Chapter 1181. Reveal your hole cards
October 15 of the fourth year of Kaiyuan.
Damin, who had been pursuing for as long as a month, finally caught up with Hussein's main force of the Arab Empire on this day, located in the middle of the Yarmouk River, a tributary of the Jordan River, which was the same as Li Jie had speculated, and was the same place where Khaled, the sword of Allah, had broken the main force of the Byzantine Empire last time.
The scale of this war was far more than four times, and even if nearly 300,000 cavalry were sent out to protect the rear road, the Great Min alone had nearly 500,000 troops, and after a day's rest yesterday, it was transformed into a battle formation with a long dragon-like marching formation in advance, approaching the main force of the Arab Empire.
The huge and mighty Fujian army made the ministers of all ethnic groups marvel as if it was a long dragon in the east that was entrenched and sent out a thunderous blow at any time, which was shocking, but Li Jie himself felt that the army that was hugging together was a brick moving forward slowly.
Of course, Li Jie also muttered a few words or two with Yang Xinyi Anna, if he said it, it would be a little too damaging to the glorious image of the Damin Army.
The huge Min army almost contains most of the main force of the Fujian army, with the traditional Chinese five army array, the Qianmao army is the most powerful assault force of the Guanning iron cavalry, the Tibetan heavy cavalry, the Turkic heavy cavalry and the Persian iron cavalry are full of 80,000, as a commando force, Sen Senran's iron armored heavy cavalry is lined up in a horizontal row, like a black cloud floating across the horizon, 320,000 heavy horses' hooves trampled on the earth are trembling violently.
With a monstrous march of steel, no infantry can rely on flesh and blood to stop their charge on this wilderness plain.
Li Rang, who had always been the vanguard, gave up the vanguard position of the light cavalry group of the legion, but still constituted the most important right army, cruising on the right flank of the army with 130,000 Armenian, Turkic, and Persian light cavalry, and trampling the dust on the sand, just like the Arabic army.
The vast majority of the men were right-handed, and so were the legions, the left rib was always weaker than the right rib, and it was foreseeable that the light cavalry under Li Rang's command would be a right hook that would make the Arabs feel painful in the coming battle.
Moreover, the Yamouk River still flowed on the right hand side of the army, and the wandering light cavalry regiment could play a role in isolating the Arab light cavalry from attacking and plundering the rear route of the Fujian army.
The space of the left army is smaller, and the distance between the river and the Chinese army is only ten miles, but this will be the area where the battle will be fiercest in the future, and the Arab light cavalry also knows the principle of attacking the left with the right, not to mention that this is also the source of water for the army.
In later generations, the change of the Ming Dynasty's civil fort was because the 500,000 Ming army led by Ming Yingzong was trapped in the civil fort that lacked water sources, and after being thirsty for a day and a night, Wara pretended to get out of the way, and then rushed to the Ming army whose water source was uncontrolled, completing the feat of defeating the 500,000 Ming army with 500,000 or 60,000 Warat people.
Li Jie's soldiers and horses were even more than the Ming army in Tumubao, and the temperature here was also hotter than the grasslands of northern Jin.
Therefore, Li Jie put the 110,000 Eastern Roman soldiers of the 22 legions, which were second only to the Fujian army in formality and were also masters of position defense, on the left flank, and the first left guard in the sixteen guards was also placed here, and Fang Yiai was recognized as the general manager of the march, and even in order to boost morale, Qin Concubine Anna also personally sat here with a double-headed golden dragon flag as a minister.
More than 80,000 kite-shaped shields with round tops and pointed bottoms swayed up and down in the hands of the heavy infantry, whose ancestors had a record of holding out for seven days after being divided and surrounded by the raging Germans after the defeat in the Wallenberg Forest, and holding on to the fortifications mainly by shield trenches, this time, the Roman legions that defended one side with all their might would be like the hardest shield in the hands of the Great Min, unbreakable.
The most elite legion is the middle army, starting from the right guard, the left and right guards, the left and right Xiao guards, the left and right leading guards, the left and right Qianniu guards, and nine of the sixteen guards of the Great Min Chang Army are here.
These soldiers who have experienced a series of major wars such as the Great Rebellion of Qunucheng, the conquest of Nantianzhu, the capture of Khorasan, and the First Arab War, completely separated from production, and the killing machines that only train killing skills every day, more than half of the members are the elite corps of the veterans of Heluo in Guanzhong, and they are the absolute main force under Li Jie's command, and they form Li Jie's most powerful Chinese army with 10,000 forbidden troops, 150,000 elite soldiers from Khorasan, North and South India, and a large number of noisy Tang immigrants.
Strangely, in such an army, there were 30,000 Alan cavalry, who were recognized as the lightest equipped and had the worst impact and fighting ability.
