Holding the telescope high, even the military department secretary, who has always been dignified, and the British Duke Li Ji, couldn't help but burst into a foul language.

"Oh dog intestine Shanu, you actually dug so many trenches and fortifications!"

Oh dog intestines are desert barbarians who eat Xiang like dogs, and dogs eat Xiang! Li Ji's scolding is also bad enough, from one side, but it also reflects the thorniness of the situation.

Damin, who is often a heavy infantryman, is accustomed to arranging arrays and defending counterattacks, but this time it is good, Li Jie's classic tactical trench battle was really learned by Hussein, and it is even better.

I don't know how long the Arabs dug it, more than 40 miles of trenches are densely packed in front of the Fujian army, crisscrossing like a labyrinth, although the Arabs have also done camouflage, countless cold light from the bed crossbow of the Min technology, from the Roman Empire ballista, the heavy stone arm of the torsion trebuchet is still revealed in the telescope, and there are sharp wooden thorns stuck in the ground between the trenches.

Once the Fujian army attacks on a large scale, it is conceivable how astonishing casualties this dense long-range lethality will cause.

The day before yesterday, yesterday's scout cavalry saw all the positions covered by the Arab battalion, giving the upper echelons of the Great Min an illusion that the Arabs would fight a painful field battle as before, and today they suddenly revealed the trap, which dealt an incomparable blow to the hearts of the Israeli Fujian army.

The effect can be imagined by looking at the shocked looks of the generals beside Li Jie.

In fact, if you think about it, it is not surprising that Hussein put on such a posture, now it is Da Min who is aggressively attacking, and it is also Da Min who has an overwhelming advantage in strength, and Hu Saiin will fight a conventional field battle with Li Jie, then he will be kicked in the head by a donkey, and he will be tired of killing himself.

Field battles can't be fought, usually only a war of attrition, just like the Guanning Jin defense line at the end of the Ming Dynasty, using city cannons to wear down the Qing army, defending the desert, attacking and harassing the Fujian army, so that the rich land in Syria obtained by the Min people can not be cultivated, and it is also a good way to turn it into a piece of chicken ribs.

However, Hussein can't fight for Great Min, which has the strength of Great Min from the grasslands of Central Asia to the rich islands of the South Seas, but they are poor to death, the country is full of yellow sand, and there are few oases of arable land.

As a last resort, Hussein had to change his tactics of attrition.

Risking to attack the border of Damin, even the only relative's daughter Sailimzhuo used it as bait, took a loophole to loot a part of the military rations of Damin, and then attracted the Min army to the desert, in the scorching hot weather, more than a thousand miles of supply lines, every catty of wheat transported to the front line had to consume the same catty of wheat, feeding hundreds of thousands of troops, and the logistical pressure of Damin suddenly increased countless times.

Moreover, in front of hundreds of thousands of Arab light cavalry, Li Jie still had to spend with him, and the army was particularly vulnerable when it retreated, especially the million-strong army.

Even if Li Ji and others command out of their spirits and are not pursued, it is not in vain that the Chinese military proverb is full of vigor, two and decline, and three and exhaustion, this expedition failed, and it will be difficult to organize such a large army next time, and the strategic initiative will once again return to the hands of the Arab Empire.

So, what Hussein needs to do is to hold on!

The killer ironclad cavalry is useless, and the faces of the Fujian army monarchs and ministers who have figured out the various joints are more ugly than the other, and the entire army is frozen under the hot sun as if petrified, and Sheng Lianshan, who has not arrived in the position of the Chinese army for a while, broke the dead silence, scratching the back of his head and asking in embarrassment.

"Here, Your Majesty, what should you do next?"

"What else can I do, cold salad." Li Jie really rolled his eyes in great depression, looked at the ministers who were looking at each other, and he hummed helplessly: "The forward cavalry is on standby!" Ordered Shadhara and Beshkov's rear army to come forward to build a trench to prevent the attack of the Arabs, Niang Xipi's, to fight a positional war, who was Lao Tzu's Damin afraid of? ”

Li Jie scolded and scolded, lost all the imperial demeanor just now, turned around and returned to the palace, but his words made the confused ministers and generals shine.

Oh, yes! Positional warfare, who has Lao Tzu Da Min been afraid of!

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After all, the main force of the Arab Empire is light cavalry, and if you want to fight a positional war with it, you first need to ensure that you are invincible.

Under the hot sun, more than 50,000 people sweat like a stream, raising dust all over the world, although the sand and dust here is large, after all, it is by the river, digging up the surface layer of one or two centimeters thick floating sand, it exposes the hard yellow-red soil underground, the sand and dust are everywhere in the blink of an eye more than half a meter deep, and the trench of about 40 miles has begun to take shape.

