Damascus City!

An ancient Arabic book reads: "If there is a paradise on earth, Damascus will be in it; If heaven is in space, Damatuk is as famous as it. ”

This is an exaggeration, but in the far West, Damascus does deserve such praise.

Damascus is located on a plain at the foot of the majestic Kesin Mountain, on both sides of the Barada River, the Avash River flows through the suburbs, the combination of mountains, water and plains, the city is surrounded by green grass and flowers, and thousands of trees compete for beauty, so it is also like "the city of gardens", "the city of poetry", "the city of mosques" and so on.

This is the history of the city of Damascus, which is too long.

In the 15th century B.C., the Aramae, who inhabited the Semitic tribe in the northern part of the ancient Arabian Peninsula, established a kingdom here; In 333 BC, Alexander the Great, king of the Macedonian kingdom, defeated the Persian Empire and took the city from the Persians; In 64 BC, Pompey's Roman legions invaded Damascus, and by 661 AD, the Arab Umayyad dynasty had made its capital here, making it the center of a powerful Arab empire.

Today, however, Damascus, which has been peaceful for a long time, has been baptized by artillery fire.

The Byzantine Empire's navy crossed the Mediterranean Sea and attacked the Arab capital city of Damascus.

After the baptism of artillery fire, the city of Damascus crumbled.

The Byzantine commander in charge of the siege was none other than the Governor Stinian, who had gone to Chang'an in the previous year.

The Byzantine veteran looked at the crumbling city of Damascus with high spirits at the moment, and he felt a sense of pride.

Byzantium has been bullied too badly by the Arabs over the years, as a descendant of the Roman Empire.

The Byzantine Empire was the most glorious and powerful state in the West, encompassing the Balkans, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and part of Transcaucasia, and even incorporated the southeastern parts of North Africa, Italy, and Spain.

However, with the rise of Arabia, they stepped on the body of Byzantium and grew step by step, and Syria, Egypt and other places that should have belonged to Byzantium completely became part of the Arab Empire.

If it weren't for the fact that Constantinople was easy to defend and difficult to attack, Byzantium would have been destroyed long ago.

has been suppressed for half a lifetime, and finally it is time for them to raise their eyebrows.

However, Justinian looked at Dongfang with some concern, wondering in his heart what the Tang Army would do.

In order to defend itself against the Arab Empire, Byzantium put down the dignity of its Holy Roman Empire, recognized the Tang Dynasty as the dominant alliance in the East, and dealt with the Arabs together.

The duel between Pei Min and Mosley Massa in the Western Regions tugged at the heartstrings of everyone in the East and the West.

In the end, the Tang army led by Pei Min was victorious, the invincible lion king who crisscrossed the West fell to the Western Regions, and the Arab army of nearly 200,000 was wiped out, and Arabia suffered the biggest crisis since the founding of the country.

No one doesn't like to do the thing of falling into the well and beating the water dogs.

The Byzantines and the Franks took the opportunity to send troops and began to recover the land and cities occupied by the Arabs, and sounded the horn of a counteroffensive.

Byzantium initially behaved in a decent, not daring to be too presumptuous.

After all, the Tang Dynasty is the leader of the alliance, and the invincible Mosley Massa in the West has been defeated by Pei Min in the East, so what will they do to fight Pei Min?

But soon they got another piece of news, Mosley Massa sent troops to the east this time because of internal problems in the Tang Dynasty, thinking that after Pei Min defeated Mosley Massa, he did not personally lead his troops to the west and take advantage of the situation to expand his territory, but divided his troops to lead the troops and horses to the east, and the Byzantine courage became fattened.

Moreover, Damascus City is separated from their Byzantine capital Constantinople by a Mediterranean Sea, and it will be extremely unfavorable for Byzantium to capture Damascus City and gain a firm foothold here in the future.

Weighing the pros and cons, the iron-blooded emperor of Byzantium, Leo III, decided to preemptively attack the city of Damascus and take it down before the Tang dynasty arrived in Damascus.

Leo III gambled that the king's heirs would not have the courage to go to war with them in the face of their own internal instability.

And even if there was a war, Leo III did not feel that he would lose.

He only knew that there was a Pei Min in the East, and he didn't know who Wang Zhongsi was.

Justinian was also a member of the main battle, and felt that he was fighting at home, and there was no reason to lose to the Tang army, which had come from thousands of miles: it was just that the speed of the Tang army was faster than they thought, and it had already attacked Baghdad three days earlier.

Baghdad means "heavenly gift" in Arabic, just like Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty, it belongs to the capital of Damascus and is also an extremely important existence for Arabia.

The Tang army was blocked under the city of Baghdad, but as soon as the Tang army conquered Baghdad, the next step was the city of Damascus.

Whether Byzantium and the Tang Dynasty were friends or enemies depends on this dynasty.

Justinian was well aware of the strength of the Tang Dynasty, and it was inevitable that he was a little worried in his heart.

"Governor, the Don army has captured Baghdad!"

A bad piece of news reached Justinian's ears.

Justinian snorted and lost his voice, "How can it be so fast?" ”

He immediately asked again: "Then what did the Tang Army do?" ”

"Back to the governor, no, they repaired in the city after they captured Baghdad, and there is no news of any further march."

"Whew!" With a long sigh, the stone in Justinian's heart fell, and he said: "The bet is right, they really don't want to be our enemy in this situation, they have also captured a lot of land, there is no need to be an enemy of us for this Damascus city." ”

On the other side, Wang Zhongsi and Feng Changqing stood on the tower of Baghdad and looked in the direction of Damascus City, chatting comfortably.

Wang Zhongsi said: "Let them fight for a while, our soldiers are tired after this long journey, and it is time to rest and rest." ”

Feng Changqing said: "Then wait for them to break through the outer city?" In this way, we can go directly to pick up a ready-made bargain. What does the governor think? ”

Wang Zhongsi moved his arm and said, "It's decided, I want to inform General Gao, let him rest well, and don't rush into the army." ”

Three days later!

Justinian saw with his own eyes that the walls of the city of Damascus had blasted a gap in them, and cried out with ecstasy: "Kill in, kill in!" It's time for shame! ”

Just as the Byzantine soldiers stormed the city of Damascus, a light warship came across the sea and brought a piece of news.

Five thousand Tang troops came to Constantinople.

Justinian only felt a bolt from the blue, and almost fainted.

Constantinople is a fortified city in the world, but in order to regain the lost territory, they divided their forces to fight, and now Constantinople has less than 2,000 defensive forces......

"How is that possible?"

"How did Tang Jun do it?"

Justinian was at a loss and said: "Quick, send someone to Baghdad, we are allies, how can we move troops against our allies?" ”

The messenger arrived in Baghdad.

Wang Zhongsi looked at the envoy in front of him, and said with an innocent face: "We have never meant to be enemies of your country, all this is a misunderstanding. General Gao went to Damascus City, maybe he got lost, and he went around and went to the capital of your country. I will send an order for General Gao to come back, hoping that he will not regard the capital of your country as the city of Damascus, if this is the case, it will be troublesome! ”

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