After Liu Mu's banquet, Wood performed a Tang military salute, took his subordinates to patrol the camp, and then arranged a combat operation to clear people and beasts.

In the evening, Wood Barracks.

"General, you lost your words just now, it's not good for us as slaves and masters to say the word us."

Someone reminded Wood of his mistake.

Wood patted his head: "I forgot I was still a slave. ”

It's not funny, it's even a little sad.

At this moment, Xi Junmai suddenly came in, Xi Junmai was escorting Liu Ruyu who went to check the accounts, and after sending Liu Ruyu here, it was Liu Mu who arranged for him to come over.

Xi Junmai's Greek language was very poor, and he brought a translator with him.

"I am now a general with 5,000 troops, and seven years ago I was a military slave. That is, a slave who worked as a miscellaneous servant in the army, and then became a soldier slave who charged at the forefront of the army. ”

"Why?" Wood couldn't figure out that after becoming a slave, military merit should go to the master.

At least in Rome.

"I'll give you a book. I came here to give you this book, and you will be able to see it when you learn Chinese slowly. The name of this book is, from a slave to a general, about a famous general hundreds of years ago, who won seven battles and seven victories against the Huns. ”

When it comes to the Huns, Wood knows.

It can be said that the fall of the Western Roman Empire has something to do with the Xiongnu, and Wood's ancestors also fought against the Xiongnu, the strength of the Xiongnu, and the term Xiongnu has frightened the whole of Europe for many years.

From a slave to a general.

That night, two marching horses in Camp Wood's were tasked with recording the military exploits of Wood's army and teaching Chinese in peacetime.

The two marching horses began with this book, telling the story in ancient Greek and Chinese.

There is no one of the most difficult languages to speak Chinese.

Wood and thousands of slaves studied very hard, except for a very few people, most of them still studied hard, learning Chinese to have a chance to go to Chang'an, to have a chance to be released as slaves.

In the cabin by the sea, Dugu Lanruo asked Liu Mu: "Husband, tell me whose slaves they belong to?" ”

"I bought it with the money of the state treasury, and that is Datang's. According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, they are slaves of the imperial court, so ......" Liu Mu stopped here when he said this.

Dugu Lan understands the meaning of willow wood.

It is said that it is a slave, in fact, as long as these people remain loyal, then there is no difference between them and the commoners, if there is a dissenting heart, then the slave is a slave, and the court will definitely deal with it severely.

"Ma'am, how about going hunting?"

"Why don't you go fishing?"

Compared with fighting and killing, Dugu Lanruo prefers this kind of quiet activity.

Liu Mu didn't know much about the fish, and it took a long time to sit by the water and watch the fish, which was not a pure waste of time.

Since Dugu Lan Ruo has made a choice, Liu Mu naturally wants to accompany her.

I heard that I was going to watch the fish, and even Baoqin was looking forward to it, so Xiao Linger specially arranged for someone to spend two days preparing for the fish.

Zifei fish, watching fish is a very elegant activity of Tang noble women.

Koi fish can be said to have been discovered by the Tang people.

On a small island off the coast of East Africa, the water is as clear as it is two meters deep, with countless schools of colorful fish, and occasionally a fierce fish swims by.

Xie Xing'er wrote a poem on the spot and received countless compliments.

Liu Mu was enjoying the quiet with his family on the coast of East Africa, and in the city of Constantine in Rome, Li Daozong, who had slept less than two hours in three days, was holding a new round of talks in Heraclius.

Li Daozong spent three days and three nights studying the current battle situation, and he said to Heraclius: "Believe me, a complete retreat and a clear wall. ”

"What is Kiyono Fortified? Well, let's put it another way, at the moment the Arab kingdom of Saracen is powerful, and the soldiers of Rome and Persian Sassanid are not strictly trained, they are excellent soldiers, but they are not well trained to fight, and they cannot play combat effectiveness at all. ”

"I agree." Heraclius is an excellent commander, and he doesn't need Li Daozong to talk about it, but he also understands the problems encountered by the current army.

The slave soldiers of Willow Wood were trained day and night for three months.

His soldiers did not undergo targeted training after they were equipped, and the Roman generals only saw that they were well-equipped, but forgot that well-equipped equipment needed some coordination and use in order to exert maximum strength.

Too much battle damage caused them to lose some soldiers, as well as some Don Army equipment.

Li Daozong continued: "The next response is to strengthen the city defense, use the city as the defense center, empty everything outside the city, transfer all civilians to the city, and burn everything that cannot be moved outside the city. So that the soldiers of the Saracen Kingdom of Arabia did not get half of the booty, as well as useful things. ”

Heraclius' eyes lit up: "Clever doctrine, then I will put the five thousand heavy cavalry in my hand who have been trained for five months in the second line of the city, once the enemy army bypasses the fortress, the heavy cavalry can intercept and retreat, and grab the baggage." ”

"No, no. The great Emperor Heraclius, it was necessary to send fast light cavalry to grab the baggage, and leave after the robbery to avoid the battle below......

After discussing for a full afternoon, Li Daozong collapsed on the carriage after leaving the emperor.

He was exhausted.

After the carriage sent Li Daozong back to the resting place, Li Daozong said to the people around him: "Send someone to tell Jiang Ke, let him analyze the possibility of attacking that canyon, and then send someone to tell Liu Mu, and that's it." Orders were given to the generals to train the Roman and Persian armies within three months, and our business was already affected. ”

"Yes!"

Soon, Liu Mu received a letter from Li Daozong and Jiang Ke.

Liu Mu called Baoqin and wrote a letter to Baoqin to arrange for someone to send back to Jiangnan with the fleet. Ask Dugu Shura to bring his fleet over, and then capture Arab merchants in the whole of Datang, there is only one reason, their country has attacked our Datang caravan in the Red Sea, and they are enemies.

After the letter was delivered, Willowwood left Spice Bay and headed north.

In the port of Djibouti, Liu Mu met the old wolf and others.

There were also a few guests.

"More than a hundred years ago, we were here, we had thousands of camels, hundreds of ships of all kinds, we had more than 30,000 men with knives, and the Red Sea was not the Red Sea of Eastern Rome, it was also our Red Sea."

The people surnamed Qulaisi took advantage of the convenience of the Red Sea and the oases they controlled to transport spices, leathers, medicines, and slaves from North Africa and the Far East to Damascus. Weapons, grain, and wine were also shipped to all parts of the Arabian Peninsula.

Yanagi only glanced at the person who came and said something that could directly lead to a war: "I am a nobleman, and I don't talk to dogs or slaves." ”