After the war, the Asura field on both sides of the Tigrus River was like a thick bloody atmosphere, and vultures and crows were also attracted, and flocks flew from all over the place to hover in the sky, and the bold ones couldn't wait to fall and peck at the corpses on the ground, enjoying a rare gluttonous feast.

The soldiers of the Song Army looked at the battlefield with excited and somewhat confused eyes, and some couldn't believe that they had actually survived this battle, and all this in front of them was done by themselves. The soldiers of the Baggage Brigade Medic Battalion crawled around the trenches, busily treating the wounded and collecting the bodies of the fallen soldiers. And Sirod, who didn't know where he was hiding just now, also came out, covering his nose and shouting noisily and elegantly commanding his subordinates to clean up the battlefield and collect the scattered war horses.

"Honorable commander, we have achieved an unprecedented victory and captured a large amount of loot!" Sirod ran over, gave a noble chest salute, smiled with a flattering face, and said in stiff Chinese.

"Well, you're not going to put your belongings in your pocket, are you?" Ma Wei glanced at Sirod and said coldly, he knew that he couldn't always give him a good face for this kind of person, otherwise he would be even more stubborn.

"Marshal, Allah testifies, not a single silver coin has been taken, all contributed to you!" Sirod swore in fear.

If he really didn't do less oil rubbing in the past, but when he 'appreciated' this tragic battle, he was completely suppressed by the sharp weapons of the Song army. The enemy's two-way coalition army was more than 100,000 people, and his own side and their waste were only 40,000 people, and he even thought that if he was caught, he would definitely be stoned to death as a traitor. Turned into a pile of pureed meat.

Sirod thought of escaping, but their camp was facing water. Surrounded by heavy troops on three sides, the ants could not climb out. So as soon as the battle began, he changed his clothes and hid among slaves who were considered lowly. But the end of the battle was a big surprise, both enemy forces were defeated, and he quickly resumed his identity as a captain to help clean up the battlefield, and no less than 50,000 enemy corpses were found in both battlefields, not counting those that were blown to pieces by shells. And he clearly remembered that the Song army had only more than 200 dead and less than 500 wounded.

And Sirod is a person who has been to the Great Song Dynasty, and has always longed for the prosperity and wealth there, so he has the idea of settling there. It also made him more deferential, and of course he didn't dare to fill his pockets from it. However, Sirod swallowed saliva when he looked at the mountains of armor, weapons, and 100 boxes of gold coins and jewelry, but the generals of the Song army did not appreciate his kindness, but only sealed the matter, but showed great interest in the captured war horses and scimitars, and asked him for them in private!

Because there were too many corpses on the battlefield to bury them all, and now that the weather is very hot, the corpses will quickly stink and rot, and if they are not done well, it will cause an epidemic. and sent scouts to find out the whereabouts of the remnants of the Roma army. Three days later, the cavalry returned to the camp, and they pursued and annihilated the Kerman army, capturing more than 10,000 of the enemy, including the clergy and nobles who accompanied the army......

After a three-day recess. The expeditionary force set out on the expedition again, and the ranks of the co-conformists expanded again, as Ma Wei had expected, and the captured Kerman light cavalry was scattered and formed into a team of 30,000 men. Those who were in good health and had a certain combat effectiveness were given to the heavy cavalry of the 'Attars' as squire knights, and the inferior ones were added to the 'Blak' bandit army, so that their ranks were restored to their pre-war numbers, and the eliminated ones were not wasted and were all contained by the 'Dahak' tattered army. Become a new slave.

The army slaughtered the city of Bengia again, but this time Ma Wei did not give the order to approach immediately. Rather, it marched slowly. He knew that he had annihilated the enemy troops who came to help him through the previous battle, and it was impossible for any more reinforcements to arrive in the short term, so he decided to calmly wait for the other party to surrender. He first ordered his troops to sweep the towns within a radius of fifty miles along the way, confiscate the property of the captives to replenish the army, and then release all the people and let them pour into the city of Gigia, where countless refugees with nothing would consume the city's limited provisions.

The refugees who fled into the city and the Roma reinforcements who were defeated in the city quickly spread their fear throughout the city like a virus, and the citizens and city defenders who had never seen the Orientals were gradually enveloped in terror, coupled with the cut off of reinforcements, the enemy army approached step by step, making them more and more desperate day by day, like frightened birds, as soon as they heard the wind and grass, they rushed to pick up the guys' nervous preparations for battle, and even the civilians in the city also tossed.

While the soldiers and civilians in the city were becoming more and more desperate, the expeditionary force finally reached the city and ordered people to shout to the city to tell them: Whoever surrenders and surrenders can be safe and free, away from fear and shame; Those who resist will be killed, those who refuse to leave will have their property confiscated, young and strong will become slaves, and their wives and children will be sold and placed at the forefront of the army to serve as cannon fodder for sieges and land.

