830 Sword refers to Damascus 1
Li You finally set off for Damascus with people. The total number of people he brought was 35,000, and nearly 5,000 people were left behind. In fact, he did not make any distribution. Kufa cannot be lost. The necessary preparations for withdrawing. Although Li You doesn't think he will lose, he still has to be prepared for the future.
This time they marched, changing from the rigor of the past, the so-called marching in formation no longer exists, and the marching is completely disorganized, like a straggler. The only thing that looked like that was the countless pirate flags tied to the carriage and raised high.
Wang Yanzhang confiscated a lot of carriages in the city. They were of good quality and relatively new, and almost never let them go. Li You’s attack on Damascus had to travel through the desert area of 1,600 miles from the west of Kufa to reach it. There is no oasis along the way. Seeing the oasis, it means that they have reached Damascus. Therefore, in addition to the transportation of logs, more than 100 vehicles were loaded with large buckets. Not only that, but they also took them from the warehouse. All the water bags found by Fa have been used. There are more than 300 camels carrying water bags with the army, but even so, the army must save water.
This is also a very helpless thing. There are more than a thousand miles in the center of the desert. There is really no water source within this range. The average big cannibals will not take the route of Li You and others, because this route is too long. They usually walked up the Euphrates River, and then entered the desert after reaching Gaim. They walked for more than 500 miles to the west, and they reached the oasis, rested there, and then walked southwest around the edge of the desert. Four hundred miles to Damascus, but the route from Kufa to Gaim is a long way around the river, and it is nearly a thousand miles away. In this way, the route will take more than three hundred miles, which is three days of marching time.
Naturally, Li You didn't want to spend more time. Besides, if you really took that road, you might not know how many ambushes there would be on the road. It would be safer to walk straight to the west and go straight through the desert.
It was March. The desert was already severely burned by the sun during the day, and the temperature was already very high. Fortunately, everyone was in tropical habits. Although it was dry, they could still adapt. As a king, Li You naturally Take special care of him. A piece of cloth was placed on the truck he was riding in to carry food, which was a good way to avoid the scorching sun.
Wearing a single shirt, he lay on the sack of food to rest, but he also seemed casual and leisurely. He was accompanied by Zhou Huanzhong, a Datang businessman who Tang Shang met. Zhou Huanzhong was young, thirty-eight, and was born in a small town under the jurisdiction of Anxi. He grew up in the Western Regions, so he is naturally very interested in doing business. Interest, after all, there are too many merchants in the Western Regions. If you want to live a good life, you have to learn to do business. He now lives in the Juli City of Beiting Zhishou and travels between Dashi and Beiting. He goes back and forth in a year. Do business at once.
Zhou Huanzhong’s business is very simple. He sells icing sugar and paper from the Western Regions to Da Shi, and then returns leather goods and silverware from Da Shi. After a single transaction, he can still make a hundred or two hundred. It is possible to make money, which is better than anything else.
This time Li You directly paid him a bag of gold dinar coins and asked him to be a translator and guide. Nassin only speaks Sogdian, unlike Zhou Huanzhong who can speak several languages. With him, other people can communicate with him. As for Zhou Huanzhong, he had to be the translator and guide this time. Li You and the group were killed in the dark in Kufa. If they were not afraid, they were fake. Besides, the people he brought still stayed in Kufa. , Including his fourteen-year-old son who followed him out to meet the world for the first time.
Li You was playing with a piece of big food gold coin in his hand, and asked Zhou Huanzhong, who was in the same car, "Treasurer Zhou, what is the meaning of the words you printed on it?"
There are words on both sides of the eclipse dinar, and Li You only asked it out of curiosity. Zhou Huanzhong said: "The Lord, there is no true God but Allah on one side. He is the only one, and the other side is printed on Allah’s. How many years did the nominal dinar be beaten."
"Well, yes, this will increase the people's belief in Allah. It seems that the people who coined the coin have been very deliberate. Gold coins, hehe, good stuff, it seems that this time I have to grab a good Damascus. ."
Zhou Huanzhong didn’t know what to say about Li You’s words. He only knew that Li You’s subordinates called him the Lord and Your Majesty. He didn’t know who Li You was, but Li You said it. They are pirates, or pirates of many people.
Although Li You has demonstrated his strength in Kufa, Zhou Huanzhong also knows one thing. Da Shi is as powerful as a giant beast. There are tens of thousands of people who can fight against it, even if the edge of Da Shi is in the region. In a rebellion, he was fighting with Huoxun again, and his strength was still extremely powerful. Now Li You is going to take tens of thousands of people to rob the Great Food King’s City. No matter how you look at it, they are all looking for death. When Zhou Huanzhong received the money from Li You anyway, he was already ready to die, and he also took care of the funeral. Confessed to his fellow men.
Seeing Zhou Huanzhong speechless for a while, Li You said with a smile: "Treasurer Zhou, don't be upset, you follow me, you can't die, don't be afraid, I believe that there won't be many soldiers in Damascus. We If you can play it, don't worry, I will be of great benefit to you after the incident."
Zhou Huanzhong shook his head helplessly: "Lord of the country, Governor Akadura of Kufa fled Kufa. He must have gone to the royal capital. According to legend, there are 100,000 soldiers in the royal capital of Damascus. Xiao Ke also knows that there are soldiers in the holy city. , If you add these people who retreated from Kufa, this is already hundreds of thousands. If the governor of the Syrian province and the governor of the Egyptian province respectively dispatch troops to Damascus, I am afraid this army will be as large as 200,000! "
Li You asked, "Treasurer Zhou, why do you know this so much? This is something ordinary people can know."
"Why is it difficult to understand? I have been to Aleppo and Fustat City. As an outsider, I am naturally curious about folk customs and anecdotes. Ask more and you will know. Byzantium has stopped fighting, but all the kings are attacked, and the soldiers stationed in Aleppo will surely return. They are all elite soldiers who are ready to reinforce the western frontier at any time!"
Li You really doesn’t know this, even Nassing doesn’t know it, and it’s true as Zhou Huanzhong said. The trader must be more aware of these. Judging from the current situation, it is indeed that he has allocated the forces of the big food. Take it lightly, but it seems that there is not much to think about. They are about to reach the edge of the desert, and they will be able to reach Damascus in three days. By this time, let alone Damascus has nearly 200,000 troops, even if there are three. One hundred thousand, they can only bite the bullet and fight one game. (End of this chapter)