In September of the third year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the military operation that lasted for more than a month finally came to an end.

Li Rang's troops, who had just been attacked near the Golan Heights, were ordered to abandon the entire Golan Heights and the nearby cities and villages that had just been occupied, and slowly retreated to Damascus, while the headquarters led by Li Jie himself had already rushed back and forth, and the main force of the 300,000 Fujian army and the supporting troops of various ethnic groups and subject countries relied on the city of Aleppo to rest and recuperate.

This move marked the cessation of the strategic offensive of the Great Min and the strategic defense by relying on the great cities of Western Asia, and the initiative of the war seemed to return to the hands of the Arab Empire.

However, even after the army stopped, Li Jie was not idle, and the Damin court began to meet the shock wave brought by the defeat of Antioch City.

First of all, in the army, some Armenian generals, nobles disappeared unconsciously, the last big defeat, the Armenians betrayed Min and fell to Byzantium is one of the important reasons, Fujian needs the Caucasus as a hard shield against the steppes along the Caspian Sea, Li Jie does not want to pierce the thorns of this shield on his back, so some people who are not firm in their will must be eliminated on the *.

But even more tricky was the 160,000 Eastern Roman army stationed under the city of Damascus and used as the vanguard cannon fodder by the Fujian army, these people came from Athens, Sparta, Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace, and the Rhine, including both Romans and Greeks, as well as East and West Gothic, Germanic peoples, Sarmatian cavalry from the South Russian steppe, and almost the same military camp could hear several languages.

Only the Romans, who had experienced centuries of great decline, could use enough political wisdom to reconcile such a complex group.

A while ago, this army could be used by Li Jie because almost the entire Roman court was besieged in Antioch, and more than half of the generals of various military regions, the elders of the manor, and the local wealthy families surrendered, and followed the chief officials, these subjects had no choice but to follow, but now Constantine IV has fled!

With his political means, he did not know what kind of conspiracy blueprint he would collude with the senators who returned early, the members of the Senate who stayed behind, and the ambitious adjutant generals of the military regions who stayed behind.

Whoever has no family, if he knows that his parents, brothers, and wives will fall into the regain control of the Roman court, these armies will not be fried.

The news of the defeat of Antioch was tightly sealed, and on October 10, Li Jie visited Damascus again, at this time the 160,000 Eastern Roman army had been vigilantly divided into several pieces and disarmed.

For example, the mercenaries recruited in the Duchy of Athens were almost unaffected, and they still stayed in the same barracks as the Min people, anyway, they were mercenaries, and they were also from the Dominions of the League cities, and the Roman emperor had little influence on their families.

In Constantinople and its affiliated towns in the region, the most unreliable Eastern Roman generals, soldiers, and Roman paladiers were held in solitary confinement in a battalion.

The wall of the wooden cage is more than three meters high, and the unpolished wood is full of wooden thorns, and the Eastern Roman officers and soldiers who do not know what is going on lie in the wall in shock, and when they see that there are Fujian officials coming to inspect, they knock on the cage and shout loudly one by one, and some even try to climb out.

I don't know how many political coups have happened in the history of Eastern Rome, not without precedents of large-scale executions by hostile faction troops, seeing the vigilant appearance of the nearby town guards with crossbows, many knowledgeable children of the members of the city Curia Assembly, and the children of the patriarchal families are simply cowering in a corner in despair.

"His Majesty the King of Hezhong County has done a very good job, he can preemptively control all these rioters before the turmoil appears, which is already quite a father's style!"

Sycophants to Li Ji is also a realm, not only praised Li Rang Li Jie and his son, but also said righteous words, there is no flattery at all, Wang Fangyi, who listened to the following, Yuwenjie was secretly admired, Li Rang scratched his head even more embarrassedly, only Li Jie still had that indifferent face, nodded noncommittally.

After patrolling around several camps and riding back to Damascus, Li Jie finally spoke, but he also asked with an indifferent and gloomy face.

"How many unreliable Roman soldiers are there?"

"Back to the eldest father, there will be twenty-six, almost accounting for the majority of the Eastern Roman legions, with junior officers in their early five hundred and sixty years and twenty-seven thousand soldiers."

Li Rang replied respectfully with a fist salute, a wind of benevolence and filial piety was vividly reflected, but there was always a report from the subordinates to the superiors, and there was no feeling of family.

It still didn't seem to be touched, Li Jie looked back at Li Ji who was riding behind him and asked, "What does the cabinet plan to do with this?"

