Li Jie's strategy, using Kufa as bait, attracted Hussein, who was entrenched in Syria, to lead the main force into the Mesopotamian plain, and then he was in the center, Fang Yiai was on the right, Su Dingfang was on the left, and the three-way army strangled Hussein and Ziyad to death on the banks of the Euphrates River near the city of Kufa.

For the Byzantine army near Antioch, Li Jie did not fail to consider, even if he Constantine IV took a risk and fell to the Arab side, the multi-cavalry Su Dingfang could also maneuver with him for a while, although there was less one way forward, the middle road and the right road plus more than 400,000 troops also had enough combat power to crush Hussein two.

As for the Arab tribes that migrated from the desert in the territory and were unruly, still maintaining their respective clan forms, and not allowing Min officials to interfere, Li Jie even thought about how to clean them up, find a conflict handle, and simply drive this group of guys back to Monan, anyway, aren't they homesick?

This time, without Li Jie waiting, his expectations were realized, but unfortunately, the realization was a little too timely, and the three parties were piled up together, even the strong Da Min felt tricky.

Fortunately, it's just tricky, this time Li Jie's troops are not the 300,000 last time, but 600,000, 600,000 troops that can be relied on from Tianzhu, even if they face three challenges at the same time, Damin is not stage frightened.

The big wheels rolled on the bluestone road and made a rumbling sound, the car was equipped with a general cannon of almost a ton, the bronze cannon body still exuded a layer of cold cyan brilliance under the strong sunlight of West Asia, and on the side of the cannon, more than seven pounds of heavy metal lead balls were piled up into a small mountain, and the black luster with a wisp of hell seemed to set off a bloody storm in the crowd at any time.

Once the capital of Sassanid Persia, the elderly Persians who lived here often boasted that they had never seen anything in their lives, but now, the Fujian army armed to the teeth amazed them again, and the Mo knife hands wrapped in heavy armor sat cross-legged on the cart like an iron man, and constantly cleaned the killing machine in the hands of the Mozi.

The pace of the long lance soldiers marching forward in a neat formation is almost the same, and the long-term queue practice in modern times allows them to maintain a strict formation even on the battlefield in a chaotic situation, and can set up an indestructible gun formation for their comrades at any time when needed, seeing this, some old Persians even exclaimed Alexander, such discipline, comparable to only the Macedonian heavy infantry who conquered the world thousands of years ago.

It's just that even if Alexander survives, his army is by no means the opponent of the Min army, even if it doesn't use artillery, the crossbow array of the Great Min is enough to destroy the Macedonian army with a javelin of only a dozen meters and twenty meters.

Among the two enemies attacked from the west this time, although the field ability of the Bedouin cavalry was superior, but the greatest threat to the Great Min was the Byzantine army, although it had fallen for centuries, the well-trained infantry phalanx of Eastern Rome was still a nightmare for the barbarians in the East and the West, and the Byzantine army, which also had a long history and military engineering, not only had a good performance in the field, but also had a serious threat to the barracks and fortresses trimmed by the Great Min with ballistae and catapults.

Constantine IV was not a fool, he not only saw the aggressive strength of the Great Min and the rich peace brought about by peaceful trade with the Great Min, but also saw Li Jie's vigorous and beating ambition, although dressed in the appearance of a civilized capital, Li Jie's conquering heart was actually no different from Attila, the whip of God who swept across Europe and destroyed the Western Roman Empire more than 300 years ago.

For this reason, Constantine IV preferred to stand with his old enemy, and after confusing the Damin court through the strategy of delaying the army, he blatantly launched an attack on Damin from the west.

Similarly, Li Jie also regarded him as the main opponent, and would rather let Li Ji entangle with Hussein's Bedouin army on the south road, but also meet him for a while, his eldest brother, in order to deal with him, Li Jie this time is the main force, left and right military guards, left and right Jinwuwei, left and right guards and other elite sixteen guards out of a small half, long-trained Tianzhu soldiers, as well as artillery, cavalry, all the elite plus 200,000 troops, mighty and rushed to the direction of Antioch.

However, among such a powerful Min army, the most shocking thing is the elephant soldiers who have fallen to the transport force.

An elephant from India carrying a load of one or two tons of materials on his back, under the traction of the mahout, with a posture of fanning his ears and slowly moving forward, such a behemoth, those who read the scriptures in the Hongwen Hall, were called to see the leaders of the Islamic sects who were called to see off the scriptures in the Hongwen Hall were shocked.

Many Bedouin elders who had other thoughts in their hearts also had to dispel their thoughts.

Looking at his own army, Li Jie's heart was also full of surging, while watching, Li Jie rode a horse and slowly walked out of the palace gate, Zanpo followed closely with a Huangluo umbrella cover, Anna also put on a pair of silver leather armor with oriental characteristics and followed vigorously, and then behind him, more than 40 young generals from Guanzhong, Tianzhu, Tubo, and Turkic rising stars were guarded like dark clouds.

