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Chapter 1599 Terrifying Combat Power (Part )

On the city wall of Isfahan, trumpets sounded and the Qi army lined up in neat battle array on the city wall.

The city gate was opened, and Lin Chong and others led the army and the foreign troops out of the city and formed a battle array.

"These are the Qi army!"

Muktafi's face was gloomy. This was the first time he saw the army of the Eastern power. The sophisticated and neat armor frightened him. This was not something that the Arabs could have.

"Yes, it is the Qi army. The words on those flags are unique to Qi!"

Saladin said that the writing of Qi State was completely different from that of their side and was very easy to recognize.

"People of Qi, where are our Arab troops?"

Muktafi took a few steps forward and roared.

"You're talking about these people, right? Kill them all!"

Lin Chong waved his hand and several heads were thrown in front of Muktafi. They were the heads of the Arab vanguards such as Saji.

"you……"

Muktafi's face turned pale as he looked at the heads on the ground. Qi State actually killed all of them.

"Twenty thousand people were killed!"

Saladin looked at everything in front of him in disbelief. This was not a war, but a massacre.

"You vicious butchers!"

Muktafi roared, his worst-case scenario being that his 20,000-man army would be defeated and he would have to find a way to rescue the army.

"How dare you call me butcher! You know best what you did! There are more than a million souls killed by you!"

Ajis looked at Muktafi and shouted that when the Abbasid Empire was expanding, many people were killed.

"Today we will settle all the old and new grudges together!"

Lin Chong looked at the Abbasid army in front of him and said coldly that the Battle of Hengrus was when the Abbasid Kingdom teamed up with the Qarluk Kingdom to stab Gao Xianzhi's army in the back, and the Tang Dynasty lost its western territory in one battle.

"kill!"

The angry Muktafi directly ordered the army to charge. He wanted to kill the Oriental people in front of him to avenge his army.

"kill!"

The black-clad Arab cavalrymen charged forward with scimitars in hand.

On the Qi side, all the foreign troops were eager to try and they were also waiting for orders.

But Lin Chong did not give orders immediately. Instead, he asked the archers to prepare. He wanted to let these Westerners know what war was.

"Caliph, the enemy has crossbows!"

Saladin hurriedly said to Muktafi that he had noticed the dense crowds of archers in the enemy's army.

"Kill all the enemies!"

Muktafi simply couldn't listen to Saladin's words. He only wanted revenge.

"You can't fight like this!"

Saladin roared, but no one paid any attention to his roar. All of Abbas's black-clad Arab troops rushed forward.

The sound of bows and crossbows instantly resounded throughout the battlefield, and a rain of arrows like locusts pounced on the charging black-clad Arab army, and the charging army was instantly knocked down.

But the charging black-clad Arabs had no intention of stopping. They had to rely on the speed of their charge to deal with the arrows, and started hand-to-hand combat at the cost of some casualties.

"kill."

At Lin Chong's shout, the foreign troops began to charge, and their bows and crossbows did not stop and continued to shoot.

"this!"

Saladin was shocked by the enemy's actions. He was also a veteran of the battlefield. The enemy was still suppressing the enemy with bows and crossbows during the charge. This was a very skilled tactical coordination. The army in front of him was definitely not simple. But the surprise was far more than that. "Bang, bang, bang!" A series of rapid sounds came from the Qi army, and the mortars began to attack.

The black-clad Arabs knew nothing about this and continued to charge, with the cavalry in the front directly engaging the Qi foreign troops.

However, the charging black-clad Arab troops were very thin in number, and their rear guard was still blocked by the rain of arrows.

"Boom boom boom!"

Just as the two sides were charging, a violent explosion sounded near the center of the charging black-clad Arab army. The entire squadron in the charging formation was panicked and thrown into chaos by the explosion.

"Gunpowder! How is that possible!"

Muktafi looked at everything in front of him in disbelief. How could the enemy's gunpowder reach so far? It directly hit the vicinity of their central army, and the power was so great.

"kill!"

The Qi army moved at this time, and the cavalry on the left and right wings rushed out in a roundabout way, targeting the rear army of the Black-clad Arabs.

Everything happened so quickly, it seemed as if the Qi army had already arranged everything without even having to think.

But the same cannot be said for Abbas. The series of attacks made them dizzy and confused. They didn't know what to do at all.

"No, retreat quickly!"

Saladin roared at his soldiers. At this moment, he no longer cared about Muktafi's status as the Caliph. If he did not retreat, his entire army would be wiped out.

The horn was blown, and the black-clad Arabs gave up the attack and began to flee in all directions.

"Caliph, go!"

Saladin pulled Muktafi and retreated to the rear.

Seeing that the enemy began to retreat, the Qi army stopped pursuing the rear army. Instead, the cavalry on both wings charged directly into the center army which was dizzy from the artillery fire. It was better to kill the enemy to the greatest extent possible than to pursue the enemy. Only by destroying the enemy's living strength could they truly strike the enemy.

"kill!"

Shouts of killing echoed throughout the battlefield. The Qi army had completed the encirclement and killing. The black-clad Arabs who remained on the battlefield were at a loss. They looked around and saw only enemies.

The Qi army showed no mercy and started the massacre directly.

In the city of Isfahan, the civilians stayed at home and knelt down to pray. They prayed for the blessing of the Emperor of Qi. The desperate shouting and killing outside reminded them of the previous war. The sight of rolling heads made them tremble constantly.

The screams of pain echoed among the mountains. Saladin and Muktafi, who had fled to the mountains, had ashen faces. They could still hear the screams from such a distance. The Qi army was really killing people.

"The Qi army is so terrifying!"

Saladin murmured as he looked into the distance. He was still frightened by the battle just now. The Qi army was too terrifying. He could not imagine how fast the battle was and how skillfully the troops coordinated.

"My army!"

Muktafi's face looked very ugly, it was bad enough that 20,000 vanguard troops were killed in the battle, but he didn't know how many of the 30,000 troops he brought were left.

"Caliph, let's go quickly. We can't stay here for long!"

Saladin looked at Muktafi and spoke.

"My army has not yet been assembled!"

Muktafi was unwilling to give up, as a large number of his troops were still scattered outside the mountain.

"Leave a mark, let's go to the Euphrates River first!"

However, Saladin pulled Muktafi and said that it was too dangerous to stay here. If the Qi army came after them, he was not sure he could really repel it.

Muktafi looked at the battlefield in the distance, and finally gritted his teeth and led his troops away. The previous battle also made him feel frightened.

"The Qi army is so terrifying, I'm afraid we can't be their enemy!"

Saladin looked at Muktafi and whispered.

"He killed so many of my troops, how can I let them go!"

Muktafi gritted his teeth and said that he had lost at least 30,000 troops in this battle. This was the first severe defeat suffered by the Abbasid Empire in decades.