On the morning of the day when he decided to go to war, Chai Shao got up very early, and yesterday he heard that the Arab army had moved, and it seemed that the army was being gathered, and Chai Shao immediately judged that the Arabs did not intend to continue to wait but were ready to send troops to attack the capital of the Persians.

Chai Shao was not in a hurry, because the treatment given by the Persians was really good, even better than the treatment given by the Tang Dynasty, not to mention the delicious mutton, rabbit meat, venison and the like, and other very strange foods, although they could not be named, but they were all delicious, and there was wine to drink, and fruits to eat, the soldiers were very satisfied with what they ate, and they swept away the fatigue left by the months of hurrying, and after a few full sleeps, the state was completely adjusted.

The state is adjusted, the rest will be very easy, the combat effectiveness of the Tang army will be restored to the peak state, no, not only the peak, it is a more powerful state, eat meat every day, the state is naturally good, although the Tang Dynasty has made great progress now, the treatment of soldiers has been further improved, but in addition to the two foreign armies of the Western Turks and Xue Yantuo, the other armies can eat meat once a week, by the way, the carnivorous army, the establishment of the carnivorous army, the twelve death squads are the same.

The Tang Dynasty is now at the point of coexistence of the government military system and the conscription system, and it is also an era of coexistence between the government soldiers and the standing army, the government soldiers are mainly responsible for foreign operations, and the standing army is mainly responsible for the management and occupation of conquered territories, of course. With the passage of time, some very strong special forces should not be half peasant and half army according to the model of government soldiers, which will lose combat effectiveness, and it is better to maintain them for a long time.

Therefore, today's artillery, eight-bull crossbow team, trebuchet team and twelve carnivorous armies belong to the most elite and main part of the standing army, while the other standing armies belong to the garrison army, that is, the army stationed in the local area, the standing army is divided into the standing guard army and the standing combat army, the standing guard army is the state and county soldiers and the like, the standing combat army is the standing army with the strongest combat effectiveness in the Tang Dynasty, and the strongest army that can quickly enter the combat state whenever and where.

Although military service is undoubtedly the main force of the army. However, because of the restrictions of agriculture, the government soldiers could not fight and go on expeditions regardless of the season. Especially for expeditions, it is necessary for the standing combat army as a professional soldier to assume this responsibility, so although the government soldiers are the main force, they are used in addition to the largest national wars. In many other cases, students in military schools can take on that part. Standing combat can take on the rest.

And because of this. In order to ensure that the army does not become a private army of a certain general, and at the same time, to maintain the combat effectiveness of the standing combat army, the special advantage of not being subordinate to each other under the government military system has also disappeared. His Majesty Li Erxi ordered that the garrison of the Standing Combat Army was outside Chang'an City, and the government soldiers did not need to come to Chang'an City to defend it, and the task of defending Chang'an City would be handed over to the Standing Combat Army.

And because of the active performance of military academy students, there are many grassroots officers in the Tang Army who are military academy students, and a considerable number of extremely good ones have entered the middle and high levels of the army, such as Du He, so their other identity - the protégé of the Son of Heaven will be a very effective guarantee for the emperor's direct leadership of the army, and the staff headquarters can only specify the battle plan if the emperor authorizes it, and then the emperor issued a tiger talisman, and the chief of staff began to dispatch troops.

After the last recruitment, the number of standing combat troops has reached 200,000, accounting for one-fifth of the total number of the Tang army, and the number of the remaining standing garrison army is 300,000, that is, the Tang Dynasty is currently in a state of half of the standing army and the government soldiers, which is mainly the reason why some of the government soldiers have been converted into standing armies.

There is no doubt that the 70,000 soldiers and horses commanded by Chai Shao are all standing combat armies, that is, 70,000 of the 200,000 most elite troops in the Tang Dynasty, the strongest in combat effectiveness, and the only army in the world equipped with gunpowder weapons.

The only exception is the Arab army armed with fanatical religious ideas, this army is backward in equipment and tactics at present, originally they are not the opponent of the Sassanid Dynasty at all, but it is precisely because of the fanatical doctrine and worship that the Arab army is backward in equipment, but the combat effectiveness is extremely strong, the reason why the Han Dynasty can pacify the Yellow Turban Army, a large part of the reason is the Yellow Turban Army's own mistakes, and when the Arab army did not make any mistakes, The weak Sassanid Empire was naturally powerless to fight back.

Chai Shao's formation is a very traditional Central Plains formation, the infantry army is in the middle, the cavalry is on both wings and the rear, the trebuchet eight bull crossbows and artillery are within the protection range of the infantry formation, when the battle does not officially begin to be short-handed, they need to be the first to come in handy, and then the crossbowmen in the military formation follow the unified instructions to release arrows and increase the killing force, and then, the powerful cavalry penetrates into the enemy army formation at the fastest speed, completely disrupting the place, and finally, the infantry army formation slowly advances with a steady posture like Mount Tai, Crush the enemy army completely.

In the past, the first stage could not cause a large number of casualties to the enemy, so it was necessary to rely on the cavalry charge in the second stage, if the cavalry charge failed or the number of cavalry was too small, the combat effectiveness was insufficient, and it was not enough to take on the big responsibility, then it was directly dependent on the mutual battle of the infantry army to decide the victory or defeat of the war.

