The strategic location of Kufa is indeed extremely important.

There are two long rivers flowing in the north of West Asia, the Euphrates and the Tigris, when the Arabs did not rise, the area of Kufa was a major town in the middle of the Euphrates River, shielding the desert peoples, backed by the big river, facing the desert, it can be said that if you control here, you will hold Central Iraq.

It is no wonder that Ziyad is so confident that in the last Arab war, the strategy of the Min people was to seize Kufa first and cut off reinforcements from the Nefta Desert, preferring to make a detour to the south first, and then go north to fight Mu'awiyah. So this time, Ziyad put almost all of his bets on Kufa.

But this time, Li Jie just didn't play his cards according to common sense.

In fact, in addition to being lured out of the city and being wiped out in the field battle, a considerable part of it was still in the hands of the Arabs, and this illusion made Qiyad miss the opportunity to further gather his forces and snipe the Min army.

Almost at the speed of two cities in a day, embracing most of the elite army composed of sixteen guards, on the tenth day of the first month of the second year of Kaiyuan, Li Jie's Chinese army arrived at Ctesiphon, the capital of the former Persian Empire.

Ctesiphon, the largest city in Western Asia in pre-Islamic times, was the center of the culture of the entire Two Rivers before Baghdad appeared.

Here was the earliest place where the Greeks resisted the garrison of the Seleucid Empire, and then gradually formed a city, in 129, the Anxian Empire became strong, said that this place was established as the winter capital, in the cold winter, from Central Asia to come here to avoid the cold, when the Romans attacked the rest, once occupied this city, after the rise of the Sassanid Dynasty, the warm climate here, the fertile land attracted the Sassanid people to stay, here is still Nestorianism, that is, the early Christian center of the East into China.

Each civilization has left its own unique traces, especially Persia, even after a long period of war, standing outside the city gates, you can still faintly glimpse the golden glaze of the Sassanid royal palace.

On two occasions, the Persian Emperor fled with his defenders under the onslaught of the expanding Islamic army, bringing the royal family's spacious reception hall, graceful arches, lavish furnishings and decorations, Persian carpets inlaid with precious stones and gold, and a silver camel the size of a real camel mounted by a golden knight on its back, and countless other treasures.

A city filled the pockets of half of the Bedouins of the desert, and before the capture of Ctesiphon, the Arabs did not even know what camphor was, and used camphor as salt to cook things, and many people were not familiar with gold, and exchanged gold for other people's silver.

Even the Arab chronicles record that an Arab warrior was given a nobleman's daughter as a trophy, and he allowed the beautiful girl to redeem herself with a thousand dinars, and then others asked him in astonishment, why didn't he ask for more, and the Arab warrior asked in an even more shocked tone, is there a number greater than a thousand?

For the first time, the rich Ctesiphon opened the eyes of all Arabs with its wealth.

The second time was ten years ago, when the Min captured Ctesiphon and were recaptured by the Arabs.

Although Li Jie's wealth also satisfied the predatory heart of the Arabs, but this time they were shocked by the magnificent and majestic spirit of Damin, although they only stayed here for less than a year, the craftsmen of Damin still renovated the Persian palace, the spacious and majestic palace square, the towering Tang-style Qinzheng Palace, the tall steps of more than ten meters and the vivid appearance of the ancient mythical beasts standing on both sides of the Shinto, all of which passed on a kind of nerve called the majesty of the emperor to the Arabs.

After seeing the Tang style architecture this time, even the architectural style of the Arabs has changed a little later.

But now, what Ctesiphon brought to the Arabs was fear, not to mention the main Chinese army of Damin, which could not see the border at a glance, just opened the passes along the way from Mesopotamia to the Caucasus, and the Armenians brought back by Su Dingfang made these Arabs in the city fearful.

How the Abbasid dynasty ruled by Hou Jie before raging in the Caucasus, many of the people living in the city of Ctesiphon are Arab nobles, chiefs and other high-level figures, which can be clearly known, and now there are only more than 2,000 Bedouin warriors guarding the huge Ctesiphon, once these bitter Armenians invade the city, the consequences of the bloody massacre can be imagined.

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Presiding over Ctesiphon's defense was Ibn Ibn, the son of Ziyad, the Sultan of Kufa. Ziyad. Surrey, when the Arabs took the name, often followed the name of their father or grandfather, but unfortunately this little Ziyad did not seem to have the courage of his father, although surrounded by a large group of tribal noble warriors wearing fish-scale Persian armor appeared at the head of the city, but looking at the company camp on both sides of the Tigris River for dozens of miles, his already very white Semitic face was completely earth-colored at this time, and even his right hand was still trembling.