Almost without thinking about it, Li Ji replied sonorously as a matter of course: "Pit kill!"

In the history of China, there is a glorious side, but also has a dim and unintelligible side, these great Confucian scholars pay attention to the ominous killing of prisoners, and they are not so merciful to their own people, and they kill people at every turn to wipe out the three clans, such as the witch Gu disaster during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty affected nearly 300,000 people in Guanzhong, and the cruelty is more and more dark with the progress of history, from the Sui and Tang dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties, and even to the Ming Taizu, During the Chengzu period, the appalling melon vines and punishments also appeared.

Zhu Yuanzhang almost said that the enemy's cronies and subordinates killed the descendants of the descendants and his own cronies to kill the meritorious family, and the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di was afraid of the power of Emperor Jianwen after succeeding to the throne, and even killed the entire village of Jianwen's former ministers.

These Eastern Roman armies, which have been driven by the Fujian army for a period of time, are very sad to be regarded as "their own people" by Li Ji and others, these two words show the consistent way of dealing with political enemies of Huaxia scholars, even Yuwenjie, Zheng Chongjian and other subordinate officials of Guan Sergeant and Doctor are all as they should be, and they are not shocked by the slaughter of almost 30,000 people at once, only Li Jie himself frowned and did not say anything.

Outside the city of Damascus, it is also the eastern wheat that has been replanted by the residents of the towns, and in the warm wind delivered by the Mediterranean depression at the end, the appearance of the wheat swaying is refreshing, and the school field outside the city gate, thousands of Fujian troops are still practicing the battle formation.

"Kill!"

Under the command of the main general, the soldiers in front of the army all stabbed their spears forward neatly, and in the void, it seemed to be pointed directly at the throat of the enemy, and this fierce murderous aura even some fierce generals did not dare to stand close.

However, under the leather armor of the black-helmeted infantry, which is exactly the same as that of the ordinary Fujian army, there are Arab faces with beards.

The initial Islamic fanaticism gradually retreated after the military defeat, and the desert could not feed enough people, and it happened that more and more Arabs were conscripted into the army, and the proportion under Li Rang's command was increasing.

In fact, not only Li Rangbu, but also the proportion of Tang people in the various armies of the Great Min is declining, and they are replaced by various ethnic groups of the Tang Dynasty, and now the Persians and Tianzhu people occupy the main body of the Min army, and the Min army has become more and more localized.

However, among the generals, the proportion of Tang people is still quite high, at least in Li Jie's Imperial Council, most of them are still the faces of the south of the Guanzhong River.

In the face of the erratic Arab cavalry, a large group of generals were blushing and arguing endlessly, some advocated sending troops to Mecca to force the Arabs to fight to the death, and some were opposed, thinking that it was too dangerous for the large group of men and horses to cross the desert, and the two sides were arguing happily.

Li Ji is a veteran in the end, and he is more pragmatic, and in the circle of senior generals, Li Ji is planning the details of killing prisoners.

"There are already merchants and people who have fled back from Constantinople, and it can't be concealed for too long, if these Romans know that Constantine IV is back on the throne, I'm afraid that these Roman troops will rebel sooner or later, and now that I am under enemy inside and outside Fujian, there must be no more civil strife!"

"The prime minister has decided to execute the unstable elements of the in the Roman army outside the east gate of Damascus tonight, and the left and right guards will escort the prisoners to the lotus valley, and then the Arabs under the command of the king of the river will do it, and the left guard will mobilize cavalry to patrol the vicinity and kill the escapees."

Li Ji's words were gloomy and full of murderous intent, seeing his inquiring gaze, Li Rang, who had not yet adapted to this kind of killing, reluctantly agreed with a calm face, nodded, and after the military department and General Nanya discussed it properly, Li Ji respectfully arched his fist to Li Jie.

"Your Majesty, what do you think?"

In the past, Li Jie would basically not object to the proper discussion of the ministers if it did not involve national affairs, so Li Ji was just in a situation at this time.

Who knows, this time Li Jie is very different from the past against the will of the ministers, and shook his head heavily.

"The widow is not going to kill these Romans."

It took a long time to be stunned for half a minute before he reacted, and he couldn't be surprised, Li Ji was a little angry in front of Li Jie.

"Your Majesty, what are you going to do with these restless people? How to save Damin from the scourge of civil strife? ”

"Widows