To the north is a hillside that stretches for dozens of miles. The morning sun rises from behind it, and the golden light is like flowers blooming all over the mountains and fields, and it is as bright as a continuous fire.
You can vaguely hear the sound. This sound should be thousands of people speaking at the same time, resounding throughout the world, but the distance is too far, so you can't hear it clearly.
The first thing that appeared in front of the Seljuk coalition forces was a Buddha flag. It was hung on a flagpole three to four feet high. The flagpole stood on a huge carriage with twenty or thirty high wheels and was led by twelve
Horses were pulling at the front.
The huge flag is like a sail, facing the Seljuk coalition. There is a Buddha statue embroidered on the flag. On one side, he has kind eyes and on the other side, he is glaring. He is making mudra with his hands - making a Vajra fist with both hands. The index finger of his left hand is straight up, and the index finger of his right hand is raised
The little finger wraps around the first joint of the left index finger, while the end of the left index finger rests on the first joint of the right thumb.
This is the Supreme Seal of Vajra that can destroy the darkness of ignorance.
This is exactly the Buddha statue of the Great Sun Tathagata painted with Zhao Si's appearance, draped in golden light, appearing in front of more than 200,000 Seljuk coalition troops.
On the left and right sides of the portrait, there is a vertical flag, flapping in the wind. The yellow background and the red word "Dou" can be seen clearly from a long distance.
"The rays of the great sun shine all over the darkness, and all things move within it!"
Soon, hundreds of Buddha statues and flags appeared, and four flags and twenty-eight-winged cavalry, holding the flags of Buddha and Bodhisattva portraits they believed in, appeared neatly and solemnly on the Talas prairie.
"I mani padme hum!"
When more and more Song troops appeared in sight, Sanjar and others finally heard clearly what the huge and deep voice on the opposite side was. More than 100,000 people chanted this simple sentence of only six words in unison.
The mantra seemed to solidify the momentum of everyone's unity into a huge cloud, which spread over the Song army.
Zhao Si wears a mountain salmon scale armor, a bright helmet on his head, a red cloak and a robe, and rides on a big red horse.
Following closely behind were three princes, each wearing different armor.
Zhao Kuo looked at the countless portraits and flags of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, frowned and looked back and forth a dozen times, and finally couldn't help but ask in a low voice.
"Father, why do you want to promote Buddhism? You are not teaching my sons and ministers. You should be wary of Buddhists, Taoists, and monks, and beware of them using religion to interfere with politics. Now that my father is so vigorously promoting Buddhism, I can't understand."
Zhao Si turned around and asked Zhao Lian and Zhao Geng: "Which of you can answer my brother's doubts?"
Zhao Lian and Zhao Geng shook their heads almost at the same time and said: "My son, I can't answer the question, please ask my father to clarify my doubts."
Zhao Si pointed at the flags of the Seljuk coalition opposite and said, "Do you know what is written on the flags opposite?"
"I heard the counselor explain that he is the only true God and the greatest."
"Yes." Zhao Si pointed at his side's flag again. They were equally matched, not losing to the opponent in terms of quantity and size.
"Only magic can defeat magic. The biggest driving force of the Seljuk coalition at present is jihad. Their warriors are all devout Moslin. Sanjar advocates this war as a war to resist and defeat the infidels and defend the world of Moslin.
.These devout warriors are extremely fanatical and will not hesitate to sacrifice their lives just to kill the enemy and dedicate everything to the true God."
After Zhao Si finished speaking, he asked the three princes, "Tell me, what should we use to offset this fanaticism?"
Zhao Kuo thought for a while and replied: "With the righteousness of the country! Loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and protecting the country are the responsibilities of every soldier. Fighting on the battlefield and being shrouded in horse leather is the honor of every soldier."
Zhao Geng said with a smile from behind: "Who among the majority of soldiers understand this? Most of them only know hundreds of characters from literacy classes, so how can they understand these big principles. Protect the home and country, brother, we are here to grab territory.
