Grow for more than a month, under the moisture of the Mediterranean climate, the winter wheat seedlings have emerged more than half an inch long, the winter around Damascus is mild and rainy, the lowest temperature is only about ten degrees, if there is no military disaster, it is estimated that these winter wheat can smoothly turn the autumn, grow into strong ears of wheat at the beginning of spring in the coming year, give the land hard working soldiers, the people with the joy of harvest.

But now, the hard work of sweat and soil has been uprooted by hand under an order, and some of the green wheat seedlings have been supplemented as cheap green fodder to the supply of more than 300,000 war horses and 100,000 camels with the army, and the rest is piled up in one place and burned by these people who planted the wheat seedlings with their own hands.

The operation of destroying wheat spread throughout the entire Syrian province, even into the core cultivated area next to Damascus, and under Li Jie's order, there was almost black smoke everywhere, looking at the raging flames, whether it was the government soldiers recruited from the Tianzhu peasants, or the local Greeks, Romans, and Arab Persians, all of them had blood in their hearts.

Under the deep-rooted idea of Dan Yacheng personally commanding the destruction of wheat fields and an agricultural society, Su Dingfang's face twitched under the heartache.

A few days ago, Li Ji, a prophet, made Su Dingfang finally understand the battle situation in front of him.

Today's situation is indeed an old opponent, but it is not the old opponent of Damin, but the old opponent of the entire Chinese nation, the nomadic civilization.

From the pre-Xia period, the ancestors of Chinese civilization fought bloody battles with the nomads around them, such as the Shang Dynasty's Wuding Ghost Fang, the Zhou Dynasty's Dog Rong Po Haojing, the two Han Dynasty's vigorous Xiongnu all-out war, and the Wuhu Rebellion only a few hundred years ago to the Weishui Alliance signed by the Turkic invasion and Tang Taizong more than 20 years ago, all of which were the struggle between the Chinese farming people and the nomadic people.

In the past, the Arabs were accustomed to fighting for each city and place, and in order to obtain a certain strategic point, they mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to fight a decisive battle, completely forgetting that the Arabs were also nomads in their bones, and they were harsher nomads in the desert environment.

Now, the frontal battlefield is no longer the opponent of the Great Min, and Hussein has cleverly picked up the tactics of his ancestors and faced the attack of the Great Min with the unique war form of the nomads.

Since the declaration of war in Damin, Hussein has been planning for this strategic purpose, first abandoning the Eastern Rome as an ally, letting the two sides fight to the death and consume each other's strength, and then even Damascus, the population of hundreds of cities was abandoned by the Arab Empire, just like the Eastern Rome was fought back then, so that the Great Min was also divided into troops to occupy, carrying these hundreds of burdens, this trick did work, there were six or seven hundred thousand troops, but Li Jie had to divide the troops to occupy the city.

The third step, encircling the point to send reinforcements, gradually eating the Fujian army one bite at a time in the sports war, turning the Syrian province into a war quagmire, dragging down the Great Min, Hussein bit the right army of the Fujian army in the first bite, gnawed off more than 20,000 troops of Li Yexu, and then dragged the Fujian army in circles in the Golan Heights for more than half a month, and suddenly attacked Aleppo, attracting Li Jie to lead the main force north, and in the raid on Li Jin, the king of Hezhong County near Damascus, he bit off a piece of meat of the Fujian army, and once again forced Li Jie to go south.

If it weren't for the sudden escape of Constantine IV and his ascension to heaven, which stunned Li Jie and woke him up, maybe the main force of more than 300,000 Fujian troops would still be playing hide-and-seek with Hussein on the edge of the desert.

Even this time, Hussein raided Danya and attacked Haibai City, and he wanted to continue to lead the Min army by the nose and follow him.

Of course, Hussein's attack on the city of Min is not without selectivity, Hussein is fighting the grain land of the Fujian people, such as Danya, in order to ensure the frontier army, the Min army built a number of granaries along the way, Haibai City hoarded Li Jie to feed the autumn hunting army, after all, the productivity of the nomads is far less than the agricultural civilization, in order to support the army at hand, Hussein needs to continue to draw nutrients from the Min.

This is also the reason why Li Ji ordered the burning of grain and grass in Haibai City, the Arabs are too powerful, a few back and forth have bypassed Mount Lebanon, the rescue is too late, then Lao Tzu will burn the grain, people withdraw, you have the ability to come! As long as you dare to fight to the death with Lao Tzu's 110,000 Roman troops stationed in the southern suburbs of Damascus, Lao Tzu will let you fight Damascus!

To deal with nomads, thousands of years, Huaxia has indeed sorted out a set of effective methods, the most basic and the most commonly used, strong walls and clear the wilderness!

However, a bold king like Li Jie is really rare, and he pulls out the crops of the entire Syrian province at the first order, and this kind of big hand even the battle-hardened Su Dingfang can't bear it.

"Ge Laozi, starve you sand leopards!"

The last piece of wheat turned into black soil, looking at the black dust rising with the wind, Su Lie, who was in a gloomy stomach, had to use cruel words to cover up the regret and severe pain in his heart.

However, the destruction of crops was only the beginning, and the Min court, which was stationed in Damascus in November, began a series of combined measures.

Farmsteads where the indigenous people had lived for generations in the countryside began to be burned down by the Min army, and millions of people slowly gathered from the scattered countryside to Damascus and then began to evacuate to the plains of Mesopotamia.

