Chapter 50: Relentless Pursuit
The catapult poses a huge threat to the Tang army's powerful crossbow. If it cannot be destroyed in time, it will pose a great threat to the Tang army. This should be completed as soon as possible. Even if Chen Xuanli and Xue Zhi don't say it, the soldiers know what to do.
Mo Dao, who came with the cavalry, jumped off the horse's back, held the heavy Mo Dao tightly, and quickly walked to the catapult. The Mo Dao in his hand slashed hard. With a loud noise, part of the catapult was broken. After another round of Mo Dao, the catapult was completely damaged.
The catapult is very large. If you use a horizontal knife to chop it, it will take a long time to destroy it. Therefore, Li Longkit adjusted some Modao hands to follow him. This is a good idea. The modao is heavy, and the strength of a knife can be imagined. A catapult can be destroyed in a short time.
In this way, Mo Daozhe, under the protection of the cavalry, destroyed the catapults one by one.
"Damn it! Damn it Mo Dao!" Gu Taibai looked at the destroyed catapults, his heart was bleeding, and he kept cursing Mo Dao.
"Quick! Retake the catapult for me." The catapult is too important for Gu Taibai. If the catapult is destroyed by the Tang army, he will lose the weapon to suppress the Tang army's powerful crossbows, and heavy cavalry will not be used. Heavy cavalry cannot be used, so it will be difficult for the Arab Empire to win a battle.
Gu Taibai roared and personally led the elite troops to deal with the Tang cavalry, hoping to regain the catapult.
"Good come!" Chen Xuanli and Xue Zhi led the Tang army cavalry to entangle him, dragging him down, making it difficult for him to go further.
"Damn it! Hateful!" Gu Taibai could not break through the obstacles of the Tang cavalry and watched helplessly as the catapult was destroyed by the Tang army.
Not long after, all the catapults were destroyed by the Tang army, which meant that the Arab Emperor team had lost the most powerful long-range attack weapon and could no longer do anything to the Tang army.
The Arab Emperor's team did not have a strong crossbow. The most powerful long-range attack was the catapult. The catapult was destroyed, which was like losing an arm for the Arab imperial army.
"Very good!" Zhang said, waved the flag in his hand, and ordered loudly, saying, "Settle their retreat."
Chen Xuanli and Xue Zhi saw the waving of the flag, knew what Zhang said, and shouted: "Seave the retreat of the big food dog. You can't escape from one person."
First cut off the enemy's retreat and then attack, this is the Tang army's usual style of playing, and this time is no exception.
"Attack!" After giving orders to the cavalry to cut off the retreat of the Arab Emperor's team, Zhang said that the flag in his hand waved again to direct the Tang army to launch an attack.
The Tang army was good at attacking and defending, and defending like an iron barrel, indestructible; attacking like a tide of overwhelming seas, no one could resist.
Under the command of Zhang Shuo, the entire army was dispatched. Like a tide, the Tang army pressed up against the Arab Emperor's team.
"Swish! Swish! Swish!" The first one to show its might was the crossbow formation. Countless powerful crossbows appeared in the air, woven into a huge net of arrows, and covered the Arab Emperor's team.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!" The first one who was unlucky was the heavy cavalry who was shot by a crossbow arrow and screamed before his death, shrill and harsh, like a slaughtered pig.
Heavy cavalry are used to rush into the formation, and of course they must be laid in front of the military formation. When the Tang army attacks, they will be the first to be affected.
Although the heavy cavalry was extremely powerful, they had no power to fight back when they encountered a crossbow formation, and they could only be slaughtered.
Dodge? That's impossible. Because heavy cavalry is too bulky and not flexible enough.
"O Allah, please bless your loyal servants, bring down God's punishment, and kill these hateful Chinese people." Gu Taibai looked at the heavy cavalry that kept falling down, his face twisted, but he had no choice but to pray to the non-existent Allah.
However, Allah did not show his power, and the heavy cavalry was still being shot and killed by the Tang army, with heavy casualties.
Heavy cavalry is one of the aces of the Arab Empire. Each one is carefully trained and carefully, and is Gu Taibai's heart. Now, he can only watch the massacre and he even has the desire to die.
Soon, the Tang army shot and killed the heavy cavalry, and then shot the knife-handed archer behind the heavy cavalry.
Even heavy cavalry, which has extremely thick armor, is not enough to see the powerful crossbows, let alone the knife handle and the archer, and they are quickly shot and killed by the powerful crossbows.
The deadly crossbow finally stopped. Not only did Gu Taibai not breathe a sigh of relief, but his mood became heavier.
Because the Modao Battle Formation has come on stage.
Thousands of Modao held heavy Modao, lined up in neat battle formations, pressing up like a sea of scattered seas. Thousands of bright Modaodao formed a dazzling wall of swords, giving people a heavy sense of oppression, which made people almost suffocate.
Not to mention chopping, just looking at the scene in front of you is enough to make people desperate.
Sure enough, the Modao Battle Formation came to the Arab Emperor's Team and began to show its power, like a greedy meat grinder, ruthlessly devouring the life of the Arab Emperor's Team.
The heavy cavalry is very aggressive, but the attack power of the Modao Battle Formation is not inferior to that of the heavy cavalry. The consequences of the Modao Battle Formation can be imagined.
