The death knell of the Persian Empire was sounded by Duhe.

When the Tang Dynasty advanced troops broke through the defense line formed by the Persian army, thus witnessing the thrilling scene in the deep pit, the death knell was already ringing for the Persian Empire, not for anything else, but for the hundreds of thousands of innocent creatures, although there are many doubts about Bai Qikeng's killing of 400,000 Zhao troops, but Bai Qi's failure to die well is enough to prove that the killing of prisoners is ominous, although it is inevitable to kill prisoners under the blood feud, but the government army and the rebel army, do they have a blood feud?

The concept is different, the object of effectiveness is different, under the premise that education is not popularized, and the vast majority of the people at the bottom do not know a single word, who knows the righteousness? Who understands the truth? It's just that whoever gives the good treatment will follow whom, change places, the same group of people, and if you don't know the camp you belong to, you will switch over, but it's still that group of people.

Therefore, fighting a war is the business of the people above, and giving life is the business of the people below, and the composition of the army has been like this for a long time, and the general will do whatever he says, and the army has no ability to think, and obedience has become the highest duty of a soldier.

But an army has been led by a general for a long time, and this general is precisely a very capable general, who has made a lot of military achievements, has very strong ability, and has enough personal charm, at this time, this army will become the general's personal department, what the general does, they say, if the ordinary army still has a little bit of its own instinctive activities, then such a private department has no ability to think about it at all, and the massacre will naturally be done, even if the conscience is unbearable, Soldiers who are accustomed to life and death will not stop.

No matter how loud the cry is, no matter how miserable the crying look, it will not make even a soldier stop the sword in his hand, this is the last loyal army of Persia. Border Guard Corps, Commander-in-Chief, Veteran General Toyev.

It was this army that angered Duhe, looking at the countless deep pits and thick black smoke that covered the sky and the sun, the anger in Duhe's heart could not be calmed no matter what, although the dead were all Persians. There is no Tang Han people, but he is angry to the extreme, although all dynasties in Chinese history have records of killing prisoners and ordinary people, but the historical records are historical records, and witnessing them is witnessing them, and the insensitivity of the Persians to their compatriots really makes Du He angry.

At the same time, it also led to Du He's reflection on himself - if one day the Emperor ordered the slaughter of civilians, and he did not have the idea of slaughtering the civilians, would he still slaughter those unarmed civilians according to the Emperor's wishes? Or maybe it's not the civilians who he thinks are wrong. It's the dynasty itself, will he suppress it with a clear conscience, and not do something else?

No one can understand this kind of thing, right? Or rather, Du He was afraid to make such a decision, I don't know how many years, Du He felt fear for the first time, starting from his education at a military university. Until now, more than ten years. For the first time, he felt an inexplicable fear, which he shouldn't have been.

Du He couldn't help but hesitate a little, but he still gave the most important order - the whole army stopped fighting, and left all the black smoke alone, just fill all the deep pits. Then he wrote a letter ordering bows and arrows to be shot into the city, informing the Persian defenders of the city that on the day of the breach, not a single soldier would be left behind who had participated in the massacre of civilians. Kill them all, and the general who made this decision will be executed in accordance with the ancient and cruel Chinese criminal law - Ling Chi!

Duhe ordered the whole army to set up camp and surround the entire Persian imperial city here, which was not enough, but after the arrival of the rebel coalition army in eastern Persia, the number was almost enough, and when these rebels saw these mass graves, they were all in pain, and their eyes were full of hatred when they looked inside the imperial city.

They accepted Du He's command, camped in accordance with the Tang Dynasty with the advantage of numbers, surrounded the entire imperial city, and then cut off all routes into the imperial city, and looked for opportunities to cut off the water source inside the imperial city, but it seems that the imperial city is fully prepared, there are many wells in the city, and they do not rely on the river outside the city to live, and the operation to cut off the water source failed.

After that, Duhe ordered the army to cut off the supply line of the Persian army, and it turned out that there was no supply line in the Persian imperial city, and there was no one to support, and there were only two provinces in the whole Persia that obeyed the orders of the central government and were still in the hands of the Persian government, and the road to here was completely cut off.

This shows that there are sufficient food reserves in the imperial city, otherwise the very capable general will not make preparations to trap the isolated city, he is very likely to have made a response to the huge power of artillery, and then try to delay the time, delay the war here in the cold and dry winter, and then continue the food delivery is not easy, waiting for the opportunity to cut off the supply line of the Tang army, force the Tang army to retreat or even be defeated by him, he can have enough time and strength to regain the rule of the Persian Empire.

What a tough opponent to deal with!

Water and food can not be cut off, and it is impossible to carry out siege warfare in the short term, how can we weaken the combat effectiveness of the defenders in the city, so as not to appear before the 20,000 remnants of the Persian army blocked the 90,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty for five days, this is a problem, Du He thought about it for a long time and did not get it solved, and then immediately after, a top-secret letter from the blood drops made Du He's frowning brows stretch.

