Chapter 249: The Decisive Battle of Tacheng (Part 2)

Zoroastrians witnessed the destruction of their holy objects and the death of the saint in Damascus. They broke out in the final resistance, but they were soon cruelly suppressed by the army, but the flames of resistance were ignited.

Before his death, the Saint Kulan called for resistance. It instantly spread throughout the land of all the Light believers. The Sebola rioted, and a huge uprising of the Zorola in Bukhara. Hundreds of thousands of Zorola gathered in front of the Temple of Samarkand to pray for the Saint Kulan. Then the prayer turned into a great uprising by the angry believers. They killed the Dashi defenders, robbed the army's food, and burned military supplies.

The wave of uprising swept across the nine Sogdian countries in the river. At this moment, an uprising broke out in Spain. Rahman, the last royal family of Umayyad, raised the banner of the Umayyad dynasty again in Spain. The east and west of the Abbasid dynasty ignited raging fires at the same time, and his army was in a fierce battle with the Tang Dynasty, which made Abbasid extremely anxious. The thing he was most worried about finally happened. His dynasty had not yet settled, but he was in the dilemma of fighting on both sides.

Just as the Sogdian uprising in the river was surging, the battle of Talas was also at the decisive moment.

Five hundred chariots of the Tang army suddenly appeared, and Abu was ordered to do so.

The Muslim was shocked, and an ominous shadow enveloped his heart.

The Tang army's chariots were as fast as thunder, and they rushed to the left wing of the infantry phalanx in a moment. Two thousand large cavalrymen were arranged in a line to protect the weak parts of the phalanx.

The chariot was arranged in a row with its back facing the infantry phalanx. The top plate and the rear plate were lifted, revealing the true face of the chariot. There were six soldiers and two giant shield hands inside. Behind the giant shield was a small catapult. This catapult arm was very short and was fired by a winch, which could launch five kilograms of stones to four hundred steps away.

The moment the inside of the chariot was exposed, the Tang army's attack suddenly broke out, hundreds of black packages soared into the air, and blue smoke rose from the bags, flying straight to the heads of the two thousand cavalrymen. The big-food cavalry all raised their heads and looked at the packages strangely. They were obviously not stones. What would this be?

But the Great Food Army never thought about what kind of demon they were facing. This demon was locked in the alchemy room by the alchemists until the arrival of Li Qing'an, the time traveler, released it.

When hundreds of packages with blue smoke fell into the dense cavalry team, in just a moment, a hot light burst out from the cavalry team, and a series of earth-shaking explosions. Large pieces of cavalry were blown away, crushed to pieces, flesh and limbs scattered, and large tides of black smoke rose into the air. The originally dense cavalry team disappeared in the air, and the corpses were everywhere. The dense infantry team was also blown open a big gap, killing hundreds of people, and the entire battlefield was stunned. Only war horses were frightened and neighed, dragging the souls of the bombed cavalry to run, and their long manes flew in the smoke, like a ghost horse from hell.

Abu.

The Muslim's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but cover his head with both hands and shouted, "Oh Allah!"

Hundreds of gunpowder packs killed more than 900 cavalrymen on the spot, and more were injured. They lay on the ground and groaned in pain. The remaining 300 cavalrymen were also scared to death. They did not care about escorting the flanks of infantry, and desperately beat the same terrified war horses to run towards the position.

At this time, the flanks of the Macedonian phalanx were exposed. Lei Wanchun, the general responsible for attacking the flank, roared: "Follow me to fight!"

He waved his sledgehammer to the flank of the infantry phalanx, "Kill!" The three thousand Tang cavalry behind him burst into roars like landslides, and swept towards the weakest flank of the phalanx like thunder.

At this time, five hundred chariots disappeared silently again. After releasing a nightmare that made the cannibals scare, they retreated, as if nothing had happened.

But Abu.

The Muslims stared at this mysterious convoy. The powerful lethality they released made him frightened. What exactly was it? In contrast, his huge fireball seemed so pale and powerless.

"Muslim General, the infantry phalanx has collapsed!" someone shouted loudly.

"What?"

The Muslims suddenly turned around and looked at the infantry phalanx. They saw that the originally dense infantry phalanx turned into a pile of loose sand. The Tang army cavalry rushed into the phalanx from the flank. This was the fatal hole of the infantry phalanx. The originally powerful army immediately turned into sheep waiting to be slaughtered. Under the fierce killing of the Tang army, they died tragically one by one.

Lei Wanchun's fierce force exploded. He waved his sledgehammer and rushed into the infantry formation. Under his sledgehammer, all the soldiers of the Great Food burst their brains and their bones were broken.

