"Ah Yi La oh..."
The loud and long chanting of the Koran spread throughout the city of Baghdad.
On the spiral-shaped Malviya minaret of the famous Samara Grand Mosque, countless imams in black robes looked solemnly into the distance. It was they who initiated the initial chanting of the Koran.
The solemn chanting full of religious charm got louder and louder. Everyone in the city who heard it stopped what they were doing, stood or knelt down, and followed the pious chanting.
Amidst these chants, black flags led the endless army to slowly drive out of the outer city of Baghdad.
Sultan Alimu stood on the spire of the imperial city, watching the army go away like a black torrent, his eyes full of worry.
Because he knew that the enemy he faced in this battle was more terrifying than any enemy he had ever encountered before.
And this understanding of his didn't exist a long time ago.
Because he entered Baghdad's Sultan Alim, it seemed that the mahogany conquerors on the Persian side and their Turkic servant cavalry had been well fed by Persia.
They couldn't even dispatch an army of 20,000 to 30,000 people to test the strength of the Hamdani dynasty.
As a Sultan Alimu who grew up in a large tribal aristocratic family, he had seen this kind of situation many times.
A poor person who is willing to risk everything will soon lose his enterprising spirit after acquiring a lot of wealth and beauties.
Sultan Alimu even thought that we should maintain a low-intensity war situation first, and wait for them to become corrupt for two or three years before trying to contact them.
After two or three more years of contact and making sure that they are completely corrupt, you can start to instigate the Persians to cause trouble.
In the end, these conquerors were either overthrown by the native Persians they supported, or converted to Tianfang religion and were divided into a large number of small vassals.
Maybe they can become an important source of Gulam to defend Baghdad in the future.
However, before Sultan Alimu's sweet dream lasted long, the mahogany conquerors in Persia suddenly started making noises.
In just two months, they had defeated most of the large and small forts set up by the Great Eaters on the Zagros Mountains, and opened the passage from the Zagros Mountains to the Mesopotamia Plain.
The Zagros Mountains are the mountains at the junction of Iran and Iraq. They have always been the key to protecting the two river plains where Iraq is located. Their status is similar to the Yanshan Mountains in Middle Earth.
No, it is more important than the Yanshan Mountains!
Because the Yanshan Mountains in Middle Earth are gone, it just lacks a barrier.
But without the Zagros Mountains in Iraq, not only is the barrier gone, it will also provide a fast passage for attackers.
This channel is the Karon River, which rushes down from the Zagros Mountains and flows into the Persian Gulf. Except for the upstream river, which is too turbulent to be navigable, most of the river sections in the middle and lower reaches are navigable.
This provides an extremely convenient, fast, time-saving and labor-saving transportation channel for the troops coming up from the Zagros Mountains.
It can be said that once this mountain is lost, the entire two river basins will face a greater threat. Basra, Baghdad and other cities are more dangerous than the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo, which is in the wilderness and has no danger to defend.
Sultan Alim originally wanted to establish a defense system on the Zagros Mountains after completely pacifying the Lianghe Plain.
After all, he came to regain control of a large area with more than 7 million people. It was impossible to win it at once. Reality forced Alim Sultan to stabilize Iraq first.
At the same time, there are dozens of large and small fortresses and more than ten vassals guarding the original Zagros Mountains. These people all belong to the Delam people who have just withdrawn from the Bweshi family of Baghdad.
Sultan Aqim showed great forbearance and exempted Ayad Daulai of the Bweshi family of Delam, and also gave Basra and Khuzestan to this person. I just hope that he can appease the Bweshi family vassals stationed on the Zagros Mountains and control this mountain range.
Of course, Ayad Daulai completed this task at the beginning.
But soon, everyone underestimated the horror caused by the death of Shah Abdul Daulai of the Bouveshi family in battle with a hundred thousand troops (they did not know that Abdul Daulai was captured, They all thought they had died in battle)
The elite of the Bweshi dynasty was wiped out in one day, which made the large and small Delaimo vassals on the Zagros Mountains suffer from extremely severe fear of Han Dynasty.
Without strong support from Baghdad, they did not have the slightest confidence that they could hold the mountain fortress.
Moreover, the ability of Ayad Daulai cannot be compared with that of the captured Adudh Daulai.
He took away an incredible amount of wealth from Baghdad, but was reluctant to share much with the defenders on the Zagros Mountains.
At the same time, they also used the excuse that the person in power now was Sultan Alim, and passed the responsibility for providing supplies to these defenders to Baghdad.
This is simply asking for death. He made the defenders on the Zagros Mountains face the threat of the powerful Maohua Stone Conquerors, and even cut off the benefits that could have been obtained from Baghdad.
Just at this moment, Zhang Xianjing arrived with his army. At Lu Duan's suggestion, he immediately sent a message in the name of Ansu (Mansur).
They claimed that the Taohuashi people would never seek to establish a country in Baghdad, but that they came to restore the country of Sasanian Persia, which went to Taohuashi for help hundreds of years ago.
Call on these Delam vassals who can be said to be Persians to follow Mansur to Baghdad to overthrow Caliph Muti and Sultan Alimu and restore the Persian kingdom.
At the same time, the army also took action immediately, giving great benefits to those who were willing to join the revival of Sassanid. If they were unwilling, they would be punished mercilessly, and even massacre-style attacks.
