Abbas wanted to build artillery, and he did it as soon as he thought of it, and Saeed was amazed at the old donkey's impatience. Moreover, Sayyid was appointed by Abbas as the official to oversee the artillery, which made him very embarrassed, even though he had come from the East, but he had only seen it from afar. Moreover, this thing was not produced in Anxi, but from the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty by the Shenwu Army.

In this regard, Saeed told the truth, and Abbas didn't care, only asked him if he remembered the general appearance, and then described it to the craftsmen so that they could build it.

There were still many prisoners of war captured in the Battle of Talas in Khorasan, and many of those Tang people were excellent craftsmen, which can now come in handy.

Saeed selected all the Tang craftsmen from the tens of thousands of slaves, and although they did not suffer fatal torture, in Khorasan they were all low-status slaves, with no status, no status, and no private property.

Said asked a few of the leaders if they knew how Tang artillery was made.

However, when these craftsmen heard this, they all shook their heads, saying that they had never heard of such a thing as artillery.

Said was very strange, the artillery came from the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, these craftsmen could not have known at all, at first he thought that the Tang people were unwilling to reveal the core secret of the ordnance, but after in-depth understanding, he found that the craftsmen did not know.

Since he didn't know, Said roughly drew the artillery in his memory.

However, the painted cannon was not given to the craftsman, but to Abbas.

Abbas was interested in artillery, but was disappointed to see that the cannon he drew was just a thick, long stick.

"This thing can wipe out the whole army of Da * Rui?"

Said scratched his head, he couldn't believe it anyway if he hadn't seen the real war scenes, but it was, and all the scenes of that day are still vivid.

"Back to the governor, the Tang people relied on this thing to defeat Yusufu, and it also made Yousuf completely lose his fighting spirit, and from now on he will only be an escaping mouse in front of Tang Bing!"

When it comes to Yusuf, Abbas's mood is complicated, as a former competitor, he doesn't want the other party to take too much credit, but he never wants Yusuf's fate to be like today, life and death are unknown.

"Yusuf, although he is a little younger, he is still loyal to the empire, if he can return to Mulu City, I will definitely not hold him responsible for the defeat, let him be guilty and make meritorious contributions!"

Said hesitated for a moment, but said:

"On the way back to Dashi from Anxi, the villain heard a lot of rumors......"

"What kind of rumors, is it about Yusuf?"

"It's Yusuf, it is said that he has led the remnants of the army to the territory of the Khazars, it should be, it should be a well-founded plan to stand on his own!"

"Khazars?"

Abbas was stunned, he didn't expect this kind of rumor, subconsciously thought it was a rumor, but after thinking about it for a while, he felt that the situation said by Said was not impossible.

Thinking of this, his heart began to sink for a while, if Yusuf wanted to stand on his own in the Khazar stronghold, he would become a real enemy with Khorasan from now on.

Abbas clenched his hands into fists, and he hated Yusuf at the moment.

Yusuf not only left his elite cannibal soldiers in Anxi, but also ran to the territory of the Khazars with the remnants of the defeated army, did he think that it would be so easy to lay a territory from the Khazars?

The Khazars had been entrenched north of the river for hundreds of years, and even the Persians had been harassed by them for many years. Later, the Persians simply bought the Khazars for money in exchange for the stability of the northeastern border, and on the other hand, they co-opted the Sogdians in the Transoxians to act as a barrier to separate the Khazars.

Even during the Umayyad period, the Persian strategy against the Khazars was also continued.

However, at the end of the Umayyad Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty's control over the Transoxiana region was unprecedentedly strengthened, and it even encouraged the Khazars to plunder the rich Khorasan.

Later, the Abbasids fought to replace the Umayyad dynasty and spread to Khorasan, and the Tang dynasty began to expand its power from the river to the south.

However, the Abbasids soon replaced the Umayyad dynasty and confronted the Tang dynasty with unprecedented force, eventually fighting a decisive battle with the Tang at Talas.

That battle ended in a crushing defeat for the Tang Dynasty.

As a result, the forces of the Tang Dynasty completely retreated to Anxi, and never crossed the green mountains for half a step.

Originally, if everything had gone as usual, the Tang Dynasty would have launched another war of revenge against Da Shi after a few years of recuperation. But a rebellion completely destroyed the pillars of the Tang Dynasty, and the generals and border troops who guarded Anxi were transferred inward.

Abbas, the governor of Khorasan, saw an opportunity and decided to send Yusuf to launch an eastern crusade against the Tang Dynasty.

However, Abbas's plan was only to capture Anxi of the Tang Dynasty, so as to completely cut off the possibility of the Tang Dynasty getting involved in the river, and at the same time to contain the Tibetans who were becoming an increasing threat from the back.

If this model is followed, Khorasan will even become a rival to the Ctesiphon court within the empire.

It's a pity that everything failed, and the ambitious Yusuf became a lost dog, and even the scheming Abbas is now in a panic.

Said sighed, when he was doing business in Anxi, he once thought that the Tang Dynasty and the core area of the Great Food were too far away to break out a war to destroy the country, even if there was an occasional war, it might be a local small friction, just like the Battle of Talas, both sides were fighting with partial divisions.

However, the war that broke out last year completely shattered this perception, and first Yusuf led the coalition army to invade Anxi, and successively won victories, all the way to Zhangye, which was close to the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty.

"Is it possible that Yusuf took refuge with the Khazars?"

Saeed put forward his own speculation again.

"Defection to the Khazars?"

Abbas smiled, a little bitterly, how could someone as proud as Yusuf take refuge in the Khazars, whom he once regarded as savages?

But if Yusuf is cornered, it is not impossible to defect to the Khazars in order to survive.

Seeing that the governor of Khorasan was a little distracted by himself, Saeed said:

"These are just rumors now, maybe, maybe Yusuf will return to Khorasan through the territory of the Khazars!"

Abbas sneered.

"The region of the river is fragmented, there is no strong enemy, if Yusuf really wants to return to Khorasan, why take a detour?"

With that, Abbas issued an order that sent Syed chills all over his body.

Abbas's relatives and children in Khorasan, young and old, were sold as traitors to the rich as slaves!