ALL NOVEL Chapter 1599 Continue to advance south
When Li Xiang just started the war, the Tang Empire didn't have many trump cards. All the troops were trained on the battlefield. Now they have become trump cards, so when these people are very tired, they must be replaced. These people are the most valuable wealth of the Tang Empire.
As the area of the Tang Dynasty increases, more and more troops will be needed in the future. After these people are replaced, one-fifth of them will never go to the battlefield. This is also the policy set by Li Xiang.
These people must be pulled back to the rear, and then form training camps one after another to help the Tang Dynasty train more troops. The various experiences they have are the most valuable wealth for the Tang Dynasty. Only by letting them teach by words and deeds can more trump cards be trained.
If they continue to fight on the battlefield, perhaps they can achieve more merits, but for the Tang Dynasty, this is really a waste of resources. If one day they accidentally die in battle, no one can take their place in the future. Who will suffer?
So when someone opposed Li Xiang's withdrawal of the trump card, Li Xiang made a calculation for them. If one person returned to the rear to train new soldiers, among the twenty people under his command, as long as he could train five people, his strength could be multiplied by five times.
But if he continued to fight on the front line, once a person was injured, there would be no one in the rear who could make up for it. This would be a very fatal thing for everyone, and even more fatal for the entire Tang Empire.
It's not easy to have such a wide territory, but if you can't hold on, who should you go to for this matter? So in this case, you must understand that training new soldiers is as important as the trump card on the battlefield, and in some aspects, training new soldiers should be ranked first.
So even if Su Dingfang was reluctant to let these people go back, he had to hurry up and let them go back. After these people went back, the newcomers could also run in. If these newcomers were not given a chance to run in on the second-line battlefield, the speed would be too slow.
Although we have won the war against the Arab Empire, 100,000 troops are nothing to the huge Arab Empire. They can recruit more soldiers, so we must cripple them this time to let them know how powerful the Tang Dynasty is.
So after the army was rotated, Su Dingfang continued to march south to let more Arab cities see the flag of the Tang Dynasty and let them feel fear from the bottom of their hearts. You shouldn't have provoked us in the first place, and we are definitely not something you can deal with. Now you can enjoy the fear of the Tang Dynasty.
In fact, the Arab Empire has already felt this fear. Some people have left their imperial capital and started to move to the south. Although the emperor of the Arab Empire, that is, their caliph, has already spoken to everyone and called on them to defend Arabia together, some people still have selfish motives.
When the Arab Empire was winning all the way, we were the most honest slaves around you, but now the situation is that the north is basically in chaos, and the empire has lost tens of thousands of troops in various cities. If we add the troops under Muhammad, we have lost more than 150,000 in this battle.
The Arab Empire is a big country, and 150,000 troops are really not worth it. They can mobilize a million troops at any time, but the problem is that in the last battle of the Governor's Mansion of Anton, we have already lost hundreds of thousands. In addition to the losses in the western region, more than one-third of the Arab Empire's troops are gone, and there are still a large number of new recruits in the army.
The combat effectiveness of the Arab light cavalry is very strong, but it is definitely not these new recruits, because these new recruits have a very different combat effectiveness except for their appearance. If you insist on them to show their combat effectiveness on the battlefield, you must at least give them some opportunities to perform, so that they can get familiar with the charge of the light cavalry.
But now they have a chance, the Tang army does not give them a chance at all. Whenever they meet the Tang army, we can't deal with the weapons of the Tang army at all. Everyone hasn't figured it out yet, and the sparks have reached our army. A large number of people were directly blown away, which gave all the recruits a very bad impression.
So when they go to the battlefield next time, everyone is on guard against the small fire bags, and they are afraid that such things will appear around them. They just want to run away early. If they continue to stay, they may become a skeleton in the desert like those who died in the battle.
On the other hand, although the Tang army has joined a lot of new recruits, the new recruits come to win battles. A victory can give him firm confidence. Moreover, the Tang army not only teaches you military knowledge, but also educates you ideologically. In addition, these people get benefits, both spiritual and material satisfaction. How can the combat effectiveness of this army not increase?
Putting aside the victory or defeat on the battlefield, even in terms of the education of the new army, the Tang Dynasty has no idea how many times it has been left, so the Arab Empire is now powerless to resist. Of course, if they can also develop new weapons, they might be able to fight the Tang Dynasty army on the battlefield, otherwise it is unlikely.
Sukhguman figured it all out, but he couldn't say it out loud. At this moment, in the palace of the Arab Empire, he was already kneeling in front of the Caliph with trembling hands. There was no one around except the Prime Minister, and many people didn't even know that Sukhguman had returned to the imperial capital.
The reason why the Caliph of the Arab Empire did this was that he didn't want to cause any panic in society. If everyone knew that Sukhguman was back, then these people would feel a little uncomfortable. After all, this guy was the commander of the front line. If the Caliph brought him back, it could only mean one thing, that is, to ask him about the situation on the front line.
This is a very normal official business, but the current situation is different. We are in the process of losing the war, and this official business will also cause some panic. (End of this chapter)