Hearing this, Artik was slightly surprised, the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses entered the port of Aden City, these days, except for himself to visit Li An with various figures in the city, no one dared to visit Li An alone, so as not to get into trouble with the crime of colluding with the Tang Dynasty, and only the Osman group went to meet Li An alone, and they stayed for a long time, so Altic was naturally very concerned about this group of people, but unexpectedly, this group of people left suddenly, and there was nothing left.

However, fortunately, his subordinates know how to do things, and they have quietly followed, as long as they follow all the way, they may be able to discover the secrets of this group, and then it will be easy to do.

But Artik was disappointed again, and the few people who ran to follow the Ottomans, none of them returned, it had been half a day, and these guys seemed to have evaporated from the world, and disappeared without a trace.

Several groups of people who were sent out afterwards did not find the person who had gone out to follow them before, and they really couldn't find anyone, so they had to give up.

Naturally, these people were captured alive by the Ottoman soldiers and brought back all of them, and with the Ottoman experience, how could they be so easy to be followed.

Soon after leaving the city of Aden, Osman found that there seemed to be someone following behind him, so he arranged for six of his subordinates to ride horses first, and set up an ambush not far ahead, while Osman marched unhurriedly, walked through the place where his subordinates set up ambushes, and did not find his subordinates, so he continued to move forward very satisfied, and several soldiers under the command of Artik who were following did not know that there was an ambush on both sides, and he was surrounded by six soldiers without paying attention, and Osman in front heard the shouting and returned with six soldiers, This created an even greater advantage, and almost without much effort, the three stalkers were captured alive and tied to their horses and brought back.

The reason why he didn't kill these three stalkers was because Osman knew in his heart that these stalkers were very likely to be of great use to themselves, no matter whose orders they were to follow, and if they were brought back for a good trial, they would always get a lot of useful information, and maybe they could get a lot of useful information about Aden City through them?

In the Khorasan region, many high-ranking officials of the Abdullah Group were transferring their families and assets, although in batches, but they still left a trace of more or less, so that Mansour's subordinates knew about it and immediately informed Mansour.

When Mansur heard the news, he analyzed it with his advisors for a long time, but the conclusions given by the advisors made Mansur unhappy.

These guys felt that it was Apos's actions that made these high-ranking officials who followed Abdullah nervous, so they had to evacuate their families and property so that they could escape Khorasan if necessary and keep everything they had.

But Mansour had already decided to strike first, so he didn't want to hear these remarks, he wanted to hear his men say that Abdullah was planning to rebel, so that he would have enough reason to lead his army to attack Abdullah.

Most of his subordinates couldn't see Mansour's thoughts, but a few henchmen could see it, and he said to Mansur that he wanted Mansur to take advantage of the opportunity for both sides to send troops to kill all the high-level leaders of the Abdullah Group in one fell swoop, and then he could succeed to the throne logically.

In order to prevent the leakage of secrets, they did not tell more people about the matter, and even Abu *** and Ziyad did not know about Mansour's plan.

Abdullah's soldiers and horses are ready, and according to the previous agreement with Apos, at this time, his soldiers and horses should go north to quell the rebellion.

Small-scale rebellions in the north do exist, but they are not as serious as Abdullah said, but since the army is well prepared, it is imperative to send troops.

The general Nasser personally led the army to set off, while Abdullah and many high-ranking officials, disguised as ordinary logistics soldiers, quietly mixed in with the army and left the Khorasan region.

In this way, Abdullah's real power in Khorasan is only a few thousand soldiers and horses, and there are guards and horses in the residences of the high-ranking people, and there is really no decent strength in the rest.

"Sir, Nasser himself has left Khorasan with his main army, and our men have followed them for thirty miles, and have found no sign of their return."

One of the henchmen stood behind Mansur and whispered.

