Chapter 605: A Chaotic World (3)

Wang Hui also knew in his heart that most of the city-states of Hejaz, such as Mecca, could not collude with Mureh Khan's subordinates, after all, the rapid rise of Mureh Khan also threatened the security of these city-states, and even posed a serious threat to the status of the old Bedouin nobility in these city-states.

Although the land in the Hejaz region is relatively barren compared to the land of Xia and Nanyang, it can be regarded as more medium land than the northern part of Kunlun Continent and the entire Heavenly Country.

In particular, Mecca, Medina and other places can barely be regarded as slightly rich, and a more important reason is that after seizing the Hejaz region, Wang Hui can better continue to go north to seize Syria, Canaan, and Egypt on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.

This piece of land is extremely fertile, and after thousands of years of development, it has long been fertile land, and countless powerful countries have been established here, and Wang Hui was full of coveting these places as early as the beginning of the country.

In the face of the attack of the Wei army, although the major cities in the Hejaz region put up fierce resistance, they were quickly defeated in the face of the powerful offensive of the Wei army, and all the cities of the Hejaz, including Mecca, were occupied, so the Bedouins here began to flee on a large scale.

The occupation of the Hejaz region was not necessarily a good thing, and Wang Hui never expected that his actions in the Hejaz region would be in the heart of Mureh Khan.

Although Murehan had more than 60,000 subordinates and hundreds of thousands of Bedouin tribes, he was unable to integrate all the Bedouin forces because there were still a large number of conservative forces among the Bedouins who were unwilling to join him.

When Wang Hui forcibly conquered the Hejaz region and plundered these cities that had not been completely annexed to Mureh Khan, almost all the Bedouins, including those tribes in the desert, were killed, and a large number of Bedouin people and nobles took refuge under Mureh Khan.

In the process, although the Bedouins lost the entire Hejaz region along the Red Sea coast, Mureh Khan completely integrated the large desert tribes in the interior in less than two years after raising his army, and his strength expanded very strongly, soon with more than 100,000 cavalry and more than a million troops.

After integrating all the Bedouin tribes, Murean Khan began to increase the scale of his raids on Wei territory, and Wang Hui began to move his people to the newly occupied Hejaz region, and even the Yemen region, which had been ruled for more than 30 years, began to become chaotic.

In the face of the constantly harassing Bedouins, Wang Hui had the intention to attack the boundless desert but was so powerless, Murehan did not face him at all, and always launched an attack in the weakest place of Wang Hui's defensive strength.

There are only a thousand days to be a thief in this world, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves!

No matter how strong Wang Hui's strength is, it is impossible to prevent it everywhere perfectly, and in desperation, he had to ask Wang Ze and other vassal states in the West for help, and now the Xia State organized to intimidate the Persian army became a bit of a joke, and the panicked Persians even brainlessly supported a large number of weapons and materials for Mulie Khan in order to contain the Xia army.

After gaining the secret support of the Persians, Mureh Khan's strength was further expanded, but by this time, the hundreds of thousands of troops sent by Wang Yu, He Liang, Zhu Bofu, Cheng Hu and others, as well as the troops sent by Wang Ze, had already arrived in Wei, and Wang Hui's military strength in Yemen and Hejaz had increased dramatically.

Just near Mecca in the Hejaz, Wang Hui and others designed an ambush for Murekha's troops, killing nearly 40,000 cavalry under his command in a battle, so that this already somewhat unscrupulous religious leader knew that his strength was still somewhat insufficient, and Murekha was also frustrated in all other directions.

After losing 50,000 or 60,000 cavalry in the Hejaz, Mulie Khan finally knew that he was not Wang Hui's opponent, so he retreated back to the desert and the east to conquer the west, and continued to recover his strength, like a wounded beast **** wounds at the same time, he was also eyeing every opportunity that could be expanded.

At this time, it was only Wang Hui who regarded Mureh Khan as an opponent, and neither the Roman Empire nor the Persian Empire regarded Mureh Khan as an opponent at this time, and they did not know what a difficult opponent they would be.

Although the Persian Empire's occupation of Egypt and the cutting off of the Xia trade route caused the crisis, although the episode caused by Mureh Khan was not fully attacked by the Xia State, the Persians were still taken aback, not only reopened this trade route, but also sent envoys to the Xia State to make amends.

The trade route in Egypt was reopened after a period of hiatus, but after all, the Persians had a lot of hatred with the Xia Kingdom, so the Xia merchants still felt insecure after the Persians occupied Egypt, and they did not want to put their eggs in one basket, and they began to look elsewhere again.

Under the vigorous promotion of some major trading houses and merchants of the Xia Kingdom and the vassal states on the west coast of Kunlun Continent, the merchants of the Xia Kingdom began to operate two new trade routes, the most important of which was to pass through the Nankun Governorate in the south of Kunlun and bypass the trade routes to Taixi Zhou through the major vassal states on the west coast of Kunlun Continent.

The other trade route was the land route, which passed through the Aral Sea and the northern shore of the Caspian Sea in the middle of the river to Wang Rui's Western Qin State, and from here to the various countries of Taixi through the Black Sea and the Danube.

