866 The Strongest Confrontation (Part II)
After a long while, the guy finally finished speaking, but immediately after that, he drew a big bow and bent the bow and shot at the Tang army formation, and several soldiers at the forefront of the army array hurriedly consolidated their shields, but found that the arrow was just stuck in the ground less than a centimeter away from their feet.
I didn't understand it just now, but I understand this move!
Chai Shaotie blushed and urged the horses to step forward, walked out of the military formation, and looked coldly at the rather arrogant Arab general Khalid not far away, as well as the cheering Arab troops behind him, these people are faint, really can't see the situation clearly? Do you really think they will win? No matter how fierce you are, you are just a human being, you will still bleed if you are cut, and you will die if you are killed! Don't they understand?
Chai Shao bent his bow and arrow, aimed it in the direction of Khalid, and shot an arrow, Khalid did not move, staring at the arrow shot by Chai Shao, and when the arrow was just inserted into the ground in front of his horse, almost along the horse's chest hair, Khalid's face also changed, looking at the general in front of him in powerful armor and his mighty army in armor, he knew that their opponent was not ordinary, not weak, and estimated to be on the same level as the Romans.
But!
So what! The armor of the Prince of Rome is on me, and what about you!
Khalid was arrogant, but he had the capital of arrogance, he had not been defeated since he entered the army and started fighting, he had been winning battles, he was constantly winning, and the enemies he encountered were all defeated by him, whether they were from other tribes. He had defeated the armies of other countries, or the most powerful Persian Empire and the Roman Empire, and the princes of Rome and the generals of Persia had all been killed by him.
That's capital!
Those Chinese, are they?
Chai Shao didn't understand his words, and naturally he didn't know what he was thinking, but he watched him pull out his arrow and fold it in half. Then he turned around and entered the formation. The anger in my heart came up at once, so daring! Wait for the old man to take your dog's life! Chai Shao was furious, quite angry, so much so that he immediately ordered. Artillery preparation. Fire now. The whole army is ready, the drums are beating!
The rumbling war drums sounded, heralding the official start of the war of the Tang army. With the sound of the war drums of the Tang army, although they don't know the fighting habits of the Tang army, but hearing this sound, the Arabs reflexively know that the war is about to begin, they are eager for war, they are eager for victory, under the command of their invincible and invincible general Khalid, they have won countless brilliant victories, this is their thirst, their ambition!
They shouted, roared, rubbed their hands, and swore to give color to the heretics in front of them, with Khalid's order, the invincible Arab army began to charge, orderly, rhythmic, purposeful charge, the battle commanded by Khalid will not be a simple hedge, this, Chai Shao knew before, so he ordered the artillery to prepare in advance, and at the same moment when the Arab army went to battle, the artillery fuse of the Tang Dynasty was ignited, and then ......
"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom......
Thirty guns fired at the Arab troops in different directions, firing shells that represented death, and with a loud rumbling sound, with white steam, spewing flames, they rushed towards the arrogant and ignorant Arab army, and after completing a flight arc, they smashed accurately into the dense charging formation of the Arab army, and then ...... Flesh and blood foaming everywhere......
There was a loud bang, a big iron ball, falling from the sky, killing many people, minced meat, blood, red, screaming, shaking......
The Arab army and the Persians watching the battle from a distance were all shocked, and even when the loud sound of the artillery rang out just now, they did not know where this sound came from, in the past, this sound only appeared during thunderstorms, but now, it is a clear day, the sun is still hanging in the sky, there is not a trace of dark clouds, where is the lightning? What is this? The loud noise made them tremble, and the cloud of dust and minced flesh that burst from the formation of the Arab army greatly impacted everyone's visual nerves, and finally, people realized that the loud noise came from the military formation of the Tang army, not somewhere else.
Of course, this is not the end, the aftermath of the artillery has not yet reached the peak of the Arabs' fears, and then the eight bull crossbows roared and shot one thick arrow after another, with an indomitable momentum, skewered countless Arab soldiers into mutton skewers, and the trebuchet threw huge stones and strange fireballs at the Arab troops in the distance, the stones will definitely kill people when they land, and the fireballs will burst into flames when they land, as long as they touch them, they will definitely be burned, and if they happen to hit a person, Then this person remembers being consumed by the flames at the fastest speed and becoming a terrifying fire man.
The shock and fear brought by this qiē were not over, the more intensive and powerful attack of the Tang army began again, with Meng Yu's order, the soldiers of each infantry army took out their bows and crossbows and aimed them at the forty-five degrees of sky, the difference was only the position of the alignment, some were aimed at the front, some were aimed at the left front, some were aimed at the right front, and the cavalry was in the direction of the left and right wings, and each took out their crossbows and aimed them at the enemy they were about to face.
"Put!" Meng Yu roared angrily, and the dense arrows like flying locusts crossing the border shot up into the sky, shooting densely towards the chaotic formation of the Arabs, and after completing an arc, they landed exactly where they should have landed, some missed, and some just hit their intended targets, and after a rain of arrows, a large number of Arabs fell.
Of course, this is just the beginning, starting with the firing of artillery, ten shells must be fired after each cannon must fire ten iron bullets, randomly adjust the angle and position, you can fire directly at the center of the Arab military formation, as long as you successfully smash something big, the reward will not be less.
