"Okay, stop being pretentious and talk about it!"
Tang Ping threw a piece of chewing gum to Zhen Youqian. He threw it into his mouth and started talking.
After landing at five different places, the army led by Li Jing rushed towards the five nearest cities.
The five cities of the Arab Empire all had heavy troops, thinking that if the Tang Dynasty came to attack, they would be horns to support each other.
But he didn't expect that Li Jing's order was to attack five cities at the same time.
Liam, the guard of Jilinga City, saw that Li Jing had only 30,000 soldiers and horses. He had never come into contact with the Tang army. He thought that his Arab Empire army was invincible, so he led his men out of the city to fight. .
Liam's 10,000 elite cavalry, 5,000 elite infantry, and more than 10,000 people brought from the country, plus nearly 30,000 slaves captured in Tianzhu, formed a formation outside the city.
In his opinion, as long as his cavalry charges from the flanks and then five thousand elite infantry press on them, they can quickly tear apart the Tang Dynasty's military formation.
This was the conclusion reached in countless battles along the Mediterranean coast. In his opinion, the Tang army was no different from those armies in the past.
But he soon learned that he was wrong, and very wrong.
When his cavalry began to move toward the flanks, a group of black smoke-emitting things came out dragging some big black pipes.
Then there were bursts of thunder, and cannonballs fell on his cavalry regiment.
Even the most elite Arab cavalry had never encountered an artillery attack. All the horses were running and jumping like crazy.
Some Arab soldiers were knocked to the ground directly.
Others were hit by artillery shells and suffered severe head injuries.
Anyway, the elite Arab Knights, which Liam was so proud of, fell into a state of collapse in just ten minutes.
Then a group of gun soldiers came out from Li Jing's side. Some of the cavalry who ran in the wrong direction and rushed towards Li Jing's formation were beaten to rest by a set of three-stage attacks.
Liam's face was blue with fear. Was he here to fight or to die?
The order to retreat was quickly issued, but at this time, many huge colorful monsters flew out from behind Li Jing's barracks in the sky.
Once on their heads, jars of flaming jars were dropped.
The kerosene inside stuck to their bodies and couldn't be extinguished even if they were patted. Many people could only keep rolling on the ground and wailing.
By the time Liam gathered his army and retreated into the city, the losses exceeded four thousand.
Only then did he realize that the invincible Arab army he was so proud of was actually so vulnerable.
So we quickly sent people to break out and ask for help.
Li Jing completed the siege leisurely, then looked at the more than ten cavalrymen who broke through the siege and said with a smile: "Everyone, take a rest today and start working tomorrow!"
In this battle, almost one-third of the ammunition brought by his team was consumed.
It's not that they don't want to bring more, but that after Datang's ammunition is divided into several units, one unit only has so much.
Because Datang has been improving artillery and firecrackers, especially the calibers have been changing, the scale of ammunition production is not large. This time, all the grain reserves have been brought.
However, Li Jing didn't feel it was a pity at all. He just wanted to take the lead and beat these Arab soldiers until they feared them from the bottom of his heart.
Not only his army, but also the other armies attacking the four cities all had similar attack methods.
According to Li Jing's order, on the first day, he must tell the enemy what it means to be invincible.
Then the next day, the Tang army, who had rested, did not continue to attack the city, but began to cut down trees and grass nearby.
"General, what are they doing?" Liam's lieutenant asked, looking at the densely packed Datang army working outside the city from a distance.
"I'm afraid they are making siege equipment!" Liam looked at it and said, "But it's okay. The people we are asking for help will pass the news here to Commander Arum, and he will lead an army to relieve the siege. "
"Although the opponent's weapons are powerful, their numbers are small, only more than 30,000. When Arum arrives with an army of 200,000, and we cooperate inside and outside, we will kill them even with a pile of people."
As a result, Datang and Arabia entered a brief period of peace and harmony.
Every day, the Arab army stood on the city wall and looked at the Tang army from a distance.
But the Tang army got busy. After they went out for exercise in the morning, they went back to their tents and began to quietly set up straw men.
There were also several soldiers who had worked as bamboo craftsmen in the past, and Li Jing called them over.
"Have you all seen the powerful cannon of the Tang Dynasty? Is it possible to weave one from bamboo pieces?"
Several people looked at each other. Although they didn't know why Li Jing asked, they still nodded and said: "That's actually not difficult, it's just like weaving a longer basket."
Li Jing smiled and said: "Okay, you will come to my place every day to compile the Great Tang Shenwei Cannon. How many days will it take to compile ten of them?"
A few people thought for a while and said, "About three or four days is enough."
"Okay!" Li Jing patted a few people and said, "It's done. I'll take credit for you."
Several people were overjoyed. Basket weaving was their old profession, but they didn't expect that now that they have come to Tianzhu, they can make meritorious deeds just by weaving baskets?
So a few people started to make them up enthusiastically, and sure enough, ten of them were made out in less than three days. From the base to the barrel, they all looked the same.
Then Li Jing found some soldiers who had made paper figures before joining the army, and asked them to paste black paper on the outside.
From a distance, the bamboo cannons covered with black paper are really no different from the powerful cannons of the Tang Dynasty made of dark cast iron.
At this time, other soldiers who had planted grass people had also planted tens of thousands of grass people.
Li Jing also asked them to tie the straw men to two bamboo poles in turn, and then tie the two ends of the bamboo poles to the feet of the two soldiers respectively.
In this way, the two soldiers walked one behind the other, and the straw men on the bamboo poles also seemed to be walking together.
Cheng Chu, who was following Li Jing, silently asked in stunned silence: "General, can't you fix things in the underworld?"
Li Jing slapped the back of his head: "You bastard, what the hell do you know? Why am I no longer in the world?"
"Both paper figures and straw figures have been used, and they even talk about the underworld...I think people burn them for their ancestors when they worship their ancestors." I thought so in my heart but didn't dare to say it anymore.
Li Jing looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction, and then said: "At night tonight, we will use these more than ten cannons to replace the real Tang Shenwei cannons outside our military camp facing Jilingjia City. Then everyone evacuated overnight. , just leave a few hundred people to control these straw men."
These straw men put on Tang military uniforms, and the Arabs could only see them on the city wall two or three miles away.
"Did anyone see the chapter title and think this book is about cultivating immortality?"
