The ten thousand Anxi athletes under his command are the source of his confidence. The 10,000 Mo Sword Knights are all equipped with new crossbow arrows, and it can be said that it is already a new type of army that has surpassed this era, and there is no army in this world that can match this army.

No matter how many soldiers Hajd had under the governor of Khorasan, there was always a time to kill them all. Since Hajid himself sent it to the door, it is better to take the city of Mulu and wait for Abdullah's messenger in the city of Mulu.

This war did not allow the Sogdians to move, because it was useless to have more people. In fact, 10,000 Anxi athletes are enough, and bringing these 10,000 bloodthirsty Turkic miscellaneous soldiers is just because they don't want Anxi athletes to kill too much.

After defeating Hajid's main force and tribal soldiers, it is always necessary to divide the troops to attack the various oases and the future Mulu Massacre. Ma Lan didn't want the Tang athletes to become beasts, so it was more appropriate to leave this kind of dirty work to Qibiye.

Changxingfang was not dispatched, and the Anxi New Army's war horses and camels were enough to carry supplies on their own, and the shortage of materials was supplemented by the transportation of Kangguo merchants. The army left the city and turned to the southwest, and walked hundreds of miles to the shore of the Wuhu River.

There are very few people on the oasis on the banks of the Wuhu River, a large amount of land is deserted, and the villages are empty, and there is not a single person.

This is all the credit of the Tang army rangers, since Li Siye entered the river, this area is completely the world of the Tang army rangers, and the Persians who live here are basically killed. Although the Sogdians were not killed, most of them left the area to avoid being affected.

In summer, the amount of Wuhu water is relatively sufficient, but it is still not too deep, and most places can easily pass through it. After crossing the river, Ma Lan's army set up camp directly by the river and waited for the army of Hajd, the governor of Khorasan.

The most important thing for Ma Lu's march was intelligence, and the scouts on the march were constantly reporting the traces of Hajd's army. Ma Lan knew that Hajid was only more than two hundred miles away from here, and Hajid was here to find the decisive battle of the Tang Army, so he would definitely come to this place.

The camp was built against the water, still the old way, with three layers of barbed wire fence in the middle, and a deep trench in the middle, and the soil was piled up behind the trench to form a smooth slope. Nowadays, there are special tools for digging trenches in the Anxi army, which are designed by the master craftsman Li Xiu, and it is not difficult to dig trenches.

Of the 10,000 troops, 6,000 were stationed in the camp, and 4,000 cavalry were stationed in two parts on both sides of the camp, each with a small battalion. As for the 10,000 Turks in Khamye, they were stationed on the opposite bank, and Ma Lan did not let them cross the river at all.

These people are here to fight with the wind, and crossing the river is only in the way. Let them stay on the other side of the river, and the starting point will be a good deterrent to the Persians.

Yang Pre went out with hundreds of scouts, and teams were in front to probe for the news. By this time, the Tang army no longer had any politeness towards Hajid, relying on powerful crossbow arrows, the Tang army scouts completely controlled the vast area between the two armies, and the scouts sent by Hajid left the army for a few miles at most, and were shot to death by the Tang army's scout team.

In the end, it was simply the Tang scouts who led Hajid's army to the Tang army camp. Hajid's army was surrounded by Tang army scouts who came and went, and the connection with Mulu City was also severed, and Hajid became completely deaf and blind.

Just a few hundred scouts from Yang Pre made the Persians demoralized, and the 20,000 regular army was well-trained, and the morale of the Persian tribes who came to help the war became extremely depressed when they saw such a scene.

In desperation, Hajid had no choice but to give full play to the role of the imam accompanying the army, relying on the imam to boost morale, so as to reluctantly unite the people's hearts and continue to run to Wuhushui with the army.

Hajd had understood that it was the preset battlefield of the Tang people. However, at this time, there was no way back, and it was easy to launch such an offensive, and if they gave up halfway, these Persian tribes would probably no longer want to follow them into battle. And if his operation fails, I am afraid that the position of the governor will not be saved.

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"20,000 regular troops, this is the entire family base of the province of Khorasan. More than half of the hundreds of thousands of tribal warriors are young and strong. Cheng Gong, if all these people die, will we take revenge completely? ”

At the edge of the Wuhu water, Ma Lan looked at the smoke and dust rising from the sky in the distance, and said with a smile.

Duan Xiushi smiled and nodded: "The battle of Tanros River is just this posture. Three years ago, my Tang Jian'er was able to shake several times the enemy, and although he was defeated, he killed a lot of enemies. Now the general's 10,000 iron cavalry is enough to break the enemy even if it is a head-on hard shock, not to mention that there is a hard crossbow in hand. After this battle, the sons and daughters who died in the battle of Talas River can be blinded! ”

Ma Lan squinted and looked ahead, clenched his Mo knife and said with a smile: "How much land can be saved when so many Persians die." The land of at least two armies of the Eighth Army in the river was settled. ”

Duan Xiushi laughed and nodded.

He was a cautious man, but he also had enough faith at this time. After all, today's Tang Army is no longer what it used to be.

