"So, killing Mansour will not do us any good.
It will only make it more difficult for us to conquer Dashi."
After Zhao Ziliang finished speaking, he returned to the main seat and sat down.
Chen Qing stood up and clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, according to what you said, not only will we gain nothing by arresting Mansour, but we will also cause trouble."
Zhao Ziliang smiled and said: "Why is there no benefit?
Of course there are benefits.
If nothing else, after Mansour was captured by us, the morale and resistance will of the subjects of the Dashi Kingdom will be greatly affected, and their fear of our army will also be To deepen, this is the first; second, Mansour himself is a strong Under his rule, all the opposing factions in the Kingdom of Dashi were suppressed so that they did not dare to raise their heads.
The princes, generals and high-ranking officials were also controlled and obeyed.
Now he is captured by us, Abbas The dynasty is leaderless, and the highest throne in the food kingdom is vacant.
This will inevitably make people Those princes who are powerful and qualified to be the caliph are fighting to the death.
At the same time, the opposition groups that were suppressed before will inevitably fight back crazily.
And we, the Western Qin Dynasty, are watching covetously from the outside.
The Dashi Kingdom will definitely be in chaos, and they will conquer each other internally. , consuming each other's power, then Will it reduce the overall strength of the Great Food Country?
Since this can reduce the strength of the Great Food Country, why should we waste our troops to conquer it?
When their strength is almost exhausted, we, the Western Qin Dynasty, will send troops to the west again.
At that time, we can capture the Great Food Country.
Isn’t it wonderful how easy it is to eat the whole country?”
The ministers and generals were whispering among themselves, some nodded, and some shook their heads.
Liu Dan stood up and raised his hands and asked: "Your Majesty, if you send Mansur back when the food princes are fighting for power and the opposition factions counterattack, won't they be suppressed and calmed down by Mansur again?
Do you really intend to Send Mansoor back again.”
Zhao Ziliang smiled, "There are always fewer fools and more smart people in this world.
Do you think that all the ministers of the Great Food Kingdom are losers?
If they were all fools, they would not rule one of the largest empires in the world.
After the news spread that Mansour was captured by us, the prince of the Kingdom of Dashi Someone among them will be the first to ascend the throne as the caliph.
As long as someone ascends the throne as the caliph, if Mansour is sent back, there will be two caliphs in the Dashi Kingdom.
Wouldn't Mansour's position be very embarrassing?
He will be willing to lose power.
If there are no two days and no two masters of the country, there will definitely be a bloody storm."
Du Fu stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, you are wise, so easily you can make all the forces in the Great Food Kingdom fight each other, and we, the Western Qin Dynasty, are reaping the benefits of the fishermen."
Zhao Ziliang smiled and nodded, waving his hand: "Okay, everyone hasn't had dinner yet, let's go and Liu Dan will stay here."
Everyone else exited one after another, Liu Dan stood still, Zhao Ziliang waved to him, he stepped forward and held his hands in his hands and said: "What do you want the king to do if you leave me behind?"
Zhao Ziliang said: "There will definitely be news coming from the Big Food Country soon.
No matter how the situation in the Big Food Country changes, the news can only be known to our own people.
It cannot be made known to Mansour and those who serve him for the time being.
The servants know that as for when to let Mansur know, I will make my own decision.
This matter is of great importance.
If there is a problem, I will ask for you."
Liu Shan's heart tightened, and he immediately agreed: "Yes, Wei Chen understands."
Within a few days, news came from the Great Eater.
This news was really shocking.
The originally convicted Prince Mahdi of the Great Eater was embraced by the civil and military ministers in Behdashir Castle.
The new caliph was established.
After Mahdi ascended the throne as caliph, he led his army to retreat westward, leaving only 5,000 people to guard Behdashir Castle.
When the news reached the small town of Mahan, Zhao Ziliang seemed to have guessed it a long time ago and had no reaction.
However, the ministers accompanying the army in Western Qin were all surprised.
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In the past few days, the Western Qin army has been holding its troops stationary.
Zhao Ziliang, on the one hand, allowed the army to recharge its batteries, and on the other hand, ordered Wei Meng, the fifth army in the north, to lead his army to quickly capture other areas of Khorasan.
After the Mahdi withdrew to Yazd with hundreds of thousands of troops, Zhao Ziliang ordered the attack on Behdashir Castle.
Although the castle was on an important traffic road, it was not a dangerous pass.
Zhao Ziliang left some troops to besiege Behdashir Castle.
Hedashir personally led the main force to pursue the retreat of the Mahdi army.
On the eighth day of November, Behdashir Castle was breached.
More than 3,000 of the 5,000 defenders in the fort were killed, and all the rest surrendered.
The Mahdi retreated to Sparhan, later known as Isfahan, leaving 20,000 people in Yazd to guard it.
At this time, the news that Mansour was captured by the Western Qin Army had also reached Baghdad.
Princes in Baghdad and other places successively attracted tribal chiefs, ministers, religious elders, and judges from all over the country.
In just half a month, they Three princes successively ascended the throne as caliphs, which made the country lively.
These caliphs insisted that they were legal and others were not.
In addition to these princes ascending the throne as caliphs, opposition sectarian forces previously suppressed by Mansour also began to emerge.
These people lobbied tribal chiefs everywhere to seek their support.
