To the west of Talas City and to the north of Baishui City, there is Wunu Gobi (today's Shymkent City).
On the vast Gobi Desert, strong winds blew, and endless sand and dust were flying all over the sky.
Two armies with no end in sight were lined up on the east and west sides of the earth, ready to fight.
In the west was the 80,000-strong coalition army that conquered Khorasan, led by Abu Muslim himself; while in the east was the main force of 12,000 Anxi troops led by Li Siye, and 8,000 retinues.
Li Siye looked at the Dashi army in the distance through his helmet and said: "The Protector is right, the Dashi people will never learn from failure... They covet the land of Talos and never have any hope.
Live in peace.”
The deputy general whispered to Li Siye: "General, the craftsmen from Hongjiang Taixue are still in the front line..."
Li Siye was stunned for a moment, then turned around and said angrily: "What are they doing here?! When the war breaks out, swords and guns have no eyesight. No matter who is injured, I'm afraid they will be angry!"
Lieutenant General: "The craftsmen said they have prepared new weapons and will test their performance later, so they must stay."
Li Siye shouted: "Soldiers were assigned to operate those weapons long before the war. Why do we need those craftsmen to stay? Let the former army Yuhou bring them to the central army, and then send troops to protect them. Without my permission, they are not allowed to do so.
Get out of camp!”
The deputy general replied, and passed on the order.
On the other side of the Dashi army, Abu Muslim was riding a horse, looking at the Tang army in the distance with a solemn expression.
A captain came up and said to Abu: "Sir, the wind is getting lighter."
Abu nodded first, and then asked: "Where are the ten thousand cavalry troops who went south now?"
The captain replied: "The cavalry responsible for the surprise attack set out from Yaoxashui. Calculating the distance traveled, it is estimated that it has detoured to Tuozhe City by now."
Abu: "The main task of the 80,000 Dashi coalition forces here is to attract the enemy's main force. And the 10,000 elite cavalry troops, bypassing the Tang army and making a long-distance attack on Talas City, are the key to this battle.
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The captain looked around and saw no one nearby, so he whispered to Abu: "Master Governor, many people in Dashi are opposed to this war. Especially the Caliph, he is very dissatisfied with your decision."
Abu sighed: "I know...but those people have no idea what Anxi is like today. A big food merchant went to Kucha Town and came back to report to me. In just a few years, Anxi has completely
The appearance has changed. A large number of Tang people have moved in, the army has been expanded again and again, and the city has expanded rapidly. If this continues, it won't be long before a monster that cannot be defeated will appear in the east of the Great Eclipse."
When the captain heard this, he looked surprised.
Abu said helplessly: "This battle may be the last chance for Dashi to suppress Anxi."
After finishing speaking, Abu looked at the sky. The wind was getting smaller and the flying sand was gradually stopping.
He drew out his sword, nodded to the left and right, and shouted: "The front troops are pressing in!"
The Dashi army adopted a formation that is common in field battles, that is, the left, right, front, and middle armies are divided into a "mountain" shape.
Among them, the front army is heavy infantry and crossbowmen, the left and right wings are mixed cavalry, and the center army is the main force and reserve.
In contrast, the Tang army's formation was very strange.
The light cavalry of the Tang Army were arranged in a long column, scattered at the forefront of the formation, and the heavy cavalry was arranged on the left and right wings.
As for the Chinese Army, it is not a division of arms in the traditional sense. Instead, heavy infantry, crossbowmen, swordsmen and other arms are mixed and organized into a team of fifty, and each team forms a small battle formation.
The Dashi army pressed forward a hundred meters, getting closer and closer to the light cavalry in the front line of the Tang army.
Seeing that the light cavalry of the Tang Army still did not move, Abu Muslim was suspicious, but he could not see anything unusual, so he could only order the army to continue advancing.
When the forwards of the two armies were about to enter the range of the crossbows, the light cavalry of the Tang Army finally made a move.
I saw these cavalrymen taking out torches from their horses' saddlebags, lighting them, and then throwing them onto the ground not far from their feet.
In the eyes of the big eater, this scene is really weird.
Because the torch's landing point was still hundreds of meters away from the Dashi army, it was impossible to cause any harm.
After doing all this, the Tang Army's light cavalry turned their horses and ran quickly towards the Tang Army's main formation.
