This is Hari Umar, the great eater.
He told his men in the words of Dashi, asking the Tianzhu people to arrange for war elephants to be sent. He also knew that the Tang people had gone to the capital of Persia, and he planned to fight back.
For him, he defeated the Persian capital last time, so he can do it this time too.
When he learned that the Amu Darya River had been cut off, Omer began to look nervous. He also heard news that many Tang people had appeared in the upper reaches of the Amu Darya River.
On the upper reaches of the Amu Darya River, Pei Xingjian smiled and listened to the military report. The Persian capital had been occupied and the Amu Darya River was blocked. These three hundred thousand troops were their biggest burden. They had no water source and they would run out of food. These people They will be trapped alive.
"Brother Xue is easy to arrange." Pei Xingjian had people build an earthen wall here and surrounded it upstream.
"Pei Duhu, if Dashi attacks, can we resist it?" Adalan looked worried.
This is the first person to follow Zhang Shangshu. This person is very effective in doing things. This time he has used all the troops in Gaochang. The Persian Tang Dynasty is bound to win.
Rather than saving Persia, it is more like fighting for Persia with the cannibals.
Pei Xingjian glanced at the troops and horses of the Anxi Protectorate's headquarters that had been repaired, "I'm afraid they won't come."
Adalan nodded and said, "I will always admire how calm and calm Pei Duhu is in the face of the big cannibal."
This man calls himself the last general and has been ordered to guard Gaochang.
The Gaochang soldiers and horses in his hands are also elite, and they can also help Brother Xue and the others to level the Tianshan Mountains.
Pei Xingjian smiled and said: "They are just a group of idiots who don't understand the art of war and marching. If we stop quietly and wait for work, the 300,000 soldiers and horses of the feast will be destroyed in the desert without attack."
Adalan smiled and said: "The stupid cannibals will be defeated miserably because of their arrogance. They underestimated the wisdom of the Tang people."
Pei Xingjian ate a piece of cake and looked through the topography sent by the Diplomatic Academy. The topography of Persia compiled with great effort over the years showed that the water source of the Amu Darya River comes from a plateau glacier in the southeast.
The river flows from east to west, and there is rain only in winter and spring. Pei Xingjian glanced at the turbid river water, still calm and relaxed. He enjoyed the feeling of leading the army in the war at this moment.
It should be the twelfth lunar month of winter in the Central Plains, but this area is still unbearably dry and hot. If it comes to summer, it will be even harder to gain a foothold in this desert.
"After winter and spring, shouldn't they retreat?"
Hearing Pei Xingjian's words, Adalan replied: "Duhu Pei, it's the same whether it's us or the cannibals. They will only attack in winter. After spring, they will retreat. In previous years, they have passed It leaves in the spring and comes back in the winter.”
At this point, Adalan added: "The earth treats everyone the same, and there will be no favoritism."
Pei Xingjian nodded and said: "It seems that the big cannibal will be defeated in the spring."
Adalan said puzzledly: "Actually, as long as we use up the food, the cannibals will retreat in the spring."
Pei Xingjian is very young, and his face that still looks boyish has a bit of determination, and his dark cheeks are a little disappointed, "No way, let them run away like this, wouldn't it be in vain for us to come here? We are all here." Those who have made great achievements will be defeated if they remain in such a stalemate and consume the cannibals."
The Gaochang people and the people from the Western Regions are still building high walls along the river embankments, firstly for defense, and secondly to build river embankments for water storage.
"Does Pei Duhu want to kill all these big cannibals?"
"Alas." Pei Xingjian sighed: "With three hundred thousand people, even cutting them down one by one would be exhausting. If they dare to rush up, I will dig up the embankment and drown them."
"You are worthy of being a Jinshi in the Imperial Examination of the Tang Dynasty. I will admire you in the end."
Adalan really admires him. He is over fifty. Although he has been reading books from the Central Plains in the past two years, most of the time he is just pretending and cannot really read those unfamiliar books.
"I heard that there is a man named Ni She in the Great Cannibal Army. This man must be guarded against."
Hearing this, Pei Xingjian finally put away the logbook. He stood up and looked into the distance, "I have never experienced this person's ability. Is he very powerful?"
Adalan whispered: "This man was alone in raising an army to fight against Yehu Khan in the Western Turks. When the army was at its largest, there were 20,000 warriors, all of whom were remnants scattered throughout the Western Turks. "
Pei Xingjian hesitated for a moment, "There's nothing to be afraid of."