On November 15, Zhao Lei led the 40,000-strong Plateau Army and the 20,000 slave-servant army to catch up with Zhao Ziliang's army and completed the rendezvous in Yazd City after 30 miles.
Yazd is located at the northeastern foothills of Mount Hill.
It is located in a mountain basin with an altitude of more than 1,200 meters.
The plateau terrain itself is very complex.
It is also in an intermountain basin and the surrounding terrain is dangerous.
There are several roads leading to Yazd.
The city's passes are even easier to defend and difficult to attack.
Yazd is the largest concentration of Zoroastrian Christians.
Shahan Pass is the largest pass leading to Yazd.
The Mahdi deployed 5,000 people to garrison here.
This pass has tall walls, steep terrain, and complete defensive facilities.
Before the Western Qin Army came here, the Great Food Army had already attacked The pass was reinforced, many archery towers, archery holes were added, and thirty ballistae were installed.
On a bare hill not far away, Zhao Ziliang and others were observing the Shahang Pass on horseback.
In the Persian region, a great food country, not only the houses they live in have their own unique style, but also the appearance of the passes they built is unique.
The arrow towers at Shahang Pass are all pointed and round, with dense archery holes and black stars.
The moon flag fluttered in the wind on each spire.
Zhao Ziliang put down the telescope and frowned: "This Shahang Pass is a tough nut to crack.
Zhao Lei, how many slaves and servants do you have under your command?"
Zhao Lei clasped his fists and said, "Go back to my father, I have an army of 20,000 slaves and servants."
"The army of 20,000 slaves and servants, plus the 50,000 servants of Schneider, Obot, and Wahid, total more than 70,000 people.
This force is enough.
But look at the dangerous terrain of Shahan Pass.
The terrain is long and narrow, and the troops cannot be deployed.
We can only deploy about 500 people at most at a time.
Please tell us if there is any trick or dangerous way to capture the Shahan Pass."
The generals looked at each other, but no one said a word.
Apparently, they didn't think of anything easy to do.
Zhao Ziliang looked back at the reactions of the generals, then looked back at Shahanguan with squinted eyes and said: "Since there is no good way, we can only attack by force and pass on the military order of the king.
We will have breakfast at dawn tomorrow morning and start on time. , first let the servant armies take turns to attack the city, and fight day and night, and you will form a supervising team.
If you are afraid of the enemy, you will not go first, and you will kill without mercy."
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The generals clasped their fists and said in unison: "I obey" On the morning of November 17, the Western Qin army formed a dense formation in front of Shahan Pass.
There were countless flags in the army formation, and the mountain wind blew the flags.
Fighting was an extremely serious matter.
Zhao Ziliang and All the generals were on horseback with serious faces, waiting for the siege army to make final preparations.
A horse galloped over, stopped beside Zhao Ziliang and others, clasped his fists and reported: "Your Majesty, the siege camp and the first servant army responsible for today's siege are ready and can attack the city at any time."
Zhao Ziliang waved his hand: "Send the order to the siege camp.
First use our bed crossbows to destroy the enemy's city walls and the ballistas in the archery tower.
Let's get started."
"yes" The messenger flag was constantly waving.
After seeing the flag message, the commander of the siege camp immediately pulled out his sword and raised it upwards and shouted: "The crossbow siege team is ready, target the ballistas on the defenders' city walls and in the arrow towers, move forward."
Shahanguan Pass is located on a mountain.
The attack angle of heavy siege equipment such as trebuchets is too small, and the stone bullets fired cannot hit the mountain.
Other heavy equipment such as wells, siege vehicles, and siege hammers are difficult to reach due to their weight and It is too large to be transported and cannot be put into use.
Only the slightly lighter bed crossbow can be used for long-range strikes.
The bed crossbow can only be used to shoot enemy soldiers, war horses and destroy enemy offensive and defensive equipment.
It cannot attack city walls and fortresses.
Cause too much damage.
In order to increase the attack power of offensive and defensive equipment, the soldiers in the siege camp of the Western Qin Army used heavy crossbow arrows, and added burning flammable materials, that is, heavy rockets, to the heavy crossbow arrows.
At 1,500 meters, 1,200 meters, and 1,000 meters, dozens of bed crossbows were carried by the soldiers of the siege camp.
They stopped one thousand meters away from the city wall of Shahanguan and began to set up the bed crossbows. , equipped with heavy rockets.
Now the Western Qin army is attacking from the rear, and the defenders occupy the advantageous location.
The attacks on the city walls are much farther away than on the flat mountains, let alone the long-range attack weapons bows and arrows and ballistae.
Therefore, the siege camp of the Western Qin Army must be far away from the range of the enemy's long-range attack weapons defending the city.
At a distance of one thousand meters, the return artillery and ballistae of the Great Food Army cannot reach that far.
The bed crossbow of the Western Qin Army used multiple large crossbows connected in parallel, which tripled the range to a terrifying 1,500 meters.
However, since it was an upward attack, the bed crossbow should be as close to the city wall as possible, and the firing position should be set at The most suitable location is one thousand meters away from the city wall.
Soon, all the bed crossbows were set up, and each bed crossbow was equipped with a heavy rocket.
The commander cut down his command sword and "launched" The torch handles lit the match rope one after another.
When the shooter saw the match rope being lit, he immediately swung a heavy hammer and smashed the trigger.
"Swish swish" Dozens of heavy rockets shot towards the city wall like meteors: