Chapter six hundred and eleven fierce battle in the desert
Ziad lowered his head and said with some frustration: "How can my enemy be compared with gods and heroes? However, he is indeed stronger than me. He has an army with excellent armor and very professional weapons that are armed to the face. In this army
Everyone in the army is a professional soldier, and they participated in the battle earlier than the founding of our new dynasty. Even Ge Luolu, a powerful mercenary in the northeast, willingly became his lackey."
Boshilin pursed his lips, raised his palm and slapped it heavily on the stone platform in front of him: "Just what you said is not enough to make him defeat you! Who are we? We have the strongest people in the world.
Cavalry, we are the armed forces blessed by Allah. He has given us strength and incomparable courage, allowing you to continuously win. We have defeated the Umayyad army, we have defeated the Byzantine Empire army, and we will also
Defeat the Tang army."
"Duke Abu, I am willing to bear the guilt of my failure, but I still want to say that the Tang Army seems to be just a little stronger than us, but this is just an illusion. Their greatest advantage is that they have no shortcomings. Their cavalry
Very strong, infantry and cavalry are equally strong."
Don't equate your failure with the strength of my army, they just lost a commander who became incompetent!"
Ziad's body trembled twice, and he stood there with a broken body. His character of a brave general with strong command had collapsed, and what was left was just a loser who escaped from the battlefield.
"To prove your incompetence, I have sent Kabata to Mulu City before. He will command an army of 50,000 people to recapture the river! I hope that when he comes back victorious, you will be able to kneel in front of him in shame.
suicide."
There was a brief silence in the hall, and an officer stood at the door. He was afraid of the atmosphere and did not even dare to speak.
Boshilin noticed him and asked, "What do you do?"
"Grand Duke, they sent me to deliver the urgent report from Mulu City."
"Urgent report? Did he win the battle? Read it to me!"
"This," the messenger said after swallowing half a breath: "The Tang army crossed the Amu Darya River and crossed the desert to attack Mulu City. General Kabata was defeated and committed suicide. His lieutenant sent someone to report this letter during the retreat.
Come over here."
The atmosphere in the hall was silent again, and Bo Xilin awkwardly pulled the beard on his chin, turned his head and murmured: "At least he has more backbone than you. It seems that I am the only one who can personally lead the troops to fight against the enemy. It's just that
There are not many elites available under Khorasan, and the temporarily recruited militiamen cannot resist the enemy. I can no longer cover up this matter, so I can only report it to the Caliph, and use the power of the Caliph to mobilize the army across the country to block the Tang army.
Outside Tus City!”
And Bo Xilin hurriedly sent a messenger to Baghdad. The content of the letter read: Khorasan is in urgent need, Tang army soldiers are pressing the border, Mulu City has fallen, and the Caliph is requested to send reinforcements.
The first caliph of the Abbasid Dynasty was Abu Abbas Safah. He was extremely shocked when he heard the news. He immediately sent troops from the defense line bordering the Byzantine Empire in the west. He also sent his own brother
Mansour led his army as an imperial envoy and quickly rushed to the city of Tus for support. The first defense operation of the Abbasid Dynasty after the founding of the country was about to begin.
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Mulu City is located in the Kizilkum Desert to the east of Tus City. It is an important stronghold for Dashi's march to the east. Just three days ago, Li Siye led the Anxi Army into the desert and quickly approached Mulu City, cutting off the access to the city.
Contact with the outside world.
The great food guard Kabata decided to stick to the city and wait until the Tang army was short of food before making any plans. However, reinforcements sent from Tusi City were also on the way at this time. After Li Siye intercepted the information from the desert station, he immediately made a judgment,
It was decided to attack first to defeat the reinforcements, and then turn around and attack Mulu City.
However, Kabata, the defender of Mulu City, is not a vegetarian. Once he learns that the Tang army is retreating, he will judge the situation and take the initiative to attack. If Kabata and reinforcements attack from both sides, the Tang army will fall into a desperate situation of being besieged.
