Chapter 1193. Tragic decisive battle
The earthquake roared and kicked off the bloody day. XsHuoTXt
Different from the tiger squat artillery cover a few days ago, as soon as the battle broke out on this day, the Fujian army used a heavy cannon with a heavy gun, and the soldiers carried these heavy guys hand in hand and shoulders to the front of the military formation, and as soon as the two hundred heavy guys fired, it was a landslide and the ground cracked, and within a distance of two or three miles, almost the entire Arab trench was included in the attack range.
Sawdust flew, the huge stone thrower collapsed, and in the crunching sound, the Arabs below panicked and dispersed, and the heavy lead ball shells hit the back wall of the trench, sinking into it more than half a meter deep, and several times in a row, a large section of the trench collapsed, burying the Arabs inside.
Several battles with the Arabs, although there were victories and defeats, but almost all of them were pressed and beaten by the fierce cavalry of the Arabs, this time the ferocious artillery fire of the Fujian army completely suppressed all the Arabs to raise their heads, the kind of heroism that came back, the comfortable feeling, so that the officers who participated in the last Arab defeat, almost all of them were promoted The Min officers were surging and enthusiastic.
The large and small artillery fire raged for more than half an hour, tens of thousands of flowering shells, shot put solid bullets, and grape bullets almost changed the terrain of the forty-mile-long formation, and in the untouchable dense attack, the seven-layer Arab equipment ballista was destroyed, and under the shining sun, there were shiny pieces of broken metal in the broken flowering bullets everywhere.
This shelling could not be stopped, but it was absolutely unprecedented.
As soon as the shelling ended, the enthusiastic Fujian army units that had been waiting for a long time began to shout frantically, and like the black surge of the rising tide, tens of thousands of people lined up in loose formations, lined up in several straggler lines, and rushed towards the enemy formation.
It took a long time for the surviving Arabs, who had been stunned by the artillery, to come back to their senses, trembling with a bow and arrow just poking their heads out, and they were unaware of the fierce head-on slashing from top to bottom, and in the sound of clicking, there was a rain of blood, and Yao Geluo actually split half of the man's body alive.
The fierce first jumped into the Arab trench, and Yao Geluo shouted without looking back.
"For the sake of Da Min, kill!"
This time, the Min army never left a hand, countless Sogdian warriors, and the 16th guards of the Min army also roared and rushed into the trenches with knives in both hands, lightly armed into the battle, killing and slashing, and for a time there were flashing knife lights everywhere, and flesh and blood flew sideways.
These days, the Arabs have become accustomed to the attack of the Fujian army, carrying heavy assault teams from afar to kill and wound the Arab soldiers in the trenches with canisters of fire and oil, each time causing a large number of casualties to the dense Arabs defenders, so the Arabs began to reduce the number of defenders in each section of the trench, with a small number of troops to resist the impact of the Fujian army.
Layered burden, this can be regarded as the essence of trench warfare, but when encountering the Fujian army, which is also good at tackling tough battles, it has become a sieve full of loopholes. Some Arab soldiers were holding bows and arrows and wanted to shoot them, but they were cut off by the soldiers of the Fujian army who rushed to the front with light armor and quickly cut off their heads with horizontal knives.
There are also particularly fierce Arabs, a scimitar is used like pouring wind and cutting water, and successively cut down several Fujian soldiers who rushed into the trench, but immediately seven or eight big knives besieged from all directions, and such a good man can only hate on the spot.
In less than a moment, the intermittent layer of trenches on the battlefield of more than ten miles has been killed, and the Arab defenders have been killed, and these red-eyed Fujian soldiers are crawling out of the trench again, and immediately jump into the second layer of trenches, and after a while, it is the third layer, the tragic fighting is extremely cruel, the low trenches are full of lodging corpses, and the viscous blood has flowed into the shallow layer of the trench.
Not only did they break through in the middle, but the left side of the house, which was originally used as a defensive water source, also rushed forward, and the Roman legions holding kite-shaped shields jumped into the trench like dumplings, and the heavy shields slapped directly on the heads of the Arab defenders, smashing their heads and bleeding.
In particular, the Roman army commander Fang Yiai, is the first soldier to rush to the front line, the trench is narrow is not conducive to the use of Mo knife, this time Fang Yiai also replaced a heavy horizontal knife more than one meter long, the sharp horizontal knife is like an invitation issued by the god of death, everything met the Arabs around him, almost all of them were cut off heads.
The Lord will be brave, and he will also inspire his subordinates, not to mention that the Eastern Roman Empire and the Arabs are really old enemies, since the great expansion of the ******, every inch of the Arabs' expanded territory is all stepping on the corpses of the Romans, fighting for decades, hundreds of thousands of Roman legions corpses across the land and mountains and rivers of Western Asia, and now even if they are put into the battle under the command of the Fujian army, these Roman soldiers still regard it as a war of revenge against Rome against Arabia, and they are particularly fierce.
Even faster than the central legion's assault, when the most ferocious left guards were still fighting with the suddenly increasing number of Arab defenders in the fifth trench, the Roman legions on the left had already broken through the eighth trench of the Arab right army, showing a semi-encirclement and cutting off the Arab army's road to the water source.