Among the 10,000 iron horsemen, more than 300 eight-ox crossbows were prepared, and more than 60 of them were new-style eight-ox crossbows made in Anxi, with a range of 1,200 steps. The total number of Yuanrong crossbows has reached 3,000, and the rest are also equipped with new types of riding crossbows.

The power of these hard crossbows when firing at the same time is absolutely unimaginable, no army can maintain a formation under the salvo of ten thousand crossbows, the strong Tubo people above the Qiangtang cannot, and the black-clothed regular army that has been established for less than five years naturally cannot. As for the Persian peasants who took up arms, it was simply a joke in front of the crossbow array of the Don army.

What's more, now the Tang Army is waiting for work at leisure, and the barbed wire and trenches are enough for the black-clothed cannibals to drink a pot.

The smoke rose higher and higher, and the big cannibal appeared on the horizon and rushed towards the edge of the black water. The Tang army scouts galloped back and forth in front of the two armies, constantly passing messages backwards.

At this distance, there is no point in passing on the message, because the situation of both the enemy and the enemy can be seen at once.

The Great Eclipse soldiers at the front were wearing leather armor, and at a glance they knew that they were the regular army of the Great Cannibals, with half infantry and half cavalry. The guy who was in a scattered formation and didn't even have leather armor was followed by the Persian farmer who came to help in the battle.

In the Battle of Talas, Ziyad occupied the city of Talas before the Tang army, forcing Gao Xianzhi to attack the fortified position, and later turned the tide of the battle with a staggering number of Persian farmers and Sogdians. This time, the Great Cannibal obviously wanted to repeat the old trick, which is why so many Persian farmers came to fight.

More than 100,000 people poured in from above the horizon at the same time, giving people an extremely heavy sense of oppression. Ma Lan patted Qinghai Cong, and Qinghai Cong hissed and jumped out.

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As the Great Cannibal marched in, the formation slowly turned into an arc. The speed on the front slowed slightly, and the speed on both sides increased, and finally the three camps of the Anxi army were slowly surrounded in the middle.

Ma Lan immediately moved before the barracks, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly. This commander of the big cannibals is obviously not a fool, and he is also extraordinary when he comes up.

The Wuhu water is not very wide, and the 10,000 Turkic miscellaneous soldiers camped on the opposite bank saw the dense cannibals, and the camp was already a little panicked, but the Anxi army was extremely quiet here.

When it comes to the critical moment, the only thing that can be trusted is your own troops, and no one else can be relied on. Ma Lan glanced back at the Turkic soldiers behind him, and said secretly in his heart.

The mistakes Gao Xianzhi made in the Battle of Talas, of course, he would not repeat them this time.

After the big cannibals surrounded the Tang army camp, they sat directly on the ground and began to eat, looking at this way, they were actually about to attack without resting.

The flag waved in the Tang army camp, and Yang Yu quickly withdrew with the scouts, galloped past Ma Lan, and rushed into the Chinese army camp along the reserved passage.

"Chenggong, let's go back too!" Ma Lan smiled.

Duan Xiushi and Ma Lu galloped back to the camp with the scouts, the gate of the camp slowly closed, and a dirt slope was erected in the center of the camp, on which a wooden building was built, which was the highest point of the camp. Ma Lan took Duan Xiushi up the wooden building and looked at the big food soldiers who were trying to eat miles away.

After these guys have eaten their fill, the first wave of attacks should begin.

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Khorasan Governor Hajid stood in the middle of the army, looking at the slaughtered Tang army camp, his expression extremely gloomy.

Along the way, he has been constantly harassed by the Tang Army scouts with hard crossbows, and he is about to go crazy. A team of soldiers was sent out to pursue, and when there were fewer people, they were directly besieged and killed by the Tang army scouts, and when there were more people, the Tang army scouts ran away directly with horsepower. Each Tang army scout had three war horses, and his subordinates couldn't catch up at all.

Along the way, just because of the harassment of the Tang army scouts, he had already lost more than a thousand of his subordinates, and hundreds of tribal warriors had died.

This has seriously affected the morale of the army, so it is necessary to rebuild the confidence of the soldiers with a victory. The first battle had to be won in order for the fighters to regain their courage.

Seeing from afar that many Tang scouts had retreated across the Wuhu River, and then galloped along the river to both sides, re-crossing the river far from the army and rounding the rear of his army, Hajid understood that these guys still wanted to sever his connection with Mulu City. However, all the warriors are here, Mulu City is actually an empty city, and there is no point in the Tang Army scouts doing this now.

The Tang army, who was cowering in the barracks, refused to show his head, wanting to use the camp to resist his army. Judging by the size of the camp, he could already judge the number of the Tang army.

The soldiers had eaten enough, and sat on the ground to rest for a while, the imams were hoarse in front of them to boost their morale, and the five thousand elite infantry took the lead and slowly pressed forward in a dense formation, forcing the Tang army camp on the left, and more than 20,000 tribal soldiers followed behind the five thousand infantry, holding various weapons and howling chaotically and rushing forward.

If the Tang army can't shrink back, he must attack the fortification. It is impossible for an army of more than 100,000 people to fight for a long time, so knowing that it will be a great loss, Hajid has no other choice.

He only hoped that Allah would bless the Khorasans and let his warriors storm the camp and wash away the shame of the two years with the blood of the Tang. (To be continued.) )