After Zhao Weiji traveled back to the Song Dynasty, he was experienced in battles for a long time. He led his troops to fight on the plains, marched on the high loess slopes, and attacked the city on the Shu Road. Basically, he had experienced many battlefields.

He had experienced it, but he had never fought in a desert, not even once.

When the Kamal special attack came, although Zhao Weiji's men had been prepared in advance, they had been floating on the sea for most of the past six months. It was difficult for them to fight on land in a desert they had never experienced before.

Somewhat uncomfortable.

However, it was this lack of adaptability that gave the soldiers of the empire here the illusion that Zhao Weiji and his party did not have much combat effectiveness.

Therefore, they did not show any intention to let Zhao Weiji's team participate in the battle, and directly enclosed Zhao Weiji and his team, together with the scholars, into their protective circle composed of camels.

Then they used their shields to build another protective circle outside the protective circle. After the two-layer protective circle was built, the group of soldiers took out their bows and arrows and prepared for battle.

Just as the imperial soldiers prepared for battle, the attacking troops sent by Kamalt also arrived.

In fact, there is not much difference between them fighting in the Central Plains. They are still ordinary cavalry. Camels are fine for traveling, but don't expect to fight.

It's just that the Arab soldiers are definitely different from the Central Plains soldiers in that their armor is quite scarce. After contacting the imperial soldiers for a few days, he found that only the commanders had slightly more armor, but it was also not as good as the Central Plains generals.

A kind of armor that basically covers the whole body.

They only have armor protection on a few key parts, such as their heads, chest and abdomen. The rest of them are still ordinary clothes.

It is precisely for this reason that bows and arrows became the weapon that dominated the battle. When the soldiers of the Kamalt sect rushed within the shooting range of the imperial soldiers, they were immediately shot down in a row.

It seems that the archers here have great lethality against the cavalry, but Zhao Weiji, who was secretly observing the battle situation with a telescope in the camel protection circle, discovered that Kamalte's cavalry had a serious flaw, that is, lack of impact.

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It may be because of fighting in the desert. Every time the horse takes a step forward, the horse's hoof will sink into the sand and then be pulled out.

The lack of rebound force and the friction generated when the horses' hooves leave the sand greatly limit the impact capability of the cavalry. Compared with the Khitan cavalry during the battle with the Khitan, these Arab cavalry can only be described as slow.

It feels like the speed difference between a motorcycle and a bicycle. The Khitan cavalry is naturally a motorcycle.

After seeing the scene in front of him, Zhao Weiji felt confident that even if the emperor was defeated later, he would be sure to quickly deal with these soldiers of the Kamalte sect.

So he handed the telescope to Wang Dayuan, then took out a bag of cheese and started eating.

Although Wang Dayuan didn't know why Zhao Weiji was so leisurely, he was not too nervous when he was surrounded by two layers of encirclement. However, after observing the battle situation with a telescope, he sighed and said: "Fortunately, the prince is wise and prepared the situation in advance."

The young master and young lady, along with the books and gold, were sent to the Black Pearl first. It would not be a good thing if they were allowed to go through battle at such a young age."

"That's true. It seems that I am not too worried." Zhao Weiji said and threw another piece of cheese into his mouth.

"But Your Majesty, why are you so leisurely? Even if we are in a protective circle, we are not so leisurely." Seeing how leisurely Zhao Weiji was, Wang Dayuan was a little confused.

"Huan Zhang, have you ever seen the Khitans charging?"

Wang Dayuan shook his head, "No, I have been dealing with the sea since I was a child. How could I have the opportunity to see what it is like for the Khitans to charge."

After hearing Wang Dayuan's return, Zhao Weiji smiled hoarsely, "No wonder Huanzhang, you can't understand. If the same number of Khitan cavalry charge, the speed and impact will definitely be three times that of these large food cavalry. Of course,

The low power of the charge of these big food cavalry may be related to the desert, but in any case, it is relatively easy to deal with that kind of charge, so Huanzhang don't keep staring and come and eat something."

Although he couldn't be as leisurely as Zhao Weiji, Wang Dayuan knew very well Zhao Weiji's experience in fighting the Khitans in his early years. Since the prince said it was okay, it must be okay. So he stopped watching the battle and sat down. Zhao Weiji handed over

I broke off a piece of the cheese that came over and threw it into my mouth.

The battle situation is just like what Zhao Weiji said. Since Kamalte's cavalry does not have a strong impact, the imperial soldiers can cope with it with ease at this stage.

But soon, Kamart's soldiers also discovered this problem, so they stopped charging with the cavalry with spears and started shooting with bows and arrows.

But then the problem arises again, that is, because the Arab soldiers do not use strong bows and crossbows like the Central Plains soldiers, the range of the bows and arrows is not too far.

In this way, the horizontal shot cannot penetrate the shield circle, and the distance of the upward shot is not enough. If you want to enter the range of the upward shot, your own people will have been shot to death long ago.

