News spreads slowly in this era. In addition, Rashid led his army out of the city and was taken away by the Tang army in Tianzhu. There is no news about other Arab armies now.
After asking for a long time, he couldn't find anything new. Duan Zhixuan asked Tang Ping: "What will happen to these prisoners now?"
They only have more than 20,000 troops, and they have to defend at least three cities, so their strength is tight.
There are more prisoners here than their army, and it is really a great hidden danger to take them with them.
But letting go... is unlikely.
As for killing... not everyone is a murderer like Bai Qi, who wants to kill all the prisoners.
Tang Ping didn't know what to do. It would be easy if the war was over. They could just go to Arabia and work as slaves to dig for oil.
But we are still in the midst of a war, which is indeed a bit difficult to deal with.
Tang Ping thought for a while and said, "Why don't you take it back to Viramala City and dig a hole..."
"Pingguo Gong, why did you dig a hole and bring it back to Viramala City? Just dig it here and bury it!"
Tang Ping gave Duan Zhixuan a strange look: "Who said we should bury it? I meant to dig a bigger pit and lock it down for them, so that there won't be too many people guarding it above."
There is no prisoner of war camp in Viramala City, and they don't have time to build one. They might as well ask them to dig a pit about two meters deep and have everyone rush down to guard it.
This is because Tianzhu itself has a high food output and each city has a lot of food. Otherwise, Tang Ping and the others would not be able to feed these prisoners of war.
They first took these Tianzhu people and prisoners of war back to Viramala City, and then Tang Ping planned to take a rest and took them to the north of Madara City.
Anyway, all the Arab soldiers in Modara City are here now. It is almost an empty city without defense. He went and captured it directly and then defended it. The mission was completed.
Then he waited for Li Jing in the east to deal with the main force of the Arab Imperial Army and drive their remnants here to complete the encirclement and annihilation.
At the same time, Qian Laosan and Luo Laosi will lead tens of thousands of naval troops from the Arabian Peninsula to attack Arabian coastal cities with artillery, and finally approach Damascus from the Red Sea.
It is a pity that the Suez Canal is not open now, otherwise the East China Sea and South China Sea Fleet of the Tang Dynasty could pass through the Suez Canal and enter the Mediterranean Sea, and could fight all the way to Constantinople, which is now occupied by the Arab Empire.
But what Tang Ping and the others didn't expect was that when they were still about four days away from Viramala City, they encountered a group of embarrassed Datang expeditionary troops.
These people were the garrison they left behind in the city of Viramala.
Seeing Duan Zhixuan and Tang Ping, the leading general quickly came over to apologize.
"Duke Fan and Ping, the city of Viramala has been lost."
"What?" Tang Ping and Duan Zhixuan looked at each other: "Who is attacking the city?"
You must know that there are no more Arab Empire troops in the entire western and northwest Tianzhu, and all the troops in central Tianzhu have gone to support the eastern war.
They left a thousand defenders behind. Logically speaking, it is impossible for anyone to capture Viramala City.
"It's the Arab army, with a strength of at least... two hundred thousand!" the general lowered his head and said.
After their scouts outside the city discovered the Arab army, they decisively abandoned the city and fled.
There is no need for a thousand men to defend 200,000.
In the current military education of the Tang Dynasty, special emphasis is placed on "Save the land and lose the people, and both the people and the land are lost; Save the people and lose the land, and both the people and the land are saved."
It was not a city belonging to the Tang Dynasty, so after finding that it was unable to defend, the thousands of defenders decisively withdrew.
Duan Zhixuan did not blame him, but patted him on the shoulder and said: "Well done. If you can bring out all the brothers, you have done a good job."
No need to ask anymore, he knew that if he could send an army of 200,000, it must be an army from the Arab Empire itself.
I just didn't expect that after Arabia invested 400,000 troops in Tianzhu, it could send another 200,000 troops for reinforcements.
Are you going to fight to the death with Datang?
No, Duan Zhixuan thought about it again. Arabia sent such a heavy force to advance eastward, and it is very likely that its final strategic intention was to attack the Tang Dynasty itself.
After thinking about this, Duan Zhixuan smiled instead of getting angry: "Arab Empire, let me come and meet you!"
He first looked at Tang Ping: "Can you immediately notify the East China Sea and South China Sea Fleet to attack the mainland of the Arab Empire?"
It is disrespectful to come and go without reciprocating. If the Arab troops send 200,000 troops to Tianzhu, the domestic troops will inevitably be empty. This is the best time for the naval attack.
Tang Ping nodded and said: "No problem, I will ask General Luo and General Qian to start the Arab invasion immediately."
"That's good." Duan Zhixuan nodded: "Tell the people of Tianzhu who are following us to disperse and run for their lives. The Arab army has no energy to care about these scattered refugees now. They just need to avoid the other party's marching route."
"As for those prisoners of war..." Duan Zhixuan's eyes flashed with a sharp look: "Break all their arms and legs."
If these prisoners of war are killed, the Arab Empire will certainly lose more than 20,000 troops, but it will have no impact on the 200,000 troops that will come for reinforcements later.
But now Duan Zhixuan broke everyone's legs and threw them on the path of the Arab Empire's army. This move was too poisonous.
First of all, it is impossible for the Arab Empire of more than 20,000 people to give up. If it gives up, the morale of the army will be dispersed.
The food and drink of these people will account for one-tenth of the 200,000 new troops coming to support them.
Then his hands and feet were broken and left here. They had to send someone to treat and take care of them, right?
Not to mention more, even if only one person takes care of ten people, it will still take up two thousand troops.
What's more, to treat injuries, the consumption of medicines is not a small amount.
The purpose of these 200,000 troops is to advance eastward, so what Duan Zhixuan has to do now is to prevent them from reinforcing the war in the east.
He believed that Li Jing would be able to win even if his troops were lagging behind, and then they could just deal with the 200,000-strong army together.
None of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty here would sympathize with the Arab prisoners of war. Duan Zhixuan gave the order, and they asked the prisoners of war to line up, and then went over to break their hands and feet.
There were also those who wanted to resist, but how could they, who were unarmed, be a match for the heavily armed elites of the Tang Dynasty?
He didn't say anything at all, he just cut his head with a knife and put the body aside.
The Arab soldier compared the two options of having his hands and feet broken and slowly recovering from his injuries, or being beheaded, and decisively chose the former.
When the Tang army left, only the Arab Empire army was left crying and wailing in pain.