When the power of artillery against people is limited, the auxiliary role of the eight-ox crossbow and trebuchet is particularly important, and one piece after another of things as big as a millstone smashes the enemy into a teppanyaki, and one thick arrow after another skewered the enemy into oden. While the incendiary canisters directly killed and burned the enemy troops, they also brought this flame, which could not be extinguished with water, to more Arabs, who brought them so close? In some places, ten incendiary canisters can't kill a person, but in other places, one incendiary canister can cause a group of people to collapse, and everyone has a little fire on their bodies, running around and screaming and jumping, so that more people who are not on fire will catch fire together.
Dense rain-like arrows are constantly falling, and the blow covers a wide area, and if you are touched, you will definitely be pinned to the ground by a huge acceleration, and if you are lucky, you will only be shot in the arm or leg. But if you're unlucky, you'll be shot directly to the vital point and die. Some were shot directly into a sieve, and the dead can't die anymore, and it's not good to have no armor, but what about armor? The armor of the Persians could not stop the delicate craftsmanship of the three-edged armor-piercing cone of the Tang Dynasty.
The Arabs gathered an army of about 1230,000. It's the main force. The first wave of charges was 50,000 men. However, under the long-distance blow of Datang, it did not seem to play the role he expected, and the expected effect was a desperate bloody battle. Then Khalid will take advantage of the time when the Tang army is pinned down, and lead the remaining army to attack the left and right flanks of the Tang army from the left and right flanks, relying on superior forces to make the Tang army vulnerable to the enemy on three sides and unable to fight.
Next is the battle of the warriors, these inferior enemy troops don't need to use their killer weapons at all, they don't need to do it at all, as long as they rush up, they will collapse, this is Khalid's belief, but at present, this qiē seems to be a little different, his own army is routing, is chaotic, this qiē is too fast, he didn't even see any movement of the enemy's army, he suddenly saw a burst of dust and huge vibrations, followed by fireballs and stones falling from the sky, His own army was crushed in an instant, followed by a dense rain of arrows, how many arrows would there be in such a dense rain of arrows? How many crossbows?
Khalid was pounced by a personal soldier, fell from the horse to the ground, fell hard, angry when he was about to kill, but suddenly found that his beloved horse had fallen to the ground, constantly convulsing, and the back of his position, an arrow was inserted into it, directly to his own horse's life, the surrounding soldiers were constantly being shot arrows to take their lives, the whole position seemed to be shrouded in a rain of arrows.
The front army was defeated so quickly that before the main force of the Chinese army and the rear army could react, they were disrupted by the burning men who were running around and the soldiers who lost their fighting spirit with a frightened face covered in blood.
The entire Arab army continued to retreat, but the nightmare was not over, the long-distance strike weapons of the Tang army were not only at such a range, especially the artillery, the range was six miles, the first round of strikes just now was only the fifth shell, it was not over, they fired the remaining shells more quickly, the trebuchet team and the eight-bull crossbow team were also constantly firing stone incendiary canisters and thick arrows, and the arrow shooting of the entire army array was also continuous.
One-sided long-range attack, one-sided long-range attack, this is a long-range massacre, the appearance of the Arab army is the same as the Goguryeo army that was attacked by the navy for the first time, the rout is extremely fast, Chai Shao feels that there is no need to use the army to fight hard, after the tenth shell of the artillery has been fired, the artillery squad leaders have come to report.
"Handsome! The cannonballs are fired! ”
"Handsome! The cannonballs are fired! ”
"Handsome! The cannonballs are fired! ”
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Thirty artillery pieces are all finished, Chai Shao beckoned, the sound of war drums changed a rhythm, this is the signal that the long-range attack stopped, the cavalry charged according to the original plan, the cavalry quickly put away their crossbows, grabbed their weapons, and under the leadership of the four generals, they charged towards the left and right flanks respectively, and rushed towards the Arab army that had collapsed, while Meng Yu methodically commanded the infantry phalanx under his command to move forward, like Mount Tai pressing the top, the speed was not fast, But it can crush the threat of a qiē.
Chai Shao looked at the first battle of the Tang Expeditionary Force under his command with great satisfaction, this was a victory, a real victory, an absolute victory.
And on the city wall in the distance, those Persian monarchs and ministers have been completely stunned, and the Persian army that rushed forward immediately once the Tang army was ready to prepare for war in the rear was also stunned, they had completely lost the ability to think, looking at the hellish scene in front of them, they couldn't believe that this was the world they were familiar with, the land and the enemy they were familiar with.
The Tang army advanced slowly, the Persian army was rapidly defeated, and the high-speed mobile cavalry of the Tang Dynasty gave full play to the advantages of the cavalry and constantly impacted, constantly killing those Arab soldiers who did not have time to escape, the Persian cavalry was very stupid not to use speed to fight, but the Tang cavalry would never use speed and impact to constantly kill the Arab routs with their backs to them, they were not so brave and good at fighting, they were not so fierce and not afraid of death at all.
Even Du He, who led the army in pursuit, also had doubts, Datang made these guys into this virtue with a round of attacks, are they the powerful army that fought the Persian army crying for their fathers and mothers? (To be continued......)