On the third day of the ninth month of the fourth year of Kaiyuan, under the conscription of the King of Fujian, the armies from all walks of life abandoned the pass and returned, and finally gathered in the northern suburbs of Damascus.

Even the history of the Great Min has never mobilized such a large number of troops, 110,000 and 22 Roman legions like rows of chessboards across the wilderness, left and right military guards, left and right leading guards, right Jin Wuwei and the sharpest spear of Great Min Guanning Iron Cavalry are even more imposing in the rear of the Roman legions.

Following behind the Fujian army, 130,000 Caucasian infantry cavalry were almost exhausted, Li Rang's Upper Arabian Iron Army also had 50,000 retinue tribes, 30,000 Sogdians, 10,000 Tibetans, and 20,000 Turks.

The largest number of people is still the government soldiers of Damin, who brought out nearly 500,000 government soldiers from Tianzhu and more than 200,000 at this time, plus the local government soldiers collected in Mesopotamia and Syria, the vast infantry array is as much as 400,000.

If you add Xue Rengui and Li Yexu, who are entangled with the Arab army on the front line, the army under Li Jie can catch up with the 960,000 army of Emperor Yang of Sui to conquer Goguryeo, and there are few emperors in Chinese history who have commanded such a large number.

In order to support such a large army to fight, the number of cattle, horses, and camels that were dispatched to carry supplies reached 300,000, and there were hundreds of elephants to help carry them, and most of the rice and grain produced in Egypt and Mesopotamia that year had been gathered in the army, enough to support the food of this million-strong army for three months.

Particularly spectacular are hundreds of thousands of buckets, skins, such a hot climate in the lack of water in the semi-desert, desert area of the battle, water is absolutely the root of life, Li Rang's acacia defeat proved this, the most delayed before the expedition is to rush to buy these water vessels.

In his life, perhaps this time the big battle will be the most exciting, and now that everything is ready, standing in the mighty military column, Li Jie himself can't help but be proud, and shout loudly.

"Great army, go on the march!"

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On the fifth day of the ninth month of the fourth year of Kaiyuan, the Fujian army that completed the assembly and supply was sacrificed to the sky in the northern suburbs of Damascus, and the army was mighty, and the troops were divided into three routes, and the Arab cavalry that was still attacking the Great Wall near Aleppo and entangled with Xue Rengui and Li Yexu wrapped the past.

On September 20, Li Jie's main force of 300,000 troops on the middle road arrived at the Qianniuwei front battlefield around Shen'en Mountain, which was 30 miles away from the Arab army.

In the past month or so, Li Yexu, Sheng Lianshan and other four generals have obviously not had a good time, not to mention the huge disparity in strength with the Arabs, in such a hot weather, the combat effectiveness of the Fujian army and the Arab army has been reduced and improved, and the Arab army is still a light cavalry adapted to the desert.

In the wilderness near Mount Shen'en, traces of the battlefield can be seen everywhere, there are fragments of chariots piled up in the barren grass, arrows shot out of the ground in clusters, and even the corpses of camels, war horses, and sergeants scattered on the battlefield.

In the sweltering heat of September, the corpses gave off an unpleasant smell that attracted swarms of flies buzzing and vultures circling back and forth in the sky.

The gate of the camp of Shen'en Mountain.

"Meet Your Majesty!"

He personally led the guards and the generals under his command to greet Li Jie and walked out more than 500 meters, and the four generals of Sheng Lianshan turned over and dismounted, kneeling in front of Li Jiema.

Although there were a lot of new scars on his body, even Yao Chong, a little white face, had more knife wounds on his face, and the four generals were all complete, Li Jie, who became particularly concerned after Qin Huaiyang, nodded comfortably: "Generals, please get up." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

After standing up, Li Yexu, as the chief general, bowed his fist respectfully: "Your Majesty, the last general and others have already prepared food for the big army, please enter the camp." ”

"Good! Just according to Qing and others. ”

Li Yexu's camp also showed a kind of post-war traces everywhere, there were broken swords and fire on the fence at the gate of the camp to black ashes, a meal was naturally simple, after eating, dozens of generals and Li Jie hurriedly gathered in the big tent of the Chinese army.

"Your Majesty, now that our army is here, General Xue Rengui Xue's troops are still relying on the Great Wall to resist the attack of the Arabs, and among our two troops, it is the army of the Arab Empire, which has proven to be led by Hussein, and his daughter Selim Zhuor has continued to attack the Great Wall as a former army, and it has not stopped for a month."

Surrounded in front of the map, Li Yexu, the former enemy commander, personally explained the current battle situation to King Min and many generals, looking at the map of the battle line, Li Jie couldn't help frowning in doubt.

In the current situation, the defense of the Fujian army was like an inverted Arabic numeral 7, Xue Rengui's army was relying on the Great Wall to resist the attack of the Arabs at the head of 7, and Li Yexu's army was pulling the Arab army back in the wilderness at the end of 7.

Even if there are many cavalry, it is still a very uncomfortable strategic situation to be in such a position, and it is impossible to advance or retreat, and it is not capable of attacking one side, if a few months ago, the Arabs who knew that they could not attack would have withdrawn, but now, these Arabs have been storming in the scorching heat for more than a month.

Li Ji also saw this unusualness, and without Li Jie opening his mouth, he had already asked suspiciously: "Are you sure that the main force of the Arabs is sandwiched between the two armies?" ”

"That's right!"