Mansour was overjoyed, stroked his beard, and said, "It's unexpected! If Abdullah really wants to transfer his main force away from Khorasan, isn't he afraid that I will be unfavorable to him? Keep an eye on Nasser in case his army suddenly turns back. ”

"The subordinates have already arranged it, and every half an hour, someone will return to report."

The subordinate said proudly.

Mansour patted his subordinates on the shoulder with great satisfaction, and said, "Success or failure is tomorrow, by the way, is Abdullah still at his residence?" ”

"Our people saw him off Nasser and then he went back to his house, and our people kept an eye on his house and didn't notice him going out, except for a few guys in the back kitchen, who drove to the street to buy groceries."

The subordinate said.

"Man? Did you send someone to follow? ”

Mansour asked warily.

"Sir, if such a small character has to be stared at, doubling our number of people is not enough! A total of three of them went out to buy groceries, and they came back after buying groceries, and they were still three people, so there would be no problem. ”

The subordinate said.

Mansour nodded, "That's good, you keep watching, and there must be no mistakes." ”

"Don't worry, sir, I won't let you down."

The subordinate answered.

Preparations were being made on Mansour's side, and Abdullah's side was not idle, and after fifty miles from Khorasan, the army was stationed.

In order to prevent being discovered, Abdullah was still wearing the clothes of an ordinary logistics soldier, and the commander of the army was still Nasser, who only blended into the Chinese army's tent by taking the opportunity of delivering food to Nasser.

"Sir."

When Nasser saw Abdullah, he immediately bent down and saluted, and he could immediately recognize Abdullah no matter what kind of clothes he was wearing.

"Today is considered to be in danger, I don't know what the situation in the city is, whether it is fully prepared."

Abdullah said.

"Rest assured, sir, our men are ready, no matter what happens in the city, there will be smoke during the day, fire at night, and there are soldiers and horses along the way to deliver news, so we can know what is happening in the city as soon as possible."

The subordinate said.

Abdullah was satisfied: "Everything depends on tomorrow, and as soon as tomorrow passes, the overall situation will be decided." ”

This overall situation refers to who will inherit the position of caliphate of the Aposian dynasty, now, he is not completely sure, because he does not know the deployment of the other party, if Mansur's soldiers and horses leave Khorasan and go south, then, he can kill a horse pistol, and if Mansur's soldiers and horses do not leave in Khorasan, or want to be unfavorable to himself, then he can only continue to go north, and use his land and population strength in the north and east to establish an independent state, and fight against Mansur.

Mansur's strength was already slightly stronger than Abdullah's, and Apos's bias towards Mansur caused him to dispose of many Abdullah's supporters for various reasonable reasons, resulting in a larger gap between the two.

Therefore, Abdullah's strength is the weaker side, but because the two have been competing for a long time, they have been on the same page with each other, and each other's henchmen and supporters have also become enemies.

If he could not fight Mansur in Khorasan, Abdullah would have to choose to leave and go to his northern base camp, where he had his roots, and with his land and population, it would be entirely feasible to fight against Mansur.

Of course, this step is a retreat, and the best and most effective way is to take out Mansour and his supporters, so that it can be done once and for all.

In this way, Abdullah can only pray that al-Mansur can really transfer his troops to the south, so that he can lead his army to raid the royal city and complete his goal of seizing the throne.

However, things did not go as Abdullah had envisioned, and Mansour had already raised his butcher's knife and was ready to take out Abdullah, his only opponent.

In the evening, al-Mansur suddenly issued an order for Abu *** to deploy the main army under his command to the north of the city and do a good job of defending the north.

Mansour, on the other hand, personally commanded 10,000 personal guards to raid Abdullah and the residences of many supporting officials, preparing to deal with these opponents in one fell swoop.

When he received the order, Abu *** was playing chess with Ziyad, and when he got this order, he was immediately confused, and even wondered if the herald had heard it wrong.

