There is a story among the local residents of Damascus that the Prophet climbed the hill outside Damascus, and after seeing the beautiful night view of the city below, he went down the mountain and left, and someone asked him why he did not enter the city, and the Prophet said that there is only one chance in a lifetime to enter heaven, and this city below the mountain is a place like heaven, if I enter this city, how can I enter heaven in the future?

Such a story is probably made up by the locals, but if Mokomo really said such a thing, then the hill he climbed should be the one at his feet.

The story is a reflection of the love that the people of Damascus have for the city. Looking down from the top of the hill, you can see a beautiful city full of exotic atmosphere.

The paradise on earth is so beautiful that Ma Lan can't bear to destroy it, so at this time in this garden-like city, no buildings have been set on fire by the Turks.

Naturally, this was Ma Lan's order, and the city was to be preserved, and the Turks were not to damage any of the buildings in the city. The Sky Thunder Arrow destroyed some, but the problem wasn't too big and could be fixed soon. After the war, Damascus will remain a garden-like city.

The city will still exist, but the inhabitants of the city will not survive. Since the Anxi army re-entered the Great Eclipse, the rules after encountering resistance were determined, and the city was slaughtered immediately after the city was broken. What he is doing now is no different from Genghis Khan's Yellow Peril, and it is precisely by relying on cold and ruthless means that he can conquer the Great Food so quickly.

Killing people and slaughtering the city to establish authority, this is a proven and effective means, and those who obey me prosper and those who disobey me die. There are no exceptions anywhere.

Under the sunset. The killing is ongoing. There was a cry in the city. The streets were littered with corpses, and the Turkic cavalry rode their horses and slashed at the city's inhabitants, and the city became a hellish place.

The bloody breath in the air was extremely thick, wafting in all directions. Ma Lan descended the hill and entered this beautiful city with the new army of Anxi.

The ancient and beautiful palace of the Caliphate has been the palace of the Caliphate since the time of the Umayyad Dynasty, and became the governor's palace of Abdullah after the Great Food Change. When Abdullah became caliph, he moved the capital back to Damascus, and the governor's palace became the royal palace again.

The Turkic miscellaneous soldiers had been following the new army of Anxi for a long time, and the basic rules could still be observed, so they slaughtered and plundered in the city, but did not enter this beautiful palace. There are many people in the palace, and there is a lot of wealth, and with the arrival of the Anxi New Army, all the wealth is naturally owned by the Anxi New Army, and the people who are still alive are quickly and completely cleaned up by the Anxi New Army.

The bodies were cleared out and the camp was set up directly inside the palace. After the long journey from Baghdad to Damascus, the athletes also need to rest for a few days.

The killing continued until the evening of the next day. By this time, the inhabitants of Damascus and nearby had died, and the bodies were taken out of the city for burial. The city was extremely wealthy, and the resources it received were enough to last an army for a year. Now the army is out of the caravan, but the caravan is coming quickly behind, and there is no problem with supplies.

Now that Damascus has been cleaned up, the next step is naturally to sweep the entire Syrian province, eradicate all the Dehgans who are watching, and then clear the local Arabians and Yemenis, as well as all the devout Hu Da believers.

This kind of thing is already familiar to the army, so naturally it is not a problem. The army rested in Damascus for another night, and the next day it dispersed and began to sweep around Damascus.

At this time, many of the Dekhgans who were waiting and waiting sent envoys to surrender to the army, but the new army of Anxi had already refused to give them a chance. With Damascus as the center, in half of the Syrian governorate, another bloody storm was quickly set off.

The province of Syria is located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, which is not far from the Mediterranean. The territory of the province was adjacent to the Eastern Roman Empire in the north, and after the complete occupation of the province of Syria, the Tang Dynasty and the Eastern Roman Empire became neighbors.

"Rome never perished, she changed and continued to exist", the Eastern Roman Empire also had a very glorious moment, Damascus was once the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire, and most of the provinces of Syria were the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire, but in this era, the Eastern Roman Empire had declined, and today's Eastern Roman Empire has a very small territory, just an area near Constantinople. The Eastern Roman Empire continued to exist mainly on the city of Constantinople.

This empire, later known as the Byzantine Empire, was known as the Byzantine Empire in the Tang Dynasty, and was an obstacle in the way of the westward advance of the new army of Anxi. The Byzantine navy was extremely powerful, Constantinople was terribly terrained, and both the Sassanids and the Umayyad empire had attacked the Golden Horn, but they all came back with a feather. If the Tang army wants to fight to the edge of the sky, Constantinople is also an obstacle that must be overcome.

However, the small area of Fu Lao was not taken into account by Ma Lu, and it was not a problem to capture Constantinople, but this matter was not urgent for him, compared to continuing the westward expedition to sweep the Eurasian continent, the most important thing in front of him was to completely eradicate Hu Da's forces.

