No matter what conspiracy Ye Chang had, at present, he didn't have time to show it

Ziad didn't want Yuanen's stupidity to ruin his plan, he needed to observe the real combat effectiveness of the Tang army under Ye Chang's command in a real fierce battle, instead of watching the Shi people and the Grolu people deal with themselves carefully in a farce.

The armies in the river were advancing noisily, and the Grolu people were blocked by him, and when they retreated halfway, they had to be coerced and rushed towards the Tang army.

"Hah"

Seeing this scene, Li Siye smiled dumbly, and he turned to his subordinates: "Sons, are you afraid?" ”

"What is so terrible about the rabble"

"Then kill them all and avenge the fallen brothers outside Talas"

"Revenge, revenge, revenge"

Tang Jun roared, the weapons in his hands shook the sky, and the leaders of each team came out with their swords.

"It's still the same, six flower arrays, six flower arrays...... The Tang people have not learned the lesson of outside Talas," Ziad thought with satisfaction.

Although the Tang people lined up the six-flower array and slaughtered the rabble of the countries in the river, in the eyes of Ziad, this six-flower array was much worse than the battle array they had learned from Byzantium. If this is the case, then he still has full confidence in the decisive battle with the Tang Army tomorrow.

For the sergeants of the countries in the river, this six-flower array was an extremely terrifying shock formation, and under the leadership of the leaders of each team, the Tang army was like a meat grinder, penetrating into the armies of the countries in the river. After killing dozens of steps forward, the allied forces of the countries in the river relied on their numerical superiority to block the Tang army.

Bows and arrows rained down on the city, and there were bloody blades under the city. Li Siye was the first, the Mo knife in his hand was specially made, heavier than the ordinary Mo knife, and only a person with great strength like him could run like the wind. The people of the countries of the river, whether they were ordinary soldiers or generals in armor, could not stop him alone in the face of his long sword, and they were either chopped to death or stoned to death.

"Shoot, shoot him, shoot them" Yuan En shouted wildly, he didn't dare to step forward, just whistling behind

His voice came into Li Siye's ears, Li Siye glanced up, vaguely recognized the appearance of this person, and immediately roared and rushed in his direction. The guards beside Yuan En raised their bows and shot indiscriminately, and the soldiers around Li Siye raised their shields to protect him and cover his body, Rao was like this, and there were still a few arrows hanging on the armor on his body.

Fortunately, the armor was protected, and it was lined with silk clothes, and the barbs on the arrows did not penetrate deep into the body, which did not affect Li Siye's combat very much.

"There are fewer troops...... Li Siye was also a little tired at this time, and he thought to himself.

But this is also something that cannot be done, the place outside the tax construction city is not wide, and the military formation of 5,000 people is spread out here, which is already a little narrow.

"Order, cavalry attack" On the city wall, Ye Chang found that the momentum of the Tang army's charge seemed to be declining, and immediately ordered.

This is already a stalemate, and he must use the cavalry as a reserve first, because this is not yet a decisive battle, so he can take advantage of as much as he can.

The sound of the drums at the head of the city suddenly ceased, and was replaced by the sound of a trumpet, and with this trumpet, about five hundred horsemen appeared on the flank of the allied forces of the rivers on the other side of a small stream outside the city.

Ziad immediately noticed this small cavalry, because the equipment of this cavalry made him alert.

The horses on which these cavalrymen rode were slightly different from the horses he had seen before in the Tang army, they were taller and stronger, and they looked like good horses for the Bahans. It is said that in the legend of the Tang Dynasty, the horse of the Bahanna is called the "Great Wanliang Horse", and even among them, there is a bloody horse. These horses were tall and robust, and were not inferior to the horses ridden by the Byzantine knights.

And now these five hundred horsemen look a little like Byzantine knights.

Their whole bodies were covered in heavy armor, and even their war horses were covered with iron armor. They have a lot of weapons in their hands, and now in their hands is a machine crossbow, which Ziyad has already seen, this short crossbow that is fired in his hand, although the range is not far, but it can also be used for long-range strikes.

In addition to the short crossbow, the victory hook on their horses also hung a spear called a horse lance by the Tang people, which was the main assault weapon of the Tang cavalry.

In addition, each knight had two meniscus at his waist, and a small round shield on his left arm.

