In the evening, Artik issued an order that all gates were forbidden to anyone to enter or leave, and the port was temporarily closed, allowing only merchant ships to enter, but not to go out, thus completely controlling the city of Aden.

Then, Artik began to mobilize his soldiers and mercenaries to make various preparations before the battle, and after dark, let the various armies go out of the city through different gates, so as to increase the speed of leaving the city and enable the army to reach the combat position as soon as possible.

In order to prevent the enemy's spies from reporting the situation, Artik had already sent a number of small groups of troops and horses to set up a card on the path leading to the enemy's camp, of course, a secret card, so as to better intercept the spies who reported the news.

There were only a dozen soldiers in each of the secret cards, but they were the strongest and most reliable soldiers, and they were disguised as ordinary hunters, and even if they were discovered, no one else would know what they were doing.

In broad daylight, it is normal for pedestrians to appear on the road, after all, Aden City is a commercial city, and it is normal for merchants to come and go, but if it is after nightfall, there are no pedestrians on the road outside the city, even if there are pedestrians, it is very rare, maybe it is an ordinary person who walks slowly in a hurry, or a woodcutter who chops wood and a hunter who hunts, in short, there will not be many people, and the possibility of encountering a large-scale caravan is even lower, and no merchant dares to take such a risk.

And the mission of these secret cards is to prevent anyone from going to the direction of the enemy camp after dark, no matter who the other party is, even the nearby hunters and woodcutters, and if there is resistance, it will not matter if there is resistance.

There are many hidden cards to intercept, and it is believed that it is difficult for enemy spies to break through all of them, so when the Altic army arrives at the enemy camp, it is estimated that the enemy soldiers are still asleep?

Indeed, when the main army of Artik opened from multiple city gates, the enemy scouts outside the city immediately discovered that the situation was wrong, so they immediately sent people back to the camp on horseback, preparing to report this important situation to their leaders, so that the main army could prepare early.

It's a pity that they don't know how difficult the road back is, and there are many secret posts quietly deployed by Artik along the way, and in the daytime, because there are more pedestrians on the road, these secret posts are quietly deployed in place, and the enemy scouts are completely unclear, so there is no way to even guard against it.

In the middle of the night, the third watch rode to the direction of the enemy's camp, which must have been extremely suspicious, so the dark cards lying in ambush on both sides of the road did not hesitate to release arrows, shot the horses to death, and the people were captured alive, and tied to a big tree with their mouths gagged.

The remaining enemy spies outside the city, after further understanding the situation, all mounted their horses and returned to the camp, because they had fully understood Artik's intentions, and sighed at the boldness of Artik, who dared to sneak up on their main army.

The number of these spies is not much, only a dozen people, and they are defenseless, so when they pass through the first dark card, most of them are shot by Artik's dark card, and the rest are lucky to escape the first shot, and accelerate to the direction of the camp, but they unknowingly entered the ambush range of the second dark card, and were suddenly attacked again.

This time none of the horses escaped, but a few spies were shot into the woods and soon vanished.

But it is difficult to find the direction in the woods, and if you want to return to the camp, you must take the main road, but whether there will be a secret post on the way back, these wounded spies are completely unclear, and they don't know what to do.

Responsibility made them have to return to the camp, for this reason, they had to keep a distance, the distance between the two people in front and back was thirty meters, once the person in front was shot, the person behind knew where the outpost was, so that they could find a way to get around.

However, Artik's main army was behind and marched very fast, and if they reported late, it would lose the meaning of reporting.

Eventually, due to the fact that Artik had deployed too many hidden cards, none of these spies succeeded in returning to the enemy's camp, thus depriving the enemy of a good opportunity to prepare in advance.

Osman is a veteran, and he is not at all less prepared than Artik, so he has not revealed his whereabouts.

It was a good time to sleep at night, but there was going to be a big battle tonight, so Ang Lee's heart was quite excited, and he didn't feel much sleepy at all.

Because most of the soldiers and horses in the city were transferred by Artik, and the rest were some old and weak soldiers, who were responsible for guarding the city gates and patrolling the city.