Therefore, within two months, the situation in the entire Zagros Mountains completely changed.
There were all sorts of dangerous situations that one man could not overcome, but after almost no fighting, he was so frightened that he just wanted to keep his family, or he sincerely hoped to go to Baghdad and become a vassal of the great aristocrat Draimu and surrendered.
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Ahvaz, as the provincial capital of Khuzestan, is also the first fortified city after the Karun River rushed from the Zagros Mountains to the Mesopotamia Plain. Ahvaz has both the functions of the provincial capital and the fortress. It can be regarded as a border fortress.
However, although the siege of Ahvaz looked fierce, it was not actually fierce.
Because the main force attacking the city was the Samanid-Persian army coming from the river and the servant troops recruited in Khorasan and Persia itself.
The most important thing is that the artillery equipped by Xinsandu in Shanshandu that Zhang Xianjing brought from China did not show up at all.
This is Yang Jiye's plan. Encirclement and reinforcements have been the only choice in the art of war since ancient times. The strong man uses his few elite troops to attack the weak enemy.
Before Yang Jiye reached the Mesopotamia Plain, he had already found out clearly that Basra and Baghdad were both giant cities with a population of several hundred thousand, and were both wealthy and cultural centers.
It is said that the Smart City in Baghdad alone contains millions of books covering everything from astronomy, geography, and medical divination to astrology.
Yang Jiye, who is thirty-one years old this year, can be said to be the most experienced commander of the younger generation of Zhang Zhou court.
He knew very well that cities like Baghdad and Basra were just like Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty in history. They looked at the city's high walls, the moat as deep as an abyss, and the layers of cities inside and outside, but in fact they were not protected at all. Can't live.
Because this big city with a population of close to one million is full of fat nobles and wealthy businessmen. They have no courage to defend the city at all, and they have more petty calculations than anyone else.
Even the merchants and ordinary citizens in the city are completely different from those elsewhere.
They usually hold their heads high, but when it comes time to fight to the death, they are not as decisive and tenacious as the people in other small towns and countryside. This is a common problem in giant wealthy cities, and it is the same all over the world.
Yang Jiye believes that Sultan Alim, who now controls Baghdad, and Ayad Daulai, who rules Basra, also know this in their hearts.
So while he ordered people to build a logistics transfer fort along the Karun River, he surrounded Ahvaz and pretended to attack fiercely, just to attract the enemy troops and destroy them here.
The fact is just as Yang Jiye expected. Sultan Alimu of Baghdad has no other choice at all. If he just sits back and watches the fall of a fortress like Ahvaz.
Only when the enemy advances to Baghdad.
The best strategy was to burn Baghdad to the ground and retreat to Syria to hold on.
The Chinese government surrendered in order to use Baghdad's wealth to satisfy the enemy's appetite.
The next best option is to fight to defend Baghdad, and then there is a high probability that the entire army will be annihilated.
But for a city as wealthy and of great importance as Baghdad, Sultan Alim could not bear any of these three consequences from any point of view, so he could only send troops.
As for Ayad Daurai of Basra, he had no choice, not to mention the hatred for the collapse of the Bouveshi dynasty and the capture of his mother, aunt, and aunt.
It was only two hundred miles from the bus to Ahvaz, and there was no danger to defend the entire plain, and he had no way to retreat. Once Ahvaz fell, Ayad Daulai would have no choice but to wait for death.
Therefore, even before Alim Sultan sent the famous generals Hussein bin Kaki and Xiao Chagani to lead the army.
Ayad Dawlaydu has almost exhausted all the military forces he can move and transported all the wealth to the city of Umm Qai southwest of Basra.
Then he led the troops to a hillock only more than 40 miles away from Ahvaz, raised a large flag, and encouraged the defenders in the city.
Upon seeing this, Yang Jiye immediately ordered Shi Shouxin to dispatch thousands of Han-like civilians of various ethnic groups to mix with hundreds of Han troops, half in armor, and escorted by 3,000 enemy unarmored horse archers to attack.
Ayad Daulai's Basra army can be considered a regular army. There are many guards of the Bouveshi family among them. Of course, most of them cannot be dealt with by the civilian army.
Shi Shouxin also understood what Yang Jiye was going to do, and he immediately used only 50% of his command level, and just watched the nearly 10,000 infantry and cavalry fighting fiercely with the Basra army for about two hours.
At the end of the fight, the civilians couldn't bear it any longer. The beaten wolves ran wildly and fled back in embarrassment under the protection of the enemy's light cavalry.
In this battle, more than a thousand soldiers were lost, more than a hundred sets of armor were lost, and hundreds of horses were lost. It was considered a disastrous defeat.
Ayad Daulai participated in the whole battle, and his brows finally relaxed, not only because he defeated the Peach Blossom Stone Army, but also because he basically "figured out" the Peach Blossom Stone Army's combat power.
The cavalry has extraordinary combat power, but most of them are Turkic speaking ethnic groups recruited from the grasslands. The armor coverage rate is relatively low, and they cannot be as decisive as the armored cavalry.
A small number of armored cavalry and a large number of peach stone infantry are indeed well-equipped, and the elites among them are very powerful. They almost defeated themselves with a few hundred people several times.
