king of ros

Chapter 564 Surprise
Baghdad, the ancient round city, as the center of the caliphate's rule, gained supreme splendor and prosperity, but with the decline of the caliphate, the city also declined.

But the Abbasid Caliph still did not leave, even if they were emptied by Persian warlords and Turkic chiefs, they still stayed here and continued their rule.

But even if it becomes a puppet, Baghdad still cannot get rid of the entanglement of war. After all, in name, it is still the center of the entire Islamic world.

But also because of the war, the Seljuk Sultan's control over the Abbasid Caliphate became looser and looser. If this continues, the Abbasid Caliphate can gradually regain their power. If they can seize the node of the war, then they may even You can take back the Two Rivers area at once, but whether you can seize this opportunity depends on the qualifications of the current caliphate.

And as a result, the current Abbasid caliph has done very well.

The key to the Battle of Baghdad took place on the last day of 1102. After nearly two years of fighting, the area around Baghdad had been reduced to scorched earth, and the Monomakh and Seljuk troops fighting here were also extremely exhausted.

During this period of time, the two sides kept seeing each other repeatedly, and the siege of Yuancheng was also intermittent. Today I will take down your camp, and tomorrow you will take down my fortress.

Baki Yaluke made up his mind not to fight Monomakh. He chose to continue building strong camps to consume Monomakh. His strategy succeeded, allowing Monomakh to sink his time and military strength into it. .

Monomakh was very unwilling to do this, but he was helpless. If he rashly launched an attack on the strong camp of the Seljuk army, it would be like sending his own army to Baki Yaluke for him to annihilate.

But Monomacher couldn't retreat either. He had a strong feeling that if he retreated here, he would never come here again in the future.

So he stayed here like this, squeezed out all the resources on the land of his own kingdom to support this war, as for how many people would starve to death, that was not what he cared about, regardless of the increasingly serious voices of war weariness below, continue This war with no end in sight.

As for Baki Yaluke, Monomakh did not retreat, so he can only suffer along with it. The Seljuk Sultan is very unwilling to spend time with Monomakh, which is different from Monomakh, who can eliminate all sequelae as long as he wins the war , every tax increase and every conscript he carried out for the war was shaking his own rule.

But the war has to go on after all, even if you don’t want to, you have to go on. If you can’t win the war, then everything is equal to zero. Baki Yaluke must hold on. The current Seljuk Empire can’t stand a war fail.

Both sides are suffering like this, and a long war is going on. The soldiers below are all complaining. They haven't fought such a continuous war for a long time. This war has bankrupted many people, but they still have to continue here. .

Only Baghdad was a blessing in disguise. The besieged city did not starve to death, and even reinforcements continued to enter the city.

The main people who entered the city were Islamic jihadists from all over the world. Their arrival greatly enriched the Caliph's army and improved the quality of the army.

While the armies outside the Round City were still fighting like rolling in a mud puddle, inside the Round City, the Abbasid Caliph was silently accumulating strength, observing the two armies, waiting for the right opportunity to let himself be a hero. battlefield.

The Abbasid Caliph has been a puppet for too long, and if he wants to clear his reputation as a puppet, he can only win through a hearty victory. Only victory can remind people of the past glory of the Abbasid dynasty.

And this opportunity was soon presented to the Caliph.

After a long battle, the two armies were exhausted to the extreme, and there were more and more deserters every day. The officers and lords could do nothing about it, and some even turned a blind eye to it. In the current war, the two sides also have to deal more and more with each other.

This is always unacceptable to the commanders of both sides, so both sides have carried out many rectifications at the same time, but the results are extremely rare. rotten.

Under such circumstances, Monomakh realized that if he did not rush to a decisive battle, his army would collapse in such a confrontation of consumption.

So he took out his treasures, and used the various rare treasures he had accumulated over the years of war as bait to awaken the fighting spirit of the soldiers, and in the end he succeeded. After Nuomahe made his promise, the soldiers' fighting spirit finally rose.

As for the officers and lords, they directly received the gold and silver from Monomakh, which allowed them to fully move, and Monomakh also promised a large amount of land, even Baghdad.

When Monomakh's army started to move, the Turks didn't realize this at all. In the constant confrontation, they had tacitly agreed that the current situation would continue forever, so when the Monomakh army launched an attack, the Turks didn't succeed at all. After reacting, facing the wolf-like Monomakh army, they collapsed and immediately fell apart.

Since the two armies have been confronting each other near Baghdad for the past two years, the city was the first to receive the news. When the Turks collapsed, the guards on the city wall immediately reported back the information.

This is the long-awaited opportunity of the Abbasid caliph. Mustazir ordered the whole army to attack. He has waited a long time for this day, under the black banner of the Abbasid, in Baghdad for a long time. The Abbasid army rushed out of the city.

The sudden appearance of the Abbasid army caught everyone by surprise. Everyone did not expect that an army would appear at this time. After all, the Abbasid Caliphate seemed to everyone to be a player who had already been eliminated.

Before that, even though the caliph had assembled a lot of troops, everyone thought it was the caliph's nursing brigade. After all, the caliph had been a puppet for so many years, and everyone thought he was a pawn.

As a result, the player was resurrected and attacked them, and everyone found out that they were wrong.

The Abbasid Caliph has an army of about [-]. Although it is inconspicuous compared with Monomakh and Seljuk, this army can change the situation if it is used well, and now is the right time.

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(End of this chapter)