Chapter 694: Building a City in Nanyang

Li Fei Yuanli's voice was fierce and evil, which scared Lin You to tremble with his legs. Only then did he realize that he had caused a big disaster. This army was not an elegant and etiquette army, but a tiger and wolf army. He trembled and told Prince Danduo of Li Fei Yuanli's threat. Prince Danduo stood there for a long time before saying, "Please wait, General, I will go back and discuss, and I will reply to the general!"

He waved his hand and took his entourage back with his entourage dejectedly.

Looking at the prince walking away, Li Fei Yuanli waved his hand gently. Several soldiers rushed to the south seventy steps, nailed a wooden stake into the beach, and fixed an Arab leather armor and a shield to the wooden stake. This was the armor bought by a soldier in the city shop and the standard equipment of the army of the Buddha Kingdom. This country did not have the technology to build armor, so the smart Arab merchants sold them this leather armor, which was the equipment left by the white-clothed Dashi. There was a large backlog in the Dashi warehouse, made of cowhide and tied with a strap behind. It was the oldest single-layer leather armor of the Arabs.

Dashi, who fought against the Anxi Army, has been replaced with more advanced three-layer leather armor and iron sheets on the shield. This is a technological progress forced by the powerful crossbow arrows of the Tang army. The equipment they eliminated was bought by the merchants and sold to the army in the more backward areas.

The Buddha's Kingdom bought 30,000 sets of these old leather armor and wooden shields from Arab merchants.

The Tang army is very familiar with this old leather armor and shield. In the Battle of Talas, the Dashi Army was equipped with this leather armor and wooden shield. The Tang army conducted in-depth research and knew that the most advanced Arab leather armor was against the Tang army's crossbow arrows. Within seventy steps, the leather armor would lose its defensive effect. If the iron wooden shield they used was added, then it would be forty steps to defend. In other words, the most powerful crossbow of the Tang army could continuously penetrate the most advanced three-layer leather armor and shields of the Arabs within forty steps.

Today they are facing the old-fashioned leather-armored wood escape, so the continuous piercing distance should be sixty steps.

Li Fei Yuanli was about to demonstrate in front of the soldiers. The leather armor and shields were already hung. Two crossbow soldiers holding divine arms and rode crossbows retreated sixty steps away, knelt down on one knee, raised the crossbow arrow and aimed at the targets sixty steps away. The shields and leather armor were stacked, which means they were about to penetrate them with one arrow.

‘Click! Click!’ With the sound of two crossbow machines, two powerful crossbow arrows roared past the Tang army and shot at the target one after another. Only two muffled sounds were heard. Both arrows pierced through the wooden shield and leather armor one after another, and the arrow continued to fly for more than twenty steps before stopping.

Needless to say, all the soldiers saw it. In fact, the lethality is more than 60 steps, and it should be within 70 steps. The Tang army's crossbow arrows have a killing effect.

Li Fei Yuanli waved his hand and whispered to the soldiers: "Everyone has seen it. I, Li Fei Yuanli, will never fight a battle without confidence. In today's battle, we will win with the smallest casualties in the history of the Anxi Army."

"General Lifei!"

Wei Qingping's shout came from afar, and two subordinates supported him and ran towards him. Li Fei Yuanli had a headache. He was not worried about anything else, but this civil servant was really a mother-in-law.

Wei Qingping ran over. Seeing that the Tang army soldiers were fully armed, he seemed to be preparing to fight. He was very anxious and hurriedly walked to Li Fei Yuanli and asked, "General, what are you doing?"

"I want to seek justice and give an explanation to the injured brother!" Li Fei Yuanli said coldly.

Wei Qingping sighed, "Why is General? The dignified Tian Dynasty Shangguo is just as calculating as a Nanyang island country. Is this a bit of a loss of identity?"

"identity?"

