The last time, the envoy Yang Xiong went to the Persian Gulf, and after going ashore, he quickly crossed the Sinai Peninsula of Great Arabia under the close surveillance of the Arabs, and boarded the ship again in the Mediterranean, until the periphery of Constantinople did he disembark in Asia Minor. [This site has a new domain name. initials, previously registered accounts can still be used]

This time, Hou Jie and Li Que are the identities of the Tang Dynasty, and they really set foot in the two river basins, on the Mesopotamian plain, the city town that once gave birth to the oldest civilization of mankind, and then to the west, the civilization is vertical and horizontal, the cities are dense, and they also throw off the well-defended Persian Gulf coast.

At this time, because of religious disputes in the Arab Empire, Sunni and Shia imams ran back and forth, and the teachings explained by the Great Mullah were three sides a day, and the people's panic intensified the antagonism between various sects, especially the political opposition between Muawiya and the late caliph Ali, some lords followed Sunni Shia, and some were weak in faith and politically close to Muawiya, the strong man, so the political situation in the Mesopotamian plain, the fattest land of Persia, was a chaotic political situation.

In this case, it is just right for Hou Jie's team to burn Syria, Asia Minor, and Constantinople like the fuse, find a way to rescue Princess Anna, and finally ignite the biggest bomb of the Three Kingdoms.

But now, Li Que is a little unhappy, because this fuse has been burned!

Although the Cavill Salt Desert is a hell of death, it is also a place where human beings depend, and from the salt desert, the nomadic tribes encountered by Hou Jie's team were grazing and taking salt from the edge of the salt desert and selling it to the interior to make a living.

With the only two remaining silk horses, Li Que not only exchanged for a few camels, but also a large vat of salt, and turned into a salt merchant again, and sailed up the Shatt al-Arab River, and within a few days, arrived at Ctesiphon.

Once, the capital of Sassanid Persia.

Just ten years ago, in the Battle of Castia Bridge, the Arab army defeated the main force of the Sassanid Empire, the Sassanid Prime Minister Rostam was killed, and the main force of 130,000 Sassanids collapsed, so that the Arab army calmly marched into the empty Ctesiphon, and after a year of siege, successfully gnawed the ancient capital of the Persian state for 400 years.

Convenient irrigation system, relatively intact ancient capitals, and especially in the hasty escape from the haste of escape, Ixae III left all the wealth and gold accumulated in Persia for more than 400 years in Ctesiphon, which also became the center of the Arab aristocracy to rule the two river valleys after Islamization.

Originally, Li Que had a very good plan, rushing into the two river valleys and taking Asia Minor to Byzantium, and the informant mentioned in Yang Xiong's letter was in the Aokins Military Region of Asia Minor to respond, and in the name of Fujian, he quickly recruited some disobedient fools and cannon fodder, feeling that Byzantium, even if the task was half completed, it was ......

"Holy war! Holy war! Brothers of Islam, stand up and see! Now this world of Allah is so polluted, those Jews, dirty inferior peoples, are still polluting the land and air in the world of the Lord, polluting the pure brothers of Mushilin, the West, those Christian hypocrites who have deviated from the path of the Lord are still deceiving the people, and the people of the East, who do not believe in God, are blaspheming the best kingdom of Allah. ”

"But now, our caliphs, our imams, the sheikhs, the mullahs, what are they doing? Our caliphate is now being stolen by the Umayyad family, the worst enemies of the Prophet Muhammad, and in order to preserve their filthy position of power, our Sheikhs and imams have abandoned the mission given to them by Allah and are under the pseudo-caliphate. Allah believers are in poverty, but the unbelieving heathens are in abundance......"

As the three major religions of later generations, Islam has its own unique characteristics, unlike Brahmins, Buddhists or Christians have monks, the Prophet Muhammad advocates that all believers in Islam must perform the sacred duty of reproduction and reproduction of men and women of appropriate age, so Islam does not have a special monk priest, the so-called imams, sheikhs, and mullahs are generally elders, educated people or nobles, not priesthood.

So, as long as the learned person seems to be able to explain the doctrine and lead the believers, in the streets of Ctesiphon, the fluent Arabic voice is impassioned, like an indignant youth, a large number of Muslims are attracted to it, as if the speaker has said what Muslims dare not say, and with the bursts of words, it always causes the surrounding Muslim believers to cheer.

On the street corner, Wu Yuanqing, and even the Christian pastor Paul and others looked at it with a depressed face, if the angry fanatical believer was an Arab beard, it would be fine, and the spittle star splashed this guy was actually Hou Jie!

"Fight brothers, fight against the blasphemous infidels and create a beautiful Islamic kingdom for the final judgment of Allah."

As Hou Jie raised his arms and shouted, hundreds of Tessifon Islamists gathered around, and even many Arabs were shouting in response with excitement, but Wu Yuanqing, who watched this scene, couldn't help but yawn greatly.

"What exactly are the Central Protectors talking about? Also, what exactly is he going to do? "Entering the city, Li Que just went to Zuo Jin to buy some necessities, and by the way, check if there is a secret contact point of the Fujian State, and when he came back, he encountered this scene, which is equivalent to the location of the capital of the enemy country, looking at Hou Jie's high-profile appearance, Li Que almost didn't stare out of the mask socket in a hurry.

