Under the nervous gaze of everyone, in the strange roar of the Arab commander, sixteen counterweight trebuchets let out a roar in unison, and the counterweight was suddenly lowered, and the force brought by gravity slammed the black smoke weapon that was tied to the other part of the catapult arm into the sky.

In fact, this kind of catapult device is extremely simple, but with a force that does not fit the times, it smashes thousands of heavy objects with black smoke tails on the head of the Fujian army's shield array.

The ability to throw stones and other heavy objects at the enemy's walls from afar to attack them has been studied as early as BC in both eastern and western civilizations.

The Greco-Roman Western civilization was distinguished by torsion, the use of animal tendons to dry and tann and twist into huge ropes, or to be equipped with ballista armarms or under the throwing arms of trebuchets, the Roman killing machines that have been terrifying to the peoples of the European continent for centuries.

And Huaxia is more embodied in manpower, hundreds of soldiers pulled the rope violently, the lever-like slinging arm thrown out, hundreds of years later in Xiangyang, the Song army is using this trebuchet to repel several times of the Mongol army attack, and the Southern Song Dynasty Diaoyu City, the Song army seven cannons are killed the invincible Mongolian Khan Meng Ge.

However, it was the weapons used by the Arabs in front of them that reversed history, and the Western Regions people Ah Lao Martin and Yisima defeated the resistance of Xiangyang because the Mongol army built back cannons, and destroyed the Song dynasty in one fell swoop.

As early as when Li Jie did not develop artillery, this huge and heavy thing was the main siege weapon of the Fujian army, which was used in the fight with the Arabs, and he also admired the learning and creative ability of the Arabs.

The heavy projection force was as far as a thousand steps, and even surpassed the tiger squat cannon carried by the Fujian army, and the scattered gravel meteor fire rain smashed on the Fujian army's shield array, and the whistling sound smashed the Fujian army like a lotus leaf in the rainstorm, and the shield trembled in the dense raindrops.

But in the gritted teeth that Li Yexu felt empathily with, the casualties were surprisingly small, and only a few unlucky people were smashed and their hands burned.

This is the first time in the war that Li Yexu was stunned, he didn't believe that the Arabs would be kind to his subordinates, and in disbelief, he anxiously ordered the sergeant to collect the weapons thrown by the Arabs and come to him, and a moment later, a large black mass of something that was still burning and emitting smoke was sent over, and he pulled the plate twice, Li Yexu shouted in surprise.

"Camel dung!"

To use the fashionable language of the Internet, the Arabs are flying, dry and green and smelly, not the nomadic Bedouins commonly used to fuel dry camel dung or what?

Puzzled, he trampled the camel dung and threw it to the soles of his feet, seeing the Arabs getting on the trebuchet again, Li Yexu couldn't help but shout in shock: "What are the Arabs going to do?"

He was answered by the next wave of black smoke and burning camel dung.

Several huge trebuchets were transported, and in one day, the Arabs persistently threw an unknown number of baskets of burning camel dung into the Fujian army.

The digested plant fibers are extremely flame-resistant, more and more burning camel dung releases a large amount of green smoke, and the smoked Fujian army is full of light smoke, and there are violent coughs everywhere, and many soldiers are smoked to the red.

In particular, the drying of fireworks aggravated the dehydration, each person only had a few mouthfuls of water on average, and even if the formation was not put into battle all day, the consumption of body fluids was still very great, and soon some sergeants were smoked and fainted to the ground, and under the continuous throwing, the dehydrated sergeants even became platoons, and in the afternoon, even the basic formation could not be maintained, and the huge Fujian army was in chaos everywhere.

Everyone was digging holes and burying a steady stream of smoking camel dung under their feet.

The day seemed to be extraordinarily long, and the sun lay lazily in the sky, and it took a long time before it fell into the Mediterranean, until it could not see clearly, and the Arabs put away the trebuchet without getting enough of it.

In the huge Fujian army, whether it was the elite left and right Qianniu Guard, or the ordinary local government soldiers, they were all tired and paralyzed on the ground, covered in stinky sweat.

In the evening, the camel dung launched by the Arabs was pulled out again, and the exhausted Fujian army was lit into a campfire, and the order that had been maintained for a day was finally broken, and the thirsty Fujian army ignored the threat of military law and rushed into the cooking troops, and the buckets of drinking water were forcibly opened, and some of the Fujian troops refused to come out when their heads were buried in it, and there was a chaos of looting everywhere, and in the end, Li Yexu and Sheng Lianshan could not stop the soldiers' desire to drink water, so they could only drink and order the officers to forcibly press it, and then distribute the water equally to the battalions.

On this day, because of thirst and dehydration to death, the Fujian army was actually * hundred, even more than the number of Arabs killed and wounded in yesterday's raid, finally drank the water, gathered around the bonfire, the huge army was also demoralized, and a decadent mood permeated the array.

