Chapter 189: Steel Storm

The camp of the Great Cannibals was built in a very simple way, that is, patches of tents surrounded by each other. There were miles between the two armies, which was already more than the range of the new eight-bull crossbow.

Although the Tang army was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of cannibals in the middle, it was the party that took the initiative, and the Tang army scouts came and went in the open space between the two armies, and the big cannibals could only shrink into the camp and could not come out at all.

The imams who accompanied the army tried their best to boost their morale, and after a long time, the big cannibals quieted down. The corpses of the five thousand Mulu elites who died in the battle were piled up there, and the big cannibals couldn't collect the corpses, and the Tang Army didn't pay attention to them at all.

The big cannibals came from afar, naturally they wanted to rest, but the Tang army scouts refused to give them a chance to rest, and a group of Tang army scouts flew across and across the plane, galloping over and over again from the arc-shaped front of the big cannibals, although they did not attack, but let the big cannibals maintain pressure all the time.

It's not that they can't attack, and the scouts can easily kill and injure the outermost cannibal with the advantage of crossbow arrows, but Ma Lan doesn't want to make the big cannibal feel desperate at this time.

What he wants to do is to annihilate these big cannibals. The persecution was too tight, and the cannibals scattered in a hurry, but they could not achieve the expected goal.

It is enough to maintain a moderate amount of pressure so that the big cannibal cannot sleep peacefully.

Behind the encirclement of the Great Cannibals, there were already a large number of Tang Army scouts bypassing the past, still cutting off the connection between the Great Cannibal and the Mulu.

During the battle, Ma Lan attached great importance to intelligence, scouts were the key to it, and the intelligence was constantly gathered, and he knew the situation of the entire battlefield.

In the camp of the Turkic soldiers, the Turkic warriors gnawed the jerky, and each one held their weapons tightly in their hands.

General Chebi's order has been handed down, and they are ready for tonight's sortie.

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As the sky grew darker, torches were lit in both camps. The teams of fire dragons that came and went in the open space were naturally arrogant Tang Army scouts.

Khorasan Governor Hajid stood on a high slope, frowning and his face gloomy, thinking in his heart how to destroy the enemy while praying to Allah's blessing.

It would be nice if there was a heavy rain.

In the battle of Talas Chuan, it was a timely heavy rain that made the Tang army's crossbow arrows unable to function, and finally allowed Ziyad to achieve a big victory. If there had been a heavy rain, he would have been able to achieve victory like Ziad that night.

However, Allah does not seem to be on his side today, there is not a cloud in the sky during the day, Hajd prayed for a long time, and the imagined heavy rain naturally did not come.

This high slope is the commanding height in the camp, facing the Tang Army, standing in this place, the entire battlefield Hajid can see clearly. In front of him was the Tang army camp, and between the two armies were the arrogant Tang army scouts, and those who shouted loudly with torches behind his army were also arrogant Tang army scouts.

More than 100,000 troops surrounded the Tang people, but it was as if they were surrounded by the Tang army, which made Hajid extremely depressed.

However, there was no way, the crossbow arrows of the Tang Army scouts were too fierce. In the battle of the Talas River, he had already seen the power of the Tang Army's crossbow arrows, but this time, the benefits of the Tang Army's crossbow arrows were even more terrifying than those of the Talas River.

There was no rain, no night raids and the like, and the two sides were safe and sound this night. The difference was that the Anxi army was well rested, because the situation on the entire battlefield was under their control. And before and after the big cannibals, there were arrogant Tang army scouts, and the sound of horses' hooves and the shouts of the scouts rang all night, and they were worried that the Tang people would attack at any time, so most of them did not sleep well.

In the early morning of the second day, the sun had not yet risen by the Wuhu water, and the weather was extremely cool, which was a good time to fight.

After the big cannibal knelt on the ground and prayed, it turned out to be the whole army coming out, densely squeezing in the direction of the Tang army camp.

Hajid had not been idle last night, and the most devout warriors of the various warring tribes had gathered together with him, ready to use their lives to open the way for the army.

There are few Tang soldiers, and the materials can be consumed, but he can't afford to consume them. The morale of the army has reached an extremely low level, and if they don't fight, they will be scattered in a hurry. So although he knew that such a strong attack would be a loss, Hajid had no other choice.

The direction of Hajid's main attack was the Chinese camp of the Tang army, and more than 30,000 of the most pious tribal warriors and his 15,000 elite soldiers were placed in this direction.

The imams shouted frantically to boost morale, and more than 100,000 people trampled on the ground like a wall. The war drums rumbled in the Tang army camp and the flags were unfurled, and the hundreds of Tang army scouts between the two armies did not love to fight, and rushed directly into the camp with a roar, and at the same time sprinkled sharp thistles on the road into the camp.

The door of the Tang Army's camp slowly closed, and the three camps in the morning light were like three monsters, ready to devour people's lives at any time.

