509 broke hands and feet
In this era, the spread of news was originally slow, and Rashid was taken out of the city by the Tang Army in Tianzhu with his army, so I don't know the news of other Arab armies now.
After asking for a long time, he couldn't ask anything new, Duan Zhixuan asked Tang Ping: "What should these captives do now?" ”
They only had more than 20,000 troops, and they were already strained to defend at least three cities.
There are more prisoners here than their army, and if you carry them, it is a big danger.
But it's going to be put ...... Also unlikely.
As for killing...... Not everyone is a killing god like Bai Qi, who wants to kill all the captives.
Tang Ping didn't know what to do, if the war was over, it would be simple, just go to Arabia as slaves to dig for oil.
But it's still at war, and it's really hard to deal with.
Tang Ping thought for a while and said, "Why don't you bring it back to Viramoro City, and then dig a pit......
"Pingguo Gong, why do you want to dig a pit and bring it back to Piramoro City? Just dig it up here! ”
Tang Ping glanced at Duan Zhixuan strangely: "Who said it was going to be buried?" I mean, dig a bigger pit and keep them down, so you don't have to have too many people guarding it. ”
There was no prisoner of war camp in the city of Viramoro, and they didn't have time to build one, so they might as well dig a pit about two meters deep and let everyone go down and guard it.
This is also the high grain production of Tianzhu itself, and there is a lot of grain in various cities, otherwise Tang Ping and they would not be able to support these prisoners of war.
They first took these Tianzhu people and prisoners of war back to the city of Piramara, and then Tang Ping planned to rest, so the two of them took people to the city of Modala in the north.
Anyway, now that the Arab soldiers in the city of Modala are here, it is almost an empty city without defense, he went to occupy it directly and then defend it, and the task is completed.
Then it was to wait for Li Jing in the east to deal with the main force of the Arab Imperial Army, drive the remnants of their army to this side, and complete the encirclement and annihilation.
At the same time, Qian Laosan and Luo Laosi would lead tens of thousands of sailors to attack the Arab coastal cities from the Arabian Peninsula with artillery bombardment, and finally approach Damascus from the Red Sea.
It's a pity that the Suez Canal has not been opened now, otherwise the Tang Dynasty's East China Sea and South Sea Fleet can pass through the Suez Canal and enter the Mediterranean, and can fight until Constantinople, which is now occupied by the Arab Empire.
But what Tang Ping didn't expect was that when they were still about four days away from Piramoro City, they met a group of embarrassed Tang expeditionary forces.
These were the defenders they had left behind in the city of Viramoro.
Seeing Duan Zhixuan and Tang Ping, the general who led the army hurriedly came over to ask for guilt.
"Duke Fan Guo, Duke Pingguo, the city of Piramoro is lost."
"What?" Tang Ping and Duan Zhixuan glanced at each other: "Who is the one who is attacking the city?" ”
You must know that there are no Arab Empire troops in the west and northwest of Tianzhu, and all the troops of Central Tianzhu have supported the Eastern War.
They left a thousand defenders behind, and it stands to reason that no one could take the city of Viramoro.
"It's the Arab army, at least ...... More than 200,000! The general bowed his head and said.
When their scouts outside the city spotted the Arab army, they abandoned the city and fled.
A thousand people defend two hundred thousand, there is no such need.
In the current military education of the Tang Dynasty, what is particularly emphasized is that "people are lost in land, people and land are lost, people and land are lost, people and land are saved." ”
Originally, it was not a city of the Tang Dynasty, so after finding that it was unable to defend, the thousand defenders decisively withdrew.
Duan Zhixuan didn't blame him, but patted him on the shoulder and said, "Well done, if you can bring the brothers out, you'll do a good job." ”
Without asking again, he knew that if he could send an army of 200,000, then it must be an army from the Arab Empire itself.
It's just that I didn't expect that after the Arabs invested 400,000 troops in Tianzhu, they would be able to send another 200,000 troops to reinforce them.
Is this going to fight Datang to the end?
No, Duan Zhixuan thought about it again, the Arabs sent such a heavy army to advance eastward, and it was likely that the final strategic intention was to attack the Tang Dynasty itself.
Thinking of this, Duan Zhixuan didn't laugh angrily: "Arab Empire, let someone come to meet you!" ”
He first looked at Tang Ping: "Can you immediately notify the East China Sea Fleet and attack the Arab Empire itself?" ”
If the Arabs increase their troops by 200,000 to Tianzhu, the domestic army will inevitably be empty, and this is the best time for the navy to attack.
Tang Ping nodded and said, "No problem, I will ask General Luo and General Qian to start the Arab mainland offensive immediately." ”
"That's good." Duan Zhixuan nodded: "Tell the people of Tianzhu who are following us, let's disperse and flee for their lives first, the Arab army doesn't have the energy to care about their scattered refugees now, just avoid the other party's marching route." ”
"As for those prisoners of war...... Duan Zhixuan's eyes flashed with a hint of fierceness: "Break everyone's hands and legs for me." ”
If these prisoners of war are killed, the Arab Empire will certainly lose more than 20,000 troops, but it will have no impact on the 200,000 troops that will be reinforced in the future.
But now that Duan Zhixuan broke everyone's legs and threw them on the route of the Arab Imperial Army, this trick was too poisonous.
First of all, it is impossible for the Arab Empire, which has more than 20,000 people, to give up, and if it does, then the morale of the army will be dispersed.
These people will eat and drink one-tenth of the 200,000 new troops.
And then the hands and feet were broken and left here, they must send someone to treat and take care of them, right?
Not to mention, even if only one of the ten people takes care of it, it will take up 2,000 troops.
What's more, to treat injuries, the consumption of medicines is not a small amount.
The purpose of these 200,000 troops is to advance eastward, so what Duan Zhixuan has to do now is to prevent them from reinforcing the big war in the east.
He believed that Li Jing, even if the troops were backward, would definitely be able to win the battle, and then they would be able to solve the 200,000 troops together.
No one in the Tang Dynasty soldiers here would sympathize with those Arab prisoners of war, and as soon as Duan Zhixuan gave the order, they let those prisoners of war line up, and then went over next to each other to break their hands and feet.
There are also those who want to resist, but how can they be the opponents of the heavily armed Datang elite?
He didn't say anything at all, just stabbed the head and put the corpse aside.
The Arab soldiers compared the two options of being cut off and slowly recuperating from their wounds and being beheaded, and decisively chose the former.
When the Tang Army left, only the Arab Imperial Army was left wailing and wailing.