The north bank of the Talos River was crowded with injured soldiers of the Anxi Army. Their faces all wore a kind of indifference without sadness or joy, and indifference itself was sometimes more terrifying than grief and fear.
Anxi Metropolitan Protector Gao Xianzhi looked at the thousands of floating corpses floating in the Talos River and frowned. After careful calculation, today is already the seventh day since the duel with the main force of Dashi. Seven days later, they still can't tell the difference.
Win or lose! The endless tug-of-war made both sides miserable, with repeated attacks, repeated tests, and repeated withdrawals.
Until the last moment, not even a brave general like Abu Muslim dared to launch a general attack. Gao Xianzhi sneered slightly. He had four or even five times more troops than himself, but he was so cautious in arranging his troops.
It’s no wonder that the giant cannibal is able to move forward step by step and then sweep across the river, becoming invincible.
However, there is nothing masculine about this way of leading troops. Even if the chance of victory is great, it is still looked down upon by others!
Gao Xianzhi clenched his fists slightly, the damn big cannibals are really cunning, they are waiting for themselves to run out of food, waiting for the morale of the Anxi Army to waver!
Alas! If I hadn’t gone to Talas City quickly, I wouldn’t have buried most of the army rations in the valley military camp! Now it’s good that Talas City was not captured, but it was led by hundreds of thousands of cavalry.
Stumbling, unable to evacuate!
"Xiu Shi, how many days do we have rations?" Gao Xianzhi shook his head and asked in a deep voice. What worries him most now is not the strength of the cannibal's troops but his own rations. Although he ordered Sicang fifteen days ago
Joining the army reduced the daily rations of each person by half, but after careful calculation, there should be very little left today. If there is really a shortage of food, it will be more terrifying than hundreds of thousands of enemy cavalry.
"Commander Gao, if we eat sparingly with the food stored in the army, we may be able to last for three days."
Duan Xiushi hesitated for a moment, but finally told the truth.
"Three days!" Gao Xianzhi took a deep breath and raised his eyebrows slightly. "What if it's really only three days?"
"If I eat sparingly, I can survive for three days if I eat one dry meal and one dry meal. If I eat two dry meals a day, I'm afraid I can only last two days at most."
Duan Xiushi sighed and said: "Commander Gao, Da Shi wants to deprive me of food! Although our military strength has been reduced, it is not yet to the point where we cannot fight. How about we actively seek opportunities and fight with Da Shi?
People fight!"
He has long been unable to stand this kind of ambiguity and testing each other's empty airs. Instead of being killed by the cannibal's tricks like this, it would be better to fight to the death!
"What's going on with Siye?" Gao Xianzhi did not directly reply to Duan Xiushi, but changed the subject and talked about Li Siye's Mo Dao Army.
"He? He's doing a pretty good job over there. After all, in the whole army, only his 2,500 swordsmen can get three jobs a day."
Duan Xiushi spread his hands and continued: "Two hours ago, the two cannibalistic right-wing cavalry attempted to harass our center army to coordinate with the advance of the pike army in the front. This group of guys who don't know whether to live or die just came into contact with Si Ye's sword.
, he and the horse were cut into two pieces!"
Speaking of this show, I finally let out a bad breath. "A total of two thousand light-armored cavalry, three or four hundred were lost in vain, and we didn't even see our Chinese army flag!"
"Do you think it's feasible if Siye cooperates with the two cavalry forces to advance with all their strength?" Gao Xianzhi asked suddenly, looking at the dark military camp a mile away.
"Commander Gao! You must not do this!" Duan Xiushi was shocked and quickly dissuaded him: "Although the Mo Dao Army is powerful, it is not good at advancing. If they defend the position, they can completely defeat the Great Food Cavalry, but if they are allowed to cooperate with the two wings,
A strong attack has no chance of winning!"
Before the war, it was taboo to talk about defeat and other depressing words, but Duan Xiu actually saw that Gao Xianzhi almost made a mistake, so he didn't care about it and kept discouraging him. Each soldier of Mo Dao Army wore more than forty kilograms of Mingguang armor.
It is heavy, and the heavy Mo Dao weighs at least forty kilograms. Let Mo Dao carry this much weight to fight against the giant man-eating man. This is not bravery, but death!
"What you mean is that we can only defend!" Gao Xianzhi was obviously a little unhappy, and his face immediately dropped. Although the Tang army's armor and weapons were slightly stronger than the cannibals, they did not have an overwhelming advantage. If not at this time,
Using the Modao Formation as a sharp weapon to attack Huanglong, there is no way to defeat the enemy immediately.
"It's not that we can only defend, but we can't attack like this!" Duan Xiushi shook his head and nodded to the west: "Commander Gao, you see, the left wing of the Great Eater is basically a coalition of Zhuhu and Hu. Not to mention whether they are really united.
They are willing to sacrifice their lives for the big eater, and just by seeing the weapons in their hands, we know they are nothing to worry about."
What he said is true. In order to get the number of soldiers required by the cannibals, the Hu Kingdom in the river temporarily recruited many young men from the country. Although the number of soldiers was enough, the weapons and armor were not available in a short time.