Outside the two small camps on either side, the tribal warriors stopped when they approached Rich, and did not attack. Today's task is not to attack, but to block the Tang army in the camp from reinforcing the middle camp.

Surrounded by a large army, Hajid approached the camp of the Central Army of the Tang Army, stopped a few miles away from the camp of the Don Army, and roared to give orders.

Although he was warlike, it was not easy to reach the position of governor of Khorasan, so he was extremely sorry for his life, and this time he had no intention of fighting in person.

More than 50,000 people were not prepared to surround the camp of the Chinese army of the Tang army from three sides, but all concentrated on the front. With Hajid's order, the dense crowd of tribal warriors rushed out with a howl.

These were Hu Da's most devout followers, hated the infidels the most, and their mission was to fill the damned trenches with their bodies, so that the soldiers who followed would rush over with their corpses and level the Tang camps.

Behind these tribal warriors, fifteen thousand Mulu elite soldiers are ready to attack at any time. This is all Hajid's hole cards, and it is also his last capital. As long as this camp of the Tang army is breached, the victory belongs to him Hajid. If it is defeated, then the whole of Khorasan will fall into the hands of the Tang people.

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The front-line tribal warriors rushed to the edge of the trench, shouted Hu Da's name, and jumped directly into the trench. The sharp and dense thistles in the trench made them scream loudly, and then the men behind jumped down and pressed down on them.

These are the craziest Persians, Ma Ling thought to himself as he stood tall in the center of the camp and looked at it.

These guys are dead, and the rest of the tribal soldiers are weak lambs.

Ma Lan waved his hand, Tian Mingyuan waved the order flag rapidly, and the athletes who had already prepared sat on the backs of war horses or camels, and reacted at the same time.

The giant arrows of the Eight Ox Crossbow were the first to shoot out with a terrifying whistling sound, followed by the steel arrows shot by the Yuan Rong crossbow and the riding crossbow, and the sky was suddenly dark, and the crossbow arrows were so dense that they even collided in the air!

The fence of the camp was not very high, and it was not blocked by the fence when you sat on horseback and shot. The Anzai athletes have undergone rigorous training and have an excellent grasp of shooting through the Lookout Mountain. When the rain fell, the front of the first trench suddenly became an open space, and no one survived in the area covered by the rain.

The eight-bull crossbow attacked the enemy further back, and the Chinese army had more than 100 new and old eight-bull crossbows, and more than 400 giant arrows fell into the crowd of people rushing forward like a storm, raging in the crowd, and the giant arrows several feet long nailed the big cannibals to the ground, and the dying big cannibals twitched violently on the giant arrows, making all kinds of miserable howls.

"Kill! Kill all these infidels! ”

Hajid roared loudly with red eyes, and the imams shouted after the army. Such horrific casualties did not deter these tribal warriors, who were already prepared to die when they volunteered to participate in the offensive.

This volley of more than 6,000 Tang troops left a large open space on the side of the trench, and thousands of tribal warriors fell in pools of blood. The clan warriors shouted and trampled on the corpses of the battle dead and continued to rush towards the edge of the trench.

Another rain of arrows fell, but it was much sparser than before. This is the Yuan Rong crossbow in single-shot mode. In this mode, the Yuan Rong crossbow is the Tang crossbow with the shortest firing interval.

Hundreds more tribal warriors fell, but many more jumped into the trenches in fit. The men behind stepped on the bodies of the fighters in front of them, trying to climb up the slope, swinging their weapons to smash the dense barbed wire in front.

Courage is also contagious, and these tribal soldiers who have already embraced the will to die infect their companions behind them. Another wave of arrows flew out of the Tang army's camp, turning the edge of the trench into an open space again, but the tribal warriors behind did not have the slightest fear, and continued to rush desperately towards the front.

The first trench was finally filled with human bodies, and the barbed wire at the top of the slope was covered with the corpses of the Persians. At this time, the crossbowmen of the Anxi Army had already shot five waves of arrows, and the Yuanrong crossbowmen had shot all ten crossbow arrows into the air, and the large ground behind the first wave of trenches was full of corpses, and the soldiers of the Great Food tribe did not know how many had died.

No matter how great the courage is, it is meaningless under the crossbow array of the Tang Army. After all, it is just flesh and blood, and it is extremely fragile under the steel storm.

Ma Lu gave an order, and the Yuan Rong crossbowman began to quickly re-press the crossbow arrows into the groove, and the crossbowmen stopped shooting for the time being.

There were so many corpses in the clearing in front of the trench that the Persian soldiers who rushed up behind them could no longer stand, and they had to wait for them to fill the clearing again, or else there would be a waste of crossbow arrows.

Although hundreds of thousands of Persians were menacing, Ma Lan never looked at it. Every Anxi athlete shot a dozen to death, and the problem was solved.

The reserve of crossbow arrows is sufficient, but it is better to save a little as much as possible, after all, every crossbow arrow has to be transported from Qiuzi, and it is extremely difficult to transport it. (To be continued.) )