When Persia was mired in civil war, the kingdom of Himyar, which had unified the Arabian Peninsula, set its sights on the Suez Canal. For the sake of the untold wealth in the future, Shermer is ready to dig the Suez Canal at any cost. At first, he sent an envoy to Rome to consult with Constantine the Great, hoping that he would agree to the proposal to dig the Suez Canal.

After more than ten days of negotiations, the Romans still rejected the Arabs' proposal. Emperor Constantine was very worried that once the Suez Canal was completed, it would become a shortcut to the Mediterranean for the Jin Empire. No matter how heavy the economic interests are, they cannot be compared with the national interests.

After learning that the Romans had refused, Shimair knew that this could not be done, so he quietly withdrew the envoy, and then secretly mobilized his forces to prepare for a surprise attack on the Isthmus of Suez. In order to ensure victory, Shemair armed 30,000 Arab cavalry through the Jin, plus 10,000 First Legions, a total of 40,000 people joined the war.

Under the banner of recovering the territory of the Arabian Peninsula, the Arabs attacked the area of Jerusalem, which at this time was under the control of the Roman Empire and was an important center of Western Christianity.

Although the Great Jin knew that the Arabs were no match for the Romans, Sima Shu still asked the cabinet to increase support for the Arabs, at least to make the war between the two sides longer, and the scourge of the Roman Empire more powerful, so that it would be more beneficial to China, and the weakened Roman Empire would no longer pose a threat to the empire.

On the 11th day of October in the 14th year of Hongwu, the Romans stationed in the Jerusalem area were suddenly attacked by the Arab cavalry, and lost two frontline positions in an instant.

When receiving a telegram for help from a frontline position. Constantine the Great's face was ugly, he did not expect the Roman Empire to fall to such a point, even the former 'nomads' dared to attack the great Roman Empire. Not only did the Arab cavalry really attack, but they attacked so violently that they almost tore apart all the defenses in the Jerusalem area in one fell swoop.

Shocked by a cold sweat, Constantine the Great immediately summoned all the Roman officers and gave the battle order to stabilize the front line and block the Arab attack.

Constantine the Great then immediately contacted the Persian vassal Psidore, reiterating the importance of the Baltic alliance and requesting that the other side send a part of his forces to attack the northeastern part of the Arabian Peninsula. In order to contain the forces of the Arabs. Besides. He also urgently procured a batch of weapons and equipment from the Dajin side.

Although the Great Jin side was annoyed that the Romans did not agree to dig the Suez Canal, Sima Shu agreed to work overtime in the domestic arsenal to produce a batch of weapons and equipment to sell to Rome. It's just that in order to export the evil spirit, Sima Shu asked the cabinet to raise the price of these weapons under the pretext of time constraints and high freight costs.

When Emperor Constantine learned that the Jin people had raised the price of weapons, his face instantly turned gloomy. This Jin person is too ruthless. Slaughter them like fat sheep! He was talking about Jin people in his heart. I had to pinch my nose and agree to come down. After all, the war on the front line is not good. It was a time when weapons and equipment were urgently needed.

The domestic weapons that he had high hopes for were refused to be used by the front-line soldiers because of quality problems. Because the Romans' steelmaking technology was not up to standard, they produced muskets that were easy to explode. This led to a change in the Roman soldiers' who preferred to fight their enemies with short swords rather than use muskets produced by the Romans themselves.

If not, how could Constantine the Great be willing to accept the high-priced weapons proposed by the Great Jin, the reason why Constantine the Great was so embarrassed was not only because the Jin people's asking price was too high, on the other hand, he also experienced the attitude of the Great Jin towards Rome from this price, obviously because of the different attitudes towards the Suez Canal, the Great Jin stood behind the Arabs this time.

Despite his displeasure, Constantine the Great paid for the weapons in gold, and he sent a legion to Jerusalem in an attempt to take advantage of the Arabs' unstable foothold.

While the Romans were actively preparing for war, the Arabs also began to prepare intensively with the help of the Jin. In order to help the Arabs, the Great Jin not only provided a batch of weapons and equipment to the other side at a very low price, but also told the Arabs the military information they had spoofed.

In order to make the Arabs pay attention to the value of intelligence, the person in charge stationed in the Arabian Peninsula coaxed Shemer, telling the other party that the information came from spies within the Roman Empire, and that the Great Jin had obtained it from Rome at a huge cost, for which the Great Jin paid the lives of several excellent spies.

The words of the Jin people were half-true, they did work hard to get this information, but they did not sacrifice any secret spies. The Jin people knew that the Arabs were inferior to Rome, so they only took advantage of the unfamiliarity of the Romans at the beginning of the war, seized the opportunity to hit with one blow, and killed and injured a large number of Romans' living forces.

