Chapter 1157. Exhausted
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In the tent, the main generals were there, seeing Li Jie rarely so angry, everyone's face was hot, he and others searched for more than ten days near the Golan Heights, and they didn't even find a single Arab hair, and let this group of sand leopards get behind them, after so many years of war, how could the Fujian people have been so embarrassed to be so careless when they founded the country. Please search (product # book ¥ net) to see the most complete! The fastest updated novel
This time, Aleppo was not lost, but more than a dozen towns near Aleppo were burned to the ground by Hussein's army, and the military rations from Mesopotamia were borrowed 780,000 stones, and more than 3,000 soldiers and civilians died.
"Pass the widow's order, after the division of the king of Liuhezhong County is broken, continue to search for the traces of the Arabs, with the Guanning iron cavalry as the vanguard, the Armenian cavalry as the right-wing rangers, the whole army will pull out the camp, go north to Aleppo, and the heavens and the earth will also find out this group of bastards!"
really encountered an outlet, almost all the generals under the tent were neatly agreed, and immediately exited the tent in turn, took the token and acted, in the entire tent, only the old Li Ji hesitated, but looking at the group of generals and the angry Li Jie, he finally swallowed the words back.
At the foot of the beautiful Lebanese Mountain, the camp that had been entrenched for many days once again made an earth-shattering noise, the war horses grazing on the hillside were busy gathered together, the war elephants that came with the army also carried a killing weapon weighing thousands of catties, a team of hussars waved the banner of the Han family, and the horses' hooves hurried north, and the war machine of up to 300,000 horses started again.
However, in the majestic army, whether it is following the sixteen guards, or the mercenaries recruited from Tianzhu and the river, there is always a tired look on their faces, and for almost half a month, from the tense assembly of autumn hunting to the rapid march support, and then to the pursuit of the Arabs over the mountains and seas, the continuous high-intensity combat actions make every soldier feel the pain of fatigue.
In October, even the Syrian mountains in West Asia are also drifting with bursts of autumn coolness, the gentle yin wind blows from the mountain woodland, and the cold air seems to be whining like a ghost, which enters the ears of the Fujian army, making people's spines cold.
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After six days of continuous travel, the huge Fujian army went north and returned to the vicinity of Aleppo, but at this time, the vast more than 100,000 Arab thieves in the border pass report had disappeared, leaving only a ruined wall and corpses exposed in the wilderness, and the burned town seemed to be faintly emitting black smoke.
It has been nine days since the Arab army came to plunder, but at this time the city of Aleppo still did not dare to open again, the city was full of fast-walking defenders, the remaining siege traces outside the city gate had not been cleared, the soldiers who were lying on the side of the road, and the corpses of the caravans had already emitted a burst of putrid stench.
The arrival of Li Jie's main army made the city of Aleppo, which had become a frightened bird, tremble for a long time, until the imperial flag appeared at the south gate of the city, and the guerrilla general Lu Sigu and Fan Zunhong, the Taishou of Acheng, came down from the city wall with a hanging basket to meet the king of Min.
The army finally packed up a clean place and prepared to camp, Emperor Li Jie was supreme, naturally it was impossible to spend the night outside the city, and the local officials of Acheng finally opened the south gate to welcome the holy driver.
Accompanied by Anna, entering the city from the south city, passing through the cross street of Aleppo, watching the originally prosperous street of Xuanhua become a slump at this time, the merchant monk who had not escaped looked at the king of Min through the crack in the window frame and door in fear and numbness, and Li Jie was annoyed a lot in his heart.
Aleppo was a major part of the Syrian province and played an important role on the Silk Road from Western Asia to Constantinople, and the Romans left behind the Viceroyalty was quite spacious.
The servants were cleaning the Roman-style courtyard garden in a panic, and the civil and military officials who followed Li Jie's personal expedition were also arranged here, carrying their luggage inside in a panic.
Don't dare to be disrespectful to the King of Min, Lu Sigu and Fan Zunhong mobilized a few local cooks in the restaurant in the city, and they were busy preparing to set up a banquet for hundreds of officials, but Li Jie didn't have the heart to eat, and before the two of them finished their work, the cold-faced eunuch was already impatient and sent the two to the temporary imperial study.
The place where the Roman governor once enjoyed himself was now replaced by a Chinese solemn atmosphere, several large tables of eight immortals were filled with all kinds of map copywriting, more than a dozen generals in armor, and several middle-aged old men in purple official robes gathered around a middle-aged man wearing a soapy black dragon robe.
Knowing that this was the King of Min, Lu Sigu and Fan Zunhong hurriedly shook their sleeves and bowed.
"The last general, Lu Sigu/Xiaguan Fan Zunhong, knock to see His Majesty the King of Min!"
At this time, Li Jie, who was full of fatigue, still had the heart to perform these vulgar rituals, raised his head from the pile of papers, and directly impatiently threw a book in front of the two of them.
"When the Arabs invade the city of Aleppo, how many troops are the Arabs? Who is in command? When did you leave, in that direction, and where are you camping now? ”
A large number of questions were asked, and the civil and military officials also paid attention to the past, not wanting to ask the two of them stupidly, bowing on the ground and trembling all over, and did not answer for a while.
Originally, the war was annoying enough, this scene made Li Jie even more anxious, and he couldn't help but slap the table and stood up, fortunately, before Li Jie got angry, the close minister Wang Fangyi had already made a long gesture to Li Jie with his fists, and under his pleading gaze, Li Jie sat back with anger.
