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King Min, who stayed in Posis for a summer and an autumn, once again embarked on the trip.

The sky is not yet bright, the ancient city gate is suddenly opened, waving the dark banner of Fujian, the iron flow of Guanning iron cavalry rolls out, the fierce knights of all ethnic groups are like the clouds and flowing water to ride the horse and gallop wildly, stop at the designated position before holding the horse reins and stop suddenly, thousands of war horses stand up together, spectacular.

When the sun rose, Zuo Wuwei and the royal driver were out of the city under the eyes of the Persians who were kneeling down in the streets, a huge cavalry formation had been set up on the main road outside the city, and the 30,000 cavalry were clearly divided and murderous.

Completely according to the battle formation of the marching formation, the front and rear left and right thirty-six cavalry teams spread out in all directions to protect this military formation from wind and rain, once encountering the enemy, these cavalry will be like the fierce tentacles of the octopus, and the wolves will tear apart the enemy's formation with ferocity.

The two rows of cavalry brigades clamped the royal car on the left and the right, and those who dared to offend would not be broken by the rice doppelgangers of the two rows of saw blades.

In the center, sixteen rows of infantry with three-meter-long lances marched forward, followed by a dense convoy of artillery teams, 500 war elephants carrying heavy general cannons and raising their heads and neighing, watching the Persian officials and people who saw them off were all trembling.

This is the army of Damin!

Only humans can form such a large-scale force of destruction and killing.

The big banner of Fujian characters fluttered behind him, and as soon as he gave an order, this army would turn everything in front of him into a sea of corpses and blood, even Li Jie couldn't bear to be full of pleasure, riding a Dawan Tianma who didn't know how many times he had changed, galloping at the forefront of the military formation, following behind him, hundreds of hussars raised the wind and smoke in the sky.

After running wildly, Li Jie returned to the team and excitedly shouted at the front of the team.

"Anna, come out and ride a horse!"

"Oh, no!"

It took a long time to poke her head out of the carriage, and Anna forced a strange smile.

"The concubine is not feeling well today, so she will not accompany King Min on horseback, hehe!" The white swan feather fan blocked the small mouth, and Anna was very Western lady with a smile, but a pair of small tiger teeth were grinding and gurgling underneath.

What happened last night, you bastard don't know? After riding all night, I don't know how to ask for it in moderation, Anna is swollen like a small steamed bun, where can I still ride a horse.

It's a pity that Li Jie, who rarely has the upper hand, doesn't know what to call it when he sees it, but laughs even louder.

"That's right, how good it is to be like a lady, I used to be crazy like a tomboy, and there were ministers who said that the lonely discipline was not strict, be good, stay in the car, and come when you go alone."

"Wha!"

In the laughter of King Min, the Praetorian Cavalry rushed out again, and the little face of Anna, who had eaten a gray nose, was distorted, and she roared in a low voice in anger: "Li Jie! Dead man's head! If my aunt and grandmother don't let you pay, I won't be surnamed Heracliu! ”

"Oops~"

As soon as she sat down, Anna bounced up as if she had burned her buttocks, covering her thighs, her little face turned pale, and Anna raised her middle finger fiercely in the direction where Li Jie left.

Not only Bosis all the way, the huge Khorasan, as many as 100,000 troops from all walks of life once again rushed to the northeast of the Hindu Kush Mountains, and the west was lost to the disgraced Wang Xuance led the two leading guards to defend.

Just when the vast Central Asian steppes are about to usher in a new storm, some guests from afar on the shore of the sleepy ancient Italian harbor also break the peace here.

Around the sails, the seagulls fluttered their wings and circled and chirped, and after a while, they would float and fall, stop on the sails and babble and communicate.

Compared with the glamorous departure a few months ago, this Fujian fleet is now very embarrassed, the sturdy flax sails make the wind and waves tear apart, the hull is covered with seaweed and moss, and some ships have a lot of big holes, even the proud Fujian battle flag is messy and has lost a small half, revealing a bleak taste.

The Mediterranean Sea is still an unknown sea for Fujian.

In July, from the Strait of Hormuz, the entrance to the Persian Gulf, along the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea, about a month or so, the Fujian expeditionary force arrived in Suez, where they were greeted with unprecedented enthusiasm and became the second fleet to open the Suez Canal.

But after that, it was the beginning of the fleet's suffering.

Due to the fall out with Byzantium, and the fact that Asia Minor was now the battlefield of a bloody rivalry between the two behemoths of Byzantium and the Arab Empire, the expeditionary force could not take the Northern Mediterranean route and had to march westward along the African continent.

Hundreds of years ago, the Mediterranean Sea was the inner lake of the Roman Empire, and the trade network throughout the empire extended in all directions, but unfortunately, it was already yesterday's yellow flower, in 476 AD, the Western Roman Empire fell, marking the end of the classical civilization period, Europe officially entered the dark and terrifying Middle Ages, the great unified regime disappeared, replaced by countless castles of feudal barbarians, and the barbarians who came out of the Russian steppe and the Germanic forests were not interested in the sea, so that the hustle and bustle on the Mediterranean Sea fell into a dead silence for one or two hundred years.

