The fourteenth year of Zhenguan, spring.
At the same time that Xindu led the Tang army to war with the Ring of Japan, a war broke out in their southwest.
Six thousand Arab soldiers fought a decisive battle against the 30,000-strong Sassanid army at Qadisiyah, about 200 miles west of Kufa.
Li Chao took a ship from Hanjing to Yangzhou Port, where he received information from the Shadow.
This is the information gathered by the secret report of the Shadow Persian Ministry, and the information reports the battle in detail.
The battle lasted three days and three nights.
At first, the Persian Sassanid army led the way with elephants, which dispersed the Arab cavalry, and the Arab infantry also suffered heavy losses.
Later, however, the Arabs quickly changed their strategy, and they sent death squads to the front to cut the saddle belt of the elephants, poking the elephants in the eyes, causing the knights to fall off the elephants' backs, and the war elephants fell one after another.
At this time, the elite cavalry of the Arabs and the armored camel knights rushed desperately to the death, and finally crushed the Persian elephant team.
By the afternoon of the fourth day, a sudden wind blew on the battlefield, and dust filled the air, leaving the Sassanid army on the back of the wind.
The Arab army took advantage of the wind to launch a general offensive and defeated the Sassanid army.
The Kawi banner, which symbolized the glory and splendor of the Sassanid Empire, also fell into the hands of the Arabs.
Made of leather, the banner is said to have been made in ancient times by magicians, and the Aryans used to raise it in mythological times to fight against the Semitic oppressors.
It was regarded by the Sassanids as a symbol of victory, and was held up by five Rouge priests at the front of the army to boost morale.
Its status is no different from that of the true cross of Christianity in the Roman Empire.
A few years earlier, the Persian army had invaded Damascus and Sarusalem and captured the true cross of Christ's holy relic.
They certainly didn't expect that more than a dozen years later, their holy relic, the Qavi battle flag, would actually be taken away by the Arabs.
This battle flag, which was decorated with new jewels and diamonds before every battle, fell into the hands of the enemy.
In just a few years, the morale of the Persian Sassanids, who had already changed twelve emperors, plummeted.
The Arabs, on the other hand, were demoralized and began to launch an even more fierce offensive.
At this time, it was only 27 years since the founding of Islam.
It had only been eleven years since Muhammad unified the Arabian Peninsula.
However, the united Arabs happened to face the Persian Sassanid, the old empire that was extremely weak due to internal and external troubles, and the Persian Sassanid had changed more than a dozen emperors in a few years, and the warlords in the provinces were facing collapse.
Damascus, Antioch and other places that had previously captured Rome were all recaptured by Eastern Rome.
And Egypt, which they had previously captured, was once again recaptured by the Romans.
At the same time, the Tang Dynasty seized the Persians' Hezhong region and the Xindu River region, coupled with the Tang's complete trade blockade of Persia, the most valuable silk was no longer sold to the Persians, but directly sold to the Romans from both land and sea.
In the past, Persia was rich and powerful for hundreds of years because it was located between China and the West and controlled the trade routes.
They monopolized the silk trade and did entrepot trade, and they got rich from it.
Later, the Eastern Romans could no longer tolerate the extortion of the Persians, so the Persian Romans went to war again and fought for hundreds of years.
And now, the Tang Dynasty controls the Transoxiana region, controls the Tocharian homeland, and even controls the credibility to Tianzhu, and the Tang army is not afraid of the Persian navy at all, directly escorting the merchant ships to transport silk and other silk to the Red Sea, and transporting it into the Mediterranean Sea through the re-dredged Suez Canal, and directly trading with the Romans who recaptured Egypt, which is completely blockading Persia.
The Persians went to war at home and abroad, and their military spending remained high, but their income fell sharply, especially after the loss of silk entrepot processing trade, the merchants of many Persian cities went bankrupt, and a large number of workers fled to Rome or into the Tang Dynasty-controlled areas.
Many merchants burned the merchant ships in despair, and they simply could not compete with the Tang and Roman merchants.
"Why are we making a trade blockade against the Persians" After boarding the ship in Yangzhou, Cheng Qian's mood became better, and he was about to leave the Central Plains, and what he felt was freedom.
"Distant and close attack, Your Highness."
Li Chao put away the letter.
"If Persia were strong, they would not sit idly by and watch us seize the places of Hezhong and Sindu, which are forbidden in their eyes.
But if the Persians are too busy to take care of themselves, of course they will not have time or ability to take care of us. ” The Tang Dynasty joined forces with Rome to deal with Persia, which was beneficial to the Tang Dynasty.
It's just that now, as in history, the Abebos have risen rapidly.
The Prophet had died several years earlier, and the Prophet had no sons, nor did he specify who would be his heirs.
