In the barren and broken low mountains of Ancatolia, countless white 'colored' stars and moon sun flags fluttered on the mountain roads, and the mountains and mountains formed a large area, like a white 'color' sea that continued to pour into Byzantium .......

After two years of armistice, the Muslim armies were once again showing their hideous claws against the ancient empire of the West.

Just more than half a year after Li Jie went north to Chang'an, Mu'awiya was not idle, although his Syrian army was defeated in the Sui Fen campaign, but relying on the trick of picking the Qur'an with guns and letting Allah rule, politically Mu'awiyah defeated the fourth caliph, the pedantic Ali.

The Muslim army from Mecca split the moment Ali accepted the armistice, and the Timim people, who were dissatisfied with Ali's compromise and cowardice, immediately split the army and set up a separate caliphate.

Sunni and Shia, two famous Islamic sects, officially began to form at this time, for the right to interpret religion, with Islam as the 'spirit' of all the sects of the world but not an inch of land, the empire expanded too much, the accumulated contradictions also broke out, no longer care about the crusade against Mu'awiyah, Ali hurriedly rushed back to Mecca with a large army, and the fourth caliph also followed in the footsteps of the previous caliph Uthman.

Shortly after Li Jie rushed back to Fujian, Ali was stabbed to death by the opposition with a poisoned saber on his way back to the Kufa Mosque in early January.

Taking advantage of the internal turmoil of Ali's forces, Mu'awiyah occupied Egypt and the Razhan region in one fell swoop, and almost half of the Middle East fell into the hands of Mu'awiyah, and shortly after Ali's assassination, Mu'awiyah crowned himself as a caliph.

It has to be said that the invasion of Islam is really very vigorous, and when the internal sects are still fighting, Muawiya led the Syrian army to start a new round of expansion plan, on the one hand, the Egyptian Muslim army along the Mediterranean Sea and like the Byzantine Empire North African territory killed, on the other hand, Muawiya personally led the army like Constantinople in the rear of Asia Minor.

In the case of internal 'turmoil' and the Arab Empire itself has not yet been unified, the same ancient empire seems to be a bit of a sacrifice to the end, just like the later generations of Chairman Chiang's clamor for the outside must first be at ease, there are several hostile forces in the back 'riot', and I don't know how many heroes have been defeated under the front and back, in fact, this move is from Mu'awiyah's careful consideration.

On the one hand, North Africa is the last grain producing area of the Byzantine Empire after Egypt, and the barley produced in North Africa supported the bread and entertainment orders of several Roman emperors, and supplied hundreds of thousands of Romans for free for hundreds of years. []

God is great, but worshipping God requires a full stomach.

On the other hand, in the last Sui-Finnish war, Muawiyah was defeated, but the defeat was not in the 'elite' level of soldiers, but as soon as they saw the caliphate's banner, the Muslims in Syria were speechless, anyway, Muhammad's teachings allowed tolerance of paganism, recognizing Christianity as a sect that once failed to come to Allah, in this case, wouldn't it be enough to 'confront' the Shiites in Mecca or the vast number of Sunnis and cultivate a group of Christian armies?

The most important point is that in the last battle, the exhausted Byzantium was too tofu, Yamuz led a 3,000-strong Arab army to capture Palestine, and in the Battle of Yadez near Damascus, about 10,000 Muslim camel cavalry and infantry defeated the 40,000-strong Byzantine Syrian army, near Lake Tiberias, and attracted the Byzantine army out by 'luring' the enemy, and Khaled, the sword of Allah, defeated the 50,000-strong Byzantine army with 20,000 soldiers.

4,000 Arab cavalry went down to Egypt, the battle of the mast The newly established Arab navy of 20,000 defeated the Byzantine navy of 50,000, the oarsmen of 50,000, and even the Byzantine emperor was beaten and fled.

Mu'awiyah was too confident to gnaw Constantinople,

This is the fourth of the five patriarchates of Christianity in the world and the most important one in the universal sense, and now the patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem are already in the hands of Islam, and then take Constantinople, and control four-fifths of the pastoral districts of Christendom, Muawiyah, in prestige, will definitely surpass any competitor and become a well-deserved caliph in the Islamic world.

Ambitious, Mu'awiyah, who was in his fifties, with a red face and a long beard like a lion's mane, drew his Damascus scimitar and shouted at the city standing in front of him: "Kill to spread the glory of Allah throughout the pagan realm!" ”

With the roar of Muawiyah, countless Muslim warriors wielding Damascus scimitars and clad in chain mail rushed towards the city in front of them.

Gazing at the dazzling light of the armor leaves of the Arab army under the city, the towering walls of Ankara, a famous city in Asia Minor, immediately caused a commotion, but under the constraints of various commanders, it quickly calmed down again.

Compared with the historical Roman Empire, the once proud Roman dagger and square shield have disappeared and been replaced by round helmets, the same red 'colored' chain mail, and small round shields, but the discipline of the Roman legions and the large javelins that have swept the Mediterranean Sea have not changed.

