In fact, they have experienced many similar things along the way, but there is nothing they can do about it. When the Tang army retreated, they often buried a lot of explosives around here, and they didn't know how to remove them. Moreover, these things were everywhere, so many that they were almost scratching their heads.
For these people, they also want to be able to solve this thing, but the problem is that you can't solve it at all. If you can solve it, why do you need to wait until now? After all, many people die in each explosion.
Of course, the people who died directly are not a big deal. After all, after the explosion, these people died directly there. The most important thing is the psychological fear left to the soldiers. This problem cannot be solved. His Royal Highness the Prince also realized through this incident that the Tang Dynasty did not want to use this incident to kill many of them, but to leave a psychological fear in everyone.
This kind of psychological fear cannot be eliminated in a short period of time. The Tang army set up many traps in various places, which put all Arab soldiers in a crisis. Although there was no Tang army around, you were not safe. As long as you were a little careless, you might be blown to pieces.
At the beginning, they didn't notice that, including His Royal Highness the Prince, all their attention was focused on the wounded soldiers, thinking that they were the most miserable. But after a while, they felt that the living were more miserable.
After walking such a long way and not finding any water source along the way, these people were already on the verge of collapse. They finally found a well, and it was not polluted. You know, if the Tang army threw two corpses into it, the water in the well would be useless for drinking.
Being able to find an uncontaminated well was like a rebirth for them. Just as these people were frantically taking various things to draw water, suddenly something exploded and the people around were directly killed. Of course, there was no way to draw water from the well anymore.
Although some water could still come out and they were able to dig out the well, there would soon be a corpse in it. Long-term experience told them that if you continue to drink in this situation, you will simply get a stomachache, or if it is serious, you may lose your life.
The Tang army has everything under control. There's no way there's much water in the well. Someone will definitely go down to take a look. That person will surely be killed, their body submerged in the water. Can you still drink this water? The water source is right before your eyes, yet you can't reach it.
Everyone was aware of this kind of torture, so the crisis left to them by the Tang army was simply too serious. Moreover, when they found the well again, many people were already on guard, and no one was willing to go down to investigate the situation. This led to the fact that there were wells in many places, but these people did not dare to drink from them.
In fact, the Tang army did not bury this kind of explosives in all the wells. After all, when they retreated, they did not have many explosives. Most of the artillery shells had been used up in the war. If they wanted to set up this kind of explosives, they would need various fuses and gunpowder, so they could only choose a few important places.
But the soldiers of the Arab Empire did not dare to take the risk. Every time they went to find water, some people would die here. Unless they had no water at all, otherwise, these people would not choose to take the risk. Now so many people have died, and the remaining water cannot be drunk.
But some people could no longer care about so much. They were about to die of thirst. Even if they would get sick after drinking the water, they would still drink it frantically. Some of the remaining people had water, so they naturally walked far away. As for those who had no water, they could not bear it. After drinking, these people continued to follow the team on the road, but it was foreseeable that these people could only hold on for a few hours at most. After a few hours, various problems would arise in their bodies.
If the Arab Empire's army had military doctors, perhaps some people could survive, but unfortunately their army did not have this thing at all, so when they set out on the road, many soldiers would continue to fall down. This was also their non-combat casualties, which continued to erode their fighting will.
His Royal Highness the Prince was no longer willing to listen to this. He really wanted to see what kind of person the commander of the Tang Dynasty was. It was simply unimaginable that this person could handle all this so well. However, he did not want to see this person, mainly because this person had caused them too much harm.
Take the simplest example: being stuck in the desert for an extended period without water is a tormenting experience. Finally finding water, it's surrounded by traps and traps that could kill you if you're not careful. Is that human nature? Giving you a glimmer of hope, only to have it suddenly shattered—it's not something a normal person could do.
So in such a situation, whenever someone shouted that there was water, everyone did not feel relieved, but instead felt some trouble, or even felt a tightness in their hearts. After all, in this situation, an explosion might happen in the next second. If an explosion happened, it would be better not to discover the water scene.
They thought they were safe now, at least until they saw the Tang army, but they had encountered such things countless times on the way. Whenever they encountered such things, they could only watch helplessly from a distance and pray that they would not be the next unlucky ones.
His Royal Highness the Prince drew the curtain of the carriage, then fell on his side step and slowly closed his eyes, hoping that the night would come sooner so that he could fall asleep and no longer have to think about these annoying things.
His Royal Highness the Prince also wanted to go directly to the battlefield and kill four people. Even if he died under the artillery of the Tang Dynasty, it would be much better than such torture. He now admires the commander of the Tang Dynasty too much. It is estimated that the combat effectiveness of the army will be worn down by you along the way.