As a result, the question of who would be Muslim's successor became the primary issue facing Muslim, and although there was fierce competition, the follower 'Umar took the initiative to recognize Abu Bakr's caliphate status and ended the power struggle.
Caliph, meaning representative of the Messenger of Allah.
However, the first caliph, Abu had only been caliph for three years, and he was a wealthy merchant in Mecca, and he was one of the first supporters of the Prophet during his mission, supporting the Prophet with his possessions.
When the Prophet had to leave, he was a faithful follower.
After the death of his first wife, the Prophet also married Abu's daughter, so the first caliph was actually the Prophet's father-in-law.
After becoming caliphs, under his leadership, the apostate tribes returned to the ranks of believers, and the Arabs began wars of foreign conquest.
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His Arab armies were victorious in the wars against the Persian Sassanids and the Eastern Romans.
It's just that the prophet's father-in-law died after only three years as a caliph.
After his death, 'Umar, who had fought with him for caliphate, became the second caliph, and after he succeeded to the throne, he continued his predecessor's plan of conquest, launching simultaneous attacks on the eastern and western fronts against Silia and Eastern Rome.
Although the second caliph had only been in power for four years, in his hands, the Arab army was more courageous and the offensive momentum was more intense, whether it was the Eastern Roman Empire or the Persian Sassanid Empire.
Now that he had received the news that the Arabs had defeated the Persian army and seized the Persian relics, he was also a little complicated.
Although there was no Tang Dynasty in history, the Persians were also exterminated by the Arabs.
But now his own appearance may have made the Persians even weaker.
"Maybe we should have a good talk with the Persians, or maybe we should bring the Romans with us."
Cheng Qian said suddenly.
Li Chao's heart moved.
"Your Highness, tell me what you think."
"The Arabs on the Arabian Peninsula south of Persia are now the most powerful, even unstoppable.
Not only did they defeat the Persians, but they even fought with the Romans.
The two fronts are fighting, but they are not left behind.
These people are not simple, they are fanatical. ” Li Chao nodded.
There is probably no more fanatical army in the world than the Arab army.
"Teacher, I think so, a new Arab with such a fanatical army and an invincible enemy, we must see their threat early.
If we continue to blockade the Persians as we do now, Persia will be even more vulnerable, and eventually the Arabs will pick up the bargain. ” "When the Arabs occupy Persia and our two families are facing each other, perhaps their next goal will be to attack us.
We can't wait for them to come to us, we have to contain them now.
Uniting Persia and Rome, the three of us made an armistice, and reached an agreement to encircle and suppress this Arabia first, and strangle him in the cradle."
"It's not so easy to strangle the Arabs."
Li Chao said with a wry smile, although the Persian Sassanid Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire and the Tang Empire are all kings of this era, but compared with the Arab Empire, there is still a gap.
Even in modern times, the Green Religion has an incredible influence.
"Teacher, the more this is the case, the sooner you have to strangle him."
Sassanid has been in turmoil for years, and the current emperor is Jezdegged III, also known as Isi, the last emperor of Persia and the grandson of Kuslao II, who was defeated by Rome in the last place.
Five years ago, he ascended the throne in the Persian capital of Ctesiphon.
But he was also a puppet emperor, and the local warlords didn't pay much attention to this emperor.
But after all, this is still an emperor, after the second emperor of Persia, Persia has changed twelve emperors in a row, and this one has barely sat on the throne for at least five years.
"Now I'm afraid that the Romans are not very willing to accept it."
Li Chaodao.
Before the civil strife in Rome, Persia, under the leadership of Kuslao II, fell into the well, and took advantage of the fire to rob a lot of things.
The capture of the Roman provinces of Egypt, the capture of Jerusalem, the seizure of the holy relics of the True Cross, and even to Asia Minor.
In the past few years, the Romans have barely turned over and are about to take advantage of the situation to destroy Persia.
"Just let the Romans see the danger of the Arabs and believe that they are still willing to make an armistice with Persia.
Of course, the premise is that Persia must make some concessions, cede some land and some money and food. ” Li Chao laughed, he didn't expect Cheng Qian to be so good at the overall situation.
"Your Highness has a point, at this time, the three of us sit down to talk, and talk about a friendly agreement, and then we can also clarify the border with Persia, so that the Persians can recognize our border agreement with Rome, and also recognize that the current line of actual control between us and them is the border line between the two countries.
Write it down and engrave it on a stone tablet in the future. ” Of course, the most important thing is to support the Persians, let them be in front, and consume with the Arabs.
Datang can sell weapons to them, which is much better than Datang himself rolling up his sleeves and fighting the Arabs shirtless.
The Tang Dynasty, Eastern Rome, and Persian Sasanian, the three major empires want to join forces to do the caliphate, and I don't know if the Arabs will be angry when they know about it.
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