Shiraz is a famous historical city in Persia, many students have traveled here, the picturesque valley of the ancient city, the rose garden, once gave these cultural people a deep and beautiful impression, but now, what catches the eye is a scorched black...

The picturesque rose garden has been reduced to a scorched earth, the wheat fields have been gnawed by war horses like the hair of an apprentice barber, deep and shallow, the mirror-like river water is full of black ash, and the corpses can be faintly seen, and large antique houses outside the city have been burned to the ground.

Large expanses of black smoke were still hovering over the ancient city, and there were faint bursts of crying.

"Is this still Shiraz?"

Song Chuhe exclaimed incredibly, beside him, Li Ming didn't have the heart to lift the bar, and sighed in shock.

"Rose of Heaven, farewell."

Feeling the breath of war for the first time, these heavenly prides at the core of the empire finally became silent, and the Zhonglang general Xue Ne was also a little impatient, and led the army to speed up the pace and quickly advance towards the ancient city of Shiraz, a few miles away.

As early as two days earlier, Li Yexu's army had arrived in Shiraz, and the Arabs seemed to have returned to their nomadic times, killing more than 10,000 people, plundering the city, and then retreating, leaving a ruined empty city for the Min army.

Near the city, you can also see the local residents who came back to bury the corpses and wept after fleeing, on the city wall, there are Fujian soldiers hurriedly repairing the city wall, about two miles away from the city, a team of patrol soldiers blocked the road of the Confucian soldiers, Xue Ne stepped forward to hand over the military order, and a dozen thousand Niu Wei cavalry led the way in front.

The city gate was suddenly opened, and the city was also in a mess, the houses collapsed, the pavilions were burned, and the citizens of Shiraz were like walking corpses, walking sluggishly on the road, the former prosperity was not there, and they looked sad.

Song Chuhe, who saw it, touched the scene again, shook his head with emotion and sighed: "The pearl of Zagros Mountain, farewell." ”

However, after sighing for a few words, Song Chuhe suddenly stopped and turned back in surprise. Everyone was walking inside, but Li Ming, a kid who didn't deal with him, stopped and stroked the city gate attentively.

"What's wrong?"

It is rare that this opponent has a solemn face, and he thought that Li Ming had some relatives in Shiraz, Song Chuhe also kindly stepped forward to persuade him, who knew that Li Ming shook his head with a solemn face, opened the city gate in his hand and patted the dust, and then said suspiciously.

"In such a tragic battle, the houses in the city were destroyed, why is the city gate so new, and there is not even a single crash mark?"

Never thought about this detail, looking at the city gate, Song Chuhe couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Compared with those Qianniuwei, the treatment of Confucian soldiers in the thirty-six mansions of Yinshan is not bad, and they drove directly to the west of the city and were stationed in the barracks of the former garrison of the city, not stationed outside the city like other armies.

However, this treatment of the main general Xue Ne is a belly of fire, obviously this is not to take care of, the Arab rebels are mostly cavalry, Li Yexu is obviously afraid that the Confucian soldiers will collapse at the touch of a surprise attack, but it will become a burden.

"Everyone is not allowed to leave the camp without permission and stay in the barracks, otherwise, I won't eat dinner tonight!"

went to the Governor's Mansion to find Li Yexu's order, and before going out, Xue Ne yelled viciously at the whole army, and finally slammed the door and left, but as soon as he and a few lieutenants left, the small door behind the camp where the cooks entered and exited, a few sour Xiucai had already pushed the door open and sneaked out.

"Brother Li, are we okay like this? If you get caught by that bitter gourd face, you'll be dead when you go back! ”

Xue Ne often sighed and put on a straight face, among the Confucian soldiers, he had such a bitter gourd face, while tiptoeing along the dilapidated block to the east of the city, while Song Chuhe still asked with palpitations, he was really hungry.

patting his suffocating little chest, Li Ming said with a smile: "I'm afraid of hair, a big man is not as ...... as a little girl like me, and the little boy is bold." ”

"Xue Ne can at most not give dinner, I inquired when I entered the city, the Arab Hu mainly attacked the city from the west gate, looting the west gate to the east gate this trip through, Shiraz famous golden rose cake shop in the south of the city, close to the city wall hiding in the slums, should be able to escape, the big deal is full to go back."

"However, that bread can be used as a tribute, the price is very high, and I didn't bring much money when I joined the army to fight, and after this catastrophe, the food in Shiraz will be more expensive, so I went."

Yao Chong muttered hesitantly on the side, and the little soldier who had been following Li Ming's mother-in-law was even more trembling and dissuaded: "Yes, son, if we are caught by the surnamed Xue, we will be in trouble." ”

Completely ignoring the words of the little attendant, Li Ming took out the splendid money bag embroidered with roses hanging from his waist very boldly, and a handful of golden treasures of the Fujian Kingdom were thrown into the air by her, and she said with a big grin under the gaze of several sour Xiucai full of golden light.

