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The fall of Isfahan is no small matter, it is the hinterland of great food!

As long as Wei Xi's cavalry rushes forward, he can reach the Mesopotamian plains of the Two Rivers Valley, where the granary of the Great Food is located!

If even the plains of Mesopotamia are occupied by Wei Xi, in addition to famine Da Shi (the virtue of the Zhou army will destroy the crops of the farmland 100%), using the plains as a springboard, you can attack the Arabian Peninsula, the nest of Da Shi's fortune, ----- the northwest, and Damascus!

Therefore, the court of the Great Eater King was shaken, and he immediately sent the general Qasim himself to lead 20,000 elite cavalry from Damascus, day and night, and after arriving at the city of Durham Abad, he hurriedly recruited troops.

After obtaining 20,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry, Qasim sent his subordinate to lead Rashid with 5,000 Damascus cavalry and 10,000 tribal troops to advance, and the rest of the infantry cavalry waited for a week of training after the formation was completed before launching.

Da Shi has always been fighting abroad, both Qasim and Rashid are generals who have fought old battles, and their qualifications and combat experience are not necessarily inferior to Wei Xi's generals.

They have thick arms and round feet, are as strong as oxen, and have a high personal force value.

Talking about the ability to command battles, Qasim pointed out that the purpose of the Rassid Division's dispatch was to squeeze the enemy's space for the movement of Isfahan, and to fight if they could fight and retreat if they could not, and to fight if they could get through the battle, and to flee if they could not fight.

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How many Zhou troops were in Isfahan? Forty thousand!

There is absolutely no problem if you want to run, the key is that Zhou Jun has never fought a decent battle up and down, and he wants to bite the big cannibal before leaving.

Just robbing money and not killing people is not embarrassed enough to say that he came out to fight, that is not a bad job and a robber!

How to fight?

Some people say that they are attacking the Great Food Army head-on, and now the Zhou army has been gathering strength for a long time, and its morale is booming, not to mention that 40,000 cavalry fight 40,000 cavalry, even if it beats him 80,000, he is not afraid!

It makes sense for him to do this, but wouldn't it be better for Chief of Staff Jiang Shi to say that "the enemy is shown to be weak"?

When he told him his plan, they commented, "You are cunning! ”

So the plan was followed, and the Zhou army retreated 10,000 people at a time, and withdrew from Isfahan one after another.

Their retreat was carried by carts, loaded with large bags and small bags, on which were all kinds of supplies, but the most precious gold, silver, copper, precious stones, handicrafts, etc., had long been transported away.

The scouts reported that the Great Food cavalry was fifty miles away from the city, and the Zhou army made a final retreat, and the cavalry left the city.

Before retreating, there was still a lot of grain and grass that could not be taken away, and the poor people in the city were notified in advance.

The Great Eater Cavalry has entered the city!

Rashid was a very standard Persian of appearance, square, with a high and straight nose, thick eyebrows and big eyes, thick limbs, and curly hair.

When he led his troops into the city, the horses walked through the streets, and his heart was full of sorrow.

I have been to the city before, how full of vitality, the rich or riding horses or camels to swagger through the city, people carrying goods abound, the footsteps are hurried, the sound of selling is noisy, even the depths of the streets can be heard, although the poor also have a lot, but the foreign living water is the Silk Road, a steady stream of wealth, the rich have a big head, the poor eat the dregs, there is still a meal to eat......

Now, the walls have been torn down, and Isfahan is like a leaky sieve with no protection.

This city is dead!

Rashid learned that the Zhou army had robbed most of the wealth in the city and taken away the nobles, middle and high-ranking officials, the rich, the young and the strong, and the craftsmen in the city, that is, the essence of the city was exhausted.

When the officers came to report the situation, a quartermaster said stupidly: "The warehouse is empty, and we can't find much grain and grass, but I heard that the Tang people distributed the grain and grass in the storehouses in the city to the poor, general, what do you mean......

"No!" Knowing what he wanted to say, Rashid groaned slightly.

"And our supplies?"

"Searching around, it's really not good, just spend money to buy it!" Rashid gritted his teeth.

Generally, the supply of the army in that era, such as the Tang Dynasty, either the local pre-set warehouse, opened the warehouse when needed, or the large number of people to support the front, such as the Wei Xi Department has specially established a logistics department, and the supply is very convenient.

But there is only one dynasty like the Tang Dynasty that has a lot of money and a lot of food and grass in this world, and Rashid's troops were allocated to Isfahan, and the logistics did not send grain from the rear to Isfahan, and local supplies were needed.

And the local warehouses were so empty that they could run horses, and the big ones were also robbed by the Tang army.

Well, the people have grain and grass, and Rashid dares to assert that as long as he doesn't pay for the expropriation of local grain and grass, when the Tang people make a comeback, the hearts of the people in this land will return to the Tang people!

Different from the high-ranking officials and nobles in Damascus, Rashid was born as a small soldier and had a poor family background, he knew too well that even if a bucket of rice was robbed in the small people's house, he was afraid that he would hate the person who robbed the rice!

Usually they dare to be angry but dare not speak, but suddenly there is one more choice for them, one side to send rice, one side to grab rice, the people's will, don't ask!

To a certain extent, they will even become an important weight for the victory of the Great Food and the Tang Dynasty, and Rashid has a hunch that the Tang Army will come back!

After all, the main force of the Tang army is not damaged at all, and at present, Dashi is relying on the two cities of Mulu and Nishapur to drag the Tang army's advance, once these two cities are lost, plus the hearts of the people of Isfahan and Shiraz will return to the Tang Dynasty, this land will be in danger!

Therefore, the Lassi German army paid for some of the grain and grass to the people, traded fairly, and gave cash!

But not enough, after all, the people know very well from top to bottom that food is king in troubled times!

They carefully tucked away their share of grain in case of famine and did not sell it for a few dollars.

The Tang army appeared in Isfahan, and no matter how ill-informed people were, they knew that troubled times were coming... The Tang army robbed all the valuable things, and it was idle when it was idle, and the Tang army sent local people, demolished the city wall, and destroyed the country's seedlings and destroyed all the farmland outside the city!

The vast number of poor people in Isfahan did not resent what the Tang army had done, because what the Tang army had grabbed was something they had no share!

On the contrary, the benefits given by the Tang army were something that they couldn't get after a year's hard work, so there was actually a lot of grain and grass in the city.

Knowing that the amount of military rations collected was not very large, Rashid did not care, and immediately ordered the army to clean up, and quickly chased after the Tang army's route.

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But when he left, Qasim's large army was stationed in Isfahan, he came from the Arabian Peninsula, which was the lair of the Arab Empire, a caliphate, a natural nobleman, with superior conditions since childhood, and there was indeed a set of wars, but for the governance of the people, it was ten fingers that did not touch the spring water, and let it flow.

As a result, the new magistrate of Isfahan appointed by him colluded with his logistics officer, and sent a brigade of officers and soldiers to sweep the people and find out the local grain stocks one by one... It is said that every family in the Tang Army has sent food, and everyone has a share, so every family will search for it!

Take the government's office, grab it all back!

Qasim was satisfied, and his troops were not short of food and grass.

But he didn't understand that the anger of the people was like a volcano!

Rashid's intentions were in vain, and Wei Xi laughed, he won the heart of the poor at a small cost.