Chapter 1177. Authority oppresses
Li Jie's face was pale, and the muscles on his face were constantly twitching.
At about ten o'clock in the morning, the messenger Gar Gongren had just arrived at the headquarters of Fang Yiai, and did not wait for an anxious mouth.
Following his buttocks, the head of the Mesopotamian march, the strong general Fang Renyu, broke in sweaty.
"Boss, it's not good! The Arab barbarians attacked the supply team of our rear army, the entire army of the thirty-two military palaces of Ctesiphon retreated, and the Armenian servant army was defeated by 28,000, and the supply was in disarray! Losses unknown! ”
With a bang, the brush in Fang Yiai's hand fell into the inkstone, and his hand trembled for a moment, Fang Yiai's face turned pale and barely calmed down, and he turned back to Gong Ren and arched his fist and bent down.
"Fang Jun greets the angels, what is the will of not only the King of Min?"
Looking at Fang Renyu, who was pale, and then at Fang Renyu, who was already trembling like chaff, Gar Gongren shook his head dryly.
"No, it's okay!"
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also knew that the Arabs ran all night, and it seemed too late in time, so they woke up the resting cavalry, Li Jie directly led the army up, and the command of the Southern Route Army also attached great importance to it, and Fang Yiai also took more than 100 of the five generals under his command to personally intercept the defeated army, and at about two o'clock in the afternoon, it can be regarded as intercepting the defeated troops from all walks of life who ran all over the mountains.
Standing on the battlefield, all the generals could almost see King Min's head like a big candle, and the fire came out of his head.
In fact, the cavalry is also like that, in addition to the power of the galloping horses, in fact, the impact is not as terrifying as imagined, if the long-trained infantry is firmly established, fighting for several rows of damage, the cavalry that has stopped is a live target.
The armor defense of the Great Min was similar to that of the late Middle Ages, when the prominent knights of that era gradually withdrew from the stage of war, and the Western countries of the melee gradually adopted infantry as the main force, and this is the reason.
What's more, the Arabs are still light cavalry, and the impact power is even worse than that of the Min and Byzantine heavy cavalry, if the Mesopotamian army and the Armenian infantry can hold the battle line, at least they can drag the main force of the Min army to reinforcements on a large scale.
However, there was no such thing as the battlefield, and there were almost no teams that insisted until the Arab cavalry rushed in front of them, and the retreating infantry was a live target in front of the light cavalry, easily defeating the Fujian army of 50,000 or 60,000 people, killing 10,000 people on the spot, and seizing 200,000 loads of wheat for the Fujian army to go out, 100 carts of dried meat, as well as spare swords, guns, arrows, and countless armor stirrups, especially the Arabs also leisurely cleaned up the battlefield.
The Jingguan established by the Fujian army to kill the other party has not yet caused a shock in West Asia, and the human head frame built by the Arabs to kill the Fujian army has already shocked the Fujian army, thousands of heads are piled up into a small mountain, and swarms of flies can't drive away on it, and there are more than a dozen groups of vultures hovering in the sky, or falling to peck at the internal organs of the headless corpse, even if they see a living soldier, they dare to shout twice with red eyes and a sharp voice.
Seeing that Li Jie's angry gaze occasionally stopped at him, Li Rang couldn't help but lower his head and shrink his head, for fear that Li Jie would be angry and take out Zhuo'er, who had finally been able to get his hands, and behead him in front of the whole army.
Fortunately, the deathly silence lasted for a long time, and Li Jie finally shouted in a hoarse voice: "Li Rang, the chief of the march on the northern Syrian road, take your cavalry, catch up with the Arabs, entangle them, and take so many supplies from my Damin, they will definitely not be able to run far."
"Oh, the last general obeys!"
can be regarded as relieved, leading the generals out of the queue to receive the order, and then for fear that Li Jie would regret it, he led Guo Beifeng, Yao Chong, and Kite and other generals to step on the war horse, and Li Rangsa rushed out.
Seeing that Li Rangbu recruited more Arabs, the cavalry of the Semitic people chased out, and Li Ji, the secretary of the military department, was relaxed, this time it was different from the last pursuit in the Lebanon Mountains, the last time the Arab army retreated lightly, and it was retreating overnight, and it was also set up in ambushes in key areas, and the front and rear armies were almost two or three days away, and this time the front and rear armies were not dozens of miles apart, and the Arabs still had spoils of war that could not be given up, and this time they would never be allowed to escape easily.
"Your Majesty, Hussein is ruthless and scheming, and the strength of the king of Hezhong is still too thin, and our ministers also hurry up to sort out their troops and horses to support the king of Hezhong?"
When Li Rang chased him out, Li Ji cautiously asked for instructions, but unfortunately Li Jie slapped back violently: "Don't worry!"
His gaze swept over the generals like electricity, especially those of Mesopotamia, Armenia, Sogdian, Rome, etc., and the cold gaze made the cold hairs of each general stand up, and the cold air came from behind the hot day.
"General Fang Jun, gather the defeated army, everyone, also gather your subordinates here, and give you half an hour."
