Volume 3 Chapter 413 Race Against Time (2)
robbing money and food; Pull the strong ding, rob the woman...... That's what the Sassanids are doing right now.
But this is also normal, as a warlord force that is already in a critical situation, at this time, in addition to unscrupulous means to strengthen its own strength, other things are no longer taken care of.
It's just that the Sassanid family is making such a fuss, and the rest of the head is a little unbearable. As mentioned earlier, under the strong advice of Wan'er and Hassankein, Kasili's key defense target is still Lu Ren, so the heavy army group at hand is gathered in the Strait of Hormuz and does not dare to act rashly, and the forces to guard against the Sassanid family are relatively limited, basically barely blocking a few choke points in the direction of Palsis, and there are really no extra troops to do something else.
In addition, Kasili also gave a death order that during the present war, the generals guarding the main roads were not allowed to let any personnel in the Parsis area.
There is no way for Kass Eli to give such an order, after all, the Sassanid family lurked in Farrer City before, and secretly opened the gates of Farrer, which caused the fall of Khwara City to have a great psychological impact on Kasy Eli. You must know that Farrer City is the most critical core place in the Parsis region, if it is not for that incident and is still firmly held in the hands of Kasili, I dare not say much, at least Kasili is confident that she can restrain the Sassanid family.
But now that the matter has come out, Casserie has become more passive, and even Kasili's involvement has made Casserie particularly worried about the Sassanid family's delicate incident happening again. At this time, if she was mixed with the homeless people by the Sassanid family's fine work, and then opened a few choke points and then the Sassanid family broke into other regions, Kass Eli didn't dare to think about the consequences that would be caused by the time.
Therefore, giving such an order, Kasi Yili also has her helplessness. But in this way, the common people in the area of Parcis, as well as the small and medium-sized nobles who were originally in a neutral position, or who were more inclined to Kasili, were in bad luck. Now the Sassanid family, who is eager to expand their strength, is a mad dog, basically seeing who bites whom, where will it care if you are neutral or not, and whether you are a civilian or not? How much strong men and how much money and food they can get from you is what they care about.
The Sassanid family made a lot of people want to run, but the way out of Parsis is blocked by Kasili, and those who want to escape to a safe area can't escape! Then these people saw that this was the case, and naturally they also wanted to make trouble, so the situation in the Palsis area became more and more chaotic, and the urgent letters from the guards of several passes were delivered to Kasy Eli one after another.
At this time, Cass Eli was really hesitant. It should be made clear here that under the influence of Wan'er, Cass Eli has begun to move the mode of governance in peace in the direction of centralization, and it has already achieved initial results. At the same time, Wan'er also instilled some ideas such as "to be kind to the people, in order to win the hearts of the people, so that you can achieve great things", and Cass Yili also did so, and tasted a lot of sweetness from it.
The Palsis region was originally the nest of the Sassanid family, and there is no need to say much about things such as deep roots and great influence. At that time, after dealing with the Sassanid family's superficial things, in order to further remove the Sassanid family's roots and influence in the Palsis region, the commoners and small and medium-sized nobles in the Palsis region were given more favorable treatment, and it really took a lot of energy, which made the people in the Palsis region have a better degree of support for Kasili. Of course, Kasili's return from the Parsis region was also very satisfying.
But at this time, the Parsis area is getting more and more chaotic, and those who support Kassili are also counting on Kasily to quickly transfer troops to stabilize the situation, but Cassily at this time insists on ignoring the Parsis area...... Then hehe! Anyway, it's a sure thing that all the work has been done. And Kasily's attempt to save the approval rating in the Parsis region will be even more difficult.
It was for some reasons like this that made Cass Eli particularly hesitant at this time. At this critical juncture, it was a trick by Lu Ren that made Kasily make the final decision, dividing half of the heavy army group stationed in the Strait of Hormuz, and reinforcing the Palsis area by land and water.
As for Lu Ren's tricks at this time...... It's not fresh enough. Lu Ren had a lot of resting prisoners captured in the previous Battle of Kalihet, and Lu Ren used these resting prisoners to send a message to the resting side that "the situation in Dahan has changed significantly, and Lu Ren is preparing to return to Dahan to deal with these major changes".
This news is half-true, because the Han Dynasty at this time is really at a moment of major changes. As mentioned earlier, Xun Yu received the news that Cao Pi and Liu Bei were preparing to be king, and wanted to ask Lu Ren to hurry back and try to suppress Cao Pi and Liu Bei's move, but Lu Ren did not agree after weighing it repeatedly, but continued to fight for peace.
This matter is just a matter between Lu Ren and Xun Yu, and others naturally don't know. And since Lu Ren did not return to Huaxia to take care of these things, Cao Pi and Liu Bei's movements naturally became bigger and bigger. Especially Liu Bei, this old man who has been old for a long time got several pieces of territory in the west in the previous war against the Western Regions Alliance, and then the Sichuan-Burma passage made by Lu Ren, Liu Bei also followed it to reap the benefits, and Liu Bei also seconded Ma Chao to Lu Ren......
In short, it is Liu Bei's movements and news that will be transmitted through these two channels to the current South Guishuang and North Guishuang. Nan Guishuang is no longer there, it is the "pro-Lu faction" supported by Lu Ren, and Lu Ren is at war with Anxi, Nan Guishan naturally has no dealings with Anxi; But what about North Guishan? Strictly speaking, the Northern Guishan is the original Guishuang, so the correspondence between the Northern Guishan and Anxi is very close, and whatever news is received, it will naturally be communicated with Anxi, so the news that Cao Pi and Liu Bei are going to compete for the king also reached Anxi through Beiguishuang at this time, and reached the ears of Cass Yili and Wan'er.
