Tibet

Chapter 281 The Decisive Battle in the City ([-])

This is the second war between the two sides. Although the Great Food Army suffered a disastrous defeat in the first war, Abu Muslim has learned the painful lesson of the last fiasco. He believes that the root cause of the last fiasco is underestimating the enemy.

His thinking was not wrong either. If he had led all [-] troops into battle for the first time instead of putting [-] troops in Whitewater City, he would not necessarily lose.

So this time, Abu Muslim mobilized all his forces and bet all his troops and his future on today's fierce battle.

The second lesson Abu Muslim has learned is that there is no good way to fight against the heavily armored Modao infantry of the Tang Army. Their sharp swords beheaded nearly 1 people, accounting for [-]% of all losses.

So today he specially prepared a way to deal with the heavy armored infantry, one is to throw spears, and the other is heavy hammer infantry. Wearing Tang Jun's heavy armor, but no one knows whether it will be effective. After all, there are no samples to test.

The Heavy Hammer Army consisted of 25 infantry soldiers, each of whom held a [-]-jin long-handled copper hammer. If they hit the heavy armored infantry of the Tang Army with a hard blow, they would inevitably be seriously injured. This is more effective than knives, arrows and spears.

However, various situations on the battlefield are changing rapidly, and there will be many factors that lead to failure, such as the large formation of Spitfire bows, large trebuchets, and unimaginable fire zones that did not appear in the previous fierce battle. Food army faced for the first time.

The Dashi army got closer and closer, and stopped at a distance of two miles. From two miles away, no abnormalities on the ground could be seen, only a few hundred steps away.

Abu Muslim looked at the weather, it was clear and cloudless as usual, and he looked at the army behind him, the dark Khorasan army and the Sogdian army could not be seen at a glance. At this moment, Abu Muslim was full of enthusiasm for today's battle confidence.

Abu Muslim pulled out his sword and shouted sharply: "The First Legion strikes!"

"Ugh-"

The low-pitched horn blew, and amidst the earth-shattering shouts, ten thousand cavalry took the lead in attacking. They mobilized vigorously, and rushed towards the Tang army two miles away like a tidal wave breaking a bank.

Immediately afterwards, the Second Infantry Corps attacked. There were [-] heavy hammer troops among them, which were dedicated to dealing with the [-] heavy armored infantry of the Tang army. Behind them, there were [-] cavalry guards. Twenty-five thousand elite troops.

Looking at the sudden killing of the cavalry, Gao Xianzhi showed a cruel sneer, and he slowly ordered: "The heavy crossbow army is ready, the rocket is ready!"

Of course, the two thousand heavy crossbow soldiers were the first to attack. Their range was up to 350 paces, but generally they could only shoot two rounds, but if there was a fire attack, they could add another round.

The soldiers who fired the rockets were the 500 men who just smashed the clay pots. They were archers and they would shoot [-] rockets.

The red flag was raised, and two thousand heavy crossbow soldiers raised their crossbows at the same time. The thick heavy arrows pointed upward slightly, and the arrow tips shone with metallic luster in the sun.

The enemy cavalry was getting closer and closer, and they had already run [-] paces away. At this time, the nine thousand Tocharian crossbowmen lying in ambush on the opposite bank still remained silent, and they were still waiting for the order.

And eighteen large trebuchets began to rumble towards the river.

The large catapults of the Tang army suddenly appeared on the opposite bank, which immediately alarmed Abu Muslim. He saw more than ten catapults on the other side of the river in the distance. 3000 people went to destroy Tang Jun's trebuchet!"

The messenger soldiers took the command arrows, turned around and ran to the Sogdian Army to convey the military orders.

But at this time, the First Legion entered the range of 350 paces, and the sky was filled with dust. The dust stirred up by [-] horses covered the sky, and the sky became dark.

Gao Xianzhi ordered coldly: "Fire the crossbow!"