"The little monkey was talking about Islam, and I don't know why, but leaving a few of us alone, he suddenly went crazy on the streets." Also full of helplessness, Wu Yuanqing said depressedly, after speaking, as if he remembered something, Wu Yuanqing's fat hand grabbed Li Que's shoulder again, and his face was full of flattery.

"By the way, Captain Li, we have already walked thousands of miles, what secret mission is King Min going to perform? The little monkey promised me to tie back a princess by the way, and the third street also has the shares of the king of Min, we are all working for the old man of the king of Min, accommodate each other, tell me! ”

Wu Yuanqing was flattering and almost put his fat face on, but unfortunately it became a flattering eye and threw it to the blind, Li Que didn't even look at him, he still looked at Hou Jie who was standing on the street with worry, and after a while, Li Que simply stomped his foot angrily.

"Can't let him mess around anymore!"

Turning his head and walking forward from the corner of the street, Li Que was about to drag Hou Jie down, but the change happened at this time, and suddenly more than 100 Persian infantry ran out from the other end of the large loess house of Tai Xifeng, with simple rice bottom leather robes, and the spear he was carrying was shining with cold light, and he shouted loudly from a distance: "Catch the blasphemous heretic, don't let him run!" ”

"The lackeys of the Umayyad family are coming, don't let them catch the imam!" I don't know if a certain guy who was listening to Hou Jie's speech suddenly shouted out, what is it a fanatical religious person, and in the roar of hulala, more than 200 Muslims who were watching actually turned their heads and screamed and scuffled with those Persian infantry.

It's really a mess, even if it's the main street, Tai Xifeng's street is still not comparable to Chang'an's nineteen-meter Suzaku Street, hundreds of people directly blocked the street into a mess, just walked out of the two steps, Li Que was squeezed back by the chaotic crowd, watching, Hou Jie was still shouting the "Holy War Oath" while hissing, while being dragged to the side of the street by a dozen or so Muslim Arab men who were close.

"Medium Protector! Medium Protector! What are you still doing? Don't hurry up and snatch the Central Protector back! After squeezing for a long time and not squeezing in, listening to the crackling between the Islamic believers and the Persian infantry, Li Que simply yelled at the stupid mercenaries behind him, as if he had just woken up from a dream, Wu Yuanqing hurriedly screamed and followed the desperate squeeze out of a way, but when they finally squeezed out of the corner, where was there still Hou Jie's shadow?

"Damn it!" Full of rage. Li Que directly smashed his fist angrily to his side, and a certain unlucky ghost who smashed it flew out several meters with a scream, but it was crowded so that the Islamic believers who were fighting with the Persian infantry fell a lot, not knowing that those unlucky ghosts were pierced in the belly by the spears of the Persian infantry, and the roaring roar resounded far away.

"Captain Li, what should we do?" At this moment, Wu Yuanqing and Paul had no choice, their faces were red with constipation in a hurry, and they were talking about Li Que in a blunt Tang Wen, and the old mercenary Berennis asked anxiously and loudly.

The red lips under the mask were bitten in the silver teeth, and he hesitated for a moment, seeing that more Persian infantry were surging over, Li Que gritted his teeth and ordered: "Give up the Central Protector Army for the time being, everyone follow me!" ”

The chaos caused by Hou Jie seems to be getting bigger and bigger, the city guards are all dispatched, wearing chain mail that is so heavy that only the eyes are exposed in the rumbling hooves, the real elite Persia, the heavy hooves of the Arab heavy cavalry are running on the streets and alleys of Ctesiphon, with these humanoid tanks, those congested and fighting chaotic people are directly scattered, and the Persian infantry who follow behind are even more pretending to be tigers, with crooked armor and nosebleeds, and those who are scolding with big guns are also following.

The huge encirclement slowly closed in a few blocks towards the place where the accident occurred, and the streets and alleys were full of rioting Arab imperial soldiers.

"Don't let the mob run, catch them!" can see the scene of Li Que beating people, more than a dozen Persian infantry followed the Fujian squad behind the poor and reluctant, pushing the fat Wu Yuanqing, Li Que and a dozen others were also desperate to run, running and running into a dead end.

With smirks on their faces and spears in their hands, the Persian infantry triumphantly twisted in, but they were dumbfounded.

It was a wealthy and aristocratic mansion area, and the garden of the mansions of a dozen or so gentry and merchants was blocked by the living water of the Euphrates River near the city walls, but the sloppy mercenary mob that had just run past was nowhere to be seen.

"Boss, what should I do, do you want to search the house from house to house." Dumbfounded for a while, a breathless Persian infantry who ran with a big gun turned his head sadly and asked the infantry captain, but the cold captain slapped him back.

"Search your second uncle, a rich man who lives here, people can crush us to death with their fingers, close the team, go back and don't mention to anyone that you have seen these mobs, if you don't want to die, remember, don't hear it."

In the shouting and scolding of the soldiers, a group of Persian infantry retreated in a gloomy manner, and in the garden near their position just now, Li Que also poked his head out panting, and Wu Yuanqing, who was already panting into a dog behind her, simply sat on the ground and lamented sadly: "Oh Mom, what happened these days!" ”。