However, no one in the food army noticed that there were hundreds of artificial trenches dug in advance in the Gobi Desert, and there were countless fuses intertwined into a network.
The torch touched the fuse, which emitted bursts of white smoke amidst the roaring sound of burning, and burned rapidly in the ravine in the direction of the food army.
The Dashi front army marched towards the Tang army in this way, and invisibly, they were getting closer and closer to the burning fuse.
Finally, the end of the fuse disappeared into the earth.
Before the war, the Tang army had already buried hundreds of small wooden barrels containing black powder underground.
The fire ignited the barrels in the ground, and for a moment, the whole earth began to shake violently, as if a strong earthquake had erupted.
Immediately afterwards, deafening explosions occurred one after another, accompanied by strong flashes and bursting fireballs. The huge impact lifted up the earth and spread in all directions.
The stones and clods of soil on the Gobi Desert are like bullets, flying around, killing all nearby creatures.
The striker of the Great Food Army, which was only a dozen meters away from the explosion point, suffered a devastating blow almost instantly.
The blast of air, the burning flames, and the flying debris caused hundreds of Dashi soldiers to lose their combat capabilities.
But what's more serious is that under this sudden blow, the entire Dashi army fell into complete chaos.
The Dashi soldiers, who had never seen gunpowder explode before, attributed the disaster to the wrath of God, and their first reaction was to drop their weapons, turn around and run away.
Not only the soldiers, but also the commander Abu Muslim became temporarily distracted after seeing the power of gunpowder.
At the reminder of the general beside him, Abu woke up from his dream and quickly ordered the supervising team to kill the deserters and stabilize the position.
At this moment, the Tang army launched six bronze cannons and pointed the muzzles at the chaotic Dashi army.
Charging, loading, ignition... several gunners under the command of the gun captain, all actions are completed at one go.
There were a few more cannon blasts, and six iron bullets flew out of the muzzle like lightning, directly hitting the Dashi army.
Dashi's army huddled together in front and back, and the soldiers gathered together. The artillery did not need to be aimed, and it plunged directly into the crowd. In addition, the Gobi Desert is full of hard ground. After the iron bullets fall, they will not sink into the ground, but will fall again.
Bounce up, causing several bounce damage, increasing the lethality to the maximum.
In this way, six iron bullets opened six "bloody paths" in Dashi's army.
No matter whether it is a man or a horse, any flesh and blood body has no chance of resisting the speeding cannonballs.
For a moment, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and limbs fell off.
One of them even hit the Dashi army and knocked a soldier next to Abu Muslim off his horse.
Abu Muslim's face turned pale at this time. Facing these unknown things, all the tactics he had thought about before the battle were now completely forgotten.
He raised his sword and slapped the horse with all his strength. He didn't even have time to give the order to retreat and ran towards the edge of the battlefield.
At this moment, Li Siye personally sounded the war drum and issued the order to charge to the entire army.
The fifty-man squad before the Tang Army formed small battle formations, dividing the already chaotic Dashi soldiers into countless clusters, and then defeated them one by one.
At this time, Abu Muslim had fled to the sand dunes at the end of the battlefield.
Just when he was about to ride his horse up the sand dune, a cavalry composed of giant cannibals appeared one after another on the top of the sand dune.
When Abu Muslim saw this, his face showed joy, and he shouted to the general beside him: "I have not failed yet, this is the 10,000 cavalry I deployed earlier! With them, we can fight back to the battlefield and reorganize
army……"
A Dashi general looked at the "cavalry" carefully and suddenly turned pale with fright. He said to Abu: "Master Governor, look quickly, those cavalry are not ours!"
Abu Muslim was stunned for a moment, then looked intently.
I saw that the armors worn by the cavalry were not those of the Abbasid army, and the flags they flew were actually the royal emblem of the Umayyad Empire.
Abu Muslim said tremblingly: "This is impossible..."
A slender cavalry leader wearing a mask rode out from the Umayyad army and threw something under the sand dune.
When the object rolled down to the feet of Abu Muslim, the latter looked down and found that it was actually the head of the Abbasid cavalry commander.
Abu Muslim's eyes darkened, he could no longer hold on, and fell off his horse.
This chapter has been completed!