But as soon as one blow did not inflict heavy damage on the Roman legions, then the Arabs risked losing the opportunity to capture the Suez Canal. After all, in the war between the two countries, even if the Arabs have the support of the Great Jin, he may not be able to beat the Romans. It was precisely in this way that the head of the Great Jin in the Arabian Peninsula would allow Shimair to seize this rare opportunity to inflict heavy losses on the Roman legions, and then strive to drive the Romans back to Syria and completely control the Isthmus of Suez.

While the Romans were buying weapons from the Great Jin, the Romans stationed in Jerusalem had been fighting the Arabs for half seven or eight days, during which time the fighting between the two sides was fierce. After the Arabs received the weapon assistance provided by the Great Jin, they suppressed the Roman legions in firepower, but the Roman legions occupied the advantage of the city, and the Roman soldiers were strong in combat, in order to protect the holy city of Jerusalem, the Roman soldiers showed no fear of death, extremely crazy, and only less than ten days after the war, both sides suffered heavy losses.

Despite the heavy price paid by the Arabs, they occupied the outer positions of Jerusalem and gradually approached the city, but by this time the Roman reinforcements were also slowly approaching Jerusalem.

At this time, the Persians suddenly sent a cavalry force of less than 10,000 men to cooperate with the Romans in Syria to launch an attack on northeastern Arabia, and successfully took advantage of the main Arab force to attack Jerusalem with all their might, occupied an important border city in the northeast of the Arabian Peninsula, and tried to take advantage of the back of the Arab army that wanted to besiege Jerusalem.

After Shemer received the information provided by Dajin about the combat operations of the Roman legions, he immediately began to plan a battle plan against the main force of the Roman legions, and a few days later, King Shemer successfully found the loopholes in the Roman defense line according to the intelligence, and mobilized superior forces to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Roman legions.

Because of the accurate information provided by the Great Jin and the attention of the Arabs, a seamless siege plan was formulated for the Roman reinforcements, and in late October, the Roman reinforcements finally arrived in Jerusalem, and they immediately stormed the Arab defense line as planned, but the Roman attack was surprisingly smooth, and they advanced to the city of Jerusalem without losing many troops, and almost made contact with the defenders in the city.

At this time, the Arabs had already set up a tight encirclement along the route of the Roman reinforcements, and more than 10,000 Roman reinforcements, who knew nothing about it, plunged headlong into the pockets that the Arabs had already laid out.

With the order of King Shemer, the Arabs, who had just been defeated, suddenly came out from behind and around the Romans, caught the Romans by surprise, and soon surrounded the main force of Roman reinforcements less than five kilometers east of Jerusalem, and launched an encirclement and annihilation operation.

Realizing that he had fallen into the enemy's trap, the general of the Roman reinforcements did not have time to think about how the Arabs surrounded them, and the most important thing for him at the moment was to quickly organize the troops to break through, otherwise once the Arabs tightened the gap in the encirclement, then the Roman reinforcements would be finished, and once the reinforcements were finished, I am afraid that Jerusalem would not be able to be saved.

"Rush, rush up, tear the opening, cover the army to rush out, or we will all die here." A Roman officer, wielding a short sword, directed his men to charge frantically at the Arabs, and was the first to lead by example, but was quickly beaten back by the Arabs' ferocious fire and artillery fire.

"Kill, kill, kill, kill these infidels......"

After the tempering of the Roman army after civil strife, its combat effectiveness was still quite considerable, and the death of its companions did not frighten the surrounding Romans, but stimulated the blood of others, and the Romans launched wave after wave of attacks in order to survive.

By this time, the Romans no longer cared how many people died, they had only one purpose, which was to tear open the opening of the encirclement and cover the breakthrough of the main army.

In order to break through, the Romans organized groups of death squads to frantically attack the weak points of the Arab defenses, where life became worthless, soldiers fell on both sides every moment, and the artillery provided by the Great Jin in the Arab army became an important weapon to harvest the lives of Roman soldiers, and it was simply a lingering nightmare for the Roman soldiers who broke through.

Pieces of Roman soldiers fell under the bombardment of massive artillery, and the flying shrapnel continued to take the lives of one Roman soldier after another, this is simply a massacre!

The smoke of gunfire filled the place, and it became a real hell, and the earth was stained red with blood, but the Romans had no way out, and the Arabs were also red-eyed, and the two sides engaged in a life-and-death battle for the benefit of their respective nations. (To be continued......)