Chapter 1173. Crazy Arabs
As the king of Fujian, Li Jie naturally couldn't hide his head and show his tail, so as soon as he came, the banner of the king of Min was directly hung out, not only to use it as his own name to boost morale, but also to provoke Hussein. XsHuotXT
The king of Min is here, it depends on whether you dare to fight!
This challenge seemed to be really effective, only on the third day, the Arabs mobilized their entire army to fight, standing on a mountain of divine grace that seemed to be dragged upwards with a huge palm high above the ground, looking at the rolling Arab army, the corners of Li Jie's mouth couldn't help but reveal a rich sneer.
In fact, Hussein's plan is also correct, the Fujian army is extremely strong, but its biggest weakness is Li Jie himself, the humane snake is headless, once Li Jie is killed or the king of Min is defeated, it will be a heavy blow to the entire Fujian army period.
And now is really a good opportunity, although there are more than 300,000 troops, but in order to clamp down on the Arab army, as soon as Li Jie came, he divided his troops into three battalions, and pinched the olives in three ways to clamp the back of the Arab army.
But is Li Jie so easy to kill?
At the first moment of sending the messenger, Li Yexu and Sheng Lianshan were already ready to defend, the horn sounded rapidly, and a group of large shield soldiers carried heavy tower shields to the fence first, and the black iron-clad shield surrounded the thin fence into a solid low wall in an instant.
The first to fight is always long-range weapons, but both nations are good at shooting, and the range of the strong crossbow of the left and right Qianniuwei is as long as 240 paces, which is equivalent to about 400 meters.
The heavy standard steel crossbow spewed out a string of metal storms in an instant, and in the sharp whistling, the Bedouin cavalry attacking with a sandstorm seemed to have hit an invisible wall, and the people fell on their backs, some riders trembled and flew out, and some camels or war horses screamed and fell to the side with their masters.
Even beside the woman who led the team, a camel suddenly burst out of the head and slammed into the woman's horse as the rider yelled in fear.
It is no wonder that in the Arab Empire, which discriminates against women, Hussein was able to eliminate criticism and send his own daughter to the front as a general, and the woman reached out and did so, and she fell down in the lightning, and her legs slammed into the belly of the horse, and the Arab horse's sharp chirp suddenly exerted force on its hind hooves, and led the woman over the camel carcass.
It all happened in a split second, when the first row of crossbowmen shot out of the air, and the second row of crossbowmen lay on the tower shield.
There were only three arrows in the battle, which was the case, relying on the range to seize a little advantage, and only when the third row of crossbowmen stepped forward, the Arabs' arrows also covered them.
Compared with the precise and vicious point shots of the crossbowmen of the Min army, the arrows of the Arabs were more like sandstorms rushing in their faces, dense, fast, and numerous, and the entire space seemed to be covered by black arrow shafts.
In order to cope with the cavalry attack, Li Jie even reformed the military cap, the round hat wrapped in iron was hard and smooth, and the inside was also made of an impermeable iron net, and there was a layer of bamboo strips in the innermost part, and the brim of the hat was also made of bones made of iron nets.
In the clanging metal collision, the heavy iron arrows smashed on the top of the hat and were bounced off, or pierced into the brim of the hat a little, and three clusters of arrows rained down together, so dense that there were still hundreds of people lying in pools of blood around the new helmets, or groaning in pain.
Before the Min army woke up from the blow of the rain of arrows, the Arabs had already killed in front of them.
The lance hand hurriedly pushed the long and heavy lance out of the special gap at the top of the tower shield, and in a short time the fence became a large fence full of thorns, and the long and wide lance was reflected in the sunlight, and the biting cold light came to the face, especially the red and black color in the blood groove at the back of the lance showed its former danger.
If the average nomad was an ordinary nomad, such a deadly threat was enough to make them stop and retreat in fear, but it was a pity that the Great Min encountered the Arab Empire, which was known for its fanaticism and madness.
Poof, poof.
The one-foot-long lance pierced into the chest of the war horse camel that did not pause at all, and some of them pierced the knights on the horse, and the blood flowed from the man and the horse, but the strong impact force made the tower shield and the lance hand shake the same way, and they almost vomited blood.
After the comet collided like the earth, just as both sides were trying to digest the shock after the collision, a glance-like figure flew high above everyone's heads, crossed the stalemate fence, and four heavy horse hooves smashed on the heads of the Min army.
A hint of familiarity arose, and even though the woman had killed her own soldiers, and put down the binoculars, Li Jie couldn't help but nod appreciatively.