The hoarse voice was filled with murderous aura, and a group of generals immediately scattered like rabbits.
The mobilization of hundreds of thousands of troops can not be done in half a day in normal times, but this time, under the anger of the King of Min, the generals almost ordered the army to give up all unnecessary items, and the pots and pans were thrown to the ground, and the army was in a messy formation like watching a play.
More than 40,000 Mesopotamian soldiers and Armenian infantry were trembling and surrounded in the middle, and a sense of doom lingered in everyone's hearts.
A large number of stinking human heads were piled up there, and the other armies who watched were also shaken, and there were whispers everywhere.
"Your Majesty, all the armies are gathered!"
The generals who had completed the transfer of troops trembled and felt cold to Li Jie, who felt so strange for the first time.
"Good!"
Nodding gloomily, Li Jie's gaze fell on Maximian, one of the two consuls of the Roman legion who had just officially pledged his allegiance a few days ago.
"Anyone knows that there used to be eleven laws in ancient Rome, and that Caesar punished the Ninth Spanish Legion when he left Gaul, can you?"
This defeat has nothing to do with him, but listening to his Augustus's cold questioning, Maximian, a sturdy Roman warrior in his forties, still has a chill on his back.
Li Jie even said the location of use, whether this was obvious or not was not obvious to give himself no room for veto, but even so, Maximian still hesitated for a moment before nodding with difficulty.
"Your Majesty is erudite, my great Roman military law, the army escapes from the battle, rebels and riots, and one out of ten is given death, which is personally executed by the same corps, and the rest are punished as coolies!"
The reason why Maximian hesitated was because this punishment was too cruel, and he personally punished his friends, and even maybe neighbors, relatives, and the physical and mental shock of the punished person was indescribable, and it was too offensive, and sure enough, as soon as these words were said, dozens of Mesopotamian heads had already glared at him with hatred, and several Armenian lords and princes glared at him fiercely, and then anxiously bent down in front of Li Jie.
"Your Majesty, no!"
Even his own unprotected Fang bereaved love was embarrassed and fell heavily in front of Li Jie, pleading in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, please give the soldiers another chance!"
"Your Majesty, this is the time to employ people, this move hurts the peace of the heavens, is it to give these soldiers a chance to redeem themselves? Just deal with some officers who are greedy for life and afraid of death. Lao Li Ji was also worried that the blow was too big, so he also came forward to persuade him.
But this time it is different from Qin Huaiyang and Li Yexu's defeat, Li Yexu fought until the last moment, and he did his best and did not flinch, Qin Huaiyang fought for him to the death, they can get the opportunity to make meritorious contributions and redeem themselves, but today these soldiers from all walks of life are different, they have nothing to do with relatives, they are fleeing from the battle, let this wind rise, and the next war will not have to be fought.
With a cold face, Li Jie took out the responsibility and toughness that a political leader should have, rejected anyone's pleas with a cold face, and looked at Maximian bluntly.
"Now that you know, why don't you do it?"
Before the scheming Roman general could carry it out, an old Armenian prince stood up angrily and stopped him.
"King Min, the agreement between the Great Min and Armenia is a tributary relationship, we Armenians have made their own mistakes, and we will not need the King of Min to punish them, if the King of Min insists on going his own way, we Armenians will no longer fight for the Great Min!"
There were quite a few nobles among the punished Armenian soldiers, and even directly included the relatives of this old fellow, and after shouting arrogantly, the old prince turned his head and left with a big grin, and even ordered his subordinates to bring back the arrested clansmen as he went.
There are more than 100,000 Armenian infantry cavalry in the Fujian army, and many of them are still serving in Li Jie's Central Army.
Plop~ Half a crossbow arrow was exposed at the back of his head, and the old guy lay directly on the ground without snorting, looking at Li Jie in disbelief with a sneer holding the right hand of the crossbow, and an Armenian prince even screamed.
"You, kill him!"
"The last time the kingdoms of the Caucasus betrayed the Great Min and stabbed the widow in the back, this time, do you plan to do it again?"
Li Jie's cruel and ruthless voice almost made all the Armenians present seem to have fallen into an ice cave, and catering to Li Jie's words, dozens of Fujian generals sneered and inadvertently put their hands on the hilt of their knives.
Even if the great enemy is present, the Great Min does not mind dealing with these 100,000 Armenians in order to maintain his majesty, and besides, not every small kingdom dares to disobey Li Jie's orders.
I don't know who started to kneel, one after another, more than a dozen princes all knelt on the hot sand, lowered their heads, and their obedient attitude could be regarded as letting the cold murderous aura condensed in the air dissipate a little, and put away the crossbow with satisfaction, Li Jie shook his head slightly arrogantly.
"Bring this flirtatious subordinate with you!"
The murderous aura solidified in his tone made these unruly alien kings tremble on their knees.
Maximian hurriedly led the Roman legions under his command into action, and in less than an hour, tens of thousands of deserted government soldiers and clan soldiers were divided into ten people, and each team had a small box.
In the box, there are fateful stones, nine white and one black......