In this case, as long as Ang Lee is willing, he can easily occupy the city of Aden, so as to achieve the strategic goal of occupying the city of Aden.

But Li Ang is a person who will be honest, since he promised to help Artik obtain the peninsula, and then use the city of Aden, then he can't break his word, otherwise, Li An will have no credibility to speak again in the future.

However, the excitement that should be seen still has to be seen, in addition to sending some henchmen to follow the army on the expedition, Ang Lee also ran to the observation deck in the city to watch the scene of the army's expedition.

Because the moonlight is relatively bright, standing on the observation deck, you can see the black army outside the city more clearly, and after a telescope, you can see it more clearly, and even the figure of the soldier can be seen clearly.

Of course, because the enemy's camp is far away, and there are trees and mountains in the middle, it is impossible to see the battlefield.

As for the outcome of the battle, there is no doubt about it, Artik and Osman have made such careful preparations that they will definitely be able to inflict huge losses on the enemy army, and even completely annihilate the enemy army.

10,000 troops is not a small number, even if the three city gates are opened at the same time, it will take a long time to drive all 10,000 troops out of the city, and besides, there are so many military supplies, it will take even longer.

Li An stood on the observation deck, what he wanted to see was the process of Artik's army going out of the city, this kind of black oppressive army marching scene is very spectacular, and at the same time, it can also be judged according to the discipline of the army and the neatness of the formation, how high the combat effectiveness of an army is.

"It's worthy of being a mercenary, the formations all have their own characteristics, and the combat effectiveness is estimated to be very different!"

Li An looked at these Altic troops who were leaving the city and spoke.

The subordinates beside him hurriedly nodded and said: "What Li Shilang said is that these mercenaries come from different ways, and their rules and combat effectiveness are also different, in fact, they are just a group of rabble, if there is no help from my Datang, as long as Mansur reacts and transfers the main force south, these guys are not opponents at all." ”

Li An nodded and said: "Their strength is still too weak, if you want to control the peninsula, you need at least seventy or eighty thousand troops, as long as this battle is won, the next step is to expand the army, we can provide them with a large number of weapons, in addition, they can also build some weapons themselves, in addition, training is also essential, if the necessary training is not carried out, it is difficult for these rabble to win the battle, it is difficult to hold the Arabian Peninsula." ”

The subordinate continued: "Fortunately, the peninsula has a large population and a lot of cities, and it is not difficult to expand the army to seventy or eighty thousand, in addition, in addition to Artik to expand the army, the Ottomans are also going to expand the army, as for the problem of competing for soldiers, it is a matter between the two of them, however, the Ottomans will definitely not be able to rob Artik, after all, the Ottomans are going to Egypt to develop, and the soldiers recruited locally will flee back to the peninsula sooner or later." ”

"Haha, you can see it quite clearly, no matter what, as long as Osman and Artik can cooperate well, then we will definitely be able to complete our great cause."

Ang Lee said with a smile.

And the great cause that Li An said in his mouth is naturally to divide the Arab Empire into many parts, and only a large split in the Arab Empire is the most in line with the interests of the Tang Empire, if the Apos Dynasty completely stabilizes the territory of the Arab Empire, it will form a certain degree of threat to the Tang Empire, which is very unfavorable to the Tang Empire.

However, Ang Lee knew a lot about Mansour's strength, and knew that close to Abdullah, Artik, and Osman would not be enough to stop Osman in the end.

Therefore, the Tang Dynasty must fund the Ottoman and Artik equally, so that their two forces have the strength to fight the Ottomans.

Relying on their own strength and weapon assistance, it was not enough, and Ang Lee also needed to teach some defensive tactics so that they could be invincible when defending against Mansour's future attacks.

Of course, these are all for later, and it will be a few days before they can begin to implement them, and now, all they need to do is wait and supply the two armies with a steady supply of weapons, bows, crossbows, spears and arrows, which must be supplied in large quantities until they occupy the entire peninsula and the Ottomans go to Egypt.