The red flag was waved down, and the sound of bangs sounded hurriedly, "Bang!Bang!Bang! '

There was only a crackling sound, and two thousand heavy arrows flew into the sky, streaking across the sky densely, and charged at the [-] cavalrymen who were galloping. It was done by the nomads. They were the regular cavalry of the Abbasid Empire, no different from the Tang army. They raised their shields one after another just like last time.

However, it is impossible for the cavalry of the Great Food Army to step into the same Hanoi twice. The Tang Army also learned the lesson. They replaced them with crossbows and heavy arrows. Luo Nu Army.

' Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh! 'With the sound of piercing through the air, the heavy arrow shot through the shield and also the armor of the cavalry.

The Dashi cavalry was caught off guard, and there was a scream of screams. The cavalry were shot and fell off their horses, and the casualties were very heavy. Two thousand arrows shot and killed [-] cavalry, and the shooting ratio reached an astonishing three to one. They are all five to one, or even greater.

But the fall of seven hundred cavalrymen is insignificant to ten thousand cavalrymen, just like the waves stirred up in the sea, which soon returned to calm, and the tide-like cavalry continued to gallop. Condition.

The kerosene belt was fifty steps away from them, but no one saw anything unusual on the ground. They shouted loudly to boost morale.

There was another sound of piercing through the sky. The second round of two thousand heavy arrows fell from the sky, still at a distance of 350 steps. The first group of people who were attacked had already rushed to the front. Cavalry, they are the second cavalry, the first cavalry is in charge of cover.

Abu Muslim also considered the rapid shooting of the Tang army's bows and crossbows, so he did not put the cavalry of the spear-throwing army at the front, but in the second batch. The first batch of [-] cavalry were almost killed by arrows, and the second batch of spear-throwing cavalry The hand just appeared.

The spear-throwers also held the same shields. The only difference was that the spear-throwers did not have spears. Each of them held five short spears in their arms. One short spear weighed about ten catties, was about five feet long, and had a sharp tip. It is very similar to the javelin of later generations. In fact, the javelin sport originated from the training of soldiers of the spear-throwing army in the Middle Ages.

The spear-throwing army also raised their shields to resist the heavy arrows falling from the sky. The sky was filled with dust and their vision was poor. They did not see the scene of the first round of heavy arrows falling just now.

' Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh! There was a loud sound of piercing through the air, and the heavy arrows pierced the shields, as well as the cavalry's leather armor and helmets. There was another scream, and countless cavalrymen fell off their horses. This round, more than [-] people were shot and killed by heavy arrows.

Of course, the arrows did not necessarily kill people on the spot, most of them were wounded, but once the cavalry were injured and fell off their horses during the group attack, they would undoubtedly die, and would be trampled to death by the huge horses rushing from behind.

At this time, the Cavalry Cavalry had already rushed into the fire oil area, and the horses stepped on the pottery and hay on the ground. Many soldiers felt that something was wrong. The ground was covered with wet black oil. I don’t know what it was, but none of the soldiers could notice it. The reason.

Gao Xianzhi stared coldly at the running cavalry, and only after the two thousand cavalry in the front had all rushed out of the kerosene area, he gave the order: "Fire the rocket!"

Five hundred soldiers ignited the rockets and fired arrows together. The burning rockets swished down from the sky, and the kerosene on the ground boomed! The ground was ignited, and the fire spread extremely rapidly. In an instant, the kerosene belt, which was five miles long from east to west and 250 steps wide from north to south, burned rapidly. About 2000 soldiers were caught off guard and were instantly engulfed by the fire. , which also includes more than [-] spear throwers.

This is their doomed catastrophe. Abu Muslim considered putting them in the second batch to be safer, and Gao Xianzhi wanted to leave all the first batch of enemy cavalry to the heavy crossbowmen. He also considered burning the second batch of enemy cavalry .

The fire engulfed more than 3000 cavalrymen, screaming and screaming in the fire, and the horses neighed miserably.
A five-mile-long fire belt appeared on the ground, with thick smoke billowing and flames soaring into the sky, the momentum was frightening.

(End of this chapter)