Ibrahim naturally has subordinates in charge of settling down, and it is very tiring to go through the dust, and it is necessary to give him a break to recover his strength and energy as soon as possible.

Artik, for his part, consulted with many of his subordinates on how to settle Ibrahim, an issue that had to be resolved as soon as possible.

"City Lord, Ibrahim has come all the way, this is a support for us, and it will make our army more legal and rational."

"Yes, Mansur will say that we are traitors, but as long as Ibrahim is here, we are not traitors, he Mansur is the real traitor."

"If we want to increase our influence, we must honor Ibrahim as the Lord, of course, he does not need to be in command of the war, he only needs to be the leader in name."

"Yes, city lord, we should honor Ibrahim as the Lord, and with his banner, we can better expand our power."

"Let me honor Ibrahim as caliph! In this way, Mansour is a traitor, and all the *** will support us. ”

Many of his subordinates spoke.

Artik is a devout Shia***, he naturally supported Ali's descendants as caliphs, and now that Ibrahim is in the city, he naturally approves of it.

"You're right, and I think so, tonight when we drink, we will officially elect Ibrahim as caliph."

Artik spoke.

All the subordinates were very excited, these people were devout Shiites, and to be able to elect Ali's descendants as caliphs, for them it was to achieve their goals in life, and the resentment that had been suppressed for hundreds of years was finally released, and they could comfort their ancestors well.

After dark, the reception was held on time, and Artik warmly welcomed Ibrahim, and after a few drinks, announced a major event, that is, to elect Ibrahim as the caliph of the world.

"Artik, how can I be a caliph? No, no, it should be my brother Muhammad who wants to be caliph, and he should elect my brother as caliph. ”

Ibrahim was happy in his heart, but he still couldn't stop refusing it, he still had to excuse himself from such a high position, no matter how willing he was in his heart, he needed to excuse himself to show his modesty.

Artik first persuaded: "Ibrahim, don't shirk, if you can come here smoothly, it means that the position of the caliph is yours, this is fate, let's be honest!" We need a banner now, and only you can be our banner to guide us to victory over the traitor al-Mansour, and no matter how good Muhammad is, he is not here and will not play any role in our recovery. ”

"Ibrahim, our caliph, we support your accession to the throne."

"Caliph, Ibrahim Caliphate, we are always around you."

"When the caliph ascends the throne, the whole world will support us, and we will be unified."

All of them strongly supported Ibraham's ascension to the caliphate.

Ibrahim's heart blossomed, he took all the risks and fled to Artik in order to be able to ascend to the position of caliph, otherwise, there was food and drink in Khorasan, why did he venture to the peninsula just to warn Artik, it is obviously impossible.

"Since you all think so highly of me, then I will reluctantly make it difficult, and if there is a more suitable person in the future, I will give up the position of caliph."

Ibrahim said magnanimously.

The next thing is to celebrate, eat and drink, and it is a day of festivity, and the Shia believers, after hundreds of years of hard work, finally realized their original intention to elect Ali's descendants as caliphs, and this dedication has finally paid off.

There are still many Shiite believers, and after this news came out, the morale of the soldiers under Artik's command was greatly boosted, and more civilians chose to join Artik's camp, so that Artik gained more troops and strength.

This is great news for the Altic group, but it is not good news for Osman and Mansour, at this moment, Osman and Altic formed a short-lived alliance in order to jointly deal with the powerful Mansour group, but now the Altic group has raised the banner of Ibrahim, its strength has been greatly strengthened, and the number of soldiers is also continuing to expand.

As a result, Osman, who had been temporarily allied with, felt uncomfortable, especially when Osman knew the ambitions of Artik's subordinates, and his heart was even more uncomfortable.

He has been helping Artik to fight the country now, according to the agreement with Tang Li An, the entire peninsula is Artik's, and his territory is in Egypt, he does not run Egypt now, but camps in the north of the peninsula, and Artik is a horn, if Artik really needs him, then it is good to say, but Artik's strength has been greatly strengthened, and the number of troops is more than twice that of him, so, in case, he assists Artik to defeat the army of the Mansur Group, will Artik take the opportunity to attack him, will he take Egypt together.

After all, the scouts he sent out had clearly heard such remarks, and Artik's subordinates had already raised a cry to dominate the world, and in doing so, wouldn't it be to destroy him.

"General, Artik is really amazing, it has expanded to 80,000 horses, and in a few days it will break through 100,000 troops, which is three times the strength of our army."

"It's not because of Ibrahim, Artik they have always supported Ali's descendants, and now, they have elected Ibrahim as caliph as they wished, and they naturally got a lot of support, and we are more miserable, we didn't contribute less when we were fighting, but the support we got was far inferior to Artik, and even the Tang Dynasty supported Artik's armaments much more than we supported, we are so lost!"

"What nonsense, Artic was bought with money, otherwise there would be so many weapons to support him, we didn't have a single gold coin, Datang naturally won't give us too much, fortunately, we have fewer soldiers and horses, and the demand for weapons is not very large."

"General, since the peninsula is all Artik's, what are we doing here, we should go to Egypt to develop earlier, staying here is a waste of time."

"General, let's leave! Looking at Artik's stance, he didn't lose to Mansour at all, they could fight on their own, what kind of excitement are we having here, it's time to go. ”

Ottoman's subordinates all support leaving immediately, and don't want to have anything to do with Artik, after all, their political goals are different, there is no common language, they originally united to keep warm, worried about being eaten by the Mansour group, but now Artik is holding high the banner of Ibrahim, his strength has been greatly strengthened, and he has bought a large number of bows and crossbows from the Tang Dynasty, and the strength has made the Ottomans panic, so they have regarded the Artik group as a threat, and they are naturally unwilling to cooperate anymore, so as not to be accidentally annexed.

