The last time Mu'awiya personally conquered the Western Regions, he was defeated in haste and the unrest at the rear led to the expedition ending hastily. In the end, the Tang army turned against him and lost face.
This time the army was ready to go, sweeping across the Western Regions with a devastating force, invincible to anyone who stood in its way. It also suffered a lot against the Anxi Army, but it was all thanks to the firearms. Facing the advantage of the Tang Army's firearms, not even a single Arab army was able to defeat them.
If we can find an effective way to resist, we can only rely on the power of numbers and use human lives to fill it.
However, all members of the Arab army have completely forgotten that the reason why the Tang army was able to rampage across Mobei and the Western Regions was because of the famous "Mo Dao Formation", which frightened the barbarians!
From ancient times to the present, the reason why the barbarians and barbarians have repeatedly suppressed the people of the Central Plains has relied on the excellent equestrian skills developed since childhood on horseback. In addition, the Central Plains dynasties often lost the land to raise horses, resulting in a shortage of war horses and unable to come and go.
The barbarians and barbarians like the wind compete with each other.
But the "Mo Dao Formation" emerged out of nowhere and became the nemesis of the cavalry.
When the soldiers took up the formation with Mo Dao in hand, they advanced like a wall, and all the men and horses were shattered!
The Turks who were once proud of Mobei and the unruly Hu tribe in the Western Regions were all driven to pieces by the Tang Army's Mo Dao Formation. Their heads were rolling, and the hot blood stained the Tang Army's Mo Dao. The reputation of the Mo Dao Formation spread throughout the world.
Don't be impressed.
Naturally, the Arabs have heard of the Mo Dao Formation.
Now that the Modao Formation, which they thought had disappeared among the Tang army, reappeared, how could Ye Zide and all the Arab soldiers not be horrified?
On this trip, Ye Zide brought 10,000 soldiers, all of whom were elite cavalry, to track down the Tang army, and it was rumored that Modao Formation was the nemesis of the cavalry...
In addition, all 10,000 cavalrymen are now on the river channel of the military front. There are hills on both sides, and the terrain is long and narrow. If they go forward and run into Gongyue City, it will be impossible for these more than 10,000 troops to defeat them in one go. On the contrary, it is possible
Being held back tightly, the whole army was annihilated before reinforcements arrived. When they retreated, they were blocked by the Modao Formation. If they wanted to return to the camp, they could only step on the corpses of the Tang army and cross over.
Ye Zide knew that once the Tang army was intercepted here, the Tang army in Gongyue City would rush to rescue him. When the two armies were one after another, he would be sandwiched between them.
Damn it, where is there any hope of survival?
He waved his machete and shouted loudly: "Charge, charge!"
When the two armies meet, the brave one wins. He only needs to open a gap in the Tang army's array, and he can take advantage of the chaos to rush out. As for how many of the more than 10,000 elite cavalry can follow him back to the camp... The matter has come to this, and their lives are hanging by a thread. How can there be hope?
Are you thinking about this?
Anyway, I have commanded 200,000 horses in this expedition to the Western Regions. Even if I die a little, I still have a lot left...
Thousands of cavalry around them gradually stabilized under the supervision of Yezid with a scimitar and shouting, but the formation was still loose, and they rushed towards the Tang army standing like a wall in front of them.
The river is low and the wind collects, so that the heavy snow is swept by the north wind and accumulates here. Fortunately, the river is still wide, and the snow can only cover the knees of the war horses. However, when the army came, they trampled the snow, causing the bottom layer to be trampled tightly.
, another layer of floating snow fell on it, making it increasingly slippery.
The war horse turned around in an emergency and was already lacking balance. Just as it tried to speed up, its hooves slipped. Many soldiers and horses fell into the snow, and were trampled by the horses rushing up from behind. The scene was chaotic and tragic.
At any rate, a decent charge was organized.
The soldiers of the Anxi Army stood solemnly, despite the raging wind and snow, and the goose-feather-like snowflakes fluttering between the sky and the earth, still remaining motionless.
The Mo Dao in his hand was held tightly with both hands, and the tip of the knife was tilted upward. Hundreds of thousands of diseased Mo Dao shone coldly in the wind and snow. From a distance, they looked like a forest of swords and a wall of blades.
The Arab soldiers mobilized their horses, charging on the ice and snow while struggling to maintain their balance. Gritting their teeth, they rushed towards the wall of swords composed of rows of swords. They all knew that there was no way forward and no way to retreat at this moment. If they could not defeat the Tang army,
The array is scattered, and everyone will be slaughtered here.
The greater the crisis, the more the cruel and cruel temperament in the bones and blood of the Arab soldiers was aroused. They were getting closer and closer to the Tang army. They gritted their teeth and hunched over on their horses, holding the reins in one hand and holding a knife in the other, and screamed loudly.
, completely ignoring that Pao Ze, who slipped and fell to the ground midway, was trampled to pulp by his own horse, and charged forward crazily.
