At the confluence of the remaining Himalayas and the Arabian Sea, the new Changzhou naval base was coiled for three days, and the Fujian army, which had gathered most of the main forces, went north again, and the 130,000 vanguard troops marched out of the Xinhan Valley along the narrow Himalayan road, and on 16 August, 20,000 Guanning iron cavalry mixed with the Punjab border army and 40,000 took the lead in setting foot on the land of Great Khorasan. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

However, instead of a quick battle as originally planned, a huge infantry army huddled together and walked slowly, pressing the forces of the Arab Empire on the southwest coast.

After the fall of the Sassanid Persian Empire, although the huge Khorasan was attached to the Arab Empire, its original governors and generals were independent and became a small country attached to Islam.

Later, Fujian used the power of the Sassanid royal family to collude with the aristocratic forces and the Azadan knights who insisted on believing in Zoroastrianism in the Persian Empire, and set off a huge rebellion, and finally forced the Arab Empire to surrender and open the port, and about three million to four million Zoroastrians moved from Khorasan into the territory of Fujian to obtain land and continue their beliefs.

A large number of cities on the Iranian plateau declined, and those who remained were relocated to the fertile and humid lands of the coast, where the Persian aristocracy formed about eight small vassal states, which became the first line of defense against the Min state under the banner of Islam.

In the face of the huge army attacked by the Min State, the eight small Persian countries that were still fighting for their own interests on weekdays immediately all united, the Azadan ironclad knights of the Persian Empire, the mercenary infantry, the Khorasan archers, the eight small countries did their best, under the call of the green banner of the star, moon and sun, about 90,000 such troops gathered, and the coalition army was stationed in the city of Para in the northwest of the city-state of Marion, and confronted the opposite side of the vanguard army of the Min State.

This place is about the border between Iran and Pakistan in what is later the future, and the terrain on the edge of the plateau is very fragmentable, full of small hills and mountains, interspersed with small plains, and the city of Para is located on the central plain of two hilly areas.

The main commander who guarded the place was an important member of the Umayyad family, and after defeating Ali, the new governor of Khorasan, Marwan, was also quite united in the Islamic faith, and the army of about 90,000 people in Khorasan was also quite united.

Sassanid Persia left the strongest impression on posterity, probably its heavy cavalry, the Sassanid cavalry was equipped with chain mail, wrapped from the neck to the heel, the head of the pointed helmet hung down the face armor even wrapped the whole cheeks, and even the front half of the horses of these heavy cavalry was wrapped in leather armor inlaid with iron sheets, looking from a distance, so that the cavalry looked like a steel monster.

Armed with two bows, cavalry spears and melee maces, such cavalry is first-class in long-range, melee combat, and armor-piercing, such cavalry, Marwan has 20,000, the remaining 20,000 light bow cavalry, and the remaining 50,000 are peasant infantry recruited from the poor class, only a short spear and a rattan shield, not even a helmet.

On the hills and heights on both sides, Marwan arranged 10,000 ironclad heavy cavalry and about 8,000 Persian archers, and at the critical moment they could cut through the left and right flanks of the attacking army like two sharp blades, cutting them in two, and the remaining 60,000 Marwan were all arranged on the small plain in front of the city of Para, and the infantry formation was divided into six small formations to defend on the spot, leaving enough area in the middle for the light archers to gallop.

In the tactical thinking of the Sassanid Empire, this sub-class elite class constantly dismounted and archery, and kept a sufficient distance from the enemy to avoid hand-to-hand combat, and the back and forth shooting brought heavy damage to the enemy army.

Seeing that he had set up a camp, wrapped in a white turban, with a big beard, Marwan couldn't help but proudly brush up his curly beard, in his eyes, it seemed that he saw the scene of the invading Min Yankuai team being cut into countless pieces by his own vertical and horizontal iron cavalry, and fleeing in defeat, and even Marwan waved his hand to the Sassanid Empire noble eunuch scribe assigned to him around him.

"Write to Your Majesty the Caliph, the people of the Min Kingdom have brought about their own destruction and attacked the kingdom of Allah without authorization, and the governor Marwan has arranged it to annihilate all the infidels of the Min Kingdom within a few days, and as for whether to continue to attack the Kingdom of Fujian, I hope the Caliph will give instructions!"

In the scribe Sasha's account, the scorching sun began to rise, and the hot day of West Asia began.

About two hours, a huge contingent appeared in the eyes of the Khorasan people, on the plains between the mountains, 20,000 cavalry galloped wildly and set off the dust on the horizon, and the queue of this cavalry was extremely neat, and the distance between each row of horses was about two meters.

In terms of equipment, this army is not as dazzling as the Sassanid ironclad heavy cavalry, except for the central cavalry, which is also covered with a whole piece of metal armor and a horse armor with horse armor, the rest of the more than 18,000 cavalry are basically medium-mounted cavalry.

The horses were armourless, and the cavalrymen wore armor that covered their chest, abdomen and thighs, carried two bows on their backs, and had a lance hanging from their horses.

Seeing that the Arab Empire had been well arranged, the Tang army was not busy attacking, and the cavalry was also divided into two columns, forming two battle groups in the north and south, and the confrontation was about a mile away, and half a moment later, in the rumbling footsteps, the Tang Army's Punjab Regiment also drove to the battlefield.

