In the Persian capital, news continued to be sent into the city. Pei Xingjian still did not enter the palace in the Persian capital. Instead, he sat in front of the palace and sorted out military reports from various places.
King Perus of Persia kept walking back and forth in front of Pei Xingjian, suddenly stopped and asked: "How is it? Is there any news?"
Pei Xingjian picked up a roll of cloth. This was a redrawn map. The Persian maps were not good at drawing, so he had to do it himself.
Drawing a circle on the map, Pei Xingjian asked: "What place is this?"
Bellus explained: "This is the River Seuss."
"Yeah." Pei Xingjian frowned and drew another circle, "Where is this place?"
Belus said again: "This is Mount Gilgan."
Scanning the corners of the map, the Great Eater now controls a large area of land. In the center of the map is a vast highland plain, and to the north of this plain is the Gilgan Mountain.
When they learned that the war was about to begin, the whole city of Persia was silent, and even the passers-by on the street did not dare to speak loudly.
Pei Xingjian stopped all entertainment activities in the Persian capital. Except for people's normal daily life, even merchants were not allowed to enter the city.
At night there is a very strict curfew.
The Tang troops on both sides of the street were as solemn as ever, and the Tang troops under Pei Xingjian were very disciplined.
In the eyes of the Persians, these Tang people would never interfere in other matters, except to get a lot of gold coins.
An Yanyan sat aside with a calm expression. Belus did not dare to offend this man. He provided the Tang army's logistics and rations. This man's connections in the Western Regions were ridiculously strong.
On the east bank of the Ouse River, Liang Jianfang stood in the army and looked around carefully. He said loudly: "Damn, there is only sand in this damn place."
Not long after, Zhang Shigui came back. He took a big drink of water and then said, "The big cannibal is coming! Ten miles away from here, there is a roaring crowd of at least ten thousand people."
Hearing this, Liang Jianfang smiled heartily and said angrily: "Damn! I've been busy these past few months, and these brats finally came to show me how to wait!"
Zhang Shigui said in a low voice: "The general has arranged for two brothers, Ashinadur and Funian, to bring a thousand troops each to support us."
"Tell those two Ashinas that I just told them to finish it off." Liang Jianfang, with a big beard on his face, gritted his teeth and said: "If you dare to take credit from a certain family, kill them first!"
"Here!"
The messenger hurriedly rode away.
The water and soil in the Persian territory were not good, and it took the Tang army three months to barely adapt.
Liang Jianfang looked at the army behind him. These five thousand soldiers and horses were all disciples of Guanzhong.
According to the plan in advance, after giving everyone the credit and then talking about it, the people from the Western Regions will not be allowed to fight for the time being.
Liang Jianfang now had a big beard, which was messy and a little curly. He said again: "Damn it! Get ready for war!"
"The whole army is ready for war!" Another messenger was running among the troops.
Liang Jianfang patted the cannon beside him, "What a baby, what a baby...it all depends on you."
Everyone waited with bated breath for the arrival of the man-eating front army, but saw a row of black shadows rising on the horizon in the distance, rolling up a cloud of dust.
When the row of black shadows came closer, Liang Jianfang frowned and said, "What is this!"
This row of black figures is very short and does not look human...
Someone yelled: "Damn it! This is a pack of wolves!"
Fully hundreds of wolves entered the minefield, followed by explosions, the underground mines exploded, and the wolves kept wailing.
Wolves are very agile animals. One wolf has already bypassed the minefield and continues to move towards the Tang army.
You can't use these artillery pieces to blow up wolves.
Liang Jianfang gritted his teeth and said angrily: "The cannibals are here well prepared. Who is their general?"
Zhang Shigui couldn't care anymore. The wolves moved very quickly, as if they were crazy, with their mouths open and drooling.
Pulling the horse's reins, Zhang Shigui shouted loudly: "Fire the arrow!"
Rows of arrows were shot out, and no matter how agile the wolves were, they couldn't escape such a dense rain of arrows.
After all the wolves fell to the ground, Zhang Shigui calmed down. His long-term experience in fighting told him that not all cannibals are stupid.
When the smoke and dust dissipated, shouts of death could be heard in the distance, and a group of crazy people rushed towards the Seuss River.
They did not wear armor, most of them were barefoot, holding scimitars in their hands, and their feet were tied with chains.
A soldier immediately said: "General, these people are prisoners of war from the West!"
These people stepped into the minefield. They stepped on the earth mines that the wolves had not finished stepping on, and explosions continued.
At this moment, both Zhang Shigui and Liang Jianfang were furious, and the cannibals treated the prisoners of war as human beings.
"Pei Xingjian once said that this is a barbaric land, and people are also barbaric."
A few Western prisoners of war rushed into the river and were shot by the Tang army's arrows and fell to the ground.
