4 magg 737 anni - Battle of Jalula

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When the news of the Roman conquest of Damascus reached the Sassanid Shahanshah Bahram VI, his army is still at Hulwan and waiting for further order, and himself is waiting at seeing how the military effort of the Roman army Roman army going. Evidence proof that if the situation wasn't favorable on the battlefield to Rome, Persian Army would likely to retreat.
But for a Arab collapsed case, Bahram VI ordered his army march, as quick as possible, toward Ctesiphon; the town Qasr-i-Shirin re captured with not much resistance. But in Jalula, another Caliph pretender Al-Walid ibn Yazid launch about 40 thousand army trying to stop Persian and consolidate his claim on Caliphate, Persian general Surkhab was led 25 thousand Persian army against them, this battle may the first seen of massive use of Wardak, the slave-soldiers whom serve for Sassanid Persia after the collapses of Aswaran, its name is from Persian word wardag that means slave; more than 7 thousand Wardak used in the battle, and this mostly Turkic army is the main combat power defeated the Arabs. Battle end with Persian victory and loss of 1.3 thousand Wardak within 7 thousand total loss, while Arabs loss more than 15 thousand.

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