Chapter 0678. Fight against whom
Jerusalem at sunset was once again covered with a layer of blood, not only the red light of the slanting sun, but also the real blood light, along the ancient trimmed white-gray city wall, strands of blood water flowed down from the drainage ditch, dyeing the city wall red. [This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]
The sunset red and blood red render the thousand-year-old city a poignant scene.
The incident happened too suddenly, Amur didn't expect the Tang people to fight at all, and just experienced a coup d'Γ©tat, even the most elite Syrian Arab Army was panicked, after the Tang Army's long-range fire suppressed the city wall, the approaching tiger squat cannon fired a burst, and the city came down that day.
However, in order to save military strength, this time the Tang army drove the Persian and Caucasian armies to attack the city, and the Caucasians, who lacked military discipline, plundered and killed for a while after entering the city, and filled in a little chaos, until the Tang army Tielin entered the city, which restored order.
Bodies lay all over the streets, not far from the Dome of the Rock, and an old Arab in armor also fell on the street, with a pair of old eyes wide open and looking into the distance, throwing a bloody Damascus scimitar in his hand, and a long lance pierced his chest, piercing him and killing him.
Obviously can choose to retreat, but no one knows, the smash hit Egyptian governor, the new master of Syria Amur why to fight to the death, but this problem with his death will never be known, a Persian soldier who was cleaning the battlefield picked up Amur's scimitar, casually turned over his body, pulled out the lance and threw it there, after a while, a group of scolding Caucasian soldiers passed by here again, dragging Amur's leg on the rough road of Jerusalem to drag a long blood mark.
Wandering among the corpses of other slain Arab soldiers, the smash hit Amur disappeared into the world for no apparent reason.
Not far from where Amur had fallen, another man fell to his knees and wept.
Everyone envies the noble lord who is high, who knows that the noble lord also has unspeakable risks and blood, and if one is not good, the whole family will be destroyed. I don't understand why the Tang army suddenly attacked the city, so Amur directly settled the account on Abdullah, who went out of the city, and dozens of people of his clan, regardless of men, women, and children, were also executed.
Sobering up from the hallucinatory potion, Abdullah rushed into the city in a frenzy, despite the sporadic street fighting in the city, and found the remains of his family at the burial place of the Umayyad family.
Abdullah is almost sixty years old, and he has become a lonely man in one day, holding the corpse of his little grandson who is less than two years old.
The reality is so cruel.
In terms of results, the Tang army was quite brilliant, conquering the Xiongcheng Jerusalem in one day, and the elite Syrian Arab army that was ransomed by Muawiya in the post-war peace talks was captured by more than 20,000 people, and more than half of the main backbone of Muawiyah's regime was killed by Amur, and a small half was captured by the Tang army, which was equivalent to the complete destruction of the Arab Empire that had been fighting against Fujian for five years.
However, Li Jie still didn't get happy.
The most central part of the Tang army camp that was relocated under the city of Jerusalem was not far from Li Jie's big tent, a beautiful and clean white-gold tent was closed there, the tent entrance was tightly surrounded, how a dozen little maids could not open the door, the distance was not far, and a group of Fujian monarchs and ministers were embarrassed to point fingers and narrate here.
"The minister is incompetent, and when the minister arrives, the entire Byzantine army has been controlled by Constantine IV, and His Majesty's trusted generals have basically been killed, and according to the account of the defeated soldiers who have escaped, Constantine and your thief have already announced his succession to Augustus in the army, and declared Her Royal Highness Anna to be ****."
Listening to Wang Fangyi's narration, Li Jie's face became more and more depressed and helpless, this is indeed a big loss, a large empire with a radius of 3 million kilometers and a population of more than 20 million people has suddenly turned into an enemy country from the original vassal ally, making the already shaky peace situation even more turbulent, completely hopeless, this failure is no less than losing Mesopotamia.
"Your Highness, I am guilty of humbling my duties, if it weren't for my carelessness, I wouldn't have gotten to this situation, please punish Your Highness." Seeing the helplessness on Li Jie's face, the strong self-blame rippled in Li Que's heart, and she couldn't help but kneel on one knee and blame herself.
Seeing that the blurred wound on the girl's back was already purple and black, Li Jie shook his head helplessly, reluctantly helped her up with a kind smile, and said encouragingly: "I don't blame you for this, it's not good to be lonely, I didn't pay enough attention to Byzantium, and it is already the greatest comfort that you can come back alive."
"Your Highness."
"Lonely you, go to the red gourd camp immediately to heal, and then stay in your own camp honestly, this is an order!"
Li Jie finally straightened his face and hesitated, but Li Que still bowed his head and nodded in agreement, "Thank you, Your Highness."
"Your Highness, then, Anna." After standing up, Li Que didn't leave for the first time, and looked at the closed tent worriedly, and Li Jie, who listened, sighed again.
"Anna is not very human, she will definitely survive!"