However, most of the infantry are conscripts, and there are even a large number of people from the river pretending to be soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is very average.
This impression perfectly fits the stereotype of the Peach Blossom Stone Empire army that suddenly appeared at this moment.
Although these peach stone people are very powerful in combat, Persia and Dashi are too far away from them, so they can only use a small number of local elites to drive a large number of servants to fight.
As long as the elite of the Peach Blossom Stone Man are defeated, the servant army will not fight to the death for them.
After the ecstatic Ayad Daulai and the generals came to this conclusion, they immediately sent people to share the captured armor, horses, battle history and predictions with Hussein Ben, who had just left Baghdad. .Kaki and little Chagani.
This allowed Hussein to dare to lead his army to advance quickly towards Ahvaz, lengthening the supply line and making security more difficult.
Seeing that the strategy worked, Yang Jiye immediately ordered his adopted brother Shunyi Huselzhu to personally lead hundreds of elite cavalry and hundreds of Persian cavalry who had taken refuge, to the north to begin investigating the situation of the Baghdad army.
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In the fifth year of Qianyuan of the Great Zhou Dynasty, AD 966, it was May 17th.
Hou Seljuk of Shunyi received news from the north. Sultan Alimu of the Hamdani Dynasty dispatched 110,000 troops and more than 100,000 civilians. The famous food general Hussein Ben Kaki was the commander, and the young Chagani As a pioneer, they descended from Baghdad, blocking out the sky and the sun.
Among them, the coach Hussein Ben Kaki comes from the famous Kaki family. He has partnered with Sultan Alimu all year round. His peak match was in Mar Ash 12 years ago.
This battle broke out between the Hamdani Dynasty and the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine Regent Barzus personally led an army of 170,000 people to attack, and Sultan Alim of the Hamdani Dynasty also led an army of 120,000 people to resist. He also appointed Hussein Ben Kaqi as the commander-in-chief of the left army.
Hussein Ben Khaki shined in this battle, defeating several Byzantine main elite divisions (10,000 people) with inferior troops, and played a great role in this battle.
He even almost killed the famous Byzantine general Bardas Phocas, the father of the current Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus II, on the battlefield.
Abu Ali Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Muzaffar, known as the younger Chaghani, and his father Chaghani the elder, were originally the governors of Khorasan in Saman Persia.
The powerful Ziyar dynasty and the early and rapidly expanding Bouveshi dynasty were both defeated by his father and son.
Young Chagani was even a loyal minister to the late Nasr II, the emir of Saman Persia.
More than twenty years ago, Zhang Yan captured Kangju (Bukhara) in a surprise attack, causing the death of Nasr II at the hands of his son Hamid. The young Chaghanni organized a large army in Khorasan in an attempt to He returned to Kangju City to avenge Nasr II.
But at that time, the young Chagani was fighting against the coalition forces of the Bouveshi and Safar dynasties. When he took his hand, Zhang Yan had already led his army to leave, and Hamid had already secured his position as emir.
This situation, coupled with Nasr II's desire to push the industrialists in areas where the regularists were inhabited, resulted in many people in the river not supporting him, making Chaghanni's military operations lose their sense of justice and appeal.
After he caused a small amount of turmoil in Khorasan, he was quickly defeated and pacified by the army sent by Hamid. Little Chagani simply became heartbroken and defected to the Bweshi dynasty.
However, the rulers of the Bouveshi dynasty did not trust him, so Chaghanni ran away again and found favor with the Hamdani dynasty, who admired his abilities.
This person traveled across Khorasan and moved between multiple forces, and his military ability was quite excellent.
And with these two people leading the army, it can also be seen that the Hamdani dynasty has indeed used all its elites and used almost everything they can, leaving only a few legions in the country to defend in the west. Byzantine Empire.
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Seljuk was riding on a Hexi dragon horse, looking at the army in the distance with flags covering the sky and the sun, and slowly reciting the Koran, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he blurted out a stupid sentence.
The founder of the Seljuk Turks in history, his name became a brave general in Eastern Rome who would tremble three times when he heard the name of a powerful empire. At this moment, his heart was filled with admiration for his adoptive father, the great emperor Zhang Shengren.
You ask Seljuk why he didn't hate Zhang Shengren for sending troops to attack and destroy the Creek tribe? What a joke, Seljuk is too late to be grateful now.
Without the experience of the Creek tribe being captured and sent to China, he could have received such a good education, could he have achieved what he has today, and could he have married the cousin of the crown prince, Duke of Dunhuang?
More importantly, how could he know that the Six Dharmas Sect is the truth of the world, that the Supreme Heavenly Father is the earthly God, and how could he, Seljuk, become one of the sons of Buddha?
What's more, Creek's tribe was not mistreated when they arrived in the Middle Earth. His father enjoyed life in the fairyland-like divine capital of Luoyang, and his sisters were all married to the great nobles of the Zhou Dynasty.
All the warriors in the clan joined Wanhu, the bodyguard of Heavenly Khan like Basimiwanhu, and became the eagles of Heavenly Khan.
With such treatment, Seljuk would have no problem dedicating his life to it, so how could he still hate it!
"Wei Yingbiao, you take thirty riders over there. If there are few people on the other side, fight them. If there are many people, lead them to a certain place. We have to make the last fifty miles of walking extremely difficult for these idiots!"
