Before the Fujian army could go far, more than 100 Arab messengers with letters asking for help had already galloped desperately in the direction of Syria with their war horses.

He didn't agree to the military rations and wealth that Hussein asked for a while ago, but this time he not only easily agreed, but also took the initiative to add a sum, and at the same time, like the warlord forces in the upper reaches of the two river basins promised that once the Fujian people were defeated, they would recognize their territory.

In this way, the palace of the Sultan of Kufa, a large group of local military generals, tribal elders, sectarian scholars, and imams still sat on the soft Persian carpet in silence and relative silence.

Damin is too powerful, even if the 600,000 troops rumored a few days ago are boasting, the enemy army they see today is not something they can still block.

The self-proclaimed Sultan Ziyad also has a generous face full of worries, worried about his future.

Ziyad is not a mediocre man, even Mu'awiyah, the former governor of Basra, Mukira, the former governor of Egypt Amur, four talented politicians in the period of great expansion, although he was born in the Umayyad family, but the blood is not noble, Ziyad's mother is a slave girl, and itaf is a prostitute, one day, Mu'awiyah's father Abu. Su Fuyang was engaged in business here, and after a night of romance, he had Ziyad, so that the Umayyad family did not accept him as an illegitimate son of unknown origin.

In normal history, after taking power from Hassan, Mu'awiyah publicly recognized Ziyad as his younger brother, a member of the Umayyad family, and appointed him governor of Basra, serving in Basra and then in Kufa, and Ziyad lived up to expectations and stabilized the chaotic situation in Iraq in the early days of the Umayyad dynasty.

However, in Li Jie's time and space, Ali, the fourth caliph, died a few years earlier than normal, and Mu'awiyah, who was not too prepared, was eager to conquer Byzantium to establish his prestige, and finally defeated Ctesiphon, and had no chance to recognize Ziyad as a younger brother.

It is precisely for this reason that after the Shiites seized power, they also escaped Ziyad in the purge of the original Mecca aristocratic forces led by Mu'awiyyah, and many fugitive Meccan nobles defected to him before the Islamic Era, and took a fancy to Ziyad's forces, and Hou Jie, who was in power, formed an alliance with him.

It's a pity that now, his second big backer has fallen again.

Today's Ziyad's status is very delicate, the Shiites who have lost power do not support him, Hussein belongs, the radical Hawariji faction does not recognize him, the Yemen of Monan, the Omani tribe is not the same as him, two months ago Saladin and the Great Min Arabian Water War, this reason Ziyad did not send troops to help, and it is also for this reason that Hussein, who occupied Syria, Hejaz, and Najd, did not agree to send troops to help him, and it dragged on for more than two months.

By the way, now Ziyad has another special person under his command, Saladin, who is clamoring for death on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab and not to take refuge in Kufa, with his few remnants of defeated soldiers, is quietly huddled in the corner, his eyes full of resentment.

"Everyone is a thirsty camel in the desert thirsty for water, and the Fujian people are once again aggressively grabbing my Kufa, don't be silent, let's talk about it, how can we resist it?"

"Sultan, the last general is willing to lead the cavalry, harass the Min people's rear road along the way, so that the Min people's grain cannot be transported to the front line, the Min people have many people, and there is a lot of food, and when the Min people are so hungry that they can't walk, the warriors under Allah will attack again, and the Min people who can fight will definitely collapse and flee in defeat."

In the afternoon, the burly Bedouin general, who had the strongest request for battle, and who was five big and three thick, with tendons and flesh and full of leather armor, stood up again and spoke loudly.

His name was Said, and he was once a general under Mu'awiyah, and almost all of his tribe had died under Min fire in the last battle near Ctesiphon, and he had a special hatred for the Great Min.

In the last battle of Ctesiphon, Muawiyah used harassment tactics that were particularly successful, although he followed the Yongdao established by the Qin general Zhang Han to protect the back road, in the face of the almost pervasive attacks of the Arabs, he still seemed tired of coping, originally from the Beijing division to the Arab front, although it was transported by water, it would be good to get three barrels of grain to one barrel, and one-third to half of the grain that was transported with such difficulty was looted and burned by the Arabs.

Even if the Great Min family has a solid foundation, he can't help but toss like this, if it weren't for the sudden rise of Anna, the hundreds of thousands of Byzantine troops attacking the back roads of the Arabs, and the protracted war to support, Li Jie might really retreat to Tianzhu in a gray way, as soon as this idea came out, the more than ten tribal elders present couldn't help but nodded subconsciously.

But before Said sat back a little proudly, the voice of disdain rang out.

"Today, there are no less than 50,000 cavalry in Fujian, and I am afraid that there are more people who attack other places at the same time, I heard that the Fujian people conquered the country of the Alans a few years ago, and there are cavalry no less than my Arab Empire, and now there are more than 20,000 desert warriors in Kufacai, and they still need to shed the officers and soldiers who defend the city, Sayyid, do you want to take everyone out to die?"

