The noise and noise filled the whole city, the torches were thrown on the thatched roofs, and the fire suddenly rose in the dark night, and the bewitching light shone on the dirt wall opposite, dragging all kinds of figures long, like monsters.

The man's roar, the woman's scream, the tree-like shadow reflected back and forth on the wall, and finally the scimitar, the head of the round head more like a dryad The shadow accounted for the vast majority, and the scimitar was draped on the neck of the panicked shadow, and the shadow was like a vivid shadow puppet play, which interpreted the cruelty of war in real terms.

Finally, a handful of blood smeared the earthen walls, and the splatters of blood seemed to extinguish the flames, and finally the light and shadow fell silent.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for a red sun to rise in the sky, and the bright sunlight dispelled the darkness of the whole city at once, however, the air was thick with blood, the collapsed houses and the blackened streets, and the traces of war were still heavily left in the city.

This is not the first time they have encountered Arabs.

From the end of July to land in Asia Minor, Li Yexu led the highly mobile Arab light cavalry and a small number of Min cavalry, really followed up the princess of the iron fan like a monkey in the belly, but tossed vigorously, first swept several ports along the coast of Asia Minor, when the Byzantine garrison stationed in the mountains of Ancatolia finally formed a large enough garrison, Li Yexu and the hero did not suffer the immediate loss, dragged this army in the central plateau of Asia Minor in a circle.

A few days ago, Li Yexu led a large army to Ankara, the center of Asia Minor, the Romans called Maitropol, which means metropolis or capital, which was one of the important battlefields of the decisive battle between the Muawiya Dynasty and the Eastern Romans.

However, seeing that Li Yexu's lone army went deeper, followed by tens of thousands of Roman border guards, the governor of Ankara contemptuously rejected this request and cursed all Arabs to die under the city of Ankara.

This news came back to Li Yexu's military camp, and the entire Arab camp was boiling, indeed, the Arabs were defeated by Da Min, but these free nomads in the desert never looked down on the Romans, because Eastern Rome almost never won a decent victory in front of the Arab Empire, and even this Ankara was successively broken by Muawiya, Houjie, and Hussein several times.

Now, the dirt under his feet refused to surrender, and he insulted the warriors of Great Arabia contemptuously, is this still worth it?

However, looking at the angry Arab sheikhs beating their chests in the tent, angry and ruined, Li Yexu smiled.

At the beginning of August, Li Yexu led the angry Bedouin army under the city and pursued more than ten days of Eastern Roman pursuers for a decisive battle, the war began, seeing that he was tired and tired of pursuing, finally trapped the enemy on a high slope, mainly composed of Greeks The Eastern Roman infantry was simply ecstatic, under the leadership of their respective centurions, presented a fan-shaped semi-encirclement of Li Yexu rushed over.

However, only more than ten minutes later, these Eastern Roman officers and soldiers realized that they were happy early, with more than 100 ironclad cavalry as the vanguard, under the rain of arrows and war horses of the Arabs, the Roman infantry in the center was easily crushed, and the Roman soldiers on the left and right, who had been running wild for more than ten days and were tired and hungry, also collapsed as a matter of course.

These Roman garrisons can't be compared with the regular Roman field army at all, they are all the old, weak, sick and disabled left by the military region, and they are all infantry, and the number is quite comparable, such an army can fight a defensive battle in a rugged place, and it is okay to attack the cavalry on the high slope, that is to hit the lantern and go to the latrine, and find death!

Taking advantage of the anger of his chieftains, Li Yexu easily crushed the Eastern Roman pursuers who caught up, not to mention, and watched his own rescuers all over the mountains being cut down by the vicious Arabs on the spot, and the corpses were scattered on the outskirts of Ankara.

With the reinforcements routed into the city, there was another big wash of the city last night.

Even in the Turkish Plateau in later generations, the early morning was a little cold, breathing the cold smell of blood in the early morning, standing at the head of the city and watching the raging black smoke of the war that had not yet been extinguished in the city, Li Yexu couldn't help but sigh a little.

In these years, there is no army that does not plunder, even if the Fujian army attacks the city and goes to the ground, the hands and feet are also not clean, until modern times, the British, Spanish, and Portuguese armies who advertise civilized people are also looting, and it can be seen from the good deeds done by the Eight-Nation Alliance in Beijing.

It's no wonder that everyone's head is pinned to the waistband of their trousers, what is the picture, isn't it just to get promoted and get rich? If you don't let everyone grab some points, who will work hard? In history, only the Yue family army froze to death and did not enter the house and starved to death and did not grab food, and they still fought on the land of the Central Plains.