The message of the two choices is like the first proclamation of the Arabs: obedience is freedom, and resistance is death. The frightened city defenders could not bear the psychological torment, and most of them began to flee at night, and within two days there were less than 1,000 of the more than 10,000 defenders in the city. The reinforcements of the Roma were also on pins and needles at this time, they plundered the city one night and fled to Baghdad, but the expeditionary force that had been waiting for them for a long time on their way to the city suddenly rushed out and devoured them one by one, like wolves lurking in the night, and the expeditionary force would never let them enter Baghdad as a new obstacle to their siege.

Ma Wei's psychological offensive worked. The next morning, the inhabitants of Gigia, who had lost the protection of the army, went out of the city to ask for surrender, represented by religious patriarchs, nobles, and scholars. In fact, there were more than 10,000 well-trained city defense troops in the city, plus rich combat experience, and the overall strength of the Roma heavy cavalry was not weak, and with strong city defense and sufficient food reserves, it was completely possible to defend and wait for reinforcements, and the expeditionary force lacking siege equipment could not be easily captured in a few days. As a result, the army of Gigia was driven away by their own psychological fear, and recklessly abandoned the city, ending in a miserable annihilation, and the city fell to the enemy.

The expeditionary force marched into the city of Gigia, announcing that they had come to punish the Seljuk Sultans who had connived at the slaughter of the Song Dynasty merchants and cut off the trade routes, and that they did not want to change their religion. As long as they provide food and grass and provide the necessary salaries, they can get the protection they deserve.

And after having received everything, one of the clergymen of the 'Brak' army asked the commander that they should not have any reward, but only allow him to expel the original priests from the city, and that they should preach here as the greatest reward for them. Ma Wei smiled and agreed, and he didn't want to start a sect and stay here for a long time, as long as they were willing to contribute to what they believed in, who would preach here......

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By the time the Great Song Expeditionary Army approached the capital of the Seljuk Empire, the heat had faded on the Katwan steppe, and it was the time when the autumn was crisp and the cattle and sheep were fat and strong, but the mournful whistle replaced the long pastoral song, and the blood of the warriors would stain the land red. The coalition led by the Seljuk Sultan Sanjar and the army of the Western Liao Emperor Yelu Dashi are facing off here, and the heroes of Islam will fight to the death with the heroes of the Karakhitan!

On the battlefield, Sanjar, who was originally full of ambition, was shrouded in dark clouds, and this time he summoned the lords and subjects of various places in the name of 'holy war' to wave troops to the east, thinking that as soon as the army arrived, the Black Khanate would surrender, but he rejected his kindness. At this time, he also heard that the Great Song Dynasty, the eastern kingdom, had sent troops to capture the Uighurs of Gaochang and the Black Khanate, and defeated their reinforcements, which made Sanjar think that the two-sided battle of Yelu Dashi would soon surrender.

But things change, just when Sanjar was preparing to enter the Black Khanate without blood, there was news that the Song army was negotiating peace with the Western Liao, and what made him even more angry was that the news came from the imperial capital that the Song army actually sent sailors to punish him for 'robbing and killing the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty and cutting off the trade routes' under the banner of entering the Persian Gulf, penetrating into the hinterland of its empire, defeating the Shi Guoshui Division, capturing the important town of Barceló, and opening the door to the Mesomian Plain.

After receiving an urgent report from the capital, Sanjar was faced with two choices: one was to abandon the Eastern Crusade and lead the army back to China to resist the invasion of the Great Song Dynasty; The second is to fight a decisive battle with the Black Khanate first, and then return to China with the power of victory to rescue. After thinking about it, he chose the second way, wanting to take advantage of the fact that Western Liao had not yet recovered from the new defeat in the conflict with the Song to launch an attack first, and then return to the army.

But providence makes people, and Allah will punish him, and at this critical moment, the old king of Khorezm died, and the newly enthroned king Ajisi wanted to break away from the Great Seljuk Empire and became independent. Sanjar knew that if he continued to adopt measures and let them toss, the lords of other places would follow suit and break away from the Empire, which was already on the verge of collapse.

Sanjar had no choice but to temporarily abandon his plan to attack Western Liao and lead his army to quell the rebellion, and in the name of the imperial sultan, he ordered the Roma and Kerman states to send reinforcements to block the invasion of the Great Song Dynasty. After tossing for nearly two months, quelling the rebellion of Khorezm, he led his army into the city of Samarkand, and at this moment the Black Khanate had tens of thousands of soldiers in the Kavant steppe.

At the moment of this decisive battle, Sanjar received urgent reports from the imperial capital for help, and what worried him still happened, the Song army defeated the two reinforcements he sent, and the troops entered the city of Gigia, less than a hundred miles away from the imperial capital, and the emperor would not be guaranteed if he did not return to help. And at this moment, Sanjar can no longer withdraw, the armies of both sides have been spread out on the grassland, the flags cover the sun, the swords and guns are like forests, the earth trembles in the sound of war drums, the air seems to be burning, and the miserable blood will stain the sky here!

The Great War is on the verge of breaking out...... (To be continued......)