Especially the upheaval of the climate in North Africa.

Once the breadbasket of the Roman Empire, most of central North Africa is now in a desert, except for some places near the sea such as Cyrene.

In Alexandria, Egypt, the expeditionary force had negotiated some supply deals with some Egyptian merchants, but when the time came, some of these merchants were jealous of the wealth of the expeditionary force and informed the Arab defenders, and hundreds of officers and men of the expeditionary force were suddenly attacked by the Arab cavalry, and suffered heavy casualties.

After the enraged Chen Zhangming ordered the fleet to attack the port, the powerful attack fleet of the Fujian State easily sank more than a dozen small fishing boats in Egypt, and also burned a thousand large and small sailing ships in Alexandria, but the Arabs were absolutely ruthless enough, and they themselves had set fire to the city before the Fujian army attacked.

Under the monstrous fire, the ancient city that had flourished for thousands of years was reduced to ruins during the period of Alexander the Great, and the supplies obtained by the Fujian fleet were also reduced by more than half.

In this case, the fleet plunged headlong into the barren central part of North Africa.

Civilization needs to be carefully cared for, without the trade of the Roman Empire, the harsh climate of Central North Africa has also fallen into a deterioration, the people here are savage and tenacious, stumbling along the coast, the expeditionary force is also fighting with the desert peoples here, the most bitter time the whole army did not drink a drop of water for three days, and the number of people was reduced by almost a tenth.

It wasn't until they arrived in northern North Africa that the bewildered expeditionary force ran headlong into Carthage, the center of the Byzantine Empire in North Africa and the birthplace of the Heraclius dynasty, which was briefly contributed by the Arab Empire in 647 AD and strengthened by the Roman army in North Africa.

Fortunately, the complicated politics of Rome made the expeditionary force a big luck, and the Byzantine governor of Africa, Yougalle, was not too interested in the emperor of Constantinople, Constantine IV, and also knew Pope Eugene I, who finally received valuable supplies after entering the city under the banner of Anna.

Here, however, the expeditionary force also received the news that they could not laugh or cry, that they had overrun, and that Rome was in the northeast.

Fortunately, the route from Carthage to Rome was maintained very well, along Sicily, the expeditionary force could go all the way to Rome, but unfortunately, near Sicily, fate played a huge joke with the expeditionary force, and a great storm that was rare in a century hit the sea.

A third of the fleet was lost, and the expeditionary force deviated from the normal course, drifting aimlessly northward for three or four days before this piece of continental land appeared in front of them.

Seeing the bells of the cities and churches on the shore glow golden in the setting sun, even Pope Eugene I couldn't help but burst into tears, kneeling on the deck of the flagship, and singing long live God.

The remnants of the seven or eight thousand expeditionary force and fleet personnel were also extremely excited, and they climbed onto the deck one after another, cheering at the ancient Roman harbor city where the sun was setting.

He was much thinner than a few months ago, but Chen Zhangming, the chief mercenary of the expeditionary force, was still as aggressive as an eagle, looking at the city with the same eyes as he was holding a telescope.

"It seems that the people here don't welcome us very well, huh?"

Also holding the binoculars, the deputy manager Yang Xiong's thin and pale face rarely had a joking smile.

He also said the truth, after seeing the expeditionary force, more than a dozen small Greek sailing ships fishing in the open sea rowed back desperately, and after a while, more than a dozen Greek sailing warships with lion flags and not much larger rushed out of the harbor with great momentum.

With a disdainful sneer, Chen Zhangming waved his hand contemptuously.

"Send them to feed the fish!"

In the bleak Oxhorn, the excited Min army also drove more than a dozen ships to meet the battle, and in front of this unknown port, the two armies fell into a "fierce" naval battle.

It was indeed fierce enough, the barbarian warship with a draft of only two or three meters hit the back of the Fujian ship, and the fierce barbarian soldiers with spears desperately yearned for the Fujian boat five or six meters high and stabbed, one by one they were tired and sweaty, and the Fujian soldiers were also tired and panting after a long sweat, and carried the heavy clap rod to the side of the ship, and threw the big wooden clap rod full of steel nails from the boat on both sides at the same time.

Puff~

In the midst of a large field of blood, the battle ended.

In less than half an hour, the barbarian fleets of unknown countries were completely wiped out, and the remaining barbarians abandoned large swaths of the port and retreated into the rammed earth walls of ancient Rome.

"Wow, this place is so dirty, too!"

After stepping on it, he didn't know whether it was a pig, a cow or a human stool, Yang Xiong rubbed his boots on the ground aggrievedly, not like rubbing open the soil and getting a lump of dirt, almost disgusting him to death.

Fortunately, the soldier had a strong ability to accept it, ignoring the feces everywhere beside the five or six meter-high earthen wall, Chen Zhangming moved his shoulders energetically, and stared excitedly at the last barbarian fortress in front of him.

"This land belongs to Fujian!"

Suddenly drew his sword and turned around, Chen Zhangming stood up, and a moment later, he landed ashore, and thousands of expeditionary troops also responded to him with the shouts of landslides and cracks, and the sword light and lance shadow emitted an incomparable dazzling cold light in the setting sun.

"Da Min, long live!"