But there are really not many brutal looting like the Arabs, the previous Huns are counted as one, and the Mongols in later generations are also counted as one, which Li Yexu does not know. Earlier, I heard that because of the expansion of the Arabs, hundreds of rich cities in the Middle East were destroyed, and Li Yexu, who had seen the magnificent appearance of the ruins of the Damascus Imperial Palace, still didn't believe it, but now, looking at the tragic situation in this capital of central Asia Minor, Li Yexu believed it.

The streets are endless, the houses are endless, the exquisite street statues of the Romans don't know how much effort it took the craftsmen to do so, but now their heads are broken and broken, turning into pools of rubble and falling to the ground, the beautiful faces of the beauties have come to naught, and the general's majestic body is shattered.

Standing at the head of the city, looking at the elated Arabs who were smashing, Li Yexu couldn't help but say with emotion: "Your Majesty is really right, you should consume these barbarians on the battlefield." ”

Just as Li Yexu sighed, the scout cavalry he had left outside the city to be in charge of guarding suddenly rushed back, standing at the bottom of the city gate tower and shouting anxiously.

"General, outside the city, an Eastern Roman cavalry is rapidly approaching our army! It's less than thirty miles from the city of Ankara! ”

Li Yexu, who heard this, couldn't help but feel cold, attacking alone, nothing can be sloppy, Li Yexu hurriedly lay on the head of the city and asked loudly: "Who is coming to lead the troops?" How much? How is the equipment? ”

"General Hui, a thousand cavalry, light cavalry, the general is unknown, and the cavalry is unknown."

Hearing this number of 1,000 people made Li Yexu breathe a sigh of relief, but two ominous things in a row made him raise his eyebrows, hesitated, and turned back to the lieutenant general and ordered: "Blow the trumpet, assemble the team!" ”

The shortcomings of the Arabs were revealed at this time, and many tribes were still in the city to grab the fun, and heard the rallying cry, and some tribal chiefs actually deliberately pretended not to hear it, and the rallying horn blew for a long time, but a few small chiefs carried bags of booty and dragged their pants and gathered outside the city gate.

In desperation, Li Yexu took this more than 1,000 sloppy cavalry to meet him, and intercepted this group of Roman cavalry coming in a hurry fifteen miles away from Ankara City.

Just when Li Yexu was leading his cavalry with black circles and exhausted eyes to worry, far away, the Roman cavalry actually stopped, and respectfully patted the messenger.

They are here to surrender!

Seeing Li Yexu's stunned eyes, the Roman cavalry who came, a Roman officer in his fifties, like a shepherd more than a centurion, was wrinkled all over his face, looking at the city of Ankara that was still billowing black smoke in the distance, and shouted sadly in unskilled Tang language.

"We, our own work! Don't burn it anymore! ”

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Li Yexu only stayed on the coast of Ancatolia for a few days, but the damage he brought was devastating, the locust-like Arab army almost a day left a port, and most of the population in the port was looted as slaves by the Fujian warships, leaving a pile of empty cities.

The administrative system of the inland Roman Empire was almost completely destroyed, and about 50,000 Eastern Roman border guards counted on these fishing boats to feed them, and as a result, under the plundering of the Fujian army like pirates, even if the harbor cities were not affected, the residents fled to the mountains in panic with their belongings, and the Ancatolia mountains were already barren, and the border guards suddenly fell into starvation without backup.

The Eastern Roman Republic has been established for more than a thousand years, and the loyal and resolute character of the early Romans has long been wiped out by history, and the general of the Eastern Military Region, Sir Fox, was not willing to wait for death like this, and sent those hot-blooded idiots who did not agree to surrender to gather the local garrison to go out to pursue the Arab cavalry that was making trouble behind his back, and Sir simply united the old squires of the Eastern Military Region and jointly wrote a letter of willingness to Anna, recognizing that Anna was the legitimate Augustus of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Fox's trick is very cunning, now King Min and Anna are husband and wife, and according to Christian law, Anna is still Li Jie's only legal wife, Anna is the emperor, and King Min is automatically crowned the emperor of the Romans, so that the surrender to the Min, groveling to foreigners has turned into an imperial war within the Eastern Roman Empire.

As the first governor-level official to defect to the past, he Fox is not only rich and rich, but may also have a great improvement in the future.

However, Fox had exhausted his calculations, calculated his reputation and future, but did not calculate the time and the self-confidence of the governor of Ankara that had swelled for a moment after seeing the reinforcements, and finally returned with a letter of peace personally from the king of Min, from the coast to the central region, the last bit of the essence of the patriarchs of Asia was ravaged by the angry Arabs.

Not to mention how Fox stood in front of the ruins of his manor and cried, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the fifth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the 130,000 troops of the Great Min Expedition to the West, also on a sea ship, under the leadership of Li Ji, the marshal of the march of the Asia Path, easily crossed the dangerous Ancatolia mountains, and killed them along the coast in the direction of Europe.

For a time, the Fujian army and the land and water armies marched hand in hand, and the march was fast.