504 Arab Army counterattack
"Datang, what kind of country is it?"
"Is the Tang Army so powerful?"
In a short period of time, the Arab army, which lost three large cities in the northwest of Tianzhu, finally let go of its arrogance and began to face up to this strong enemy that appeared in front of them.
Because of the speed of news transmission, they didn't know that the entire Arab army east of Tianzhu had become a pot of porridge with the Tang Expeditionary Force.
Rashid, the Arab general who was now in Modra, gathered together the generals of several nearby cities.
In front of them were Arab soldiers who had fled from the breached city.
After listening to the description of the Arab soldiers below, several Arab generals were a little stunned.
Can you still play like this in war?
Shouldn't it be that everyone puts up a position, and then suppresses it with bows and arrows first, and then the cavalry rushes into battle?
It's too dirty to pretend to be us Arabs again and again, to trick our army into the side and then kill them, right?
"General Rashid, our Arab Empire is a people on horseback, and it is because they passively defend the city that they are broken one by one."
"Yes, we captured Tianzhu at that time, and it was because of the scattered forces in their various cities that we were all defeated, and we can't make the same mistake as Tianzhu did now."
"We should now gather all our forces and crush them in one fell swoop with our strongest heavy cavalry!"
From those deserters, I learned that the Tang army only had more than 20,000 people, and their Arab Empire's army in the northwest region had 100,000, plus later captured a lot of Tianzhu troops and threw them into the slave army, and now the total strength is at least 140,000, even if the three cities lost about 30,000 people, there are still a full 100,000 troops.
They firmly believe that if they had not fallen for the conspiracy of the Tang Army, then they would definitely not have lost to the Tang Army.
Now as long as the 100,000 army finds the main force of the Tang Army, it will definitely be able to annihilate the other party.
"So now we have to give up all the cities we occupy?" Rashid asked.
"If we can occupy it once, we can occupy it a second time, and now the Tianzhu people no longer have the strength to occupy the city, if there is, it will only be the Tang Army."
"Wouldn't it be better if the Tang Army dared to occupy these cities? These cities will trap them like cages, and the attacking side will become our mighty Arab Empire. ”
Although they did not learn those art of war, these Arab generals were not general, and when they found out that the Tang Dynasty was a strong enemy, they quickly figured out the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides.
Therefore, they had to abandon all the cities occupied in the northwest region and concentrate their forces to find the main force of the Tang Army.
Rashid was finally persuaded by these generals and made up his mind and said: "In this case, everyone will assemble outside the city of Modra, and then march southwest to find the main force of this Tang army!" ”
The Arab armies scavenged the grain and grass in their respective cities, and then swooped down on Ujayana in the southwest.
In their analysis, it should be because the Tang Dynasty only has 25,000 people, and they have to divide their troops to defend the three cities they captured, and they are no longer able to attack.
So now it's their turn to teach the Tang Army a lesson.
Four days after the departure, only a little more than half the way, Rashid received the news.
Their baggage team behind them was attacked by the Tang cavalry.
The 100,000 army naturally had a lot of supplies along the way, so behind the army, there were tens of thousands of slave troops and captured Tianzhu Qingzhuang to help transport grain and grass.
As a result, just yesterday, halfway through, a group of about 500 Datang cavalry rushed over with two rounds of rockets, although they did not cause too many casualties, but they also burned a little grain and grass.
When those slave armies went to chase, the Tang cavalry had already run away.
There are also some Tianzhu young people who took advantage of the chaos to run dozens of them.
Originally, the Tang cavalry saw that there were many people here, so they ran away, but in the afternoon they came again.
The difference this time was that two rounds of rockets came first, and when the slave army was ready to chase after them, a group of five hundred cavalry appeared on the other side, and it was another two-wheeled rocket.
Then both Tang cavalry ran away.
Rashid also knew the importance of grain and grass, although the two Tang cavalry only burned a small amount of grain and grass, but they did not dare to take it lightly.
not only slowed down the pace of advance, but also sent a lot of cavalry to help escort grain and grass, and also sent a lot of scouts around.
This time there was no accident with the grain and grass, but the scout had an accident.
They seemed to know the location of each scout, and these scouts were patrolling outside, and if they ran farther, they would be surrounded by the Tang Army.
Others were found inexplicably from afar, and then inexplicably fell off their horses and died.
In three days, the scouts lost more than fifty people, but they did not bring back any intelligence about the Tang Army.
But when Rashid sent a large group of cavalry to patrol outside, these Tang troops were like rats hiding in a hole, and none of them could be found.
In short, the current Tang Army is like a mosquito in the middle of the night, if you turn on the light, you can't see it.
But as soon as you turn off the lights, he keeps buzzing in your ears and bites you coldly.
The Arab armies were furious, but there was nowhere to vent.
Originally, he could reach Wu Yanna in half a month, but he walked for a month, but he hadn't reached it yet.
During this period, they also received a military order from the commander Arum, saying that the Arab army was now fighting with the Tang army in the east, and the army in the middle of Tianzhu should all be mobilized to the east to participate in the war, and several of them in the west and northwest must guard this area.
"Tomorrow at full speed, we must get to Ujayana City before dark!" Rashid ordered: "Let those slaves run faster, we must clear the flies here as soon as possible before we can prepare for the big war in the east." ”
Arum mobilized all the troops in the middle of Tianzhu to the east, which shows that the strength of the Tang Dynasty there is definitely not weak.
As the supreme commander of the northwest, he must clear the hidden dangers in the rear for the Arab Empire as soon as possible.
The next day all the Arab armies began to speed up, and it would take only one day to reach the city of Ujayana and rest.
Of course, their movements have not escaped Tang Ping's surveillance.
Duan Zhixuan said with some pity: "It's also that our troops are too small, otherwise they have rushed to Wu Yana City for a long distance like this, and their physical strength is not two or three, which is a good opportunity to defeat them in one fell swoop." ”
"These Arabs should also know that we have few people, so they dare to use all their physical strength to rush like this, it's okay, let them rest in the city of Wujayana tomorrow."