Chapter 628: Wise Tang Man
This is Harry of the Great Eater, Umar.
He used the words of Da Shi to inform his subordinates that the Tianzhu people would arrange for the war elephants to be sent again, and he also knew that the Tang people had gone to the Persian royal capital, and he planned to fight back.
For him, the last time he set foot in the Persian royal capital, this time it can also be.
When he learned that the Amu Darya River had been cut off, Umar's expression became nervous, and he heard the news that there were many Tang people in the upper reaches of the Amu Darya River.
In the upper reaches of the Amu Darya, Pei Xingjian smiled and listened to the military report, the Persian kings were occupied, the Amu Darya River was intercepted, and the 300,000 troops were their biggest burden, they had no water source and no food, and these people would be trapped alive.
"Brother Xue is easy to arrange." Pei Xingjian asked people to build an earthen wall here, and the upstream was fenced upstream.
"Pei Duhu, if the Great Food attacks, can we resist it?" Adalan's expression was worried.
This is the first person to follow Zhang Shangshu, this person is very effective, this time he took out all the troops of Gaochang, this Persian Tang is bound to win.
It is not so much to save Persia as it is to compete with the Great Cannibals for Persia.
Pei Xingjian glanced at the soldiers and horses of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate Headquarters that had been repaired, "I'm afraid they won't come." ”
Adalan bowed his head and said: "Pei Duhu is so calm and relaxed in the face of the big cannibal, and the last general will admire it. ”
This man called himself the last general, and he had been ordered to defend Gaochang.
The Gaochang soldiers and horses in his hands are also elite, and they can also help Brother Xue and them sweep the Tianshan Mountains.
Pei Xingjian said with a smile: "They are just a group of fools who don't understand the art of war and don't know how to march. ”
Adalan laughed: "Stupid big cannibals, they will fail miserably because of arrogance, they underestimate the wisdom of the Tang people. ”
Pei Xingjian ate a piece of bread and looked at the gazetteer sent by the Foreign Affairs Academy, the Persian gazetteer compiled with great effort over the years, the source of the Amu Darya River came from a plateau glacier in the southeast.
The river flows from east to west, and there is only rain in winter and spring, Pei Xingjian glanced at the turbid river, still calm, he enjoyed the feeling of leading the army to fight at this moment.
The Central Plains should be cold at the moment, but this area is still hot and dry, and it is even more difficult to gain a foothold in this desert in summer.
"After the winter and spring, is it time for them to retire?"
Hearing Pei Xingjian's words, Adalan replied: "Pei Duhu, whether it is us or the Great Cannibals, they will only attack in winter, and after spring, they will retreat, in previous years, they left after spring, and winter made a comeback." ”
At this point, Adalan added: "The earth is the same for everyone, and there will be no favoritism. ”
Pei Xingjian bowed his head and said: "It seems that we want to defeat the big cannibal in the spring." ”
Adalan was puzzled: "In fact, as long as it is consumed, the Great Cannibal will withdraw in the spring." ”
Pei Xingjian is very young, and his youthful face is a little more resolute, and his dark cheeks are a little disappointed, "No, let them run away like this, we won't just come for nothing, we are all here to make contributions, if we are so deadlocked and consume a big cannibal, we will win." ”
The Gaochang people and the people of the Western Regions are still building high walls along the river embankment, one to defend and the other to build a river embankment to store water.
"Pei Duhu is going to kill all these big cannibals?"
"Ugh." Pei Xingjian sighed: "300,000 people, even if they are cut one by one, they will be tired to death, if they dare to rush up, I will dare to dig the embankment and drown them." ”
"It is worthy of being a scholar of the Tang Imperial Examination, and the last general will admire it."
Adalan really admires it, he is over fifty years old, although he will also read books in the Central Plains in the past two years, but most of the time he just pretends to be, where can he really read those jerky books.
"I heard that there is a man named Mud in the Great Cannibal Army, and this person must be guarded against."
Hearing this, Pei Xingjian finally put away this local chronicle, he stood up and looked into the distance, "I haven't learned this person's skills, is it very powerful?" ”
Adalan whispered: "This person was alone in the Western Turks to raise a group of soldiers and horses to fight against Yehu Khan, and when the soldiers and horses were at their peak, there were 20,000 warriors, all of whom were scattered throughout the Western Turks. ”
Pei Xingjian hesitated for a moment, "Don't be afraid." ”
Seeing that the Amu Darya River in the rear was cut off, more and more water was stored, and everyone's confidence was also rising, it must have been hard to cut and kill them one by one, but it was naturally much easier to flood them with a lot of water, and they would be reduced by ten times.