Li Fei Yuanli sneered, "I am not the kind of person who wants to save face. I don't care whether the other party is a small country or a great country. Since the person who killed me, I will have revenge and repay kindness. Sorry, Mr. Wei, your theory of Shangbang has no effect on me."

"You..." Wei Qingping pointed at him, so angry that he couldn't say a word. He said with a dark face: "If you dare to massacre civilians and kill innocent people indiscriminately, I will impeach you to the General."

"Mr. Wei, you're overthinking. Have I ever said I'd like to massacre civilians? I just want to teach these clowns a lesson and let them know what the power of the Celestial Empire is!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a thud of drums came from the city of Foley. The drums were getting more and more urgent. This was the sound of war drums. The army of the country of Saliver was about to fight against the Tang army. The drum sounded the Tang army's spirit. Li Fei Yuanli was so excited that he laughed, worried that they would not come! They came to the door.

Wei Qingping was also stunned. What's going on? Are they really overestimating their abilities and fighting against the Tang army?

Li Fei Yuanli smiled, "Mr. Wei, please go back first. There are no arrows on the battlefield. Come! Send Mr. Wei back to the ship!"

Two personal soldiers sent Wei Qingping back to the ship. Wei Qingping was worried. They were going to Xinde, so why did they go to war with the island country in Nanyang?

Li Fei Yuanli turned around and shouted: "Did you guys hear that? This is the barbarians of the desert island challenging my Tang Empire. Then let them learn the power of the Tang Empire! Brothers, pick up your swords and arrows and promote the power of my Anxi army!"

The short and powerful words made the soldiers excited. The sense of honor of fighting for the Tang Empire in a foreign land was lush in their hearts. The pride of being a warrior of the Tang Empire made them wave and shout, "Fight for the honor of the Tang Dynasty!"

"Fight for the power of Anxi Army!"

Li Fei Yuanli raised his horn and blew it hard. The low horn sound was floating on the island with the sea breeze, and twenty horn hands also blew the horn together, and the horn sounded throughout the island.

Li Fei Yuanli waved his hand and the two hundred cavalry team quickly hid in the coconut forest next to the beach.

At this time, the gate of Foli City was opened, and teams of soldiers from the country of Foli, wearing Arabian leather armor, left the city. They held spears and shields in their hands, and were covered with black spots, with as many as ten thousand people. There were a total of 20,000 troops in the country of Foli City, of which 10,000 were stationed in the capital. It was led by the emperor's uncle Sultanli. The toughness of the Tang army gave the main war faction led by Sultanli the upper hand, and they were impatient to go out to fight.

At this time, the sky was getting darker, but a full moon shone across the sea and land, shining the world like daytime. Before Buddhism was introduced, the Buddha passed away believed in the primitive witch religion. His king called himself a dragon spirit and liked to absorb the essence of the moon on moon nights. This belief in the moon made them think that the moon would give them strength. Although Buddhism had been introduced, they still had superstition about the moon in their bones. At the same time, their army tried to avoid the heat of the day and chose to train troops at night, which gave them the tradition of night battles. They believed that fighting at night could give full play to their advantages.

In fact, the Foshi National Army had only one advantage, that is, it was that it had more people, five times that of the Tang army. In terms of armor, they did not have the Mingguang armor of the Tang army, only the leather armor sold to them by the Arabs. In terms of equipment, they only had ordinary spears and wooden shields, and simple primitive bows and arrows. They did not have the powerful composite bows of the Tang army, nor did they have crossbow arrows, horizontal swords, and no cavalry of the Tang army. In terms of combat power, they fought with the Langxi people when they occupied Bangjia Island and expanded northward. However, their opponent today, the two thousand troops under Li Fei Yuanli, were the unyielding Anxi Army. They were born through many battles and blood. They were generally one head taller than the Foshi National Army.

The Buddha's army had only a large number of people, and the sense of superiority that he was the only one in the South China Sea for many years. When they encountered a stronger Tang Dynasty, they would develop a complex islander mentality of inferiority, jealousy and hatred. This mentality lasted for thousands of years until their descendants.