Speaking of Lu Ren, Lu Ren actually knew very well that Wan'er was on the same level as himself in some things, so he cooperated with Gan Ning's actions and lied to Anxi that there was a problem with the logistics fleet, which might be able to deceive the Sassanid family, but it seems a little unrealistic to say that he can deceive Wan'er, and it can also be said that his persuasiveness is not enough at all. Gan Ning reported that the Parsis area on the other side of the rest was getting more and more chaotic, but Kasili still did not transfer a single soldier from the heavy troops stationed in the Strait of Hormuz, which confirmed Lu Ren's conjecture.
So at this time, Lu Ren understood that his current purpose was to make Anxi and Sassanid completely pinched together, so that Kasili would transfer the heavy army group stationed in the Strait of Hormuz, and Kasili had never transferred a single soldier from the heavy army group in the Strait of Hormuz under the situation that had become such a situation in the Palsis area, which must have been influenced by Wan'er, so he did not dare to transfer the troops away. So at this time, if an event that can convince Wan'er to make Wan'er believe that she is indeed going back to Huaxia, what kind of result will it be? So either way, it's worth a try.
And if you want to deceive Wan'er, you must have a more convincing thing to induce Wan'er to make a wrong judgment. At this time, the rumors that Cao Pi and Liu Bei were going to be kings gradually spread in the north and south of Guishuang made Lu Ren think that they could be used, and he immediately started to do so.
Look at Wan'er here again. Wan'er really wants to say that if she is playing tricks, she is definitely not the opponent of Lu Ren now, and many times she only relies on the understanding of some relevant historical materials to make judgments, and she is playing a conspiracy that is overwhelming people and not ingenious, just like before instigating Guishan and the 36 countries of the Western Regions to take advantage of Cao Liu's Hanzhong dispute to enter Liangzhou at this critical point in time.
It's just that the current situation has developed to this point, and Wan'er has long felt that those historical materials are basically useless, and now that Lu Ren's army has reached the door of rest, the only reason why Lu Ren has to retreat can only be that there have been major changes in Huaxia.
The other most important one is that the news that Cao Pi and Liu Bei are going to be kings was sent from Bei Guishuang, and it is unlikely that it is the result of any tricks played by Lu Ren, but it is indeed not a trick played by Lu Ren, anyway, such a news has nothing to do with Lu Ren, and it is naturally quite convincing to Wan'er.
On the other hand, Wan'er also knows what kind of significance it means to Lu Ren to be attached to the Han Dynasty all the time, so for Wan'er, if something like this happens in Huaxia, Lu Ren must rush back...... In fact, when the Anxi Navy was defeated at Kalihet, Wan'er already knew that Lu Ren would come over immediately. And at this time, the only thing that could make Lu Ren go back was that something big happened in Huaxia, and Wan'er wanted to refer to the historical materials at that time to see if there were any events that could be used. In other words, Wan'er herself already had this subjective idea that Lu Ren would only retreat if something happened to Huaxia.
So at this time, that is, when Kasy Yili asked Wan'er if she could transfer some of the heavy troops stationed in the Strait of Hormuz according to this rumor, Wan'er also hesitated, and did not disagree with Kasy Yili's transfer of troops as resolutely as before. On the other hand, Kasili, seeing that Wan'er was no longer so insistent, and the situation in the Palsis area was becoming more and more unoptimistic, finally decided to transfer troops from the Strait of Hormuz and rushed to the Palsis area to save the scene.
Of course, Kasy didn't dare to be too big, so she only transferred half of it. In addition, in addition to the land route, since the Parsis area is on the northern shore of the Persian Gulf, it will be more convenient to land directly from the sea route, so Kasili also mobilized some of the remaining ships of the Rest Navy. Anyway, for Kasili, it was not much distance from the Strait of Hormuz to a few places on the south shore of Palcis, and the ships mobilized could send the troops over and hurry back.
From a more strict military perspective, there is nothing wrong with this, even if Cass Eli transferred half of her troops, she still left a considerable number of troops to defend. Even if Lu Ren's main army came over, Hassan Keyin could hold off for a while with the forces left to him, and he held out until Kass Yili transferred his troops.
So here, it can only be said that they ignored, or that they didn't know Lu Ren's determination to fight this battle. And once the time comes, Lu Ren, who has already made full preparations, will also strike his strongest blow here!
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Late one night, on the southern shore of the Strait of Hormuz.
The weather was hot at this time, and the Persian Gulf region was notoriously hot, so that when it was cooler in the evening, the sergeants and servants alike fell asleep in their respective resting spots, and only those who were on duty were grumbling and complaining, and were doing their guard work.
Faintly, someone heard the heavy sound of horses' hooves coming from a certain direction. Most of the people in peace were good at horses, so it was quickly judged that the number of horses should be around 5,000 from the sound of horses' hooves, and the warning bell was immediately ringed.
But even so, the resting people here don't really care. In fact, during this period of time, the cavalry of the Arab forces would come and make trouble from time to time, but generally they would dance a sword and curse the people at a distance from the city wall, and then withdraw before dawn.
The resting personnel actually hoped that these Arab cavalry would simply come and attack the city, you must know that since Hassan was retained as the commander of the resting navy and began to strengthen the defense of the Strait of Hormuz, the resting personnel have been working overtime to build fortifications almost day and night, so they have long built all kinds of fortifications strictly. Not to mention anything else, the artillery, bows, trebuchets and the like on the head of the city really had to meet the siege of the Arab cavalry, and the rest personnel dared to pat their chests and say that those Arabs would die as many as they came.
But every time the Arab cavalry came, they shouted like this and flashed at dawn, and never launched any attack, which really annoyed the rest personnel...... Nima's, every time it comes at night to disturb people's dreams, whoever changes it will be annoying enough, right?