This time, Sheng Lianshan poured bitter water and replied: "The Arabs are really like poor and crazy, desperately attacking in the direction of Antioch, just five days ago, Hussein also personally led a large army to attack the Anyuan Fort guarded by General Xue, and used his daughter Serim Zhuoer, General Abdul to lead 50,000 cavalry to contain the last general, and the battlefield outside the camp was caused by that battle. ”

Poor and crazy, but it is also a good reason, there is no logistical source, Hussein is likely to have been exhausted, and if he doesn't fight to grab something, the army will starve to death, this situation knows that the commander who has to fight even if he is wrong abounds in history, and there is no shortage of Hussein.

Although he was still a little puzzled in his heart, Hussein finally sent the opportunity to encircle and annihilate himself in front of Da Min, and did not entangle him again, under Li Jie's eyes, Lao Li Ji lay on the map in a dull manner, and also took a baton and quickly arranged it on the battlefield.

"The order of the King of Fujian, from now on, all the armies will take turns to challenge the Arab army, the left Xiaowei general Ge Shuna Mucuo, lead the headquarters to swallow the army to the plain east of Shen'en Mountain, Fengche General Yuwenshu led his troops to the left of Shen'en Mountain, clamp down on the Arab army from the flank, do everything possible to drag these desert barbarians, and wait for the army to encircle!"

The strategy of Damin, as the most mobile Min prince, led the central corps of 200,000 to the rear of the Arab army, and Li Rang, the king of Hezhong County, led his troops to walk the inner line of the Great Wall for thousands of miles, and after converging with Xue Rengui's department, he contained the front army of the Arab army, but the last way was to be led by Fang Yiai, the general of Zuo Wuwei, commanding nearly 400,000 infantry to block the broadest opening of this inverted 7, and when the time comes, the three-way army will come out together, and all the main forces of the Arab Empire will be destroyed in one fell swoop!

Finally, when the decisive stage came, although the tent was maddeningly stuffy, dozens of generals were still in good spirits, and the named generals led their men out of the door, and the first layer of small nets against the Arabs began to slowly open.

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In the blink of an eye, two days have passed.

It is impossible for the Arabs not to know the arrival of the main force of Li Jiemin's army, after all, an arc-shaped semi-encirclement began to form on the back of the Arab army, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that the enemy has increased, but in two days, the Arab army not only did not make any new moves, but turned a blind eye to the challenges of the generals outside the camp, but shrunk.

In the morning, I just got the news that Li Rangbu had also arrived in the predetermined area, and at the same time, Fang Yiai, who was out of the Great Wall Pass to the east, also began to deploy troops to block the back road of the Arabs.

Under the scorching sun, the group of Damin warriors were still adapting to the sun on the one hand, and exercising their fighting skills in an array of shouting and shouting, and also wearing a round cool military hat with iron on their heads.

After Li Jie arrived at the camp of Shen'en Mountain, Li Yexu and Shenglian Mountain pushed forward with the whole army, and set up camp less than twenty miles away from the Arab army, wrapping the empty field after the battle.

The scorching sun made the air look familiar, and a layer of hazy heat distorted that it was a little difficult to see his own military camp in the distance.

This season is also the time when sandstorms in the Middle East are most likely to erupt, and in the hazy haze, a little yellow dust is steaming up in the direction of the Arab camp, and it looks like a monster.

Seeing such a scene, Li Jie couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, he had already experienced a small sandstorm yesterday afternoon, the dry sand covered the first layer of the barracks, and the people who beat him were itchy and uncomfortable, the water resources in the desert were precious, even Li Jie himself could not easily waste water, shrugged uncomfortably The heavy armor on his shoulders, and gave an order, Li Jie planned to go back to the tent to hide.

But after only a few steps, Li Jie suddenly stopped in astonishment, not far in front of him, the logistics soldiers were sorting out the snare drum, a heavy snare drum made of cowhide was being placed flat on the ground, and at a casual glance, the slightly beating sand grains on the snare drum suddenly met Li Jie's eyes.

Turning his head suddenly, it seemed that the sandstorm in front of him had hit a little more, and he was alert, Li Jie was just about to give an order, and Li Yexu's military camp in front of him. A dozen herald messengers with red flags on their backs had already rushed into the Chinese army camp staring at the boiling heat.

"Your Majesty, the front army has come to report, and the Arabs have suddenly assembled in a big way, as if they are going to attack our army!"

The Red Flag Messenger, panting and fainting, shouted in a hoarse voice.

However, it seems that these two words can be removed, and before his words fell, a yellow line had appeared in the lens in the telescope that Li Jie picked up.

Camel hooves and horse hooves trampled the sky full of smoke and dust in the desert, as if leading the sandstorm, the galloping Bedouin knights rushed madly towards the front camp of the Fujian army with the hottest temperature in the Nevda Desert, and it was impossible to see how many people were crowded under the shroud of the desert.

What's even more strange is that the leader is actually a woman, the tassels of the gauze on her face are swinging backwards with the gallop of the war horse, and in the telescope, only a pair of dark eyes of the woman can be seen.

"My daughters are all here, hum."

After the first large-scale attack by the Arabs after the arrival of reinforcements, Li Jie couldn't help but squint his eyes with interest.