The struggle of the reborn prince

After the war, the Shura field on both sides of the Tigris River was like a thick bloody smell in the air. Vultures and crows were also attracted, flying in groups from all over the sky and circling in the sky. The bold ones could not wait to land Pecking at the corpses on the ground, enjoying a rare gluttonous feast.

The soldiers of the Song Army looked at the battlefield with excited and somewhat confused eyes, and some couldn't believe that they survived the battle, and all the things in front of them were done by themselves.The soldiers of the medical battalion of the logistics team crawled around in the trenches, busy treating the wounded and collecting the bodies of the dead soldiers.And Sirode, who didn't know where he was hiding just now, also appeared, holding his nose, clamoring and gracefully directing his subordinates to clean up the battlefield and gather up the scattered horses.

"Dear Marshal, we have won an unprecedented victory and seized a lot of spoils!" Sirode ran over, gave a noble chest salute and said in blunt Chinese with a smile on his face.

"Well, you won't put your property in your pocket, will you?" Ma Wei glanced at Sirode, and said coldly, he knew that he couldn't always give him a good face towards this kind of person, otherwise he would be even more shameless stick it up.

"Commander, Allah testifies, I didn't take a single silver coin from my subordinates, and gave them all to you!" Sirode swore in fear.

If it is said that he really did not do less profit-making in the past, but after he "appreciated" this tragic battle, he was completely overwhelmed by the sharp weapons of the Song army.The enemy's two-way coalition has more than 4 people, while his own side, including their trash, only has [-] people. He even thought that if he was caught, he would definitely be stoned to death as a traitor and become a traitor. Into a pile of meat paste.

Sirode thought of running away, but their camp faced water on one side and was surrounded by heavy soldiers on three sides, and ants couldn't get out, so he changed his clothes and hid among the slaves who were regarded as lowly people at the beginning of the battle.But the outcome of the battle was quite unexpected, and both enemy armies were defeated.He quickly resumed his identity as the commander of the ten thousand to help clean up the battlefield. The corpses of the enemy soldiers found in the two battlefields were no less than 500, which was not counted as being blown to pieces by shells.And he clearly remembered that the Song army killed only more than [-] people and injured less than [-] people.

And Sirode is a person who has been to the Song Dynasty, and he has always yearned for the prosperity and prosperity there, so he had the idea of ​​​​going to settle there.It also made him more obedient, and of course he didn't dare to enrich himself from it.However, Sirode swallowed his saliva looking at the piles of armor, weapons, and hundreds of boxes of gold coins and jewels, but the generals of the Song Army did not appreciate his kindness, they just sealed it up, but they did not pay attention to the captured horses and scimitars. They showed great interest and asked him for it in private!

Because there are too many corpses on the battlefield, it is impossible to bury them all.But now the weather is so hot that the corpses will soon stink and rot, and if it is not done well, it will cause an epidemic. The Song army left the river bay to choose another camp that night to wait for the cavalry who chased the Kerman army to return, and sent scouts to investigate Roma. The whereabouts of the remnants.Three days later, the cavalry army returned to camp. They chased and wiped out the Kerman army continuously, and captured more than [-] enemies, including the priests and nobles who accompanied the army...

Three days after the truce.The expeditionary army embarked on the journey again, and the ranks of the Congregation Army expanded again as Ma Wei had expected. The captured Kerman light cavalry were broken up and organized into a team of [-] men. The heavy cavalry of the Attar' army served as attendant knights; the inferior ones were added to the 'Braq' bandit army, so that their team could return to the number before the war; Huck' tattered army shelters and becomes a new slave.

The army rushed to Jijia City again, this time Ma Wei did not order to approach immediately, but marched slowly.He knew that through previous battles, he had wiped out the enemy troops who came to aid him.It is impossible for reinforcements to arrive in the short term. At this moment, he decided to calmly wait for the opponent to surrender.He first ordered the armies to raid the towns within a radius of [-] miles along the way, confiscated the property of the captured people to supplement the army, and then released all the people, allowing them to flood into the city of Gigia. Countless refugees with nothing will consume the limited supplies in the city .

The refugees who fled into the city and the Roma reinforcements who were defeated in the city quickly spread fear throughout the city like a virus. The citizens and city defense troops who had never seen Orientals were gradually shrouded in terror, and the reinforcements were cut off.The enemy's approaching step by step made them more desperate day by day, like frightened birds, as soon as they heard the wind and grass, they scrambled to pick up the guys and prepared for the battle nervously.Even the common people in the city followed suit.

While the soldiers and civilians in the city were getting more and more desperate, the expeditionary army finally arrived at the city and ordered people to shout to the city to tell them: Whoever submits and surrenders can gain safety and freedom, away from fear and shame; The property of those who leave will be confiscated, the young and strong will be slaves, and their wives and children will be sold and placed at the forefront of the army as cannon fodder for siege.

