Chapter 1154. Lost again

Today's Damin also has some of the courage of Emperor Taizong back then.XshuOTXt.CoM

Li Shimin has experienced a hundred battles in his life, and the most outstanding thing is not how strong his martial arts are and how outstanding his literary talent is, but that Li Shimin has an open mind.

In that year, the Central Plains, which had experienced four major defeats of Goguryeo, was like a cloud, and Li Shimin's hundreds of thousands of troops were basically recruited soldiers rather than government soldiers, except for the elite of Yingzhou.

Moreover, the Tiele, Turkic, Tuyuhun, Tubo, Xiqiang, and Liuzhao, which were hostile to the Tang Dynasty, almost all sent troops to participate in the war, the vertical and horizontal Turkic cavalry, the hard-fought Guanlong army, and the Yunnan border people who ran through the mountains like walking on the flat ground, and the army under the command of Li Shimin accommodated almost all the ethnic groups in East Asia.

At that time, the glory of the Tang Dynasty was not only for the Han people, but also for the entire East Asia.

Now the most precious legacy left by Li Shimin seems to have been taken over by Li Jie.

The narrow Lebanese Mountains were broken through by two armies in a hurry, and in the early morning of the third day, the battlefield was pursued to the Golan Heights, which had been the subject of war.

Get out of the difficult mountains, the first to rush out of the valley is the Arab iron army under the command of Li Rang, after the defeat of the acacia, Li Rang's army is becoming more and more localized, and the Arab tribes who are free and disgusted with labor are also in need of a unified banner to take over the cause of Muhammad, lead them out of the desert, continue to pursue a better life, relying on the Red Sea to provide profits Li Rang simply hit it off with the local tribes.

More than 60,000 free-spirited Bedouin armies in the East Arabian Peninsula quickly spread their left and right wings over the flat Golan Heights, like birds breaking out of their cages, and swept over them like a carpet.

When the army rushed out of the canyon, no matter how strong it was, the restrictions of the terrain still put the army in a fragile state, such as Li Zicheng at the end of the Ming Dynasty a thousand years later, the soldiers were trapped in the carriage gorge, and they could not get out of the battle for more than 20 days, and finally relied on fraud to surrender, so they escaped.

Li Jie was also afraid that the cunning Arabs would set themselves up at the Lebanon Mountain Pass, and after the lightest and most mobile Arab cavalry rushed out of the mountain range from the trail, the headquarters was under the defense of the 16 guards of the main force of Damin with tiger squat cannons before carefully passing through the narrow valley.

Several more armies joined Li Jie's army one after another, the Armenian cavalry, the Sogdians, the Persians, and the Indian infantry, and by the time the huge army had completely spread out in the Golan Heights, a morning had passed.

As with the abandonment of the important town of Damascus, the Arabs did not have a single soldier to control this important valley, and without much effort, the Min army once again reached this empty plateau with nearly 300,000 troops, which was conducive to the operation of large armies.

But there was no joy at all, Li Jie frowned again, and the uncomfortable feeling of hitting the cotton with a punch from Damascus appeared again.

Bringing together the ** teams of all races in one-third of the earth, Li Jie's command also gathered the top elites of all races.

At the forefront of the huge army, more than 50 Tibetan mastiffs galloped forward in search of the rich smell of camels, and the Tubo people rode low but stout horses behind and kept shouting. In the sky, ten from the distant land of Liaodong, the cherished Haidongqing is also flapping its wings and flying high, and the falconers of the Black Water Deer are also using the ancient Tunguska language to direct these clever birds to patrol the vast highlands.

In the Chinese army, the 30,000 Guanning iron cavalry was like a black wave sweeping across the earth, and where it passed, the only remaining autumn grass on the high ground was also trampled into a flat avenue, and Li Jie's forbidden army followed closely behind the Guanning iron cavalry, almost all of which were stuck together.

Li Jie rode the Akhal-Tejin horse that Dawan paid tribute to, and he also galloped at the front of the forbidden army, you must know that with the increasing power, Li Jie is calmly located behind the protection of the Cong Cong army, and he has not been so eager for a long time, which shows the anxiety in Li Jie's heart this time.

It's a pity, according to the damned Murphy's Law, if things have a tendency to go bad, no matter how small, it will still happen after all, and at ten o'clock in the afternoon, the Fujian army had to stop after all.

The Arab light cavalry on both wings scattered like quicksand at once, and the Roman iron cavalry and the army of the Sixteen Guards turned over and dismounted, quickly forming a solid array of steel flesh and blood, which was protected around the army in a semicircle.

