Chapter 248: The Decisive Battle of Tacheng (Part 1)

That night, the wind was tight and the moon was dark. The white earth was contrasted with a clear and pale color. Suddenly, a rumbling sound came from the Tang army camp several miles away, as if the earth was trembling. The huge vibration woke the Tang army from their dreams.

Li Qing'an came out wearing a robe and asked anxiously: "What did you find?"

"There are countless small black dots moving towards this side under the moonlight, and I can't see clearly, but the ground is shaking violently."

Li Qing'anluo thought about it and immediately ordered: "Tell me the order to prepare two hundred crossbows, and then order five hundred scouts to go out of the camp. In addition, the soldiers were ordered to leave the tent immediately and retreat to the rear camp."

The Tang army's camp was also busy. The soldiers rushed out of the camp, retreated to the back camp, and demolished some camp tents to form an isolation belt. At this time, the two hundred step crossbow had been pushed to the front of the wooden fence, with special shooting holes on the wooden fence, and five hundred scouts cavalry rushed out of the camp and ran out into the distance.

At this time, the night attack of the Great Cannibal was already obvious. Fifty huge catapults were dragged by thousands of camels, and followed nearly 10,000 soldiers driven by them, approaching the Tang army camp. There were countless Great Cannibal troops in the distance, with unknown numbers.

Under such circumstances, Li Qingan did not want to go out to fight in a hurry, so he only arranged a bed crossbow with huge power and extremely long range to deal with it, which was more than enough.

As the catapult rumbling approached to 700 steps, the Tang army's bed crossbow suddenly fired. This time, the Tang army's bed crossbow did not use steel bags to fire nine-inch iron arrows, but three-foot arrows. This big arrow is extremely sharp to attack heavy objects. It can attack the city and can stop the walls and stones and collapse the city tower, and the range can reach a thousand steps.

As two hundred bed crossbows were fired at the same time, two hundred arrows shot quickly at the catapult of the Dashi Army. It was extremely powerful. Only a sound of "crack!" and the screams of soldiers came from afar. Nearly twenty catapults were hit, and the wooden frame collapsed and lost their combat power, but the rest of the catapults continued to move forward.

When he was still six hundred steps away from the Tang army camp, the fire suddenly appeared. Several trenchers that were leading the way suddenly fired. Six huge fireballs rolled in the sky and roared towards the Tang army camp. With a loud bang, several empty tents were hit, the tent collapsed, and the fire balls rolled past. Several tents lit up raging fire. The fire took advantage of the wind and the flames soared into the sky. The huge fireballs were still burning, burning with a strange light blue fire. More than a dozen Tang soldiers rushed over with water and poured water on the fireballs, but the fireballs were not afraid of fire and burned even more vigorously.

Li Qingan suddenly remembered that Byzantine had an extremely powerful Greek fire that could burn on the sea. The Great Food Army was most likely to have obtained this flame formula. He immediately shouted: "Extinguish it with soil!"

At this time, the second round of the Tang army's crossbow was fired, and another two hundred arrows were shot. With a loud "bang! bang!", nearly twenty more catapults were hit and disintegrated. At this time, only five catapults of the Dashi Army were left. Five huge fireballs roared past the fence again, rolling into the Tang army's camp. Dozens of tents were ignited, and the flames were connected into the sky.

Nearly a thousand Tang soldiers were desperately putting out the fire. The first batch of fireballs had been extinguished by the Tang army with soil. Hundreds of people poured bags of soil down on the fireballs, and soon formed a pile of earth, burying the fireballs below, but the burning tent ignited the tent next to it. For a moment, the entire southwest corner of fire surged into the sky, hundreds of tents were ignited, and the fire was connected. The Tang army had removed all the tents around the fire to stop the spread of the fire.

At this time, Li Qing'an shouted loudly, "Cum again!"

Another two hundred large arrows shot towards the last five catapults in a dense manner. Only a rumbling sound of collapse and the screams of the Dashi soldiers when they were hit were heard. The last five catapults were all destroyed. At this time, a scout rushed from the side along a safe road and shot the information into the camp with one arrow. The information actually showed that the Dashi Army had 40,000 elite cavalry lying behind, waiting for the Tang cavalry to come out and wiped out the entire battle.

Li Qingan's caution is correct not to go to the battle. He would rather be damaged in part than go out and fall into the ambush of the enemy.

All fifty catapults were silent, and the crossbows were immediately replaced with steel bags to fire nine-inch iron arrows. In an instant, the arrows were like rain and the arrows were like flying locusts. A cruel brutal brutal shot more than 3,000 large food troops within 600 steps.