In order to share the pressure of the refugees, General Zojin Wuwei, who was sent to garrison Antioch, was ordered to advance close to Ancatolia and open up thousands of miles of territory in the land of later Turkey to settle these refugees.

Fortunately, the successive years of Arab expansion wars consumed almost seven layers of the population of Asia Minor, and even if he returned to Constantinople, the Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine IV was unable to defend the vast mountains and plains of Ancatolia, and could only watch Xue Rengui's 50,000 Fujian troops crisscross his territory.

Countless cries of uprooting from their homes continued from the Golan Heights to Aleppo, casting another layer of desolation over the entire battlefield.

The next step was to fight for national strength, the Fujian army in the Syrian province once again shrank the front, all the secondary cities were abandoned, the important military district fortresses only kept a few days' grain, and the large granaries were all set up in strong city fortresses such as Damascus and Danya, and not let any grain flow to the countryside.

In the form of cash-for-work, Li Jie mobilized the remaining residents of the Syrian provinces who were unwilling to go to build a huge thousand-mile Great Wall along the direction of Danya to the direction of Aleppo, and wanted to build a strong defense line from the Lebanon Mountains in the south to the heavy city of Aleppo in the north, and envelop the rich southwestern Syrian provinces.

In January of the fourth year of the Great Min Dynasty, Wang Xianjie, the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple of the Fujian Kingdom, once again sent an envoy to the Fatimid Dynasty in Egypt, on the one hand, congratulating the Fatima who was canonized as the caliph by the Great Min to expand the land again in the direction of Sinikaran in North Africa, defeating the Hussein forces of Central Africa and commanding the local Moors, and at the same time increased cooperation with Egypt.

In mid-January, Wang Xianjie visited Jerusalem on his return journey.

On the temple of the ancestors of the Jews, King David of the Kingdom of Israel and dozens of his ministers of the Great Elders of Judaism were receiving the angels of Damin in a cold sweat, and on the steps, Wang Xianjie was full of arrogance and took out Li Jie's holy decree.

"The royal decree of the king of Min that if the Kingdom of Israel dares to provide a grain of grain to Hussein, the enemy of the Great Min, the Great Min will completely abandon the Kingdom of Israel as an ally!"

It was a simple sentence, but the back of the shepherd boy who had grown up from a child was soaked in cold sweat.

The historical event of the restoration of the Jews is quite legendary, when Li Jie defeated Jerusalem, before breaking through Jerusalem to return Jerusalem to the Jews, in the face of the ancestors dreamed of returning to the promised land, Tianzhu, Persia and other places were taken over by the Jews gathered in the Great Min without hesitation.

However, the kingdom of post-Israel, which was trembling and waiting with enthusiasm for the Arabs to join forces to spell out brilliant sparks, miraculously survived in the cracks in the competition between the Arabs, the Eastern Romans and the Fujianese, although it survived very well.

The reason why neither the two caliphs nor Hussein sent troops to destroy the kingdom of Israel was because these business-savvy Jews were always able to obtain a considerable amount of food supplies for the Arab Empire from overseas.

At the beginning, in order to preserve the Kingdom of Israel and contain the flank of the Arab Empire, Li Jie had to acquiesce to this small action of the enemy, but now it is the white-hot stage of the decisive battle between the Great Min and the Arab Empire, and Li Jie will certainly not tolerate this kind of stabbing in the back anymore.

If they refused to continue to provide food to the Arabs, the young King David and his well-established elders and ministers could clearly foresee that the angry Arab cavalry would spread throughout the countryside where the kingdom of Israel had managed to expand.

Wang Xianjie didn't come alone, when he came back, the Admiral of the Great Min Naval Division, the Grand Protector of Suez, and the Luantai Squire Liu Renliang launched the Mediterranean Fleet that is now quite large to send off the ambassador of the King of Fujian.

For the kingdom of Israel, which depended on trade for its survival, Damin destroyed its open sea ports, and the kingdom did not collapse.

Thinking of this, King David, who was already sweating, and his ministers bowed to the ground and replied respectfully.

"The foreign ministers and others must obey the holy decree of the King of Damin!"

After three days in the royal palace, the king and the ministers of the Kingdom of Israel sent Wang Xianjie back to the open sea, boarded the Mediterranean fleet and continued to leave in the direction of Damascus, and then looked back at the small Kingdom of Israel, David could not help but sigh and order.

"Let the people of the whole country gather together in the holy city of Jerusalem, and may God bless us!"

At the end of January of the fourth year of Kaiyuan, with a mission and another batch of grain purchased by Egypt, Wang Xianjie returned to Damascus to pay Li Jie's order.

In order to buy grain in Egypt, almost all the trade volume on the nine floors of the Suez Canal went to Alexandria, and then the exquisite Fujian silk, Tianzhu spices and tea were resold by these Egyptians to Rome to make a lot of money.

In order to support hundreds of thousands of troops, millions of grains were transported out of Tianzhu, and even Li Jin, who stayed behind, used all his milk strength, and the consumption of simple food on the road was amazing.

The grain ships that landed from the Persian Gulf, a load of grain had been consumed to the remaining eight buckets at this time, and after a long time in Mesopotamia, when they really arrived at the front, there were only one or two buckets of grain left, and the loss of ten **.

Fortunately, with the support of the long country, Li Jie can afford it!

Under such a complete siege of Great Min, Hussein began to be overwhelmed......