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The walls of Damascus had become dilapidated by the previous wars, and even if Hussein repaired them, they only filled the cracks with lime, and after a burst of shelling, the women's walls collapsed, huge cracks extended from the walls, and the Arab defenders who had just been patrolling were bombed. Please search (product # book ¥ net) to see the most complete! The fastest updated novel

A defender even leaned out of the female wall with half of his body, and he kept twitching, under the stunned gaze of hundreds of thousands of troops, Wang Fangyi rode a war horse and galloped to the front of the trench under the city, and hit the twitching defender in the head with a crossbow.

Not a drop of blood flowed, and the defender was still twitching except for trembling.

Even if he had reached the position of the prime minister of Damin, Wang Fangyi still couldn't help but burst out foul language.

"The little ones are all scarecrows!"

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A real empty city plan happened in front of the Min army.

The passionate Roman army was led back to their respective barracks, and they originally wanted to have a bloody battle, but in the end they didn't even make cannon fodder, and Li Jie, who looked depressed, was embarrassed, and the last person gave 20 subsidies to restore morale.

As for the city of Damascus, more than 1,000 well-trained Min sappers carefully climbed up from the city wall, and after about two hours of cleaning, the four gates of the east, west, north and south were planted with the double-headed dragon banner of the Great Min and the Minzi Daxu.

The Arabs designed it with ingenuity, Hou Jie introduced a stone mill, hundreds of camels with melons, fruits, radishes and other food hanging in front of their heads pulling the stone mill, and the stone mill was connected with a long wooden lever to pull the scarecrow hanging on the head of the city, staging a live shadow puppet show.

As for the chanting tower, it is also powered by camels, and it is also pulling the shaft like a stone mill, driving the horn at the top of the tower to sound.

Occasionally, when the camel is tired and stops, it will not show its flaws, after all, people are stop-and-go.

In addition to camels, the Arabs also used the ability to hunt wolves in the desert, and there were countless traps and bows buried on the city walls.

At noon, the gates of Damascus were suddenly opened, and the sappers inside paved the ground with loess to welcome Li Jie into the largest city in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Two rows of forbidden soldiers quickly stood on both sides of the main street of the north gate of Damascus with the dragon flag of Damin, and stepped into Damascus with Anna, but unlike the excited Anna, Li Jie was full of only lamentation along the way.

The city of West Asia, once home to 500,000 people, is now desolate, with former workshops collapsed and destroyed, streets deserted and full of debris, weeds sprouting through cracks, and even wild animals running through the streets.

Here reminds Li Jie of the city of Qunu after the war, here, I don't know how long it will take to regain its vitality again, and produce Damascus scimitars as gorgeous as snowflakes and clouds but as sharp as clay.

And, most importantly, where did the main Arab forces go?

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The whole of Damascus seems to be in ruins, the Arabs used to live in tents, the original Greeks and Romans built houses collapsed and no one repaired them, everywhere is in a dilapidated color, from here you can cross the Bara River, which runs through the river, and you can see the Damascus Caliphate's Grand Palace, which has been completely dilapidated on the other side of the river.

In short, nothing is intact.

All the Arabs retreated, as for the Arab ruffian spies that Li Jiehua had bought off with great effort, they stayed here, and as Aziz said, there were about twenty-seven tribes, and the corpses of the twenty-seven tribes were all piled up in the large square in front of the ancient Roman governor's palace, and according to the cruel laws of Islam, they were all beaten to death with stones, and now the corpses have emitted a sour and rancid smell, attracting flocks of flies and vultures.

The outermost corpse was an Arab villain who had made a deep impression on Zheng Maichen, named Emwachiin, who was the most greedy, but also gave the most information to Damin. In a group of stones, his arms and legs were all chains, and his corpse actually climbed out for more than ten meters against the overwhelming stones, and his arms were still struggling to stretch out, as if he was shouting to grab something, and his frozen expression was greedy and painful at the last moment.

This man is also considered to be a desperate man.

In addition to a pile of executed corpses, there were less than 20,000 Damascus residents left, and they didn't know what kind of looting and tyranny they had experienced.

After receiving these reliefs, more than 20,000 victims seemed to have just come back to life, hugging sacks of wheat and crying.

In a big city with a population of 500,000, there are only 20,000 or so residents left, and the cruelty of the years of hegemony can be seen.

Looking at these victims who had left with a thousand thanks, Li Jie also swore in his heart in a low voice that he would never let the almost genocidal war of Wuhu Chaohua happen again in the land of China!

