Chapter 593
The Great Cannibal launched a tidal wave of attacks like crazy, and the attack was even more desperate and ferocious than before. But years of military experience told Yun Hao that the big cannibal was about to retreat.
Sure enough, it was nighttime. The Great Cannibal began to retreat in a haphazard manner, and Yun Hao did not chase and kill. At this time, there is no point in chasing and killing, it can only increase the casualties for yourself! Yun Hao has not forgotten his mission in the Middle East. That is to kill Yusufu and pick up the face that Datang threw on the ground.
There is a sentence in the Book of Han that says very imposingly, those who commit me are strong! Even if it is far away, it will be punished!
The Tang Dynasty is far more powerful than the Han Dynasty, and there is no reason for the Han Dynasty to do anything. Datang can't do it!
The Tang army rested quietly in Antioch, and the death of the caliph was bound to cause chaos. Yun Hao wanted to see if there was a way to surrender without a fight. After all, if a city like Constantinople wants to be captured, it still has to kill people.
The soldiers followed themselves to the Middle East, a hellish place where nothing but sand was missing, and they survived so many hardships. As soon as he thought that someone would fall on the eve of victory, Yun Hao's heart was a little blocked.
In the defense of Antioch, the Don army suffered more than a thousand casualties. Although the casualties they inflicted on the enemy were more than ten times that of this number. But Yun Hao still felt that the Tang army had more casualties. If possible, Yun Hao wants to bring everyone back alive.
The detailed work sent out was very capable, but a lot of information came back in just a month.
The caliph is dead, and the world is inexorably divided.
Some believe that the world should be inherited by Ali, the son of the caliph. These people are called Shiites!
There are also those who believe that the world can only be ruled by the strong. Only the strong can bring the world into the glory of the letter. These people are called Sunnis!
In fact, there is much more to the world than these sects. There are also many small sects with branches!
Even within Shia, there are many sects.
Among these people were Arabs and Persians, and they interpreted the scriptures differently. There are differences in national habits, and there is even deep-seated national hatred among each other.
There are factions in the sect, and there are factions within factions! The entire world of the Holy Sect has turned into a mess of sand!
No one could convince anyone else to convert to their own teachings, and everyone stared at each other like cocks. I'm afraid that the other party will have the same idea as myself...... That is, the white knife goes in and the red knife comes out.
Yun Hao's approach can be called simple and rude, and he directly slapped a person to find Yusuf. Let him contribute his head so that he can return to Datang for a business. Otherwise, you will come into contact with the Shiites. Support the Shiites to attack the Sunnis!
Borrowing a knife to kill someone is always so easy to play. Anyway, you are so hostile to each other, Lao Tzu only needs to give some supplies to make you fight in the nest.
Yun Hao only wants Yusuf's head, while the Shiites want the physical extermination of the followers of different sects. There is an essential difference between the two, and if Yusuf's head is not broken, he should know how to do it.
Yusuf wanted to kill the guy who had come to take his head, but he couldn't make up his mind even after his hands opened and closed many times.
"Emissary! You can go down! Li Deyu glanced at the obviously nervous Arab and ordered the soldiers to take the messenger down.
The air in the hall was unusually oppressive, no one spoke, and no one dared to speak. When it comes to the issue of Yusuf's head, no one dares to express an opinion easily.
Yusuf waved his hand, he knew what everyone was thinking on this matter.
The Tang people's approach is despicable, using the existing sectarian contradictions to force themselves to commit suicide. If you refuse, it will cost thousands of lives. For the time being, the Shiites are outnumbered and powerful.
If it had the support of the Dons, Constantinople would have fallen. All Sunnis were either slaughtered or forced into slavery.
The silence of the elders implies their thoughts. It seems to be in everyone's interest to save thousands of people with one human head. After all, after such a long war. Everyone wants to live in peace!
"What do you say? Cut off my head and give it to Yun Hao? Now it seems like the only way! Yusuf smiled helplessly. When he cut off Zhang Liang's head to make a night pot, he didn't expect that he would have today.
"Yun Hao, that person has no last resort! I'm sure his men have infiltrated Constantinople. And with the elders of the sect already in agreement, you don't have much choice.
The silence of those elders just now already explained their attitude. Now I can only try to help you win some benefits! Li Deyu looked helplessly at the close comrade-in-arms in front of him, their fates have always been linked. Yusuf is dead, and he is known as a guy with a Tang face, and it is absolutely impossible for him to hold such a big power again.