The Tang people went out to fight, and the way of using the right time and the land opened the eyes of many people in the Western Regions who had never seen this kind of battle.
This is a war, and what everyone experienced in the past was just a group fight, and it should not be confused.
After three days of silence, the Great Cannibals finally moved, and they planned to compete for water and make their way north.
In just three days, in the case of water shortage, 300,000 people are 30 mouths, how can they endure it.
Watching the huge battle, there are also hordes of beasts coming.
Just as they were about to approach the river embankment with their soldiers and horses, another group of soldiers and horses appeared on the west side of the big cannibal, which was Wang Xuance, who came to respond.
How can you say that it is also 300,000 people, just looking at the mighty crowd is very scary, Adalan wiped the sweat from his forehead, he asked in a low voice, "Pei Duhu, do you want to release water now?" ”
Pei Xingjian looked much calmer, "Wait for them to get closer." ”
Thirty thousand soldiers and horses stood high on the embankment, waiting for the great cannibals to come towards the water, and now they walked in the dry river.
When the team got closer, the dust was filled, hiding the army of cannibals, making it impossible to see.
The hungry beast scurried towards the riverbank.
Pei Xingjian waved his sleeves and said, "Let the arrows kill these beasts." ”
"Whoa!" The soldiers and horses of the Tang Army headquarters responded loudly, and ten thousand arrows flew out in a volley.
There was a shout from the Great Eater, who raised their shields to stop the arrows.
But the target of the Tang army was not them, but those running beasts, and only sporadic arrows fell in the military formation.
When the dust cleared, the ground was full of the carcasses of wild beasts, and the great cannibals, panicked by the arrows, stood still again.
Pei Xingjian shouted again: "Get on the arrow." ”
The 10,000 soldiers once again stretched out their bows and archiving, this time aiming at the Great Cannibal.
Pei Xingjian looked at the other party's military formation, the person riding on the lion, looked at the other party condescendingly, and the other party noticed his gaze and also looked at this high slope.
I don't know what the man said, but he shouted a few times, and the big cannibal rode towards the high slope, and there were more soldiers on foot behind him.
Pei Xingjian pulled out the horizontal knife on his waist and said loudly: "Release the arrow!" ”
The whistling of arrows sounded again, and the big cannibals rushed up and fell down like wheat harvesters.
After three rounds of arrows, the corpses of the big cannibals continued to roll down the slope, and they finally came up a little, and now they became dead corpses and rolled down again, this high slope built by the Tang people was very steep and smooth.
It was used to prevent them from charging.
The two lions were walking back and forth down the slope, and the big cannibals had stopped charging because they felt that the narrow ramp was difficult to attack.
After a short period of calm, the two lions rushed up, and No. 1 rushed forward with his knife, and in the face of the beast in front of him, he calmly took out the knife.
A knife stabbed into the lion's abdomen, and then a kick kicked it away, and blood splattered in the air, and blood spilled all over his body.
There was also a lion in the rear, and the arrow missed several times, and the animal ran very fast.
Like a gust of wind in front of him, Number One could not dodge, and was pressed to the ground by the animal, enduring the pain of its claws scratching his shoulder, he kept stabbing the animal in the abdomen, and the snow-white blade entered through the abdomen and came out of the back.
The lion also stopped moving, and was kicked down the slope by One.
Fortunately, he has armor on his body, and he is not afraid of that claw, and he will kill someone.
The animal he had raised died like this, and Umar roared, and the whining cannibal charged again on the high slope.
Pei Xingjian threw an earth mine towards the river embankment, and the earth mine exploded and detonated the other earth mines, and the explosion was so loud that even the charging big cannibals stopped for a moment.
Cracks appeared in the embankment, and the cracks grew larger and larger, and the water came out of the cracks first, but in an instant the water broke the embankment.
The water burst out of the embankment and rushed towards the big cannibal in the river.
Wang Xuance, who was preparing to respond in the distance, also began to move with his soldiers and horses, and they came along the river and began to besiege the big cannibals who fled out of the river in a panic.
When Pei Xingjian saw that the big cannibals in front of him had fallen one after another, the big cannibals who had been going forward and one after another fled one after another.
The great cannibals, who had been thirsty for three days, finally got water, only it was a great flood, a great water that would drown them.
The flood overwhelmed the cannibal army, and even if they erected their shields to block the water, it was not human power that could stop it.
Compared with the previous Great Eclipse expedition against the Persians, the enemies they had to face were the Tang people, who were good at taking advantage of the terrain and natural situation.
