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"So, killing Mansur won't do us any good, it will only increase the difficulty of our conquest of the Great Food!" After Zhao Ziliang finished speaking, he returned to the main seat and sat down.

Chen Qing stood up and hugged his fists and said, "King, according to what you said, not only did we not do any good to arrest Mansour, but we also caused a commotion?" ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled: "How can there be no benefit? Of course, there are benefits, not to mention anything else, after Mansur is captured by us, the morale and will to resist of the subjects of the Great Eclipse Country will inevitably be greatly damaged, and the fear of our army will also be deepened, this is the first; Second, al-Mansur himself is a strong figure, under his rule, all the opposition factions of the Great Food Country have been suppressed and dare not raise their heads, and those princes, generals and high-ranking officials have also been governed submissively, and now he is captured by us, the Abbasid Dynasty has no leader, and the highest throne of the Great Food Country is vacant, which will inevitably make those princes who have the strength and qualification to be the caliph fight to the death, and at the same time, the opposition factions that have been suppressed before will inevitably fight back wildly, and our Western Qin is eyeing outside, and the Great Food Country will inevitably be a mess, They will fight each other internally and consume each other's forces, so it will make the overall strength of the Great Food Country decline, since this can make the strength of the Great Food Country decline, why do we waste our troops to conquer, and when their strength is almost lost, our Western Qin will send troops to the west again, and then it will be easy to capture the entire territory of the Great Food Country, wouldn't it be wonderful? ”

The ministers and generals talked about each other, some nodding their heads, some shaking their heads.

Liu Shan stood up and asked, "Great King, if you send Mansur back when those Great Food Princes are vying for power and the opposition factions are fighting back, won't their internal affairs be suppressed and pacified by Mansur?" Besides, are you really going to send Mansur back? ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled, "There are always few fools and many smart people in this world, do you think that those ministers of the Great Food Country are all wine bags and rice bags?" If they were fools, they wouldn't rule one of the world's largest empires. After the news of Mansur being captured by us spreads, some of the princes of the Great Food Country will definitely take the lead in ascending the throne as the caliph, as long as someone ascends the throne as the caliph, if Mansur is sent back, there will be two caliphs in the Great Food Country at that time, wouldn't al-Mansur's position be very embarrassing? Will he willingly lose power? There are no two heavens and no two kingdoms! There must be a bloody storm! ”

Du Fu stood up and arched his hand and said: "The king is wise, so effortlessly, all the forces within the Great Food Country can kill each other, and I, Xiqin, will reap the benefits of the fishermen!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded with a smile and waved his hand: "Okay, you haven't eaten dinner yet, let's disperse!" Liu Shan stayed! ”

Everyone else withdrew, Liu Shan stood still and didn't move, Zhao Ziliang beckoned to him, he stepped forward and arched his hand: "What do you want the king to leave Weichen in?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "There will definitely be news coming from the Great Food Country soon, no matter how the situation in the Great Food Country changes, the news can only be known to our own people, and not to Mansur and those subordinates who serve him for the time being!" As for when to let Mansour know, this king has his own decision, this matter is very important, if something goes wrong, this king is to ask for you! ”

Liu Dan's heart tightened, and he immediately agreed: "Yes, Weichen understands!" ”

Within a few days, the news came from the side of the Great Cannibal, which was really shocking, the original prince of the Great Cannibal Mahdi was proclaimed as the new caliph by the civil and military ministers in the castle of Behedashir, and Mahdi led the army to retreat westward after ascending the throne as caliph, leaving only 5,000 men to guard the castle of Behedashir.

When the news reached Mahan Town, Zhao Zihao didn't react as if he had guessed it a long time ago, but the ministers of the Western Qin army were all surprised.

In the past few days, the Western Qin army has been standing still, and Zhao Ziliang on the one hand let the army recuperate, and on the other hand, he gave an order to Wei Meng, the fifth army in the north, ordering him to lead the army to quickly capture other parts of Khorasan.

When Mahdi retreated to Yazd with more than 100,000 troops, Zhao Ziliang ordered to attack Behedashir Castle, although this castle is located on the main road of communication, but it is not a dangerous pass, Zhao Ziliang left a part of his troops to besiege Behdashir, and personally led the main force to pursue the direction of the retreat of Mahdi's army.

On the 8th of November, the castle of Behedashir was breached, and more than 3,000 of the 5,000 defenders in the fort were killed, and all the rest surrendered.

Mahdi's retreat to Spakhan, later Isfahan, left 20,000 men to defend Yazd. At this time, the news that Mansur was captured by the Western Qin army has also reached Baghdad, and the princes of Baghdad and various places have attracted tribal chiefs, ministers, religious elders, and judges from all over the country, and in just half a month, three princes have ascended the throne as caliphs in a row.

In addition to the princes ascending to the throne as caliphs, opposition sectarian forces that had previously been suppressed by al-Mansur began to emerge, and these people lobbied the tribal chiefs to seek their support.

On November 15, Zhao Lei led a plateau army of 40,000 men and an army of 20,000 slaves to catch up with Zhao Ziliang's army and march 30 miles to complete the division in Yazd City.