Said who asked the harsh rhetorical question suddenly had an ugly face, and looked at it with an angry face, recalling the sea of cavalry that gathered in Kufa in the afternoon, and the elders of other tribes suddenly turned white, and the current Kufa is not as good as at that time, Muawiya had an army of 300,000 troops, and the cavalry resources were almost inexhaustible, this time it was the opposite, and the light cavalry of the Min people was more than twice as much as himself.

"Sakharu, what do you mean, do you have to ask the Sultan to surrender to the authority of the Fujian pagans? Are you going to be a sinner who rebels against the Lord? With a fierce voice, Said's halberd pointed and scolded.

The old Bedouin chieftain with a gray beard and wrinkled face was pointed at and scolded by the nose, looking at Said's tiger-like angry face, but the old guy shook his head with a light smile.

"Lord Jude also took refuge in the Min people, and the Min people did not prohibit their faith in the Lord, nor did they punish Lord Jude."

"And Berkel, the Min people supported him to establish a state in Yemen and spread the teachings of my Islamic obedience to the Lord, but he made a contribution."

Said opened his mouth to stammer, Saladin in the corner trembled in pain, and glared at him resentfully, even Ziyad, who was sitting on the top, couldn't help but think about it, and in front of his own lord who was considering, Saharu persuaded again.

"Sultan, the Min people were killed under the banner of crusading against Hussein and other Hawariji sinners, they were originally heretics, sinners who should go to hell, why did the Sultan accompany those sinners to die together?"

Saharu is also an old man who followed the expansion of the second caliph 'Umar, and he said so, and a large part of the treasury was more or less moved.

It is said that how beautiful heaven is, so that people are forever peaceful and happy, they may live, but who wants to die?

"I am against it, if you surrender to Min Gou, this caliph will fight out."

After a moment of silence, Saladin in the corner was the first to stand up viciously, he killed the previous generation of the Great Min Military Department Shangshu, the previous generation and this generation of the Great Min Military Department Shangshu are grandchildren, Saladin did not dare to take refuge in the Fujian people.

"Sultan, how can we be dignified Arabs, how can we go to the Min people? To be a lackey of the Min people? Said also tried to persuade him.

Everything that should be said was said, Saharu looked at Ziyad in silence, waiting for his ruling, more than a dozen pairs of eyes were also waiting for Qiyad to decide his future fate, under such a heavy burden, after thinking for a while, Ziyad finally shook his head heavily.

"You can't surrender to the Min people, don't talk about it anymore."

Saladin breathed a sigh of relief, Saharu seemed to have guessed it a long time ago, and he was not so disappointed, he had made up his mind, and Ziyad was obviously much more calm, and arranged it like a cloud.

"Elder Sakharu, you take a few elders to let the clansmen retreat in the direction of Seleucia, where the Min cavalry can't reach it for a while."

"Said, Ben Sultan gives you soldiers and horses of five tribes, you try to attack the rear of the Min army as much as possible, don't be hard-hitting, just inquire about the general strategy of the Min people."

"The Sultan himself ordered the warriors of the twelve tribes to be stationed at the edge of the city of Kufa, and we Arabs are not good at defending the city, so we echo inside and outside the city, and as for the great chief of Saladin......"

The words of the Great Chieftain Ziyad were obviously bitten very hard, in order to remind Saladin that he was no longer a caliph, but his subordinate Ziyad obviously heard the sound of the strings, and Saladin's vulture's face showed a strong look of shame, and he immediately lowered his head.

Smiling with satisfaction, Qi Yad continued to arrange: "Grand Chief Saladin, you can take your headquarters, and the Sultan will give you the soldiers and horses of the three tribes to hold the base camp of Kufa City."

Saladin's cheek jumped even more when he heard this, and he said it nicely, Ziyad poured all the nest to him, as if he trusted, but in fact, the Arabs are semi-nomadic people, and it is common to relocate when the oasis withers, as for the nomadic Bedouins, it is even more common sense to run if they can't fight, once they are trapped in the city, they can only fight to the death.

He Saladin has a grudge against Da Min, and Ziyad is forcing him to fight for the bottom.

After arranging everything, Ziyad said in a very high-spirited manner: "Everyone has their own responsibilities, the Hussein Caliph in Syria will definitely be more reluctant to see Mesopotamia fall into the hands of the Fujian, as long as it drags on for a month and a half, Hussein will bring Muslim warriors from all over the desert to help in the war, and it will be just around the corner to defeat the Fujian."

"For Allah"

After praying, a bunch of elder imams stood up one after another, ready to prepare for war, but at this time, Sakharu, who had raised an objection just now, stopped Qi Yad again and asked solemnly: "Sultan, what if the Min people don't attack our Kufa and go to fight Ctesiphon?"

This question really stunned Ziade, but for just a moment, he waved his hand indifferently.

"Don't worry, the Min people won't go to fight Tai Xifeng"

Still with doubts, he stopped talking, and Saharu didn't say anything after all, and turned around and went out to prepare for the war.

was suddenly attacked, and overnight, Kufa City once again became a large military camp, everywhere was sanitized, and the smell of gunpowder of the great war filled the air