After several attacks, the defenders were still impregnable, but the attackers were unable to do anything, and instead suffered heavy casualties on their own side.

But at this moment, among the Kalmat soldiers, the veteran who had previously solved the soldier's doubts suddenly stood up and gathered together all the camels they had used to travel.

"Brother, what do you want to do?"

"Use a camel."

"Brother, you are not planning to let our cavalry ride camels instead, are you?"

"Of course not. I plan to use these camels to push away the shield array on the opposite side."

"No, brother, if you use camels to push back the shield, then a large number of these camels will die. What will we do when we go back?"

"You are stupid. There are camels across the way. Come over quickly and help light the fire."

"What's the point of making a fire?"

"Burn the camel's tail."

Just as the Kamart soldiers were gathering camels, Wang Dayuan stood up again and observed the battlefield with a telescope. After seeing this scene, he immediately reported it to Zhao Weiji.

Upon hearing Wang Dayuan's report, Zhao Weiji became curious, so he stood up and took the telescope to see what was going on.

Just when Zhao Weiji picked up the telescope, the group of camels began to charge, and their tails seemed to be smoking.

"I'm going to the Fire Bull Formation. There are capable people on the other side." After saying this, he handed the telescope to Wang Dayuan and asked him to take a look.

As soon as Wang Dayuan heard about the Fire Bull Formation, he immediately took the telescope handed over by Zhao Weiji. When he just put the telescope on his eyes, he saw the group of camels with smoking tails rushing towards the shield formation.

"Your Majesty, what should we do now? Those camels rushed towards the shield formation like crazy."

Although Wang Dayuan was a little anxious, Zhao Weiji didn't take it too seriously. He said: "It's okay. Although this method is somewhat similar to the legendary fire bull array, after all, in the desert, camels are already slow.

Still no impact.

It's just that we hope to use the physical characteristics of camels to open a gap in the shield array. In the end, those we deal with will still have to fight hand-to-hand with us through the gap."

Things were just as Zhao Weiji expected. The camel opened a gap, but that was the result of carrying it all the way. The shield was easily pushed open, but there were not many casualties.

The Kamart soldiers did not expect the camels to bring any casualties. They quickly followed the camels and poured in through the gap, preparing for hand-to-hand combat.

When the imperial soldiers saw the opposing soldiers pouring in through the gap, they gave up their bows and arrows, drew their scimitars one after another, and began to engage in hand-to-hand combat.

But when the two sides began to engage in close combat, the biggest shortcoming of the imperial soldiers was exposed, which was their lack of numerical superiority.

The Kamart soldiers did not dare to send many people because they had to pretend to be bandits, but at least there were more than a thousand people. Although some had been killed before, they still had a certain advantage in numbers.

When fighting hand to hand, the soldiers of the Emperor [***] did not have much advantage in personal combat effectiveness.

This situation caused the imperial soldiers to gradually be overwhelmed by the numerical superiority of the Kamalt soldiers, and people on both sides began to lose their lives.

Seeing the scene in front of him, the deputy commander of Kamalte's army asked the commander anxiously: "Sir, are the costs for us doing this too high?"

The commander shook his head and said: "For the sake of the Imam, these costs are nothing. Besides, we have the advantage in numbers. If this continues, we will be the only ones to win."

Many scholars in the innermost protective circle guarded by the Emperor [***] hesitated and could not stand the shouts of death outside, and began to cover their ears in an attempt to escape reality.

Of course, there were smart people who ran over and found Zhao Weiji, begging him to send his team out to support them: "Sir, help them, don't you have weapons? Although I don't know what kind of weapons they are, they shouldn't be weak.

Yes, please help them."

Zhao Weiji did not turn a blind eye to the scholar's plea. In order to win over people's hearts, he still had to accept the scholar's suggestion.

And after refusing to save him for so long, it was almost time, so he called all his people over and asked them to prepare to go out to fight.

It's just that Zhao Weiji took advantage of the scholars' inability to understand Chinese and issued an order to his team, which was to shoot and kill them indiscriminately.

"How many bullets do you each have?"

The sailors replied in unison: "Fifty more."

Twenty-five people, each with fifty pellets, is one thousand two hundred and fifty pellets. If the shot is accurate, it will be enough to kill everyone outside.

"Okay, everyone, put on the bayonets and prepare to go out into battle. Just like what we did on the ship, shoot all the people at a distance and use the bayonets on those close up."

After speaking to the soldiers, Zhao Weiji turned to Wang Dayuan and said something to the scholars: "Our people will go out to support now, but we have one request, that is, you are not allowed to look outside the camel pen.

If this is requested, we will immediately go into battle."

Since their lives were at stake, all the scholars agreed to Zhao Weiji's request.

Then the sailors opened a gap in the camel pen and joined the battlefield.
Chapter completed!