Facts have proved that General Sima was right. Our logistics have always been the best in the world, but now our army has more than 13,000 people, and the daily expenses of eating, drinking, defecating and urinating are not a small number.
Of course, these things can be overcome, and even local materials can be used. Even if the army of the Arab Empire has searched this place several times, as long as we don’t have a conscience, we can still find food and drink.
But gunpowder is hard to find, especially those cannonballs, which take a long time to make. There are no workshops around, so how can they be made?
Therefore, what determines the distance the Tang army can advance is not the brains of a few generals, but the logistics troops behind them. How fast these people can run and where they can build military stations determine the distance the Tang army can advance.
About seven or eight hundred meters outside the camp gate, there were dozens of corpses of Arab Empire soldiers everywhere. The soldiers didn't even look at them. They dodged if they could, and if they couldn't, they just trampled over them. There was no emotion on the battlefield, not to mention that we were enemies. In order to save us enough time, your bodies were placed in the wrong place.
Of course, there are still some who are still breathing. If we encounter these people who are still breathing, our soldiers will draw out their steel knives. It does not require too much effort. When the warhorse rushes over, it only takes a light scratch, and these guys will be dead. Under this level of sunlight, water evaporates very quickly, and coupled with the loss of blood in your body, I believe that within four or five hours, you will probably ascend to heaven here. Letting you ascend to heaven in this case should be considered as our kindness.
If we leave you alone, you won't have the strength to stand up, or even move, and you might have to stay here for more than ten hours. If you hold on until tonight, your fate will be even more terrible, and you will have to repeat the same thing tomorrow. So if we kill you now, it will be a great help to you.
Many soldiers of the Arab Empire also understood this. During the two-day truce, they were indeed very uncomfortable. There were no Tang Dynasty pursuers behind them, but they were always on the brink of death. If anyone had experienced this, they would really want to die as soon as possible.
This feeling is really too uncomfortable. I definitely can't survive, but everyone has a desire to survive. They still want to survive. The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, unless your people come from behind and rescue you on a large scale, but even they themselves don't believe in this possibility.
It was no secret that the people of the Arab Empire often abandoned their wounded soldiers. Every time they broke camp and set out, the wounded and sick were gathered together and examined uniformly. If they had minor injuries that would not affect the advance of the entire army, they would be allowed to be taken with them, but they would only be given a sick camel. If they could survive, you would be lucky, otherwise you would die here.
But that was when they were winning battles, and the entire army had relatively abundant resources. There were also many civilian territories around, so they could easily get a large number of reinforcements, so these people were able to survive. But in the current situation, the surrounding civilians have long since fled, and the army doesn't even have a management system. Can you expect these people to search for the wounded and sick on a large scale?
This is simply impossible, so they have to endure the pain of scorching sun during the day. Most people have died in the process. Many people feel sad when they see their companions die during the day, but when night comes after suffering for a day, they realize how terrible it is.
Because they did not die during the day and the chance of dying at night is low, then the next day they will have to repeat what happened the previous day. If they have a choice, they will never repeat what happened the previous day. This is really terrible.
But then again, many people do not have the courage to commit suicide. They leave their fate to God. Then when you are dying, God will give you the most painful death. You don’t know how long you will suffer before God takes your life. This is a very cruel thing.
The marching speed of one hundred and twenty miles is very fast. The combat team under my command has been reduced from fifty people to fifteen people. A combat team of fifty people is really too exaggerated. If the other side still has an organized army, then we must maintain a combat team of fifty people, which can allow them to survive under any circumstances.
But now, apart from these dead bodies, all the Arab troops were several thousand meters away. When they saw the Tang army clearing the battlefield, these people also ran forward for their lives.
According to General Changsun's order, we don't need to race with these people. We just need to clean up the people lying on the ground. Today's results are already quite a lot. Moreover, according to our cleaning method, we can indeed guarantee zero casualties, unless some fools do not carefully check the corpses on the ground and let them explode from the ground. If these people die, it is because they were disobedient.
When the sun was about to set in the afternoon, they had already run 120 miles. According to reports from various troops, more than 4,000 people were killed today, of whom more than 2,000 were dead. They just reported their bodies. Chang Sunze had a small notebook of his own, and then he added this number and calculated how many troops the Arab Empire still had.
Of course, not all of the dead were soldiers of the Arab Empire. Some of them might have been fleeing civilians. When the Arab Empire was fleeing, they might have dragged these people along with them. For their imperial army, they could no longer care about so many things. Any living force would help them escape.
Why do I say that? If there were Tang troops behind them, they would pull these civilians out and stab them, and then these civilians would definitely not be able to escape. Whether they lay on the ground pretending to be dead or fought against the Tang army, this would help them escape.
The Arab armies in the past might not have been able to use their own people as scapegoats, but now at this critical moment of life and death, they are indeed able to do it.