The cost of such a heavily armed heavy cavalry is definitely not a few, and perhaps only the wealthy Tang Dynasty can easily prepare such a force.

"It's about five hundred cavalry, it looks like there are some changes, the cavalry is not placed behind their military formation, but outside the formation, and during the battle, take the opportunity to wander around, and go around our flank Tang Guo This Ye Chang still learned some lessons丨 Sure enough, it is more difficult to deal with than Gao Xianzhi. However, this can only be useful to the armies of the countries in the river, if we change our army, we don't need the Khorasan elite, that is, the army in my hands, we can ⊥ his small group of heavily armored knights to hit their heads and break their blood. ”

"Let them stand down, rest all night, and see us tomorrow." Qi Yade said: "Summoning Yuan En, he has no effect here, let him go back and organize grain and grass for me - the battle with the Tang people seems to last for a while, this Ye Chang is more difficult to deal with than Gao Xianzhi"

At this time, Ziad was truly determined to completely drive Ye Chang out of the Hezhong region.

The Tang army showed its combat effectiveness in a battle with him, and if he did not take advantage of his own advantage to completely drive the Tang army out, as soon as he retreated, Ye Chang would inevitably seize Talas. Therefore, it is necessary to deal a heavy blow to the Tang Anxi Army, so that they no longer dare to look west

Ziad's order was very timely, and the five hundred horsemen had just begun to cross the river, and only then did they set up a formation on the riverside, and when they were ready to charge, the Great Food Alliance began to shrink back. Originally, the five hundred horsemen were facing the flanks of the armies of the countries in the river, but as they contracted, they became flanks and fronts.

The heavy cavalry began to charge, and when they were forty paces away from the enemy, they shot their crossbows, then left the crossbow machine, grabbed the horse's lance, and clamped it tightly under their arms. It was almost a blink of an eye, and they had already rushed into the formation of the armies in the river.

Ziad looked at the place where they had charged, and there was a large gap in the alliance of the countries of the river, as if they had been stabbed diagonally.

The heavy horses of the Tang people did not last long with the horse lance in their hands, and soon they threw the horse lance again and used a scimitar that was more convenient to swing and slashed. After cutting off a large piece of the alliance of the countries in the river, they killed it diagonally with their scimitars.

If he had given the order to retreat later, he was afraid that he would have lost more troops, although the dead were all heretics in the river, Ziad was not distressed at all, but he was also unwilling to let the Tang people be too arrogant.

"Prepare your formation, meet the attack." He ordered the Great Food Headquarters.

Amidst the shouts and cheers, the headquarters of the Great Food Army began to move forward, and the retreating coalition forces of the river countries separated from the two wings. Ziad glanced at the tax construction city, at this time, the young Tang general, should take it when he sees it, right?

The real big war will only start tomorrow, of course, if the young Tang Army general doesn't know what it means to accept it when he sees it, he will also give him a painful and unforgettable lesson

"The enemy army has retreated, we have the advantage, Zhongcheng, do you want to rush out of the city?" At this time in the city, someone asked Ye Chang.

"Mingjin, collect the troops, let Li Siye come back, you don't have to chase anymore." Ye Chang said: "Today's battle is even over here...... Next, watch the evening. ”

"At night?"

"Yes, at night" Ye Chang squinted and laughed.

Li Siye heard the sound of the gong to collect troops in the city, he was still unsatisfied, but he did not dare to disobey the order, so he had to come back depressed. The two armies disengaged, the Tang army took away all their dead and wounded, and Li Siye hurried to see Ye Chang.

"Zhongcheng, why don't you let the villain chase it, the villain will definitely break the big food army, and he will be ashamed"

"You've done a really good job, look over there." Ye Chang pointed out of the city.

Standing on the top of the city, being able to see farther, Li Siye followed Ye Chang's direction, only to see that a few miles away in the distance, the big cannibals had already lined up in a military formation, and in the open space, if the Tang army chased after them, they would inevitably have to fight with the big cannibals. He had suffered this kind of struggle outside Talas City, and of course he knew that if this was the case, even if he could win, the losses of the Tang army would be very large.