Datang has 30,000 infantry, 40,000 cavalry, the central army array is 30 super large army formations, and then the eight bull crossbow team and the trebuchet team are located on the left and right sides of the military formation, the central artillery team is the most tightly protected, the position is in the middle of the entire large army array, that is, the safest position, Chai Shao's command team is there, the commander of the 20,000 cavalry on the left is Du He, the deputy commander is Wang Xuance, the commander of the 20,000 cavalry on the right is Li Zhen, the deputy commander is Cheng Chumo and Wei Chi Baolin, and the commander of the 30,000 infantry army in the center is Meng Yu. Chai Shao commanded in the center.

The large army formation slowly moved towards the open area of the plain suitable for the display and battle of the army with a neat pace and steady attitude, the war drums rumbled, and the whole battlefield was full of murderous spirit, and the Persian monarchs and ministers who watched the battle on the city wall were dumbfounded, they really did not expect that the Tang army would have such a combat method, especially the use of infantry and the use of large weapons, the late Persian Sassanid Dynasty was too superstitious about the power of heavy cavalry, so that it completely ignored the survival of infantry.

The status of the infantry was very low in the late Sassanid period, and sometimes they could only be used as cheering regiments on the battlefield and shouting a few voices. And the Arab army was first built. Cavalry was scarce and fought mainly by infantry, so there was an extremely rare infantry war against cavalry in history, and the winner of this war was the infantry. Arab Army.

The strict military formation of the Tang army looked like black squares one after another from them. It's so artistically arranged. So much so that some ministers and celebrities who were quite accomplished in knowledge and art actually praised the military formation of the Tang army, and felt that this was the art of war, which was worth carrying forward. Completely forgetting what they were doing here, the third line of defense was already in jeopardy, the Persian army was retreating on all fronts, and the Tang army was the last barrier for the Arabs to attack Ctesiphon.

If this barrier is not useful, it will undoubtedly be disastrous for Persia, and the Arab army will swallow up their capital as quickly as possible, and the Sassanid kings will have to prepare to flee the capital and build another capital to survive.

Chai Shao is not willing to be the useless person, he was not as happy as his wife at the beginning, he was compared to a woman, and others don't care, but that woman is still his wife, and anyone else will feel depressed and unbearable, and later after the death of Princess Pingyang, Chai Shao finally got rid of a shackle, glowing with a more dazzling brilliance than before, and made great contributions repeatedly.

The relationship between their husband and wife is actually very delicate......

Chai Shao looked at the Arab army not far away that was also black and oppressive in battle formation, and the judgment in his heart was also confirmed, the last time he saw it, it was only a small-scale attack, and the main army did not move, and the Persians should have some better weapons and equipment, so an army wearing Persian armor appeared in front of Chai Shao, Chai Shao waved his hand, the drums stopped, and the advance of the army also stopped.

The battlefield is quiet, the number of Datang's army is significantly less than the number of more Arab troops, and although the military formation of the Arab army is not qualified, there are also faint wings to outflank Datang's driving, just like holding a knife in each of his hands, trying to stab the enemy in front of his chest to death.

Chai Shao was naturally not frightened by this posture, he naturally had his own considerations and ideas, and waved his hand: "The artillery is divided into three ways, ten guns per road, aiming at the front, the left front, and the right front, adjust the angle, distance, and get ready. ”

The artillery leader agreed, and then quickly arranged, thirty artillery pieces were divided into three parts, a part of ten artillery, each aimed at the enemy from three sides, only attacking the front army of course can't, they are now in full swing, and the hedge against the loss is larger, the Tang Dynasty forces are not superior, let alone the use of troops without scruples, so they need to give their morale to a head-on blow and boost the morale of their own soldiers.

At the beginning of the war, a man wearing armor and riding a horse came out of the Arab military formation, and the armor worn by this man was obviously different from that of other soldiers wearing armor, and the style of the armor was also different from the style of the Persians, it seemed to be other styles, but this was not within Chai Shao's consideration, Chai Shao only roughly guessed the identity of this person - the commander of the Arab army, Khalid.

Chai Shao was about to open his mouth to ask who was coming, but it suddenly occurred to him that no one here could speak Chinese, so for this person, what does it mean to him who is coming? So what does it mean that he came out alone? Past experience tells Sù Chai Shao that once this person comes out, he will definitely come to speak ruthlessly, which is a routine link before the two armies fight.

But then the words of this cruel guy made Chai Shao quite speechless, and his voice was loud enough, but what did he say? Chai Shao looked at the people around him, and the people around him also looked puzzled and didn't know what this guy was talking about, and couldn't figure out what this guy was talking about, he didn't bring Isam over when he was going to fight, no one translated, what was this guy talking about? I don't understand it at all, huh?

The key thing is that the more this guy talks, the more he says, the more the soldiers behind him seem to be very angry and their morale is high, but the Datang side is like a fool who doesn't know what this guy is talking about, is he saying it to the people of Datang? Or are you saying it to your own people?

Chai Shao felt quite annoyed......

I don't know if I don't understand you? Speak Chinese! Soul light! (To be continued......)