Ctesiphon, Tucker?
In the Kisra Palace, the former "Sword of Ahula" sat on the throne with a decadent face that only Persian Shahansha could sit on, "These untouchables, I was really blind when I let them go....... damn Mazdak, don't you know that you are luring the British over, you are luring wolves into the house??
”Just as Massoud was talking to himself, the nominal Persian Shahan Shah Atosha walked in, "Massoud, I heard that those Mazdaks have rebelled again?"
Can we learn from the Emperor Kuth to make peace with them first, stabilize them, and then find a way to eradicate them?
”Atosha was a puppet like Isai III, but she had a lot more political wisdom than Isai III, otherwise she would not have made such a suggestion."
Atosha, this time is different, there are hateful Britons standing behind Mazdak, and there are hateful Brits in command behind the scenes, and they will not accept the proposal of peace talks....."
"The most difficult hour for our Persian Empire has come, my Empress Atosha .....""
Huh?"
Atosha's blushing mouth opened wide, and it was a long time before she said, "Why don't we just sue the British?"
If you can convince the master of Mazdak, the situation is not unchangeable......"
Just as Massoud was about to reply, a guard hurriedly broke in, "Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, the big thing is not good, the big thing is not good......
The British, the British, under the banner of rescuing the untouchables, waged war against us from three fronts in the east, west and south at the same time.....""
What did you say??
Hurry up and bring me the battle report....."
Massoud rose from his throne with a sudden swoop, snatched the parchment scroll presented by the guard, and opened it, "My great god Ahula, the English are going to destroy us in Persia in one fell swoop???
”"Massoud, since the peace talks can't be concluded, let's just contact the Romans....... the Romans should know that if our Persia perishes, with the insatiable character of the British, it will be their turn next....."
Atosha said again."
That's all there is to it, Atosha....."
Massoud, who thinks highly of himself for help from his former defeated generals, is unhappy in his heart, but the situation has deteriorated to such an extent, what can he do?"
I'll arrange for someone to go to Constantinople....."
As soon as Massoud said this, a guard came in again, "Your Highness, Your Highness, the big thing is not good, the big thing is not good....The great traitor Sphinx marched west along the Sylvain River with the cooperation of the British cavalry, and burned down all the five water villages we set up on the Sylvain River, and they were less than fifty miles away from Ctesiphon......"
Hearing that all the water villages he had built with great difficulty were destroyed, Massoud's face flushed, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, "We Persian ....."
Then he fainted, and when he saw his lover fainting, Atosha hurriedly stepped forward to check on him, and at the same time called for the imperial doctor to treat him.Because Massoud fainted, Atosha had no choice but to step up to the stage, and she quickly issued three orders, one was to immediately order Ctesiphon to enter a state of emergency and quickly strengthen the city defenses; the second is to immediately send emissaries to Constantinople for help, no matter what the cost; The third is to send emissaries with a large number of treasures to the British who are the true masters of Mazdak......
After the Persian envoy came to the British military camp, he met Wang Fangyi, the commander-in-chief of the British Army's Battle of the Two Rivers, and he tried to exchange the conditions for the reparations for the British to take over, but Wang Fangyi simply refused, "You go back and tell Massoud that he has no other choice than unconditional surrender......
"The Persian envoy returned to Ctesiphon in a huff, and told the result to Massoud, who had woken up, Massoud was not angry, he looked at his mistress, and then said, "Atosha, it seems that the British will not stop destroying our Persia."
I've decided to have a good fight with the British....."
After learning that the first group to arrive at Ctesiphon consisted only of a cavalry division of the British army and an infantry division of the Eastern Persian Imperial Army, Massoud ordered his elite army and went out of the city to fight them in the field, preparing to eat the enemy while he was still unstable......