Selzhu showed a sinister smile on his face and pointed his hand, and Wei Yingbiao beside him was the fifth of Wei Yingbiao in Qianxian County.
He was only fourteen years old when he joined Wang Huzheng, but he grew up faster than a rocket. He is only seventeen years old this year, but he is already a famous cavalry commander in the Han army in the entire five provinces in the far west.
At the age of seventeen, he became a general and the Marquis of Yu. The last time he made a large-scale vassal, Zhang Xianyu went out of his way to prevent Wei Yingbiao from being granted the title.
This is not suppression, but a sign that Wei Yingbiao wants to rise to the top.
Only those with such a bright future would have the king step in to prevent him from being granted the title, just like the talented people in the Song and Ming Dynasties in later generations would never honor the princess.
Wei Yingbiao raised his hand and immediately led his thirty cavalry forward.
If Seljuk arranged this, the Baghdad army sent out thirty or fifty cavalry to drive them away. As a result, they were shot dead by Wei Yingbiao and others without being able to see them.
If three to five hundred cavalry were dispatched, they would retreat while fighting. After the hundreds of enemy cavalry were far away from the army, Wei Yingbiao could use fireworks to summon the hundreds of Seljuk cavalry who were ambushing them, and easily kill them. Big food cavalry.
At the end of the battle, in order to expel these cavalry, the cannibals had to advance on foot and on horseback, greatly widening the defense range, and using strict formations and marching at a tortuous speed to offset the endless harassment.
If they dare not come to expel them or do not advance at a rapid pace, Wei Yingbiao and others will even dismount and hold powerful crossbows weighing more than two stones, and directly approach and shoot at the army. This is the ultimate rogue.
The closer to the Western Expedition of the Han Army, the greater the resistance. Not only did Seljug come with Wei Yingbiao and others, but the king of Shu, Zhang Xiantai, and the king of Liao, Zhang Xianjiong, even brought the world's most powerful people like Chen Achong's son from Xipingbao. The elite cavalry - Xiliang Iron Cavalry and Helong Horse came to stop the attack.
For a time, there were more than 10,000 light and heavy cavalry of the Zhou army participating in the blockade on the one hundred mile road from Joffel, the logistics center of the Baghdad army, to Ahvaz.
Under the leadership of a new generation of brave cavalry generals such as Zhang Xiantai, Zhang Xianjiong, Yelu Xiuge, Yelu Xidi, and Seljuk, they scattered like stars and gathered like a ball of fire. Sometimes they dispersed and disrupted, and sometimes they gathered to fight fiercely, and they defeated Baghdad. The military harassment was proceeding at a snail's pace and with great difficulty.
While the elite cavalry was stagnating the Baghdad army, Yang Jiye left his uncle Zhe Yuqing to lead 3,000 troops to guard the city of Ahvaz, and besieged the thousands of Ahvaz defenders who were leaving the city.
He led his own army through the mountain pass that had been blasted with explosives to create a road. Regardless of the city of Ahvaz, he went to attack the Basra army led by Ayad and Daulai.
There are 63,000 troops in the five extreme western provinces under Yang Jiye. Except for those guarding the Persian headquarters and Khorasan, basically all the Han athletes have been sent out.
Counting the 7,000 elite cavalry that Zhang Xiantai took away, the 3,000 people that Yuqing left to guard Ahvaz, and the thousands of people who protected the logistics line, there were still about 50,000 people left.
His enemy, Ayad Daulai's Basra army, numbering about 30,000, is located to the southwest of Zhou's army. It has already built a fortress and prepared defenses on the hillock named Xiaogushan by Yang Jiye.
Hussein Ben Khaki's Baghdad Army has about 110,000 and 780,000 logistics support personnel, and they are coming from Jofair in the northwest at a very fast pace.
Thinking about the strategy of these two armies, they must want to attack the Zhou army from both sides who are "crazily besieging" Ahvaz.
Among them, the Baghdad army, the largest in number, came from the northwest to cut off the Zhou army's return route and engage in a decisive battle.
The Basra army in the southwest, which has fewer people and is more elite and familiar with the geography, is responsible for harassment and surprise attacks.
But now it's the other way around. Before the Baghdad army arrived, the Zhou army took action first and gave the Baghdad army a set of disabling techniques.
As for the original Basra army, they naturally have to deal with it now.
On May 29th, the Zhou army, led by Yang Jiye, marched at an extremely fast speed. It took only half a day for the vanguard of 10,000 people to complete a distance of more than 60 miles on foot and on horseback. The remaining 40,000 people also covered the distance in one day. In place.
Ayad Daulai looked at the shining sun of Zhou Junjia in the distance on Xiaogushan, and the formation was like wings covering the sky coming quickly, and he was sweating coldly.
Among his 30,000 people, only 10,000 were the original guards of the Bouveshi dynasty stationed in Baghdad. The rest were temporarily recruited divine warriors, and their combat effectiveness was far from as strong as it seemed.
He suddenly discovered, and was even certain that the army he saw now was not at the same level as the one that came to attack him more than ten days ago. This army now only looked at the formation, and they were all elites who had fought in hundreds of battles.
A feeling of being cheated swirled in Ayad Daulai's mind. He even wanted to abandon the position on Xiaogu Mountain and flee back to Basra. But he didn't do that now. He was relying on his last will to survive.