Wang Xuance led 5,000 men to shoot arrows at the rear of Dashi's army formation, and the arrows were fired at the enemy troops who fled from the water in a panic.
The arrows of the Tang people were extremely sharp, and they were extremely painful after entering the body.
Unlike Xue Rengui who bluffed the Great Cannibal, this was the first time that Tang Jun had really fought with the Great Cannibal.
Pei Xingjian accidentally discovered other uses of soil mines, and placed several earth mines together, and the power of the explosion should not be underestimated.
At this moment, Wang Xuance led people to shoot arrows at the big cannibal who escaped from the river.
Umar crawled out of the river in disarray, saw the Tang man shooting arrows in the distance, and watched the warriors around him fall one by one.
The furious Harry was about to rush to the Tang people in the distance, but was stopped by the warriors around him.
Because shouts were also heard from the high slope in the distance, tens of thousands of men and horses rushed down the high slope and rushed to both sides of the river.
Wang Xuance's arrow was aimed at the Umar, who was wearing a dazzling gold weapon, and shot out with an arrow.
Sharp arrows grazed Umar's face, leaving a trail of blood on his face, and blood flowed down the spot.
Umar wiped his cheeks, and his dark face roared at Wang Xuance, but he was pulled by the warriors around him.
Even the stupid cannibal knows that he can't fight hard at this time, there are still Tang people on the other side of the river who are constantly slashing and killing, and if he doesn't leave, he really can't go.
Umar could only flee under the cover of the warrior's shield.
The rest of the Great Cannibals fled into the city of Maha.
After the flood was over, there were many drowned cannibals in the river.
Wang Xuance and Pei Xingjian finally joined forces.
It's ridiculous to say, it's fun to have two encounters with the Great Cannibal.
First, the big cannibals who believed in the gods were frightened by the earth mines of the Tang people, and then this time they were broken through the military formation by the flood, so that these big cannibals fled in embarrassment.
Now the offense and defense are reversed.
became a great cannibal trapped in a lonely city, and the king of Persia also changed its master.
Everything that the Tang people have experienced before, the big cannibal is also feeling this feeling of being trapped in a lonely city.
The difference is that the Tang Army had backup and a back road at that time, but now these big cannibals have no back road and no back road, except for this time they drank water and drank enough.
They don't even have food.
The battle situation could not be counted for a while, Wang Xuance dismounted, and kicked a big food surrenderer, "It's a pity to let that Omar escape, his mount is really fast, and a certain war horse can't catch up." ”
Pei Xingjian said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, so many of them are crowded in such a small city, and they will be killed in less than half a month." ”
The battlefield was full of cheers, and the Tang people won! The Don people won!
Adalan saluted Wang Xuance, "General Wang is brave, and the last general admires it." ”
A person who looked like a person from the Western Regions claimed to be the last general, Wang Xuance was a little uncomfortable, so he asked, "Face to face?" ”
"The last general, the general of the Gaochang garrison, Adalan."
"It's you, I've heard of it."
Wang Xuance remembered where this person came from, he was Zhang Shangshu's person, and his ability to come here meant that the current Gaochang was already under the control of the court.
The water rushed down, and drowned corpses kept floating up and heading downstream.
Pei Xingjian said with a sigh: "It's a pity that the river water here can't be drunk for a short time, and I don't know if the big cannibal will drink it." ”
Wang Xuance said again: "Pei Duhu might as well go to the Persian royal capital with the last general." ”
Pei Xingjian shook his head and said: "When these big cannibals are eliminated, it's not too late to go, a certain family also wants to see the Persian scenery." ”
Wang Xuance nodded heavily, "Very good." ”
The two parties agreed on a strategy, and Pei Xingjian still guarded the upstream to build a river embankment again to cut off the flow, and the king of Persia was at odds with each other.
It's very old-fashioned, traditional, and practical, and you can get twice the result with half the effort by taking advantage of the topography here, and you can also control the water source.
In the capital of the Persian king, Belus got the news of the victory of the Tang people in the first battle, and he didn't know whether he was happy or sad and cried on the spot, constantly worshipping in the direction of Chang'an City, kowtowing loudly, and there were blood marks on his forehead, and every time he kowtowed, he would shout, thank God Khan for saving Persia.
All the Persians felt that this time Persia was going to die, but the Tang people came, and the invincible Tang people defeated the Great Cannibal!
This battle would be played out in Persia for a long time.
Xue Rengui stood in front of the capital of the Persian king and welcomed King Xuance back.
An Yanyan went out for a trip, and returned to the Persian capital after two days, and this time he brought news that there were more big cannibals west of the Persian king's capital, and they sent envoys to meet the Tang generals.