Chapter 933: From East to West
Just when the Bedouin people used the seabed springs to recharge freshwater supplies to attack Mesopotamia, the Liang army also launched a new round of east-to-west offensive in the southern part of the Bedouin Desert.
As the forefront of Bedouin stronghold, Ain Oasis was the first to be attacked by the Liang army. When thousands of Liang army war cavalry appeared on the sand dunes in the distance, the Bedouin people stationed here were still driving dozens or hundreds of Aksum slaves to reinforce and expand various fortifications.
The Bedouin soldiers began to scream, but the leader of the Bedouin chief was calm and put on a gaze on his hand to look at the war cavalry. After observing for more than ten days, he said, "There are not many soldiers and horses coming, and they can't surround us. We can hold on for a while, and then retreat after slamming their spirits." After that, he winked at his deputy.
After a while, the Bedouin people who were monitoring slaves' work suddenly drew out a machete and slashed at the slaves. The latter was caught off guard and was killed one by one by one by one by one by one by one by Sabir. Because according to Sabir, when the Liang army swept across the Bedouin tribes in the northern part of the desert, many slaves turned against each other and suddenly attacked the Bedouin people from behind. So this time the Bedouin people learned a lesson. As soon as the Liang army appeared, they killed them to eliminate future troubles.
Of course, slaves are also their precious property, so most of the slaves have been transferred to the oasis behind them together with women, children and livestock. The slaves left behind are to squeeze them out their labor and build fortifications and then sacrifice them for use.
The arrows of the Hu cavalry of Liang's army came like a sudden rain, but these Bedouin people jumped into the trenches in the yellow sand on the edge of the oasis and some sand pits that accommodated individual soldiers behind them.
However, their war horses and camels are hidden in a natural river valley in the heart of the oasis. The arrows are difficult to hurt these mounts from no matter which direction they come from. Either they are not at a sufficient range or are blocked by the hills.
After a while, the barrier on one side of the trench was "overlaid" with arrow rods. At the same time, the Liang army cavalry were getting closer and closer. When they were less than a hundred steps away from the trench, Chief Bedouin shouted: "Battle". The Bedouin people stood up from the trench, bent their bows and pulled the strings, and shot an arrow at the Liang army cavalry nearly a hundred steps away. They were not divided into their troops, and each of them was equipped with a crossbow.
The protection of these Liang army Hu cavalry cannot keep up with the protection of Liang army light cavalry Feiyu. Most of them were wearing some leather armor, and some even wrapped in animal skins to use as armor. Therefore, the arrows shot at them were extremely harmful to them, and from time to time, some people fell off their horses after being caught.
One of the Hu cavalry who rushed to the front had an arrow, and red blood oozed out of the penetrated leather armor. Fortunately, the wound was not deep, so he continued to grit his teeth and run forward, only a few battles away from the ditch. At this moment, rows of spears suddenly popped out of the trench and pointed at the sky.
The Bedouin people didn't like to use spear guns, and their melee weapons were generally made with scimitars. These spear guns were temporarily cut with wooden sticks and did not have metal spear blades, but this was enough to deal with high-speed combat cavalry.
Sure enough, the cavalry of the Liang army had no time to turn or stop the horse stance, and hit him head-on. The spear spear instantly pierced into his body of the war horse, and the man flew out of the saddle and fell heavily on the ground behind the trench. There was a sand pit for soldiers hidden near where he landed. The Bedouin soldiers inside jumped out and took a knife and cut off his head.
Another Hu cavalry approached him quickly and tried to let the war horse jump directly over the gun forest. However, with a long roar of horses, the horse's belly was cut open by the tips of these spear guns. He turned his whole body over and was also pierced by a spear gun.
The Liang army and Hu cavalry in the rear hurriedly turned around and circled around the outer periphery of the oasis, trying to find a breakthrough. However, there were thousands of Bedouin defenders in this oasis, with defensive soldiers in all directions, and their trenches were well developed and could dispatch people at any time. Therefore, Hu cavalry changed several positions and failed to penetrate the opponent's defense line after rushing several times.
Just as these Liang army Hu cavalry were moving in a hurry, dozens of Liang army heavy cavalry who were watching the battle formation in the rear rushed up. The Bedouin arrows roared, but they could not pose any threat to them. Whether the arrow clusters hit the human body or the armor on the mount, they all shot to the ground with a crisp sound of clang, leaving at most a small pit on the armor.
The expressions of the Bedouin people suddenly became panicked. Seeing that these Liang troops were rushing closer, they threw away their crossbows and raised the sharpened wooden poles again. Unexpectedly, Liang troops suddenly slowed down their horses and jumped off their war horses and rushed towards the trench with their heads in hand.
How could the Bedouin wooden spear guns cause any damage to these Liang army knights wearing heavy armor? A Liang army heavy armor knight pulled and pushed with his hands, separated Ru Lin's spear gun, and he bent two steps before jumping into the trench.
The Bedouin people hurriedly threw away their useless spear and guns and touched their own scimitars. The Liang army had stabbed them quickly with a sword. They stabbed five or six Bedouin people in just one breath in just a few breaths.
A Bedouin behind him quietly slashed him behind his back with a scimitar in his hand, but suddenly felt a chill, and then he saw the tip of a squid bulging out from his chest. It turned out that more Liang Jun heavy armored knights jumped into the trench.
For the Bedouin people, in such close combat in the trench, it was a one-sided massacre. Some Bedouin people began to run away in panic, and they rushed out of the trench and ran towards the depths of the oasis.
However, they were immediately shot by the Liang army's Hu cavalry, and from time to time someone was shot and fell to the ground, and some of the Liang army's Hu cavalry even crossed the trench.
Seeing this, the chief in another position of the trench knew that he could not defend it anymore, otherwise the Liang army would seize the mount hidden in the central valley of the oasis and they would never be able to retreat safely. Thinking of this, the chief hurriedly shouted: "Send an order, withdraw troops! Retreat all! Give up the oasis!"
Soon, these Bedouin people retreated along the trench like a trench toward the center of the oasis hinterland, and some simply climbed out of the trench and ran wildly on the ground. Liang Junhu rode aboard the plane and crossed the trench and chased from different directions. For a moment, amid the screams and howlings, many corpses appeared in the grass and shrubs of the oasis.
Some of the fast-running Bedouin soldiers finally grabbed their mounts, whipped their horses, and flew to the west of the oasis. A group of more than a thousand people tried to intercept them, but they were still one step late, only intercepting some of the Bedouin people running at the end, and they were killed in a short time.
Chapter completed!