In various battles, the Arab cavalry has almost summed up their experience. There is no need to be afraid when facing such infantry. Just swing your sword and go forward. As long as your speed is fast enough, you can accumulate several military merits.
And after wiping out this infantry, all the valuables on these people will be yours. You can calmly take out their belongings and put them in your own pocket. This is also a good way for the Arab army to make a fortune.
In the eyes of many Arab soldiers now, the Tang Dynasty army in front of them is like walking wealth. As long as we can chop off their heads, we can clean up the battlefield later. As for the Tang Dynasty troops in the distance, we don’t have to care about them at all. After we chop off the heads of the army in front of us, those people will definitely be scared and will call us desert demons or something like that. The Arab Empire’s army likes such nicknames very much because it represents fear of others.
Just when their speed reached its maximum, a large amount of white smoke suddenly emerged from the front row. They didn't understand what was going on. Could it be that the Tang Dynasty army was casting a spell?
You have to know that in this day and age, no matter which country, people are very superstitious, and many people are also very aware of this. So when they were still wondering, some people had already fallen off their horses, and some war horses and camels were also killed.
How could this be possible? How could such a thing happen? Many Arab soldiers were searching for the cause. They didn't know what had happened to these people, but one thing was clear: their deaths were directly related to the white smoke.
The cavalry troops who were full of fighting spirit just now, now don't know what to say. They originally wanted to harvest other people's heads, but now it seems that it is far from being a problem. There is a high possibility that they will be harvested by these people. If this is the case, then we are really finished.
The first wave of attack by the Tang army only killed about 400 people, mainly because the Arab cavalry rushed too slowly. If they could rush faster, we could kill 700 to 800 of them in the first wave. You must know that the Tang cavalry fired 1,400 projectiles and only killed about 400 people. This is a very shameful result.
When they were training in the training camp in Chang'an City, most of them were able to achieve excellent performance standards. If the number of enemies was large enough, the previous wave of shooting could have killed at least 700 people. Now there were only 400 people, and many people felt embarrassed. They usually thought they were aces during training, but only after they got to the battlefield did they realize that there were many ways to restrict military merit.
Just as the Tang soldiers were repenting, the Arab soldiers felt fear. You know, they had lost more than 400 people in just one encounter. If those who fell to the ground were counted, there would be at least 500 or 600 people. They had never fought such a war before. These were a group of infantrymen. Even if their archery skills were able to shoot through the target from a hundred steps away, they probably didn't have such ability. What's more, how did their arrows shoot from such a distance?
In the minds of many Arab soldiers, they had no idea what a musket was, and naturally they didn't know that it was because of gunpowder that the bullets could fly so far. They all thought it was because of the bow and arrow, but many people did not see arrows on the battlefield.
When the soldiers in the first row finished shooting, they stood still and reloaded bullets. The soldiers in the second row immediately came over from behind and fired at the front. After they finished shooting, the soldiers behind them had also finished reloading. Nearly three thousand musketeers took turns shooting and advancing in this way.
By the time each of them had fired four bullets, they were already fifty meters away. No one knew how many soldiers of the Arab Empire had fallen. Now these people finally knew to run back. Just now, some of them had run forward foolishly, but as a result, their bodies were shot like honeycomb coal.
When the people behind ran back, only half of the more than 7,000 cavalrymen were left. If it weren't for the camels and war horses running around and delaying the Tang army's sight, the Tang army would have continued to advance. However, even so, the army coming out of the south gate had already been crippled.
Although they moved fast enough and were able to run back to the Arab Empire's military camp, after they ran back, in addition to saving their lives, they would also spread fear about the Tang Army, especially the Tang Army's new combat methods. When all the soldiers of the Arab Empire understood it, it might not be so good.
Muhammad watched all this in amazement. The Tang army's infantry was so powerful, how did they create all this? Someone once said to him that although the Arab Empire was very powerful, it still had a certain gap compared to the Tang Empire in the East.
There were more than one person who said such things, but General Hud, like his Caliph, had them killed directly. You people have no idea how powerful the Arab Empire is, so you say such childish things.
But now he thinks he was extremely wrong. If someone had told him this at the beginning, if he had listened to it, he would have been able to investigate the news of the Tang army carefully and then formulate a series of practical plans. Only in this way could he defeat the Tang army and win.
Unfortunately, some things were not as good as he thought. Even if he started paying attention at that time, he might not be able to win now.
Muhammad heard a commotion in front of the military camp. It turned out that the burning fire was extinguished. However, it was not necessarily a good thing for them, because the artillery fire of the Tang army began to extend, and the musketeers on the left, after organizing their troops, began to slowly move towards the main camp. As for the spoils on the battlefield, they didn't even look at them. This was completely different from the Arab Empire. After the battle, the Arab Empire's army would first look at the spoils.