Although the Byzantine national strength was exhausted for 300 years after the war with the 'Bo's, there were few strong men left in the small city where Amur was located, but after all, it had been established for hundreds of years, and Byzantium also had its own unique characteristics, and in two years of peace, through a military district system similar to the Ming Dynasty guard system in China, Byzantium gathered nearly 100,000 troops in Asia Minor and the recovered Armenian military region.

After all, the military districts on the periphery of Asia Minor delayed the conquest of the Arab Empire, and by the time the Arab army arrived at the city of Ankara, 20,000 Roman legions had been stationed in the city. ”

In the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire did not have the profession of archers, and because of this, the pure heavy infantry Crassus was once defeated by the famous general Suleiman in the battle of Calle who invaded the Rest Empire, relying on light cavalry to run 'shooting' and 'riot', less than 20,000 people annihilated the invading more than 40,000 Roman legions, and it is said that the broken Roman First Legion ran to China.

After that, the Romans began to pay more and more attention to the long-range bow and arrow, first recruiting archers from vassal peoples, and then as the Eastern Roman Empire engaged more and more archers of the Eastern minority ethnic groups, especially the 'Bo's, the ironclad archers gradually joined the Roman war queue.

On the city wall, the first to fire is the ballista, the Roman crossbow and the Chinese "bed" crossbow principle is completely different, the Chinese "bed" crossbow relies on several giant bows to bring a large elastic force, the Roman crossbow is wrapped under the two petals of the bow arm into a stack of animal leather bands to provide elastic force, through the wrench winding, and the Chinese "bed" crossbow is really not a high and low, but on the battlefield, this thing is still a killing weapon.

The army of about 5,000 people in the upper city, equipped with 50 Roman crossbows, and 26 kilograms of polished stone bullets were loaded, aimed at the Muslim army that was more than 400 meters away and had not dispersed.

Even the camel couldn't bear the big stone and roared, or it was directly broken and fell to the ground, or it was broken 'leg' and lay on the ground with a wail.

Fifty stone bullets could not dispel the frenzy of the Arab invasion at all, bypassing the dead comrades, the evacuated Muslim warriors still had blood-red eyes and rushed forward, and a hundred meters, the peasants of the Byzantine Military Region raised their compound bows again.

For bows and arrows, chain mail has a strong countervailing ability, wide arrows because of insufficient strength, often stuck in the live buckle between the ring of chain mail, without many casualties, the Muslim army 'pressed' close to the city, but the last twenty meters, the Arabs paid the heaviest price.

"Javelin, throw!"

Compared with the glory of the javelinmen in the ancient Roman period, the heavy archers gradually replaced another symbol of Rome, and the javelin was almost invisible in the field, but in the defense of the city, this brilliant heavy throwing weapon can still bring good damage, within 20 meters, about two kilograms of light javelins are inclined down from the city wall, and the chain mail can not resist the penetration of this thing at all, and the two-meter-long javelin immediately knocked down hundreds of siege Arabs.

However, the long ladder still leaned against the city wall, and in the shout, the fanatical Islamists climbed the towering Byzantine wall with sharp knives and guns, and around the ladder and the tower, more bloody 'hand-to-hand' combat began.

"Kill, kill all the infidels!" Wielding a Damascus scimitar, the red-eyed Muslim warrior roared and pounced on the defenders, and the Christian priests behind him hissed and encouraged as he shouted.

"Kill, fight for God!"

The same inspired eyes were blood-red, and the Byzantine infantry also attacked wildly with the half-sword of the European hand, but after a 'confrontation', there was a crisp sound, and the Byzantine sword was slashed, and the sharp Muhammad blade slid along the gap like a poisonous snake.

Poof, the blade went into the 'flesh', and with a forceful pull, the tall Byzantine infantry knelt on the ground in amazement.

In just one moment, the Byzantine infantry was stabbed, and the Arab warriors rushed to the next one without stopping with a roar, but this scene was in the eyes of the Ankara defender, General Mezchos.

The bloody battle of the city wall lasted for half an hour, and then it ended with the Muslim army retreating from exhaustion, without even wrapping the wound, Mezchos hurried down the city, and a moment later, in front of the Arab camel light cavalry surrounding the city of Ankara, suddenly more than five hundred Byzantine heavy cavalry roared out, and the compound bow and apple wood cavalry easily tore a hole in the few camel soldiers, and then more than ten light horsemen broke away from the protection of the heavy cavalry, and ran wildly to the west.

"Newspaper~"

In the Grand Palace of Constantinople, the purple-robed Emperor Constans was still arguing with the senators, and a cold and mournful shout rang out in the Senate of the Grand Palace.

"Ankara is in a hurry, the Arabs are well-equipped, barbaric and warlike, our army may not be able to hold out for long, General Mezjos sent his subordinates to ask His Majesty the Emperor to send rescue troops quickly."

Boom~ The heavy golden scepter in Constants' hand fell to the ground, and the body of the co-ruling emperor Constantine IV wrapped in armor also shrank subconsciously, and the red-robed senators changed their faces even more.

"Your Majesty, Asia Minor is already the last granary and soldiers of Rome, please hurry up and send troops to support!"

"The Arab cult is unstoppable, and the imperial army has dried up, how can it resist it? Your Majesty, our hometown is in Rome, so let's move the capital back to Italy!! ”

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