Chapter 319: Battle of Talas (II)

The capital of Kangguo, Samojian (Samarkand in later generations), is known as the Zhaowu Twin City together with the Tuozhe City of Shiguo. Not only is it a grand city and a large population, it is also a place where two Silk Roads meet, with thousands of merchants gathering and various civilizations meet here, but the invasion of black-clothed and locusts like a locust made Samojian lose its glory in the past. The pearl was polluted by blood, the uprising of resistance was suppressed, the people who demanded independence and freedom were massacred, the young and strong were captured, and women and children were sold. Samojian was silent, but the Mars that resisted in silence was not extinguished. It only needed a gust of wind, and Mars would ignite a raging fire.

There is a large open space in the southeast of Samoan City. It turned out to be a Manichaean temple. It was burned after the invasion of white food. After the rise of Abbas, the believers rebuilt it. Last year, they were razed to the ground by black food again and were designated as a place for temporary storage of military rations by the military.

At this moment, the grain collected from various countries was piled up like mountains, and nearly a thousand flat carriages were parked aside. Two thousand grain-protecting soldiers were closely monitoring nearly 10,000 migrant workers to load grain. Due to the crisis in the city of Talas, Abu Muslims only brought some of the grain with the army, and the rest were sent later. In order to ensure the safety of the food route, he deployed troops along the way from Kangguo to Talas, and the two thousand grain-protecting soldiers were the first stop.

The sky was gloomy and the north wind blew. From time to time, dark clouds gathered, and darkness gradually came towards the city. A blizzard was approaching, and the officers who protected the food were even more anxious. If the road was blocked with heavy snow, he would be beheaded if he missed the deadline. In desperation, he immediately ordered his soldiers to go to the city to catch people. As long as anyone who could take things, they would be arrested, regardless of men, women, young and old, they would be ordered to catch all the people.

At this moment, someone seemed to hear a strange sound from the air, as if someone was whispering, and his feet were shaking slightly. After a while, the sound not only did not disappear, but became louder. The whispers became noisy. Almost everyone heard it. The food protection army was stunned for a moment and rushed to the top of the city. The scene in front of them shocked them. On the vast land, there were endless crowds of people heading towards the capital. They held hands and kept raising their arms and shouting, there were white-haired old men, teenage children, angry women, and men holding weapons. In the middle of the crowd, hundreds of people were carrying a huge wooden platform, and a petite figure kept raising their arms and calling on the wooden platform. Every time she shouted, she would greet tens of thousands of people in unison.

"Your parents, wife and children want to have a meal to survive and take back your food!"

"Survival!" everyone shouted in unison.

"Our God is crying, trembling in the cold wind, and has nowhere to stay."

"Driving away the pagans!" Everyone's voices were low and powerful.

"Kill them and insult the enemies of our temple."

The ups and downs of anger infected the earth, and Samojian City began to be angry. Almost all the troops went to Talas to fight, leaving only a few hundred soldiers guarding the city. They had already lost their weapons, took off their military uniforms and fled into the city. The entire city became an unprepared empty city. A surging crowd rushed into the city gate, rushed towards the food, and rushed towards the palace. They seemed to be like a tsunami sweeping across the land of Zhaowu. They rose from Kangguo, wave after wave, quickly spread west to south. The Wuhu River Basin, Yaoshen River Basin, and Khurasan area. The wave of uprising was once again surging. All of this was also rapidly changing the situation of the Battle of Talas.

Talas, the battle between the Tang Empire and the Great Food Empire has entered its fifth day, and the battle is getting more and more intense, and the casualties are getting worse. The 110,000 Dashi Army has lost nearly 60,000, and the Tang army has suffered more than 10,000 casualties. The brave Anxi Army and excellent weapons and equipment have given the Tang army the advantage. On the first day, the Doulu Army fought against the 10,000 Anguo Army with three thousand people. In just one hour, the 10,000 Anguo Army collapsed.

