After learning the news that the Northern Xiongnu tribes had invaded the border in the south and wanted to cut off their own back routes, Ran Min Xie Ai and Elena led their troops to resist, resolutely did not withdraw their troops, and continued to besiege the Persian army in the city of Nishapur.

At the end of June, at a critical juncture in the war between the Wei army and the Persians, when the Persians were running out of food and plundering the rations of the people in the city, a large fleet of ships far away in the Caspian Sea was sailing towards the northern part of the Sassanid Empire.

And the commander of this fleet is none other than the great Sima of the Xianbei Empire, who has established hegemony in Western Europe - Murong Ke!

In the original history, Murong Ke was only forty-six years old, and he should have died of illness in 367 AD, but he was now over half a hundred years old, and his body looked quite tough.

What sustained him to live so long?

Murong Ke in history, after the death of Murong Jun, became an official to Dazai, overseeing the power, but he was unselfish, pacified the civil strife, was diligent in the rule of officials, assisted the young master, and became the pillar of Qianyan. is so exhausted, sleeps all night in the office, even the iron body can't bear it!

And in this era, although Murong Ke also supported the young master and did his best, he didn't work too hard.

On the contrary, the life of perennial fighting, Rong Ma is handsome, Murong Ke's physical fitness is very strong, coupled with the existence of Ran Min such a confidant, Murong Ke wants to defeat Ran Min and return to Liaodong, so he lives like this and does not die.

At this moment, Murong Ke was standing on the deck of the flagship, looking at the sea and sky in the distance, his eyes were deep and incomprehensible.

"Da Sima, how do you plan to deal with the Wei army in Nishapur City?" Feng Budo, who was beside him, asked.

"Adapt to the situation."

"I have heard that the Wei army and the Persians are engaged in a tug-of-war in Nishapur. Because of the shortage of grain, the Wei army issued the "Grain Requisition Order" to the areas that had just been conquered, which made the people of the three major provinces of Kushan, Vagata and Western Satrap complain, and rebellions broke out in all directions, although the Wei army brutally suppressed the rebellion, but the rebellions in various places still broke out one after another. Now the Persians have contacted the Northern Xiongnu again, and the Huns have sent troops to the south to invade Khorezm and Huhu, and I, Da Xianbei, have come to join the war again to deal with the Wei army of the labor expedition. The Wei people are already enemies on all sides, so the Wei army will be defeated! ”

Feng Budo said in a deep voice: "Great Sima, the last general thinks that you might as well sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight." The Persians were besieged in the city of Nishapur, and sooner or later they ran out of food, and within a month, the Persians would jump over the wall in a hurry because of the lack of food, and go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the Wei army. ”

Hearing this, Murong Ke bowed his head slightly and said, "Feng Budo, your thoughts coincide with mine." The emperor of the Sassanid Empire, Shapur II, must have asked for our support, and he must have wanted to watch from the sidelines. The Persians obviously had hundreds of thousands of troops gathered in the city of Nishapur, so why did they delay not leaving the city to fight the Wei army? There is no doubt about it, we have fought with the Persians a few times, and the combat effectiveness of the Sassanid army is not too bad, if you fight hard, even if you can't defeat the Wei army, you can make the Wei army win a miserable victory! ”

"What Da Sima said is extremely true."

In August of the twenty-fifth year of the emperor's reign, the Persians in the city of Nishapur finally couldn't bear it, the food in the city was eaten, the rats in the city were all eaten, and the Persians almost began to gnaw the bark of trees, eat the soil, and even kill people to satisfy their hunger!

Seeing that there were no reinforcements, Shapur II knew that his calculations had failed, so he no longer trapped such a dead city and began to break through to the south.

"Kill!"

"Shoot the arrows—"

The Wei soldiers, who had long been ready to attack, were overjoyed to see that the Persians had finally rushed out of the city, so they opened their bows and arrows one after another, and shot one after another Persian soldiers who rushed over in a dense rain of arrows.

"Ahh ......" The Persian soldiers who had been struck by the arrows all wailed and fell in pools of blood.

But for their enemies, the Wei army will not be merciful.

After recuperating for so long, the soldiers of the Wei army had long held back their anger, looking at the Persians who had broken through, and after several rounds of arrows were shot out, killing and wounding more than 10,000 enemies, they stepped on their horses and stabbed them with spears in their hands.

"Poof! ……”

Look at the Persian soldier's mouth let out a terrible scream like killing a pig, and then the spear pierced through his breastplate, piercing his chest, and a stream of blood spurted out, splashing the Wei pawn who killed him.