The Chinese army, the baggage battalion, faced with hundreds of empty buckets, Li Yexu and Sheng Lianshan were also relatively speechless.

"We can't go on like this, we have to find water and kill the Arabs' catapults." Throwing a piece of dry and hard cake on the ground, and after being silent for a long time, Sheng Lianshan stood up in annoyance, and was about to walk out with a knife, but Li Yexu grabbed his sleeve coldly.

"Brother Li! When is this......" Turning his head, Sheng Lianshan complained anxiously, but he didn't want Li Yexu to nod heavily.

"I arranged the crossbowmen in the trench outside the camp, and the tiger squat cannon extended forward to meet Brother Sheng! All please! ”

Seeing Li Yexu clenching his fists and bowing violently, he was stunned, Sheng Lianshan also bowed solemnly, and after a while, the two of them were heavily armored and ran out of the camp together.

On the edge of the trench, the elite cavalry of the Left Thousand Ox Guards gathered together, and more than a thousand horsemen were silent with their war horses, but the armor of many people was removed, and instead a few empty barrels of leather bags hung on the saddle.

Three thousand crossbowmen and vipers hid in the trenches, and the tiger squat gunners also carried heavy iron cannons and ventured halfway up the mountain.

"After Lao Tzu breaks through the Arab guards in a while, you little rabbit cubs will go to the puddle to fetch water, and then come back desperately, no matter what, don't look back!"

The voice was tried his best to be suppressed, Sheng Lianshan was full of gloomy instructions, listening to the roar of his own general, a group of elite horsemen nodded silently, in the night, the well-trained Fujian cavalry showed a particularly impressive momentum.

"General Sheng, my general said, everything is arranged!"

In the dead silence, a crossbowman who couldn't see his face clearly crawled back to the trench, also lowered his voice and shouted, after nodding, he didn't say any more heroic words to boost morale, Sheng Lianshan just silently led the horse to the forefront.

There is nothing more morale-boosting than the general's leading soldiers, looking at the eye-catching piece of white specially embroidered with bright silk on the cloak behind Sheng Lianshan, Zuo Qianniu Guard cavalry also clenched the iron barrel of weapons, and followed behind him step by step.

There was not a single sound except for the clattering of horses' hooves on the planks of the trenches.

Carefully passed through the trench, sorted out the military formation a little in front of the Fujian army formation, and nodded to Li Yexu who came to see him off.

Who knows, facing the desert land breeze blowing towards the sea in front of him, Zuo Qianniuwei's cavalry marched less than half a mile, and in an instant, a firelight suddenly bloomed in everyone's eyes, tearing through the dead night of this era without light pollution in an instant.

Discovered?

Li Yexu and Sheng Lianshan's hearts jumped almost at the same time, and the next moment, the two took out their binoculars at the same time and looked down.

But seeing the Arabs below scattering in a hurry like ants, piles of fire-starters, such as dried date palm leaves, dried animal dung, and even camels, war horses, and unwanted waste were all thrown into the fire, and a long line of fire almost illuminated the entire forward position.

In less than a moment, in the direction of the night wind, a large stream of smoke condensed in the sky above the Fujian army camp, and at night, the smoke attack of the Arabs did not stop.

"Ahem, these damn brutes!"

Smoked so red that his eyes were red, pulling the restless war horse, Sheng Lianshan shouted angrily and scolded in annoyance, and the silent elite cavalry of Zuo Qianniuwei also immediately coughed.

"General Sheng, ahem......"

He was also coughing violently, squinting his eyes, and the crossbowmen who had just reported anxiously chased after him, shouting from afar: "The enemy is prepared, General Li asked the mark to inform you that the attack has been canceled."

"Hah! Ahem~ Let Lao Tzu stay in the mountains and smell his Arab smoke? Why don't you rush down and fight the enemy chieftain! ”

was angry, but Sheng Lianshan didn't pay attention to Li Yexu's messenger at all, covering his mouth and nose with his sleeves, and at the same time angrily turned around and shouted at his elite horsemen.

"It's a man's, go down with Lao Tzu and cut down these despicable bastards!"

Following Sheng Lianshan almost at the same time, more than a thousand elite cavalry also launched a charge in advance with a fearless shout.

Rather than being smoked to death, it is better to fight with the Arabs vigorously!

The heavy horse's hooves seemed to shake the Lebanese Mountain, and they never thought that the Min people could suddenly kill them, and the Arabs, who were still busy lighting the fire, were stunned for a moment, and then suddenly scattered in horror and screamed.

Drove the war horse to gallop out, and the big stick in his hand hit the fire in a row, and followed behind the fleeing Arabs, Sheng Lianshan roared and shot out the sky full of sparks, and a large group of Arabs screamed and rolled on the ground with hot sawdust.

The tiger's eyes were also burning with raging anger, and the Arabs in front of him with a big stick of fire were torn apart, and Sheng Lianshan roared angrily and raised the big stick to his subordinates.

"Kill !!"