Talas City seemed to be asleep, standing quietly on the sidelines, watching the battle. The battle on the battlefield had changed the color of the world, and blood flowed into a river. The entire land was shrouded in a bloody storm. After five days and five nights of fierce fighting, the various armies were seriously overdrawn. In the end, they were fighting will. Whoever could hold on to the end would laugh to the end. Although the Tang army had fewer casualties than the Dashi Army, the situation of the Tang army was still grim. Especially after the Bahanna army and the newly formed Dayuan army suffered heavy losses, the Anxi army had already entered the battle, and the physical overdrawn was obvious, and the cunning Abu.

But the Muslims basically did not use his Khorasan elite. He still had 15,000 cavalry waiting for the best fighter. The sky was extremely dim and there were waves of sand and stones flying. This was not that the sky was approaching dusk, but that a blizzard was about to come. A strong cold wave from the northwest had swept across the Central Asian continent. At this moment, it was approaching Talas.

"Governor! The Tang army is at its last moment, we can do it." Seeing that the Tang army was exhausted, Qi Yade excitedly suggested to the Muslims.

"No! It's not the time." Muslim looked up at the gray sky, and a trace of cunning that was not suitable for his honest face appeared in his tiny eyes.

"They still have a considerable number of sword hands that have not yet been released. After waiting for two more days, Allah will give us victory."

"But Governor, I'm a little worried about military rations, and I'm afraid I can't wait for two days."

A sentence reminded the Muslims that their military rations were about to be exhausted. If there weren’t many people who died in the battle, they would have been out of food three days ago. They frowned slightly, and anger flashed in their eyes, and said, “Send someone to urge me quickly. If you don’t have food again tomorrow morning, you will be killed!”

At this moment, several fast horses rushed from the south, and the faces of the horses were filled with anxiety. The Muslim's heart sank. His first reaction was: military rations were robbed.

"Governor! Major things are not good!" The informant almost got out of the horse and shouted in a crying voice: "Rampant riots occurred in Kangguo, the United States, and Heguo successively. The mob burned the mosque, killed the king, and robbed the military rations. Most of our remaining troops were dead."

"What!" The Muslim's eyes turned dark. He shook his horse. Seeing that he was about to fall off his horse, Chiaed held him and said anxiously: "Governor, end the battle as soon as possible. It will be too late to rush back!"

After a while, the Muslims slowly came to breathe. If the two rivers were lost, even if the Battle of Talas was won, Abbas would still not be able to spare him. Now, he can only take a gamble.

He turned around and pointed and sternly said, "Ten thousand cavalrymen will go to fight!"

‘Dong!Dong!Dong!’ The war drum of the shocking rock splitting stone sounded again, and the drum sound became more and more urgent. General Qiyad personally led 10,000 cavalrymen to form a huge square formation, and his speed changed from slow to fast, and he rushed towards the Tang cavalry in the fierce battle. The army swept across the Talas field, with the sound of horse hooves roaring, and the momentum was striking.

Facing the most violent attack of the cannibal, Li Qing, who had always been like a stone sculpture, finally showed a smile on his face. This smile seemed to penetrate the first ray of sunshine that was full of gloom, which was extremely brilliant, which made Duan Xiushi, who had been beside him, finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although the situation was serious, Li Qing's smile made him feel as if he had seen the dawn of victory.

"Bi Sichen's cavalry and shooting army was transferred back, I'll hold on to my position, Li Siye's modao hand, all of them!" Li Qing's voice was hoarse and low, but his tone was not allowed to be disobeyed at all.

"General, you can't go out!" Duan Xiushi shouted in horror. There are still thousands of cavalry left in the enemy. If he had left all the central army, how could he protect the commander with just a few hundred personal soldiers?

Li Qing's face sank, and he didn't look back, and just said coldly: "Drag it down and beat a hundred military sticks!"

Several executioners rushed up and pushed Duan Xiushi's arms down with her back-cut. Duan Xiushi yelled: "The general asked me to go into battle to kill the enemy, which is better than hitting five hundred military sticks."

"Drag on!"

The black Dashi cavalry had already come up. Bi Sichen, the crossbow soldiers' envoy, led three thousand archers and riders to form a formation, and the cold arrows pointed at the enemy. Behind them, the last five thousand Modao soldiers lined up in iron walls, waiting for the most violent collision with the elite troops of the Dashi soldiers.

