Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1422
Xuanzheng Hall.

The palace is discussing matters, the crown prince is acting as the regent for the emperor, the academician of the Hanlin Academy who is in charge of the political affairs hall, the eunuchs from the three inner provinces, the Privy Council and the chiefs of Yushitai are also there.

"Li Shimin died of a serious illness. Now Xindu urgently needs to send someone who is both capable and prestigious, and must be able to fight to take over. Otherwise, I am afraid that Sanhai will not be able to control Sanhai."

Privy envoy Su Dingfang said.

Ping Zhangshi and Minister of the Ministry of War Xu Shiji said, "I think Liu Rengui can take over. He also served as the right commander in Xindu for more than three years. He is also very prestigious in the army, and he has always been loyal to the saint and diligent in the king's affairs, so it is entirely possible for him to take over."

Liu Heifu, the commander of Jinyiwei who attended the meeting, flipped through the small notebook in front of him, and then spoke.

"My distinguished prime ministers and your Excellencies, I have an important news to inform you all. The latest letter from Jinyiwei sent from Persia, under the leadership of the Caliphate, the Arabs defeated the Persian army in the Battle of Qadisiya , and after the long siege of the Persian capital of Ctesiphon, Ctesiphon fell."

This news did not shake the prime ministers sitting here.

In fact, Persia has been rotten in the past 20 years. Daqin also took into account the covenant of the Three Emperors and helped Persia several times, but Persia was so muddled that it couldn't support the wall.

However, there is no way for Persia to rot like this. First, not long after Kawad II signed the Three Emperors Alliance with Daqin and Rome, the Persian Sassanian emperor who usurped the throne by killing his father only sat on the throne for one year, and was eventually dismissed. Poisoned.

And the man who assassinated him was his brother.

In the following five years, assassinations, usurpers, and regicides followed. In the five years, ten kings emerged from the Sasanian Empire. They all claimed to be kings of kings and emperors of Persia, but in fact they were all just puppets in the hands of great nobles and monks.

Afterwards, Yazdigede succeeded to the throne and was called Yizuqi III. This man was supported by the Qin Dynasty and the Roman Empire, which temporarily ended the internal chaos in Persian Sassanid.

However, five years of fighting between ten kings has completely damaged Persia's vitality. During these precious five years, the Arabs have rapidly risen on the peninsula.

They benefited from Qin's strategic contraction strategy, captured Mecca and other important cities on the land trade route on the northern shore of the Red Sea, and quickly integrated various Arab families and tribes.

After the death of the Prophet, the Arabs were successively elected as caliphs by his disciples or comrades-in-arms.

Several caliphs continued to launch wars of external expansion. First, they united with King Axum on the southern shore of the Red Sea, and together launched an attack on the Yemeni Himeyar Kingdom in the northeast corner of the Red Sea. A not weak force that was conquered one by one by the various countries. Later, in the battle for Yemen, Himuyer was first defeated by the Aksum Kingdom that crossed the sea to attack, and became a vassal state. Later, Persian Sassan sent troops to fight, and was finally defeated Persia took it and changed it to a Persian vassal.

After the agreement of the Three Emperors Alliance, the Himuyar Kingdom became a vassal state of Qin according to the agreement, and became a vassal state of Qin. Many forces on the northern shore of the Red Sea, such as Mecca, had also surrendered to Qin, but the Arabs held the eagle flag and acted. Quickly, before the Qin people arrived, they captured Mecca and other cities.

After taking Mecca and other cities, the Arabs began to go east, wanting to conquer Yemen, and take back Oman and other places controlled by Persia to the north.

The war begins.

The Kingdom of Himuyar, which had been a vassal state for many years, was vulnerable and retreated in front of the eagle flag. It had to ask for help from the Persian Sasanian army in the north. The Persian army went south to rescue according to the agreement, but the Persian heavy cavalry could not beat the eagle. Arabian light cavalry.

In the first round of the battle for Yemen, Persia was defeated and retreated. The Kingdom of Himuyar was invaded and occupied by Dashi and became a vassal state of Dashi.

Then Dashi went north to compete for Oman, Persia increased its troops to defend, and at the same time urgently asked the Qin army to send troops to help.

At this time, the imperial court sent Li Shimin to lead an expeditionary fleet to help, and the second battle for Yemen broke out.