Therefore, his goal was not placed in Constantinople for the time being, and it was not placed on the small country of Fula. The Great Food Empire is extremely large, and there are still a large number of areas that have not been conquered, and he will definitely not give the Great Cannibal a chance to resurrect, so the first thing to do is to completely eradicate the power of the Great Cannibal. After this was done, the next step was to continue the westward expedition, crossing Constantinople and sweeping Western Europe.

However, the attack on Constantinople was also something that had to be done sooner or later, so preparations for this matter must also begin now.

On the beach, Yang Youniang ran lightly barefoot, holding her skirt and smiling like a child. The early winter sun was extremely warm, shining on Ma Lan's body, looking at the blue in front of him, Ma Lan also felt some emotion in his heart.

The blue sea and silver sand are extremely unreal. It is thousands of miles away from the Central Plains.

And now, this is also the territory of Datang.

The army swept through the province, and every day was extremely smooth, and he did not stay in Damascus all the time, but took Yang Youniang and a group of personal soldiers to the beautiful seashore.

The sea water in early winter is very cold, but the beautiful girl on the beach doesn't care, the crisp laughter echoes on the beach, Ma Ling looks at Yang Youniang's happy appearance, and her heart is also extremely warm.

Three hundred and sixty days a year, all of them go on horseback...... The second year of Zhide will soon pass. The territory of the Tang Dynasty also extends from the Iranian plateau to the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.

It's been a hard year, but fortunately, I still have this girl's company.

Not far away, there were a large number of seagoing ships moored in the bay, which was already a port, and the number of seagoing ships berthed at this time was already beyond the limit of what the port could accommodate.

And these ships were his preparations for the future attack on Constantinople.

Some of these ships came from large families near Damascus, while others came from families that had previously submitted to the Tang Dynasty. Whether it was the Umayyad Dynasty or the Sassanid Persia before it, they were based in Syria and Egypt when they attacked Constantinople by sea, and the Tang Dynasty will attack Fula in the future. A fleet was needed to break into the Golden Horn to completely annihilate the Byzantine fleet, and the Anxi naval division was now in the valley of the two rivers, and now there was no Suez Canal, so a new fleet needed to be formed on the spot. Therefore, while sweeping all parts of the Syrian provinces, he also collected sea ships on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea in preparation for the formation of a fleet in the future.

When the Majia workshop in Baghdad is established, and it can produce eight-ox crossbows, thunder arrows and even artillery nearby, these sea ships can be modified here, and after a period of training, they will immediately have an invincible fleet. When it was time to attack Falat, they marched by land and water to Constantinople, and they could go down in one go.

The presence of a fleet in the Mediterranean Sea is extremely important for the Ancy Army. This fleet also had to play a role before attacking Whirat. The empire built by the Great Cannibals was so vast that two of the remaining areas, Sicily and Spain, had to cross the ocean to conquer them. Hu Da forces must be cut down and eradicated, so these two places also need to be taken, and after the capture of the remaining territory of the Great Food Empire in West Asia and North Africa, it will be the turn of these two places, before the attack on Fula, the task of this fleet is to transport troops and horses to land, take Sicily and Spain.

This is the next thing to do, not the most important thing in front of you, but everything is foreseen, and the so-called strategic planning is nothing more than that. By next year at the latest, that is, in the third year of Zhide, the Mediterranean fleet of the Anxi Navy Division must be formed, otherwise it will be delayed.

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The days by the sea are quite comfortable, the weather is slightly cold, but the sun is still warm. For young ladies who grew up in Chang'an City, such a scene is rare. On this beautiful beach, Ma Lan spent the whole November with the young lady.

News kept coming from all over the province, and everything went extremely smoothly, with all the lords near Damascus who had been watching were executed, leaving a power vacuum filled by the Dehgans, who had long since fallen to the Tang Dynasty. This generation of Arabians and Yemenis is relatively large, so killing is also indispensable, and after the sweep, the number of locals has decreased by nearly forty percent.

Large seagoing vessels were constantly being requisitioned and congregating outside the harbor. The original port is no longer stopping, and a new terminal is under construction. And in the north of the province, near the border of the Fula, the Fula gathered an army, but did not cross the border, but on the other side of the border, some local tribes that had been suppressed by Constantinople for a long time were ready to move, and even sent people to cross the border to surrender to the Tang army.

Ma Lan didn't care about these actions, he had no intention of moving for the time being before completely sweeping away the Hu forces, and after completely sweeping away the Hu forces, the first thing was naturally to solve Constantinople. Whether these tribes are falling to the Tang Dynasty or not, in fact, it doesn't matter, and Ma Lu didn't pay attention to their thoughts for the time being.

In mid-December, the soldiers who had swept the country returned to Damascus, and Ma Lan left the increasingly lively harbor for Damascus. (To be continued.) )