I, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, have risen since I destroyed the Turks

Chapter 674: Attack on Persia
Li Zheng turned his eyes and saw a conspicuous blank space between the East and the West.

Two words were clearly written on the blank space - Persia.

"Your Majesty, now my Great Tang controls the four seas. Apart from this Persian country, there is no other country."

"This country has been conquered. Your Majesty's achievement is that he is the first emperor in history to conquer the world. His achievements are greater than those of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors."

Upon hearing this, Li Zheng smiled and shook his head, ignoring the compliment Zheng Xuan gave him.

"Zheng Qing, why hasn't the Ministry of War mobilized yet?"

"Your Majesty, our Tang soldiers have already deployed their troops on the border of Persia, and are eager to fight. We are only waiting for your order to crush Persia."

After listening to Zheng Xuan's report, Li Zheng was filled with emotion. After more than ten years of hard work, today he would come to the end and complete the unification.

Thinking of this, Li Zheng couldn't help but feel a surge of heroism in his heart.

I saw him wave his hand.

"Zheng Xuan, what are you waiting for? Take down Persia for me and the Tang Dynasty."

"The minister obeys the order."

Li Zheng looked at the civil and military officials in the court, and the heroic spirit in his heart could not dissipate for a long time.

He felt that he should say something at this moment of witnessing history, so Li Zheng pointed to Persia on the world map and spoke loudly to the civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty in the Taiji Hall.

"Everyone, soon, my Great Tang will truly unify the world. The Great Tang will become a true empire on which the sun never sets. I and you will go down in history together and be remembered forever."

After a pause, Li Zheng continued.

“And our Tang Dynasty is about to enter a new chapter and a new era.

Stimulated by Li Zheng's passionate words, the civil and military officials in the Taiji Hall shouted "Long live the emperor!"

"Long live the Emperor, long live the Emperor."

"Long live the Tang Dynasty."

"I congratulate His Majesty and the Tang Dynasty."

With shouts of "Long live the emperor", Li Zheng ended the court meeting.

After this exciting court meeting ended, Zheng Xuan hurried back to the Ministry of War.

The only thing that could make him so impatient was the ultimate goal of the Tang Dynasty's rulers and ministers at this stage - to unify the world.

I believe that no king or minister can resist the temptation of these four words.

And the glorious history of the future will probably be written like this.

In the 15th year of Jianwu, the Minister of War Zheng Xuan, under the order of Li Zheng, the Jianwu Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, attacked Persia. Thus the world was unified and a new era began.

Thinking of this, Zheng Xuan's originally calm character couldn't help but become overwhelmed with emotion.

"Come here, send a message to the front line. The army will march out immediately to attack Persia."

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The King of Persia.

The current Persian king is named Abbas. He cannot be said to be wise and brave, but he is definitely not incompetent either.

Today, under his governance, Persia's national strength is growing rapidly.

In fact, as early as a year ago, Abbas had discovered that the surrounding areas of Persia had been completely occupied by the Tang Dynasty. In other words, Persia was surrounded.

But at that time, the focus of the Tang Dynasty was still on conquering Western countries, so it never took any serious action against Persia.

Zheng Xuan simply asked his generals to persuade the Persian Empire to surrender.

The Persian King Abbas, who was persuaded to surrender, was not willing to hand over Persia to the Tang Dynasty. After all, Persia once dominated the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa.

In simple terms, the master was once rich, and although he has fallen into decline, Abbas has always had the great ideal of restoring the former glory. However, Abbas is still sober, and he knows how prosperous the Tang Dynasty is now, so he chooses to delay.

Unexpectedly, this trick was quite effective. It seemed that the Tang Dynasty did not send a large army to attack immediately.

Little did he know that this was just Zheng Xuan's little idea. The Tang Dynasty needed a sense of ritual, and the focus of the Tang Dynasty at that time was still on the West.

So the Persian Empire successfully survived for more than a year.

However, recently, the Tang Dynasty’s army suddenly arrived on the border, causing panic among the people of Persia.

In the royal capital, Abbas listened to the latest progress of the Tang army reported from time to time by his generals, and he was in a state of panic.

"Your Majesty, you must make a decision soon. If the Tang Dynasty really invades, what should we do?"

A gray-haired Persian official spoke in a deep voice to Abbas.

At this time, Abbas, who was already extremely depressed, wanted to kill this guy on the spot, but he couldn't do it.

This old minister has great influence in the Kingdom of Wei in Persia. Touching him at this point in time will only plunge Persia into turmoil.

But the Persian Empire cannot afford to have any more trouble now.

Just like these things, one of Abbas's generals walked quickly up to Abbas.

"Your Majesty, this is bad. The Tang Kingdom has begun to attack our Persian Kingdom."

The most worrying thing happened.

Abbas' face turned pale, and after thinking for a moment, he gritted his teeth and spoke.

"This Tang Dynasty is too bullying. We need to mobilize our army to meet the enemy."

The old minister at the side opened his mouth, wanting to persuade Abbas to surrender, but Hu could not say anything.

After a moment, he shook his head.

Forget it, let him be. He is old now, and this world still belongs to the young.

In this way, Persia, the last piece of the puzzle for the Tang Dynasty to unify the world, chose to resist.

On the Tang side, 100,000 Tang soldiers pushed forward with overwhelming force.

When they encountered a Persian city, they set up their powerful cannons and after a few rounds of fire, the weaker cities collapsed.

A slightly stronger city would just waste a few more artillery shells.

Zheng Xuan's strategy this time was to start from the cities around Persia, gradually nibble away at them, and finally surround the Persian capital to deliver the final blow.

Even if Persia wanted to escape today, it wouldn’t know where to go, as the entire world now belongs to the Tang Dynasty.

While the army was gradually encroaching on the territory of Persia, a thousand hot air balloons, oh no, now the improved airships named by Li Zheng, took off from the border of the Tang Dynasty and flew to a good Persian king first.

Just when Abbas was planning to make a desperate defense against the Tang Dynasty, a thousand airships were almost able to see the royal palace in the Persian capital.

In the palace, Abbas, who was carefully deploying his troops, received a report when he spat.

A mysterious flying object appeared in the sky above the Persian king. Many Persian people believed it was a miracle from heaven and kowtowed to the object and prayed for blessings.

After listening to the guard's report, Abbas was also confused and hurried to the Royal Capital Square to find out what was going on.

By the time Abbas arrived at the square, the Tang Dynasty's airship could be clearly seen with the naked eye.

Abbas, who had heard of the Tang Dynasty's airship army, immediately understood what was happening.

"Enemy attack."

The shrill sound of drums rang out. Because Abbas had been well prepared, he quickly assembled an army of nearly 100,000. A full 100,000 elite Persians gathered near the royal capital.

(End of this chapter)