The Arabs are naturally reluctant to see the Fujian army digging trenches, but the ironclad cavalry of Yaogelo is still staring at the front of the battle, in the battle with the Persian Empire Nahavand, the Persian iron cavalry has crushed the attack of the Arab light cavalry several times, if it is not for the beauty of the heavens, the sky and the wind and sand cover the sight of the Persian ironclad heavy cavalry, so that it falls into the melee surrounded by infantry, the outcome is really unknown.

Although the Persian ironclad heavy cavalry, the Great Min armored cavalry, and the Armenian nobles' ironclad holy cavalry stuck out their tongues like dogs, Hussein was still very self-aware that his cavalry could not withstand it no matter what.

As a result, hundreds of thousands of Arabs also watched as a sharp bamboo with a width of more than two meters and barbs inserted in the wall of the back trench enveloped the left, center and right armies of the Great Min.

The civil engineering of Damin was not intended to be superior to that of the Arabs, and more than 20 wide drawbridges made of wood were also built on the trenches, which reserved a quick passage for the attack, and did not become a road for the enemy army when defending.

The drawbridge spliced by the tenon has just been built, and it immediately came in handy, the fortifications have been built, and the rest is to strengthen in depth, and there is no need to use the ironclad cavalry to look at the enemy formation, the drawbridge more than five meters wide is put down, and Dadu set first led the team through the drawbridge, and then the Persian ironclad cavalry of the Admiral Wanyan Aguda.

However, when more than 60,000 ironclad cavalry returned to the town through the suspension bridge that could run two trucks side by side, something suddenly happened, maybe they saw that the rest of the Fujian army was less easy to bully, maybe they were really unwilling to let the Fujian people go back so easily, facing the sunset, in the Arab position that had been quiet for a day, the low and penetrating horn suddenly came out, and from the passage between the trenches, countless Arab riders poured out.

"Thieves and birds, pick up Lao Tzu cheaply."

Seeing tens of thousands of Arab light cavalry rushing towards him, instead of panicking, Yao Geluo showed a little excitement, shouted, took the big silk from the hand of the knight on the side, and rushed to the front of the subordinate who had stuck out his tongue in the dry afternoon, and suddenly pulled the reins of the horse, and the majestic Arabian horse immediately stood up, and the majestic neighing spread throughout the army.

"Brothers, rush with Lao Tzu and kill these sand barbarians!"

It was originally a passionate and high-spirited rush vanguard, but he met such a big turtle shell of the Arabs, and he was a sentry for an afternoon, these ironclad heavy cavalry were bored and bored, and saw that they were led by their generals, more than ten Tang regiments and almost 5,000 Guanning iron cavalry, and the Persian heavy cavalry roared to meet the tens of thousands of Arab light cavalry rushing to kill.

Facing five or six times the enemy's army, these ironclad knights were fearless, and the heavy hooves of their horses beat the ground like tens of thousands of snare drums beating at the same time.

Moving the lookout on the palace, Lao Li Ji was still on duty, constantly observing the weak point of the Arab position under the shade of the parasol, the cold and noisy sound of horses' hooves made Li Ji startled, and he looked over anxiously with the binoculars, but after looking at it twice, Lao Li Ji put it back easily, smiled and shook his head.

"Yao Geluo, this guy!"

The Guanning Iron Cavalry is known as the spear of the Great Min, but it is not called in vain, the elite Sanhe knights recruited between Hangu Pass and Ning County have been known for their good warfare since the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, even if the Huns with unparalleled iron cavalry have fallen under the swords of these cavalry, in the hands of Li Jie, it is even more extreme.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty was the last golden age of heavy cavalry under the turmoil of China for three hundred years, the armor and horses of the Northern Wei Dynasty were all wrapped under the heavy armor, and the heavy degree alone was enough to knock off the light cavalry of the battle, and when it came to Damin, these heavy horses were replaced with tall Arab war horses, helmets made of stainless steel and the whole body armor, and the war horse armor was also wrapped in steel at key points, and the impact force was invincible.

It's no wonder that Li Ji is relieved.

But not long after Li Ji put down the binoculars, there was a loud noise from the front line, the noisy words were in Tang, and the words were mixed with panic, Li Ji hurriedly picked up the binoculars again, and then slapped his thigh and scolded in frustration.

"Cunning sand leopard!"

Just less than a few hundred meters in front of the Arab trench defense array, there is actually a big ditch, angrily rushing to hedge against the past of the Fujian army ironclad heavy cavalry suddenly fell into the ditch a lot, even the Fujian army Daxu fell in, lost command, finally reined in the horse of the sergeant is in a mess again, take the opportunity, the Arab light cavalry on the opposite side covered the group of arrows rain, the Fujian army can not raise its head.

"Hurry up and order Su Dingfang, the head of the front army, to bring all the cavalry back! Come!!! His brows flew away in a hurry, and seeing his cavalrymen turn on their backs, Lao Li Ji shouted anxiously......