The Sanlan Kingdom is the name of the Tang people for the Somali region in later generations, but there is no such title in its local area. After the Tang army built the city here, it was named Sanlan City. And in the fortification of Mululai, it was named the city of Chenai.

The scale of these two cities is not large, if it is placed in Datang, I am afraid it is not as good as a county seat. However, it can also play a big role here.

After all, there were no civilians in these two cities, and they were all used by the army.

All kinds of goods shipped from Mumbai have a comprehensive storage and transit place. It is with the support of these two cities that the Tang army can be like a bamboo, advancing all the way.

The Great Eclipse resisted as best he could, but it was of little use. Not only because the weapons and equipment are too far apart, but also because Persia is very eastern, and Rome saw a series of defeats in the Great Eclipse and felt that there was an opportunity.

Persia had launched a counterattack against the Great Eclipse, and the Eastern Romans were ready to make a move. The big food is now too busy to look around.

Two batches of reinforcements have already arrived from Mumbai. There are already 15,000 Tang soldiers here. After occupying the southern end of the Great Eclipse, the Great Eclipse began to shrink its forces into the hinterland, but Xia Hongsheng bypassed the hinterland and stopped continuing to attack north. Instead, they sailed up the Red Sea and directly into the bay of Daeshi, which was later known as the Gulf of Aqaba, at the northern end of the Red Sea.

Landing from here, he bypassed the army gathered in the hinterland of the Great Food and came behind them.

This area was originally Egyptian, and after it was conquered by the Eastern Romans, it belonged to the Eastern Romans. Now, it is occupied by the Great Eclipse, and it belongs to the Great Eclipse again.

This area can be described as ill-fated, thinking about its experience in the later life, Xia Hongsheng decided to hold this area in his hands in advance.

After all, although it is barren and barren, it is mostly desert. However, it could not stand up to its geographical importance - the Sinai Peninsula, in later generations, from the sea, it was the Gulf of Suez on the west, the Gulf of Aqaba on the east, and the Suez Canal connected the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, so that the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean could be connected. Land-wise, it is the center of the three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe.

If Datang can occupy here, it can radiate the three continents, control the two seas, and connect the two oceans.

However, not everyone has the vision that Xia Hongsheng brought from later generations to understand the importance of occupying this area.

"Although this place can be inserted into the rear of the Great Food Army, it is also a landing Great Food, fighting from north to south. But why attack to the west? Su Dingfang raised a question: "Although there is also a big food army on the west side, there are not many of them, and they are not the main force. And most of its land is a desert, far away from the Great Eclipse, and it was originally the land of Great Qin, which is not only useless to occupy it, but also to make Great Qin evil. At this juncture, if Da Qin turned around and came together with Da Shi because of this, it would really do more harm than good! ”

"Brother Dingfang can't see as far as me." Xia Hongsheng said with a smile: "If you can firmly occupy this place, even if you make enemies with Eastern Rome, it is worth it." Let's take a closer look at the map. ”

Xia Hongsheng pointed to the map and explained: "This is the Red Sea, come here, this is the Mediterranean." And the Mediterranean Sea is on the verge of Daqin. If a canal can be carved here, the Red Sea can be connected to it. The Datang Navy can drive straight into the coast of Daqin! Naturally, the maritime merchants of the Tang Dynasty can also directly drive the sea ships to Daqin through here. ”

"Once you've dug through this, you'll look at this place." Xia Hongsheng said with a smile: "Gathering in the center of the three continents and connecting the key points of the two seas, does Brother Dingfang still think that this place is useless?" ”

"This ...... That's a chokehold! Su Dingfang was startled, and hurriedly leaned over to take a closer look at the map, but raised his head sharply again, and said: But our troops are limited, how can we divide the manpower to repair the ...... POW! ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded with a smile and said, "It turns out that these big food prisoners of war are also very useful!" If it weren't for those prisoners of war, how could Sanlan City and Shunai City be built in just over half a year? ”

"There are too many prisoners of war, and where to put them is always a hidden danger." Xia Hongsheng said again: "It's better to disperse to the construction site." And this is the new occupation of Dashi, there are not many troops, and it is far away from the homeland of Dashi, those prisoners of war are put here, and there is no big movement. ”

"That big food ......," Su Dingfang asked again.

"The big cannibal on the Sinai Peninsula, 3,000 soldiers and horses are enough." Xia Hongsheng said: "The other people's plans remain the same, land in the Gulf of Aqaba, let's press the forces of Da Shi to the middle and make hamburgers!" ”

"Burgers?" Su Dingfang was stunned again.

"Well, it's a kind of cake, let's go back to Chang'an, I'll make it for you." Xia Hongsheng explained casually.

Su Dingfang didn't know what he meant, but he heard that it was a kind of food, so he didn't ask much, and said: "Judging from the map, Mecca City, the capital of the Great Food Country, is not far from the shore of the Red Sea. If only we could get from this place—"

Su Dingfang pointed to a place on the map, and said: "The mark here should be a city, if we can land from here and occupy this city, then this place is not more than two hundred miles away from Mecca City, I'm afraid it is no more than two hundred miles, with enough artillery to attack, we will definitely be able to take the capital of the Great Food Country first." ”

"The most heavily defended city in the entire Great Food is probably the city of Mecca." Xia Hongsheng shook his head and said, "Isn't the Great Eclipse Army shrinking in the middle just to protect Mecca City?" Moreover, the significance of the city of Mecca to the Great Food is far greater than that of other countries. Don't forget that the Great Food is a religious country, and this city of Mecca is the holy city of their religion, and its status is high. For other countries, if the capital is taken away, it will be a huge blow to their country and extremely detrimental to the morale of their soldiers. But if the city of Mecca is taken, I am afraid that the entire soldiers and people of the Great Food will all kill Mecca like madmen, and will not spare their lives to retake their holy city. There should never be any doubt about the determination of these Muslims to retake the Holy City, and the means they have taken to retake it, the capture of Mecca, which will inspire their resistance and morale indefinitely. So, this city of Mecca, we're going to save it until the end. Even in the future, we will have to make a promise to the people of the Great Eclipse, even if the Great Eclipse is defeated, the city of Mecca will still be a holy city for them to worship. ”

Although it is still the seventh century, Islam has not been established for a long time, and its influence on the Great Cannibalism is far less entrenched than that of later generations, but it is itself a religion prone to extremism. And Datang has been in the big food for a long period of time, and the deployment of Dashi may not be very impressive. So this thing has to be boiled in warm water frog slowly change. Keeping the city of Mecca is equivalent to a stabilizer, which can reduce the resistance of some cannibals to the Tang Dynasty.

And Mecca City is basically in the middle of the big food, so Xia Hongsheng will use this kind of hamburger-style play from south to north, after occupying the place in the south, and then going around to the north, from north to south, leaving Mecca in the middle and not moving for the time being.