Ostam was conservative. He ignored that the Arabs also suffered heavy losses yesterday, and the morale of the Arabs was also hit. Especially the lethality caused by the heavy cavalry that broke into the battlefield from the rear yesterday, which made many Arab soldiers feel uncomfortable. The heavy cavalry has a shadow.
If at this time, he first lets the formation advance as a whole, waits until the heavy cavalry is within the range of the sudden attack, and then lets the heavy cavalry directly and boldly attack the enemy formation regardless of the casualties of the heavy cavalry, then the heavy cavalry has a high probability of directly drilling through the enemy formation, and his own infantry can follow up. If so, it might even be possible to completely defeat the Arabs.
But during the three days of war, the Arabs' fanatical fighting morale made Ostam conservative. His order to the heavy cavalry was to pursue the enemy and withdraw after the opponent retreated.
He had already guessed that these Arabs must retreat, because after getting these arrows yesterday, he used some dead horses and even war elephants to test them. The armor-breaking ability of these arrows was shocking.
So he knew very well that the Arabs' armor could not withstand it.
When his own cavalry began to pursue him, Ostam began to steadily advance his battle formation! There was no charge. His most important task now was to steadily drive away the Arabs, rather than risking his own side's possible failure.
He had no choice but to risk an attack before. If he had a way, he would not attack like that because the Persian army is constantly increasing.
When Said saw the few soldiers who had retreated, the corner of his mouth twitched a few times, and the casualties of those heavy cavalry were only a dozen. Seeing those heavy cavalry begin to retreat, and the Persians began to advance steadily, Said I knew it was time for them to retreat.
The Arabs retreated, and Ostam breathed a sigh of relief. While he breathed a sigh of relief, he was also a little surprised. The Arabs' charges dropped at least 2,000 corpses today, but they could almost use them today. There were no casualties to describe it.
Is this how powerful these armor-piercing arrows are? !
Ostam picked up an arrow. He found that these arrows were very regular. What was more important was the way their arrows were installed. There was a unique spiral pattern that allowed them to rotate directly into the arrow shaft without knowing the other side. How on earth are arrows made? This is too delicate. Is it a mold? Too expensive.
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The Battle of Qadisiya between Persia and Arabia ended with another outcome. Judging from the result, Arabia was defeated, but it was not a disastrous defeat. Persia could only be said to have suffered a disastrous victory and was unable to pursue it at all, although Persia retained about 30,000 men. There were many soldiers, but a large number of elite soldiers were also lost.
The two sides may then form a long-term confrontation.
On the third day after the battle between the two sides, Pei Xingjian got the final result of the battle. When he got the result of the battle, Pei Xingjian couldn't help but sighed. His Highness really had no plans left. The reason why Pei Xingjian made this decision , His Highness gave him a rough prediction of the outcome of the battle between the two sides before he could make a decision in advance.
Otherwise, if someone else knew that Persia had 60,000 to 30,000 and was ahead in terms of equipment, would you think the Arabs would win? But His Highness felt that Arabia was going to win. If Pei Xingjian hadn't made this decision to give them 5,000 bright light armors and 100,000 arrows in advance, it would have been hard to say!
When Pei Xingjian got the result of the battle, it was Del Valle who came to tell him.
"Thank you, envoy. If it weren't for the envoy, the consequences of this battle would have been disastrous." Del Valle naturally wanted to say something nice, because they also wanted to buy weapons from the Tang Dynasty! In a battle, the armors have been seriously damaged, and many armors are not easy to repair.
"You're welcome, envoy. I'm actually just here to do business on behalf of His Majesty the King of Qin." Pei Xingjian said with a smile.
"Speaking of business, now that we have won the war, envoy, you can set a price." Del Valle said calmly.
"Let me make two points first." Pei Xingjian said with a smile.
"Say." Del Valle said.
"First, we only accept silver." Pei Xingjian said simply.
"Why?" Del Valle was stunned for a moment. He thought of various conditions, but he never expected to get a condition that only accepted silver.
"It's very simple. Our Highness wants to make money." Pei Xingjian said with a faint smile.
"This... gold can't make money?" Del Valle was a little confused.
"Envoy, you should know that we in the Tang Dynasty have many very ancient families. Many of these families have been passed down for thousands of years, or even more than a thousand years. The financial resources of these families are very terrifying, but for the royal family of the Tang Dynasty, , but actually the money is not that much." Pei Xingjian said straightforwardly.
Del Valle nodded, because not only the Tang Dynasty, but also Persia belonged to these ancient noble families, so he could understand.
"The ratio of gold to silver in the Tang Dynasty is 1:5. In Persian terms, 1 gold coin is exchanged for 5 silver coins. However, the silver coins in Persia are cheaper, so Your Highness only needs silver. After returning, you can follow The wealthy family exchanges a large amount of gold to make money." Pei Xingjian did not hide His Highness's purpose.
Because this is conspiracy.
Del Valle was stunned for a moment, then said with a wry smile: "I see, I understand." Don't you understand? Who wouldn’t want twice as much profit for no reason?
"Of course, if you insist on paying in gold, that's fine, but His Highness will only accept the Golden Ratio of the Tang Dynasty." Pei Xingjian said calmly.
They either go for silver or they go for gold.
Or they can exchange silver coins with Ashru, but Ashru will definitely increase the exchange price.
"Well...I suddenly remembered something." Del Valle looked at Pei Xingjian and hesitated before saying.
"Envoy, please speak."
"Some time ago, there was a man in Persia who was exchanging a large amount of gold for Persian silver coins. Isn't this... also planning to go to the Tang Dynasty to exchange gold coins?" Del Valle did not hide it, but asked directly.
"Is there such a person?" Pei Xingjian looked "astonished" at first, and then said "thoughtfully", "It seems that His Highness is not the only smart person."
It was impossible for Del Valle to think that this person had something to do with Li Ke. He couldn't figure out why someone exchanged silver for gold before, but now that he heard what Pei Xingjian told him, he could understand. It seemed that someone also found out. Got this secret.
"Forget it, no matter what the other party is, our condition is this, either we only need silver, or if we want to provide gold, we can only pay according to Datang's exchange price." Pei Xingjian looked like he was too lazy to pay attention to this matter.