Their complex mentality was more vividly reflected in Uncle Wang Sudanli. When the Tang army offended his beloved concubine, he immediately ordered the killing of Tang soldiers. It was also from that moment that he decided to teach the Tang army a lesson and wipe out the uninvited Tang army.

The wide beach outside the city has become a battlefield. The troops of the 10,000 Buddhas have been arranged neatly. They train every day and are arranged neatly on the beach. Ten thousand people are black and lined up into a long square array. The spears are as dense as forests, and under the moonlight, they are also quite murderous.

This made the king watching the battle in the city breathe a sigh of relief. Perhaps they could defeat the Tang army. He couldn't help but sigh, hoping that this battle would not be the unfortunate beginning of the Buddha's death country.

"Father, I think it's not good!" Wang Zidanduo looked very nervous. He was staring at the Tang army. He found that the Tang army's formation was a bit strange. It turned out to be a crescent meniscus. The Tang army was originally much smaller. After being arranged in a crescent meniscus, it seemed that their troops were only a small group, as if they could be surrounded and annihilated in one fell swoop. But that's why he felt the strangeness and mystery of the Tang army made him feel a little nervous.

"What's wrong?"

King Superi was a little dissatisfied with his son's fuss, "I think our advantage is very obvious. Our army is obviously much more than the Tang army. Have you not seen it? As long as we form an encirclement of the Tang army and use our dense spear formation to wipe out the Tang army. Now you should think about how we should explain this incident to the Tang Dynasty."

Danduo sighed, "Let's talk about it after the war!"

The stubborn arrogance of his father and Uncle Wang made the young prince feel desperate. They were not fighting against the local army of the Tang army, but the powerful army that had been through the battlefield for a long time. He felt this way when he saw Li Fei Yuanli for the first time.

On the wide beach, the 1,800 Tang troops were arranged into the Yanyue Formation. This was a crossbow formation that the Tang army used its advantage in the powerful crossbow. The dense number of people in the middle was three-stage shooting, the two wings were two-stage shooting, and the two sides were ordinary shooting. Li Fei Yuanli had rich combat experience. He found that the opponent was indeed wearing Arabian leather armor, so he immediately decided to use a powerful crossbow to destroy the opponent in this battle according to the original plan.

Not only did he use a powerful crossbow, Lizhi Yuanli also buried two hundred cavalry as ambush. He found that the dense coconut forest in the south was simply a natural ambush.

The battlefield is a beach that is one mile wide and more than ten miles long. The two armies are four hundred steps apart. Under the moonlight, they have formed a formation, and the Tang army is motionless. They wait for the other party to subside. After waiting for the other party to lose their morale to stop, they take the initiative to attack. This is actually the same as the wolf pack tactics used by Li Baozhen in the salt port. This is a battle of willpower, and it depends on who can hold on to the end.

But the Foshi Kingdom army obviously had no intention of fighting willpower with the Tang army, and they did not have crossbow soldiers waiting for the Tang army to charge forward. Their tactics were to destroy the opponent's formation with high morale and absolute advantage, and then surrounded the opponent and quickly annihilated the opponent.

This is also the usual combat method of Nanyang Island countries. Their endurance is far less than that of soldiers in the northern high-altitude areas and they are not strong enough, but their explosive power is good, so they are not used to long-term fierce battles. They all advocate ending the war in the shortest time and relying on impact to destroy the opponent.

Today is no exception.

‘Dongdong-Dongdong!’ The sound of war drums sounded again. This was a kind of wooden drum. The drums were so loud that they made people nervous and impulsive. With the sound of shouting and killing, ten thousand soldiers ran towards the Tang army camp. The speed was very fast and the explosive power was indeed very strong. On the top of the city, King Superi couldn't help but be impressed by the powerful force that his own soldiers burst out.

They dominate the Nanyang Islands because of their strong military power. Their soldiers are training every day. The power they burst out during their attacks is enough to make any opponent frightened. He is very satisfied. Today seems to be even better than usual.