The other big food troops were so scared that they turned around and ran away. At this time, General Qi Yade saw that the night attack was not good, so he had to withdraw his troops and return to the camp.

The fire in the Tang military camp lasted for more than an hour before it gradually went out, killing and injured more than 20 people, and there was a slight loss of materials. Li Qing'an looked at the burned military camp with a blue face. After a while, he sneered: "It is unreasonable to come but not come!"

At the third update, 60,000 troops set out in a mighty manner. At this time, the Tang army camp was only fifteen miles away from the main camp of the Dashi Army outside the city of Talas. The cold wind was cold, and the black army covered the heaven and earth. Cavalry, crossbowmen, jumping soldiers, and heavy armored and sword weapons were arranged in layers. However, in the middle of the team, there was a mysterious convoy, composed of about 500 vehicles, with a length of about three meters, two meters wide and one and five meters high. It looked like a container of later generations, wrapped in light armored iron sheets, and was not afraid of bows and arrows. Each car was pulled by four horses. This light armored convoy was the secret weapon of the Tang army and would not be taken out until the final battle.

Tonight, the Great Food Army took out their secret weapon: Greek fire, and now is the time for the Tang army to counterattack.

At the fourth update, the 60,000 Tang army brigade arrived five miles outside Talas City. There was a small river next to Talas City, called Talas River. A thick layer of ice had formed on the river surface. On the other side of the river, the endless camp of the Dashi Army stood. The small city of Talas was in the camp and became the city in the camp.

Abu.

The Muslims had already received a report that Qiyad failed to attack the Tang camp at night, and the Tang army's counterattack came immediately. The Muslims had not repaired his beard for several months, and his beard grew into a mess. His beard was slightly raised up. This was a look of wanting to laugh. Perhaps he felt that the commander of the Tang army had a little childish temper. He had just been attacked by night. Before the long night passed, he turned to take revenge.

But his frowning brow revealed his inner tension again. The arrival of the main force of the Tang army was not a simple revenge. Is this the arrival of a decisive battle? It was just to confuse himself in the name of revenge.

Abu.

The Muslims did not despise this opponent because of his young age. On the contrary, he had a more sympathetic admiration. He could not deny that the Tang army commander was the strongest opponent he had encountered. None of them, even Gao Xianzhi, who had fought a battle with the Yuezhi people, was not as good as him. Gao Xianzhi was just a general, just a military man, who could plan for one battle, but the Tang army commander was planning the overall situation, fighting for the entire Hezhong region, military, politics, religion, and attacking in full force, and finally came to fight him.

Once he loses this battle, he will most likely lose the entire river, Abu.

The Muslim sighed deeply. He felt that the Tang army commander had a kingly demeanor. Is he really just a Tang army frontier general?

Abu.

The Muslim couldn't help but write the line of words "Li Qing'an" in Arabic on the scroll with a pen. With a 'Click!', the quill folded into two paragraphs. He stood up, and two words burst out between his lips and teeth, "Go to fight!"

The Great Food Army fought, and when the Tang army was still on the way, Abu.

The Muslims ordered the army to cross the river, and the Dashi Army was divided into three armies on the left, middle and right, and the central army was 30,000 Khorasan army by Abu.

The Muslims personally commanded the commander, the left army was 30,000 Syrian army led by General Khalid, while the right army was 40,000 Sogdian army led by General Chiyad, and the 100,000 troops were distributed in groups in units of the army.

The overwhelming Great Food Army was endless, and the torches formed a sea of ​​fire, stretching for more than ten miles, and arranged a hundred thousand troops. Huge catapults stood in the army, like extremely powerful monsters, the sound of low horns kept echoing over the army, inspiring morale, the third person of the Abbasid Empire, Abu.

The Muslim had a cold look. He held the king's sword given to him by Abbas in his hand and coldly waited for the arrival of the main force of the Tang army.

The moment when dawn is about to be dark is the darkest, the darkness is boundless and endless like a demonic realm. The sky is covered with dark clouds and the cold wind is howling. A long bright line in the distance is getting closer and closer, pulling out a sea of ​​flames that is overwhelming.

The Tang army stopped slowly three miles away and received information from the scouts. Li Qing'an quickly made tactical adjustments. The Tang army transferred the dense crossbow army and Modao army to the left to deal with the Khorasan army and the Syrian army in a defensive manner, while the attacking cavalry was deployed on the right to deal with the Sogdian army, which had weaker strength in the Dashi Army.

