"What exactly happened? Tell me clearly!"
Outside Ratan City, Amru looked at the returning deputy general Jafar with a livid face.
I have led troops in wars for many years and have never encountered such a situation.
The opponent's full strength could only count as a few thousand soldiers, and the rest were ordinary civilians who were burdensome.
Jafar, however, led his 50,000 elite troops in pursuit. Not only did they fail to recover them, but they also suffered thousands of casualties.
As the commander-in-chief, Jafar was even killed in his own army.
This can even be said to be his biggest defeat since he sent troops to Tianzhu.
Amru is not a person who cannot accept failure, but he has to know how to lose.
"Yes!" Jafar's lieutenant began to tell Amru the process of the pursuit honestly.
"You said they can explode mountains? There is also a black pipe that is more powerful than a crossbow? There is also a black stone that will explode when thrown? Even Jafar was hit by a black pipe from a distance Was the tube killed?"
After listening to Amru, it was like hearing a fairy tale.
"Yes!" Deputy General Jafar was still very meticulous in his work and asked people to bring in several corpses.
"Lord Commander, these people died from that kind of black pipe. We found that their wounds were all filled with these small iron beads."
Amru took a few projectiles from his hand and looked at them carefully.
The small black iron pill, which was a little bigger than a soybean, was still stained with blood. Amru wondered how such a thing could kill his elite warriors.
But the corpse in front of him couldn't lie. He even used a dagger to take out a pellet from a corpse.
This projectile even penetrated the armor of the deceased, so it was completely deformed inside the body.
Throwing the projectiles aside, he came to another corpse.
This was the result of a bombing by an earthen grenade.
The cause of death was probably a piece of shrapnel lodged in the main artery of the throat.
Amru pulled out the shrapnel that was still bloody, but it was just a rough piece of iron.
Compared with their exquisite Damascus knives, they are nothing more than rubbish, but such pieces of iron are considered terrifying by the people who came back.
It is said that when
The explosion wiped out more than two hundred of his soldiers in an instant, and hundreds more were injured to varying degrees.
Amru threw it hard with his hand, and the shrapnel hit the wooden stake and bounced back. With his strength, it only left a scratch on the wooden stake.
The last body was that of Jafar, with a hole that penetrated from his chest to his back.
Ask someone to lift Jafar's body up, and you can even see the light behind it through his body.
"Where's the thing that penetrated him?" Amru asked.
"Not found." The deputy general shook his head, not daring to say that he was just running away at that time: "The person on the other side raised a black pipe and pointed it at General Jafar, and then saw General Jafar falling down with blood coming from his chest. Then I heard a loud sound coming from the other side.”
He didn't know the concept of supersonic speed, but his description was still very accurate.
"As for what passed through General Ja'far, we don't know."
Amru put Jafar's body down and was silent for a long time.
The lieutenant general and the returning soldiers would not lie, and neither would these corpses.
So his warriors encountered an enemy they had never seen before, a very powerful enemy.
No matter which one it was, it was a weapon beyond his imagination.
"All cavalry, set off!"
Amru made up his mind, stood up suddenly, pointed at the map in the tent and said: "Go here to pursue!"
He was referring to the Wulong River. As the commander-in-chief of the Arab Empire, he knew very well that those who wanted to retreat must retreat to the other side of the river.
There is no bridge on the Wulong River, and there are not enough ferries. There are more than 20,000 people in total, so it is not easy to cross the river.
He knew that if he could obtain the secrets of those weapons while they were few in number, the Arab Empire would become even more powerful.
The most elite cavalry regiment in the Arab Empire, the Khorasan Cavalry, charged towards the Wulong River.
Amru also put on ordinary cavalry armor, because Jafar's death made him know that he must not be exposed, otherwise he may end up like Jafar.
"Lord Commander, there are boats in the Wulong River, and they are very big!"
The scout sent out in front made a report, which made Amru frown.
Think about what Deputy General Jafar said, the resistance in the mine at the beginning
And the strange enemy that suddenly appeared later, Amru understood.
Those reinforcements must have come by boat from the Wulong River.
"how many?"
"There are four ships, very large, only slightly smaller than our great Arab ships."
The Arab Empire occupied the southern coast of the Mediterranean and its shipbuilding technology was also quite advanced.
Since the other party has a big ship, it means that there are many people coming. Without knowing how many strange weapons the other party has, Amru can only give up.
"Send a team of 100 people to test it out."
It is difficult for our own people to threaten the warships in the river. They do not yet have the ability to fight at sea here.
Amru was very decisive. Since there was no chance, he could not give the enemy a chance. The hundred men sent out were not even Khorasan cavalry, but Ordinary slave army.
After the Tang Dynasty's South China Sea Fleet arrived at the Wulong River, the ships that could enter the inland river had already picked up everyone.
Only Tang Ping was waiting in the Wulong River with four medium-sized gunboats, just to wait for the Arab army to pursue.
Unexpectedly, only a hundred people came from the other party, and one look through the telescope showed that they were not elites.
Those Arab slave soldiers were waving their scimitars on the shore and shouting oh oh oh oh oh.
"It seems that the commander-in-chief on the opposite side is also a cautious person." Tang Ping said with some regret: "Slowly move closer."
These slave armies did not know the combat power of the Tang Dynasty. They thought that the Arab army was invincible in the world, so when the four gunboats approached, they just raised their shields and prepared to resist the attack of bows and arrows.
But what I didn't expect was that what appeared on the opposite side of the ship was not an archer, but a musketeer.
There was a burst of gunfire from the four ships. Although the hit rate was not high, the distance of tens of meters and the number of people shooting were still there.
Most of the slave army on the opposite side was killed or wounded in one fell swoop. Others wanted to run, but the horses were frightened. Some began to run away, some jumped in place, and some even went into the river. .
Then there was another volley of gunfire. Except for a few people who ran away, a pile of corpses fell by the river.
Tang Ping took the people off the boat, took a look and then asked his system: "Can you teach me some Arabic characters?"
"No problem, just use a little time energy."
