Chapter 204: Nine Songs
After the Roman guards crossed the square, they did not stop, and pressed directly towards the gate of the city of Capuli.
The ornate bringets of the Roman military helmets rushed over in a blood-stained river, and the soldiers defending the city had already fled, and the guards on the tower of the city looked like they were eyeing each other, but they only watched the excitement, but they did not fire a single shot.
The Romans did not intend to storm the tower, but only took control of the city gates of Capuly.
Zhang Bai knew that the temple was safe for the time being.
He immediately dragged out the captain, who had been forced to be a hostage, and questioned him. The captain was very cooperative, and he didn't even need to extract a confession, and just told him everything he knew.
In the evening of this evening, the Sega Mansion held another night feast, and in addition to the host's family, Minar Sega, the Emir Taha, the provincial governor of Hakmu, the court minister, the superintendent of Tutunfa, the tribal lord Meilu, and so on, all who could arrive.
"Will the god Kusubro be here today?" Zhang Bai asked.
"This villain doesn't know, but as is customary, he is supposed to come. ”
"So according to your custom, can the old god Charama be present?"
"Ahh ”
"Let me ask you again, can there be a foreign mission?"
"After all, this is a matter in Guishan's own court, it seems that it is inconvenient for foreign missions to attend, right?"
"You know a lot?"
"I can't talk about it, I can't talk about it, I usually hear this in the restaurant and tea shop, you know that we are quite tired from patrolling, so we have to rest and rest. ”
Zhang Bai looked at this old fritter, laughed in his heart, and didn't want to embarrass him, so he said: "That's it! You help me do something, send me a message, if you agree, I will let you go immediately." ”
When the captain heard this, he let himself go, and agreed on the spot.
"Okay, you help me send a message to Taha, just say that I am Ahurama of Zoroastrianism, I hope that Emir Taha will consider joining forces with Her Royal Highness Princess Tolan to stabilize the country, I will lead the congregation to the outside of the meeting place of the tribes, if he is interested, we can talk face to face. ”
"Yes, yes, the villain must bring it. ”
The captain who was released thanked him and left the square. Originally, this captain was captured just in case, and if the patrol guards won the battle against themselves with a large number of people, then they would take him as a hostage. It's just that I didn't expect that the usually aggressive city patrol guards would be so unbeatable.
Zhang Bai actually didn't expect him to really bring the words to Taha, to be honest, he felt that it was difficult to say whether this captain could see Taha or not. However, public opinion has been released, and the news that Princess Tolan wants to join forces with Lord Taha will surely spread in the restaurant and tea shop in the near future.
This is an idle hand of chess, just like a test hand in Go, take a step, maybe useful, maybe useless, don't worry, see how things will ferment.
After that, he asked Nanhua, Daolao, and Hetri to gather together, and asked Nanhua to treat the wounded on the spot, and to appease the people in the temple so that they would not go out for the time being;
Hetri was given the task of agitating the congregation, taking advantage of the opportunity to recruit and collect the weapons scattered in the square to form a temporary force.
This can help maintain order, carry and clean up the wounded and corpses in the square, but also guard against sudden dangers, and more importantly, this will be their first real army, laying the foundation for the future.
As things were in order, the Apostle sent new information that the cavalry army under Zero's surveillance had crossed the river with all its members, assembled on the west bank of the Indus River, and began to march, and it was estimated that it would reach the south gate of Peshawar in about an hour.
There is also news that another army has appeared on the east bank of the Indus, again a thousand troops of pure cavalry, this time there are more men and horses, about three thousand. The equipment and flag were exactly the same as those of the cavalry that had crossed the river to the west bank, and should have belonged to the same army.
At the same time, there are also changes in the north of the city. The Apostle looked out and saw that some riders seemed to be gathering gradually, but these people were dressed in a mess, not like soldiers or people, and there seemed to be no one to command, and the route of movement was chaotic, some to the east and some to the west, but there was no intention of going directly south to Peshawar.
"What is the situation in the west of the city?" Zhang Bai asked the Apostle.
"I can't take care of it, I can only look at it from a distance, and there doesn't seem to be any movement there. It was Chen Cao's voice, "Zhang Gongzi, should the Apostle be moved to the west? Our brigade of reinforcements should come from the west, right?"
Zhang Bai gritted his teeth and thought about it, and replied: "Okay, General Chen will do it, as long as he can ensure that he can contact Zero, and he can monitor the Sejia Mansion." ”
The number of spaceships is still far from enough, "When this trip is over, we must build spaceships fiercely, and we must quickly strengthen our cultivation." ”
At this moment, the captain who had been let go suddenly returned, and came with another person.
Zhang Bai was a little surprised, seeing that the person who came with him was wearing a huge robe, walking slowly, like a civil official. The captain looked flattering, nodding his head to his companions, as if he was trying his best to do what he could.
"Yo, why is the captain back again? are you here to help with the hostage?" Zhang Bai deliberately laughed.
The captain replied with a smile, "Why, isn't this the one who happened to meet Lord Taha! ”
"Yes, very well, God Ahura will bless you. ”
"Thank Allah!"
The man who came with him then asked, "You are His Excellency Ahurama of the Zoroastrians, are you? I am a messenger sent by His Excellency Emir Taha. ”
"I'm Ahurama, do you have anything to do with me?"
"I brought an invitation to you, this is Lord Taha's post, I hope you will be able to attend tonight's tribal meeting. ”
Actually invited himself to participate in the country's most important political event and join the tribal meeting? Zhang Bai really didn't think about it. His original plan was to bring people to cause chaos, such as to demonstrate outside the venue. Taha reacted so quickly, it was really unexpected, as the last powerful minister of the Vesudeva family in this life, I have to admit that there is really a set.
"Please come in and have a cup of tea, and let us discuss!" Zhang Bai made a gesture of hospitality.
"I can't stay long, please Ahurama decide as soon as possible!"
"Definitely, definitely!"
Zhang Bai asked Daddy Sottle to entertain the two of them to sit on the second floor less, and he used his brains on the first floor.
"This Taha must have known about the existence of the Zoroastrian temple since last night. The invitation was only sent now, and it seems that the fact that the air force regiment and the Roman envoy have joined forces, the news is still very fast.
Taha's purpose may be fourfold, one is to win over himself, gain the support of the Zoroastrian people, grasp the most basic popular will, and lay a public opinion foundation for his future accession to the throne. Second, the open presence of the Roman army in Peshawar was a clear signal that no one could ignore the will of the Roman Empire, even the question of the choice of the king of the Kushan Empire, and the domestic problems of the Kushan Empire could not ignore Rome.
So Taha immediately responded, and from this point of view, this invitation was not so much an invitation to himself, but an invitation to Rome to attend. ”