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In Kadisiya, Rustam, who received the king's order, had to order the army to cross the river to seek a decisive battle with the Arabs. The Persian army's front line was as long as 4000 meters, and the center of the front line also had Persian characteristics. There were about 300 soldiers. elephant.

These war elephants are all huge adult war elephants, and they carry a wooden square device about half a person's height on their backs, and there are usually three to four archers standing inside.There will also be a rider at the neck of the elephant, controlling the elephant and using a spear.

Persia does not produce war elephants. Most of their war elephants come from Pakistan, India and other places in later generations, so the number is relatively rare.Unlike Linyi, Zhenwa and other countries are the birthplaces of Asian elephants, and they are still primitive jungles, which can accumulate such a huge army of war elephants.

However, the war elephants in Linyi may not be able to recover in the next few decades. It is not so easy to accumulate a thousand war elephants, because Linyi has pulled many young and old war elephants into the battlefield.

At the beginning of the war, the Arabs will chant the revelations of the Prophet Muhammad in unison, and then their commanders will issue the attack signal Allah is the greatest according to the custom, and the army should call three times in succession. Weapons and horses should be ready, and at the fourth sound, the soldiers will charge collectively.

However, when the Arabs shouted, the Persians did not give them a chance, but when they issued their first shout, they directly carried out the charge mission.

In the first batch, Ostam sent his own war elephant troops. The war between the two sides was not much different from the history. The morale of the Arabs was very high, which was not comparable to that of the Persians at this time.

In fact, the Persians in this period were on the road to Taisifeng, and there was a messenger who conveyed information at intervals, allowing Isai III to quickly grasp the situation on the front line. After hearing Pei Xingjian’s words, Isai III In the end, I made a choice that was different from history.

Because he can grasp the battlefield information at any time, he knows that Ostam is not far away from launching an attack, which is why he sent the cavalry unit directly after forming the cavalry unit.

In fact, when the cavalry unit set off, the battle on the front line had already begun. In order to maintain combat effectiveness, the follow-up cavalry unit did not go all out. It was just that after the night fell on the first day, the rest time at night was shortened. start to go.

On the front line, the war between Persia and Arabia is almost exactly the same as history. Because of the strong morale of the Arabs, the Arabs gained an absolute advantage on the first day of the war. Almost tens of thousands!

The war on the second day was still following the historical trajectory. The Arab reinforcements led by Kaka, the Arab reinforcements, were like divine soldiers descending from the sky, making a surprise attack from the side. The front general Bachmann fell to the ground.

The death of the front-line commander caused the morale of the Persian army to fall to the bottom. If the historical trajectory continues, the two sides will continue to fight for a whole day until nightfall. Today, the casualty ratio of the two sides will reach 1:3, the Arabs 1 , Persians 3.

But different from history, this afternoon, General Ostam, who fought on the Persian front and was rescued by his subordinates, received a report from the messenger, and learned that the king had sent another [-] cavalry!And it will arrive around this evening!

Ostam, who got the news, didn't care to think about where the king got another [-] cavalry!But he understands one thing, the turning point of this war has come!

Immediately, he ordered the messengers to send an order to the armed cavalry, ordering them not to rush to the battlefield today, but to rest on the spot, and then cross the river in the lower reaches of the river in the evening. After the battle between the two sides tomorrow, the equipped cavalry Then kill it from the side!

There is a misunderstanding here. Li Ke confirmed it after reviewing various materials. According to some imprecise data, there were 1.5 heavy cavalry in Persia in this battle, but in fact there is a problem here. To be precise, it is not a matter of numbers. , but a matter of translation.

When translating European history in the early days, the melee cavalry, that is, the melee cavalry in Europe that undertakes the task of charging and charging, was translated into heavy cavalry in China.

But in fact, the domestic heavy cavalry refers to the armored cavalry that can be armored, so history is not the case.As we all know, cavalry does not have a single fixed purpose. For example, when Byzantium's real cavalry is not assaulting the battlefield, they even assume the role of cavalry archers.

And Persia has no conditions to produce 5000 armored cavalry. If Persia really has this number of armored cavalry, it is impossible for Arabia to hold it, because only a small number of Arabs in this period have defeated the Persian army. Armor looted from the Persian army.

The heavy cavalry was beyond the imagination of the Arabs in this period, not to mention that when they were fighting Persia, they actually got into trouble with Byzantium.

If there are really 3 heavy cavalry, how can the more than [-] soldiers in Arabia be able to carry it?

In fact, most of the [-] Persian cavalry on the front line were cavalry with only leather armor, that is, melee cavalry.The armored cavalry of Sasanian Persia is composed of manor owners, that is, nobles. These are the real heavy cavalry, and the number of these cavalry is only [-].

And the horse armor of these five thousand heavy cavalry is not all iron armor, but most of them are leather armor, but the armor of the riders is all iron armor.

Ostam may not be a top commander, but he is a qualified commander. After two days of bloody battles, especially the second day's bloody battle, the reinforcements led by the Arab Kaka suddenly appeared on the battlefield, not only Killing their flank general almost broke the Persian formation.

But under such circumstances, Ostam still did not order the heavy cavalry to directly support, but let the Persian army support until the evening.

Without these [-] soldiers, there would be another draw on the third day in real history, but the consequence of the draw on the third day was that the Persian army was forced to the river, and then the morale of the Persians was gone, and then on this day Because Ostam accidentally fell into the water from the war elephant, the Persian army was directly defeated.

And now Ostam has the confidence to win, because although the Arabs have always been in the upper hand, their casualties are less than the Persians, but don't forget that the number of soldiers of the Arabs is only half of the Persians!

As long as the armored cavalry appears tomorrow, the morale of the Persian army will definitely win!