Chapter 81: Treasure and Setup
“…… I am the granddaughter of the Persian king Pushang of the Tang Dynasty, and my name is Liqisi. ”
"What?" Xiao Qu was taken aback: "You make it clear." ”
"More than a hundred years ago, the Great Cannibal defeated our Sassanid Persian army, and the last Persian emperor fled to East Khorasan and was killed by a miller......" After a long silence, the woman named Hu Lingye, who should now be Liqisi, began her speech.
“…… Gaozu Belus fled all the way east to Tocharian and asked for help from the Tang Dynasty...... Ninety years ago, the Tang Emperor sent an envoy to Tocharo to establish the Persian Governorship, with Gaozu as the governor, and the following year Gaozu as the king of Persia. However, this place was too far away from Anxi, and there was not a single soldier to support it, and soon the Governor's Mansion was annexed by Dashi, and Gaozu fled all the way east to Chang'an......"
Xiao Qubing thought for a while: "I know all this, and later Belus's son Ni Nishi inherited the title of King of Persia, and was escorted to Broken Leaves by Pei Xingjian, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty seventy-two years ago, Ni Nishi came to Tochar alone and gathered thousands of followers, and lived in Tocharo for 20 years to restore the country, but he has not succeeded, and after the Great Food was too oppressed, Ni Nishi had to flee back to Chang'an, and soon died of illness, and then what? ”
"Master Nirvana is my grandfather." Liqisi nodded sadly: "Grandpa Tai fled to Chang'an, but Grandpa Pushang continued to stay in Tocharian and secretly fought against the Great Eclipse, and after Grandpa Tai died, Grandpa inherited the title of King of Persia...... There are more than 2,000 of us, and most of the people in Tocharian and the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu in the River still believe in Zoroastrianism, and my aunt and I are both Zoroastrian saints and are respected and protected. But last year there was a great rebellion in the river, and the army of the Great Eater was killed in Tochar, and our whereabouts were betrayed by traitors...... Daddy and aunt were killed, and my grandfather and brother and I were captured. ”
Xiao Quzhi thought for a while and said, "In that case, why don't you just kill you if you are caught?" And how can you keep your virginity? ”
"Because ......" Liqisi hesitated for a long time, and swallowed back the words a few times.
"You promised to tell me what I want to know, and you want to go back?"
"It's because ...... It's because of the treasure. ”
"Oh!" Xiao Quai's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, and he became interested: "What treasure, where is it?" Is it a lot? ”
"It is the treasure of Sassanid Persia, more than a hundred years ago, the great cannibals besieged the Sassanid Persian capital Ctesiphon for more than a year, before the city was about to fall, the ancestor Persian emperor Isai III buried the treasure accumulated by the empire for hundreds of years, and then fled to the east of Khorasan. After the city was broken, the big cannibals searched the whole city, digging three feet into the ground and finding no treasure. For more than a hundred years, they never gave up. The treasure is known only to Grandpa now, so Posilin did not kill us or do anything to me. ”
"Is the treasure hidden in Ctesiphon? And where is Ctesiphon? ”
Liqisi gave an affirmative answer, but Xiao Quai's heart was full of joy and deflated. Sure enough, it was a great treasure, and the accumulation of more than 400 years of Sassanid Persia was buried there. If you can dig it, you will be rich, but that place is near Baghdad. That place is the ruling center of the Great Food, others may not know it, but Xiao Quai's illness is very clear, in another time and space, ten years later, after al-Mansur became caliph, he would move the capital to Baghdad.
This treasure, it seems, is not to be thought about in a short period of time.
It was late, and Xiao Quzhi and Liqisi were still sitting and talking to each other in the tent. Outside the tent, everyone who was about to watch the play gradually lost their patience and fled one after another, leaving Li Ergou alone in the wind.
"What's wrong with the little Taoist, is he really not close to women? I still don't believe it......"
