Although there are many doubts about this, suspecting that the combat effectiveness of the Arab army is not as strong as imagined, the pursuit speed of the Datang Iron Cavalry has not changed, and it still pierces and kills at a very fast speed, killing countless Arab routs, all the way through, all the way to the flesh and blood, the cruel battlefield, the brutal war planes, and the fierce Tang soldiers.

However, as Du He said before, an army that is not afraid of death and an army with the power of faith may panic because of the fear of the unknown, panic, or even be defeated, causing huge casualties, but the biggest gap between an army with a soul and an army without a soul is tenacity.

The Arab army was a resilient army, but in such adversity, it was not completely defeated, and the artillery bombardment and other long-range attacks of the Tang Dynasty did not completely collapse the entire army of 130,000 people, let alone make Khalid lose the will to continue fighting, and his counterattack was soon launched.

"Javelinmen! Dense throwing! The rear army held on and was not allowed to retreat again! That kind of roar is a special weapon of the Chinese, not a punishment of the gods! The gods are protecting us! The Prophet is watching us from heaven! We are followers of the Prophet! Followers of the gods! We can't afford to fail! Can't retreat! Javelinmen! Dense throwing! Target, cavalry of the Chinese! Khaled, who was rescued by the guards and returned to the rear army, held his big sword and angrily pointed at the Tang cavalry that was raging not far ahead.

"General! What about our people?! "The generals of the rear army are very hesitant, there are still many of their own people there who have not fled back. That would be dangerous!

"For the steps of the prophets! For the guidance of the gods! We must overcome them! No matter how much it costs! The souls of those who died for this will continue to follow the Prophet! Enjoy the blessings of the prophets forever! Right now! Soldiers! Followers of the Prophet! Throwing! Khalid roared angrily, his eyes were about to widen, the situation on the battlefield had been completely tilted towards the Tang army, and they could not prevent the end of defeat, which Khalid knew.

His rear army is the reserve army, only 30,000 people, the main force of the front army and the middle army of 100,000 people has completely collapsed, only the rear army of 30,000 long-range strike force is left because of the distance and has not been hit by the weapons of the Tang army, but only 30,000 people can not recover the decline. Khalid only wanted to stop the pursuit of the Don army. It was possible to regroup so that the army would not lose too much, and if the losses were too strict, then the advantage of the Romans that had just been defeated would not be restored. Because Mesopotamia will also be threatened. And the strategic goal of westward expansion will also be frustrated. Forces had to be mobilized to stabilize the eastern front.

That's what he doesn't want to see!

Therefore, the grenadiers he had carefully trained to deal with the Roman legions came in handy, and the grenadiers quickly formed a formation. Prepare according to the formation of the previous training and battle, with the name of the Prophet and his teachings in your heart, ready to go!

"For the Prophet !!" Khalid yelled with all his might: "We will not admit defeat!" Throwing!! ”

"For the Prophet !!" The soldiers shouted with all their might, and then, round after round of javelins were thrown, first, second, third, fourth, row after row, row after row of javelins were thrown, with the anger of the Arabs and the wrath of Khalid, as well as their faith and tenacity, towards the Tang cavalry who fiercely pursued and killed the Arab rout, the sharp end of the javelin, the heavier, more powerful soldiers were trained to throw it far away, and with great lethality.

When dealing with the opponent's dense and long-distance cavalry, the javelin unit is a very effective method, in Europe is the way to do it, in the East of China, the perfect combination of the art of war and the art of science, in the Qin Dynasty, a more deterrent and superior than the Western javelin of the cold weapon era of long-range killer - crossbow, was born, the Qin army relied on superior crossbow arrows, using arrow arrays to sweep the six countries, whether it was infantry or cavalry, could not withstand the test of arrow arrays.

Extremely fast speed, quite sharp arrows, and the weight of the bow and crossbow itself, after the acceleration of the power increase, the general shield can not block the attack of the arrow at all, and the iron shield is also because of the thickness and control of the body, there is a great possibility of being penetrated by the arrow, so that a large number of soldiers die.

The javelin is a strike weapon that belongs to this category, so when a very powerful javelin is thrown at the battlefield where the Tang cavalry and the Arab rout are fighting, many people are not prepared, they are stabbed by the javelin, and then they are nailed to the ground, whether it is the Tang cavalry or the Arab rout, or the Tang Dynasty's war horse, the Tang cavalry generally only has light shields, and even the fast pursuit troops of the light cavalry are not worthy of shields, and they only have light armor on their bodies, and they can't stop the rapid blow of the javelin.

The first pursuing light cavalry team was hit by Yan zhòng, countless soldiers were stabbed off their horses by javelins and crucified to the ground, and the horses were also shot mercilessly, screaming and dying a few times, of course, those Arab routs who were not even equipped were far superior to the cavalry pursuing by the Tang Dynasty because their numbers and density were far greater than the cavalry pursuing by the Tang Dynasty, so the casualties were even more severe, and the cavalry in the rear saw the situation of assassination and death by the dense strange weapons in front, and they also hurriedly stopped the pursuit.

Throwing javelins has a range limit and body limit, after all, it is a person, so the fastest mad general Du He was the first to discover this situation, and he hurriedly ordered his soldiers around him to launch a signal flare, signaling the pursuit to stop, which is also a very advantageous means of battlefield information dissemination in Datang after the invention of gunpowder, which is extremely fast and convenient.

