"Did they get the support of Datang?!" Both Hasim and Kaka looked shocked.
They all know about the Tang Dynasty. After all, the merchants of the Tang Dynasty have always been active between Persia and Byzantium, and many of their own merchants have gone to the Tang Dynasty. They can easily know from the mouths of these merchants what kind of empire it is. powerful country!
A terrifying country with nearly a million troops at every turn!
If Persia gets the support of the Tang Dynasty, then they have no chance of winning!
"I don't think so. Did they buy armor and weapons from Datang?" Kaka suddenly said.
"Huh?" Selde looked at him.
"I have been fortunate enough to meet merchants from the Tang Dynasty. At present, most of the merchants from the Tang Dynasty basically trade with Persia via sea. As for the land, there are Western Regions and Turkic countries in between. It is not easy for the army of the Tang Dynasty to come over, so It must not have been supported by the Tang Dynasty." Kaka said.
Selder pondered for a moment, "Actually, we don't have many armors. If we can also buy armor like this." Selder looked at the blood-stained armor in front of him.
"We will be invincible!" Hasim and Kaka both shouted in unison.
"Let's go see the Caliph." Said took a deep breath and said decisively.
The three men walked towards the camp of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab at the same time.
When the three of them arrived at the camp, Umar himself was waiting for them. He was in the rear today. When he came voluntarily, Hashem led the army to participate in the attack, but he never expected that Persia There is actually backup!
"How's it going? My generals, have the situation been clarified?" Omer did not blame anyone for the failure. He knew very well that Arabia was either expanding now, and once it stopped expanding, they would fall into decline.
But today's situation gave him a bad feeling.
"Yes Caliph, we found important information!" Said said.
"Today we discovered that the six thousand armored cavalry were not elite cavalry. During the battle with them, we found that at most only two thousand could become elite cavalry. The remaining four thousand were temporarily mobilized. Their martial arts were even better than The infantry who were not on the Persian front line in the early stage, if it were not for the armor on them, they would all be wiped out today." Hashem spoke first.
He and Kaka entered the battlefield first, so they had the most say over these heavy armored cavalry. Those cavalry were not elite, and many of their attacks were unorganized, but their armor protected them very well. It can protect against swords, especially important parts of the body are protected by iron armor.
Their attacks are difficult for the opponent to kill with one hit, but although the opponent is poor at fighting, they can still fight back desperately and hit the vital points, and their soldiers do not have iron armor! This meant that for one soldier down, they had to pay at least the bodies of three or four soldiers to succeed.
"In other words, Persia has mobilized all its soldiers. This is their last strength! Hashem commented.
"But we also mobilized all the soldiers!" Caliph Omer said solemnly.
"I know, but we discovered the secret of the Persians. The armor worn by the heavy cavalry that appeared later today is not from Persia, but from the Tang Dynasty! I suspect they bought the armor from the Tang Dynasty! If they If you can buy it, we can buy it too!" Said said quickly.
"Datang!" Umar was shocked. He didn't know anything about the Tang Dynasty. He could become the caliph. Umar's family was very powerful. He had long been in contact with the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, and the merchants of their family He has also been to the Tang Dynasty, so he knows very well how powerful the Tang Dynasty is.
"Yes! The armor they are wearing should be the Mingguang Armor of the Tang Dynasty." Selder asked someone to carry in the armor they brought back.
Seeing this piece of armor, Omer was immediately sure that it was the armor of the Tang Dynasty, because his family had related pictures.
"These armors are not easily available in the Tang Dynasty. They are not something that merchants can buy. Is the Tang Dynasty secretly supporting them?!" Omer took a deep breath and asked.
If the Tang Dynasty was supporting Persia, then they would have to think more carefully.
"It's impossible. The Tang Dynasty is too far away from here, thousands of miles away. How could it be possible that it could inexplicably support Persia? The only possibility is that they bought these armors from the Tang Dynasty." Said said decisively.
He didn't know the truth, but he could only say this to give the Caliph confidence.
"But, since they can buy it, we can also buy it." Said quickly said, "We got a lot of gold and silver coins from those corrupt Persian nobles. These gold and silver coins are not too big for us. We can use it to buy these armors!"
"The disadvantage of our war with Persia is that we do not have as much armor as them, so we can only fight with the lives of our brothers. If we had as much armor as them, Isai III would have been captured by us long ago." Said said decisively.
After hearing what Said said, Omer thought for a moment and realized that it seemed to be true. The Tang Dynasty was so far away from here, so there was no need to participate in their war. The only possibility was that Persia purchased the armor of the Tang Dynasty!
Since Persia can buy it, they can naturally buy it too.
Omar immediately said categorically: "General Said is right! We in Arabia cannot lose the Tang Dynasty, just as we cannot lose Jerusalem. I will send people to contact the merchants of the Tang Dynasty at sea to see if they are I didn’t really buy the armor from a Tang Dynasty merchant!”
"However, these are all things for later. How do you think we should fight tomorrow?" Omer looked at the three of them.
"Today they attacked us and suffered heavy casualties. Tomorrow we will continue fighting for another day. If we find that it doesn't work, we must retreat. We are too short of armor and weapons." Said said.
"Okay!" Omar agreed decisively.
But what they didn't know was that although six thousand mounted cavalry entered the battlefield today and caused a horrific attack on them, there were also one hundred thousand armor-piercing iron arrows that did not have time to enter the battlefield.
Likewise, Ostam, who received one hundred thousand armor-piercing arrows just after nightfall, fell into ecstasy! If these Arabs dare to attack tomorrow with these 100,000 arrows, they will be the ones who die! With the support of Datang, they will be invincible!
Ostam was already thinking about how to get His Majesty to buy more armor and arrows from Datang.