Li Ergou continued to wait in the night wind, and he would not stop until the lights were blown out. In another tent in the Anxi camp, Ali Yi was facing a lone lamp at this time, thinking hard about a few practical problems assigned to him by Xiao Quai.
He scratched his head and couldn't figure out how to measure the height of a tall building with a long wooden stick; And who is so idle and filling the pool with water while releasing water, and how do I know when it will be full; And why put chickens and rabbits in the same cage?
Similar to this topic, there are many, many more deputy envoys of Anxi Jiedu who look less than twenty, and they have to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But he said he could easily solve them before he was 10 years old. He seems to know everything, knows everything, and he is also gentle, but he is also a peerless general who is unstoppable on the battlefield.
It's incredible!
But I would like to thank and Posilin for sending him here and giving him the opportunity to learn so much.
In the same night, dozens of miles away, to the northeast of the Great Eclipse camp, and Posilin rode on horseback, quietly watching a group of Great Eclipse soldiers silently march north.
Before attacking the Anxi camp, he finally discovered the reason why the Anxi army's war horses could run as fast as the Arab war horses, and it turned out that it was as simple as nailing a piece of iron under the horse's hooves.
At that time, he suddenly decided to attack the Anxi camp, and was intercepted by many Anxi scouts along the way, and many Anxi scouts died in battle. Many of their horses were killed and captured, and only then did they discover the secret on the horseshoe.
During the march, they conducted an experiment in which they raced Arab horses with horseshoes and Arab horses that had not been horseshoes with captured Ansi scouts. As a result, the former really ran faster, especially in the gravel and sand moraines, and the advantage was quite obvious.
It's a pity that there was no time to equip it when it was on the march, otherwise it would not have been so embarrassing when retreating. Maybe the 3,000 Khorasan cavalry would not have been bitten by the Anxi scouts and the 600 cavalry, and finally the main force of Anxi arrived and the whole army was annihilated.
After returning to the camp, he immediately gathered all the blacksmiths in the vicinity, and in just one day, he built 6,000 sets of horseshoes in Bhutana, and gave priority to 4,000 horses and 2,000 elite light cavalry equipped with 2,000 heavy cavalry.
During the day, at the same time as the envoys sent to Anthy, and Posilin secretly sent two thousand sets of horse armor for heavy cavalry and four thousand armor for knights in carts and camels to the city of Talas. Now, he was seeing off the 2,000 heavy cavalry and 4,000 elite light cavalry and tens of thousands of semi-professional militia infantry heading to Talas.
Of course, all this successfully evaded the surveillance of the Anxi Army scouts. And Posilin selected hundreds of the fastest Arabian war horses and equipped them with horseshoes and distributed them to the sentry scouts, and with the advantage of speed, he pressed the Anxi scouts to the east for more than ten miles.
Although there is no definite information that Gao Xianzhi has gone to Talas, the real famous generals never rely solely on intelligence to fight. They trusted their own judgment more often, when Qi Yade casually said that Gao Xianzhi's main force might not be here. And Po Silin immediately came to his senses, thinking of the information given by Shi Guo and a series of abnormal behaviors after Gao Xianzhi arrived in the river, and Po Silin was already convinced that Gao Xianzhi had gone to Talas City at this moment.
Everything makes sense, and it is also in line with the actual situation of the Anxi Army, but he didn't expect that a deputy envoy of Anxi Jiedu would suddenly appear, and it was so difficult that even his ultimate weapon was easily cracked by him.
However, although he had repeatedly suffered defeats from the other side, he had clearly discovered that in all these defeats, except for the first skirmish, almost none of the others were hard-to-face, open the shelf and attack head-on. The other party seems to be adventurous, but in fact he is a very cautious person. Why else would they have retreated so cleanly as soon as their own reinforcements arrived that day?
This shows that the other side also knows that they can't beat us head-on with this little force. After figuring this out, he immediately made this plan, and while stabilizing and confusing this Anxi division, he immediately sent the main force of the army to the city of Talas to support.
Anthy child, let's see how you can crack this game!