"Let it go!" The powerful arrows were as dense as raindrops, rushing towards the enemy, extremely fast. Bow and arrow and Mo Dao were the two sharpest weapons of the Tang army. The Dashi Alliance suffered heavy casualties a few days ago, and most of them were killed by Bow and arrow and Mo Dao.

The arrows shot from his head raised made rows of Dashi cavalrymen fall to the ground, but the cavalry behind them still came rapidly, but instead accelerated their speed. One hundred steps and eighty steps, the crossbow riders swung to the ground one by one, and the five thousand Modao soldiers stepped on step by step. They were all tall and long, covered with heavy armor on their bodies. The Modao, about a meter long, flashed cold light in their hands, and their cold eyes stared at the enemy's cavalry.

"Boom!" There was a loud noise from the ground, and the Modao Army and the cavalry collided violently. Li Siye stood up, shouted loudly, raised his hand and slashed with a knife. A cold light flashed by, and the oncoming cavalry was chopped into two sections by the people and horses. Yu Feng did not stop, and the front hooves of a horse were cut off. The war horses fell down. The cavalry on the horse fell into the Tang army formation and were immediately dismembered by the chaotic blades. Five thousand Modao Army were divided into ten teams, cutting across the cavalry formation horizontally and vertically, as if they were

A huge reef formation was blocked, allowing the Dashi Army to surging like waves, and allowing the Dashi Army to launch a fierce and stormy attack, but the reef formation remained standing, slapped the crazy waves into pieces again and again, 5,000 to 10,000, which was not inferior, and even killed the invincible Dashi Cavalry backwards step by step. The fierce battle was so violent that the dead people and horses piled up in the middle of the two sides, and the accumulated dead people and horses formed new walls.

What made the big cannibal even more trouble were the cavalry shooters on the periphery. They only turned around a hundred steps outside, constantly shooting rain-like armor-piercing arrows into the enemy group, killing and injuring the big cannibal cavalry in large numbers.

The battle was fully unfolded throughout the Talas Plain, divided into three major areas to capture teams. This is the most intense battle in five days, and the winner will be divided in this battle.

The Muslim's eyes were cold. He did not go to see the fierce battle of ten thousand cavalry. His sharp eyes were staring at the central army formation where the commander of the Tang army was located. All the troops around him were engaged in the battle. This was the fighter plane that the Muslim was waiting for. It was the reason why the five thousand cavalry around him were not sent to the battlefield. Capturing the thief first captured the king. This was the iron law of combat he had always followed. It was this iron law that made him invincible and invincible.

Suddenly, the Muslims discovered a situation that made him ecstatic. Nearly a thousand Tang troops actually hugged their commander and moved towards Talas City, leaving the battlefield far away. A good opportunity was given by God. The Muslims shouted excitedly and personally led five thousand heavy cavalry to pounce on the central army of the Tang army.

The five thousand heavy cavalry from Khorasan are the most elite troops of Abbas. They are covered with iron armor made of Damascus steel. They are not afraid of bows and arrows or ordinary swords. They were once heroes to defeat the main cavalry formation of the Wumaiye Dynasty. They did not even need weapons. They could knock everything up and slash everything with just their steel bodies.

At this moment, they were approaching the city of Talas, and the defenders on the city were calling out to them. The black flag of the Dashi Army fluttered in the wind, as if we were welcoming their arrival. The Muslim was extremely excited. He kept making gestures to the city, ordering them to attack and encircle the retreat of the Tang army commander.

Many times, the process of war often reverses dramatically, and the city gate rumbling opens, but the soldiers in the city did not come out. Instead, the Muslims saw the most incredible scene. The commander of the Tang army actually rode into the city. With a loud bang, the city gate was closed heavily. The Muslim was stunned. He kept looking up at the big food military flag flying on the city and the big food soldiers running back and forth. Could it be that Allah was angry and turned everything in this world upside down?

