The boat was a hundred paces away from the Fufeng, Niu Xu had already returned to the Fufeng with his soldiers at this time, Aziz stood on the boat with a deferential face, Niu Xu pointed at Aziz, and then pointed to the water.

Aziz was slightly stunned, Niu Xu already had a giant bow in his hand, Aziz was startled, suddenly understood what this side meant, and quickly ordered the sailors to stop rocking the oars, and then jumped into the water with a pop.

"He's a smart man." Niu Xu smiled slightly and put away the seven-stone bow.

In the first naval battle in the Strait of Hormuz, I had such an experience, and we must not let the enemy get too close, after all, the Fufeng is also a wooden ship, once someone throws a few bottles of Greek fire, it is also troublesome, and a large number of Greek fire, heavenly thunder arrows and fire thunder in the cabin, once it is lit, it is not a joke.

Not fearful, but careful, as the leader of this fleet, he must be responsible for the lives of his soldiers.

Aziz stopped the boat in the water, swam towards the fleet himself, and when he reached the Fufu, the athletes dropped the ropes and pulled Aziz to the ship.

"You're a smart man, or your fleet would be finished. Originally, I was going to take advantage of your fleet. ――How did you react so quickly and think of surrender in such a short time? After Niu Xu finished speaking, he looked at old Holzman and motioned for him to translate.

As soon as old Holzman spoke, Aziz waved his hand again and again: "General, I can understand your words." But it is an extremely smooth Tang official dialect.

Niu Xu looked at this guy and nodded: "Then you can say it yourself and answer my question." ”

Aziz said respectfully: "General." At the time of the Battle of Kufa. I was in the army of Lord Abdullah. So recognize the battle flags on the ship. The strength of the Anxi army of the Tang Dynasty, I can see it clearly under the city of Kufa, at that time my family was ready to serve the Anxi army, but I didn't expect the army to withdraw immediately, and we can only temporarily attach to the caliph Abdullah. Now that the Anxi army has arrived here, my family and I are naturally the first to surrender. ”

"Original...... So. Niu Xu nodded and laughed.

The Persian dkhgans are like this, and it seems that this guy is no exception. At the beginning, after the First World War, Kufa needed to go back to resettle the people of the Eighth Army in the river. Therefore, the army must return to the division, but I didn't expect that there would be a family that wanted to serve the Tang Dynasty at that time.

When he saw the Tang Army Flag, he immediately chose to surrender, this guy who can speak Chang'an official dialect is a smart person and a good partner to work with.

In the Battle of Kufa, the Anxi army did not participate in the attack, but it showed the power of gunpowder weapons, but at that time, the fire and thunder were tied to the long arrows of the Eight Bull Crossbow, and the power was not as powerful as the current heavenly thunder arrows. The most shocking scene at that time was naturally the use of tunnels to transport gunpowder under the walls of Kufa. And then the city wall was blown up.

Mansur called himself Allah's shadow on the earth and wanted to combine his power with divine power. At that time, there was already a public wrath, so Abdullah kept having Dekhgans come to serve along the way, and after the siege of Kufa City, more Dekhgans came to serve nearby. The Persid Hegans who participated in the Battle of Kufa would have been extremely impressed by the strength of the Ansi army.

Niu Xu thought in his heart, looked at Aziz and smiled: "Your official words are good. ”

Aziz said respectfully: "General, I have been to Guangzhou City four times, and each time I arrived, I had to wait for more than half a year to return after the monsoon, so I also lived in Guangzhou City for several years. ”

"That's right." Niu Xu nodded, pointed to the city on the shore and said with a smile, "I came here this time to conquer this city, how strong is your family here?" I need a tax officer, and I can't do it if I'm weak. You have such a fleet, and the power of the family should be good. ”

"General, my family, the Aziz family, is based near Kufa, and it is only a branch here, but in Basra City, it is also one of the three major forces. The city of Basra is now under the administration of Caliph Abdullah, and in addition to my family, there are also the Hussein and Pahlavi, who rule the city. But one of Hussein's largest fleets had been destroyed—the one the general had destroyed first—and they had lost at least half of their strength. My family and the Hussein family are both Dekhgan, but the Pahlavi family is an alien Arabyan......" Aziz bowed his head and introduced the situation in the city in official language with great respect.

After speaking, Niu Xu nodded and said with a smile: "You are a smart man, when I conquer this city, the tax collector of Basra will be yours." ”

Aziz hurriedly said: "General, my family has long been willing to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, but in the Aziz family in Basra, I am not the leader, I am only in charge of this fleet......"

