The densely populated province of Isfahan was an extremely important source of troops for Ibrahim, and it was the only complete province in his hands.

In the past two years, he has invaded Syria with a large army, and has repeatedly fought with Abdullah in the Aleppo area, constantly losing manpower, and constantly needing to replenish soldiers, so Isfahan is extremely important to him.

If Isfahan loses the province, he will lose a large chunk of his territory, and such a loss is unacceptable to him.

Originally, the Shiites did not have an army in their hands, but since they formed an army under the ancient city of Rai, his army has been fighting continuously for the past two years, although it has been constantly consumed, but it has still trained many elites, which is also the capital of Ibrahim now. He decided to fight with the Tang Army, relying on this.

Ma Lan's march was slow this time, so the news of the Tang army's march had already reached Isfahan and Ibrahim's ears. The governor of Isfahan asked Ibrahim for help, and now Ibrahim has left Syria with his main force and is on his way to Isfahan.

He could not abandon this province, so he could only give up his plan to fight with Abdullah, the former governor of Syria, for the time being, leaving only a small number of troops on the Aleppo front, temporarily taking a defensive position, and the main force was to cross the Zagros Mountains to Isfahan.

This battle is extremely important for both Abdullah and the Shiites. "There is no hero except Ali", after all, he is the descendant of Haojie Ali, and he is still a little bold, Ibrahim decided to mobilize in the occupied area immediately after the decisive battle with the Tang Dynasty in Isfahan, and a group of soldiers dispersed and drove a large number of Persian Mawari to this huge city.

Regardless of whether the Mawari were religious or not, as long as they confessed to being Huda's followers, they were driven to Isfahan.

As a result, the Don army attacked Isfahan. It became a decisive battle with the Shiite army.

The emergence of the Shiite army was originally facilitated by Ma Lan, but at that time, it was to plunge the Great Food into chaos, and this purpose had been achieved, but this time it was to completely solve the problem of the Arabians and Yemenis, and at this time the devout Shiites became an obstacle. has become the enemy of Datang.

Even if they don't come to Isfahan, Ma Lan will not be able to let this army go in the end.

The gathering of enemies is a good thing for Ma Lu, so that there is no need for athletes to go all over the world to find enemies.

This time in Isfahan, it was not only the Arabians and Persians who had to be eliminated, but also a large number of Persian Mawaris who had poured in from Shiite territory. Since they dared to go to Isfahan to fight against the Tang army, this is the price they should pay. And after this war...... In fact, the fighting east of the Zagros Mountains should have largely ended.

Isfahan is an extremely important city east of the Zagros Mountains, and after being captured by the Tang army, several famous cities in the Zagros Mountains will be in the hands of the Tang Dynasty. After the fall of the Shiites, the Dehgans in the territory were leaderless, and it is not clear what choice they would make based on their urine. It is impossible for these natural wall-riding factions to put themselves in complete danger.

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This piece of information was just sent by Mi Xue through the Eagle Slave. So at this time, he also told Yang Youniang for the first time.

Sitting on horseback and watching the scenery every day is indeed a bit boring, but there is a big war to fight soon, and we will wait for the vicinity of Isfahan. It won't be boring.

Ma Xuan said slowly, but the girl in her arms was not listening carefully at this time. Comfortably curled up in his arms, with a shallow smile on the corner of his mouth, his heart said these things when he was so restricted, and his own man was really ......

Ma Lan doesn't have such a delicate mind, and he is actually not good at the relationship between men and women. Essentially a rough man. But after finishing speaking, when the girl turned her head, he still caught a shallow smile.

At this time, he suddenly understood that this girl was not listening carefully. He also suddenly realized how ridiculous it was to seriously talk about the battle situation in such a state, how could anyone say such things in bed.

OK. There is also an opportunity to compensate.

was teased by a little girl, which is an extremely faceless thing for General Ma. He overwhelmed the girl overbearingly, turned over and pressed on the girl again.

The moment she fell into the dark and warm depths of the girl, the girl's eyebrows let out a low moan, which instantly made Ma Lu's blood boil. The warm delicate body turned into a galloping battlefield, and the killing sound shook the sky in an instant......

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In the summer of the second year of Zhide, the Tang army from afar was like a sharp sword, stabbing Isfahan from your Shabul.

This important city in central Persia is now preparing for war. The whole city has become a fortress of war, with a large number of ballistas set up at the head of the city, and there are also military camps outside the city.