It is somewhat similar to Abdullah's situation, but Anna's situation is even more sad, betrayed by her relatives, turned against her, and Byzantium, her hometown of the bloody battle, has also turned away from her, it can be said that the world is big, Anna became alone in an instant, there is no place to stay, she is just a little girl in her twenties, whether she can survive Li Jie is really bottomless.
However, what else can Li Jie say at this time?
After appeasing Li Que, Li Jie returned to his Chinese army camp with a depressed face, where Wang Xuance and other senior officials of Fujian had already waited anxiously there, except for Wu Meiniang, there were many of them, and when they saw Li Jie coming, the ministers hurriedly surrounded him and said, "I have seen Your Highness."
There were anxious questions in everyone's eyes, so Li Jie stopped going around in circles, and while walking towards the golden throne that belonged to him, he waved his hand weakly and said: "Excuse me, as you guess, Byzantium has judged the alliance, our forces in Byzantium have been swept away, and at least 120,000 Byzantine troops behind our army in the north have become enemies, let's talk about what to do?"
Seeing that Li Jie tilted his head decadently and sat back in his chair, he glanced at each other anxiously, and the eyes of the ministers were also full of solemnity, and he groaned for a while, and the veteran Dugu Yu of Guanzhong took the lead in standing up, and bowed deeply: "Your Highness, the minister thinks that our army should no longer continue to delay in Jerusalem, and now there are 200,000 Arab thieves knocking on the border of our country, and there are Byzantines with bad intentions behind them. When the time comes, whether it is to conquer Syria or to fight against Byzantium in Antioch, it will be easy to play. β
"If you go fifty miles and fight for profit, you will step on the general. The back road is unstable and fighting alone, even if Sun Wuzi is alive, he can only cry out in vain. β
In the end, it is a veteran, Dugu Loss said it, and Li Jie, who listened to it, also nodded, but Wang Fangyi on the side frowned and shook his head, questioning: "What if the Byzantines have to entangle our army?"
"Then break him! The Byzantines, even the Arabs can't beat him, tens of thousands of troops beat him for thousands of miles, and the ministers invited 30,000 soldiers, and they will take the heads of the king's dead eggs to meet them in one day and one night! Xue Qing, who had the hottest temper, immediately came out of the battle, and asked for his life impassionedly, listening to his awesome words, a group of important ministers laughed, and invisibly diluted the solemn atmosphere a little.
Wang Xuance also smiled helplessly shook his head out of the ranks, and arched his fist and said: "According to the minister's opinion, the Byzantines may not fight to the death with our army, after all, Constantine has just seized power from Anna, and the unstable Byzantines can't afford to fight hard, I'm afraid his interest is more in Syria and Egypt."
"The minister believes that it is imminent to return to Mesopotamia, but there is one more thing we must do before returning to Mesopotamia."
Speaking of this mysteriously, Wang Xuance couldn't help but lower his voice, but Li Jiejunchen, who was listening to it, exhaled in disbelief.
"Slaughtering the city?"
"That's right, slaughter the city! But it's not for us to do it, let the Jews who go with the army do it! Once they had formed a mortal enmity with the Arabs, the Jews would have to do everything in their power to help our army hold on to Jerusalem, and in the future our army would have a foothold if it returned to the Mediterranean coast. His eyes were blazing, and Wang Xuance was full of seriousness.
This is a good strategy, the army of more than 100,000 Jews, the ninth floor is men, their fanaticism in the Battle of Paris Prairie has been revealed, the national nature of the Promised Land is both an advantage and a disadvantage, so if you hold on to this, you are not afraid that the Jews will not cooperate with you.
Moreover, most of the residents living in Jerusalem are die-hard loyalists of the Arab Empire, once the Fujian State is evacuated, it is likely that a new regime will be formed here, it is better to cut the grass and eradicate the roots as soon as possible, politically, it has always been life and death, without a trace of mercy, otherwise, Anna is an example.
The problem is that it is not easy to decide to kill 100,000 people, even Li Jie pinched his chin, sat on the golden throne, Li Jie pinched his chin and groaned heavily.
But at this moment, the tent curtain outside was suddenly opened in a hurry, and Wu Meiniang broke in very impolitely, and she didn't care about the righteousness of the monarch and the ministers, so she directly hurriedly roared and said: "Your Highness, the concubine has just checked the court records of Muawiyah, and tortured the captive Arab Empire officials, whether it is in the official records or demoted, and even the cronies of the rebellious minister Amur have vetoed the organization of the Omani Arab tribes in Yemen and raised troops to attack the border of our Fujian country!"
A lot of tongue twisters, not to mention Li Jie, Wang Fangyi was confused, and he didn't understand what it meant for a while, Li Jie couldn't help but scratch his head in distress and asked, "So what!"
Speaking of this, Wu Meiniang suddenly looked serious, took a breath, and then asked rhetorically.
"Who are we fighting against?"