"General! The Arabs seem to be throwing a spear-like weapon at a distance and then killing our cavalry, the weapon is very sharp, our light cavalry has no armor and shields to fight it, and the Arabs do not seem to estimate the lives of the routs who have not yet escaped, and kill indiscriminately! As Du He's deputy, Wang Xuance quickly made a judgment.

Du He frowned and thought for a while, and asked, "Then what do you think?" ”

Wang Xuance thought for a moment. Said: "The cavalry must not continue to advance, so as not to pay unnecessary casualties, the artillery team needs to save gunpowder and shells, and cannot use it in large quantities, the trebuchet team is moving slowly, we need the Eight Ox Crossbow Team and the Mo Dao Team!" The cavalry can make a roundabout way on both flanks and outflank this army, and the enemy chieftain must be among them, and we must not let it go! This army will be annihilated! ”

Du He nodded: "Send a flare!" Inform the marshal! Eight Bull Crossbow Team and Mo Dao Team! Fast forward! Prepare to destroy the opposing throwing team! The rest of the generals were divided into two ways. Outflank each other's back from the left and right sides. Pay attention to its throwing strike range, Xuan Ce, I lead the left army, you lead the right army! Let's go! Flares! ”

The pro-soldier nodded. took out a signal flare representing the Eight Bull Crossbow Team and the Mo Dao Team from his body. Launched into the sky separately. Du He and Wang Xuance led the left and right cavalry respectively, and quickly advanced towards the left front and the right front respectively, preparing to cut off the retreat of the Arab army. They were indeed throwing and slowly retreating.

The red smoke and green smoke were very conspicuous, and Chai Shao, who was in the rear, saw it clearly at once, and said loudly: "Eight Bull Crossbow Team? Modao team? What's going on up front? Well...... Come! Inform the Eight Bull Crossbow Team and the Mo Dao Team to move forward quickly! Order Meng Yu to advance quickly! Find out what's going on ahead! ”

Several pro-soldiers immediately nodded and rode away, Chai Shao did not suspect that this signal flare was incorrectly guided, so he immediately sent the Eight Bull Crossbow Team and the Mo Dao Team to move forward quickly, and there were only three people on the front line who could launch this kind of signal flare, one was Du He, one was Meng Yu, and the other was Li Zhen, and the three of them would not launch strange orders inexplicably.

Meng Yu also saw the signal flare, and the shadow found that the cavalry that was fiercely pursuing the front army seemed to pause, Meng Yu was very strange, and then received an order from Chai Shao: "General Meng! The handsome has an order! The Mo Knife Team and the Eight Bull Crossbow Team quickly moved forward to the flare launch position! Make no mistake! ”

Meng Yu didn't care why, the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and he missed the opportunity if he hesitated, so he immediately issued an order: "Eight Bull Crossbow Team!" Mo Dao Team! Load the car quickly! Fast forward! The infantry formed a military formation, cover! ”

Because of the weight, the eight-ox crossbow needs to be pulled forward by livestock, and the Modao team is because the heavy armor on the body and the Modao knife in the hand are too heavy, if you act like an ordinary soldier, you will soon lose your body, so on the battlefield, the Modao team is pulled by the car all the way to the front line of the war, and then get off the car to line up and fight, not responsible for pursuit, only responsible for breaking.

The Modao team and the Baniu crossbow team under the command of Meng Yu immediately moved, and the well-trained infantry immediately formed a guard formation, and acted quickly with the speed of the car, escorting the Baniu crossbow team and the Modao team to move forward quickly, the whole process consumed very little time, and the military formation was not disrupted.

The Arab army threw and was still throwing javelins, and fought and retreated, Khalid went to the rear to reorganize the rout and organize the rout into an effective resistance force to prepare to cover the retreat of the javelins after the javelinmen were exhausted, this is a very valuable army, he also saw the intention of the Tang army, is to outflank their rear road with cavalry, then it is more necessary for the infantry to fight to the death to get the opportunity for the javelin team to retreat, and it is very difficult to train a formed javelin team, His 20,000-strong javelin team and 10,000-man crossbow team were the only formed long-range strike force in the entire Arab army.

The Arab state has just been established, and there are frequent wars, and the army cannot get effective rest and systematic planning and formation time, so it can only rely on the temporary formation of the battlefield and the actual combat training on the battlefield.

The javelinmen gradually exhausted their bodies and javelins, fortunately, the reorganized infantry had gradually protected the javelin team, the bow team was also pulled to the front and began to shoot on behalf of the javelin team, the sudden super fire blow of the Tang army completely scattered the 130,000 Arab army, Khalid did not know how many people were killed in the battle, how many people ran away, how many people were captured, anyway, it must be miserable, this battle has been lost, the third line of defense of the Persians has been seized by the Chinese, and now it is constantly retreating, It's hard to say whether the second line of defense will be snatched away......

No, to be precise, it is very difficult to retreat in one body, and the main task now is not land, but to let the precious long-range strike force retreat in one body, and for this, even if it costs the other 100,000 infantry! The Prophet looks at me from heaven! The gods are watching us from above? We need to win, but we need to preserve our strength! Prophet! I'm sorry! I couldn't keep the fruits of my victory! But I want to assure you that the victory in the war must be ours! (To be continued......)