The battle is still raging, the Arabs are not all riding horses to live, in the early days of the great expansion of Islam it was the elite and fanatical Arab light infantry who fought the world, some of the Arabs who were good at equestrianism jumped over the obstacles directly like their saints, and the remaining Arab knights who were crowded in front of the fence also climbed off their horses and climbed over the fence.
The two armies are again caught in a melee of hand-to-hand combat, the shield is smashed on the shield, the horizontal knife scimitar slashes and makes a piercing sound, the Min army is absolutely well-trained, but the Bedouins are not dead, as if ignoring the knife stabbed from the opposite side, each Arab warrior is almost a lose-lose style of play, especially the Bedouin rider who leaned on the woman's side, as if he wanted to send him to death, some were stabbed through the horizontal knife and hugged the opposite Min army desperately stabbing each other's chest, Some simply lost their weapons, bypassing the stabbing sword and choking the opponent's neck without letting go.
The battle was countless times more brutal, and even the impregnable defense line of the Fujian army was actually poked into a hole.
"Damn it!"
The faceless Sheng Lianshan drew his twin swords, roared angrily, and was about to lead the guards to drive these crazy Arabs out of his camp, but before he could rush out, another person grabbed him by the shoulder.
"Here we go!"
The training of the Fujian army is more focused on collective combat, and in the duel of the large army, this kind of training has an unparalleled advantage, but when it comes to real individual combat and face-to-face fighting, the individual ability of the Fujian army is not higher than that of the Arabs, and even worse.
In order to make up for it, this time Li Jie specially dispatched Li Rang's subordinates to fight in coordination with the left and right Qianniuwei.
In Guo Zhifeng's loud order, the fierce warriors from the river, the Black Sea, Sogdia, and the Arab tribes, and the Arab iron army recruited from the caravan guards, bodyguards, thugs, and foreign ruffians rushed out in groups, the same scimitars, light leather armor, and even the same moves, the black and yellow Arab warriors collided together, and the unstoppable Arab imperial attack was finally suspended.
The battle lasted for half an hour, and finally, the exhausted Arab riders wavered, dragged their knives and retreated, fighting fiercely for so long in such a hot weather, the Min army was also exhausted to the extreme, their bodies were completely wet with sweat, and the sergeants guarding the front camp did not even have the strength to chase and kill with crossbows, and sat on the ground with their butts.
However, before Guo Beifeng and Sheng Lianshan could breathe a sigh of relief, in the dusty sky where the cavalry ran, the second team of Arabs rushed out fiercely with scimitars.
The leader is still a veiled woman.
Not to mention Sheng Lianshan, whose scalp was numb at the front, even Li Jie himself couldn't help but gasp.
"Is Hussein crazy?"
After glancing at the front camp front, which was already riddled and exhausted, and after hesitating, Li Jie finally gave an order to the people around him.
"Sent an order to Guide Zhonglang General Gar Xiangling, and let him lead the Tibetan cavalry to rush up from the left and right to reduce the pressure on the front camp.
"Whoa!"
A moment later, with the second round of arrow rain clashing, thousands of red-faced Tibetan horsemen pierced into the ribs of the Arab cavalry like two swords stabbed from the flanks, but the increased number of knights did not seem to frighten these already crazy Arabs at all, but aroused their ferocity even more, and the second round of meat grinder-like fighting was fought in front of the camp, and the shouts shook the entire mountains and rivers.
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The battle lasted from two o'clock in the afternoon to five or six o'clock in the middle of the night, the sun had already set, and the huge sand and dust raised by the cavalry were like a devil in the night, and the Arabs really launched a total of six attacks as if they had received the power of the devil, and instead of getting weaker and weaker, they became bigger and stronger.
It was still a demonic woman leading the team, this attack had been going on for an hour, and there was no sign that the Arabs had retreated, and in the dark, groups of Arabs either rushed in hand-to-hand combat, or put cold arrows outside.
In the afternoon, Li Jie almost mobilized the troops around him, staring at the Arab army that would not retreat, but Li Jie was suspicious and turned back and forth.
With such a desperate face, what are the Arabs going to do?
"Your Majesty, the King of Hezhong has sent a letter that he has been ordered to leave the Great Wall of Aleppo and is expected to arrive in the rear of the Arab army in an hour."
The herald's report suddenly interrupted Li Jie's thoughts, and after hesitating for a few seconds, Li Jie simply gritted his teeth fiercely: "Give the order to the East and West Battalions, start to move closer to the Chinese army, and launch a total in an hour!" ”
"Whoa!"
Seeing the figure of the herald quickly leaving, a cruel smile appeared on Li Jie's cheeks, staring hideously at the devil's dust and gray smoke in the moonlight and sneering.
"Since you have to die today, the widow will fulfill you!"