But the officers under his command don't think so. Xiaogushan is more than 400 meters high, and the surrounding trees have basically been cut down.
There are several rivers passing by on the west side of the mountain. It is not difficult to get water. The mountain is surrounded by ancient cities and forts. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It can be resisted for a period of time until the Baghdad army comes.
But, in Yang Jiye's eyes, these are all garbage!
Because he has the Fengming Xiangdu of Fengming Xiangdu in Hanshandu who specializes in manipulating artillery. He carries three 5,000-jin Shenwei General bronze cannons and six 3,000-jin bronze cannons, so he is not afraid of any fortress at all.
Just do it. Yang Jiye ordered Shi Shouxin and Dang Jin to be the vanguard generals. Each of them selected 800 warriors to wear three layers of armor. When night was getting dark, he ordered the soldiers to transport the artillery to the foot of Xiaogu Mountain.
There is no need to do much at all. Just drive the Basra army outside the fort back into the fort, and then blast it with artillery. In an instant, you can smash several big holes in the strong fort, or directly destroy the weak earth wall. Collapse.
After doing this, Shi Shouxin and Dang Jin immediately led the three-layer armor warriors to rush in from the damaged area, and then there was basically no suspense.
On the fourth day of June, the Basra army, which was almost frightened by the roar of artillery, could not bear this onion-peeling failure. Ayad Daulai gathered more than 10,000 men who could still fight to break out from the west.
Then without any suspense, when they broke out of the encirclement with heavy casualties, ten thousand elite prairie cavalry were waiting for them.
In this battle, more than a hundred generals under Ayad Daulai were killed, and more than 6,000 of the 30,000-strong army were killed by the formation, and the entire army was wiped out.
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When Yang Jiye annihilated the Basra army, an army of 200,000 including civilians and auxiliaries led by Hussein Ben Qaki finally reached Ahvaz.
Their view of the battlefield was cut off by the Zhou army's cavalry. When they arrived at a place less than forty miles away from Ahvaz, they learned that the entire Zhou army had dispatched to attack Ayad Daulai's Basra army.
Hussein Ben Kaqi's palms were sweating anxiously. Although he killed and injured hundreds of Zhou army cavalry along the way, he could not get rid of the harassment and cover of these cavalry. Therefore, he could not immediately move southwest to rescue the Basra army. .
Moreover, Hussein also secretly realized that this was probably the Zhou army's encirclement for reinforcements.
“The fact that the infidels abandoned Ahvaz and went to attack the Basra army is not necessarily a bad thing!
They have left their escape route to us, as long as we hold Ahvaz in check and order all the localities to hold on to the castle. Last year there was a severe drought in the country and there was not much food left. This year the summer food is not yet mature. Let’s see who can hold on. "
Little Chagani froze his lavender eyes, and immediately thought of a poisonous move. As for how many Iraqis would die under this poisonous move, he didn't care at all, as long as they all died.
Hussein also thought this strategy was good, but he pointed at the 3,000 men led by Zhe Yuqing in the distance. These 3,000 men happened to be holding on to the hillside passage that could pass through Ahvaz.
Little Chagani snorted coldly, "Don't worry Salar, there are only a few thousand peach stone heretics, and they can stop my army of 200,000. I only need 10,000 elite soldiers to annihilate them!"
Then, Xiao Chagani stepped forward with full confidence.
Half a day later, he asked for 10,000 additional troops.
One day later, Hussein could not wait any longer and once again ordered Hassan, the governor of Homs Province, to personally lead 10,000 reinforcements.
In this small passage, 30,000 people are already the limit that can participate in the attack. No more can be opened.
Zhe Yuqing laughed, because his three thousand people were mixed from the inner and front chambers of Xianshan City. Most of the officers had been practicing various battle formation killing techniques since they were five years old, and more than half of them were soldiers. There are military officers.
Although they are not invincible, they are by no means defeatable in the short term.
Sure enough, three days later, when the silver-white background of the Sanchen Banner and the silver-white background of the golden sun-shining banner both appeared in the eyes of the food army, Zhe Yuqing still led two thousand people to stand on the hillside, with the Sanchen Banner on the simple earthen wall. And the big flag with the word "zhou" on the silver white background is still flying high.
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The moment of decisive battle finally arrived. Hussein Ben Qaki gave up the attack on Zhe Yuqing, who was defending in danger, and contracted all the troops to the west and north of Ahvaz City.
He opened up the connection with the city and placed almost 200,000 people on the battlefield with a radius of more than ten miles.
This large army was composed mainly of soldiers from the Hamdani dynasty.
There are heavy-armored warriors and armored knights from various tribes and nobles who fall under the broad category of cannibals. They wear iron helmets with nose guards or wrap their heads with rich cannibal elements. They hold sharp spears several feet long in their hands. Some of them are The man also carried a round shield for protection against arrows.
He wears a large amount of disc armor, mirror armor and a small amount of Eastern Roman-style pierced armor. This is the core force of the Hamdani family, which is composed of royal members and a large number of vassals and their descendants.
The largest number of people was the Caucasian Gulam, who was wearing chainmail and leather armor, with arrows hanging on his side, and holding a spear, a big axe, and a short hammer in his hand.
