The Persian prince did not give the order to capture the fleeing Persian soldiers, he had no choice but to face the situation, and he felt that he was incompetent in order to keep the Persian state.

Belus had already become the king of Persia before the destruction of the Persian capital, and from the point of view of those in power, no one wanted to be the king of the lost country.

While the city of Maha was in good condition, another man visited the city of Maha.

He brought with him 3,000 slaves, who had fled from Persia.

Xue Rengui looked at this familiar guest, he was none other than An Yanyan, a merchant from the Western Regions who was now running to the Western Countries to sell grain.

The man covered his mouth and nose with a piece of cloth and saluted Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance, "Two Tang generals, these fugitive slaves can be used to do some coolies in the city. ”

Xue Rengui bowed his head and said, "We can't afford to buy so many slaves. ”

An Yanyan bowed and replied: "This is for Tang Jun, no silver money." ”

Now we still have to build city defenses, we need manpower, naturally the more the better, and we must be ready to face the attack of the big cannibals at any time.

Wang Xuance walked aside and looked at these slaves, "For Tang Jun?" Would you be so kind? ”

An Yan smiled ashamedly, "I also hope that the two generals can block the big cannibals, only by guarding the Amu Darya River can the business in Xia continue, we are all doing things for Zhang Shangshu." ”

are all doing things for Zhang Shangshu, this sentence is the most heard words by Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance here.

Ashinadur is too, so are the Gaochang people, and so is the merchant of the Western Regions in front of him.

The Foreign Affairs Yuan has arranged a lot in the Western Regions, perhaps Zhang Yang had already expected that Persia would be destroyed, so he arranged a large number of people.

With such a layout, the Tang people were able to travel freely through the Western Regions.

The sunshine here is still very scorching, and Wang Xuance said again: "Thank you." ”

The personnel in Maha City are already complicated, and it would be good if they didn't mutiny at the moment.

An Yanyan said again: "I will take care of them in the next meeting, and I hope that the two generals will allow them to rest in the city for a few days." ”

As he spoke, he took out another roll of sheepskin, "This is a diagram that I bought from a fleeing Persian merchant, and this is the battle formation of the great cannibals, and they used this kind of battle formation when they attacked Persia all the way. ”

Xue Rengui stretched out his hand to grab the drawing, and he carefully looked at the battle formation on the drawing.

An Yanyan said: "The great cannibals are savage and aggressive, as far as I know, the great cannibals will surrender the Persians, tie them up on a stake, and just blast them into the wilderness, and more than 30,000 people near the Persian king's capital will be smothered alive, and this kind of behavior is outraged by people and gods. ”

This descendant of Zhaowu Jiu, whose surname is An, speaks very well in Guanzhong.

He said: "I came here in the next meeting because of another thing, originally I was working in the hands of Yehu Khan, after General Xue swept away the Tianshan Mountains, Ni Yu Khan fled to the west, he served as a big cannibal, and I wanted to watch him die." ”

Ashinadur knew An Yanyan, and the two of them just looked at each other and didn't talk much.

In the following time, another group of Tibetans came to the city of Maha, and these people were sent by Lu Dongzan.

More and more people came, and in just half a month, the number of people who could fight in Maha City increased from 10,000 to 20,000 in a while.

Under the arrangement of Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance, as long as they help garrison in Maha City, the Tang Army can give them a bite to eat.

More and more people gathered here, most of them who had escaped from the Persian king's capital, who had difficulty surviving outside the country, and who would not have ended well if they joined the Great Cannibals, who were cruel to the surrendered prisoners of war.

Many forces converged on the banks of the Amu Darya, and for a time everyone pinned their hopes on the Tang people.

Hopefully, the legendary powerful Tang people will be able to repel the Great Cannibals.

An Yanyan was in charge of the food and weapons in the city, and he, a merchant from the Western Regions, showed his huge network and resource strength.

This allowed him to take out enough food even if there was a large population in Maha City, and he could even take out the spirits that were only available in the Central Plains.

He could even inquire about the situation in Tianzhu and Tubo.

The four countries of Tianzhu are actually independent, they are not united, and this time it is only one of them that rushes to the aid of the Great Food.

An Yanyan stopped Wang Xuance from handing over the weapons to the slaves, explaining: "General Wang, there is an unwritten rule in the Western Regions, they can't hold swords, and they must be driven out of the city after the war, and the slaves are the most likely to mutiny. ”

Seeing the confusion on Wang Xuance's face, An Yanyan said again: "Because slaves are slaves wherever they go, they will never fight for a country, and Persia will perish precisely because the nobles are insatiable, and the more slaves they have, the weaker they are." ”

"I admire what Zhang Yang did in Gaochang, he used slaves to overthrow the father and son of the king of Gaochang, and took the whole of Gaochang."

