Along the coastline, across the Cape of Good Hope, all the way forward, into the territory of Eastern Rome, Li Chongyi in the name of celebrating Heraclius's birthday, with people, gifts, very easy to cross the county.

After all, there were only a few hundred people in their group, and they brought gifts, and no one stopped them all the way, and they also encountered two horse thieves, each time it was nearly 2,000 people, but in front of the crossbow, before they could rush, they were shot and killed, and Li Chongyi did not rush to kill them all, and deliberately let some prisoners go.

Sure enough, after going through it twice, no one dared to attack their idea, after all, no one knew how long the repeater could be put and how many people would need to fill it, and those soldiers looked like the elite of the elite, wearing iron armor and invulnerable.

With some of the war horses sent by the horse thieves, the trip couldn't help but be much easier, and these cities close to Constantinople, the city lords were much more literate, not only sending grain and grass supplies, but also escorting them all the way.

Finally, before the New Year, rushed to Constantinople.

It was a military fortress, and the whole city was perched on a hill, looking down on the earth, like a beast of prey, looking at the food below.

Walk closer, only to find that the city wall is all bricks and stones, the city wall has a high and a low two, and due to the topography of the city wall, I feel that the city wall is climbing to both sides, behind the two city walls, there are many arrow towers.

It is precisely because of the terrain that the attacking side needs to attack from the back, and even if a section of the city wall is attacked, the rest need to continue to attack from the back.

The city wall is also divided into sections, and after being attacked, the door falls down, and the enemy can be kept out, so it needs to be attacked one by one.

"This is the city built by our greatest king, Constantine the Great, the largest and strongest in the world.

It is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and it is necessary to pass through two bridges to enter and exit, so it is also known as the city of two bridges. A general who escorted them proudly introduced when he saw Li Chongyi and the others in surprise.

After Li Chongyi read it, he listened to the explanation, nodded, shook his head and said proudly: "It is indeed a fortified city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but if you want to say the largest, it is not the largest, and the largest city in the world should be our Chang'an." ”

"The walls of Constantinople are forty miles long, and 700,000 people live here, and many merchants come and go every day." The general said unconvinced.

"Hehe, Chang'an City covers an area of more than 200 miles and has a population of more than 1.5 million, how can it be compared." Li Chongyi silently calculated in his heart, it was indeed about the same size as Chang'an, but he refused to admit defeat and counted Xincheng together.

When the general listened to the translation's words, he stared at Li Chongyi a little incredulously, thinking that Li Chongyi was bragging, and couldn't help but look at him with contempt.

"Humph! I know you don't believe it, but you can ask the merchants, some of them have been to Chang'an. Li Chongyi felt his gaze and said with a cold snort.

The interpreter was a big cannibal, he gave Li Chongyi's words to the general, and nodded and said: "Respected general, what the little prince said is true, the little one has been to Chang'an, which is indeed more prosperous than Constantinople, there are large groups of merchants coming and going every day, and tens of thousands of caravans set off from the east, passing through the Western Regions to Tianzhu, Dashi, Rome, and beyond.

Look at my silk clothes, they are all ordinary people can wear. ”

Those Roman soldiers, listening to the interpreter's words, kept glancing at the Tang soldiers, staring enviously at their clothes, as well as the boxes on horseback.

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What Li Chongyi didn't know was that although Eastern Rome was still quite powerful now, it had failed many times with a new kingdom.

The Arab Empire, now the second caliph, is named Umar, and this Omar has led his army to occupy a large number of Eastern Roman lands, and has also defeated the Great Cannibals, and is expanding rapidly.

This is also one of the reasons why the Great Cannibals gave up attacking Guishan, allowing the small countries of the Western Regions to survive in Guishan.

When Heraclius learned of the arrival of an envoy from the powerful Silk Kingdom in the Far East, he immediately put on a grand welcome ceremony.

Of course, Datang's gift once again caused a sensation, even if it was the most powerful country in the West.

At the same time, the strength of elite fighters in the competition is also a very important reason.

After talking with Li Chongyi, and secretly investigating, Heraclius finally knew how powerful Datang was, so he became more enthusiastic about Li Chongyi and others.

The pressure from the Arab Empire had put the aging Heraclius under great pressure, and he desperately wanted an ally to reduce his pressure from the other direction.

So he put forward a request for an alliance, but unfortunately Li Chongyi did not receive such an order, nor did he have the power to call the shots, but the two sides negotiated to establish commercial exchanges, and the Eastern Rome needed to establish a port.

And Heraclius knew about the huge warship of Datang parked on the seashore, and also sighed at the strength of Datang, so of course he agreed to establish a port.

Ten days later, he sent his younger brother Theodora to Chang'an with gifts to follow Li Chongyi and others, hoping to form an alliance and let the Tang Dynasty attack from the other side, or support from the sea, of course, he also promised that Li Chongyi would not attack Ptolemy.

This is completely a favor, and now Eastern Rome does not have the energy to fight those small places, and the most important thing is to face the menacing Arab Empire.

And just when Li Chongyi and others set off to return to Chang'an, Li Shimin also received a call for help from Persia, asking the Tang Dynasty to send troops from the Western Regions to attack the Arab Empire.

However, Li Shimin refused on the grounds that the situation was unknown and there was no accurate information, but promised the Persian prince that if their people fled to the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty would shelter them.

Soon after, Feng Daiwen also received Li Shimin's holy decree, asking him to sit in the Western Regions and be fully responsible for all the affairs from the original Western Regions to Longyou, and officially renamed Feng Daiwen as the Governor of the Western Regions.

Feng Daiwen thought about it carefully and understood that Li Shimin might not be able to resist Goguryeo, so he sent a large number of young generals to various places, and all the veteran generals were gathering in Guanzhong and Liaoxi.

Sure enough, the subsequent dispatch further confirmed his conjecture, Su Dingfang was appointed as the county guard of Shazhou, Xue Rengui was appointed as the county guard of Dunhuang, and Li Daozong was their superior, but he had already returned to Chang'an to report on his duties.

At the same time, Niu Jinda, who was fighting with the natives in the country of Pi, was transferred back, and all the things were lost to Qin Huaiyu, Changsun Chong, and Feng Daiwu and Feng Daijin were asked by Niu Jinda to take people to sit in the middle of the Nanbi Road to ensure that the road was unblocked, and to train the Funan and Zhenla people, and so on to free up their hands to attack the country of Pi in the future, saying that they would not blame them for sending troops privately, and Niu Jinda would also ask for credit for them.

(End of chapter)