The Hamdani dynasty's territory was in Syria, and they could not recruit many Turkic-speaking Gulams.
Therefore, the barbarians in northwest Syria and Iraq near the high-speed mountainous area became the source of excellent gulam for the Hamdani dynasty.
For example, the Kurds and the Chechen bearded men of the later Kalu Mountains are this kind of barbarians.
As for the light cavalry, most of them were recruited Bedouins, and a small number were Turkic-speaking steppe cavalry recruited earlier.
There are even a certain number of cavalry wearing Eastern Roman leather armor. They are captives and mercenaries captured in previous wars.
Other auxiliaries with a lower status were composed of various marginal ethnic groups, both white and black, and were mainly composed of Cushites who had just fled to the Arab region to survive the civil strife.
As for Zhang Zhou, the heavy-armored infantry and heavy-armored cavalry are actually similar to the Great Eaters. They are both composed of the core group of people, that is, Han people.
The light armored hussars are mostly composed of naturalized Han people, including a large number of people from various ethnic groups in the Helong area who are classified as Han people, Tubo people on the plateau, and Dangxiang, Shatuo, and Sogdian people in the interior.
The light-armored or unarmored cavalry archers are mostly composed of Khitan, Zubu, Dilie, Wugu, Basimi, Menggu, and Tuzhalan people on the grassland.
Of course, this is not entirely the case. For example, there are a large number of Jurchen warriors in the heavy infantry under the command of Zhang Xianjiong, the king of Liao and the son of Yelu Abli. The heavy armored infantry under the command of Anguo King Zhang Xianyu also consisted of a large number of party members Hengshan Bubazi.
However, although the armies of both sides were fully present, a fierce war did not break out immediately.
The Great Food Army was still trying to block the Zhou Army's seemingly weak supply line, and the Zhou Army's cavalry also began a larger-scale attempt to cut off the Great Food Army's supply line.
But in the case of tight defense on both sides, the effect is not obvious.
After nearly twenty days of fighting each other, the weather began to become unbearable, and after both sides understood that it was impossible to drive away the other party with small actions, the war began to be put on the agenda.
The cannibals had a certain amount of initiative, so coach Hussein took the initiative to make changes. He began to summon civilian workers to dig transportation trenches from Ahvaz to the important logistics supply point Jofer.
Once this transportation trench is built, it will be able to offset to a great extent the threat posed by the constant harassment of the Zhou army's cavalry. This will be a signal for the Zhou army to attack.
But Yang Jiye was unmoved. He knew that if he went out to attack now, it would be possible for the cannibals to retreat to Qiao Feier and other cities to hold on after being unable to defeat them in the decisive battle.
The best moment for the decisive battle is to make the cannibals pay more and the sunk costs are too high for them to accept.
Seeing that Yang Jiye was unmoved, Hussein knew that he had met a master, but he didn't know where Yang Jiye had such confidence that he would be able to defeat his 200,000-strong army.
So while Hussein ordered the army to prepare for a decisive battle, he continued to ask the civilians to dig transportation trenches.
On June 22, the weather in the Middle East could reach a maximum of 34 to 5 degrees Celsius. More than 100,000 civilians who were forcibly captured had to dig transportation trenches in this weather, resulting in heavy casualties.
The residents of Jofer City and Ahvaz were not killed by the Zhou army, but a large number of their relatives died on the construction site.
For a time, public dissatisfaction boiled, and the people in several surrounding cities had reached their limit. Coupled with the high cost of transshipment of grain and grass, and the hardship of the soldiers on the front line, even Sultan Alimu in Baghdad could not help but send inquiries. of the edict.
The cost is big enough! If Hussein dares to retreat, the fate that awaits him will not be too good.
On Zhang Zhou's side, nearly thirty days of confrontation and heat had already caused the soldiers' morale to fluctuate, and the opportunity for a decisive battle had arrived.
On June 25, Yang Jiye ordered the entire army in the name of Zhang Xianjing, promising not to seal the sword for three days after entering Baghdad. Except for the Baghdad Royal Palace, all gold and silver were awarded to the officers and soldiers. Morale was immediately boosted, and mobilization reached the lowest level. In the hearts of soldiers.
Yang Jiye struck while the iron was hot and ordered all armies to mobilize warriors. With Zhang Liechao, the first general of the Zhangzhou clan, as the vanguard, he selected eight thousand heavy-armored infantry and ten thousand light-armored crossbowmen to form a large formation and went directly to attack twenty miles away. Outside, the center of the Dashi Army located west of Ahvaz.
This seemingly suicidal approach left Hussein confused.
After observing for a long time, he determined that the 18,000 Zhou troops had left the main force, had almost no cavalry escort, and were completely desperate to come to his camp, so he immediately mobilized 50,000 infantry and cavalry to launch an attack.
Zhang Liechao was not afraid at all. He came out to be a millstone.
Among his 18,000 people, 7,000 of them are from Hanshandu. Fengming Xiangdu, who is best at artillery warfare, is also here. There are seven invincible general cannons with a total of more than 2,000 kilograms, and hundreds of kilograms of martial arts. There are forty general cannons and more than 800 lightweight squatting cannons, nine-section cannons and large lifting guns.
This kind of firepower is unprecedented at this time. It can give the big eaters a big surprise and make them fully realize what a dimensionality reduction strike is.
