On the order of Qingji, Wu Zhang led 30,000 iron cavalry to pursue the fleeing Xerxes I, and drove all the way into the territory of Elam.

Elamite is an ancient civilization, as early as the beginning of the 26th century BC, the first dynasty of Awan in Elamite defeated your and dominated the valley of the two rivers.

At their peak, the Elamites even defeated the Babylonian kingdom of Kashit, plundering the famous Hammurabi Pillar and many treasures to Susa.

However, as early as around 639 B.C., Elamite was destroyed by Assyria. After a brief period of rule by Assyria, Neo-Babylon, and the Median kingdoms, Elam became an important province of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, known as the province of Huze, whose inhabitants were assimilated by the Persians and called Huze.

Susa became the administrative capital of the Achaemenid dynasty. After Wu Zhang led his army to attack the city all the way, he began to send troops to attack Susa City.

Whoever possesses the riches of Susa will be able to fight with Zeus! The city of Susa, with a long history of more than 5,000 years, is an important city for the Persians, and its wealth is incalculable.

In view of this, Wu Zhang directly ordered to pass through the city of Susa.

"Kill!"

"Boom!" Under Wu Zhang's orders, 30,000 iron cavalry, dismounted from their horses, acted as foot soldiers, and launched a fierce offensive against Susa City.

Due to the lack of siege equipment, the soldiers of the Wu army could only build a cloud ladder and then use the earth-shaking thunder to assist and launch an attack.

However, the resistance of the Elamites and Persians in the city was stubborn. caused a lot of casualties to the Wu army.

This made Wu Zhang very annoyed.

"Spread the edict of the widow, whoever can go to the city first will be rewarded with two thousand gold, and the knight will be promoted to three levels!"

"No!" Wu Zhang's order was quickly conveyed. As the saying goes, under the heavy reward, there will be brave men. The Wu Junrui soldiers, who were stimulated by such a reward, were even more ruthless and rushed forward without fear of death.

The explosive pack was placed at the gate of Susa, and after it was detonated, it only blew a small gap and made the gate pothole, but it did not directly blow the gate open.

The warriors of the Wu army braved stones, arrows and other debris to climb the city one after another, and engaged the Persians in hand-to-hand combat.

There was not much difference in the physique of the two sides, but once they were killed, the Wu soldiers were often surrounded by a large group of Elamites and fell into a bitter battle.

After killing seven or eight Elamans, Wu Shu only killed one, which can be described as heroic! Wu Zhang organized three death squads, and all of them went and never returned!

For more than ten days in a row, Wu Zhang, who had been unable to attack Susa City for a long time, could only be deflated, died down, and camped outside the city, waiting for Qingji to lead the army to come and meet him.

…… The time entered the forty-third year of Wu Shi Huang, that is, in 471 BC, at the end of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Qingji led his army to Susa and reprimanded Wu Zhang.

"Stupid! How can you fight a war if you don't fight like this? Qing Ji hated the lesson of iron and steel, and said: "How precious is the life of my great Wu Ruishi? ”

"In the battle of the Tigris River, my Wu army killed only 8,000 soldiers, and now your soldiers and horses have killed more than 3,000 people, and you can't even defeat a single city of Susa, how can you explain to those soldiers who died?"

"Father, the son has been taught." Wu Zhang lowered his head very aggrieved and had to be convinced. Wu Zhang is good at fighting annihilation wars, especially cavalry battles, and he has a very good set, even Sun Wu and Tian Sui Tho are ashamed of themselves.

However, when it comes to tackling tough battles, it is Wu Zhang's shortcoming. In the absence of siege equipment, Wu Zhang still ordered the soldiers to do a brute force and attack such a strong city without their lives, isn't it stupid?

Qingji's heart is dripping blood! Although in the battle of Susa, no less than 20,000 Elamites on the defending side died, Qingji still felt that it was too much of a loss.

In the battle of the Tigris, the Wu army beheaded 120,000 Persians and captured more than 10,000 people. Only then did 8,000 warriors die in battle.

Now that Wu Zhang is like this, no wonder Qingji is angry.

"Father, the Elamites in the city of Susa are now at the end of their power. The siege equipment is in place, and Erchen wants to attack again! Wu Zhang took the initiative to ask for help.

"Do you know how to siege the city?" Qingji glanced at Wu Zhang. Wu Zhang muttered: "Set up a posture, use Wu Wang cannons, trebuchets, and bed crossbows to attack for a while, and then send bombardiers and death squads to blow up the city gates, and finally launch a full-scale attack." This is the basic tactics of the Wu army's siege warfare, in order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers as much as possible.

"Go ahead."

"No!" …… Wu Zhang stood in the wilderness outside the city of Susa and gave orders. One hundred Wu Wang cannons and two hundred trebuchets were in place, and with Wu Zhang's order, countless stone bullets and explosives were thrown into the city.

"Boom!" The smoke of gunfire filled the air, and the sound of explosions was deafening. The panicked and helpless Elamites were frightened and confused, like rats crossing the street.

After more than a dozen rounds of bombardment by Wu Wang's artillery, Wu Zhang gave the order for a general attack.

"Kill!" The warriors of the Wu army, who had been holding their breath for a long time, shouted loudly to kill, like a flood that opened the floodgates, rushed into the city with all their might, killed people when they saw them, and quickly annihilated the Elamans in the city.

All the Elam people who dared to hold weapons and confront the Wu army all died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Wu army.

With the fall of the city of Susa, it was only a matter of time before the Elamite territory was occupied by the Wu army.

The Achaemenid dynasty of Persia had five capitals: Pasargad, Persepolis, Ecbatana, Susa, and the city of Babylon.

Except for the city of Babylon, the other four capitals have been captured by the Wu army. Darius I and Xerxes, father and son, were both emperors who were extremely poor and extravagant, and they were happy with their achievements.

Therefore, this palace in the city of Susa is also incomparably magnificent. In order to build the court of Susa, Darius I used almost all the manpower, material and financial resources of the empire at that time.

After a major expansion, the court of Susa remained the royal palace of the ancient Persians. Darius and Xerxes spent most of their time in Susa.

The administration was also concentrated here, and the Persian taxes were probably paid to the treasury of Susa.

On the walls of the court of Susa, there are exquisite glazed bricks and shallow reliefs, mostly containing royal guards, various animals and magical monsters.

This kind of glazed brick shallow floating, that is

"Wall glaze", it is a kind of superlative decoration art in this era. Qingji then ordered to empty the treasure house of Susa City, not even the wall glass, and demolish what can be demolished, and move away if it can be moved.

He was going to plunder all the wealth of the Persians. It is worth mentioning that in order to empty the gold and silver treasures of the Persians, the Wu army used tens of thousands of mules, thousands of camels, and countless vehicles.

So much so that the ports of the Persian Gulf were paralyzed. The heavy wealth made it impossible for all the more than 1,000 ships of Wu Guo's western expedition to be pulled away for a while......