To be honest, this is indeed the first time that His Royal Highness the Prince has led troops to the battlefield. When he saw the soldiers around him, His Royal Highness the Prince was very nervous, but it was of no use. Since you have already led the troops to the battle, you have to go all the way. After this war, everyone will know that you have become an enemy of the Arab Empire.
The Tang Dynasty soldiers nearby are there to prevent deserters, and also to prevent His Royal Highness the Prince from causing any trouble. If His Royal Highness the Prince does not act recklessly, those people will not act rashly. If there is anything wrong with His Royal Highness the Prince, don't blame us for letting you down.
His Royal Highness had once considered whether his increased control on the battlefield would allow him to do whatever he pleased. However, he soon realized this was impossible. Although there were only a hundred Fuso soldiers, they were dispersed throughout the battlefield. If anything went wrong, they wouldn't be able to stop you, but they could send a signal, and the distant Tang soldiers would charge in. With only fifteen hundred Arab soldiers, they were powerless to stop anything. Besides becoming victims of the Tang soldiers' swords, what else could they do?
Fifteen hundred soldiers of the Arab Empire were really not many. Compared with their previous wars, this was not even a fraction of the number. When they arrived at the city closest to the military camp, the entire city had already been armed. The local official here knew that the head had been taken away, so he prepared for battle.
"Hackdin, do we really want to be enemies with His Royal Highness? Look at the army he just trained. They are much stronger than ours. If a fight really breaks out, we might not even have a chance of winning."
A temporary general's voice trembled when he spoke. Hakedin was the local leader. Of course, like Atez, he simply received a letter of appointment and then began to organize troops around him. They both dreamed of becoming officials, but they made completely different choices.
"You know nothing. We have family in the south. If the two of us die here today, our whole family will survive. If we flee for our lives, do you know what will happen to them? They will be stripped naked and dragged into the desert, then tied to those cacti and left to die in the scorching sun. Do you want your family to end up like this?"
Hackdin gritted his teeth and said that no one wanted to fight a war that was about to fail. He had more than 300 soldiers under his command. Except for a dozen people who were guards of his original family, the rest were all temporarily recruited. More than 30 people had run away before the battle even started. If he hadn't asked his own people to watch, there would probably be more people running away.
These people are not fools. They obviously feel that they are no match for His Royal Highness the Prince. If they are allowed to continue fighting, it will really be the end of their lives. Although His Royal Highness the Prince's men were recruited from refugees, they have at least been trained for a month and a half. We haven't even had a full meal for three days.
For these local officials, these temporarily recruited soldiers are like animals. You just have to ensure that they do not die. As for other rights, no guarantee is needed at all. So in this case, how could these soldiers work hard for you?
Take the people under Hakedin for example. Some of them came from more than a hundred miles away. They had no other thoughts when they came here, just wanting to have a full meal, but each person only had one piece of bread a day.
If this meal of bread was made entirely of grain, then these people would be grateful. Some people have already found out what was in the bread. In addition to a small amount of coarse grains, there was even soil and dried flour. If you think this is amazing, then the rest of the things would probably be even more amazing.
So from the moment they joined this army, many people started having diarrhea on the first day and continued to have diarrhea until the day they died. They really didn't know what they ate, and they didn't dare to ask this adult. After all, apart from these things, they had nothing else to eat. If they really angered this adult and he didn't even give them these things, they could only wait to starve to death.
These soldiers are not standing in a neat row and are standing far away from each other. This is not a tactic, but they are waiting for the enemy soldiers to charge. Once the enemy soldiers charge, these people will find a way to escape. If everyone stands relatively loosely, it will be easier to escape later.
Hakedin certainly understood this, but he didn't let his men take care of it because he, too, wanted to escape. The city had been completely burned except for its adobe walls. If the earth could burn, even the walls would be gone. What was the point of defending the land? What good would it be to hold on to this place? Would the court reward you?
It's nothing more than fighting a battle with His Royal Highness the Prince, and then after gaining this reputation, hurry back to the defense line of Beidaying and tell the people there about the situation here. If you are lucky, the higher-ups want to know the situation in the north, and maybe they will open a way to let you in. Then you can go back to the south, right?
Although the imperial court had issued an order prohibiting local officials in the north from returning, there was a precondition: they could not return unless something happened. Hadn't something happened here yet? Given the situation, we must return to report.
Of course, all this was just his personal imagination. After becoming enemies with His Royal Highness the Prince, it was hard to say whether they would be allowed to pass. If the people of Beidaying were stubborn and refused to let them pass under any circumstances, it would be useless for this guy to cry.
"Your Highness, it's time to launch an attack. We've been demonstrating here for quite some time, and it seems these people have no intention of surrendering. If we continue to stay here, I'm afraid we won't be able to capture them."
Matsumoto Yasuken reminded him that although this guy had never been to the battlefield, he had caught bandits in Fuso, so he knew the time.