"Chengbei, how can it be Chengbei? Our soldiers and horses are in the south of the city, and we will be marching to the city of Aden early tomorrow morning, why should we suddenly deploy in the north of the city, did you hear it wrong? ”

Abu *** asked suspiciously.

"General, this is the commander's order, there will be no mistakes, you just have to carry it out."

The herald is al-Mansour's henchman, and he speaks very directly, not at all afraid of making Abu *** angry.

Qi Ya pulled the corner of Raib***'s clothes and said, "General, obey the order!" ”

Abu frowned and looked at the herald, nodded and said, "Go back and tell the commander that I will deploy the army to the north of the city on time." ”

After the herald left, Abu *** looked at Ziyad and said, "Ziyad, what do you think is going on, sir, why did you suddenly let us go to the north to defend, what is this for, could it be that Nasser's soldiers and horses have returned." ”

Qi Yade thought for a moment and said: "Where can we guess the sir's thoughts, but the chief is ruthless, if we disobey the order, he will hold a grudge, we just need to obey." ”

"Okay, you go and give the order, and let the army start immediately."

Abu *** opened his mouth and ordered.

In fact, Abu *** can also guess some situations, the army is deployed in the north, in addition to defending against the departing Nasser soldiers and horses, who else can be defended, and what makes him angry is that Mansur did not tell him in advance, in this way, his soldiers and horses will inevitably be in a hurry, it is estimated that it will take a night of busy work to deploy in place, don't think about sleeping.

The 10,000 soldiers and horses in the city were also moving frequently, and went straight to the residence of Abdullah and several of his henchmen, and even a group of soldiers and horses drove towards the palace.

Such a big movement naturally attracted the attention of many people, ordinary people all cowered at home and did not dare to go out, and officials were also so frightened that they did not dare to go out at will.

Al-Mansur himself led a detachment of troops to Abdullah's house and surrounded it so completely that not a single fly could fly.

Abdullah's dwelling, with just over a hundred guards, was wiped out after a while of resistance, and hundreds of soldiers and horses broke into Abdullah's dwelling, setting off a massacre and capture.

Anyone who is honestly captured will be arrested, and if they resist or escape, then there will be no mercy, and for a time it will be flesh and blood, and there will be all kinds of dead corpses everywhere.

Mansur looked at the scene of flesh and blood, and there was not the slightest discomfort, and even, there was some excitement.

"Sir, Abdullah was not found."

A confidant walked over and opened his mouth to report.

"How is it possible, I wonder if Abdullah did not leave his residence, how could he not find it? Secret room, there must be a secret room, dig three feet into the ground, and I must find someone. ”

Mansour ordered viciously.

Soon, more soldiers and horses poured in, and launched a more rigorous search, leaving no suspicious places to go.

The Chamber was eventually found, but there was no one in it, let alone Abdullah.

"Interrogate these people and ask them where Abdullah has gone."

Mansour said angrily.

The subordinates interrogated one by one and gave them certain benefits, asking them to betray their masters.

"Sir, the back kitchen has explained, Abdullah's man who made up as a back kitchen has left, and now he should be in Nasser's army."

The subordinate reported.

"What, how could this be."

Mansur was furious, he thought that he could solve the problem once and for all, but he did not expect Abdullah to escape, so it would be much more difficult to kill the old opponent.

"Sir, the situation is not good, the rest of the people have also been swept away, Abdullah's henchmen have all fled, and none of them are in the city."

The subordinate spoke.

"It's no wonder that they found out that they had transferred their families, and they had planned everything a long time ago, which is really hateful."

Mansour was furious, but soon news came worse and worse.

"Sir, a large number of lanterns have been raised in the city, and there is also a fire outside the city, as if it is for the purpose of delivering news, they are reporting to Nasser."

A confidant said.

Mansour suddenly found that he had underestimated Abdullah, and hurriedly ordered: "Send an order to Abu ***, let him do a good job of defending the north as soon as possible, and tell him that Abdullah and Nasser have rebelled, and it is very likely that they will attack him." ”