order to retreat.
After all, his subordinates are real troops, orders and prohibitions can still be done, and the execution is not bad, after hearing the signal to withdraw to the city, they did not hesitate at all, and rode to the city one after another. The cavalry of the Tang Army dispersed in an instant, chasing after the fleeing Great Eclipse Cavalry, and the Great Eclipse Cavalry was constantly cut down under the horse.
Ma Lu chased after the front, and killed the most people, and suddenly a ballista hit above the city, and landed not far ahead. It didn't hit him, but it knocked down a piece of the Great Eater Cavalry who was fleeing for his life.
Ma Lan laughed, and then restrained the war horse and stopped pursuing. Further on, he was within the range of the ballista at the head of the city, and he was nothing, only afraid of hurting the rest of his robes.
The people who came with him were either generals or captains, and they didn't move forward at this time, and they all strangled their horses behind Ma Lu.
Hundreds of food eaters rushed out of the city gate, and in the end less than a hundred people managed to run back, except for the dozen or so unlucky ones who were killed by ballistas, all the rest fell under Ma Lu's Mo knife.
He didn't use crossbow arrows, and it was a melee fight alone that led to a hearty victory.
Ma Lan's face was hidden under his helmet, and when he looked up at the city, he also saw Caliph Ibrahim standing on a high place.
This is also an old man, and the Shiites built up their army under the city of Rai, which was done under his persecution. Ibrahim was looking at him with an angry expression, but he clearly didn't recognize his identity.
Storming the city is not a problem, but in order to reduce your own losses, a decisive battle outside the city is still the best option.
"Zhengde!"
"Yes! Checkmate! ”
The condor archer Li Zhengde nodded, and the seven-stone bow bent the bow and shot an arrow, and a frighteningly long arrow came out of the string and landed on the half-open city gate.
Then Li Zhengde bent his bow and arrows one after another, and shot out one long arrow after another. On top of each arrow, the same message is written.
Some of the arrows landed at the head of the city, some flew directly into the city, and some flew into several nearby military camps. It won't be long before Jafar. The news of Sadigh's capture by the Don army will spread inside and outside the city of Isfahan.
This is the main purpose of Ma Lu's visit this time, and the fight with the Great Food Cavalry is purely an accident. This time, I didn't prepare to kill, and it was impossible to rely on these dozens of people to attack the fortified city opposite. However, since the Great Food Cavalry sent it to the door, it was naturally disrespectful.
After doing what he had to do, Ma Lan glanced at the city of Isfahan again, turned his horse's head with the lieutenant and the generals, and went back to the way he came.
Once the message is delivered, the rest is simple. Whatever Ibrahim thought, he had to leave the city of Isfahan to rescue the saint Jafar. Sadigh.
He became caliph by Ja'far. Sadigh's appeal. This saint-like being, the absolute spiritual leader, is now Jafar. Sadiq was captured and was about to be killed by the Anxi Army to sacrifice the banner and not save Jafar. Sadigh, Ibrahim's army will not agree, but they are afraid that they will rebel immediately.
Leaving the fortified city, Ibrahim lost his only advantage. The flat area around Hiraoka was an excellent place for cavalry to charge, and it was a perfect battlefield for the new army of Anzai, which was all cavalry.
After doing what was to be done, it was time for the Messenger to go back.
Qinghai Cheng ran on the Pingchuan, dozens of young officers followed closely behind Ma Lu, talking and laughing loudly, laughing at the cowardice and uselessness of the enemy, and there was a rainbow in the distance in the sky, which was a beautiful scene that could only be seen after the summer rain.
Ma Ling sat on the horse's back, squinting at the lush summer scenery in front of him.
During the battle, I encountered heavy rain, and this is the second time since I came to this plane.
The first time was on the battlefield of the Battle of Talas.
When I read history in my previous life, I didn't know anything about the famous defeat of the Tang Dynasty, just the words "night rain, military solution", and at the beginning of coming to this world, he appeared on the battlefield of the Battle of Talas.
Ziad preemptively occupied the city of Talas, and the surprise attack turned into a siege of the city, and the elite Anxi army was still brave, fighting against 200,000 aliens alone, but a heavy rain in the dark night changed the tide of the war.
The bloody battle in the rain that night is still vividly remembered.
In the dark night, the heavy rain was pouring down, and the Qarluqs who were requisitioned could not bear the pressure and fled in the night rain, and the Anxi Iron Army fell into the situation of being attacked on the back of the enemy in an instant. The tall general took advantage of the night to escape, and in the heavy rain, the strong bows and crossbows became decorations, and the alien races surged up densely......
That heavy rain changed the fate of the Tang army and tilted the balance of victory to the side of the big cannibals. And because of his appearance, the history of the Anxi Army also changed.
That was the first time, and this is the second time.
It rained a lot, and there will definitely be heavy rains.
But this time...... A tragedy like the Battle of Talas could not have been staged.
In the Battle of Talas, although he brought back most of the prisoners of war afterwards, there were thousands of Anxi athletes buried in the Talas River. If it weren't for that heavy rain, Gao Xianzhi, the king of the mountains, would have been able to win.
Since the Battle of Talas, he has become the lord of the moraine until now, it has been smooth sailing, good luck seems to have been following him, the battle in the rain has never happened, now that I think about it, for several years, I have not encountered a heavy rain, which in itself is also weird.
And now, it is finally before the big war that it rains. When Ibrahim's army arrives, it may be a rain battle. Since the formation of the new army in Anxi, there has never been such a battle.
It is difficult to predict what kind of impact this rain will have on both sides. (To be continued.) )