In Qadishiya, Rustam, who received the king's order, had to order the army to cross the river and seek a decisive battle with the Arabs. The Persian army's front line was four thousand meters long, and there were also Persian characteristics in the middle of the front line, with about three hundred soldiers. War elephants on the left and right.
These war elephants are all large adult war elephants. They carry wooden square devices about half a person's height on their backs, and there are usually three to four archers standing inside. There will also be a rider on the elephant's neck to control the war elephant and use a spear.
Persia does not produce war elephants. Most of their war elephants come from later generations of Pakistan, India and other places, so the number is relatively rare. Unlike Linyi, Zhenwa and other countries are the birthplaces of Asian elephants, and they are still primitive jungles, and they can accumulate such a large army of war elephants.
However, I am afraid that the war elephants in Linyi will not be able to recover in the next few decades. It is not easy to accumulate a thousand war elephants, because Linyi has brought many young and old war elephants to the battlefield.
At the beginning of the war, the Arabs will chant the revelations of the Prophet Muhammad in unison, and then their commanders will send out the attack signal as usual. Weapons and horses should be ready, and on the fourth bell, the soldiers would charge en masse.
However, when the Arabs shouted, the Persians did not give them a chance. Instead, they directly carried out the charge mission when they made the first shout.
In the first batch, Ostam sent his own war elephant troops. The war between the two sides was not much different from that in history. The morale of the Arabs was very high, which was not comparable to the Persians at this time.
In fact, during this period, on the road to Ctesiphon, the Persians had messengers conveying information at regular intervals, which allowed Yisai III to quickly grasp the situation on the front line. After hearing Pei Xingjian's words, Yisai III In the end, we made a different choice than in history.
Because he could grasp the battlefield information at any time, he knew that Ostam was not far away from launching an attack. This is why he sent out the cavalry troops directly after forming them.
In fact, by the time the cavalry troops set off, the war on the front line had already begun. In order to maintain combat effectiveness, the subsequent cavalry troops did not rush on their way at full strength. However, after nightfall on the first day, the rest time at night was shortened, and the rest time was shortened early the next morning. Start setting off.
On the front line, the war between Persia and Arabia was almost exactly the same as history. Because of the strong morale of the Arabs, the Arabs gained an absolute advantage on the first day of the war. On this day, nearly 3,000 Arabs died, while the Persians There are almost tens of thousands of people!
The war on the second day still followed the trajectory of history. The Arab reinforcements led by Kaka were like divine soldiers descending from the sky, making a surprise attack from the side. He himself rushed directly into the Persian position and destroyed the Persians. Bachmann, the frontline general, was cut to the ground.
The death of the frontline commander brought the morale of the Persian army to the bottom. If they continue to follow the historical trajectory, the two sides will continue to fight all day long until nightfall. Today, the casualty ratio between the two sides will reach 1:3, with the Arabs 1: , Persian 3.
But what is different from history is that this afternoon, General Ostam, who was fighting on the Persian front line and was desperately rescued by his men, received a report from a courier and learned that the king had sent another 6,000 cavalry! And we can arrive there around this evening!
After receiving this news, Ostam didn't care to think about where the king got another six thousand cavalry from! But he understands that the turning point in this war has come!
At that moment, he immediately ordered the messenger to pass the order to the armored cavalry, ordering them not to rush to the battlefield today, but to rest on the spot, and then go around the lower reaches of the river to cross the river in the evening. After the battle between the two sides tomorrow, the armored cavalry Then come out from the side!
There is a misunderstanding here. Li Ke determined it after reading many sources. According to some imprecise information, Persia had 15,000 heavy cavalry in this battle. But in fact, there is a problem here. To be precise, it is not a matter of numbers. , but a matter of translation.
In the early translation of European history, domestic close combat cavalry, that is, the European close combat cavalry responsible for charging into battle, was translated into heavy cavalry.
But in fact, domestic heavy cavalry refers to armored cavalry with both men and horses, so history is not like this. As we all know, cavalry does not have a single fixed purpose. For example, when Byzantium's real armored cavalry is not assaulting the battlefield, they even assume the role of horse archers.
And Persia was not in a position to provide 15,000 heavily armored cavalry. If Persia really had this number of armored cavalry, it would be impossible for Arabia to be able to withstand it, because only a small number of Arabs during this period could defeat the Persian army. , armor stolen from the Persian army.
Heavy cavalry was something that the Arabs of this period could not even imagine, not to mention that when they were fighting Persia, they actually provoked Byzantium.
If there were really 15,000 heavy cavalry, how could the more than 30,000 Arab soldiers now be able to carry it?
In fact, most of the 15,000 Persian cavalry on the front line are cavalry with only leather armor, that is, close combat cavalry. The Sasanian Persian armored cavalry was composed of manor owners, that is, nobles. These were the real heavy cavalry, and the number of these cavalry was only five thousand.
And the horse armors of these five thousand heavy cavalry are not all iron armor, but most of them are leather armor, but the armors of the riders are all iron armor.
Ostam may not be a top commander, but he is a qualified commander. After two days of bloody battles, especially the bloody battle on the second day, reinforcements led by Arab Kaka suddenly appeared on the battlefield. He killed their flanking general and almost broke down the Persian formation.
But under such circumstances, Ostam still did not order the heavy cavalry to support directly, but let the Persian army support him until the evening.
Without these six thousand soldiers, the real history would have been a draw again on the third day, but the consequence of the draw on the third day was that the Persian army was forced to the river, and then the morale of the Persians was completely gone, and then on this day Because Ostam accidentally fell into the water from the war elephant, the Persian army was directly defeated.
Now Ostam is confident of victory, because although the Arabs have always had the upper hand and their casualties are fewer than the Persians, don't forget that the number of Arabs' soldiers is only half that of the Persians!
As long as the armored cavalry appears tomorrow, the morale of the Persian army will definitely win!