The end of Yusuf's life almost meant the end of Li Deyu's political life. Of course, there is a special case.
"What if we go?"
"I can't leave! How much appeal do you think you have now, and how many people will be willing to follow you out of Constantinople and live in a precarious life?
The war has been going on for too long, and everyone is tired of it. Everyone just wants to live a quiet and comfortable life for a few days, and there is no way.
Again! Do you think you can still walk away? ”
Yusuf fell silent again, knowing that Li Deyu was right. Now I just want to leave, I'm afraid I can't leave. As long as Yun Hao said that whoever gets his own head, he will support whomever he wants.
Then even if you go to the ends of the earth, you will be chased endlessly. And the people who chased and killed him, most likely, did not have a Tang man.
"The only way now is for your son Hatta to succeed you. The lad has grown up, and your sacrifice can buy him a throne. It's well worth it! Otherwise, you won't get anything. After a long time, Li Deyu finally said what he had in mind.
This is not only to give Yusuf ideas, but also to save himself. Because he is Hatta's teacher, the relationship between the teacher and the student is very good.
Yusuf glanced at Li Deyu and continued to be silent.
"Think for yourself! Today will be your last night, and perhaps tomorrow the elders will come and take your head. I didn't do it immediately today, and I have been thinking about my friendship for many years. ”
It is very difficult to make a person determined to die. Li Deyu knew that Yousufu was afraid of death, but without stabbing him in the back, it was already the limit of what he could do. If he doesn't make a decision tomorrow, he won't blame himself.
Everyone was gone, and the great hall was empty. Yusuf sat on the throne in a daze, watching the sunlight in the doorway gradually tilt.
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Yun Hao happily looked at Yusuf in the box, his eyes closed and seemed to be very peaceful. was killed by his son's own hands, and being so peaceful is enough to show that this guy was poisoned beforehand.
Yusuf's son, Hatta, became the new leader of the Sunnis, but Yun Hao didn't care about these things. It is enough to bring Yusuf's head back to Chang'an by yourself!
The world has split into two large and hostile camps, whose contradictions are irreconcilable because of religious relations.
In addition to the two camps, there are countless smaller sects. There are so many numbers that Yun Hao doesn't have accurate numbers!
The Arabs are better, but the tribal contradictions and the national contradictions with the Persians are irreconcilable. In short, the Middle East is now full of chicken feathers, and small-scale ethnic and religious conflicts occur from time to time.
The lax management of gunpowder led to the emergence of human bombs.
In the bustling bazaars, there is often a high-pitched slogan, followed by loud noises and thick smoke.
Bloody stumps and severed arms were scattered in all corners not far from the center of the explosion.
Yun Hao is like a good policeman who fights gangsters and eliminates evil, after defeating the big gangster leader. He was surprised to find that he had to face the little hooligans all over the ground. And these little hooligans are like whack-a-mole, endlessly!
Time to go! This land is no longer suitable for human life, anyway, I don't care how others survive. Lao Tzu wants to go home and live a good life, and it is either murder or explosion all day long, which is a headache to think about.
Yusuf's head was sent back by the airship. Because this is the fastest, Yun Hao, a broken place in the Middle East, really doesn't want to stay longer.
The Tang Dynasty's army had shrunk across the board, protecting only the Canal Zone and some important port refineries.
Yun Hao had warned the elders of those tribes and authoritative religious figures as long as they did not attack the refineries, ports, and canal districts. They can toss as they like, but if they attack the Tang people, what awaits them will be the most cruel revenge.
Perhaps when he first arrived in the Middle East, the brutal massacre of the Tang people is still fresh in people's memories. After receiving Yun Hao's warning, these places were really peaceful.
The people who hold the power are trying their best to restrain their subordinates from making trouble in these places.
Anyway, the Middle East is big enough, and there are still many places to make trouble.
The Middle East, which is scattered and sandy, is full of vendettas. This vendetta will continue for thousands of years, and perhaps it will not stop until the end of mankind.
So it's good, a Middle East full of violent conflicts, vendettas, ethnic contradictions, religious contradictions. This is the Middle East that the Tang Empire likes, and the Tang people only need oil and resources here. As for other things, they are not in the scope of consideration.
After solving the security problem, Yun Hao fell back into a state of having nothing to do. It has become the norm to watch the sunrise and sunset in Cairo every day, and look at the pyramids that have been cleaned by themselves in the distance.
Of course, it is also a compulsory course to discuss the physiological structure of different races with beautiful mixed-race women every day!