Changing into a pleasant look, Wang Xuance paced in front of the two, bent down and asked with a smile: "Don't be afraid, Your Majesty has returned with the main army, even if there are more Arabs to Da Min are just clowns."
"What happened at that time, 1510 tell me, if you have contributed to the extermination of Arab bandits, Your Majesty will reward you!"
Wang Xuance, the second assistant of the cabinet, Wenchang had a kind attitude, but he didn't want to make the civil and military forces in the two places tremble even more, and the sweat under his head was wet for a small place, and after trembling a few times, the two of them kowtowed heavily to the ground.
"Your Majesty, the subordinates are guilty of a capital crime, where the Arab thieves' military strength comes from and where they retreat, the subordinates really don't know!"
As soon as he finished saying this, not to mention Li Jie, Fang Yi Ai Cheng Bo Xiansheng even stood up in shock.
Listening to the trembling explanations of the two, Li Jie and the ministers understood that one of the two daring was a general guarding the city, and the other was a closed-door guard.
At the end of September, the Arabs entered the city, the east gate was broken, and the two people who almost lost the city were really frightened, except for the night and the next day after the Arabs repelled the siege of the city, the two did not even meet with the Arab army that entered the city, and even the news of the invasion of the Arabs in Antioch and Edessa in the north was still the fortress beacon set up by the Fujian army along the way, these junior officers, except for sending an emergency to Li Jie, the two of them locked themselves in the city for the remaining seven days and did nothing.
However, the two of them wrote a letter from the Arabs to join the country, and Li Jie was transferred back from the front line of the Golan Heights.
If the eyes could kill, it is estimated that Lu Sigu and Fan Zunhong would have been splashed with blood on the spot, and the generals who rushed back from thousands of miles in the whole room were all staring at the two of them like cannibals.
The corners of his mouth twitched, and he stretched out a hand that was trembling, Li Jie felt like a balloon, and he couldn't speak for a while.
Wang Fangyi was also angry at this time, and shook his head helplessly, not knowing how to take the two living treasures. Fortunately, there was also an old man who had experienced strong winds and waves and was calm, frowning, Li Ji went around to the front, bent down slightly and stared at the two, and asked.
"Since you say that the Arab bandits once attacked the city, how many flags they put up on the day of the siege, and how long it took from the time the vanguard left the city wall to the time when the army withdrew after the evacuation, I always remember?"
"Remember! Remember! ”
also knew that he seemed to have offended the king of Min and his ministers, and at this moment Lu Sigu couldn't wait to expose a few roundworms in his stomach in front of the king of Min.
"On that day, the Arab barbarians raised a total of 77 banners, and launched three waves of siege in the morning, all of which were repelled by the strong crossbows and tiger squatting artillery at the head of the city, and they were evacuated from time to time in the afternoon, and they disappeared at the time of Shen."
"Seventy-seven flags, two hours before they were cleaned." After pinching his fingers and calculating repeatedly, Lao Li Ji arched his fist and turned back to Li Jie and said: "Your Majesty, the number of Arab thieves is not less than 80,000, and Acheng is only 8,000, and it is not improper to deal with Lu Guerrilla and Fan Taishou!"
Although it is not all Hussein's belongings, there are a lot of 100,000 people, it is worth tossing Li Jie back and eating this army, and the information that Li Ji deduced from the details made the group of generals suddenly open, crooked their bandaged necks, Li Yexu also squeezed over, and asked eagerly.
"The commander of the army is a middle-aged Arab man with a silver mask?"
"It's not!" This time, Fan Taishou replied with certainty: "The leader of the Arab thieves is a veiled woman, that woman is really like a madman, and she personally led the thieves to rob the city, if it wasn't for the East Gate King Team who led the detonation of the explosives at the city gate to prevent the collision of the city car was a little late, she would have almost been caught."
"Hey, it's quite honorable to let a woman be beaten into a turtle with a shrunken head and not caught."
Sheng Lianshan on the side couldn't help but sneer, so panicked that Li Yexu hurriedly tugged on his sleeve, fortunately Li Jie didn't pay attention to this, but once again pinched his chin and muttered in wonder.
"A woman, what the hell are the Arabs up doing?"
Women can have a very low status among the Arabs, but there are some exceptions, such as Muhammad's last wife, Aisha, who was only six years old when Muhammad married her, and only nine years old when she was married, Aisha had the support of many sectarians as Muhammad's widow, and she almost failed to defeat the fourth caliph Ali in the first civil war of the Muslims.
Aisha is also coming to war? But according to her age, she is also seventy or eighty years old, how can she personally command the capture of the city?
The biggest enemy is ignorance, after sending the two magistrates out of the imperial study, the ministers speculated for a long time, and did not deduce a reliable result, Li Jie had to depress the meeting and have a meal.
In order to please the King of Fujian, Fan Taishou purchased an obviously rich dinner, grapes, pomegranates, and hot Arabic pasta cakes and barbecue that were stored just after coming down, but he had a stomach in his heart, and no matter how good the delicacies of the mountains and seas Li Jie could not eat.
Just when his brows were tightly locked, a lieutenant at the door of the banquet hall hurriedly broke in, ignored the etiquette, bypassed the ministers, and went straight to the leader of the guards, Zanpo, after whispering a few words, Zanpo was anxiously reported in Li Jie's ear.
"Your Majesty, urgent military report, the Arabs attacked the city of Damascus, and the vanguard of Li Rang, the king of the county in the river, was defeated!"
When he spoke, the chopsticks in Li Jie's hand fell to the ground............