Are you here to avenge the innocent merchants of the Song Dynasty who were killed? Hundreds of thousands of soldiers have no connection with them, so we cannot empathize with them."
Zhao Kuo glared at him fiercely, but could not refute.
Zhao Lian thought for a moment and said, "Let's just say it's to rob pastures, cattle and sheep, money and women..."
He himself felt something was wrong and stopped abruptly.
Zhao Geng said righteously from behind: "Vulgar and superficial! How can we, the Great Song Dynasty, the Huanghuang Shangguo, the country of etiquette, and the country of gentlemen, carry such a banner? Wouldn't it make the world laugh at you!"
Seeing Zhao Lian shrinking his head and retreating, Zhao Kuo said fiercely: "Third brother, what do you think we should do? What method do you think we should use!"
Zhao Geng glanced at him with contempt, "Didn't Father just say that? Defeat magic with magic. Of course, religious fanaticism must be offset with religious fanaticism."
He looked at his father and continued: "These days, our army's missionary department is preaching all over the Western Regions, and the core theme is Moslin's attitude towards pagans. Many people on the grasslands of the Western Regions have suffered greatly from it. So.
Our army cheers for the Buddhists of Gaochang, Qiuci, Khotan, and Uighurs, the Gelulu people of Shamanism, the Turks, the Kipchaks, the Sogdians of Manichaeism, the Tocharians, and the Nestorians.
Ge Luolu, a native of Xijiasi, all responded positively to the call and formed a volunteer team to move forward bravely."
Zhao Si laughed loudly.
...
The two armies formed a camp dozens of miles long, separated by three to fifteen miles.
Sanjar couldn't wait to send out his elite division, a heavy cavalry equipped with heavy armor and horse armor, about three thousand horsemen. These people wore masks, held up long lances, and formed a dense formation in an orderly manner.
He walked out of his own formation and, under the cover of two horse archers, slowly advanced towards the Song army's central formation.
The heavy sound of horse hooves was like thousands of huge hammers, hitting the ground hard. The ferocious masks and tall war horses were all wrapped tightly in armor, with a metallic luster, as if they were walking
The steel monster.
The long lance, the sharp tip of the lance shines with cold light, as if it will pierce you with the next breath.
Under the command of a tall and mighty general, this heavy cavalry quickly found the direction of attack as it moved forward - facing the banner of the portrait of the Great Sun Tathagata Buddha, which was also the central camp of the Song army.
Behind him is Zhao Si, guarded by the bodyguards.
Seeing that Sanjar actually sent out the most elite heavy armored cavalry in a decisive battle, Zhao seemed very interesting.
He turned to the three princes and asked: "Can you guess the purpose of Sanjar's hand?"
Zhao Kuo and the other three thought for a while, looked at each other, and finally shook their heads.
Zhao Si shrugged, "I can't guess it either. Since I can't guess it, I won't guess it anymore. Just come and block it with troops."
Just as he was talking, the general leading the Seljuks ordered to blow the copper horn. Amidst the sharp sound of the copper horn, the three thousand heavy armored cavalry began to accelerate. The mounts breathed heavily and ran faster and faster, like a sledgehammer.
, and hit Song Jun hard.
First, a shower of arrows flew out from behind the formation and fell on the Seljuq heavy armored cavalry. Although it was an armor-piercing arrow shot by the divine arm crossbow, due to the long distance and the two layers of heavy armor on the cavalry, the three-wheel arrow
The failure was of no use to them. Except for dozens of unlucky ones who were shot in the vital parts of their mounts and fell to the ground. Most of the heavy armored cavalry continued to roar towards the Song army.
Seeing that the spears of their own heavy cavalry almost pierced the noses of the Song soldiers, the Seljuk coalition behind them burst into earth-shattering cheers. The voices of 200,000 people were overwhelming and set off a huge sound wave, pushing the heavy armored cavalry faster.
They rushed towards the Song army even more fiercely.