The remaining three or four hundred thousand to protect the back road and pass military rations to thousands of miles of the new army, such as the government soldiers formed in Mesopotamia and Syria, as well as the servant armies of the Caucasus countries and the Sogdian countries were all used as rear armies.
After a day of marching formation, within fifty miles of the Arab army, Li Jie stopped the army again, in addition to allowing the soldiers to rest well, and readjusted a lot of battle sequences, which created an absolutely perfect military formation, the second layer of wooden watchtowers has been added to the mobile palace, and he looked at the dense Arab light cavalry camped in the wilderness with telescopes and many ministers, Li Jie's heart was full of self-satisfaction.
Hussein was indeed scheming, and suddenly abandoned half of his baggage, fled on light horses, and escaped from the pursuit of the Great Min, in order to give the desperate Min an illusion that he would march here in a hurry, and then converge to collect the entire Hejaz, and the Arab heavy army group in the Najd region could wait for work.
However, his strategic intention was seen through by Li Jie, although it was not enough to rest, the Damin Corps, which rested for two nights and one afternoon, was still in a state of fresh force at this time, which made Hussein's plan fall through.
Last time, in order to defeat Li Jie, the entire Arab Empire mobilized a total of nearly 800,000 troops, losing half of the Arabian Peninsula one after another, Egypt, and the birthplace of ****** still mobilized more than 300,000 fanatical Arab cavalry to welcome the arrival of the Fujian army, and the dense cavalry also listed a huge rectangular array arranged for more than 40 kilometers.
The totems of various clans and tribes are constantly waving the same banners, countless, interspersed in them, countless white background green stars, moons and sun banners vaguely carry some kind of magic from ancient times, Hussein belongs to the Abbasid dynasty, still black, the Caliphate Janissaries and the nobles of various tribes are also like a dancing black flame, exuding a smell of death in the hot air.
The most striking thing is the hundreds of breeding trebuchet arms stretched out into the air at the back of the Arab army, and I don't know how long Hussein prepared for this day, the catapult made of Caucasian cedar towers over the horizon like a group of giants, which makes people can't help but feel a sense of insignificance.
However, even if Hussein has been preparing so painstakingly for a long time, Li Jie is still full of self-confidence, he has the most well-trained heavy cavalry of this era, the most well-equipped ironclad knight heavy infantry, the sharpest artillery fire, the farthest bow and crossbow, once the battle starts on this plain, the artillery fire and strong crossbows tear apart the fragile array of these Arabs, and then the heavy cavalry breaks through, the light cavalry outflanks, and the heavy infantry center blossoms, Li Jie is confident that he will defeat the last main force of the 300,000 Arab Empire in one day.
Just like the Arabs did with the Persian Empire back then!
"Report!"
The long Guanzhong tone sounded under the mobile palace, and this time it was still a general who came to report the news, the vanguard ranger general Ashina Yelusen, a general with Turkic royal blood, but this time, Li Ji, the fastidious secretary of the military department, also showed a relaxed smile, without the slightest displeasure.
In front of the palace, he turned over and dismounted in a chic manner, and the handsome and brave general broke a solemn bow to the ground with a ceremonial atmosphere, and played loudly.
"Your Majesty, the God of War unit under the command of Artillery General Xiao Yehu has arrived at the predetermined position, and the general of the vanguard army, General Gro, has ordered the last general to come and ask Your Majesty, please give your Majesty an order!"
Also in a ceremonial tone, Li Jieying also rolled up his sleeves in a chic manner, and replied in a high voice: "Order the general, break the army for the widow!" ”
"Whoa!"
Answering loudly, and kowtowing solemnly, General Chuanxin once again turned his horse handsomely under the attention of tens of thousands of Chinese army officers and soldiers, and immediately ran forward.
Huaxia is a state of etiquette, according to common sense, before the war, the envoys of both sides must meet to reason, but the war has been fought to this day, Li Jie really has no mind to talk nonsense with Hussein, after getting the order, the vanguard heavy cavalry directly cracked a few holes, dozens of heavy general cannons were pushed to the front of the infantry in front of the battle, and the long-trained Arab horses smelled the smell of gunpowder, and seemed to have a premonition of the upcoming war.
But seeing that the heavy cavalry of the Fujian army showed a dangerous attack signal, under the gaze of Li Jie's telescope, a whistle sounded in the Arab army that was also heavily arrayed, and a moment later, under the surprised gaze of the Fujian army, the Arab army two miles away was actually as orderly as a leaking mercury, and slowly retreated backwards.
Li Jie, Li Ji and a series of other Fujian officials and generals suddenly stared in disbelief, and the restless heavy cavalry vanguard also stopped jumping in shock.
As the Arabs retreated more than a mile after the tide receded, on the horizon, dozens of miles long dense and multitude of black markings slowly revealed in the sight of the Min people............