Wang Xuance also dispelled the idea of giving these slaves weapons.

An Yanyan smiled and said: "General, whether it is in the Western Regions or in Persia, this place is different from the Central Plains, no matter how good the Tang people are to them, they will not be grateful to you, if you don't give food and shelter, they will make trouble." ”

"These people don't know how to farm, they can't grow food, one or two people will become thieves in exile, and a group of people will become bandits when they are in exile, this is Persia, this is the West of the Central Plains, the general didn't know the rules here when he first came, and he will explain more to the general in the future."

From the time he left Chang'an City, he was now tired in the eyes of An Yanyan in Persia, and he traveled to many places for his own people.

Wang Xuance said in a low voice: "I don't understand, why are you helping us so much?" ”

An Yan bowed and said, "I'm doing things for Zhang Shangshu." ”

"A certain family doesn't believe it!"

"Hahaha!" An Yanyan smiled bitterly: "The general doesn't need to ask much about the reason, oh! I heard that the general sent someone to Tianzhu to inquire about the news? ”

In the dim earthen house, Wang Xuance looked at him in surprise, "How did you know?" ”

"It's easy to inquire about the news in Xia, there are many businessmen in Tianzhu who have friendships with Zaixia, and often have transactions, and I also heard that the monk Xuanzang left the King of Darirong and went to Tubo, and then was sent to the Western Regions by Tubo, and now it should be in the hands of Pei Duhu."

This person is like a jack-of-all-trades in the Western Regions, and his understanding of the Western Regions is like his own backyard.

It was cold on the banks of the Amu Darya River late at night, and the bright moonlight shone on the small city.

Xue Rengui walked on the city wall with the Liu clan late at night, and the scrawny slaves lay under the city, and they woke up and began to repair the city wall, as long as they were given food, they could do anything.

Liu hated this kind of person, she felt that it was no longer human.

"The Central Plains should be cold winter now." Liu said in a low voice.

"yes." Xue Rengui said in a low voice: "When this battle is over, we will go back and never come again." ”

Liu sighed, "This place is inhumane. ”

Compared to the Central Plains, everything within the borders of Persia seems inhumane, and the most they see these days are slaves.

It's barbaric here, there's no order, there's no clear law, they don't know what to do and what not to do.

Ashnadur entered the city with a troop of soldiers and horses, and he said loudly: "The great cannibals have been searching the Persian king's capital for ten days and ten nights, and now they are coming to Maha, and 'Umar himself has 50,000 soldiers and horses to take the life of Belus, king of Persia. ”

The moment the words fell, the city fell silent again.

The walls had not yet been repaired, they were not high enough, and they had built traps and pits outside the city to deal with wild beasts and war elephants.

These days, both the Persians and the Western Turks have seen the Tang people's methods of fighting with wisdom.

These traps can make it difficult for the Great Cannibal War Elephant to get close.

The city wall, which was originally only two zhang high, has now been repaired to five zhang.

The Tang people used all the resources they could use to make weapons into weapons for killing and fighting, they filled clay pots with fire oil, and after igniting them, they could throw them out to burn people, and they arranged spikes on the city walls, so that even if the big cannibals wanted to climb the city walls, they would be stabbed all over the body.

He even dug a huge tunnel in front of the city, so that he could block the speed of the big cannibals and leave time for archery at the head of the city.

A few vultures flew in, and they stopped on the dead branches and waited for food.

Xue Rengui took Wang Xuance to make the final preparations, buried the earth mines one by one, and buried them three miles away from the city wall, behind the trap land.

"Pei Duhu has tried this thing, this thing is very useful against cavalry, and it is the same for dealing with big cannibals."

"Really?"

"I don't even know the origin of this thing, Zhang Shangshu just explained that this is a kitchenware."

"Why does Zhang Shangshu want to hide it from the court."

"A certain family doesn't know the reason, they all say that the Foreign Affairs Yuan is a maverick, and I think there are other arrangements."

Wang Xuance didn't ask any more.

One hundred mines have been laid out, and two hundred are left in case of emergency.

Then let Ashnadur and the Persian king Belus each prepare an ambush on a low slope five miles away, and once the cannibal army rushes forward, the rear will be empty, and these two ambushes of 3,000 men can rush into the enemy from the flank.

In this battle, the Tang army not only wanted to defeat the big cannibal, but also wanted to take down the big food general Omar.

