In the eyes of various families, although this canal is convenient, there are not too many businessmen who can pass through it in the short term.

But in Tang Ping's view, such a one-percent income is an extremely large amount in the future.

In 2022, the Suez Canal will generate $8 billion in revenue.

Tang Ping didn't know what the future of Datang would be, but as long as Datang could control this place for a longer time, then he would be able to get more benefits from here.

Don't look at these families, they started to say that digging this canal is the same as asking for their family's life, and they are talking one after another that they want to empty out their families.

Waiting for Tang Ping to come up with the steam engine technology, he suddenly became active.

Although there is no contract for this kind of thing, it is basically settled in their capacity.

Tang Ping's purpose of bringing these people to investigate can be regarded as having been achieved.

After that, he took these people to really travel.

Especially after hunting a few lions in the North African savannah, these family elders were even more excited to ask Tang Ping to take a few more photos for them.

Then he traveled around Arabia for more than ten days before returning home satisfied.

Tang Ping sent them away and stayed behind, because this time Datang sent new ammunition, and the final attack on Damascus was about to begin.

"You kid, I heard that you have a good time with the rich people who came from our Tang Dynasty recently!"

Duan Zhixuan no longer used a wheelchair at this time and was able to stand up on his own.

He and Tang Ping can be regarded as a lifelong friendship, so of course he speaks a lot more casually.

"Old Duan, it's not authentic for you to say that!" Tang Ping cried out: "You don't know how difficult it is to talk about business with those old foxes, and you can't be intimate with each other, but when it comes to business, it is a copper plate that you don't let go." ”

Li Jing said with a smile: "Okay, I know that you are hard, now we have enough food, grass and ammunition, and we are ready to attack the city!" ”

After coming out for so long, the soldiers were naturally homesick, so Li Jing also said that after fighting Damascus, he would take them back to Datang for the New Year.

The siege was also simple, because with artillery, the fortified walls of Damascus were as if they did not exist.

Once there were no walls, the Arab army in Damascus could not be the opponent of the Tang army with a large number of firearms.

Damascus, which had been quiet for several months, finally rekindled the flames of war.

On the first day of the Tang Dynasty, he only fired a few shots at the city wall, knocking a gap in the Damascus city wall, and then Tang Ping shouted for the Arab emperor inside to surrender.

Arabia is too far away from the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty will not continue to leave it to their original emperors and nobles to govern like other vassal states.

So it just said that he was willing to surrender and would take him to Chang'an to live a good life.

The emperors of the Arab empires were naturally unwilling, and no one would give up the enormous power in their hands.

Especially when this battle is not over.

So the next day he organized his cavalry to make a breakthrough.

But the Arab cavalry, which swept across the entire Mediterranean coast, was no match for the Tang Expeditionary Force.

The Tang Dynasty besieged the city for so long, and it was not that they did nothing at all, but they built a circle of defensive structures similar to pillboxes outside Damascus, leaving only a small opening towards the city wall for shooting and observation.

The proud Arabian cavalry charged, and their bows and arrows could not reach the Tang expeditionary force inside the bunker.

And the platoon guns of the Datang Expeditionary Force could make waves of Arab cavalry fall on the way to charge.

If this kind of bunker uses bows and arrows, there will be great restrictions, but with firearms, the Tang soldiers only need to stick out the muzzle of their guns.

Thousands of Arab cavalry fell halfway down the road, finally letting the defenders in Damascus know that it was impossible to charge out.

As long as there is ammunition in the musket of the Datang Expeditionary Force, they will not be able to rush a little.

If it was when the Tang Dynasty besieged the city at the beginning, they charged out to fight the Datang, even if they couldn't win, the Datang Expeditionary Force would not have a good time.

But because they were only thinking about defending the city, they missed the best opportunity to attack.

Now there are fortifications and firecrackers in the Tang Army, which can be said to be synonymous with invincibility in this era.

The Arab Empire's charge was beaten back, but the Tang Dynasty had no intention of stopping the attack.

The artillery was directly pulled out again, and only more than ten cannons were bombarded on the city wall yesterday, which was to give the Arab Empire a little deterrent, not that the Tang Dynasty ran out of ammunition.

Now it seems that this deterrence is still a bit insufficient, so this time Datang let go of the fight, and directly bombarded hundreds of shells, and the wall on this side of Damascus collapsed a lot.

The Arab defenders were so beaten that they did not dare to go up the walls.

What are you going up there for? Holding a shield will be beaten to pieces, artillery is a weapon that is not resistible to them at all, and the city wall has no effect at all except for sending them to death in vain.

Then Tang Ping began to shout again with his own drone over Damascus.

"Your Majesty the Emperor of the Arab Empire, these people and soldiers are innocent, you said that if you surrender now, the people will be able to live in peace again, and your soldiers will not have to die in vain."

"Look at how you can't fight, is it possible that you really want to drag the people and officers and soldiers of the whole city to bury you? You surrender now, let's be in the capital of Datang in the future, and when we have nothing to do, you can make an appointment to drink tea and fish, isn't this kind of life beautiful? ”

"You don't know, do you? There is a small river in my fiefdom, and the fish in it are fat, if you can catch it, I will ask my little chef to make braised fish for you to eat, you don't know, my little chef ......"

Tang Ping was like chattering, thinking in pieces on Arabia.

Simply surrendered the Arab emperors...... No, it's the picturesque picture of life after retirement.

The Arab emperor naturally listened to it violently in his own palace, but there was nothing he could do.

But Tang Ping's words greatly shook the hearts of the soldiers and civilians in Damascus.

Many people are thinking about it, and they have said, you go to the Tang Dynasty to live in Chang'an so comfortable, is there anything you are not satisfied with?

Do you have to ask people to block the door and bombard you every day, making everyone in the city uneasy?

After being besieged for so long, many residents of Damascus have long been deprived of their livelihood, and they all want to end such a war as soon as possible.

The Arab soldiers don't want to die in vain, now that even the city wall has collapsed, how can the Tang army defend it if they want to attack?

Even some of the Arab aristocracy began to think about it.

Fakhr al-Din and they can continue to be officials after they surrender, so we can also make some contributions to the Tang Dynasty, can we continue to hold the status of nobles?

As for how to contribute to Datang now, do you need to talk about it?