After discussing with the generals, Li Siye decided to make a time lag and first pretend to set up a camp on the Gobi Desert outside the city, burn bonfires, and prepare for a long-term battle.
When night fell, the Tang army's camp was lit up with sparks and looked like a sky full of stars. Li Siye took advantage of the darkness and led the main force to leave, leaving only two thousand cavalry to continue to maintain the camp.
They used the Sogdians on the trade road as guides, and after dark, taking advantage of the dim night, they headed towards the city of Tus. The vast desert felt strange to people. In this geographical environment, they wanted to survive hundreds of
To intercept a supporting army from a distance, luck must have played a large part.
After the Tang army withdrew, Kabata did not notice it. It was not until the next afternoon when he stood on the city wall for routine patrol and looked at the Tang army camp in the distance that he noticed a clue. He hurriedly sent scouts to investigate, and then discovered that most of the Tang army
They have already withdrawn, leaving only some cavalry here to confuse themselves.
It was time to test Kabata's judgment. There were only two ways to go in front of him. The first way was to take the initiative to go out of the city to pursue the main force of the Tang army, and join forces with the reinforcements to defeat Li Siye. The second way was to continue to hold on in the city and let the reinforcements be destroyed.
Li Siye was defeated and eliminated.
General Kabata is not a conservative person, not to mention the reinforcements sent by Tusi City carrying a large amount of supplies. Once intercepted by Li Siye, it will greatly extend the Tang army's activity time in the desert, which will be very detrimental to his persistence.
He immediately led most of the food army out of the city, first raided the empty camps left by the Tang army, and eliminated the two thousand Tang soldiers who were trying to confuse him.
The two thousand Tang troops were led by General Ma Phosphorus. He led the cavalry to fight and move, clinging to the Kabata like brown candy in the desert, buying time for Li Siye to defeat the reinforcing army of food.
Kabata's generals advised him to ignore the harassment of the small group of Tang troops and follow the planned route of the reinforcements to join them. They would surely be able to attack Li Siye from both sides before he could attack the reinforcements.
However, Kabata decided to divide his troops again and sent out 5,000 camel troops to fight to the death with the 2,000 Tang troops led by Ma Phosphorus, while he led the main force to continue on the road.
General Ma Phosphorus was in a desperate situation in the desert. The mobility of horses in the desert was far inferior to that of camels. The Tang army used horn bows and crossbows to distance themselves from the enemy. The two sides fought for more than eighty miles, and there were constant encounters with the enemy.
The robes were buried in the yellow sand, and the enemy was never able to destroy them.
People do develop strong willpower in desperate situations, and they have no room for disintegration. Only by uniting as one can they survive. How many times have I looked at the moon in the sky at night in the yellow sand, and mustered up my courage again and again.
, although most of them may never return to their homeland.
Ma Phosphorus was originally opposed to Li Siye's plan to cross the Amu Darya River to attack Mulu City, but after entering the desert, he put these different opinions behind and resolutely carried out the task that Li Siye asked him to stay to lure the enemy. He knew
Their desperate situation is about to be exchanged for the victory of the main force.
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Good luck seemed to have been favoring Li Siye. The Anxi Army, led by the Sogdian guide and relying only on the direction of the stars at night, encountered the Dashi Army just two days later. He used the central infantry with crossbows to suppress it.
The tactic of outflanking the cavalry on both sides defeated the reinforcements sent by Bo Xilin in one fell swoop.
After winning the battle, he did not rest. He quickly turned back to meet the pursuing Kabata. The two sides fought fiercely in the rolling sand dunes from morning to afternoon. When the enemy camel army was about to break through the Chinese army, he personally
He dismounted and led the Mo Dao team in a bloody battle, finally reversing the disadvantage. The Dashi army was defeated and retreated. Some of them fled to Tusi City, and the other part fled in the direction of Mulu.
The Tang army turned around and marched towards Mulu City, once again defeating the defeated army organized by Kabata. The great food warrior committed suicide in despair.
Li Siye confidently believed that Mulu Cheng was now like an undefended girl who had opened her arms to him.