Just as he was stunned for a moment, the sound of "女!口!" suddenly came from the city. A black round object appeared in the sky, with hundreds of them as big as a water tank. The green arcs drawn in the air flew over their heads. The round objects were filled with violent blue smoke. As they approached, the Muslims saw clearly that the round iron cans, before the iron cans could land, were in the air.

, Exploded in the cavalry team, the huge explosion was deafening, and one after another, the explosion in the cavalry team, and a stream of red flames rose into the air. The strong wave of air overturned the large cavalry to the ground. Tens of millions of blue iron pieces burst out in all directions. They penetrated the iron armor and shot into the war horses and people's bodies. This was a fatal blow. Soon, all the people and horses shot by the iron pieces fell to the ground in pain and died soon.

A huge explosion echoed on the vast plain of Talas, and devilish flames rose into the air in waves. The hearts of Muslims were deeply shocked. All the Great Food Army were shocked. The damage caused by the primitive black gunpowder was even worse than that of bows and arrows, but its psychological shock to people was unparalleled. Many years later, when the surviving Great Food soldiers talked about the Battle of Talas, they would involuntarily talk about the weapon invented by the devil, which made them afraid for their whole lives.

The wind seemed to be stunned. At this moment, a piece of snowflake fell quietly, as big as gooseberry, followed by two or three pieces of snow. Suddenly, the wind suddenly woke up. It gathered its strength and blew strongly from the northwest. It was extremely violent, wrapped in blizzards, ruthlessly destroying everything on the ground. In an instant, everyone's eyes were filled with fog, unable to tell the difference between enemies and us, but the heavy cavalry of the Dashi Army was at the moment and slowly acting became their fatal weakness.

The gunpowder jar was mixed with huge rocks roaring down, and iron-feathered flying crossbows crossed through the blizzard. Even the commander of the Dashi Army Abu, the Muslim, was also broken by a flying crossbow.

An unexpected ambush and a sudden snowstorm caused the disadvantages of the Dashi Army to be fully revealed. That night, the commander of the Dashi Army Abu. Muslims died in the military camp. At this time, the army's food and grass were the generals of the army. The Dashi Army, led by Qiyade, began to withdraw its troops south overnight, but was fiercely pursued by the Tang army again and again. When retreating to Tuozhe City, the Dashi Alliance's retreat route was finally cut off by the Tang army.

At this moment, news of a popular uprising in Zhaowu countries finally reached the army. Kang Guojun took the lead in surrendering to the Tang army. Then He Guo, Shi Guo, the United States, and Dong'an Guo all went out of the city to surrender, and the Dashi coalition fell apart in an instant.

In March of the tenth year of Tianbao, the 6,000 Hurasan religion army, whose horses were eaten, went out of the city to break westward, but was attacked by the last fierce attack by the Tang army. The Dashi Army was wiped out. Under the desperate escort of hundreds of personal soldiers, General Qiyad swam across the river of medicine and fled back to Damascus, but was soon killed by Abbas for the crime of defeat in the war.

The first violent collision between the Tang Empire and the Dashi Empire started from the spring of the ninth year of Tianbao to the end of the tenth year of Tianbao. It took a whole year and finally ended with the disastrous defeat of the Dashi Empire. The reason was that in addition to its own combat power, many countries in the Amu River and Sir River basins also took the opportunity to revolt, greatly weakening the Dashi Army's support.

This battle also completely changed the strategic pattern of the two countries. Five months later, Abbas sent a special envoy to a settlement agreement with the representative of the Tang Dynasty's plenipotentiary representative and the Guangping King Li Chu, and redefining their respective spheres of influence. The northern section of the two countries was bounded by the Wuhu River, the southern section of the Tochar region was the sphere of influence of the Tang Dynasty, and the Khurashan area was the sphere of influence of the Dashi.

After the reconciliation with the Tang Dynasty, Abbas's worries were resolved, and he began to turn around and attack the Byzantine Empire with all his might. The Tang Dynasty re-established the status of the sectarian states in the Western Regions, re-established the status of the sect leader, and accepted envoys sent by various countries to pay tribute.
Chapter completed!