The war lasted for more than a year. With the help of the Qin Army, the Great Qin-Persian Allied Forces, which had control over the sea, first cut off Axum’s logistics line, forcing Axum to withdraw from the battle first, and then the two joined hands to fight Persia. Rome also took the opportunity at this time Send troops from Syria to copy the lair of big cannibals.

The second battle for Yemen ended with Dashi withdrawing its troops and withdrawing from Yemen.

The Qin army officially entered Yemen, built military ports and fortresses in Yemen, and guarded the mouth of the Red Sea.

Not long after this war, the Persian emperor Kawad was poisoned, and Persia fell into five years of civil strife, unable to look south to the peninsula.

And Li Shimin also returned to Xindu after the war, and began to colonize Xindu with all his strength.

The defeated Dashi, after summing up some lessons, began to abandon eastward expansion and began to expand westward. Under the leadership of the Caliph, it attacked the Roman army in Syria westward in retaliation for their last troop dispatch.

However, the caliph's attack was ineffective and he died shortly after.

Umar was elected as the second caliph. He chose Khalid ibn Walid, known as the sword of Allah, as the coach, and let him lead an elite army to conquer Syria.

This famous general led an army of [-] soldiers, unexpectedly passed through the inaccessible Syrian desert, and annihilated [-] Roman troops on the banks of the Yarmouk River. In this battle, the Roman army had no soldiers to defend in Syria. , The Great Food Army took advantage of the opportunity to occupy Damascus, the capital of Syria.

Since then, the Great Food Army has been victorious and besieged Jerusalem for two years, finally forcing it to surrender.

Since then, all the land of the Roman Empire on the west bank of the peninsula has been taken away by the big cannibals. Emperor Heraclius wrote sadly in a letter to Emperor Luo Cheng of the Great Qin Dynasty, "Syria, such beautiful and beautiful mountains and rivers, we lost from the hands of the Persians. It was taken back, but in the end it was taken away by the Arabs!"

After defeating the Roman Legion, the Dashi army took advantage of the victory and moved eastward. Taking advantage of the civil strife in Persia, it began to attack Mesopotamia in the Mesopotamia of Persia. The Sasanian army retreated steadily.

The Arabs not only recaptured the coastal areas on the southern coast of the Persian Gulf, but also captured the fertile Mesopotamia. After looting countless spoils, the Arabs formed a new western expedition army and began to march from the Syrian coast to the west. Mediterranean to the south.

They successfully invaded Egypt, and with the support of the Copts, they won one victory after another. In the end, the Caliph became the master of Alexander, and the whole of Egypt was included in the territory of the Great Food.

After conquering Egypt, the Caliph once again formed an Eastern Expeditionary Army to reconnect with the Kingdom of Axum on the southern shore of the Red Sea, preparing to fight for Yemen again and drive the Great Qin Army out.

At the beginning of the war, the Great Food Expeditionary Army and Axum came prepared, formed a coalition of [-] troops, and attacked aggressively.

At this time, Li Shimin was sitting on the banks of the Xindu River, and he has not been idle for the past few years. With his aggressiveness, he has successfully opened the passage from the Xindu River to Daxia, and occupied the Khyber Pass. There are still many enemy forces on both sides of the Xindu River, but at least he has opened up a main line.

When the third Yemen war broke out, after Li Shimin received a letter from the Yemeni garrison asking for help, he asked them to guard the fortress and castle for help, and at the same time immediately mobilized troops.

The fortress of the Qin army in Yemen has been defended for more than a year, and the Allied Forces of Food and Food failed to capture it, but the fortress is also in danger. At the critical moment, Li Shimin finally led more than [-] reinforcements from the sea.

The third Yemen war started. Li Shimin launched a surprise attack when the coalition forces were unable to attack for a long time, and the teacher was exhausted, and the coalition forces were defeated.

Li Shimin not only led his army to break the siege of Yemen, but also took advantage of the situation to capture Oman at the southeastern end of the Persian Gulf, which the Arabs had taken from Persia. Afterwards, Li Shimin did not continue to pursue the retreating Arabs, but took a short break Afterwards, they mobilized troops, crossed the Red Sea by warships, went straight to Axum, and occupied several important trading ports on the south coast of the Red Sea in Axum.

(End of this chapter)