The most central core of the entire Fujian army, Li Jie jumped to his feet and scolded for the first time.

"Rubbish! Fool! Impotent! ”

"Hundreds of thousands of Arabs, who can fill half of Damascus's army, are lost right under your noses! What's the use of asking you to be a piece of waste! ”

It was not easy to catch the traces of the main force of the Arabs, and paid the heavy price of nearly 20,000 casualties of the main army.

can kneel on the ground, the hundreds of horse detectives in Heidu, the secret army of King Min, who is specially responsible for chasing and killing espionage, are also very aggrieved, everyone is trembling and kneeling on the ground, only the leader of Heidu, the secret spy leader who was given the title of Hattori Hanzo, raised his head tremblingly and pleaded.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are not doing well, but the ministers are really beyond their strength!"

Recalling a scene that happened not long ago, Hattori Hanzo's eyes were still full of shock and helplessness, and he was eagerly explaining.

"The Arab armies, disintegrated?"

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In order to guard against the surprise attack, Li Rang's Bedouin light cavalry was spread farther, under the command of the forbidden army, Li Jie led the group of generals on foot to the site of the incident just now, along the way, thousands of horses' hooves and camels' hooves trampled on the traces are still clearly visible, but suddenly converged to a point, these traces showed a hundred and eighty degrees and suddenly scattered messily.

It was as if the rolling army had suddenly exploded, and the Arab army, which had finally gathered together, was divided into the smallest clans, and hundreds or thousands of people broke through in groups, and there was no team of more than 10,000 at all.

Such a sudden, of course, there are only one or two hundred black capital secret spies, and it is not possible to chase all the way, so I have to stand by and wait for Li Jie's instructions.

However, this scene obviously exceeded Li Jie's expectations, pinching the beard that his chin had managed to grow, he was also pacing back and forth like a trapped beast, silent.

After fighting a lifetime of war, from east to west, Li Ji has never encountered this kind of situation, Wang Fangyi lowered his head and kept turning over the horseshoe prints left on the ground and the rice grain, property or some other things dropped by the Arabs, trying to speculate on what the Arabs really intended to be, as for some other generals, they simply scolded.

An enemy who runs away from the end of the fight and does not engage himself at all is really depressing.

"Your Majesty, the hands of the Arabs are indeed at stake, the soldiers are able to gather and disperse, one order, thousands of troops disperse, one order, ten thousand horses gathered, these desert barbarians can defeat the two empires, it does have its advantages!"

After investigating for a while, Li Jidu sighed with emotion, and then solemnly bowed to Li Jie, and said solemnly: "But gathering and scattering, after all, we need a point to regroup, Your Majesty, now it is imperative that our army be stationed on the spot, find the point where the Arabs gather, and then fight a decisive battle!"

"Stop garrisoning now?"

Thousands of miles away, the first battle was not fought, just to collect the bodies of his comrades, and now Li Ji still wants the army to stop at the Golan Heights without moving, Su Dingfang, who can't figure it out, is the first to shout in annoyance.

also couldn't take into account Li Ji's identity as a military secretary and minister, and Su Dingfang, who was not convinced, also slammed it to the ground in front of Li Jie, anxiously asking for battle.

"I beg Your Majesty to give the last general 20,000 cavalry, and the last general will slaughter ten times the enemy to repay Your Majesty!"

"Yes! Your Majesty, taking advantage of the fact that the Arabs are scattered, it is an opportunity to pursue them and defeat them individually! Fang Yiai on the side also bowed in front of Li Jie with an incomprehensible arch fist.

This time, Li Ji simply smiled and said nothing, holding his white-haired head and holding a big beard, looking unfathomable, while Li Jie pointed back helplessly.

"Do you want to repeat the mistakes of the left and right Qianniuwei?"

Li Yexu and Sheng Lianshan did not suffer the loss of unfamiliar terrain, and were cut off from the water source to fight miserable, this is the home of the Arab cavalry up and down, the Fujian army here is definitely unfamiliar, looking back at the flow of people, the military flag followed by the left and right Qianniu Wei Daxu, stammered, and the two generals also helplessly bowed their fists and retreated.

As the sun set, the Damin Army, which had been chasing for several days, had to abandon its goal again, and with the lesson of the Right Route Army, this time Li Jie's division traveled more than 20 miles westward, and the army relied on the Jordan River to stop.

However, in the night, the various units of the Fujian army that had just set up camp, countless scouts were like flocks of swallows, swaying in the vast fertile fields of the Golan Heights.

Behind them, Li Jie's unwilling eyes...