With an unstoppable momentum, the Wei army rushed into the ranks of the Persians, rampage like wild bulls, and everywhere they passed, the Persians were drenched in blood and fell to the ground.

Shapur II was old and strong, riding on a divine horse, waving the sword in his hand to rush left and right, cutting down one after another Wei iron cavalry.

Ran Min stood on the carriage, under the umbrella cover, and saw the fighting appearance of the old man Shapur II, and said in surprise and inexplicably: "Who is this?" So old and still so violent?! ”

Hearing this, Sima Xu pondered for a while, and then replied: "Your Majesty, if the minister is not bad, he should be Shapur II, the emperor of the Sassanid Dynasty!" ”

"Shapur II?"

"Yes. Your Majesty must have heard about this Shapur II, right? It is said that after the death of the first emperor of the Sassanid dynasty, Hormizd II, the Arabs in the south began to destroy and loot the southern cities, and even attacked the Fars region, the birthplace of the Sassanid emperor. At the same time, the Persian nobles killed Hormizd II's eldest son, blinded his second son, and imprisoned the third son (Hormizd II's third son later fled to the territory of the Roman Empire). ”

"The throne then fell to one of Hormizd II's widows, Shapur II, who was crowned before he was born, and the crown rested on his mother's belly! During his early years, the Sassanid dynasty was ruled by his mother and the nobility. Shapur II, who came of age, immediately came to power and proved that he was an active and influential emperor. ”

"When Shapur II came to power, he led a small but elite army against the Arabs in the south, securing the southern Sassanid Empire. He launched an offensive against the Romans on the Western Front, and although the Persians won a series of battles, they were never able to capture the territory of the Roman Empire due to their failure to capture Nisibis and the Romans' recapture of Singla and Amida. ”

"The Sassanid Empire was also pinned down by nomads on the Eastern Front, who threatened the Transoxians of Central Asia, a strategic stronghold of the Silk Road. Shapur II then led his troops to the east, allowing his generals to continue their harassing attacks on the Romans. Shapur II subdued the peoples of Central Asia and annexed their territories to the Sassanid Empire! ”

Later, Shapur II and the tribal leader Glumbardes launched an offensive against the Romans, and soon again captured Singla and Armida. The Roman king Julian broke into Persian territory and defeated the Persian army at Ctesiphon, but failed to capture Ctesiphon, and Julian was killed on his way back to court. Julian's successor, Jovian, was trapped on the east bank of the Tigris River, and in order to return safely, Jovian agreed to give up the territories that Rome had previously acquired from Persia, including Nisibis and Singara. ”

"Your Majesty, it can be said that in the hands of this Shapur II, the Sassanid Empire has achieved a real rise and established the hegemony of the Persians in Central Asia!"

For the deeds of Shapur II, Ran Min knows a little about it. This person can be described as a generation of heroes, and he can be called the fierce rival of the Wei Empire!

Traditionally, Shapur II was the widow of Hormizd II. Before he was born, the nobles placed a crown on his mother's belly as a sign of loyalty to the new monarch. Shapur II did live up to expectations. He revived the power of Persia and adopted a series of active domestic and foreign policies, making Persia the most authoritarian state at that time.

Shapur II fought many wars to regain many areas of the western and eastern borders of Persia, which had been lost by his ancestors. He fought against the divisive Kushan princes, eventually subjugating them and making them allies in future foreign wars.

His later opponents were mainly the Roman Empire, which had already declined.

In 337 AD, Shapur II launched a war against a weakened Rome under the pretext of the Roman Empire's protest against the persecution of Christianity in Persia. This persecution of the Persians evolved into a strict ban on the Christian faith throughout the country.

Shapur II then concluded an alliance with Armenia in an attempt to make Armenia his helper against Rome.

Later, he led a large army to conquer Mesopotamia.

After defeating the army of the Roman Emperor Constantius II at Sinkara in 348, Shapur II was unable to conquer Mesopotamia and made peace with Rome. But he was able to annex a lot of land.

In 351, Shapur II again signed an anti-Roman alliance with Armenia, but Armenia soon reneged on the treaty and turned to Rome. Shapur II contemplated another war with Rome.

Shapur II entered Syria in 359, where he conquered Sinkara and repelled a counter-attack by Constantius II. In the midst of his success, the new Roman emperor Julian, an apostate, put him under unexpected pressure. Julian not only defeated the Persian army, but also counterattacked Ctesiphon in 363.

However, Shapur II soon halted Julian's momentum with a major victory, forcing him to retreat to Rome.

Julian was killed during the retreat!

Shapur II made peace with Rome again as the victor, and by this time he had established the hegemony of the Sassanid dynasty in Asia!