The three thousand Tang troops behind him were crisscrossed with hundreds of men, crisscrossing, slashing arrows, and piercing spears through their chests. They divided the heavy infantry and ruthlessly killed the already chaotic enemies. The horizontal sword was covered with blood. The impact on the flanks of the Tang cavalry, the closely organized Macedonian phalanx collapsed, they fled in all directions, and their morale was lost.

The Muslim closed his eyes in pain. He suddenly thought of something and looked at the Sogdian cavalry team. There was also fierce battle. Forty thousand Sogdian cavalry and more than 18,000 Tang cavalry fought together. Although the number of Sogdian cavalry was more than twice that of the other party, they were still killed and retreated step by step. It was not that the equipment was not as good as the other party, but that the Sogdian cavalry was depressed and they were not willing to fight.

"Blast the opponent's center with a catapult!"

The Muslim yelled loudly. After the mysterious weapon of the Tang army appeared, it brought a heavy blow to the morale of the Dashi Army. Now he must regain the fighter plane, so his Greek fire may bring him a turning point.

A hundred huge catapults continued to rumble forward, and the entire Dashi Army line followed the Dashi Army and advanced forward eight hundred steps, entering the range of the bed crossbow.

The Tang army had already prepared four hundred bed crossbows, with the bowstrings tightly, and the big arrows entered the trough, "Let it go!" Four hundred bed crossbows were fired at the same time, and the black big arrows shot towards the tall catapult.

With a loud "Boom!", a catapult was shot by a big arrow and his long arm was broken.

"Boom!" Another loud noise, the tall wooden frame collapsed, and the soldiers below shouted and fled in all directions.

A round of crossbow shot, and more than twenty catapults lost their combat effectiveness, but the number of catapults of the Big Cannibal was too large and distributed relatively scattered, so it was difficult to destroy them all for a while. At this moment, the catapults of the Big Cannibal Army broke out.

Dozens of huge fireballs crossed the twilight sky and smashed straight towards the main formation of the Tang army. Hundreds of Tang soldiers were hit by the huge fireballs, killing and injured. Countless people were ashamed of fire, shouting miserably and running. Soon they fell to the ground. Hundreds of big flags were lit and burned into bare poles in an instant.

Li Qing'an was furious, pointed at the sword and ordered: "The whole army is on the way!"

The Tang army launched a full-scale attack, and the mighty army rushed towards the Dashi Army. While running, the Tang army was shooting arrows like rain, covering the sky, covering the sky and black. Because the distance was too close, the Dashi Army's catapult lost its function. The Khorasan army and the Syrian army shouted and rushed forward to the Tang army's rain of arrows.

The two sides collided violently and fought. The war reached a heightened level. At this time, the Muslims saw the mysterious chariot convoy again. They followed the right wing of the Tang army. There were five thousand Geluo cavalry around them. The Muslims were so nervous that they stopped beating. He shouted wildly in his heart: "Gelu people, Geluo brothers, take them over, I will give you everything, you will have everything!"

He had already received news of the Turkic spy, and the Geluo people were willing to cooperate with the Dashi Army on the battlefield.

Moussan looked here from afar. He seemed to understand the thoughts of the Muslims. With a shout, a thousand Glorou cavalry surrounded fifty chariots and rushed towards the far left wing of Dashi, where the Syrian army was located.

The Muslims were ecstatic and the chariots had left the Tang army brigade, which meant that the Geluo people had captured them. He shouted loudly: "Come on, capture the chariot!"

At this moment, he seemed to have forgotten the power of the chariot, as if the chariot had become his turtle among his men. He seemed to have seen himself blow up the strong and towering city walls of Constantinople with a powerful weapon like the Tang Dynasty.

Fifty chariots rushed into the left wing of the Dashi Army and were instantly surrounded by tens of thousands of Syrian cavalry. They were tightly squeezed together and surrounded in the middle, as if thirty poor sheep were trembling. The Geluo cavalry left the chariot, held up the Dashi Black Flag, and ran behind the Syrian cavalry. More than a dozen Syrian cavalry rushed forward and slashed the doors of several of the chariots with their knives. They saw that there was no Tang army in the carriage, and they were filled with black oil paper packages. Each package was tied firmly. No one knew what was inside? They split several other chariots, and they were the same inside.

The cavalry looked at each other, and no one knew what these black packages were?

Li Qingan saw it from afar. He held the horse and smiled coldly. The moment of deciding the victory or defeat was about to come.

Fifty coachmen with torches stood up on the carriage. Each of them looked serious and their eyes were full of tragic expressions. They suddenly inserted the torch into the chariot.