The infantry of the Tang Army is much more brilliant than the Arab infantry, although it is not a good horse, and even donkeys and mules, but at least everyone has cattle to travel, and the infantry is also popularized armor, the chest and back of the standard black infantry armor are square, more than 30 pieces of armor are inlaid on the leather armor, the long diamond-shaped metal armor below the waist is surrounded by a circle, and the two sleeves have fine scale armor to protect the elbows.

The horizontal knife has replaced the Greek sword, the lance has also replaced the Macedonian spear, and this army is equipped with a large number of crossbows, with the kind of fierceness of the alien race, and the solemn appearance of the Tang people, it seems that for so many years, Xi Junmai has been quite powerful, but the dark army reflects back a layer of metallic light, and Marwan can't help but gasp when he sees it.

More than 100,000 troops confronted each other on the narrow terrain, and the tense atmosphere, as if the battle like a landslide and a crack would start at any time, put away the contempt of the past, Marwan also moved to the Chinese army with the handsome banner, and the Persian light cavalry of the front army tightened the bow handle.

However, the strategic movement of the Tang army was surprisingly strange, after the infantry dismounted and lined up to confront each other for a while, the rear followed and recruited the people of various ethnic groups to come up again, and a large log was placed in front of the camp, which was smashed down with a heavy hammer, and a few tea times, a decent fence appeared in front of the Punjab army.

The formation began to slacken, more sappers carried shovels to dig trenches in front of the fence, and the crossbowmen in the rear carefully defended, and it was half an hour, deep trenches, several clumps of fences, watchtowers, and even bed crossbows were erected, and the cavalry began to build a defense in front of the formation, and in the infantry formation, the Tang people actually began to set up tents.

I have to say that the Tang people's camp is decent, both offensive and defensive, and symmetrical and regular, the problem is that the Tang people are the attackers! If they don't rush into the empty Posis, the fertile crescent, once the main forces of the empire return from Byzantium, the war will not be easy to fight!

Under Marwan's surprised gaze, a moment later, the Tang army actually sent a civilian official, riding a horse with a white flag and running over breathlessly, Marwan waved his hand to let the Tang civil official in, and a moment later, a crusade letter arrived in Marwan's hand.

My lord Min King, Turkic Deputy Khan, conqueror of Tianzhu to the Arab Empire Caliph, servant of Allah, Mu'awiyah, patriarch of the Umayyad family.

Fujian and the Arab Empire are in the front of the alliance and coexist peacefully, but if they deceive people too much and attack the Byzantine Empire, a subject state of our Fujian State, our king will be furious, express a strong protest against the aggression of the Arab Empire, and demand that the Arab Empire withdraw its troops on the same day, otherwise Fujian will send troops to the Arab Empire!

After reading the main content twice, Marwan actually laughed, threw the covenant book on the ground casually, and mocked disdainfully: "This Fujian people are really pedantic, since they have sent troops, what kind of red tape are they engaged in, and when my family sends a letter back to you, it is estimated how many years it has been since Byzantium was destroyed." ”

"Governor, what shall we do? Attack this Min Yankuai team? Several of the country's main and deputy generals on the side were also confused, and they all gathered around to try it, but Marwan's laughter was even more arrogant, and his beard trembled.

"Attack what? We also set up camp to see if Fujian can afford it or if we can afford it, Lewether, tell the civil official of Fujian that I have delivered the letter to the Khalifa, and wait for the Khalifa to reply, and then decide whether to fight or peace. ”

The civil officials of the Fujian State were sweating profusely and wanted to run back, this kung fu, the Arab army also began to build a camp in chaos, anyway, they were not afraid of the surprise attack of the Min people, the army was not a family, from the fence camp that had been established to meet the assembly, even if the elite troops did not have two pillars of incense time to do it, this kung fu Arab army would have been re-arrayed.

The day gradually passed, and the two armies, which were still fierce in the morning and wanted to fight to the death, actually became a staring battle in the evening, and no one had any intention of facing the first battle, and the day passed like this.

However, when the two emperor Yankuai teams confronted each other, the Arabian Sea was not so calm.

Mamuliel Beach, the port of Saman City, the capital of the small Persian division in territorial waters, more than 20 Persian double-row rowing warships lazily patrol the open sea.

Islamized Persians yawned and lazily basked in the warm glow of the sunset, unlike the Mediterranean, where naval battles were fought, the nearby peoples were either nomadic or agrarian, and the famous naval battles on the Arabian Sea had not yet taken place.

Even if the Arab Empire is on this sea, there are only 20,000 navies guarding the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, and here, there is no possibility of naval warfare in sesame-sized cities, and these are not so much warships as fishing boats.

The waves of the water rippled gently, and a fishing net was cast, but the darkened Samanid sailor suddenly stiffened there as if he had been hit by Medusa's petrification, and after waiting for a while, his commander, the captain of the small boat, couldn't help but kick it in anger: "'Don't be lazy, I'm still waiting to go back and finish eating.'" ”

"O prophet!"

The Samanid soldier who had been kicked not only did not continue to work, but pointed into the distance with trembling fingers, and turned around angrily, but the captain also had brown eyes in the next second.

In his sight, he could not count the majestic ships that were like sea kingdoms, and they were speeding in their direction with the sea breeze, and countless white sails were as dense as a forest.

"'Allah, have you sent soldiers of the kingdom of God to punish us?'

Not even the fleeing Yankuai was gone, the swarthy Captain Saman muttered.........