It was a machine-gun fire, the arrows puffed through the rudimentary wooden walls, the papier-mâché windows, and the arrows with fire pierced into the human body, and the crowd who were still praying fell to the ground in an instant, and in the crisp sound, the silver candlestick that Father Brown was proud of was broken into two knots by heavy arrows, and the butter candle on it, which had not been burning for long, fell to the ground.

The smell of blood filled the room.

With a bang, the churches were slammed open, and the Arab sergeants wearing the armor of the Min army rushed in viciously, the reason why it was obvious at a glance that they were Arab sergeants, because these infantry armors were too worn and old, and some of them were stained with blood, which was completely different from the brand-new armor of the Great Min, and it was obviously taken off the body of the dead.

Dressed in the armor of the dead, these uninvited guests were also full of dead air, and there was still minced meat hanging on the somewhat curly knives, and more than a dozen people rushed into the church, regardless of the old, weak, women and children, and the head was a knife, and even more bloody slaughter permeated the church.

"Don't kill again!"

His heart was dripping with blood, and although Father Brown was a little greedy, he was also a kind-hearted pastor, trembling out of the hiding pulpit, speaking in Arabic that he was not very fluent, and Brown cried out anxiously: "We are willing to pay the poll tax, as much as we want!" Don't kill again! ”

The rules of the great Arab expansion were either to convert to Islam and everyone to be brothers, or to pay the poll tax, and the caliph guaranteed the personal safety and freedom of belief of the infidels, or to fight to the death, and the chickens and dogs were not left, although the later on, the more the Arab Empire broke its promise, even if the foreigners who converted to Islam were still burdened with heavy taxes, the poll tax was much less than the original light tax paid to the Roman Empire, and the heavy tax on almost all income became a heavy tax, but the good Arabs who paid the tax did not kill have always insisted on it.

However, this time Brown was disappointed, and listening to his shout, the Arabs on the other side drew their bows and roared like beasts: "The caliph has decreed, and heretics like you are not worthy to live, they all deserve to die!"

Seeing the cold arrow heading straight for his head, Brown's hair was on the ground, and his back was wet with cold sweat for a moment, and his brain was blank.

However, just before the arrow was fired, another Arab warrior suddenly pressed the bow of the Arab soldier who shot the arrow.

"Keep him! Just let him see what happened to the infidels, and let him tell the Min people how terrible the anger of the followers of my great Arab god is! ”

"Cheap this infidel!"

Casually deflected the bow and shot another Christian who staggered out, the archer and arrow Arab soldier pulled out his scimitar again, and picked up a doll that was only eleven or twelve years old on the side, and slashed down with the knife, the boy was completely frightened, and he didn't know how to dodge, and the blood that spurted out splashed Brown's face at once.

The Arabs slaughtered extremely quickly, a dozen people slaughtered hundreds of Christians in a church in more than ten minutes, these Islamic fanatical believers have reached the level of terrorists, and they don't even loot gold and silver wealth, they come purely for the sake of killing and destroying, and those who kill all the people in the church retreat without looking back, and then a dozen torches are thrown on it.

The whole town was in a sea of fire, and in the billowing smoke, Brown, whose face was stained with blood, staggered out of the burning church, until he reached the small fountain in the center of the town, and plunged headlong into the water, and then he came back to his senses, and slammed his head on the ground with sorrow and hatred, and cried at the desolate trumpet of the sky.

"Oh God! Why did you release these demons from hell! ”

In the flames, the burning town of Perrin is just a microcosm, and the next Odo, Fulati, and Heyang towns all follow in the footsteps of Perran, and the huge Antioch Valley impact plain, and this kind of burning flames can be seen everywhere.

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The Great Wall of China, which had been built from Mount Lebanon, turned around in Aleppo and formed an arc of semi-encirclement to separate these rich areas from the barren desert areas to the southeast.

However, after only a year of construction, this thousand-mile Great Wall is obviously not as strong as the Great Wall of China, but a simple version of the Great Wall built after the Rhine Great Wall of the ancient Roman Empire.

In the ninth year of the Common Era, the Roman Empire and the Germanic barbarians who later formed Europe fought a decisive battle in the Teutonic Forest, due to the arrogance of the Roman general Varus, three Roman legions and about the same number of auxiliary legions attacked the Germania region, and were besieged by the Roman leader Heilmann and hundreds of forest tribes of unknown Germanic people, and the whole army was annihilated.

After the northern defense line was missing, Octavian, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. Augustus had to give up Germania, but Octavian was not willing to give up the fertile land of the Rhine in Germany in later generations, so he built a thousand-mile Great Wall three meters high and less than one meter wide with wood and stone at the bend of the Rhine, and left a gap every one or two miles to build a watchtower to defend the land east of the Rhine.

The advantage of such a Great Wall is that it is simple to build, and it is very suitable for dealing with enemy harassment warfare with mobile walls, if a large-scale enemy army comes to attack, the Great Wall outpost discovered in advance has enough time to issue an early warning to the rear, and the large-scale Roman legions can completely follow the gap in the Great Wall to intercept the enemy's return and fight slowly.