"Now you are. You are the head of the family and the tax collector of Basra. Thou hast preserved thy family, and thou shalt not be the leader of whomever is the chief. You're a smart guy and I just like to work with smart people. Niu Xu patted Aziz on the shoulder, "That's it, now, follow me to kill." ”

Aziz wanted to say something, Niu Xu's eyes were cold, and this guy immediately closed his mouth.

By this time, all the ships of the fleet had already docked, and everything that could be ignited in the dock had been burned by the flames, but it was still usable. On each boat, dozens of athletes disembarked along the gangplank and quickly assembled in the open field. Niu Xu took dozens of athletes off the Fufeng and took Aziz and old Holzman to the docks.

There were more than 1,500 men in the fleet, and at this time more than 1,000 soldiers had already reached the shore, leaving only more than 500 men to guard the ships. These are the most elite Anxi athletes, all of them are holding Yuanrong crossbows at this time, with horizontal knives hanging from their waists, and their bodies are completely shrouded in Mingguang armor, looking murderous.

"Aziz, lead the way, go to the Pahlavi family first!"

"Yes, General."

The local indigenous Aziz was at the front, and more than 1,000 athletes left the dock with neat steps behind Niu Xu and walked into the city of Basra. Compared to the cities in the Central Plains, the streets here are crooked and dirty, and obviously there is no planning. There is no regular army here, and there are only three major forces with their own manpower. Overall, it's a chaotic but extremely affluent city, with some rather luxurious mansions behind the curvy streets.

The Pahlavi family is an Arabyan, that is to say, the most devout Huda believers, and the Persian Dekhgan, Niu Xu has heard Uncle Pony say many times that such a force must be eliminated first. So after he went ashore, he naturally regarded this place as his first goal.

If you want to make the people of this city surrender as quickly as possible, the main point is fierceness, which Niu Xu also knows very well, so the army walks on the streets, and from time to time long arrows will be shot, shooting the living people they see one by one. Cruel enough and even cruel enough to impress the people in the city, leaving fresh corpses on the streets after the army, and in front of the army, soon no one dared to stay on the streets, and they all panicked into the houses on both sides of the street to make way for the army.

The fleet spent a lot of time in the port, the Pahlavis were one of the three major families in Basra, and a small number of ships were destroyed on the pier, but most of the ships had already gone to sea, so they did not suffer. The news of such a big event has already spread, and the whole family is nervous, not knowing what will happen next, but they have already gathered all the people who can be used.

Basra is located in the homeland of Persia, Ctesiphon in the valley of the two rivers is the capital of the Sassanid Empire, the Sassanid Empire has been destroyed for more than 100 years, and the Arabians and Yemenis have become the masters of the Persian homeland, and a large number of Arabians and Yemenis have moved to various cities, and Basra is also the same. Now that the Umayyad dynasty has fallen, a new caliph has come to power, and the first credit for the change of dynasty is the Persian slave annexation. Posirin, so the status of the Persian Mavari has improved a lot, and the status of the Arabians and Yemenis, who used to be the ruling class, has decreased slightly, and they are on an equal footing with the Persian Mawaris.

Now in Basra, the Arabians and Yemenis are also huddled together, and they are at odds with the Persian Dehgans, who hold power in the caliphate's court and gradually disregard the Alabians and Yemenis. The Arabians and Yemenis in Basra are centered on the Pahlavi family, while the Persians are dependent on the Hussein family and the Aziz family, and the three forces are relatively balanced, but the Persians have two forces, and the hearts of the people are not so united, and the Pahlavi family, as the leader of outsiders, has gathered people's hearts.

For example, now, after knowing what is happening in the port, a large number of Arabians and Yemenis have gathered near the Pahlavi family's manor house with all kinds of weapons, and the number is as many as five or six thousand, all of them are young and strong, which is a clear proof of the centripetal force of the Pahlavi family.

The Persian Dekhgans will definitely surrender, the Arabians and the Yemeni nobles have no way to surrender, if they do, they will no longer be able to stay in the city, the Arabians will have to go back to the desert to be herders, and the Yemenis will have to go back to being fishermen. Therefore, the Pahlavi family had no intention of surrendering, and after five or six thousand people gathered together, they were ready to see how things would develop.

They had also heard of the strength of the fleet in the port, so they would not go to the dock to die, but the manor was very far from the dock, but it was located in the center of the city, and the fleet could not threaten here. On land, they now coalesce into the greatest force in Basra.

Under the leadership of Aziz, Niu Xu led a thousand athletes to the center of the city while killing people. There are several huge estates, one of which belongs to the Pahlavi family. Date palms can be found everywhere within the walls, and the architecture is quite ornate, which also shows the heritage of this family. The door was tightly closed, and there was a lot of people inside, and it was obvious that there were quite a few people inside. (To be continued......)