There was finally a glimmer of light in the eastern sky, and the carnival in the city had basically ended. Most people just found a place to rest. After all, the weather was not that cold now, and the temperature here was still very good when there was no wind and sand.
Many people have already drunk themselves unconscious. Here they can drink wine brewed in the Tang Dynasty, which is much stronger than their original wine, so the chances of these people getting drunk are much greater than before.
The general defending the city also understood that this was not good for his subordinates, but when everyone was willing to do this, if you stood up to stop them, you would be the sinner of everyone.
At the beginning, the general defending the city wanted to persuade him, but later he found that being drunk felt very good, and there were beautiful women around him. The Tang army was nowhere to be found, so why not enjoy it?
Besides, as my subordinates said, we've already traveled thousands of miles from home. Aren't we here to enjoy life? If we live like ascetics every day, what kind of life would that be? Back home, there will be all kinds of doctrines to govern us. In this place, we are the gods.
General Rahman lived in the most luxurious house, but even the most luxurious house here was not as good as that of a small landlord in the Tang Dynasty. After all, the Western Regions lacked all kinds of supplies. However, for the soldiers of the Arab Empire, it was already quite good to have such a place when fighting outside.
This guy had a drinking contest with several of his men last night and is now completely unconscious. There are two beautiful women lying beside him. They were all robbed by him from other places. This is very similar to their tradition.
Just when this guy was sleeping soundly, he suddenly heard a loud noise coming from outside. He had never heard this kind of noise before. What was it?
The two women woke up first, and after hearing the sound, they immediately understood what was going on, because in the past, the Tang army had used artillery in the Western Regions, and the sounds of the exploding shells were like this.
The two men quickly shook General Rahman awake. General Rahman was confused and slapped the two men in the face. He said, "I was sleeping soundly, and you two actually woke me up. Don't you want to live anymore?"
This guy had no mercy on women and was about to kill one with his machete when the next explosion came. The worst thing was that the shell exploded near his house and the windows were blown open.
General Rahman had never seen anything like this. The Arab Empire had fought wars in many places and conquered countless lands, but they had never encountered such a situation. What kind of weapon was this?
"Someone come..."
When he wanted to stand up, he suddenly found that he could not stand at all. He drank too much yesterday and his whole body was sore. Now he felt like vomiting and there was no way he could fight.
If even he is in this situation, let alone the ordinary soldiers outside the city, who should be feeling even worse at this moment.
The soldiers outside were also awakened by the explosion, but they had the same idea as General Rahman, they had never seen this thing before. Although some people ran back last time, and the description they gave might be this thing, the description was still completely different from actually seeing it.
According to their thinking, as long as our horses are fast enough, we will rush in front of them before they can fire, so how can we be harmed? Now they finally understand that sometimes, no matter how fast your horse runs, you can't change the current situation.
The entire city was instantly engulfed in flames. The people of the Western Regions knew how to hide, which was to find a place to lie down first. At least this way the chance of survival was higher. If you ran around, the chance of being hit by the explosion would be greater.
The cavalry of the Arab Empire didn't care about this at all. They were all shaking their bodies looking for their war horses, but it was difficult to find their own war horses now. They could only mount a horse at random and rush towards the outside of the city. Others seemed to see hope, so they quickly found their swords and followed their predecessors to rush out.
When they just rushed out of the city, they found that the front was already densely packed with the Tang Dynasty army. Some of these people were holding a strange thing in their hands, and some were holding a long tube. They really didn't know what these were.
"shot."
Following Li Chengyi's order, the 500 soldiers in the first row opened fire instantly, and a large number of bullets were fired at the soldiers of the Arab Empire.
Then this group of soldiers retreated to the second line and quickly reloaded their muskets. The second row of soldiers were also ready. Because the accuracy of the first row of soldiers was too high, the soldiers of the Arab Empire were unable to organize a second wave of attack.
As long as Li Chengyi keeps his hand raised high, the soldiers below cannot fire at will. They must follow the general's orders. No matter how dangerous the situation is, they must have unified command. Only by firing in unison can they cause the greatest casualties to the other side.
When Li Chengyi saw that the soldiers in the second row had finished reloading, he immediately lowered his hand, and more than 500 guns were fired.
Too many people were killed in the first wave, so the second wave did not dare to rush forward. They thought that if they stood still they might not be hurt, but who knew that the Tang soldiers opened fire again.
In the first encounter, more than 700 people were killed. No one had ever seen such a strange war. If those who were killed in the explosion later were counted, more than 1,000 people were killed. They had seen many taboos along the way, but if they were to say that more than 1,000 people would be killed or wounded in the time it takes to stick an incense stick, they had never even thought about it.
General Rahman finally found his warhorse. When he rushed out of the city, he discovered that more than 1,500 people had fallen, not counting the dead and wounded in the city. They had been told before to be careful of the Tang army, but he didn't take it seriously at the time.
Now they finally understood that the Tang army was indeed not someone they could defeat.
"Retreat south."
This guy quickly analyzed the current situation and immediately led his men to retreat south. Only the south was wider, and that was the passage for them to escape.