Seeing that the Amu Darya River behind was cut off and more and more water was stored, everyone's confidence was also high. It would be difficult to kill them one by one, but it would be much easier to flood them with water, and they would be able to defeat them ten times with one effort.
The Tang people went out to fight and took advantage of the right time and location to open the eyes of many people in the Western Regions who had never seen such a battle.
This is a war. In the past, what everyone experienced was just group fights and should not be lumped together.
After three days of silence, the big cannibals finally made some noise. They planned to fight for the water source and came all the way north.
In just three days, when there was a lack of water, 300,000 people had 30 mouths. How could they hold it in?
Looking at the huge formation, there are also groups of wild beasts coming in force.
Just as they were about to approach the river embankment with their soldiers and horses, another group of soldiers and horses appeared on the west side of the big cannibal. It was Wang Xuance who came to support them.
That's still 300,000 people. Just looking at the huge crowd is very scary. Adalan wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked in a low voice, "Pei Duhu, do you want to release the water now?"
Pei Xingjian looked much calmer, "Wait until they get closer."
Thirty thousand soldiers and horses stood on the high point of the river embankment, waiting for the big eater to come towards the water source. At this moment, they were walking in the dry river.
When the team came closer, the dust filled the air, hiding the cannibal army, making it difficult to see clearly.
The hungry beasts galloped towards the river embankment.
Pei Xingjian waved his sleeves and said, "Shoot arrows to kill these beasts."
"Here!" The soldiers and horses of the Tang Army headquarters responded loudly, and thousands of arrows flew out.
There were loud shouts from the food army, and they raised their shields to block these arrows.
But the target of the Tang army was not them, but the running beasts. Only sporadic arrows fell in the military formation.
When the dust dispersed, the ground was covered with the corpses of wild beasts, and the big man-eating man, who was flustered by the arrows, stood still again.
Pei Xingjian shouted again: "Load the arrow."
Ten thousand soldiers once again drew their bows and arrows, this time aiming at the cannibal.
Pei Xingjian looked at the man riding a lion in the opponent's formation, looking down at the opponent, and the opponent noticed his gaze and looked towards the high slope.
I don’t know what the man said, but he just shouted a few times, and the big man-eater rode towards the high slope, with more soldiers on foot behind him.
Pei Xingjian pulled out the horizontal sword from his waist and shouted loudly: "Fire the arrow!"
The whistle of arrows sounded again, and the giant cannibals that rushed up fell down like wheat.
After three rounds of arrows were fired, corpses of giant cannibals kept rolling down the slope. They finally came up a little, but now they became dead corpses and rolled down again. This high slope built by the Tang people was very steep and smooth.
It is used to prevent them from charging.
The two lions were walking back and forth down the slope, and the big man-eater had stopped charging because they felt that it was difficult to attack this narrow slope.
After a brief period of calm, the two lions rushed forward. No. 1 rushed forward with a knife in hand. Faced with the beast in front of him, he calmly drew the knife.
The knife was stabbed into the lion's abdomen, and then kicked away. Blood splattered in the sky, and hot blood spread all over the body.
There was a lion behind him. His arrows missed several times and the animal ran extremely fast.
Like a gust of wind coming before him, No. 1 was unable to dodge and was pinned to the ground by the animal. He endured the pain of its claws scratching his shoulders. He kept stabbing the animal's abdomen with his knife. The snow-white blade entered from the abdomen and hit the back. And out.
The lion stopped moving and was kicked down the slope by No. 1.
Fortunately, I have armor on me, so I'm not afraid of those claws that could kill me.
The livestock he had raised died like this. Omer roared, and the roaring giant eater charged towards the high slope again.
Pei Xingjian dropped an earth mine towards the river embankment. The earth mine exploded and detonated other earth mines. The explosion was so loud that even the charging giant eater stopped for a moment.
Cracks appeared in the river embankment, and the cracks became larger and larger. At first, water came out of the crack, but in an instant, the water flow destroyed the river embankment.
The water burst out of the embankment and rushed towards the big man-eater in the river.
Wang Xuance, who was preparing to respond in the distance, also started to move with his troops and horses. They came along the river and began to surround and kill the big cannibals who fled out of the river in panic.
When Pei Xingjian saw the cannibals in front of him falling down one after another, the cannibals who had been rushing in and out fled one after another.
The big eater who had been thirsty for three days finally got water, but it was a flood that would drown them.
The flood destroyed the cannibal's military formation. Even if they set up shields to block the flood, it couldn't be stopped by human power.
Different from the previous Dashi campaign against the Persians, the enemies they had to face were the Tang people, who were good at taking advantage of the terrain and natural conditions.
