"The Governor, the Governor is here?"

Yusuf woke up from his haze, and he immediately realized that this was impossible, and that Abbas, the governor of Khorasan, was too old to forbid the expedition, so he supported himself in leading the expedition. Therefore, it should be an envoy sent by the governor who came to Hexi.

"Please send the envoy to the tent of the deliberation later, and I'll go over when I'm ready!"

When the chamberlain departed, Yusuf's tent fell silent again, and he lay down on his bed, his eyes fixed on the ceiling, and after a moment of thought, he rose again, and put on his splendid robe of silk and his hat studded with precious stones.

The envoy of the governor of Khorasan, Yusuf, was a eunuch who was trusted by Abbas named Mejid. I saw him humbly salute Yusuf and express his respect and greetings.

"The governor sent a villain, in addition to comforting the general, but also to ensure all the general's military supplies, so as to prevent the road traffic from being blocked and the communication between the upper and lower levels from top to bottom. ”

Yusuf ordered the teacup to be served, and this drink from the East has always been loved by the Persians, and after the Great Cannibals conquered Persia, they naturally inherited the inherent preferences of this upper class.

The delicate silver teapot pours hot water and brews the finely ground tea, and the smell of spices fills the nose and whets the appetite.

"Bring in the half of the roast sheep and raise it on the fire, and the messenger and I will talk while eating!"

It's already the middle of the night, and I'm afraid it's going to be dawn to roast a raw sheep, and half of the roast sheep was put away at dinner, which is just in time for now.

McJid had been on the road day and night, and he was already hungry, and he didn't care if this was the remaining half of the roast sheep, and the charcoal fire was soon burning, and the half roast sheep was already bubbling with grease after a while, and the aroma overflowed the tent.

Having eaten and drunk, Mejid presented Yusuf with a list of supplies sent by the Governor, a large part of which were luxury goods for the daily needs of the nobles. In fact, Yusuf is a pampered person since he was a child, and he has been fighting for a long time in this bitter cold and sandy land, and the most unbearable thing for him is to lose these things.

Along with Mejid came to the west of the river, along with ten Persian beauties. It seems that the Persian governor was really attentive and cared about Yusuf's expeditionary life in every detail.

General Issa looked out of the door of the black hole, McGid had just left, and even the tent still had a peculiar smell of eunuchs, mixed with the smell of roast lamb in the air, forming an even stranger smell.

"General, the governor sent a eunuch over, and he didn't say anything serious, isn't it thousands of miles away just to send some goods and a few beautiful women?"

Yusuf knew Governor Abbas very well, and if it weren't for his physical condition, he would have personally led the expedition. Now, Yusuf's achievements have far exceeded what was planned when the troops were deployed, and it is not surprising that Abbas sent emissaries to find out what was going on.

Long before sending troops, he and Abbas had planned to seize Tang Anxi and then set up a few small puppet states in Anxi to shield the fertile land in the valley of the two rivers.

However, who would have thought that the current Tang Dynasty would be so vulnerable, and it would be beaten in three or two hits and had no power to fight back. Therefore, the strategy set at the beginning of the Eastern Crusade must be changed, and not snatching the results at your fingertips can only show that the commander who leads the troops is cowardly and incompetent.

Yusuf is strong-blooded, in the prime of life, and even fantasizes about sweeping the East and the West, making the two great countries of the East and the West prostrate and tremble at the feet of the Great Food.

Of course, Rome in the West, although declining, still controls large areas of land and has enough strength to stop the pace of the Westward Expansion. Now, he did not have the opportunity to go to the west to command the battle, but to fight with the Tang Dynasty in the east, so that the Tang Dynasty emperor, whom the steppe barbarians called the Heavenly Khan, was captured alive and sent to Ctesiphon, so that the Tang Dynasty emperor would become a stepping stone for the caliph to get on the horse.

There is a precedent for making the emperor of a country a stepping stone to a horse, and at the beginning of the establishment of the Sassanid Dynasty of Persia, an emperor of the Roman Empire was captured.

Moreover, the tragic emperor never returned to the West during his lifetime, and was skinned by the Persians and enshrined in Zoroastrian temples after his death.

Although the Great Cannibals were once a people enslaved by the Persians, and were inferior barbarians in the eyes of the Persians, they are no longer what they used to be. The Persians became subjects under the rule of the Great Cannibals, and the expansion of the Great Cannibals would go further and further with the footsteps of the Great Food Sect.

In this Eastern Crusade, there were a large number of imams accompanying the army, who not only prayed and preached for the Great Food Sect members in the army, but also to spread the Great Food Religion to the places pointed by the Great Food Soldiers.

In this regard, it is clear that Abbas, the imperial governor in Khorasan, was at odds with Yusuf, who was more concerned with the goods and land obtained by the war, and that other issues were not considered in a limited way.