Finally, all the prisoners of war in front of me fell down. They were all skinny and skinny, and they didn't look like human beings. It was unknown what kind of torture they suffered at the hands of the cannibal.
"I want to hang all these big cannibals! Hang them!" Liang Jianfang said angrily: "Do they still have humanity!"
Zhang Shigui closed his eyes and did not dare to look at this scene, as if these prisoners of war were here to die.
Finally, a giant cannibal army appeared in front of us.
The scout beside him whispered: "General, there are at least 10,000 enemy troops."
Five thousand against ten thousand, Liang Jianfang's heart was full of fighting spirit, and he said loudly: "Prepare the artillery!"
The messenger shouted: "Prepare the artillery!"
A pitch-black iron barrel was buried in the prepared pit, leaving only half of the cannon body outside.
All the explosive charges were put in, and a total of 300 artillery pieces were aimed at the big man-eater.
The Tang army and the cannibals faced each other across the river. Zhang Shigui took out a bow and shot the arrow, which landed not far in front of the cannibal formation.
This is when he is measuring the range of the artillery. He has a rough idea in mind so that he can make preparations.
This arrow made the big cannibals in front of them yell and yell. What was funny was that they had a dispute before the formation.
Liang Jianfang frowned and thought, "What are they waiting for?"
Zhang Shigui also looked puzzled and said hesitantly: "Did the news leak out?"
Liang Jianfang waved his hand and said: "Impossible! When using this treasure, we specifically choose the time when the Persians are sleeping."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Hearing this, Zhang Shigui looked at the arrows that fell in front of the enemy's formation in the distance, and suddenly raised his bow and nocked an arrow in the direction of the big man-eater.
Shoot away.
The arrows still fell in front of the cannibal's army.
The scene was quiet for a moment, and finally a loud roar came from the cannibal formation and they charged towards the river.
Liang Jianfang shouted: "Fire!"
The army sergeants and soldiers shouted in unison: "Fire."
Pulling the rope at the bottom of the cannon, three hundred cannons exploded simultaneously, and the burning powder packets fell into the charging cannibals.
A big eater was still curious as he looked at the gunpowder packet that fell on the ground. Hearing an explosion, several people around him were blown to pieces.
The gunpowder packets exploded from near to far, and the cannibal army began to kill indiscriminately. The smoke was so thick that it was difficult to see the situation in front of them.
The Tang Army had already put in another batch of artillery pieces. After loading, they pulled the ropes hard.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
There was another explosion, and the Dashi army formation two hundred steps away was in chaos.
"Wahahahaha!" Liang Jianfa suddenly laughed again, pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist and said loudly: "Damn it! Pei Xingjian is really a talent, how did he come up with the method of artillery rotation?"
He shouted to the big eater again: "Have you seen grandpa's treasure? Haha! Grandpa has been waiting for you for a long time!"
At a distance of two hundred steps, the opponent just couldn't rush over. Even if there were sporadic cannibals that broke out of the smoke, they were shot to the ground.
In the distance of the battlefield, Ashinadur was watching this scene, breathing heavily, "If the Tang people have this weapon, what will the Turkic cavalry do in the future?"
Ashina Funian was nearly forty years old, and his beard and hair had turned white. He whispered: "We should be loyal to the Khan of Heaven."
Ashnadur glared at this cousin, "You have long forgotten the kindness of the Khan!"
The experiences of the two were different. Ashnadur was sent to Gaochang by Tian Khan within two years of his defeat at Jieli, and he still had resentment against the Tang Dynasty.
And Ashina Funian stayed in the Turkic grassland for several years, and learned about the various measures taken by the Tang Dynasty against the Turks. He had long since lost his grudges, unlike Ashina Duer.
There are fewer and fewer people who hate the Tang Dynasty in this world. Tian Khan has already built the Protectorate to the vast sea, and Xue Yantuo and the Uighurs have also surrendered.
Looking at the battlefield in front of him, the big eater was coughing from the thick gunpowder smoke, and his ears were filled with screams.
Two hundred steps, just two hundred steps!
As soon as the Tang army opened fire, these big cannibals were unable to move.
When the gunfire stopped, the wind blew away the gunpowder smoke, and the big cannibals who were not killed also had their eyes red from the gunpowder smoke.
People fell to the ground one after another, and here and there there were giant cannibals standing, surrounded by fallen people.
And when someone exclaimed, they could see the surrounding situation clearly. The Tang troops had crossed the Suss River and surrounded them without knowing it.
There was a big eater yelling, but the team had already been blown to pieces, unable to organize a defense, and many people even turned back and fled.
The horses of the Tang army rushed into the formation. Zhang Shigui rode his horse into the chaotic cannibal army and shot an arrow, killing a cannibal who was trying to escape.