Wang Xuance led 5,000 men and kept shooting arrows at the rear of Dashi's military formation, hitting the enemy troops who fled the flood in panic.
The arrows of the Tang Dynasty were extremely sharp and caused severe pain after entering the body.
Unlike Xue Rengui who frightened the big cannibal, this was the first time that the Tang army actually fought against the big cannibal.
Pei Xingjian accidentally discovered other uses of earth mines. He placed several earth mines together, and the power of the explosion should not be underestimated.
At this moment, Wang Xuance and his men kept shooting arrows at the big man-eater who escaped from the river.
Omer crawled out of the river in embarrassment and saw the Tang people shooting arrows in the distance. He saw the warriors around him fall one after another.
The furious Harry was about to rush towards the Tang people in the distance, but was held back by the warriors around him.
Because shouts also came from the high slopes in the distance, tens of thousands of people rushed down the high slopes and rushed to both sides of the river.
Wang Xuance's arrow aimed at Omar, who had a dazzling gold weapon on his body, and shot out.
The sharp arrow grazed Omar's face, leaving a bloodstain on his face, and blood flowed down on the spot.
Omer wiped his cheeks and roared at Wang Xuance with a dark face, but was held tightly by the warrior beside him.
Even the stupidest cannibal knows that he can't fight hard at this time. There are still Tang people on the other side of the river who are constantly hacking and killing. If they don't leave, they really won't be able to leave.
Omar could only escape here under the cover of the warrior raising his shield.
All the remaining cannibals fled into Maha City.
After the flood was released, many giant cannibals were drowned in the river.
Wang Xuance and Pei Xingjian finally joined forces.
Funny to say, both encounters with the giant man-eater were fun.
First, the big cannibals who believed in gods were frightened by the Tang Dynasty's earth mines, and then this time, the flood broke through the military formation, causing these big cannibals to flee in confusion.
Now the offense and defense are swapped.
He became a cannibal and trapped in an isolated city, and the Persian capital also changed its owner.
Everything the Tang people had experienced before, Da Shiren was also feeling the feeling of being trapped in an isolated city.
The difference is that the Tang army had backup and a way out at that time, but now these big cannibals have no way out and no way out, except this time they drink enough water.
They don't even have food.
The situation of the battle could not be calculated for a while. Wang Xuance got off his horse and kicked a big food soldier. "It is a pity that Omar escaped. His mount is really fast and a certain war horse cannot catch up."
Pei Xingjian smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, there are so many of them crowded in such a small city, and they will be killed in less than half a month."
Everyone on the battlefield cheered, the Tang people won! The Tang people won!
Adalan saluted Wang Xuance, "General Wang is so brave, I will admire him."
A man who looked like a native of the Western Regions claimed to be a junior general. Wang Xuance felt a little uncomfortable and asked, "In person?"
"The last general of the Gaochang garrison, Adalan."
"It's you, you heard something."
Wang Xuance remembered the origin of this man. He was from Zhang Shangshu. The fact that he came here meant that Gaochang was now under the control of the court.
The water rushed down, and drowned bodies kept floating and heading downstream.
Pei Xingjian clicked his tongue and said, "It's a pity that the river water here can't be drunk for a short time. I don't know if the big eater will drink it."
Wang Xuance said again: "It is better for Pei Duhu to go to the capital of Persia with the last general."
Pei Xingjian shook his head and said, "It's not too late to go after these big cannibals are eliminated. A certain family also wants to see the scenery of Persia."
Wang Xuance nodded heavily, "Very good."
The two parties discussed a strategy, but Pei Xingjian still guarded the upper reaches and built embankments to cut off the flow again, competing with the Persian capital.
It's very old-fashioned, very traditional, and very practical. You can get twice the result with half the effort by taking advantage of the terrain here, and you can also control the water source.
In the capital of the Persian King, Belus received the news of the victory of the Tang Dynasty. He didn't know whether it was joy or sorrow, but he cried on the spot. He kept worshiping in the direction of Chang'an City, kowtowing loudly, and there were blood marks on his forehead. , every time he kowtows, he will shout, thank God Khan for saving Persia.
All the Persians thought that Persia was going to die this time, but the Tang people came, and the invincible Tang people defeated the big cannibal!
This battle will be remembered in Persia for a long time.
Xue Rengui stood in front of the Persian capital to welcome Wang Xuance back.
Anyanyan went out and returned to the Persian capital two days later. This time he brought news that there were more cannibals west of the Persian capital. They sent envoys to see the Tang generals.