"Team Li is mighty!"

cheered, more than a dozen sour Xiucai all rushed forward excitedly with Li Ming, and in front of the food, even Song Chuhe fell, shouting more than anyone else.

However, a group of rookies who were not deeply involved in the world didn't notice that behind them, several pairs of green eyes greedily looked at Li Ming's money bags that didn't care about the money bags thrown up and down......

On the other hand, after half of the city's interrogation and contempt, Xue Ne finally found Li Yexu and the deputy chief Sheng Lianshan with difficulty, but at this time, the two big men were frowning and staying on the west gate tower of Shiraz.

It was from here that Omani Arabiahu attacked Shiraz, and staying here, Li Yexu had been standing for a long time, frowning back and forth.

Sheng Lianshan on the side roared with a dark face: "Haven't any survivors been found in the Cao County Zhechong Mansion guarding the West Gate?" This herd of pigs! Rubbish! ”

It's no wonder that Sheng Lianshan is so angry, he has been in the city for two days, he and Li Yexu have not found any trace of the Arab barbarians, and they don't even know how Shiraz fell.

However, listening to Sheng Lianshan's roar, the cavalry lieutenant, who knelt on one knee on the ground, was full of embarrassment and replied heavily.

"General Huiyu, a total of nine hundred and eight corpses have been found in the alley, and almost all the soldiers in Cao County, from Captain Chong to Captain Guoyi, have been found, I'm afraid there are no survivors."

"The general of the people in the vicinity also went to inquire, and almost all of them were convinced, and the Arab Hu almost immediately poured into the city to kill and loot."

Hearing this, Sheng Lianshan roared even more, and Li Yexu also frowned, and could almost wring out water.

Shiraz is a state city, a big city, with no less than 200,000 inhabitants, the city wall is 11 meters high, and there is a perfect city defense, city towers, and more than 4,000 soldiers are stationed nearby, so strong city, even if it can't be supported under the attack of 30,000 Arab barbarians, it shouldn't be a problem to defend it for ten days and twenty days, right?

But the city almost a day, in the morning ten Arab cavalry appeared outside the city, in the evening and night just after the dark, the city was broken, several 4,000 soldiers were wiped out, the corpses found were nervously rushed out of the barracks, in the street battle with the Arabs to the death, the well-guarded city defense suddenly became transparent.

I didn't understand this problem, Li Yexu didn't dare to go out of the city to pursue, he had an army of 50,000 and less than 10,000 cavalry.

"The chief manager, Zhonglang will Xue Ne and ask to see the chief manager."

At this moment, the messenger below went to the city and said loudly, Sheng Lianshan, who was angry, didn't want to slap him: "No time, no see!" ”

The messenger was just about to leave, but he didn't want Li Yexu to suddenly stop him, and said in a muffled voice: "Let him come up." ”

"Brother Li, isn't it just a baby soldier? I really don't know what His Majesty asked him to follow, to add to the chaos? ”

Sheng Lianshan complained dissatisfiedly, listening to the complaints, Li Yexu shook his head helplessly.

"Your Majesty's move must have a deep meaning, it is not something that you and my courtiers can criticize arbitrarily, and besides, Xue Ne's father is General Xue Li after all, and we can't look at his juniors."

After a few words, Sheng Lianshan, who had only been persuaded by this, hummed and went to the city gate, looked into the distance, and simply came out of sight.

"The last general, Xue Ne, meet the chief administrator, the Confucian soldiers have arrived in Shiraz City as scheduled, please ask the chief administrator to assign tasks."

Tiger Tiger went up to the city, knelt on one knee on the ground, when he said this, Xue Ne was blushing, it was really as scheduled, from Posistin to Shiraz seventy or eighty miles, the rapid march walked for three days, and also set a record for the slowest march in Fujian.

Fortunately, Li Yexu didn't feel sorry for him, and nodded kindly.

"General Xue Zhonglang has worked hard, your ministry will inspect the eastern city, by the way, there are many Confucian soldiers, literate and hyphenated, there are many refugees in the city, your ministry is responsible for raising food and providing relief to the victims."

The east of the city is in the rear, the Arabs are in the west, it is almost impossible to fight, and there are more landlords in the family of the students, so let them write letters to transport grain to the front line, and they can make the best use of everything, sighed, Xue Ne bowed his head depressedly and took the order.

However, before Xue Ne was about to leave, Li Yexu suddenly stopped him on a whim and asked.

"General Xue Zhonglang, you have guarded the city gate in Jinwu, under what circumstances can you open the city gate after the curfew?"

After thinking for a moment, Xue Ne replied.

"Unless it is with a warrant from the king of Fujian, the city gate must not be opened."

"By the way, the secret police force has the right to open the first-class gate of Zhou City, but it can't open the gate of the capital city."

This sentence added coldly and made Li Yexu tremble......