It can be purchased. Therefore, the Zhuhu coalition forces
Although it is said to be a hundred thousand, in fact, the number of soldiers equipped with leather armor and long knives is not even one of the three. The remaining soldiers are mostly young and strong armed with wooden sticks and kitchen knives. They are the so-called one of the three.
They were elite, and their weapons and armor were completely incomparable to those of the Anxi Tang Army.
"You want me to learn how to race horses from Tian Ji?"
Gao Xianzhi began to hesitate, and what Duan Xiushi said was not unreasonable. Although the Zhuhu coalition forces were originally recruited by Abu Muslim to consume the strength of the Anxi Tang army, Abu Muslim would not feel distressed no matter how much the losses were. But this part of the soldiers was actually
However, it is the weakest link among the three armies of Dashi. If we can create a gap from here and then drive the defeated troops into Dashi's central army, we may have unexpected effects.
"But we don't have that many 'horses'!"
Unlike Tian Ji, even if he used his most elite cavalry to attack the weak left wing of the Great Eater, the remaining inferior horses would not be able to withstand the powerful attack of the Great Eater. In other words, there was a huge gap between them and the Great Eater's military strength.
If there are too many, if you can't concentrate your advantages to attack the center, sooner or later they will be cut off and consumed one by one by the cannibals.
"How will you know if you don't try!" Duan Xiushi didn't want to give up, and fought hard: "Commander Gao can keep Mo Daoshou in the middle army to support the cavalry, so even if Abu Muslim sees our idea and sends heavy cavalry to attack our center
Even the Mo Swordsman can hold off for a while. As long as he can drive back the Zhu Hu coalition forces and form a force that rolls back the bead curtain, by then he, Abu Muslim, even if he is the reincarnation of a god, will not be able to turn defeat into victory!"
As soon as these words came out, Gao Xianzhi was really tempted. What Duan Xiushi said is true. When one's own troops are far outnumbered by the enemy, they will often attack their weak points with a side attack. In this way, as long as the enemy's position is in chaos, he can take advantage of the defeat.
When soldiers attack the enemy's central formation, the chaos is beyond human control.
"But, can he really last that long?"
"We have to hold on even if we can't hold on. We only have this chance, Commander Gao!" Duan Xiushi paused and said, "Besides, we still have your personal troops. The baggage team has not been sent out. At critical moments, we can serve as surprise troops on the battlefield to support him.
Industry!"
"Let me think about it again!" Gao Xianzhi put his hands behind his back and paced. "What if the cannibal right wing phalanx attacks the back row of our center?"
Gao Xianzhi raised his eyebrows and revealed what he had been most worried about from beginning to end. The right wing of the Great Cannibal was composed of spearmen and light cavalry. Although their combat power was not as good as the heavy armored cavalry of the central army, they could still be regarded as the best in the Khorasan military system.
Elite. When the time comes, I will send my main force to attack the left wing of the cannibal, and Siye will struggle to resist the heavy armored cavalry from the front. By then, who will deal with the Khorasan light cavalry and the spear array?
After all, Gao Xianzhi is still a clever woman who cannot make a meal without straw!
"Gao Shuai, we can't think so much! If we continue like this, without the intrusion of the cannibals, the brothers can almost run away on their own!" Not wanting Gao Xianzhi to be too discouraged, Duan Xiushi sighed: "After all, the Geluolu people
They are all cavalry, so they can contain the large food cavalry first, and only need to spend one time to buy time for the main force of our army!"
In the past few days, members of the Military Law Corps have caught soldiers fleeing the camp at night. Although Duan Xiushi could not bear it, in order to serve as a warning to everyone, he ordered them to be beheaded outside the camp gate and hung their heads on the
Displayed to the public on a bamboo pole.
Why did the brothers escape when they were fine? Haven't you heard the news about the shortage of military rations? Now it is two rations a day, and in a few days it will be one ration and one ration a day. By then, I am afraid that it will not only be an escape, but even a ration.
Mutiny is impossible!
"If I ask you to lead this main cavalry, what are your chances of winning?" Gao Xianzhi took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice.
"As long as Si Ye can withstand two hours, I can defeat Dashi's left wing in just two hours! General Mo is willing to issue a military order. If the military order cannot be completed by then, the commander-in-chief will handle it according to military law!"
Duan Xiushi knelt down on his knees, rushed to Xianzhi and clasped his fists suddenly: "Commander Gao will look at the colorful flag raised by our cavalry army when he arrives. If it is red, he will mobilize Geluolu and Bahan's cavalry to attack the Great Cannibal's formation. When they get there,
At that time, the army in Dashi was defeated, and this station will be victorious!"
"Okay, I will appoint you as the conquest general and command 10,000 elite cavalry to attack their left flank!" Gao Xianzhi felt extremely proud for a moment, patted Duan Xiushi on the shoulder and said: "I will be waiting for you in the central army.
Good news, when the red flag is raised, all the troops will be dispatched to follow you straight to Huanglong!"