Liang Jianfang stabbed a big cannibal in the neck with a knife and said angrily: "You inhuman things! Let Grandpa die!"
The great cannibals who had become a defeated army fled in all directions.
Another deserter's neck was wiped. Liang Jianfang's voice was like a lion's roar, making people's ears buzz.
When Ashnadur surrounded their retreat, the cannibals could only kneel down in despair and surrender.
Seeing that the battlefield had calmed down, Liang Jianfang said, "Human life is like a piece of grass. These ten thousand people were killed too quickly. The fight was over in half an hour. It's not fun! It's not fun!"
Zhang Shigui looked stern. In the past, it would have taken at least four or five hours to defeat 10,000 troops.
From this point of view, human life is nothing in front of artillery.
It's too easy to kill someone.
Zhang Shigui was still a little scared and said in a low voice: "This thing is harmful to Tianhe. Who is that person from Lishan?"
Liang Jianfang wiped off the blood on the knife and said: "I can't care anymore. We won a big victory in the first battle. I sent someone to send news of victory to Chang'an, so I can take the credit for it first."
"Here!"
Someone had already begun to clean up the battlefield. Soldiers were finishing up the corpses one by one, and then piled them together and burned them.
Liang Jianfang was always very nervous, so he patted the cannon with satisfaction, "I met that guy from Lishan once. He looks like a scholar, speaks easy-going, and is a very interesting person."
After waiting for another hour, and seeing that it was getting dark, Xue Rengui and his wife, dressed in cannibal clothes, finally came back.
Xue Rengui turned over and dismounted and said: "General, I have found out that there are still 100,000 troops in the rear. The leader of the army is Omar, a certain family fought against him back then."
"Okay! How long will it take for them to arrive?"
"They are waiting for food and supplies and will leave in late November at the earliest."
Liang Jianfang glanced at the battlefield, stroked his beard and said: "Withdraw troops! Go back and rest."
When the soldiers and horses returned to the Persian capital and learned of the victory, the Persian capital was filled with joy again.
"The invincible Tang people defeated the great cannibal!"
"The invincible Tang Dynasty!"
"Persia is saved!"
…
Amid the shouts of many Persians, Liang Jianfang walked up to the Persian King Belus.
The Tang people were different from other people in that they always came back clean from wars.
Belus bowed and saluted, and said tremblingly: "General! A banquet has been prepared in the palace."
Pei Xingjian, dressed in cloth, said in a low voice: "This is war time, no banquets are allowed in the city, please move away."
Liang Jianfang nodded pertinently, "Listen to Pei Duhu, there are still 100,000 powerful soldiers and horses coming towards Persia. This battle has not been over yet, and it has not been won yet."
When he heard that the cannibal's army of one hundred thousand troops was coming, Belus almost lost his footing.
Pei Xingjian nodded and said in a low voice: "No, there are more than 100,000 troops."
Hearing this, Xue Rengui added: "The general who is coming is Umar. I heard that the bravest among the cannibal generals is Khalid. Before this man came, the real main force of the cannibals did not come."
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The battle report left the border of Persia and passed the Anxi Protectorate. Winter had already entered Guanzhong.
A military report was delivered to Jiayuguan. The man rode his horse and shouted: "Persian battle report! Persian battle report! Great victory in the first battle! Annihilated 10,000 enemies!"
The battle report reached the Hexi Corridor, and the city was filled with cheers.
Some people from the Tang Dynasty were shouting, and some people from the Western Regions were cheering.
After Jiayuguan was released, the troops rode straight into the middle of the pass.
Zhang Yang has not gone to the workshop in the past two months, nor has he been busy with matters at Taifu Temple. He has concentrated on practicing calligraphy and tempering his mind.
In the direction of Hangu Pass, there was a horse team walking in the cold wind. The man who came claimed to be the King of Nanzhao. This man was dressed very strangely. His body was covered with various gold utensils. Even his belt was made of gold.
The King of Nanzhao came to the foot of Hangu Pass and asked for a bowl of braised pork rice bowl.
He looked like an extremely luxurious person, sitting on the roadside and devouring a bowl of braised pork rice.
After that, the King of Nanzhao bought a pot of soy sauce from the vendor, drank it on the spot, and whispered: "Hmm! This tastes like the soy sauce from Lishan, I'm so sorry!"
The officers and soldiers at Hangu Pass were also puzzled as to why the Nanzhao King could speak authentic Guanzhong dialect.
The guard general was a fat guy, and he seemed to eat a lot of braised pork. He came over and asked, "Is King Nanzhao going to Chang'an City?"
King Nanzhao, who had just drank the soy sauce, laughed and said: "Hahaha! A certain family is going to have a drink with Tian Khan."