For example, McGid, as an envoy sent by the governor, only inquired about the strategy and results of the crusade, but ignored the missionary preaching. It is conceivable that McJid, the eunuch, must have received repeated instructions from Abbas before leaving, and the reason why he was indifferent to the preaching and preaching, and did not even ask a word, was that Abbas did not make a clear statement before leaving.

"Tomorrow morning to attack the city, call McJid up early, and let him see how incompetent and cowardly the Tang Dynasty people are. How can you let the ripe fruit fall on its own and rot?"

He knew that Abbas had sent McJid to the East not to spy on himself, but to know the intelligence of the Eastern battlefield more quickly and effectively through his cronies.

Since Yusuf conquered the four towns of Anxi, there have been fewer and fewer messengers sent back to Khorasan. In the past, he would send messengers back to Khorasan almost every day. However, since the capture of Dunhuang, it takes an average of seven days to send back an envoy, and there is also some concealment of various military operations that avoid the important and trivial.

For example, tonight, the Tang Dynasty attacked and burned the wood storage yard, which is never mentioned.

After sending Issa away, Yusuf was completely sleepy, so he simply sat in the tent, studying the map with simple lines. These maps were all collected from the captives of the Tang Dynasty, and everything about Chang'an was only a story passed down from old age to him, and now he could finally take a closer look at each other through the maps drawn by the Tang people themselves.

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Miao Jinqing, who was responsible for the governor of Hexi, also couldn't sleep all night, and the news of the attack on the camp made him even more excited, and burned down the big cannibal's lumber storage yard, which also shows that if the big cannibal wants to cut down the same amount of wood, it will still take nearly half a month.

The defenders in Zhangye City lack everything, the only thing that is not lacking is time, as long as they can hold out until the reinforcements of Chang'an arrive, it is the final victory.

However, Miao Jinqing is not only blindly optimistic, but he is also ready to die together and the city will be destroyed.

The combat effectiveness of the Great Cannibal is indeed far beyond its imagination, and it is not comparable to the traditional enemies of the Tang Dynasty in the past. Whether it is the Turks who have perished their country and extinct species, or the Tubo people on the plateau, it seems that there is something missing compared to this great army of soldiers and horses who came from afar.

This is not Miao Jinqing deliberately elevating the big cannibal to excuse himself, this is the case, he has exhausted all his solutions, but he is already clumsy, and he has no power to fight back.

In fact, strictly speaking, the defeat of Hexi has little to do with Miao Jinqing, because the border army in Hexi has long been transferred to the Central Plains in the Zhide years, and all that remains is the old, weak, sick and disabled, how can such an army be expected to win the battle?

As the saying goes, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. Miao Jinqing's situation at this moment is like a clever woman who has no rice to cook, even if there are thousands of furrows in her chest, it is difficult to give full play to them.

Burning down the Great Eater's storage yard was just the beginning, and then he had to send troops out to harass the Great Eater's grain route in order to gradually break down their siege of Zhangye. After all, the great cannibals went on an expedition, and even if all the food output and reserves in Hexi were looted by them, it would not be enough to support the consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops.

Therefore, as long as the cannibals do not have a smooth way to transport grain, the second purpose will be achieved.

At this time, Miao Jinqing no longer had the anxiety and helplessness when he was just besieged, although there were only some old, weak, sick and disabled people in the city, he still broke out under his high pressure and urging, and broke out with amazing combat effectiveness and tenacious will to fight.

"Fujun, Hexi Jiedu Deputy Envoy Zhou Mi asks to see you!"

Zhou Mi had already received an edict from the imperial court before Miao Jinqing arrived in Zhangye, but unfortunately before he left for the east to return, the big cannibal appeared, so that he had to stay in Zhangye.

"What do you want to see?"

Miao Jinqing had a bad impression of Zhou Mi, because when he was talking to Cong, he obviously revealed his indifference and disdain for Zhou Mi.

"I didn't say it, only, I just said that it was an urgent military matter, please be sure to meet with my husband!"

Miao Jinqing originally wanted to send Zhou Mi back and summon him to see him early tomorrow morning, but as soon as he heard that it involved urgent military affairs, he decided to meet Zhou Mi!

Zhou Mi's square face of life, with the aesthetics of the time, is definitely a blessed physiognomy =. But the face of this blessing was full of gloom.

"Fujun is above, please accept Zhou Mi's worship!"

Miao Jinqing helped him for a while, and he didn't even owe his body. This is not that he deliberately humiliated Zhou Mi, but what Zhou Mi did before this was really shameful, no wonder the imperial court wanted to recall this person back to Chang'an.

If he can call the shots, it won't be too much to kill this person.

It was Zhou's inaction that led to the rapid fall of Dunhuang under long-term distress. If he could have sent reinforcements to meet the defenders of Dunhuang to block the advance of the Great Food Soldiers, Zhangye would not have become a lonely city under siege so quickly.

"Zhou Jiedu doesn't have to be formal, just say anything!"