If it is a medium-sized attack of a few thousand people, the defenders can also hold the Great Wall watchtower and wait for the rangers who patrol the Great Wall back and forth to come to reinforcements, and a small-scale attack of dozens of people does not even need to be reported, and a hundred or so garrisons on a watchtower can be solved.

Imitated by the Great Wall of the Romans, this defense is impervious to wind and rain, but this large-scale attack by the Arabs is scattered to the Great Wall of the Middle East of Damin within more than 300 miles, each force is no more than no less, and there are exactly 100 people, not entangled with the guard tower at all, as much as you can break into, you can break into as much as you want, and the small-scale attacks of dozens of people and hundreds of people do not need to be reported according to the level of treatment. It was too late for Xue Rengui, the general of Zuojin Wuwei.

Almost more than 2,000 Arab troops were scattered into countless units, burning and plundering in the densely populated suburbs of Antioch, and by the time Xue Rengui reacted, hundreds of towns and villages had already been destroyed, and these terrorists who were bent on killing slaughtered tens of thousands of immigrants from Syrian provinces, causing great panic in the entire situation in the Middle East.

Fear quickly turned to anger.

In August, in the hottest weather in West Asia, outside the simply restored Damascus Palace, it was crowded with people, as many as tens of thousands of clan representatives from all over Syria, priests and priests and leaders of the sect all gathered in the small Suzaku Square in front of the palace gate, banners, banners, and big signs were densely swaying, although they were sweating, up to seventy or eighty-year-old men, down to teenage dolls, all of them were excitedly shouting slogans.

"Revenge!"

Father Brown, who was at the front of the crowd and had already lost a lot of weight, shouted the most fiercely, and even hissed at the forbidden soldiers who were nervously guarding outside the palace gate and trying their best to intercept them with spears.

"The Arab barbarians have exterminated humanity, their gods have become dark and destructive, God again, please Damin avenge the hundreds of villagers in my Peilan Town, and avenge my tens of thousands of compatriots!"

Following his gesture of arms, the local people behind him also shouted loudly and in unison: "One, two, three, revenge !!"

Of course, Li Jie had heard such a boiling crowd demonstration in the palace, and in fact, this time the Supreme Command of Damin was also busy with this matter, holding a large stack of impeachments played by the officials, and the beads of sweat on Prime Minister Yuwenjie's head flowed into a stream.

"Your Majesty, the Six Branches, and the Imperial History Observatory have written to impeach Xue Rengui, the general of Antioch Town, demanding that he be dismissed from his post and investigated, and asking the imperial court to quickly send troops to take revenge, and now there are millions of migrant workers in Antioch, Ancatolia and Edessa who have gone on strike to strike farmers, and the form is in crisis!"

This time, there were thousands of Tang merchants, monks, children of the Tianzhu family, officials, and Arabs who were killed.

However, even if Prime Minister Yuwenjie, Imperial Historian Li Gang and others were sweating profusely under the pressure of public opinion, Li Ji, the secretary of the military department who was also pale and sweaty, shook his head and vetoed it very resolutely.

"Your Majesty! The Arabs moved this because Hussein had boiled to the end of the mountain and wanted to force our army to fight him in the scorching heat. ”

"But the protests of the people outside, as well as the officials, if they drag on, I am afraid that they will lose the hearts of the people......"

"A group of laymen who don't understand military affairs, listen to their clamour, my Great Min rules the country for thousands of miles, relying on the sword in our hands rather than the ethereal hearts of the people, Your Majesty, please send troops to disperse those mobs besieging the palace!"

Before Yuwenjie finished speaking, Li Ji interrupted him with a fierce reaction, and bowed to Li Jie excitedly.

Seeing the prime ministers arguing with each other, Li Jie himself hesitated.

Taking advantage of the scorching heat to send troops, the soldiers did not take it, and at this time, the decisive battle with the Arabs was falling into Hussein's arms, and Li Jie knew it clearly. But the problem is that he is the king of Fujian, not only needs to consider the military, but also takes into account politics, thinking in all directions, at this time, to send troops to attack the Arab Empire, it must be in line with the will of the people, the will of the people is not as useless as Li Ji said, tax production, military service can all rely on these conquered people.

At the height of its prosperity, the population of the province of Syria was tens of millions, and even now, after a long period of war and war, a large number of people have died, and there are still nearly 5 million inhabitants near Antioch and Edessa.

If they refuse to send troops, the same political shock will be obvious, and it will be more difficult for the West Asians, who have become disillusioned with the Great Min, to rule.

The choice between the two really made Li Jie's head bigger, but at this moment, another person rushed in from the outside.

The fierce gallant general didn't even feel the heat on his face, and after the report, the Hebei big man pushed the golden mountain and poured himself into the Luan Palace, and reported anxiously.

"Your Majesty, Edessa has once again sent an urgent military intelligence ......"