The news of the two options is like the declaration of the Arabs when they first came: to obey is to be free, and to resist is to die.The frightened city defense army couldn't bear the psychological torment, and most of them began to escape at night. Within two days, there were less than a thousand of the more than ten thousand defenders in the city.The reinforcements from the Roma Kingdom were also on pins and needles at this time. They ran away after looting the city one night and wanted to go to Baghdad. Rushing out and devouring them one by one, the expeditionary force will never let them enter Baghdad and become a new obstacle when they attack the city.

Ma Wei's psychological offensive worked.In the early morning of the next day, the residents of Jigia City, who lost the protection of the army, went out of the city to surrender, represented by the religious priests, nobles and scholars.In fact, there are more than [-] well-trained city defense troops in the city and the Roma heavy cavalry with rich combat experience. The overall strength is not weak. With the solid city defense and sufficient food reserves, they can completely stand by and wait for help. Expeditions lacking siege equipment The army is not easily captured in a few days.As a result, the army of Jijia City was driven by their own psychological fear, and recklessly abandoned the city, and ended up being wiped out, and the city fell to the enemy.

The expeditionary force marched into the city of Jigiya, and they declared that they came to punish the Sultan of the Seljuk Empire who condoned his subordinates who robbed and killed the Song business brigade and cut off the business route, and they did not want to change their religion.As long as they provide food and grass and provide the required military pay, they can get the protection they deserve.

And after getting everything, a priest of the 'Blak' sect army asked the commander-in-chief that they don't need any rewards, as long as he is allowed to expel the original priests in the city, and letting them preach here is the greatest reward for them.Ma Wei smiled and agreed, and he didn't want to start a sect and stay here for a long time, as long as they are willing to contribute for themselves, it doesn't matter what they believe in, who preaches here...

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When the expeditionary army of the Great Song Dynasty approached the capital of the Seljuk Empire, the heat had faded from the Katwan Grassland, and it was the time when the autumn was breezy and the cattle and sheep were fat and strong, but the mournful siren sound replaced the long pastoral song, The blood of the warriors will stain the earth red.The coalition forces led by Sultan Sanjar of the Seljuk Empire and the army of Emperor Yelu Dashi of the Western Liao Dynasty are facing each other here. The heroes of Islam will fight to the death with the heroes of Karakhitan!

On the battlefield, Sanjar, who was originally full of ambition, was shrouded in clouds. In the name of "jihad", he called the lords and vassals from all over the country to march eastward. He thought that as soon as the army arrived, the Black Khanate would surely surrender. But he rejected his offer.At this time, he also heard that Song Dynasty, the eastern country, sent troops to capture the Gaochang Uighurs of the vassal and the Black Khanate, and defeated its reinforcements. This made Sanjar think that Yelu Dashi, who was fighting on both sides, would soon surrender.

But things have changed. Just as Sanjar was about to enter the Black Khanate without bloodshed, news came that the Song Army had negotiated peace with Xiliao. He punished him by entering the Persian Gulf under the banner of "robbing and killing the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty and cutting off the commercial roads", and penetrated into the hinterland of his empire. He was defeated by Shi Guo's navy, captured the important town of Basaro, and opened the door to the Mesomia Plain.

After Sanjar received the emergency report from the capital, he faced two choices: one was to give up the Eastern Expedition and lead his army back to China to fight against the invasion of the Song Dynasty;After thinking about it, he chose the second way. He wanted to launch an attack first before Xiliao recovered from the new defeat in the conflict with Song Dynasty, and then return to the army.

But God’s will tricks people, and Allah will punish him. At this critical moment, the old king of Khwarazmo died, and the newly ascended king, Ah Jisi, wanted to break away from the Great Seljuk Empire and started a fight for independence.Sancar knew that if measures were not taken decisively and allowed to torment, the lords in other places would follow suit and break away from the imperial rule, which would cause the empire, which was already on the verge of collapse, to fall apart and become uncontrollable.

Sanjar had no choice but to temporarily give up his plan to attack Xiliao and lead his army to suppress the rebellion, and ordered Roma and Kerman to send reinforcements in the name of the imperial sultan to stop Song's invasion.After nearly two months of tossing, Khwarazmo's rebellion was quelled, and he led his army into the city of Samarkand. At this moment, the Black Khanate had tens of thousands of troops in the Kavant grassland.

At the moment of this decisive battle, Sanjar received urgent calls for help from the imperial capital for several days, and what worried him still happened. The Song army defeated the two reinforcements he sent, and the troops entered the city of Jijiya, not far from the imperial capital. Baili, if you don't return to aid the emperor, you will lose your life.But at this moment, Sanjar could no longer get away, the armies of both sides had already spread out on the grassland, the flags covered the sun, the swords and guns were like forests, the earth was trembling with the sound of war drums, the air seemed to be burning, and the blood would be stained red The sky here!

War is imminent...