Massoud thought that when the British army crossed the Tigris River, he launched an attack and drove them back to the other side of the river, for this battle, Massoud even brought out the musket team that he had managed to collect, well, part of the muskets of the Persians came from the battlefield captured, and the other part came from the allied army of the Eastern Persian emperor who rebelled, it must be mentioned that although they learned how to operate the musket, the most important problem was the formula of gunpowder, because of the strict secrecy system on the side of Li Lu, they worked hard for many years, The result was all fake recipes, which meant that these muskets were basically only able to fight with bayonets after the gunpowder was used up, so they were no different from spears at best.In the face of Massoud's formation, Guan Sai was not afraid of the prestige of the "Sword of Ahura", and he made a-for-tat tactical adjustment, and he discharged a crescent on the left bank of the Tigris River to meet the enemy.It was planned to close the formation as soon as the Tigris River was forcefully crossed, and the Persian army, which was in a hurry to attack, was in turn surrounded in the core.When the British army crossed the Tigris, the Persian army really began to meet it, and when the Persian army tried to tear the British formation, the British cavalry on both flanks quickly closed under the arrangement of the pipe plug, so that the Persian army was immediately pushed to the center.At this time, the ironclad cavalry, which Massoud relied on the most, also lost its role in the encirclement.Seeing that once the British army closed its wings and its headquarters would be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy, Massoud immediately ordered a retreat in order to preserve his strength.The Persian army took advantage of the gap between the two wings of the British army to desperately rush out and retreat into the city of Ctesiphon.In the battle of the Tigris, both sides did not achieve their goal, and the British side did not annihilate Massoud's living forces, but only gave Massoud a dismount; Massoud's side did not realize the battle plan of driving the British and the Imperial Army back to the other side of the Tigris River, and the two sides were tied."
My Sanqing Daozun, this Tessifon is almost about to keep up with our Broken Leaf City..... such a fortified city, if the heavy artillery troops don't come up, they won't be able to fight at all......"
Guan Sai took this telescope and looked at the Tessie Seal City not far away lying by the river like an ancient giant beast, and gasped."
That's all there ..... old fox Massoud, who is good enough, found out that we were going to surround him, and he slipped away....."
The Sphinx, who speaks fluent Chinese, also said.Since Li Lu actually took control of East Persia, Chinese and Chinese characters have gradually replaced the original Pahlavi and Palavi alphabets, and the entire East Persia has spoken Chinese and written Chinese characters from top to bottom, and even the scriptures of the Neo-Zoroastrian religion (that is, Mazdak) over there are all written in Chinese characters, and it is not surprising that the Sphinx speaks Chinese, not to mention that he has studied in Xiaye, so it is strange that he is not proficient in Chinese."
It seems that we can only wait for the main force to come up and then make plans......"
Guan Plug put down the binoculars and said to the Sphinx, "We don't have heavy artillery, and we can't knock open the wall that is four or five feet thick.....""
That's all there is to it....."
The Sphinx sighed.It is no wonder that the pipe plug and the sphinx are helpless, Ctesiphon began to build from the Parthian era, after eight hundred years of accumulation, especially after the establishment of Sassanid Persia, it is to spare no effort to strengthen the city defense, and now it has become a fortress city that can be as famous as Constantinople, it can be said that if there is no heavy artillery, it is more difficult to take this "city of a thousand cities" made of boulders and bricks and stones, which has been prepared.When Wang Fangyi's main force rushed to the city of Broken Leaves, this famous general who had experienced a hundred battles looked at the city of Tessie Feng on the left bank of the Tigris River, and couldn't help but gasp, "What a male city, I'm afraid it is comparable to Broken Leaves and Chang'an......"
Wang Fangyi Wang Dashuai was not in a hurry to attack the city, because the super heavy artillery he brought specifically for a Xiongcheng like Tessifon needed to build a fort, and before the fort was built, it would be a heavy death and injury to rashly launch an attack.Because these heavy cannons are too heavy, they are all transported by water, and when they are transported by land, it is a giant beast like elephants that pulls these big guys, so you can imagine how heavy these big pipes are.