The weakness of this Dashi Army was discovered as early as the first Battle of Sabha. Later, when Li Guangbi and Qiyade fought the Battle of Dongcao, Li Qingan once again determined the existence of this weakness. He inferred that the existence of this weakness was caused by the deep-rooted discrimination by the Dashi local army against the Sogdians. There was both the arrogance of the conquerors and religious discrimination. Their middle and low-level soldiers were never willing to fight with the Sogdians, and even the head coach Muslims could do nothing.

As for the most mysterious battle chariot convoy in the Tang army, Li Qing'an was hiding in the army and would not take it out until the critical moment.

"The infantry phalanx will fight!" The Muslim sword swung, and the low drum sound suddenly sounded over Talas, "dong!dong!dong!dong!' The drum sound shook the sky and the earth.

The Macedonian infantry phalanx of the two divisions went to fight, from Abu.

The Khorasan Central Army led by Muslims went to fight. Eight thousand heavy infantrymen holding spears and huge shields and the five thousand cavalry guarding their flanks drove towards the Tang army center. They walked faster and faster, and finally ran and rushed towards the Tang army.

Li Qing'an's eyes narrowed, and in the dark, he saw a spear tip reflected by fire.

"The Modao Army faces the battle!"

Li Qingan roared, and five thousand Modao soldiers went to fight. They lined up to face the rushing infantry phalanx. Their tall and burly bodies were connected into one, like the towering Kunlun Mountains. The large swords waving glittered were the collapsed glaciers on Kunlun Mountains.

The two armies collided with a loud bang, and murderous aura filled the sky, Abu.

The Muslim waved his hand and ordered: "Arrival on the flame catapult and defeat the heavy infantry of the Tang army."

The huge thrust thrust was pushed out by thousands of soldiers, and the huge body of the Black Wind was walking in the dark like a devil.

Li Qingan also issued an order: "Character fight!"

Five hundred mysterious chariots ran out of the Tang army and, under the escort of five thousand cavalry, rushed towards the left wing of the Dashi Infantry formation.

"Boom!" A low muffled sound, nearly 10,000 Zoroastrians from all over Damascus and Zoroastrian believers knelt down in the square. In front of the square, on a huge wooden platform five meters high, the eyes of the sacred object shone with a sacred light under the light of the fire, so eye-catching in the darkness, as if shining brighter than the stars in the sky.

The believers of the light bowed devoutly to the eyes of their Lord God Ahuramaz, and recited their sacred scripture, "Avista".

Guarding the Saint Elaine next to the Eye of Light.

Julan, wearing a white long dress, knelt beside the eyes of light, her eyes were holy and bright, looking resolutely at a star in the night sky, she raised her hands and murmured to her Lord God.

The high platform beneath her was already filled with greased firewood. More than a dozen guards holding torches were on standby, but on the left side of the wooden platform there was a golden bridge made of gold. Ju Lan could leave the Tower of Flame at any time through this golden bridge.

On a platform far away opposite the wooden tower, Abu, the caliph of the Abbasid Empire.

Abbas was staring coldly at Princess Kulan who held the religious ceremony. He had seen through her intentions. Since she was willing to commit martyrdom, let her death and the destruction of the sacred objects of light warn those stubborn pagans!

But what Abbas wanted to see was that his fear of death made Julan step onto the golden bridge, which was more damaging to the faith of the Zoropause than destroying her body. He wanted to conquer the entire Sogdians by conquering the heart of the Saint Julan.

Abbas made a ignition gesture, and a soldier inserted a torch into the pile of firewood. With a 'boom!', the flames soared into the sky, and tens of the Light cultists exclaimed and stood up at the same time.

Julan faced Abbas's cold gaze without fear. She said that even if she died, she would never betray her faith.

"Believers of Lord Ahuramaz! What you see is the light, the eye of light in the flames totem..."

The firm and clear voice of Julan echoed over the square, "I, Julan, the holy lady of Samarkand Temple, will return to the Lord God with the Eye of Light. Believers, please follow me to bless our troubled land!"

Ten thousand believers knelt down slowly, and they bowed to their saint with tears in their eyes. The flames burned harder and fiercer, and had swallowed up the entire platform. The Bridge of Golden melted little by little in the raging fire and finally collapsed.

Abbas was so angry that he stomped his feet and turned away.

The Eye of Light emitted a strange light in the burning of the flames. The flame was about to swallow Ju Lan. As death was approaching, she slowly pulled out the dagger from her waist and stared at the three words "Li Qing'an" on the handle of the dagger.
Chapter completed!