Strangely, however, the Roman legions suddenly stopped there, some of them held the mouth of the trench, and most of the remaining soldiers used their shields to dig up the soft ground on the bank of the river, and in the blink of an eye, the mouth of the trench extended into the river and connected with the river.
However, the bank of the Yamouk River is much higher than the water level, and after a few stunned glances, Hussein did not care about his right side, but shouted with a gloomy face: "Hashir, take your cavalry and attack, cut these Fujian dogs back!"
"Yes, caliph, praise the Lord for the bravery of my men!"
The Arab general, who had already been unable to hold back, saluted violently, and strode down.
In the fifth trench, the Arabs increased their forces, and invested thousands of people from both ends of the trench to pour in, fighting with the Fujian army, but on foot combat, the Arab infantry was indeed not the opponent of the Fujian army assault force composed of various ethnic groups, and the Arabs who rushed towards the Fujian army with spears did not wait for the spear to see blood, and the pomegranate-sized pitch-black grenade dragged a flaming tail and was thrown over.
In the noisy explosion and screams, a piece of Arab army fell in a pool of blood and rolled in pain, the spear formation was broken, and the Fujian soldiers who were holding short knives and three-edged stabs bypassed the few remaining spears in front of them, and rushed into the enemy formation with a burst of killing and slashing.
In the flesh and blood, the Arab army that could not hold on was like a tide, screaming and retreating, leaving behind a mess of corpses, the excited Fujian army rushed out of the trench and continued to pursue, but before chasing two steps, the brave soldiers suddenly stopped in shock, and then showed fear on their faces, screaming and fleeing back.
Between the fifth and sixth trenches, the Arabs deliberately left a gap of almost half a mile, such a long distance, just became an excellent place for cavalry galloping, one of the six lions of the Arab Empire, Hashir led the troops, thousands of light cavalry raised their snow bright scimitars, rushed out of the reserved trench communication road.
Even Li Jie had to admit that the Arabs on horseback were lions!
There is no formation to defend, the Fujian army light assault team retreated into the trench with interest, how can the two legs of the people run over four legs, raising bows and arrows, the Bedouin cavalry, who has also been bitter and hateful, shot the Fujian army rushing out from behind, and more ferociously chased directly behind the Fujian infantry, raised the scimitar and cut it down, and the invincible Fujian army encountered the first hard nail that day, and hundreds of elite commandos were bloodied in front of the formation.
However, the Min army who fled back to the trench was not safe, and the Arab light cavalry, who had turned back from their horses, sneered and smashed bags of Greek fire into the trench, and the sticky black oil flowed on the equally viscous blood of the defenders, and in the frightened cries of the Min army under the pit, countless torches were thrown into it.
Looking at the black smoke rising from the Arab army formation, the bright eyes of Serim Zhuoer, who was holding a teacup, lit up suddenly, but Li Jie's face was extremely grim, and he turned his head and shouted anxiously: "Go and ask Fang Yiai, how long will he need?"
More than a dozen forbidden soldiers anxiously rushed out with their horses, and in just a few minutes, only six of the forbidden soldiers came back in a hurry with a scar, regardless of casualties in the Arab army, the guards who rushed to intercept knelt in front of Li Jie with blood.
"Your Majesty, it will take half an hour for General Fang to speak!"
The muscles on his face twitched, and he didn't care about praising the loyalty and courage of the guards, Li Jie hurriedly turned his head and shouted: "The cavalry of the right army is dispatched to hit the left flank of the Arabs and relieve the pressure on the Chinese army!"
"Whoa!"
Li Rang, the king of Hezhong County, knelt down and agreed, but did not go down in person, but only ordered a few attendants to give orders, after the Arabs defended with trenches, the ironclad cavalry of the forward army was organized together with his right army, and Su Dingfang, the head of the former army, was responsible for the actual command, and Li let more people still take care of the night attack.
The order was like a mountain, the heavy ironclad cavalry slowly drove out from the right side of the Fujian army array with arrogance, and similarly, tens of thousands of Arab light cavalry also poured out from the left trench with the caution of a master's duel, and in the vast undulating sand dunes next to the two armies, a huge cavalry duel was about to begin.
Looking at the dense group of Bedouin knights, Su Dingfang didn't pay attention to them at all, knocked on the thick steel armor on his chest, and immediately pulled the reins of the horse, and the war horse neighed and stood up in front of the whole army.
"Brethren, the time has come! For the sake of His Majesty, for the sake of Damin, kill! ”
"Long live Your Majesty!!"
Shouting the slogan of the charge, the heavy ironclad cavalry, led by the Guanning Iron Cavalry, rushed towards the Bedouin army like an irresistible flood, and the heavy hooves of the horses trampled the earth, and even the tiny grains of sand trembled.
The overwhelming charge made Li Jie squint his eyes with satisfaction again, Li Rang, all the attention of the kite who had just come back was also attracted to the past, among so many people, only Sailimu Zhuoer's bright eyes with a teacup showed great worry, and his hand couldn't help but touch his sleeve.
A long silhouette is slightly revealed............