If there is a word for a pit dad in this era, it is estimated that this little Qi Yade should scold his son desperately.

At this time, little Ziad was not the only one who was worried.

Great Min Chinese Army.

Shouting long live, two rows of more than 200 forbidden soldiers neatly hung down the long lances in their hands, superimposed on each other, as if superimposed into a mountain of swords, each forbidden army was selected by thousands of people, at least seven feet tall, wearing steel armor, and even covered with an iron mask like the king of Lanling, as if a murderous devil.

In this posture, the more than ten Armenian princes who followed Su Dingfang wore black round hats on their heads, wore the same black silk robes, and wore two biblical stories and painting streamers such as the birth of Jesus from their chests to their backs.

"Master Su, did you say that King Min would forgive us for our crimes, this?" His forehead was already covered with oily sweat, and Prince Shirfan of Armenia in the western Caucasus, Prince Valralchak, who had a triangular head and a hooked nose, trembled and asked Su Dingfang.

A resolute face was full of coldness, but Su Dingfang didn't even pay attention to it, and walked under the lance forest coldly, striding towards the Chinese army of King Min, Su Lie also participated in the last Arab War, and he didn't have a good impression of these wall grass stabbed in the back.

Seeing this scene, Valalchak's triangular face suddenly turned even whiter, but in just a second, he was like suffering from malaria, and he swayed violently, looking at the well-guarded military camps around him, and a dozen or so Armenian princes hesitated, but still followed behind with small steps.

At the door, a white-faced and chubby eunuch of Tianzhu opened the tent curtain, but before he could enter the tent, a strange grunting sound came again, and Valalchak turned his head nervously, and his heart suddenly sudden.

On the right side of the lance forest, more than a dozen Fujian soldiers are desperately adding firewood to the fire, and what is burning on the fire is a large bronze tripod unique to China, and the ding does not know what to cook, and can smell the fragrance of oil.

Although they had never seen this posture, the dozen or so Armenian princes still felt a bad sense in their hearts.

The last time in Taisiphon, all countries came to the Great Min, as a very important subject country of Armenia, more than a dozen princes have seen Li Jie, and they haven't seen each other for ten years, it seems that the Shahan Shamin King who was in West Asia has not changed much, and he is still so majestic and scary, and he didn't dare to look at it more, and a dozen or so people knelt on the ground with Su Dingfang.

"Knock, knock to see His Majesty the Supreme Shahansha!"

At this time, Li Jie was a little absent-minded, the historical city in West Asia in front of him, but it had made him fall hard, and now again, no matter how you look at it, there is a feeling that things are wrong, and he didn't take care of this for the first time, this is a traitor to the wallgrass, and sighed for a moment, Li Jie lowered his eyes and casually glanced at these Caucasian secession warlords in front of him.

"Someone, drag him out and cook him!"

With an impatient wave of his sleeves, Li Jie roared murderously, and under the gaze of more than a dozen people including Valalchak, whose hearts almost didn't jump out, two Angzang Han forbidden soldiers who were more than eight feet tall and sturdy like camels dragged the same Armenian noble lord who had just knelt on the ground like chickens, and dragged them out.

This person's Tang language is obviously stronger than these Armenian princes, his boots are kicked on the ground, while struggling, while this lord is still desperately crying and begging for mercy, but unfortunately Li Jie doesn't seem to even have any interest in taking care of him again, and in a blink of an eye, this person was dragged out of the tent of the Chinese army.

On the wall of the tent, you can still see the shadow outside through the light, and under the trembling gaze, a dozen or so Armenian princes watched a few Fujian people holding up the unlucky ghost just now, reaching out and throwing it into the big ding that had just been boiled, and the oil sprayed out, listening to the crackling sound of frying, a dozen or so people were cold from the back of their heads to chrysanthemums in an instant.

That person they know, is also one of the nobles of Armenia, the lord of eastern Armenia near Ancatolia, during the reign of the Byzantines, he was once named the governor of Armenia, and he was the first to rebel against the Great Min, and he also publicly pulled the servants of the Ministry of Rites of the Fujian State, Li Huaide, Xiao Qianzhong, etc., to the market to behead the public, how did they not expect that they were cooked by the king of Min as soon as they took a look.

Listening to the crackling sound of frying outside, in fact, Li Jie himself also had goosebumps in his heart, killing people is not enough, and it is indeed perverted to kill like this, but looking at these wall grasses paralyzed on the ground, Li Jie's heart is a lot more comfortable, with a cold face, and he asked coldly.

"Are you willing to come out of the palace in Constantinople and come to see Lonely?"