With a new target, the huge Fujian ** team moved slowly again, compared to the speed of the Fujian army in the past, this time it was much slower, more than ten miles of company camps, with the Guanning Iron Cavalry as the vanguard, slowly towards the southwest to kill. [This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

Along the way, except for the Persian cities located in front of the road, all the places they passed were abandoned, and the daily army only marched more than 20 miles, which was a world of difference compared to the previous march of the whole army of mules and horses, and the daily journey of 70 miles was simply a world of difference.

However, where the army of Fujian passed, it left a long tail, Yongdao!

Take clay and mud to dry, or take the roadside stones and mud to build walls, the history of the use of Yongdao in China can even be traced back to the Qin and Chu Julu War thousands of years ago, that battle Zhang Han is to cast Yongdao for a hundred miles, for the Qin army to transport grain and grass, in order to prepare for the late Qin Hebei rebel army raid war, now in order to ensure the smooth flow of grain from Khorasan and the Persian Gulf, more than 100,000 conscripted Jews and even tens of thousands of Fujian engineers have been mobilized to build a wall together.

A two-meter wall, eight meters wide, with Khorasan specialty of asphalt mixed with sand paved paved like a winding centipede appeared on the Mesopotamian plain, as soon as the winter rain in January and February passed, West Asia began to get hot, the scorching sun made this road more and more dry and hard, every day, the supply vehicles of the highway that traveled steadily in this wall were like crucian carp crossing the river, the only drawback, this road did not design public toilets, and the drivers had to prepare their own night pots.

At such a speed, it took a full month for the Fujian army to reach the second strategic target city, Fahan.

The city did not flourish during the Persian Empire, and did not flourish until the Arab Empire expanded here, and it was almost the only trade route between the Bedouins from the Arabian Desert and Mesopotamia, and it was also an important pass to the Arabian Desert.

This is an important place for the Bedouins who migrated from the Arabian Peninsula to communicate with the Mesopotamians, and Li Jie gave up occupying the whole of western Iraq without dividing his troops, and the Arab defenders really hesitated whether to abandon this large city of immigrants.

In particular, Fahan is also peculiar in that the fourth Orthodox caliph Ali was assassinated by radical Hawajili assassins while he was praying in the mosque of Kufa, so it is still a holy place for Shiites.

The night before the arrival of the Min army, 40,000 Arab Bedouin cavalry evacuated with as many as 100,000 relatives of Arab immigrants.

In this way, Kufa City still became the most tragic battle of the Min State into West Asia.

On February 13 of the first year of Longshuo, the army of Fujian surrounded Kufa City on three sides, and it took three days to fill in this military fortress city that was once the capital of Arabia under the cover of stone throwers and bed crossbows, and then it was a brutal siege battle.

Transported from the Persian Gulf by the fast road, assembled by craftsmen, the heavy counterweight stone throwers had reached twenty in the northern city of Kufa, and there was no salvo, one after another fierce fire oil barrels were piled up on the trebuchet rigging, and then with the loud shouts of the trebuchet captain, bundles of black smoke oil barrels were violently projected onto the walls of Kufa, and then the black oil bloomed into a gorgeous flower of death.

The Basra Fujian army only projected twenty-one oil barrels, the defenders surrendered, in Kufa, almost half a day of non-stop projection of Fujian **** projected for almost two days, now the gray-yellow Arab city wall is densely covered with a piece of black traces that have been burned by the fierce fire oil, and some places are even burned by the flames, a little touch, a large piece of wall skin will fall off, the huge city wall is full of billowing smoke, the dome of the big mosque that can be seen is also blackened, and the fire is raging in the city.

"For the sake of Fujian, kill !!"

The moment the stone thrower and the bed crossbow were projected, from the simple camp that was built, the soldiers of the right leading army and several mansions carried the tiger's head and round shield, carried the ladder and shouted to kill, and for a while, the dense engineering team like ants was densely covered under the huge city in an instant.

After brushing it, the Kufa city wall, which had just been dead and silent, also sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and countless Shiite Arab warriors came out, pulling full desert compound bows and a kind of pole crossbow unique to the Arabs were pulled, and for a while, the rain of arrows fell head-on like hail.

From time to time, a Tang army soldier was hit by an arrow in the thigh, screaming and lying on the offensive road, and was immediately nailed to the ground like a hedgehog.

The attacking Tang army also began to counterattack with crossbows, long and short feathered arrows passed each other, and every time the Arab warriors who showed their heads on the city wall screamed and fell down the city, and the thick corpses piled up under the city wall.

Finally, the ladder and the rod once again set up the Kufa city wall, and the Tang soldiers who were lifted up from the ladder picked up the Mo knife is a burst of killing and slashing, the Shia soldiers in the desert are not as fine chain mail and sharp Damascus scimitar as Muawiyah's Syrian army, some people don't even have leather armor, just wearing shabby sheepskin robes, sharp and heavy Mo knives are wielded, and some Arab defenders are even cut in two, cut down to the ground, and bloody internal organs flow everywhere.