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Xiao Chagani led the army at the front. He had lost face in the battle to attack Zhe Yuqing a month ago.
Thirty thousand people surrounded 3,000 people and fought for five days without defeating them. I lost close to 3,000 people. I only killed dozens of people on the opposite side and injured hundreds of others. The battle loss ratio was more than ten to one. It was so embarrassing. .
However, he was very confident in this battle. These peach stone people actually abandoned the most threatening cavalry and used 18,000 infantry to attack the 200,000 army. They really didn't know whether to live or die.
Forcibly suppressing the little bit of vigilance in his heart that if something goes wrong, there will be something evil, Xiao Chagani made the most perfect arrangement.
He ordered 35,000 infantry to push straight from the front in three directions, and more than 10,000 cavalry to thrust straight into the waist from both wings.
And in order to maximize the results of the battle, Xiao Chagani also planned to let the peach blossom stone people expose themselves to the sun for a whole day before launching an attack in the evening.
However, Little Black Bear Zhang Liechao had already thought of this. The 18,000-strong army suddenly marched in the dark the night before, advanced into a mountain forest, and quickly defeated the 2,000 vanguard troops placed here by Little Chagani.
Now, the Zhou army had woods to enjoy the shade, and Xiao Chaganni's plan went bankrupt. He could only launch an attack in the early morning. If he didn't attack again, this peach stone army would directly hit him in the face.
On June 28, the breeze brought bursts of coolness from the Persian Gulf, which was a good time for battle.
Xiao Chagani personally led the main force of 35,000 people, who came from three sides. The Dashi Army was also very good at using bows and crossbows, so both sides of the battle started with a series of bows and crossbows.
At about six o'clock in the morning, Little Black Bear ordered Dang Jin to lead his army to seize the high ground, and use four thousand crossbowmen to shoot down the food army.
Although the Great Eaters are also good at using crossbows, that is in the West. In the East, they can only be regarded as younger brothers.
As soon as the two sides came into contact, the gap in the training and equipment of the Dashi Army became apparent. More than 7,000 of them attacked the party and advanced 4,000, but suffered heavy casualties and continued to retreat.
Upon seeing this, Xiao Chagani immediately began to quickly increase his troops and let the archers come forward. Since the quality was not comparable, he would use quantity to make up for it.
He planned to let the heavy armored soldiers with large shields come forward to cover, with the crossbowmen at the front and the archers shooting from behind.
This is what Dang Jin was waiting for. He was waiting for the big food army to put up its big shield, because his formation contained several cannons of several hundred kilograms pulled by carriages and more than a dozen squatting tiger cannons.
The big eater raised his big shield, slowed down his speed, and tightened his formation. He was the best target for artillery bombardment.
The orange-red firelight and the explosion that shook the surrounding area contained extremely terrifying destructive power.
The bullets weighing more than ten kilograms, driven by gunpowder, are as terrifying as the fists punched by the devil. No matter how much heavy armor you wear, your bones and tendons will be broken if they come into contact. A single cannonball can create a bloody groove in the crowd. .
The food army was shocked. They had never seen such a weapon before. Many of the shield bearers threw away their shields in panic and tried to run back, thus directly exposing the crossbowmen they were covering.
Then, something even more terrifying came. Mara's mighty bronze cannons were replaced by a larger number of squatting tiger cannons, and the stone bullets were replaced by shotguns.
Projectiles as big as pigeon eggs swept wildly through the crowd, and a large number of people were knocked to the ground with one shot.
The scene was truly like hell, with broken meat and broken bones all over the ground, red, white, and blue-black.
There was a lone head that exploded to the ground like a watermelon. There are various torso fragments that are put into various weird poses after being hit. There are also those whose stomachs have exploded but who are not yet dead, wailing on the ground.
General Wuwei's cannon penetrated the armor, and the tiger squatting cannon output, and then the heavy armored soldiers with two rounds of bows and arrows rushed forward to kill, and the enemy army collapsed.
After the enemy's army is gathered, this operation begins to repeat again.
The cavalry of the big food is even worse, and their war horses cannot adapt to the severe explosion of artillery and short -term horror killing. They are often scattered before they rush to.
The desperate command of Chakanny was in vain. Each contact was brought to the collapse, 50,000 people attacked 18,000 people, the infantry was broken as soon as it touched, and the cavalry did not dare to touch.
The coach Hussein finally knew the reliance of these peach blossoms, and they invented a terrible gunpowder weapon!
At this time, the big food is not a god stick. Instead, it was one of the most cultural ethnic groups at this time, so Hussein certainly knew that this was a gunpowder weapon rather than a spell.
But unfortunately, he couldn't respond at all, and he could only order to retreat.
Just as soon as Takini retreated, Zhou Jun caught up. They chased quickly, making them unable to get rid of the 50,000 people.
The battle continued from the early morning until the evening, and the battle ended until the darkness made everyone unclear.
Hussein knew that he could not win in this battle. The experience of 50,000 people in Chaganny would be the encounter of all the Great Food Army.
Sure enough, in the early morning of the next day, Zhou Jun began to move forward again, or the cavalry shadow was everywhere. The football army kept arched forward and was arched until the front line of the big food was only five or six miles.