Yazd is located in the northeast foot of Mount Hill, located in the mountain basin, the altitude is more than 1,200 meters, the plateau terrain itself is very complicated, and it is in the mountain basin, the surrounding terrain is dangerous, and several passes leading to Yazd City are easy to defend and difficult to attack. Yazd is the largest gathering place for Zoroastrians.

Shahan Pass is the largest pass to Yazd, Mahdi deployed 5,000 troops here, this pass wall is tall, the terrain is steep, the defense facilities are complete, before the Western Qin army came here, the Great Food Army has strengthened this pass, but also added many arrow towers, archery holes, and 30 ballistas.

On a bare hill not far away, Zhao Ziliang and others rode on horseback to observe this Shahan Pass. In the Persian region of the Great Food Country, not only the houses they live in have their own unique style, but even the shape and style of the pass they built are also unique, the arrow towers of this Shahan Pass are all built with sharp and round arrowholes, and the black star and moon flags flutter in the wind on the spires.

Zhao Ziliang put down the binoculars and frowned: "This Shahan Pass is a difficult bone to gnaw!" Zhao Lei, how many slave servants do you have? ”

Zhao Lei hugged his fists and said: "Back to my father, I have 20,000 slave servants!" ”

"20,000 slave servant troops, plus Schneider, Obot, Wahid and their 50,000 servant troops, a total of more than 70,000 people, this is enough, but you look at the terrain of this Shahan Pass, the terrain in front of the pass is narrow and long, and the troops cannot be deployed, and only about 500 people can be placed at most at a time, you all say, is there any way to take this Shahan Pass by tricks or risks?"

The generals looked at each other, but they didn't squeak, obviously they didn't think of anything to do.

Zhao Ziliang looked back at the reactions of the generals, then turned his head and squinted at Shahanguan and said, "Since there is no good way, then we can only attack!" Spread the king's military order, tomorrow morning dawn breakfast, the hour starts on time, first by the servants of the army take turns to attack the city, day and night! Chu Ge, you will form a team to supervise the enemy, and if you are afraid of the enemy, you will not be forgiven! ”

The generals clasped their fists and said in unison: "Obey!" ”

On the morning of 17 November, the Western Qin army set up a formation in front of Shahan Pass, with countless flags in the military formation, and the mountain wind blew the banners and hunted soundly, and fighting a war was an extremely serious matter, and Zhao Ziliang and all the generals rode on horseback with tense faces and waited for the besieging army to make final preparations.

A horse galloped over, and stopped on the side of Zhao Ziliang and the others to hug their fists and report: "King Qiqi, the siege camp and the first servant army responsible for today's siege are ready to attack the city at any time!" ”

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand: "Give the siege camp an order, first use our bed crossbow to destroy the ballista in the enemy's city wall and arrow tower, let's start!" ”

"Yes!"

The herald banner kept shaking, and the commander of the siege battalion immediately pulled out his sword and raised it up and shouted: "Bed crossbow siege team prepares, the target - the ballista on the garrison wall and in the arrow tower, advance-"

This Shahan Pass is located on the mountain, the trebuchet this heavy siege equipment strike angle is too small, the stone projectile can not hit the mountain, other such as the well, the siege vehicle, the siege ram these heavy equipment are because of the weight and volume of the inconvenient to carry and can not be put into use, only use a slightly lighter bed crossbow for long-range strikes, the bed crossbow can only be used to shoot the enemy generals, war horses and destroy the enemy's offensive and defensive equipment, can not cause much damage to the city wall and fortress.

In order to increase the attack power of offensive and defensive equipment, the soldiers of the siege camp of the Western Qin army adopted heavy crossbow arrows, and added burning flammable materials, that is, heavy rockets, to the heavy crossbow arrows.

At 1,500 meters, 1,200 meters, and 1,000 meters, dozens of bed crossbows were carried by the soldiers of the siege camp and stopped at a distance of 1,000 meters from the wall of Shahan Pass, and began to erect bed crossbows and equip them with heavy rockets. Now the Western Qin army is attacking from the back, and the defenders occupy a favorable position, attacking much farther on the city wall than on the flat hills, and not long-range attack weapons - bows and ballistas. Therefore, the siege camp of the Western Qin army must be within the range of the enemy's long-range attack weapons defending the city, a distance of one thousand meters, and the return cannons and ballistae of the Great Food Army are not so far away.

The bed crossbow of the Western Qin army used a number of large crossbows in parallel, which tripled the firing range to a terrifying 1,500 meters, but because it was a back attack, the bed crossbow should be as close to the city wall as possible, and it was most appropriate to set the firing position at a distance of one thousand meters from the city wall.

Soon, all the bed crossbows were erected, and each bed crossbow was loaded with a heavy rocket. The commander's command knife was slashed down, "Fire!" ”

The torchbearers lit the inquirement, and the launcher saw that the inquisition was ignited and immediately swung his hammer and smashed the trigger.

"Whoosh ??????"

Dozens of heavy rockets shot at the city walls like meteors??????