After hearing the words of the captain of the centurion team, the people in the team hurried to move. They knew how terrifying those people were. If they were remembered, your team would be at the front in every battle. Even if you wanted to refuse, it would be impossible.
After leaving their hometown, these people are like rootless water. They have to listen obediently to what their superiors tell them to do. If they don't listen, it would be too easy to kill a group of people on a battlefield in the wild.
According to some veterans, when the Arab Empire's army was fighting outside, the number of soldiers who were killed for disobeying orders was even greater than the number of soldiers who died directly on the battlefield. Of course, this has not been confirmed, and no general would admit it.
They are not fools. If they admit this, it means that morale has begun to decline from within, so this has always been a rumor. At the beginning, Sambik and Raf did not believe it, but after staying in the Arab Empire Army for a long time, they increasingly believed that this was a fact.
At the beginning, they thought that the army did not care about the lives of the refugees, because those refugees were of little use to the entire empire, but instead brought huge trouble to the entire empire.
But after today, they realized that the lives of soldiers weren't that important, at least not the lives of ordinary soldiers. They had witnessed with their own eyes how a dozen soldiers who disobeyed orders were killed without a trace. Weren't these people the vital force of the Arab Empire? If you don't care about the lives of your soldiers, how can you expect them to fight for you?
"Remember this, we're on a forced march now. You drink when I drink, and you can't drink when I don't. We don't know how much water we'll get next time, so these are our lives. If anyone wants to fight for them, you have to protect these bags of water with your own lives."
Raf whispered to Sambik that Sambik was originally wary of Raf, but now he felt guilty. Raf was like an older brother who had been taking care of Sambik from the beginning until now. If it weren't for Raf, Sambik might have lost his life long ago.
Of course, Laf is not that kind-hearted. He cannot trust anyone around him, even if they came out together. Fortunately, Sambik is a good guy. As long as the two of them stick together, if someone around bullies them, the two of them can fight back. This can be regarded as a small survival group.
The two of them were relatively lucky, at least one of them was very familiar with the surrounding situation. But for the other soldiers, they were not so lucky. They were not very clear about some of the rules in the team and thought they were very safe in their own barracks. People who have such ideas need to be taught a lesson by others.
Take their team of 100 people for example. In a short period of time, 30% of the people have been replaced. Why did they replace these 30% of people? It was because those people were slaughtered, some by refugees. This is their job and there is nothing they can do about it.
But there is also a group of people who were killed by their own people, which is a bit depressing. You know, when they were killed by their own people without doing anything wrong, they didn't even know why. Sambik and Laf had already realized this and had to be on guard when facing their own people, so the two of them are still alive today.
The supplies in the team are extremely limited, so it is normal to rob other people's supplies. Sambik and Laf have a principle that they will not rob others, but if someone comes to rob theirs, they can kill the invading enemy with their strong bodies and previous experience. So these two people look a little stronger than others because they also robbed some supplies.
There must be at least tens of thousands of troops setting out this time. Laf stood by and watched. The long team was basically two people in a row. Although the team was a little longer, it could allow the team to disperse and avoid being attacked by others. If they were all crowded together, once there were Tang Dynasty troops around, they might bombard us at any time.
The army of the Arab Empire has also made progress. During the long-term combat, they also saw the power of artillery and knew how to avoid artillery. That is, during the attack, we must disperse. The previous intensive attack method really made the artillery battle powerful. Of course, the final result was to use our bodies to accumulate their military exploits.
So after a period of improvement, the generals of the Arab Empire required them to leave some space around themselves whether they were marching or fighting, and not to let the troops be too dense. Only in this way can we win. Although there will be some losses during the charge, compared with the original losses, isn’t this loss much less?
Prince Landin was also riding in a carriage at this moment. As a prince of the Arab Empire, he naturally had more privileges than others, but the weather would not make you more comfortable just because you were a prince. The carriage was also extremely dry. Although some ice was loaded in it, Prince Landin was still a little anxious.
All the generals were unwilling to go to the Caspian Sea to fight because they understood that it would be useless to go there because the local army had been defeated. According to the defense map of the Arab Empire, there were five cities there that could be defended, which meant that their city walls were high enough. Now according to the latest news, more than half of these five cities have been lost, and there are only two cities left to continue resisting.
But according to their experience, they would probably become spoils of the Tang army in a few days at most. The Tang army was strong in field combat, but their ability to attack cities was even stronger. So Prince Landing also understood that it would be basically impossible for them to gain a foothold in a big city after that.
Of course, he is not a fool. If he enters a big city, it would be equivalent to finding a living target for the Tang army, who could kill him at any time.