He sighed softly, "Greed is insufficient, this is the reason why Tang Jun failed. Why don't you accept my sincerity?"

Prince Danli's eyes were still very nervous. He heard from the translator Lin You guys that the Tang army's bows and arrows were very powerful, but how powerful were they? No one knew that it was obvious that the Tang army was going to use bows and arrows. Can their leather armor and shields block them?

Four hundred steps away, that is, more than one mile, ten thousand Buddhas and passing troops rushed in like a tide, with spears densely packed like forests, like tides under the gravitational force of the moon, rushing in the moonlight, especially spectacular. Sultanley was in the middle of the team, and he rode on his horse. He was the only one riding a horse with ten thousand troops. He held it to the knife and shouted, "Kill it!"

His head full of white hair was dancing in the moonlight, and he was extremely excited, "Kill a Tang army and reward ten taels of gold!"

Inspired by the heavy reward, the 10,000 troops became even more crazy and rushed a hundred steps away in an instant. Under the moonlight, they could see their dark faces and the hideous smiles on their faces.

The Tang army's formation was still as heavy as Mount Tai. One thousand eight hundred crossbow arrows aimed at the enemy's rushing like a frenzy. It had already entered the range of killing, but without military orders, no one dared to fire. Sixty steps, the Tang army was still motionless. The Tang army soldiers stared at the enemy's throat and chest with sharp eyes. After fifty steps, they could clearly hear the sounds of running and shouting, but Li Fei Yuanli's military order was still not issued.

Li Fei Yuanli bet a bet. He found that these soldiers did not block their bodies when holding shields in their hands, nor did they subconsciously cover their companions, which shows that they had never faced the experience of a strong bow and a hard crossbow.

Soon, the shield gradually became a burden to them. The army between island countries fought with wars, and not many bows and arrows were used. Their training and actual combat were all about holding spears with both hands. Now they could only hold spears with one hand, which seriously affected the impact effect of holding spears with both hands and was not in line with their combat habits.

At sixty steps, many soldiers had already thrown away their shields and instead held spears in their hands to attack the Tang army.

This made Li Fei Yuanli feel incredible. Did they think the leather armor on their bodies could block the powerful crossbow arrows of the Tang army?

In fact, more and more soldiers threw away their shields and instead held spears with both hands. After forty steps, nearly half of the soldiers had already thrown away their shields. After thirty steps, 80% of the soldiers had lost their shields. The time was already here, and Li Fei Yuanli waved his hand suddenly.

"shoot!"

‘Crack!’ A crisp sound of crossbows sounded, and the first round of one thousand arrows roared away. The distance was so close and the force was so strong. In the blink of an eye, there was a scream outside twenty-five and six steps. Hundreds of people fell to the ground. Then the second round of eight hundred arrows were shot out, and a large number of soldiers were caught and fell down. The two armies retreated thirty-five steps away. At this time, the first round of soldiers installed crossbow arrows again. They shot without ordering the crossbow, mounted arrows, pulled strings, raised crossbows, and shot. The arrows were like locusts and as fast as dense rain.

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Within ten steps of running, the Tang army had shot out more than 3,500 arrows in two rounds. Nearly 2,000 people fell into the enemy's arrows. The running tide seemed to be buried by overturned mountains. The distance between them and the Tang army had been extended to fifty steps, and the speed slowed down. The impact of the Foshi Kingdom Army began to significantly weaken.

The soldiers in front were extremely frightened and stopped, while the soldiers behind were still charging ignorantly without knowing the situation. In this way, they collided back and forth, and their formation began to become messy.

But the Tang army was still shooting mercilessly, with the sound of crossbows ringing in one circle, and overwhelming arrows flying in the air, covering the moonlight, and the pungent smell of blood filled the beach, and the despair of those who were not killed in the arrow were everywhere.