The earth-shaking explosion trembled the earth, and the demon of death was roaring. He sprayed flames, mixed with poisoned iron sand and iron sheets, and swallowed everything around him unscrupulously.

On the battlefield, both the Tang army and the Dashi Army stumbling and stood unsteadily, or covered their ears and screamed and fell to the ground. When a huge black mushroom rolled into the sky, the left wing of the Dashi Army had disappeared. The power generated by the concentrated explosion of fifty cars of black gunpowder was the first time in history. Five thousand Syrian soldiers surrounding it became the sacrificial items of the war demon.

Its power was so great that even Li Qingan did not imagine that he was overturned to the ground by a frightened war horse, and the Tang army suffered losses. The first to be the one thousand Geluo cavalry, none of them could survive. In addition, more than 200 Tang soldiers were killed and injured by iron sand.

Many years later, when later historians wrote about the Battle of Talas, all their writing became solemn and it was difficult to write.

The Battle of Talas ended with a mountain collapse like a crack in the ground. The Sogdians were defeated first. Their retreat triggered the collapse of the Khurasan army. The Dashi Army was defeated like a mountain. The Tang army covered the army and chased them. Blood flowed into a river. Corpse was everywhere. Countless Dashi soldiers knelt down on the ground to surrender. In this battle, 60,000 Tang troops defeated the 100,000 Dashi Army in one fell swoop, killed more than 40,000 people, captured 30,000 alive, and seized countless supplies. Abu.

Muslims led thousands of remnants to flee to the Sir River.

The smoke of gunpowder still permeated the battlefield. The fire caused by the large food fireballs had not been completely burned. The ground was full of corpses and limbs. The burned flags fell on the ground in a row. The fragmented catapults collapsed. Teams of large food army prisoners raised their hands and were dejected by the Tang army across the battlefield.

Li Qingan silently stared at the explosion of fifty gunpowder trucks in the distance. A huge pit had formed there, and the pit was dyed red. He couldn't help but sigh, his heart was heavy, without the joy of victory.

At this time, a team of Tang troops escorted a high-ranking official from the food court. He was injured and hit three arrows on his body. When he passed by Li Qing'an, he stopped and asked in Turkic words: "Are you the head coach of the Tang army Li Qing'an?"

Li Qingan glanced at him and nodded.

"I would like to ask, don't you feel ashamed of using such a demonic weapon?"

Li Qingan smiled faintly and said, "War is cruel. When Byzantium burned tens of thousands of Arab navy to death with Greek fire, why didn't you condemn them?"

The senior official of the big food court was speechless. Li Qingan smiled and asked again: "Who are you?"

The high-ranking official raised his head and said arrogantly: "I am the Governor of Samarkand, Ziyad Ben Salih."

Three days later, Abu.

After crossing the Sir River, he stopped fleeing and began to summon defeated soldiers. For two consecutive days, the defeated soldiers fled from Talas one after another. He summoned a total of 13,000 people, including his Khorasan army of 8,000, Syrian army of 2,000, and the remaining three thousand were Sogdian soldiers.

The Muslims were extremely sad. In this Tang-Food War, he invested 130,000 troops, 80,000 horses, 30,000 camels, and countless military funds and grain, but in the end, only 13,000 people were left, less than 7,000 war horses, hundreds of camels, and all the materials in the camp were lost.

Now, how should he explain to the Abbas Caliph? The Muslim sighed and said to himself: "It is better to die in battle than to be executed in shame by Abbas."

He drew his sword suddenly and wanted to commit suicide by crossing the sword. His personal soldiers rushed up in fear and hugged his waist and arms, "Governor, it was the Tang army who used magic to use the magic tricks and we were defeated. The Caliph should forgive us."

"The magic trick?" The Muslim suddenly felt refreshed. Yes! Why did he forget that this is the best excuse. The Tang army's thunder suddenly killed and injured 5,000 Syrian soldiers. Isn't this magic trick?

He had the excuse to survive again, so he slaughtered hundreds of horses for food and took the remaining troops to retreat to Samarkand. When he was two hundred miles away from Samarkand, he met a messenger sent by Abbas.

"Governor General, all the troops in the river have been withdrawn from Khorasan. His Majesty the Caliph has the order to give up fighting with the Tang army and withdraw back to Khorasan immediately."

The Muslim was shocked, "What happened?"

The messenger smiled bitterly and said, "The Sogdians in the river area have a great riot. Our army cannot suppress it, so we can only withdraw from Hurasanne. The remnants of Umayyad raised a big flag again in Spain. His Majesty the Caliph needs the army to suppress it. He ordered you to stop the war with the Tang Dynasty, bring the army back to Damascus, and give up the river."

"What!"
Chapter completed!