Staying up late is very bad for the body, Li An watched it on the observation deck, and after seeing more than 10,000 soldiers and horses leave the city of Aden with his own eyes, he returned to his residence to rest, he believed that the battle at night would be very smooth, and early the next morning, there would inevitably be good news.

In the large camp of the Khorasan cavalry, most of the soldiers were resting, after all, they had been stationed here for several months, and they had not fought with the enemy, and paralysis and carrying were inevitable.

However, the most basic sentries were still in place, and there were many soldiers patrolling both on the periphery and inside of the battalion, and these patrolling and standing guard soldiers were all combined, a size of one hundred, and it was completely sufficient for vigilance.

Tonight happens to be a moonlit night, and the soldier's vision is very good, especially the soldier standing on the lookout, who can see the trees a few hundred meters away, which can play a good warning role.

However, these soldiers standing guard and patrolling are very tired, but their vigilance is not very high, especially the soldiers standing guard, they are very tired from standing on the high platform, almost all of them are holding the wooden pillars and taking a nap, and they do not look at the movement in the distance at all.

And the soldiers on patrol are all on the ground, the vision is not very good, moreover, many are dozing, and the vigilance is also very poor.

Several large armies roared in, and the movement was still very large, but when they approached the enemy's camp for a mile or two, all the soldiers and horses stopped, and after a little rectification, they began to advance slowly, and were ready to attack.

The artillery on the east side was also ready to launch an artillery attack at any time, and even by this time, the Khorasan cavalry in the large camp had not yet discovered the enemy's situation, and the vigilance work was still not in place.

Perhaps only the horses felt the anomaly, and when the armies approached the camp, the horses appeared limited and restless, but the groom who guarded the horses had long since fallen asleep and could not feel the abnormality of the horses at all.

A soldier standing on the high platform was about to fall asleep holding his weapon, but because he was standing and sleeping, he would nod forward from time to time, but one accidentally hit his head on the stake, and his teeth bared in pain.

He rubbed his forehead, opened his eyes gently, and suddenly found that the distance was densely packed with attacking enemy troops, and he was immediately startled, and quickly rubbed his eyes, he wondered if he was wrong.

After taking a closer look, the sentry knew that he was right, and that there were indeed attacking enemy troops in the distance, and the number was still very large.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

Accompanied by the sound of sirens, as well as the shouts of soldiers, the entire enemy camp was thrown into disarray.

Hearing the siren, the three-way attacking soldiers and horses all accelerated forward and launched a fierce attack on the enemy camp, after all, they were all discovered, and it would be boring to go quietly.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Five guns also fired one after another, bombarding different positions of the enemy camp in order to cause further confusion within the enemy camp.

Because most of the enemy troops were resting, the small number of men and horses in charge of guarding could not stop the three-way army at all, so they quickly let the three-way men and horses approach, all kinds of bows and crossbows were called over, and all the soldiers who resisted were shot into hedgehogs, and more soldiers used improvised tools to hit the camp of the large camp, preparing to break through the main camp.

The soldiers in the camp were frightened by the sudden attack, and all got up impatiently, in this tense situation, it was definitely too late to put on armor, and it was already very good to find weapons to defend themselves, many soldiers were shot by the rain of arrows outside as soon as they ran out of the tent, and some died from the shelling.

Several officers who were in charge of the affairs of the big camp, because they were too tired from playing, pushed the little lady in their arms away in a panic, picked up their weapons and ran out.

As a military commander, it is nothing to grab a few young and beautiful girls from the surrounding area to enjoy at all, Qi Yade governs the army strictly, but for such a thing, he still won't ask about it, besides, he is not in the army?

As soon as several military commanders ran out to converge, one of them died from the shelling, and the rest were also wounded, and they looked at the situation, and the whole camp was in chaos, and there were soldiers scurrying everywhere, and a large number of soldiers and horses were being killed on the east, west, and south sides, and the forwards had already entered the interior of the camp, and it was obviously too late to organize resistance.