The development of these two trade routes benefited the major vassal states and the Western Qin State on the west coast of Kunlun Continent a lot, and even some Xia merchants simply continued from the west coast of Kunlun Zhou to the east coast of Penglai Continent, Fang Changzhou and Yingzhou, and a preliminary global route was established.

With the formation of the global maritime trade route system dominated by Xia merchants, the influence of Xia on the global economy has increased rapidly, and the international financial system dominated by the five major banks of Xia has gradually entered various countries, and its influence on the vassal states has also increased rapidly.

Of course, along with the smooth opening of major trade routes, a large number of military supplies supported by Xia to Heraclius, the Roman governor of North Africa, were also quickly transported to him, allowing this already talented general to further develop.

With the support of the Xia kingdom, Heraclius, with his son Nestas as his commander, first held off the Persian army of Egypt in the desert 200 miles west of Alexandria, and then he himself led an army of 100,000 to the city of Constantinople by sea.

The powerful navy of the Roman Empire quickly defected at the same time as Heraclius arrived, and Heraclius made it to the outside of Constantinople.

Tired of his brutality, the city defense forces of Constantinople allowed Heraclius to capture the capital without resistance, and the unprepared Phukas was captured and his head cut off to announce the fate of the usurper.

Here Heraclius quickly ascended to the throne, and thus began the Byzantine Heraclius dynasty.

Heraclius' accession to the throne of the Roman Empire was in fact in a state of extreme danger, as the withdrawal of Phocas from the Danube border mutiny, so that the Avars on the north bank of the Danube could enter and leave the Balkans at will, and regarded the hinterland of the Roman Empire as their money bag and granary.

Emperor Morris's son-in-law, the Persian Emperor Kusru II, attacked Byzantium under the pretext of Emperor Morris's murder, and the Persians formed an alliance with the Avars to attack the Roman Empire.

Antioch, Syria, Jerusalem, Egypt and other places in the east have fallen one after another, and the Sassanid Persian Empire has reached the peak of its own history at this time, while the Avars in the west are also rapidly approaching Constantinople, and the Slavs and Bulgars are constantly encroaching on the territory of the Roman Empire.

In the midst of this crisis, Heraclius rejected the advice of some ministers to move the capital to Carthage in North Africa and set about reforming the military system, a centralized military system known as the "Hima" that removed the way for smooth military mobilization in the imperial center.

After the initial unification of military power, Heraclius personally led a large army to bypass the Persian army that was besieging Constantinople in the west, and landed in Asia Minor by warship to raid the Persian rear.

Heraclius defeated the Polish army and conquered Colchis, Armenia, and Medea along the way, and with the courageous fighting of Roman soldiers and the limited material support of the Xia Kingdom, Heraclius completely recovered Egypt and western Asia Minor in just a few years.

Heraclius then returned to Constantinople and attacked the Avars besieging Constantinople, and the Persian navy intended to assist the Avars in attacking Constantinople, but was defeated by the superior Byzantine navy, and the Avars, who had lost strong reinforcements, had to retreat.

After Heraclius captured Constantinople, he quickly organized a large army to counterattack Persia, and in the Battle of Nineveh, Heraclius easily killed a large number of Persian soldiers, depriving the Persians of their last advantage.

From this time on, the Roman army was invincible, and Persia had to negotiate peace with Byzantium under the mediation of the Xia state, not only giving up all the Byzantine territories occupied by Persia in the past, releasing prisoners of war, returning the "Holy Cross" looted from Jerusalem, but also returning all the property looted from Byzantium, repaying several years of military expenses, and so on.

The defeat of the Persian Empire and the rapid recovery of the Roman Empire surprised Xia Guo, because he had supported the Roman Empire to attack the Persian Empire in order to open up the trade routes of Egypt, but he never expected that the Persian Empire would be defeated so quickly.

If it weren't for the timely mediation of the war by the Xia Kingdom, I am afraid that the Roman Empire would have seized the whole of Mesopotamia in one go, and even captured Ctesiphon.

In fact, what Xia Guo didn't know was that Heraclius had also reached his limit at this time, and he was already very satisfied to be able to completely regain the lost territory, and the previous posture of attacking Ctesiphon was also done for Xia Guo, so as not to despise Xia Guo and do things that harmed the Roman Empire.

The Imperial War, which lasted for several years, ended, but the Sassanid Persian Empire lost all the gains made in the past few hundred years of war, and never recovered from the defeat of the war.

At this time, Mureh Khan, who had completely unified all the Bedouin tribes in the desert, suddenly came out of the desert and defeated the Persian army one after another, and seized a large part of the Mesopotamian plain from the increasingly weakened Persians.

Almost everyone was shocked by the rebellion of the army led by Murean Khan, and the Bedouins were indeed brave and good at war, and the Persian Empire had always used the Bedouins as mercenaries to fight against the Roman Empire in the past.

But no one knew that when these Bedouins were armed with religion, they were so powerful in battle, and the Persian Empire army was defeated one after another, and they were not the opponents of these Bedouins at all.