‘Dang! Dang!’ The rapid withdrawal order was sounded, but the Foshi Kingdom army was too forward, and it was not easy to withdraw. The arrows were still shooting the enemy in large numbers. The Tang army ran and chased, chasing the butt behind, and the Arab leather armor was tied behind them with a belt. When they turned around and ran away, their backs became empty.

The Tang army has shot nearly 10,000 arrows out of six rounds, and the deaths and injuries of the Foshi Kingdom's army have exceeded 5,000, which means that almost everyone is surrounded by arrows and falls.

The powerful crossbow arrows of the Tang army had destroyed the morale of the Foshi Kingdom's army. The army had completely collapsed. Every soldier was scared to death. They threw their spears and shouted in horror, running back without any life. The beach was full of small black spots running, one faster than the other.

On the city wall, Wang Zidan squatted down with pain. He had known that this would be the case. Even their soldiers could not even defeat the Arab merchants. How could they fight against the Tang army? Isn’t this self-destruction?

King Superi was stunned and his mind was blank. He felt that his kingdom was about to perish.

At this moment, a team of cavalry suddenly rushed out of the coconut forest, waving the swords, like a storm swept over. They cut off the retreat of the Foshi National Army. The cavalry team rushed into the crowd and slashed wildly, like a tiger slashing into the flock of sheep, causing a bloody storm under the moonlight. Uncle Wang Sultanli rode on the horse, which was particularly eye-catching. He became the first target of the Tang cavalry. More than a hundred arrows were shot, and Sultanli was shot like a hedgehog, and the body was planted from the horse.

The Tang army cavalry rode at lightning and rode their horses to intercept deserters. Every deserter who tried to break out of their blockade would be killed without hesitation.

The Tang army cavalry shouted in the local language they had just learned: "Surrender! Surrender!"

There was interception in front and pursuers behind. The soldiers were desperate. They were frightened and knelt down on the ground, surrendered, and surrendered. The Tang army stopped killing. This demonstration effect quickly expanded. Kneeled, and more and more soldiers knelt down, raised their hands to surrender, and finally all knelt down and surrendered, and more than 4,000 people were captured in total.

In this battle, 10,000 troops in the Foshi Kingdom were annihilated by the powerful crossbow formation of the Tang army, while the Anxi Army created a brilliant record of not killing one person and not hurting one person. However, this battle was eventually entrusted by Li Fei Yuanli to Li Qing'an to hide it, and there was only one reason, to bully the weak with the strong and win without force.

When the Tang army was at the city, Superi and Wang Zidanduo led nearly a hundred officials to kneel at the city gate, each of whom was naked. At this time, they were fish on the chopping board and were slaughtered by the Tang army.

Li Fei Yuanli brought five or six officers to the horse and looked at the fat king coldly. Superi was extremely frightened. He raised the golden key of the national treasury and shouted in inexperienced Chinese: "Our country is allowed to be taken by the Tang army, and hopes that the general will retain the lives of a country's untouchable."

Li Fei Yuanli turned around and smiled at several generals. He was not a kind-hearted army. How could he not want such a good thing as a pie in the world? It is said that it is rich in gold and gems, which he could not ask for. However, Li Fei Yuanli also knew that most of the wealth he had obtained had to be dedicated to the court.

"In addition to the wealth in the treasury, I want something."

Superi spent a few years in Guangzhou of the Tang Dynasty and knew a little Chinese. He understood the meaning of the chief general of the Tang army and hurriedly said: "As long as our country has it, the general will take it!"

"Okay! I want the Kingdom of Buddha to build a supply military city for the Tang Dynasty at the entrances and exits of the Malujia Strait. You must provide food for all seasons, and the territory of the Tang Dynasty is within a hundred miles of the military city."

This condition was not what Li Fei Yuanli thought of himself, but was encouraged by Sogdian merchants. Li Fei Yuanli was once the governor of Hezhong and had a very good relationship with the Sogdians.
To be continued...