Since all his subordinates have expressed their intention to leave, of course Osman will not object, he also wants to leave the peninsula as soon as possible to concentrate on running his Egyptian territory, from the news sent back in advance, Egypt now has almost no strength, as long as his elite army kills Egypt, he will soon be able to control the whole of Egypt, and even, step by step, expand to the west and south, and establish a huge empire with a larger territory.

"It's time to leave, but we can't leave the peninsula empty-handed, and all the wealth that has occupied the city must be left behind, and all that is to be shipped to Egypt."

Osman exclaimed.

"Yes, General."

The subordinates answered.

In the process of going all the way north, the Ottomans have been looting the people's fat and ointment, and all the wealth and food and other materials of the occupied cities have been searched, and there are no livestock or anything left, if anyone dares to resist, then you are welcome, and they will be killed directly, so they have robbed too many supplies along the way, and after occupying the cities behind, the cities in front are abandoned, and the remaining materials have been looted.

Therefore, at this moment, the Ottoman army is relatively wealthy, and their wealth is still a lot, but it is still a little less than that of Artik, after all, Artik runs the rich city of Aden, and the wealth he can get is naturally a lot, and the wealth seized by killing the original city lord is even more terrifying.

In order not to be robbed of their wealth, the Ottomans forced many people to transport the wealth and transport it to the Sinai Peninsula to assemble and prepare it for Egypt.

At present, the only three cities in the northernmost part of the Ottoman control are gone, and as long as the wealth of these three cities is emptied, he has nothing to be nostalgic for on the peninsula.

Since he was leaving, it was necessary to loot all the wealth, and the Ottoman asked his subordinates to complete this matter, and when it was complete, he asked his subordinates to lead the soldiers and horses to escort the wealth to the Sinai Peninsula to gather, while the Ottoman himself and the 20,000 cavalry stayed for the time being, and they had to leave last to cover the wealth transfer plan.

The large-scale transfer of all kinds of wealth and materials, a fool can see that the Ottomans are leaving the peninsula, otherwise, there is no need to transport all the gold, silver, soft and large quantities of grain and grass in the direction of Egypt, where the army is stationed, the military rations should be piled up.

When the matter reached Artik's ears, Artik didn't think it was a big deal, he was no longer what it used to be, he believed that he could crush the attack of the Mansour group by his own strength, and he didn't need Ottoman's assistance at all, and he and Osman themselves were not all the same.

"Let's go! Let's go! I'm afraid he'll not leave? ”

Artik said disdainfully.

"City lord, this bastard of the Ottoman has looted half of the cities on the entire peninsula, and the number of people transporting all kinds of supplies is as high as 100,000, which is too hateful."

The subordinates hated.

Artik smiled: "Forget it, he can be regarded as helping us a lot, let him get some benefits!" Besides, his looting will inevitably make the people hate, so as long as we treat the people of the peninsula better, the people will be on our side, don't you think that's the truth? ”

"Oh, it's still the city lord who thinks long-term, we understand."

The subordinate said.

"By the way, after all the Ottomans have withdrawn, you will send 10,000 troops to accept all the cities abandoned by the Ottomans, and deploy 3,000 soldiers and horses on the border."

Altic said.

"Yes, my subordinates understand."

The subordinate answered.

Although Artik has respected Ibrahim as caliph at this moment, various matters such as military and political affairs are still handled by Artik, that is, Artik is the actual controller of the peninsula, and Ibrahim is not the nominal leader of the time.

It's not that Ibrahim doesn't want to seize power, but because the entire team on the peninsula was brought out by Artik and is loyal to Artik, and he just came over, if he wants to seize power rashly, it will bring a lot of trouble, and Ibrahim is really not familiar with many things, so it is very stressful for him to deal with it, it is better to let Artik deal with it, and he is happy to be idle.

The main reason is that Artik and others are devout Shiites, and the purpose of Shiites is to support Ali's descendants to ascend to the caliphate, so Ibrahim is not worried that Artik will replace him at all, that is, whether he has real power or not, Artik will not replace him.

The situation in the north of the peninsula was somewhat tense, but in the southernmost part of the peninsula, in the city of Aden, it was a peaceful scene, and the merchants and common people lived very comfortably, not caring at all about what was happening in the north.

The Tang Army led by Li An now has nothing to do, only the military industrial ships are busy producing all kinds of cold weapons and selling them to Artik at a relatively low price to help the Artik Group improve its combat effectiveness.

The construction of the new port has also begun, however, because the advanced machinery and equipment are not yet in place, the progress of the construction is very slow, of course, now the canal has not been opened, the location of the port of Aden City can still stop the existing ships, and there is no hurry to build a new port, and it is good to build it slowly.

Ang Lee doesn't have much to do now except pay attention to the situation in the north, except to eat, drink and have fun, just go around the city.

Almost all the beauties in the Qinglou in Aden City have been seen by Li An, and some of the tender girls have also served them, more just to take a look, Li An's energy is very limited, it is impossible to pamper each of them, then they will be tired to death.

The local beauties of Aden City have a unique taste, which is incomparable to the beauties in other areas, after all, the freshness is always more attractive, there is a good saying, even if the food at home is delicious, but the shit outside has not been eaten, the shit is fresh, and it is always necessary to taste it before being willing, of course, this example is a little too extreme, it is about people's persistence in freshness, as long as there is freshness, it can attract more attention.