There were Ibrahim's descendants, the Persian Marwaris who had been driven in, and even some of the Arabians and Yemenis who had fled here. Their camp was the smallest, the least numerous, and the most demoralized. They are not an army at all, at most a group of refugees.

They fled from various places in the vicinity to the city of Isfahan, where they gathered. For them, it's not that they feel safe enough to stay here because they have nowhere else to go.

Not all Arabians and Yemenis are willing to stay at home and wait for death, and in the areas already occupied by the Tang army, a small number of Arabians and Yemenis have chosen to abandon their homes and embark on the road of fleeing.

And the campaign launched by the Tang Army against the Arabians and Yemenis is contagious, even in the areas where the Tang Army has not yet arrived, many Persian Dehgans who are good at judging the situation have also begun to purge the local Arabians and Yemenis in preparation for the arrival of the Tang Army in advance, and those Arabians and Yemenis who passed through their territory on the way to escape are naturally unwilling to let go. As long as it is discovered, it will inevitably end up being killed and plundered.

A large number of fugitives died along the way, but some managed to escape capture. Thousands of people had managed to reach Isfahan, and all of them had gathered in this camp. When these people arrived here, they were sheltered by the governors who supported the caliph Ibrahim, and also brought the news of the imminent arrival of the Don army.

In the territory of Caliph Ibrahim to the west of Rai, a large number of people have been mobilized and have gathered around Isfahan. These people are the most numerous, and although they are untrained, they also have a lot of momentum and will to fight...... It's definitely better than the Arabians and Yemenis, but they both belong to the role of cannon fodder.

These can be called Mavari, who belonged to the lower classes of the Persians, all of whom were nominally converted to Huda, but among them were truly devout, but a few were truly pious. Most of them did not come here willingly, but were driven by Ibrahim's elite soldiers.

Now these people are distributed in the military camp outside the city, and they have been simply reorganized, and the number has reached nearly 100,000, but they are all a rabble, and their combat power cannot be compared with Ibrahim's elite soldiers.

Of course, Ibrahim's elite army has only been in the army for more than two years, and it is relatively speaking, far behind Abdullah's Syrian army, let alone compared with the Ansi Iron Army.

Among the three caliphs, Abdullah fought against the other two caliphs alone, fighting with Ibrahim in Aleppo and the remnants of the Umayyad in Egypt.

Of course, what about the Syrian Legion, Ma Lu has also seen it with his own eyes. It is considered a strong army in the big food, but it can't get into his eyes.

If there were many people, it may not be useful, if there were many people, Ibrahim would have been able to take Aleppo a long time ago by driving so many Mawari to the Syrian battlefield, and he would not have had to be entangled with Abdullah for so long. So the meaning of so many people coming here is just to strengthen their courage. After all, the attacking Datang army heard that there were only more than 10,000.

Knowing that the Tang people were all cavalry, some targeted arrangements were also made outside the city, and a lot of trenches were dug to block the march of the cavalry, and dense shallow pits that could trap the horse's hooves were also everywhere.

Caliph Ibrahim stood on top of the city, looking at the dense soldiers on the city walls and the ant-like people outside the city, and his heart was not at peace.

The importance of this battle is undeniable to Ali's descendants. But for him, this battle is also a matter of time.

Abdullah betrayed the Prophet's teachings and ceded a large tract of land to a foreign race in the East, which was a great disgrace for a devout Muslim. The reason why he wanted to overthrow Abdullah was because he had blasphemed the glory of the Muslims, and it was in this name that he had called on the people to follow him in fighting against Abdullah for the past two years.

If Abdullah is defeated, after he has become the caliph of all the great cannibals, regaining the lost territory is a must. As Ali's descendant, this is his responsibility. If he allowed so much land to fall into foreign hands, he would have no legitimacy as a caliph.

So a battle with the Tang people is a matter of time. And now, it's just that this thing has come early.

He had seen the methods of the Tang army in Rai, but this was the land of Muslims, and for the Tang people, there were enemies on all sides, there were enough Muslims, and there were too few Tang people, so he still had some confidence.

If it can completely defeat the Tang army...... Then he will gain the legitimacy to become a caliph, and he will truly become the caliph of all the great cannibals, and those who originally supported Abdullah will also turn around and support him. At that time, it will be easy to take advantage of the victory and go to Syria to defeat Abdullah.

Of course, the most important thing is the battle in front of us. He was ready to use the blood of the Mavari to win this war. This is the land of Hu Da, how can you let the devil from afar get your hands on it!

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