Waiting at the gate of the palace early, Wu Meiniang, Wang Fangyi and other civil and military officials saw Li Jie come out, and took the lead in neatly prostrate on the ground, and said goodbye respectfully.

"Congratulations to my King of Damin, I wish my king to overcome obstacles and triumph as soon as possible!"

"Ministers, please rise! Damin, please everyone! ”

didn't get off the horse, Li Jie said goodbye in a deep voice, and the appearance of not being angry and arrogant made hundreds of ministers kowtow again, and then slowly got up, led the front of the officials, shook his sleeves, and looked at Li Jie's concerned gaze, Wu Meiniang gave him a reassuring look, and then moved his eyes to the side.

The woman is really a complicated animal, a glance contact, admonitions, warnings, provocations, concerns, complex information were all received by Anna in her eyes, and the equally arrogant Byzantine princess also bowed her head humbly this time.

Without any further delay, he whipped the horse suddenly, and he didn't know how many times he had changed the Dawan sweat blood horse arrogantly raised his front hooves, and then rushed out like a whirlwind with Li Jie, following him, hundreds of knights of the forbidden army also raised their horsewhips in unison, but when they were about to cross the Suzaku Square, Leng Buding A woman wearing women's clothes and hufu, light and beautiful, ran out of the corner and stopped in front of the horse team.

"What are you doing? Dawn! ”

Hurriedly reined in the horse, Dawan Ma struggled but humane to turn the horse's hooves to the side, and finally let Li Chenxi pass, rushed to the side, and came back in a circle, Li Jie blamed a little annoyed, but who knew that as soon as he finished speaking, Li Chenxi slammed into his saddle and hugged his legs.

"Father, the battlefield is dangerous, you must take care!"

Seeing that his daughter's eyes were red, Li Jie's anger in his stomach also disappeared, sighed, and patted her forehead lovingly.

"Don't worry, your eldest father is invincible, who can hurt me among the ten thousand armies?"

Dropping the horsewhip hanging on his sleeve and bending down, Li Jie lovingly raised Chenxi's face, without the murderous aura of imminent departure, he said with a very kind smile: "Father is about to leave, my little princess, smile at Father, okay?" ”

Looking up at Li Jie's warm smile, Li Chenxi, who had red circles under his eyes, struggled to put out a poignant smile.

A moment later, the forbidden army full of flags rushed out of Vermilion Bird Square like a whirlwind, quickly joined the army on the march, and finally disappeared in the cause, still standing on the Vermilion Bird Square and looking out, Li Chenxi's delicate cheeks were still full of worry.

I don't know why, she's been restless lately, and she always feels as if something not so good is about to happen.

On the other hand, she didn't have the time to comfort her daughter, sent her husband away, and her face quickly returned to her usual iron-faced ruthlessness, and Wu Meiniang led the hundred officials back to the palace with cold and arrogant attitudes.

The soldier dies for the confidant, and the woman is the one who pleases herself, Li Jie trusts her so much, Wu Meiniang also took out all her talents to repay Li Jie's trust, on the huge military map of the Dezheng Palace, surrounded by a large circle of officers of the Nanyafu Army, playing chess, Wu Meiniang picked up a small flag and inserted it.

In May, West Asia was in turmoil again, and in the fields that had just been ploughed in the spring, countless Arab tribes with camels in their arms roared and collided with the soldiers who rushed to kill with shields.

Spread across half of Mesopotamia, one hundred and seventy-nine large and small camps began to strangle the Arab rebel beasts trapped in it like huge cages.

To the west, the ancient city of Harran.

Almost 170,000 Byzantine troops were tightly organized and murderous in front of the camp of the army of Su Dingfang on the north road, on the left, in the center, on the right, three directions and a half surrounded Su Lie's military camp, this military operation almost gambled on the entire political life of Constantine IV, the last Byzantine forces on the Balkan Peninsula, and as for the elite guards retreated from southern Italy and Carthage, all of them were filled on the eastern front.

Byzantium's national totem is a double-headed eagle, symbolizing the Roman Empire's grand hegemony of both east and west, but in recent decades, the empire has been unfavorable, and the eastern eagle head has almost fallen, forcing Byzantium to turn the western eagle head back.

In the early morning of this day, the militia from Italy was again surrounded by Thracian and Macedonian warriors, pushing heavy Roman ballistas, catapults slowly drove out of the barracks, and the crossbows developed by the Great Min were also carried up the mound in the arms of Cretan archers, ready for another day of bloody long-range fighting.

After taking a breath of the cold morning air and holding the horn, Aletikin, the most trusted general of Constantine IV, opened his mouth and was about to order an attack on the Fujian army, but before the horn sounded, Aletikin's arm suddenly froze, and he looked at the Fujian army camp in front of him in shock.

Obviously, compared with yesterday, the momentum of the Min army was as strong as a mountain, and each battalion hung an unprecedented badge and banner that made him feel a little familiar.

Double-headed dragon flag!