The raging battle of the Fujian army to exterminate the Arabs had to be stopped at this point, Damascus was already desolate, the policy of buying grain on the spot could not be done, and before the main force of the Arabs was found, if the Fujian army advanced again, the front dragged too far, but limited itself to death, and as a last resort, Li Jie ordered the whole army to stop in Damascus.

Directly composed of peasants and Roman armies from all walks of life, they marched into the city of Damascus, and tons and tons of war garbage were slowly transported out.

I have to sigh, Constantine IV really brought a lot of treasures to Damin, the Roman army itself is famous for civil engineering, the huge ancient European road network was built by the Roman legions, many of the Athenian militia are craftsmen in the city of Athens and various places in Greece, as well as the border legions guarding the Rhine There are also many craftsmen in the army.

As time passed, the city of Damascus began to show its slow vitality, and the Christian church under Roman rule, the Hongwen Hall in Damin, and the merchants who came by boat from the Mediterranean section of the Suez Canal made the city no longer lifeless.

However, while repairing this pearl of the Eastern Mediterranean, the pace of war did not stop, tens of thousands of Armenian knights, Turkic cavalry, Tibetan riders and Sogdian rangers were scattered southward like grains of sand, and the Great Min Army also sent envoys south to Jerusalem to exchange information with the Jewish kingdom of Israel to find out where the strategic intentions of the Arabs were.

At the same time, the other team is still on the move.

Sheng Lianshan and Li Yexu's left and right Qianniuwei, Hengshan, Guhe and other 73 government soldiers more than 70,000 people are still exploring along the seaside.

However, at this time, Sheng Lianshan's army has shrunk a lot, the coastal plain of Syria province is vast, and the population is mostly gathered on the seaside, compared to the desolation of the middle route army, his western route army has encountered a lot of towns, as well as the Arab tribes that have not withdrawn, these Arabs have a strong hatred for the Fujian army, on the plain, every time there is an attack on the Fujian army's grain transport team and garrison, in order to ensure the back road, as a last resort, Sheng Lianshan and Li Yexu had to split the government soldiers one by one, and stay in the newly occupied towns.

Now they have marched more than 200 miles to Damascus, which is equivalent to the southern part of Lebanon in later life, and they still have about 50,000 troops in their hands.

It is also a small coastal fishing village, but hundreds of descendants of Greeks and Romans tremblingly went out of the village to welcome the arrival of the Fujian army, but there are dozens of young people of Arab descent who are full of hostility and use the terrain in the village to shoot a few Fujian soldiers.

Li Yexu had no choice but to stop the army on the plain near the small fishing village.

The sea area of Damin is vast, the navy and navigation force are also quite developed, and the province of Syria happens to have a vast coast, so Li Jie gave Li Yexu's order to the left army to try to find a good port.

Damin and Egypt's Fatimid Dynasty have recently formed a strategic cooperation, if the imported grain from Egypt is imported by sea, it will undoubtedly relieve some pressure on the heavy logistics of Damin, it just so happens that the coastline near this small fishing village is quite flat, and it is not easy to stop for a while, and the delicate Li Yexu is ready to stay for a while, planning to study the construction of the port.

Half a morning passed in a blink of an eye, just when Li Yexu was staring at the map and thinking deeply, a little noise kept coming from outside the camp, he was too familiar with his partner, it was estimated that Sheng Lianshan came back from killing the Arabs who attacked the Fujian army, closed the map, sorted out his clothes, and Li Yexu was full of helplessness to welcome out.

But the scene that happened at the gate of the humble camp just now seemed to be a little different from Li Yexu's imagination, a group of sergeants were noisily gathered together, and some people kept shouting for the medical officer.

"The general is here!"

I don't know who shouted, but the surrounding sergeants quickly opened a passage for Li Yexu, and walked over in shock, but a bloody breath came to his nose.

More than a dozen war horses were covered with knife wounds and broken arrows, lying on the ground, and the trembling hooves of their four hooves could tell at a glance that they had run excessively, but there were only seven of the right Qianniuwei sergeants who came back, two of them had fallen on the final road, and the remaining five were also haggard, lying in the arms of their comrades, being fed water.

Especially the general at the head, a huge long arrow actually came out of his chest, and the blood on it turned black, and it looked like he had been injured for a long time.

This person Li Yexu also knew that he was once one of Li Jing's cronies, and his surname was Lu after the Xianbei tribe changed his Han surname.

His heart was beating wildly, and Li Yexu also squatted down anxiously and grabbed the man's hand.

A sip of cold water went down, but he coughed up half a mouthful of blood, but in the end, the water relieved his thirst and made Captain Lu sober up a lot, and when he saw Li Yexu for the first time, Captain Lu almost subconsciously grabbed his sleeve and said in a trembling voice.

"Major General, Arab Barbarian, Main Force ......"