"Boom!"
When hundreds of crossbows fired in volley, the bowstrings made a dull sound. Hundreds of crossbow arrows gathered in one place like a dark cloud rising behind the hills, then crossed the sky with flying snowflakes, and pierced into Arabia from top to bottom.
Human cavalry array.
The running cavalry fell to the ground like felled wheat.
It's just that the Arab soldiers were also completely aroused. They didn't care about their own casualties and only knew how to charge, charge!
After three rounds of crossbows, the bodies of men and horses shot by arrows were scattered all over the ground. The hot blood melted the ice and snow with its steam, and then gradually cooled down.
The Arab cavalry rushed into the Tang army's Modao formation with twenty soldiers.
At such a close distance, even if the snowflakes were raging in the sky, the two sides could clearly see each other's face, as well as the white air exhaled from the mouth and nose when breathing.
The sound can be heard.
The crossbow arrows have lost their effect, otherwise it would be easy to cover the position of their Modao Formation.
A black dot suddenly flew out from behind the Mo Dao formation, leaped a certain distance in the air, and happened to land at the feet of the Arab cavalry who was about to rush forward.
"Boom boom boom!"
With a series of fierce explosions, the thunderbolt hit the ground and exploded, releasing huge energy and blasting the ice and snow on the ground into the sky. Along with the fragmentation of its own projectile, countless fragments formed were thrown in all directions, overwhelmingly destroying everything in front of it.
object.
"ah!"
"Herod!"
The Arab soldiers were either knocked off their feet by the explosion, or their bodies were pierced by flying debris, and they screamed in agony. The charge was immediately frustrated.
In the end, less than three-fourths of the troops reached the Tang army before the battle. Even so, the reason why the cavalry was called the king of war in this era was because of its super mobility and the huge kinetic energy during the charge, which made its lethality crazy.
of addition.
Countless war horses roared over, laden with ice foam and snowflakes for a long time, and slammed into the Tang army's array with a "boom".
"Raise the knife!"
In the midst of the Tang army's formation, the captain yelled.
Upon hearing this, the soldiers who formed an array squatted down, braced their horses, and raised their swords. The sharp blade affected the enemy cavalry that was charging forward.
Anyone who can be like the Modao Formation must be eight feet long, with a huge back and waist, and a very high level of strength. In the Modao Formation, one is as strong as ten warriors. They are brave, fierce, and powerful, and no one who can only use the Yu can make up for it.
generation.
Such a warrior wears heavy armor, and the Mo sword in his hand is made of pure steel and weighs more than thirty kilograms. The sword is as wide as the back and is as thick as iron, cut like mud. More than a thousand people form an array. How powerful is that?
The Arab cavalry urged their horses to slam into the Tang army's Modao formation, as if they were hitting a wall full of blades. The powerful kinetic energy made the Modao sharper and could easily cut through the bodies of the Arab soldiers and horses. This made
The kinetic energy carried by the charging horses was greatly weakened, and they were resisted by the strong and well-trained soldiers of the Tang army.
"cut!"
There was another loud shout in the formation, and more than a thousand people held their swords with both hands. They first dragged them from top to bottom, cutting the men and horses in front of them into pieces, and then they held the sword in a flower, Mo Dao raised it above their heads and chopped it down fiercely.
The broad and heavy Mo Dao slashed hard into the body of the enemy in front of him, and the sharp blade easily cut it into two pieces. For a moment, blood burst out and the remaining limbs flew everywhere. In front of the Mo Dao formation, everyone was broken into pieces!
Rolling blood splattered everywhere, instantly melting the ice and snow under the Tang army's feet, causing white gas to appear.
The charge of the Arab cavalry has begun. Although the robes at the front were shattered under the knife, the ones behind them continued to charge forward.
The Tang army was not afraid. The strict formation allowed the soldiers to support each other. The spearmen behind them stuck out their spears from the gap between each other's bodies to block the cavalry. The two-pronged approach offset the impact of the enemy's charge to the greatest extent.
The heavy armor protected the body from damage very well, and the Mo Dao in his hand was raised, cut down, and dragged horizontally...
This is the same move over and over again, but the elite and fierce soldiers paired with sharp weapons are the cavalry's biggest nightmare.
Blood and broken limbs filled the place where the two armies met. The fierce momentum of the Arab soldiers suddenly stagnated, and a boundless fear rose uncontrollably from the bottom of their hearts.
No one is not afraid of death.
Especially for an army like the Arab soldiers who lacked fighting skills and only relied on faith and greed for support. In front of them, the Tang army's wall-like sword array was like a huge millstone constantly harvesting the lives of the soldiers. The morale of the Arab soldiers would inevitably collapse.
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Even Ye Zide, who was in the formation, looked at the soldiers of the Tang army who were covered in blood as if they were demons from hell, and looked at the Mo Dao formation that was flickering with cold light and harvesting the lives of the Arab soldiers unscrupulously, a bone-chilling cold air rose from his crotch.