"The big cannibal is prepared, and it is useless to chase it, and we have another plan. You lead your men down to rest first, and it won't be long before you will be used again. ”

Li Siye didn't dare to say anything, so he could only retreat. If Ye Chang treated him like this when Anxi first came, he would definitely ignore Ye Chang, but now it was different, the fiasco between him and Gao Xianzhi fell into Ye Chang's eyes, especially after the fiasco, he abandoned the army and absconded, hurting friendly troops, so that he really couldn't raise his head in front of Ye Chang.

You must know that when they killed their allies and fled, Ye Chang led the army against the trend, blocked the tidal attack of the Great Food Alliance, and even broke through the siege and rescued nearly 30,000 trapped Tang soldiers

He went down the city, and as he passed through the streets, they were bustling with craftsmen and soldiers piling up wood. Li Siye glanced at it and felt a little strange, so he asked someone, "What are you doing here?"

"Zhongcheng has an order, let's tie the wood into a fence and send it to the city tomorrow, as a baffle female wall, to prevent the big cannibal from using a stone thrower"

"This thing to stop the stone thrower?" Li Siye pondered for a while, maybe it would be of some use, but judging from the density of those wooden fences, it was more like a wooden row than a fence.

He shook his head, this Ye Zhongcheng's actions are really incomprehensible.

"It looks like a hard fight......"

Li Siye just left here, and someone came over there with a banner, looking at it, he should be a big cannibal. He was single, slowly approaching, the Tang army rangers left outside flew over and surrounded him, and after a while, someone rushed back to the city and shouted under the city: "Zhongcheng, the Great Food Army has a messenger"

"How dare you send an emissary now?" Ye Chang was a little curious, he cut down two big food messengers who pretended to be from the Shi Kingdom, it stands to reason that the big cannibal should know that he can't talk with his tongue, how could he send a messenger to die again?

"Let him speak." Ye Changdao.

After a while, the messenger was taken to the city, he dismounted, put his hands on his chest, and bowed to Ye Chang in the city.

"Osama has seen the generals of the Tang Dynasty." This guy can speak Mandarin quite fluently.

"What are you here for?" Ye Chang said: "It's simpler. ”

"I came on the orders of General Ziad, and General Ziad asked me to convey to you that although the positions of the two sides are not the same, Da Shi and Da Tang have at least one thing in common, that is, respect for warriors. On the battlefield of Talas, the corpses left behind by the Tang warriors were buried with dignity, and the wounded were properly treated. Hopefully, Datang will treat Da Shi equally, and if you can agree to this under the inspiration of the true God, we will send a team of 200 people, unarmed, to the outside of the city to treat the wounded and transport the dead. ”

Ye Chang raised his eyebrows in some surprise, not only him, but also the Tang Army generals around him also had the same expression.

General Da Shi made this request, which was completely unexpected by them.

Ye Chang pondered for a while, he wanted to use these dead and wounded of the alliance of the countries to train the military doctors. However, there will be this kind of material anyway, this time, just promise the other party.

"Go back and tell General Ziad that the Tang Dynasty is a country of benevolence and righteousness, and China is a country of etiquette. Since he treats him with courtesy, we will also respond in reciprocal manners, and he can send three hundred men, and our sergeants will keep them safe. Ye Chang raised his voice and said, "However, we will not return the prisoners." ”

"My master will surely thank you for your kindness." That Osama bowed again and saluted Ye Chang: "My master also said that it is his honor to be able to see your command skills and warriors under his command today, and he is looking forward to being able to fight you on the front line tomorrow." ”

This is an open battle, but Ziad meant, of course, is not that the two armies will fight alone, but that tomorrow will be an all-out siege of the city. To some extent, this is also a demonstration to Ye Chang and at the same time exert pressure.

These big cannibals will also play psychological warfare, but for Ye Chang, this set has no effect. Ye Chang smiled slightly: "Is General Ziad really saying that, you also tell him, we will meet soon."

Osama saluted for the third time, then turned and rode away, Ye Chang watched him go away, and when he became a small dot, he raised his binoculars.

In the telescope lens, Osama came to the foot of a hill, led his horse up the mountain, and saluted in front of a group of bearded cannibals, one of whom asked him something, and he replied and pointed in this direction.

The bearded man also looked over here, and Ye Chang could clearly see the expression on his face with some surprise.

The bearded man is Ziade, he was surprised that Ye Chang agreed naturally, and there was another reason, that when he saw the head of the tax construction city, he didn't know what the road was, and reflected the sunlight, which made him look at it, which was a little dazzling.