Xue Rengui returned to the city with Wang Xuance and prepared to meet the attack of the Great Cannibal.

An Yanyan bowed down with a group of slaves and said: "Two generals, I will go out of the city first with people below, I will watch the victory of this battle in the rear of the Amu Darya River, if the situation is not right, please also ask the two generals to abandon the city and retreat, and meet in the next meeting." ”

Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance were not disgusted with this Western Regions person, and he helped do a lot of things in the city.

An Yanyan left with all the slaves.

More and more vultures arrived, and in a short time soldiers and horses appeared on the distant horizon, and the whining cannibals came towards the city of Maha.

At this moment, everyone slowed down their breathing, as if the air pressure was much lower at this time.

Xue Rengui clenched the horizontal knife in his hand, sweat dripping from his sideburns and dripping onto the iron helmet, under the scorching sun, the iron helmet was hot.

The group of war elephants that appeared in front of him first, the army formation of the big cannibals was very large, and beside the war elephants, there were many big cannibals with swords and shields and shirtless soldiers.

Three or five cheetahs ran out first, and these cheetahs ran so fast that they ran ahead of the army, ignoring the traps as if they were nothing.

Seeing that these leopards were about to run to the minefields.

Xue Rengui stretched out his bow and set up an arrow, and the sharp arrow was aimed at the cheetah that was running at the front, and he let go of the bowstring and shot an arrow, and the arrow went towards the cheetah with a sound of breaking through the air.

The keen leopard was about to dodge, but Xue Rengui was so brave that the arrows shot by the three-stone bow could not be easily dodged.

The arrow went into the cheetah's abdomen, and it fell to the ground on the spot, lying in a pool of blood and not moving.

The remaining cheetahs did not dare to step forward and be vigilant.

Xue Rengui opened his bow again, aimed at another cheetah, and shot it again, the same long-distance archery, the cheetah couldn't dodge, an arrow was shot in the leg, and he couldn't run anymore.

The rest of the leopards, aware of the danger, began to move back vigilantly.

Xue Rengui took out the arrows again, and at this moment, there was a horn sound in the army formation of the big cannibals, and these cheetahs ran back.

The Persians and Gaochang people on the city wall cheered, they were cheering Xue Rengui's archery, as long as they followed such a general, they could repel the big cannibals, which was very morale-boosting.

When the dust in the distance cleared, everyone finally saw the whole picture of the Great Cannibal Army, which was a war elephant as high as a mountain, they were covered with armor and invulnerable.

Wang Xuance stood at the head of the city, his expression was grim, he had never fought such a battle, and he had never seen such a tall animal.

The horn sounded again, the war elephants raised their noses and hissed, charging towards this earthen city, hundreds of war elephants rushed together, this earthen city was trembling, and loess continued to fall from the city walls.

Some war elephants stepped on the trap, but it did not affect the subsequent war elephants rushing over.

Wang Xuance was annoyed and helped the iron helmet on his head that was crooked, "Damn, there are fewer trap preparations." ”

Xue Rengui took a deep breath and asked the soldiers on the city to put down their bows and arrows, this kind of war elephant has thick skin, not to mention armor, and the arrows can't hurt them after they enter the skin, he whispered: "Prepare fire oil, once you reach the city, burn it with fire." ”

"Whoa!" The soldiers on the side nodded in agreement.

The herd of war elephants entered the earth minefield, and the leading war elephant stepped on the earth mine, and an explosion sounded on the ground, and the war elephant hissed again, and the lower abdomen was blown to the flesh and blood on the spot, and fell to the ground.

There were explosions under the city, and war elephants were constantly blown over on the spot, or three or two war elephants rushed to the city, and they had to face the fire of the fire oil cans on the city.

The scene in front of the city was very chaotic, with gunsmoke and loess filling, and it was impossible to see the situation from a hundred meters away.

The out-of-control herd of war elephants fled in all directions, and some even fled back, causing chaos in the army of Da Shi.

At this moment, the big cannibal didn't know what he was facing, what kind of weapon it was.

The invincible herd of war elephants couldn't hurt that small city in the slightest, and it was difficult to even get closer.

When the herd of war elephants dispersed and the dust was blown away by the wind, the scene in front of the city was finally clear, and the front of the earth city was full of the corpses of the war elephants.

This result refreshed the cognition of everyone present, and the Tang people repelled the invincible war elephants in Persia without much effort and without a single soldier.

Invincible Don! This is a common idea in the hearts of the Persians, the Gaochang people, the Western Turks.