The decisive battle finally started, and the unable to retreat from the big food person to take the initiative. Hussein. Ben. Kaki came out. He re -mobilized 60,000 people to send his guards to the front line. Zhang Liezhao's 18,000 people.
The solemn Gulan Jing spread throughout the battlefield, and countless Aya wearing a black robe was trying to cheer the warriors.
With the encouragement of religion, the big cavalry ran to their enemies enthusiastically, and their war horses were slightly used to this huge explosion, and they began to have courage to impact.
At the end of the battle (3 pm), both sides were suffering and injured, and everyone struggled at the high temperature.
The Great Food Army played Zhang Lie in the past few retreats. The former army was chaotic, but they could not defeat them.
The time to Shen Shizheng (4 pm) is a round of food, and it is over.
Most of Zhou Jun finally arrived, and the cavalry team also completed a roundabout. The time of offensive and defensive types was easy to offensive and defensive. City west.
After the cavalry forces were basically suppressed, the desperate big food army began to assemble west in the west of Avas City, and they used the built -in work to stubbornly resist.
However, these industries are not hundreds of people who have been exhausted from Yang Jiye at all.
When Hussein. Ben Kaki saw this, and he could only gathered the army again. They retreated five or six miles and gave up their positions.
Because the big food people can see that the movement speed of the Zhou Jun artillery is very slow. As long as he retreats quickly, he can make the opponent's artillery unable to keep up with the army.
But in this way, the artillery is avoided, but the big food people have completely came to the wilderness.
Yang Jiye's combat method is very simple. When the big food people concentrate, they use artillery to fight with the crossbow. Once the large food people want to move the military array to avoid firepower, the cavalry starts to charge.
In order to prevent the cavalry's charge, big food people can only gather confrontation. However, at this time, the god arms, generals of Wuwei, tiger squatting cannon, nine artillery, and large rods were played again.
The infantry position that cannot be quickly moved is the best target, and they can only be forced to adjust the position again.
In this way, after the cannon beat the cavalry, the cavalry rushed the artillery to fight, and repeatedly until the big food army collapsed, it was completely unsolved.
At the beginning of the battle on the second day (1pm), nearly 200,000 people in the big food collapsed, and Pioneer Granddini was slapped by a tiger in the charge in the charge. Waiting for senior officers were beheaded in chaos.
Hussein, coach of the Da Shi Army. Ben Kaki led thousands of cavalry to escape in advance. Although he was familiar with the road, he was eventually caught up on the small town of Nakahara River.
In despair, the famous Hamdani dynasty and his son and his sons and dozens of generals were wading to cross the river and wanted to protect his life. Zhang Xiantai immediately led dozens of fine riding along the river and killed them one by one in the river.
The Great Food Army, the whole army was overwhelmed.
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In the fifth year of the Da Zhou Qian, in 966 AD, the tenth day of July, the war that lasted nearly two months was finally over.
The 200,000 troops of the Great Food were almost wiped out. The two sides chased more than forty miles. There were more than 60,000 people who were killed, and tens of thousands of people were captured.
On July 13th, the news of the defeat had not yet been passed to Baghdad. Western pharmacist Guangwang Buddha, An Guo king Zhang Xianzhang, the King of Shu King Zhang Xiantai, and the king of Liao Kingdom, Zhang Xianzhang, led 10,000 essence to Baghdad.
Sudan Alemu was horrified. He wanted to kill Harry Mumi and retreated. As a result, Harry, who was Lao Jing Jing, hid long ago. Ami Sudan could only lead more than a hundred guardians to escape to Syria.
Baghdad, falling!
Zhang Xianzheng smiled and waved his hand, "Let ASS (Mansur) send someone to the city to soothe the people's hearts. This city is his."
Hehe, this will give Baghdad to Ansu. Things must be so simple to deal with. This is just Zhang Xianzhang's delay.
Ten thousand people want to control the big city of 700,000 to 800,000 people. It is difficult to do not chaos. The best way now is to temporarily stabilize them, and slowly slaughter them after the army comes.
In July 20, Zhou Jun's army reached Qi and began to enter Baghdad City as conquerors.
Then, Yang Jiye fulfilled his promise, but it was not that he did not block the knife for three days, but had different killings.
Any big -food aristocratic aristocratic aristocratic aristocracy, powerful resistors, and religious people who were not conducive to Manuer's rule were executed, and more than 50,000 people were executed within seven days.
Later, Yang Jiye soldiers searched for partitions. In total, more than 30,000 and beautiful women were taken from the city.
As for the endlessness of livestock, food, serf, frame, etc., I don't know how much it was taken away.
Hundreds of years of food savings have been snatched away.
Prior to this, Zhang Xianjing followed the instructions of his father, Zhang Yan, and all books and scholars in Baghdad and Bardra, whether they were astronomical geography, medical star elephants, etc. As long as they were all loaded and transported away.
A total of more than 1.1 million books were transported away, and more than a thousand universities, and the city of Baghdad's wisdom was almost all short.
Zhang Ye would not learn the Mongolians after being trapped in Baghdad. At this time, Baghdad, at this time, there were many unique places in culture.
Of course, at the same time, there were more than 300 people in Harry, Harry, who were transported at the same time.
At this point, this huge empire that could have been called with Datang collapsed in the dust of history.
There is still the last chapter tomorrow, this book is over
(End of chapter)
