843 Final Battle 1
On the other side, Li You took ten thousand cavalry soldiers and ransacked the city of Yamuk, and then rushed to the holy city. All he had to do was to cleanse and rob. He needed to clean up all the larger cities. The defenders, when they came over, they were gone. Today’s food army, seeing Li You’s group is like seeing a ghost. If you talk about defending the city, even the king was beaten down within a few days, and the city was slaughtered, and all the defenders were killed. The people suffered heavy casualties, so it is a wise choice to give up the city and escape as soon as possible.
Li You has been in the holy city for two days, and the cleansing here has been completed. The remaining place is Fustat City, the capital of the Egyptian province. From the holy city along the Mediterranean Sea, it is only 800 miles. It will be there in three days, and by the way, Alexandria can be cleaned, but Li You hasn’t planned to pass now. After all, most of the troops are left to Egypt, plus there are 20,000 troops in the Egyptian province. Garrison, I'm afraid it's almost 50,000 or 60,000 now.
Li You is still waiting, waiting for news from Huoxun, and only after the news, will he decide what to do next. The good thing is that when Li You returned to Damascus, there was finally news that Qiyad Ibn had arrived in Taisifeng and was bringing people to Damascus. If Qiyad Ibn came over, it means that Huoxun should have been out of the predicament, and Heizi and the others will hear news soon.
The news is naturally more than this. Abu Abbas took the throne in Yatrib. The ten chiefs of the Arab tribes all supported him as a caliph. Now he is reorganizing the army. The slogan is to avenge his predecessor caliph, but also to die tragically. The officials and nobles of the hands of the pirates, as well as the common people, avenge.
"That's it? Ono Maro, leave him alone. He won't come over when I fight. Only Shiites and some nobles support him. They want to integrate the tribes and form alliances, and wait for them to clarify. It is estimated that next year, I may have already started digging the canal."
"Lord, do you know this person?" Maro Ono really doesn't understand. He knows that Li You is the first time here, but Li You knows many things, including places. He doesn't think about it at all. I understand, even Li You knows that there is a secret room under a mosque in the city, and he found two huge sapphires from it, just like where he hides these two gems. It is really puzzling. It also made Ono Maro admire his loyal king even more.
Sitting on the throne of the main hall of the palace, Li You played with an egg-sized sapphire in his hand. He looked at Ono Maro and said, "I don’t know this person. Okay, let’s just leave the rest alone. We have to think about it. In the face of the following war, this is the last battle, but it is also the most difficult. Today, we don’t have much gunpowder and artillery shotguns, and we can’t support the next battle at all. What should we do? This is our first consideration, and there is really no way to fight the next battle!"
"Lord, do you really think Qiyad Ibn will transfer all the troops on the western front?"
The 70,000 troops on the western defensive border were transferred to Damascus. Ono Maro felt that this was really impossible. Once the 70,000 people were withdrawn, it would be impossible to say that the Byzantine Empire could still stay in place and watch the show. No, when the time comes, the eclipse will perish faster.
But Li You firmly said: "This is not a belief, but an affirmation. Qiyad Ibn ran so fast here. Obviously, he left behind the army. He can't bring many people. He wants to get back to the royal capital. More troops are needed. Once he does this, the Romans will definitely run over. But now that the king’s capital is gone, what are these soldiers left for? In the eyes of Ziyad Ibn, as long as he takes back the capital, If we defeat us, there is still hope for the Great Food Empire. Even if the Romans seize a large amount of territory, they can eventually seize it. Therefore, he will definitely transfer troops from the western frontier to join the war for the royal capital.
But in this way, our troubles will be even greater. Even if we defeat the remaining eater army, the Roman army will follow. They will never give up such a good opportunity to regain lost ground. For their emperor, it was what they wanted the most, and we, even the last bit of the food army, couldn’t deal with it, let alone a battle with the Romans. Anyway, we don’t have the resources to deal with so many people. of. "
Regarding this, Li You really has a headache. The remaining supplies are all landing, so he can't run over now and then transport them over. Once and again for more than a month, when the supplies arrive here, he thinks the soup will be cold. More than 10,000 people fight hundreds of thousands, without the assistance of a large number of firearms, it is impossible to win at all. Even if luck is good, the opponent's strength is slightly weaker, it is estimated that after the fight is over, his side will be disabled if he is not dead, he can bear it. They couldn't help their own casualties. Besides, if the situation develops according to judgment, they will eventually face the Romans.
Ono Maro bowed and said: "Lord, or else, we return to Kufa and come back later, so that they will fight each other."
"There is no way to retreat. If we retreat, those things we did will not be done in vain. Besides, once we retreat, the Romans will not come again. After all, there are still soldiers in the eclipse. I don’t want to attack Damascus a second time before there are no soldiers available. As for what we should do, hehe, it’s a big deal to defend Damascus."
For Li You, the battle has reached this level, and everything is almost done. It is impossible to retire now, and no one is willing to give up like this. Anyway, Damascus is a strong city. If it is really well defended, maybe it can really be guarded to consume a large number of enemy troops. Anyway, there are many materials such as feather arrows in the city.
"Lord, it's okay to defend the city. With our remaining gunpowder, it is enough to support the Musketeers. But what if the opponent is trapped in the city?"
Ono Maro’s question is a very rigorous one. If Ziyad Ibn brought a large army here and surrounded the city, it won’t be long before they also need to go out of the city to fight, and it is impossible to wait to be trapped.
Li You shook his head and said, "Don't worry about it. Ziyad Ibn would never do this. If he did, he would not only face our strangulation, but also the Roman army. He would not This will happen to the enemy, so he will surely attack the city, even if he is not sure of victory, he will do it. This is his last battle, success, hunger, and defeat. Be loyal to the country, this is what he must do as the first commander of the empire." (End of this chapter)