On the third night of the fifth month of the second year of Chenghe, the third day after the siege of the city by the coalition forces of the Persian rebel army of the Tang Dynasty, and the night after the mass graves outside the city were basically filled, several sneaky figures suddenly appeared on the streets of the Persian imperial city with a complete curfew, which seemed particularly mysterious, and their speed and skill were very flexible, and the Persian soldiers who kept vigil were unaware.

This was followed by a fire in the grain and grass of the Imperial City.

The flames woke everyone up, the panicked soldiers shouted and shouted for people to come to put out the fire, the people who were awakened hurriedly came out with buckets to put out the fire, but tonight the wind was not small, and the well in the Persian imperial city was far away from the granary, and when the fire brigade rushed over with buckets, the fire had almost destroyed the entire granary, all the grain was burning, the fragrance stimulated everyone's nerves, and then, the fragrance became a painful smell of destruction.

When the old general Toev stumbled to the granary. It was already half an hour later, he was old and lacked energy, and after dealing with the panic caused by the Tang army to the Persian army in the city, he fell into a deep sleep, and it turned out that he did not sleep for long. He was woken up by a hurried knock on the door, and the first thing the guard said made him petrified - General! The granary is on fire!

The reason why Toyev decided to stay in the isolated city, wait for the cold winter to come, oppress the supply line of the Tang army, and even wait for an opportunity to cut off the supply line of the Tang army, is because there is enough grain in the city, and the grain stored in the large granary is enough for the soldiers and civilians in the city to eat for two years, and regardless of whether it will break down or not, the granary keeper naturally has special means to ensure that the grain is edible. There are more than 100,000 troops in the city, and there are more than 100,000 militias and other strong men who can be mobilized, adding up to 300,000, although the combat effectiveness is not as good as the Tang army, but it is still possible to hold the city.

As for the artillery of the Don army, Toev took inspiration from the way the Romans dealt with trebuchets and decided to protect the city wall with large objects of moderate hardness and softness, so that the solid iron cannonballs of the Don army could not destroy the wall. As for the flowering bomb, it seems to be more powerful for people. The city wall is quite powerless, not to mention the city wall of the Persian imperial city, but the Tang army itself has strengthened it, not only the outer city, but also the inner city, two city walls, the height and thickness of the city wall are second to none. Although the artillery of the Tang Army is powerful, can it really destroy such a towering city wall?

As long as it is difficult for the Tang army to destroy the city wall, then the defenders in the city can rely on the city wall to block the Tang army, and no matter how strong the Tang army is, it will inevitably suffer losses in the siege. In the past, the Tang army used artillery to destroy the city walls in siege cities, once the artillery was ineffective, could the Tang army do anything? Besides, Toyev knows a very important piece of information, that is, the main raw material of the Tang army's artillery, gunpowder, cannot be damp, and once it is damp, it will lose its effectiveness, if it rains heavily, or if he tries to destroy the gunpowder of the Tang army, then the Tang army can only use flesh and blood to attack the city?

Even if the gunpowder can still be delivered, it will take time, and he can even send a special team to hinder it, destroy the gunpowder, lose the artillery, what is left of the Tang army? Isn't it stronger than the Roman legions? They also defeated the Roman legions several times, and his soldiers were the most elite and strongest soldiers in all of Persia!

He made decisions and strategic plans with confidence.

And then now, the granaries are destroyed, the fire is burning, the soldiers and civilians who are fighting the fire seem so powerless, they look so fragile, their strategic planning has ended before it has even begun, and the biggest reliance - food, has been destroyed, is there still any point in strategic planning? There is no food to eat, then, how can this battle continue? How do soldiers fight? By those livestock? Or is it the only part of the grain that remains, and even killing horses to satisfy hunger? Trapped in a lonely city, in the end, Yi Zi cannibalized, and sold at a clear price? He had to think that every effort he made would fail.

He took off his helmet, the raging fire reflected his gray face, he had to report the news to the Emperor Xià, the Emperor Xià he did his best to protect, and the instructions from his father, he had to complete, even if it was death, but what should the Emperor Xi Qi do? If he dies, His Majesty the Emperor can't die with him, he is the symbol of the country, the last hope.

He decided to go to the palace in person to report the news to the emperor Majesty, and report it to the emperor who was desperately guarding, although it was getting late, but he still felt that it was necessary to make the emperor feel psychologically prepared, so he went to the palace under the leadership of the guards, entered the palace city, and slowly came to the place where the little emperor rested.

The courtiers are fighting to the death, but what about the emperor? Fuddle? The laughter of men, the laughter of women, the strong aroma of wine and meat, and extravagant music, the palace seems to be not the same world as the outside of the palace, the old general feels that he is not in the same time as the emperor, the emperor enjoys in heaven, and he suffers in hell, is this really the gap that monarchs and ministers should have? Is this really what an emperor of a country should do?

The new emperor of the Tang State and his own emperor are about the same age, judging from various intelligence, they are even slightly younger than His Majesty, but, seeing that the Tang army is so brave and the Tang generals are so good at fighting, it seems that it is no less than the Zhenguan era of the old emperor Li Shimin, and the old general knows that the new emperor of the Tang State is no worse than his father, and may even be more wise, but his own emperor His Majesty seems to be too far away from the old emperor before, and I am doing this, is it really right? Is that really right? (To be continued......)