Chapter 410: Caliph
"Mother, brother." Seeing her family, Princess Narcissus couldn't help but burst into tears. This is the first time she has met her family since she married in the Tang Dynasty.
The mother of the Narcissus Imperial Concubine looked at her daughter and couldn't help but burst into tears, and the mother and son chattered and told about their parting.
King Isiai III of Persia looked at his sister with joy, and he now admired his own vision. Now, with the powerful Tang Empire as the backing, I feel a bright spot in front of me.
The Narcissus Imperial Concubine made love to her mother for a while, and then said to Yi Si Ai III: "Brother, I will bring the will of His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty this time. His Majesty the Emperor decided to increase aid to the Persian Empire. Here is his handwritten letter, please take a look. ”
So saying, he handed him the letter that Li Su had sent to the third emperor of Isiai.
The Persian king Isiai III was overjoyed after reading the letter from the Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Su. Immediately, he met with Su Dingfang and Qi Bi Luo and others.
According to the request of the Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Su, the Tang Empire and the Persian Empire were to form a joint army headquarters to jointly command the combined forces of the Tang Empire and the Persian Empire to fight against the Arabs and the Eastern Roman Empire.
After the death of Hals, the first general of the Persian Empire, the Persian Empire no longer had a suitable military commander, and Ixai III invited Su Dingfang to serve as the commander of the coalition army.
In the meeting hall of the provisional royal palace of the Persian Empire, the governors and military commanders of the provinces were already waiting in the meeting hall, waiting for his majesty's reception.
After the meeting, they exchanged views on the military situation in various regions, and they were all very worried about the current situation.
Nor did they have much hope that His Majesty's convening of this military conference would be able to change the current passive military posture.
While everyone was talking, a shout came from outside the hall: "Your Majesty has arrived." ”
Everyone was a little surprised to see Ixie III appear, and in everyone's imagination, he should have a sad face. However, everyone saw that his complexion was a hundred times more energetic, as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and they were a little puzzled.
At this moment, a beautiful woman appeared behind him, and behind that beautiful woman, there were several high-ranking officials of the Tang Army.
Everyone took a closer look, and this beautiful woman turned out to be Princess Narcissus, the sister of His Majesty the King.
Seeing Princess Narcissus, everyone seemed to understand something. Sure enough, Ixie III said with joy:
"Ministers, generals, governors, the current prince of the Tang Dynasty has succeeded to the throne and become the new emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and Princess Narcissus has been named the imperial concubine of the Tang Dynasty.
His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty decided to increase support for the Persian Empire and directly send troops to participate in the military operations of the Persian Empire. ”
Hearing this, everyone was excited and congratulated His Majesty the King.
Yi Si Ai III then introduced Su Dingfang and others.
Su Ding briefed the ministers and generals of the Persian Empire on the specific content of the Tang Empire's assistance to them.
When they heard that the Tang Dynasty would send 500,000 troops directly into the Persian Empire to participate in the war, the ministers and generals of the Persian Empire broke out into a burst of cheers.
A month later.
In the Greek province of the Persian Empire, 30,000 Persian troops and 50,000 Arab troops faced each other east of Athens, the capital of Greece.
Soon after the battle began, the Persian army could not resist the attack of the Arab army and retreated in a southeasterly direction, with the Arab army in hot pursuit.
Seeing that the Persian Empire army was about to be driven into the valley and completely surrounded and annihilated, suddenly, about 100,000 Tang Army cavalry came overwhelmingly, quickly surrounded and defeated the army of the Arab Empire, and after two hours of fierce fighting, completely annihilated the army of the Arab Empire.
This battle was personally commanded by Su Dingfang, the first battle against the Arab Imperial Army.
After the Battle of Athens, the Tang Dynasty and the Persian Empire quickly advanced southwest, and soon recovered all of Greece.
Caliph is the term given to Islamic political and religious leaders. The Arabic transliteration originally meant "vicarious", "agent" or "successor". Chinese Muslims are commonly known as "Hai Lifan".
In the Qur'an there is a verse that says, "I will surely set up an agent on the earth." Muhammad and the prophets who preceded him were considered to be the agents and rulers of Allah on earth. After Muhammad's death, the term "caliph" was used to refer to Muhammad's successor, the leader of the Muslim community.
The caliphate was not hereditary, but was elected by high-ranking religious figures.
The current caliph 'Umar ibn al-Khattab is a great figure in the history of the Arab Empire, under his leadership, the Arab Empire was stable at home, united from top to bottom, extremely strong militarily, and achieved great victories in foreign wars, and the Arab Empire, during his reign, expanded more than one and a half times.
The war between the Arab Empire and the Persian Empire, originally the Persian Empire was the aggressor, the caliph led the Arab Empire, resolutely resisted the invasion of the Persian Empire, and with the victory over the invasion of the Persian Empire, the Arab Empire became more powerful.
In 637, under the leadership of Caliph Umar ibn Khattab, the Arabs defeated the Persian army led by Rustam Farohzadeh at the Battle of Qadisiyah.
The situation was reversed, and the armies of the Arab Empire, not only driving away the Persian invaders, but instead attacked the Persian Empire proper, and laid siege to the Persian capital of Ctesiphon, which fell after a long siege. The situation has evolved into what it is today.
"The great caliph, the defender of religion, suddenly appeared in Greece the armies of the Eastern Tang Empire, who, together with the evil Persians, attacked the troops of General Haradin.
General Haradin and 50,000 Arab warriors were killed, and Greece fell back into the hands of the Persians. Prime Minister Omar said.
Caliph Khattab frowned and said, "I heard that in the army of the Persians, there was a military advisory group of the Tang Empire, and now they actually sent troops to help the Persians, have you found out the reason?" ”
Prime Minister Omar said: "I heard that Princess Narcissus, the younger sister of the king of Persia, married the crown prince of the Tang Empire, and the crown prince has recently ascended the throne as emperor. It should be for this reason. ”
Caliph Khattab nodded and said, "If that's the case, it's reasonable, but I'm afraid it's not just that, right?" ”
Prime Minister Omar said: "I heard that the king of Persia ceded a province of land to the Tang Empire. ”
Caliph Khattab said: "Well, this should be the main reason.
This Tang Empire, which is said to be very powerful, is more troublesome to have a war with them. See if you can send an envoy over and negotiate with them, what the Persians can give them, our Arab Empire can afford. ”
Prime Minister Omar said: "The minister will arrange it." ”