As the governor of Persia, the degree of freedom that the Governorate gave to Shi Xiu was actually quite large because of the complexity of the war situation that Shi Xiu faced in Persia.

In fact, although Tianzhu nominally controlled Persia, it was actually impossible for Persia to achieve the same rule as Tianzhu.

The ethnic situation here is too complicated, and the customs and habits of each ethnic group are too different from those of Middle-earth, and it is more suitable to establish a bond zone here, just as the Marquis of Heaven did in Heaven.

Therefore, this time Shi Xiu can easily raise troops again, after the first battle in the steppe, the unruly leaders of the various tribes under his command are now initially accustomed to obeying his orders, these guys have a high enthusiasm for going west to fight the Byzantines, after all, the Byzantines are also very familiar enemies in the eyes of these West Asian peoples, and they are also the kind of weak chickens in the impression.

Shi Xiu led the group of fellows on horses, armed with scimitars, all the way to the Anatolian plateau, almost without encountering any obstacles.

The Byzantines had gathered too many forces at the front, and behind them, they were unusually empty.

The cities on the back road of the Byzantine front army on the peninsula of Asia Minor were stunned overnight! When the news reached Constantinople, Manuel IV, who was waiting in the palace for the generals at the front, who would bring him great victories and glory, was almost stunned.

Where did he think that his generals were still fighting on the front line, but the enemy's partial division was already on the verge of killing his doorstep!

Of course, at this time, the Rogues were far from the Sea of Marmara and Constantinople, but the bloodthirsty and brutal reputation of the West Asian peoples had already swept across the Anatolian Plateau, with the Taurus Mountains to the south, the Krolu Mountains and the Eastern Kadeniz Mountains to the north, across the Armenian Plateau, and all the way to the Aegean coast.

After all, Asia Minor has not been long since the Byzantines recovered, and even though it has been thoroughly Hellenized and suitable for the Byzantines to rule, it is still quite unstable.

The Byzantines, as the defenders of this land, have not yet proven themselves.

However, in the past hundreds of years, the Mongols and the West Asian peoples have burned and looted on this land, and the people of Asia Minor have experienced too much suffering as the border between the two countries.

This time, the arrival of these familiar West Asian cavalry frightened the people of Asia Minor too much, and countless people were like frightened birds, they did not want to listen to the orders of the Byzantines to defend the city, but hid in the mountains in panic.

For a time, there was a lot of noise and chaos on the peninsula of Asia Minor!

"Damn it!"

When Heraclius received the news, he was preparing to launch a strong assault on Mosul, and he had already accumulated a considerable amount of artillery and siege engines on the front line, and although the king of Spain did not send troops, he nevertheless supported the Byzantines with a considerable part of their artillery through the Italians.

Of course, these cannons are better than Constantinople's own artillery, they are all heavy artillery, originally Chirac thought that it would not be for you to give you these heavy big guys, but now it seems that even the Spanish artillery is difficult to compare with the artillery of the Orientals at the head of Mosul in terms of power and craftsmanship.

Without heavy artillery, it would have been difficult for Heraclius to take the city.

The Byzantines had made great efforts to bring these big men from Constantinople here, and were preparing to storm the city, and now the rear road behind them was about to be cut off by another enemy army.

"Have you inquired clearly, that enemy army is from Tabriz?"

"Yes! Checkmate! And the members are all those damn Hu people! In the past, they obeyed the orders of the Mongols, but now they didn't expect to switch to the Tianzhu people so soon. ”

The Byzantine generals were surprised that the Tianzhu people were able to subdue these West Asian peoples.

The Byzantines knew too well their unruly West Asian neighbors, and even the Mongols never really conquered these West Asian peoples, the Persians, the Turks, the Kurds, the Azerbaijanis, the Turkmens, the Bacteri, the Lore, the Balochs, the Assyrians, the Armenians, the Aramaic Syrians, the Chaldeans, the Mandayians, the Sayuyutes, the Surats, and the Hurites...... There are many ethnic groups here, and almost every race has a long history and the pride of their ancestors passed down from generation to generation.

It is very difficult for these peoples to be completely conquered by another people.

That is, why don't they kill each other and kill each other, and the enmity is as deep as the sea, and now that there is no Mongol pressure, they are not in civil strife themselves?

Even the Mongols adopted a policy of tribal autonomy in this land, and the Mongols spent hundreds of years without succeeding in driving them.

Now, the Orientals have just occupied Persia, and these people have gathered under the command of the Orientals and let them drive them to fight against Byzantium? Such news really frightened Hiracl!

Did he just think he had an advantage on the battlefield? As a result, the opponent knocked a hammer on his head, and the offensive and defensive position was easy, and now it has become the back of his Heraclius army!

The rear road was copied, and there was a fortified city in front, and now he, Heraclius, had to look at the enemy's face even if he retreated.

Could it be that this is the enemy's trap, which seemed to be in a hurry to fight before, dragging him here until this moment?

Heraclius shuddered in his heart, and asked in a deep voice:

"And what about our allies, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan?"

The previous time Heraclius led his army out of the pass, but he personally went north to parade around these lands, and established alliances with the tribes of these lands, so that they could help spy on Tabriz.

"Hey, don't say it?"

The herald sighed!

"Huh?"

Heraclius' eyes widened, and the herald was shocked, and he hurriedly explained:

"They refused to send troops, they said, the army of Tabriz made their fraternal people, and they refused to send troops to fight against their fraternal people."

"Damn it!"

Heraclo was furious and slammed his fist into the table in front of him.

Brother nation of bullshit! These Yankees, if it weren't for Heraclius himself to liberate them, would still be bleeding and crying under the whips of the Mongols.

Now these Yankees refused his Heraclius' call for only one reason - in this war, they did not favor their Byzantines.

The people of this land, after thousands of years of war, have learned the only truth that they follow the strong!

In this war, they could not have bet easily because of his Heraclius.

What to do?

Heraclius looked up at the city of Mosul and repented in his heart, this war should not have started in the first place.