However, after being stunned for a moment, the Arabs who reacted immediately dropped their bows, pulled out desert scimitars and even rushed up with arrows, if the Tang Army was brave, they were not afraid of death at all, their eyes were full of madness, and they did not hide at all in the face of the powerful Mo knife that was slashing at all, and some were even cut off half of their bodies, and they also roared with blood and vomited blood while holding the blade, creating an opportunity for their comrades to come up closely, and finally, the Tang Army warriors who were wearing heavy armor towers were pushed to the ground by the Arabs who were hugging them, and the next moment, Countless bladed arrows beckoned in along the cracks in the armor......

Another wave of siege failed, and in the rush of gold, even the Tang army, which had high morale, evacuated in a hurry.

"How many batches?"

Standing under the cover of the Huang Luo umbrella held by Zanpo, Li Jie himself couldn't help but sigh, turned his head and asked, Wang Xuance who was standing next to him couldn't help but wipe a handful of sweat.

"The thirteenth siege of the city, the left three provinces and the right two provinces have been beaten, and even the Tielin directly under the central government has been fought three times, at least three thousand casualties, the casualties of the Arabs in the city should be about twice as high as ours, but they are still so tenacious?"

After hesitating for a moment, Li Jie finally gritted his teeth and slammed his fist forward: "It's time, send out the tiger squat cannon and explosives bag, and you must take Kufa City today!"

Wang Xuance also breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and went to command.

The soldiers of the right leading guard are still panicking and retreating, on the city, more than 100 officers and soldiers who have fallen into the enemy formation and cannot retreat are still desperate to fight with the Arab defenders, and suddenly more than 1,000 cavalry rushed out of the Tang army barrier, and the Arab defenders in the city couldn't help but be stunned, but seeing that the Tang army trebuchet was not ready to launch, the defenders did not order to retreat to the city, and continued to order the Arab defenders to strangle the Tang army.

This kung fu, the cavalry has arrived at the city below 200 meters, dozens of pounds of steel hoops of cast iron cannons were set up in a range of more than 200 meters, a group of three, one person held the barrel, the other two people took out gunpowder and ball shells from the baggage, poured into the barrel in turn, with one person lit three people immediately covered their ears and hid aside.

Suddenly, like thunder on a sunny day, the tiger squat cannon that had been erected to almost 90 degrees shot out one or two hundred meters high and then fell almost vertically on the top of the city.

This terrifying attack was so sudden that the Arab defenders who were not dead were stunned, and at this moment, the tiger squat artillery group under the city poured out the scum from the barrel of the gun again, refilled the medicine, and the second round of explosions exploded again.

Finally, the Arab defenders on the walls could not hold on, and fled down the walls in tears.

Unstoppable, driving away the defenders, a hundred tiger squat cannons were reloaded for the third time, this time loaded with solid lead bullets, lowered the height, and bombarded the city wall, and in the ear-numbing roar, large clouds of smoke and dust rose from the city wall, and then with the fourth salvo, the wall of Kufa collapsed.

"Kill, kill!" Seeing this scene, the rear fought hard for several days, and the red-eyed Wei army immediately surged out like a landslide and poured into Kufa City along the two gaps.

The sound of weapons intersecting has not stopped since entering the city, and the Shiite hardliners left behind, even women and old men, have been sent to the battlefield, and brutal street battles have begun again, and the stubborn resistance of the Kufa defenders has stimulated the Tang army, and for the first time, the uncontrollable massacre of the city has begun.

At 10 o'clock in the afternoon, the city of Kufa was stormed, but the street fighting continued until sunset, and the huge city fortress was full of burning flames and black smoke, and corpses were stacked on the streets, and there were almost no intact buildings in the city, except for the half-blackened Great Mosque.

After the battle, the Tang army finally staggered and tired and withdrew from the city under the leadership of the captains of various schools, and the follow-up Min Wang Tielin took over the streets, and in the choking smoke, Li Jie finally arrived in front of the big mosque that had been looking out for many days.

The corpses nearby are full of layers, the black armor of the Tang army is not uncommon, Li Jie's face is ugly, the reason why gunpowder was not used two days ago, on the one hand, the stockpile of gunpowder is limited, and it needs to be supplied directly from the workshop of the Beijing Division, and it is a little less to use a little, on the other hand, although Kufa is regarded as a fortress and a country by the Arabs, the city wall here is really general, six or seven meters high, thin, at most similar to the city of Xiazhou in the Central Plains.

Who would have thought that more than 4,000 of his soldiers would be devoured in such a humble place, and in the street fighting in the afternoon, there would be more than 1,000 casualties, and minor injuries were no longer counted.

"Your Highness, these people can't stay!"

Just when Li Jie was looking at the big mosque surrounded by war, a cold suggestion full of murderous intent sounded in his ears, turned his head in shock, glanced at Wang Fangyi, who has always been known as a Confucian general, and turned his head to look at the Arab prisoners of war and Persian prisoners of war who were pushed and pressed out by the Tang army nearby, and the men had been killed, and the citizens of Kufa who were ragged but hateful stared at their royal banner, Li Jie nodded subconsciously.