According to Chang Sun Ze's plan, he originally wanted to pursue the enemy for thousands of miles, but he stopped the next day. The current situation does not allow for this, mainly because he was too tired last night. If he had attacked while resting, he could still hold on, but everyone was fighting on the battlefield, and now he really couldn't hold on.
Chang Sunze knew the fine traditions of this army and knew that they would never complain of being tired, but Chang Sunzi knew his own physical condition. Compared with these people, he was still a little stronger than them. Even he himself felt tired, so he could imagine how tired these people were. If he continued to give orders to attack, then this army might be destroyed in his hands. If Li Xiang held him accountable at that time, he could not bear such responsibility.
The entire Tang Dynasty only had 40,000 such troops, and there were plenty of opportunities to annihilate the Arab Empire's army. If this army was used up, Li Xiang would definitely not forgive him. So after weighing the pros and cons, Chang Sun Ze ordered his troops to start resting. However, when facing General Sima, he felt a little embarrassed. He had just made a plan, but it was abandoned immediately, which was somewhat like changing his mind every day.
"I understand. In this situation, even if we continue the pursuit, we might achieve some results, but the soldiers are too tired. They might suffer some injuries and won't be able to recover their combat effectiveness in the next few days. Anyway, those people can't run fast. We can just rest for half a day and still catch up with them."
When General Sima saw Changsun Ze's expression, he immediately understood what was going on. The Arab Empire army fleeing in the distance also began to stop and rest. They should have consumed more physical energy. After all, many people did not have any livestock at all, and only a few people managed to snatch livestock.
And during yesterday's escape, there were other new things that happened. That is, when some people from the Arab Empire were escaping, they had clearly grabbed camels, but they did not run away. Instead, they injured other camels.
At first, no one understood what it meant. "Don't you feel bad doing this?" You know, in the desert, these camels are your brothers. But soon everyone understood that if you injure these camels, they will run around and charge into the Tang Empire's army.
Second, there was no way to get camels for the brothers, so they had no choice but to surrender. After these brothers surrendered, the Tang army had to find a way to keep an eye on them, so there was no way to continue chasing those who fled, and those who fled had a great chance of survival.
When the talented people in the Tang army analyzed it, everyone around them didn't know what to say. Should they praise you for your intelligence? Or praise you for your cunning? You're so selfish that so many people are following your example.
Of course, it was precisely for this reason that Chang Sun Ze did not order the army to pursue them relentlessly. If we continued to pursue them like this, our people might become more and more scattered. If someone were to make a surprise attack, we would be in trouble.
Don't think that such things will not happen. Anything can happen on the battlefield. When we don't have large-scale casualties, we must take into account various situations and try to avoid them. This is what a qualified commander does. After General Sima figured out these things, he seemed a little arrogant before. He was still far from being a qualified general. Chang Sun Ze could think of it.
"Stop, stop..."
Sambik was already out of breath. Although he was riding on a camel, it would still consume his physical strength. He had been running for several hours now. There seemed to be no one in front except the two of them. There were dozens of people behind him, but Sambik would not team up with them. If he teamed up with these people, he would not be able to survive in the future.
Sambik is very wise. He knows what kind of people to form a new team with, those who look stupid and have survived the war. By giving them some small favors, one of them will continue to become the captain, and then continue this way of escape.
Although it is a bit ugly to harm one's own brothers, the two of them have no shame now. For these two people, face has no effect at all. If you want to survive, you must first learn to abandon face. If you can't learn this, then you are destined not to survive on the battlefield.
For Sambik and Laf, the reason they were able to live so long was because they understood all of this. No matter what the circumstances, everything they did had a reason. If there was no reason, then these two people would not do anything.
"We lost some stuff when we were running away just now. Let's hurry up and bury the supplies. Others will catch up with us soon. We have two camels, so I think it's better to kill one. Otherwise, others will suspect us."
Raf looked behind him and saw more and more heads appearing. It would take at most an hour for these people to catch up with them. Seeing so much supplies on the two men and a camel each, they would definitely ask where they got it. If your story was not complete enough and there were officers around, they would probably use your head as a sacrifice. Don't think that such a thing will not happen.
During the chaos just now, no one would care what you did, but if things calm down now, the officials would still investigate this matter. The two had seen people beheaded before, and those people were the ones who took advantage of the war, so the two could never let such a thing happen to them.
"Don't worry, buy these supplies first. As for the water, we'll give it to the camels after we finish drinking it."
Sambik didn't want to kill a camel, because in the current situation, he didn't know what the situation would be. If he killed a camel and the Tang army caught up with us again, then we two would probably die here. Of course, they had an innate advantage over the Tang army, which was that they could survive in the desert longer.