When encountering heavy cavalry, it is difficult to resist, and it is only a matter of being slaughtered. Similarly, when encountering the Modao Battle Formation, the Arab Emperor's team did not have the strength to fight back, and could only wait for death.
The Modao battle formation was extremely sharp and ruthlessly entered the battle formation of the Arab Emperor's team, as if he had entered a no-man's land, massacres, and wherever he passed, it was red.
At this point, the Arab Emperor's team relied on to gallop, the catapults and heavy cavalry no longer existed. The Arab Empire lost its most powerful support, and was no different from the Turks and Tubo army. When they encountered the Modao battle formation, they had no power to fight back. They were not only waiting for death or waiting for death.
"Retreat!" When Gu Taibai saw that the situation was wrong, he took a deep breath, calmed down his mind, and decisively ordered his retreat.
This time he led his army eastward to prepare for his future march into the Tang Dynasty. He wanted to conquer Afghanistan and Pakistan and build these two places into advance bases. This retreat means that he has failed and he can no longer build an advance base.
This was unacceptable to Gu Taibai, who was determined to conquer China. However, the battle situation was like this. It would be impossible not to withdraw. Don’t mention how uncomfortable he felt. He was almost vomiting blood.
If you don’t retreat? Then it will really be waiting for death.
Although the current situation is unfavorable, as long as the army is withdrawn, there is still a glimmer of hope and a comeback may be possible. If you stay here to fight with the Tang army, the entire army will inevitably be destroyed.
Gu Taibai's handling was correct, and the Arab team received an order and began to retreat.
The Arab Emperor team was well-trained and had strict orders. Although the battle was unfavorable, there was no panic when retreating, and it was orderly. It evacuated the battlefield in sequence according to the orders.
"Not bad! Very good!" Li Longji saw it and praised it very much.
A true elite can not only win battles, but also maintain military discipline and maintain order after failure. Only such an army is the real elite.
The Arab Emperor team is such an elite.
"But, what's the use of this?" Then, Li Longji shook his head disdainfully.
Sure enough, the Tang army rushed up from all directions and wanted to siege the Arab Emperor's team.
Gu Taibai led 50,000 elite troops to the east, leaving some garrison in the conquering place, and casualties along the way, and only 40,000 people arrived in Kabul. The Tang army had nearly 200,000, which was five times his. It had an absolute advantage in military strength. Once it surrounded it, it would be enough to wipe out Gu Taibai.
"Retreat! Retreat quickly!" Gu Taibai knew very well that if he was surrounded by the Tang army, he would be destroyed. If he wanted to avoid this tragedy, he could only withdraw before the Tang army surrounded him.
However, the Tang army was moving very quickly, and the Arab imperial army had no time to retreat, and the Arab imperial army was constantly surrounded.
"Let's go!" Seeing that it was impossible to withdraw the army, Gu Taibai had to grit his teeth and lead the thousand personal guards around him to escape first.
He can't escape, otherwise he will finish the game.
In this case, one can escape, and no one can wait.
"Chasing!" Zhang Xiaofei was closest to Gu Taibai and led his army to chase him from behind.
"Yang Sixu, you lead an army of 50,000 to pursue you from behind." Li Longji saw it and ordered Yang Sixu to say.
"As for the order." Yang Sixu took the order and led 50,000 Tang troops to chase after him.
The Arab Imperial Army who stayed here did not give up resistance because Gu Taibai escaped. They showed enough courage and still fought to the end.
"For Allah!"
"For Allah!"
"Fight to the end!"
"Don't surrender until death!"
The Arab Emperor team shouted one after another, and they held the weapons in their hands and fought hard.
These Arab soldiers were religious fanatics. For the sake of the non-existent Allah, they could abandon their wives and children, and they could die for Allah. Although they were surrounded by the Tang army, they still fought hard and fought to the end, which was reasonable.
However, they encountered the Tang army. Even if they refused to surrender until death and fought to the end, the result did not change, and they eventually destroyed the entire army. Moreover, they did not cause much casualties to the Tang army, because the Tang army was the Modao Battle Formation. When they encountered the Modao Battle Formation, no matter how brave the Arab emperor soldiers were, it would be futile.
However, it was precisely because of their desperate resistance that the Tang army took a long time to annihilate them, and it took a whole day to wipe them out.
None of the tens of thousands of Arab soldiers retreated, and they all fought to the death until they were killed or fell down with great strength.
Only a few Arab soldiers were captured alive. Even if they were captured, they still refused to surrender, cursed, abused the Tang army, and begged Allah to bring God's punishment.
"What a bloody battle!" Li Longji rode the Zhaoye Lion King, covered in blood, like a bloody man, holding the blood-dropping horizontal sword, feeling deeply moved.
"Yes, what a bloody battle! There has been a long time since such a bloody battle!" Chen Xuanli also sighed.
"This should be the strongest, most tenacious, least afraid of death, and most brave and fearless army that the Tang Dynasty has encountered since its founding! Although they are enemies of the Tang Dynasty, they are worthy of admiration." Zhang Shi said with admiration, "Crown Prince, such enemies are respectable. You cannot let them corpse out of the wilderness. You should bury them."
"Yes." The generals agreed in unison.
"That's right. They are worthy of admiration, so let them be buried in peace." Li Longji also agreed.
Chapter completed!