Water Margin people

Chapter 1600: Give a sweet date after a beating

"Your Excellency the Caliph, the overall situation is more important. The Crusaders in the north have already assembled, and a holy war may break out again at any time. If we still insist on being an enemy of Qi, I am afraid that even the Holy Land will be lost!"

Saladin looked at Muktafi and spoke.

"So what! Recovering the Holy City is what we must do! As for the State of Qi, we will never allow them to occupy the land here, let alone spread the Imperial religion here! This is the Kingdom of Allah!"

Muktafi looked at Saladin and said with determination.

"Your Excellency the Caliph, please calm down. The biggest threat right now is the Crusaders. They are the enemy. As for Qi, they just want the plateau. Just give it to them. After we deal with the Crusaders, it won't be too late to attack the plateau!"

Saladin urged quickly.

"No need to say more, Gao Yuan must be from my Da Shi Cult!"

Muktafi spoke with gritted teeth, and his attitude was so firm that Saladin could no longer utter a word of dissuasion.

Saladin knew very well that the Muktafis were not for the Caliphate at all. They were only for the expansion of the Abbasid Empire. The Abbasid Empire, the Black Caliphate, was once the ruler of this land and achieved hegemony.

Later, the Abbasid Empire was defeated by the Seljuks and the country was almost destroyed. It has only now recovered, and coincidentally the Seljuk Empire was destroyed. This ambition can no longer be suppressed.

"Report, Caliph, the enemy is chasing us!"

A cavalryman came on horseback to report.

"What? Are you chasing me?"

Muktafi was shocked, he didn't expect the enemy to catch up so quickly. He had left behind so many soldiers, couldn't he stop the enemy for a moment?

"kill."

The shouts rang out again, coming from outside the mountain. The enemy had already chased to the mountain pass.

"Come on!"

Muktafi shouted to the people around him and rode into the mountains.

At the mountain pass, Yang Zhizheng led a large army to charge.

"General, the enemy's main force has entered the mountains!"

A soldier reported.

"Damn it, I'm still a step too late!"

Yang Zhi gritted his teeth and said that he had been chasing all the way with the purpose of intercepting the enemy leader, but he still couldn't catch up with him after chasing all the way.

"Kill them all!"

Yang Zhi roared and gave orders, he wanted to vent his anger on the enemies who were still fleeing into the mountains.

When the massacre was over, the area outside Isfahan was a sea of ​​blood and corpses.

The Qi army did not clean up the battlefield, and even the Fan army was too lazy to do it. They simply confiscated the horses and weapons, and left the corpses all over the ground.

"Let the civilians in the city go out to clean up the battlefield and dig a pit to bury the bodies!"

Lin Chong looked at the corpses of the enemies outside the city and said, "The weather is still a bit hot now. If left unchecked, an epidemic will soon break out."

The terrified civilians in the city were taken out of the city, and when they saw the corpses, they trembled with fear.

"You guys, quickly dig a big hole and bury all these bodies!"

Ibrahim gave orders to the civilians.

The civilians didn't dare to move and they all knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, fearing that a pit would be dug to bury them.

"Those who disobey will be killed!"

Seeing that these people were unwilling to work hard, Ibrahim immediately pulled out the tools from his waist and shouted. The civilians finally obeyed and followed the army to clean up the battlefield with their farm tools.

"This way, no one should dare to have any other thoughts."

Lin Chong stood on the city wall and looked at the civilians who were leaving the city to do hard labor.

"The population in the west is small, and this city is one of the most populous we have ever seen. It is also the most populous city within a radius of 500 miles. If we want these people to be loyal to us, we must let them know the price of betrayal!"

Wang Jin smiled and said that the previous massacre in the city had frightened these people, and they had all expressed their loyalty to the State of Qi and their belief in the Imperial Religion.

But words are never trustworthy. These people may be loyal out of fear today, but they may rebel out of fear tomorrow.

Therefore, the State of Qi let these people see the power of Qi so that they would never dare to betray.

A large number of civilians acted quickly, a large pit was dug, and the body of the dead man in black was thrown into the pit.

Some weapons and armor that had not been confiscated were also handed over by the civilians. They did not dare to resist. The fully armed black-clad Arabs were no match for them, so how could they be a match? Moreover, those who came out this time were all young and strong, and their families were still in the city.

Ibrahim ordered his men to collect all the weapons and armor. The Qi army did not look down upon these things. Both the armor and the weapons were far inferior to the standard equipment of Qi.

"Haha, these things are cheap for me!"

Ibrahim was overjoyed. He didn't expect that there were so many equipments left on the battlefield. They were enough to replenish his army.

Civilians began to fill the pit with soil. As the soil was filled in, the huge pit disappeared on the horizon.

"Back to the city!"

Seeing that everything was done, Ibrahim immediately gave orders to the civilians.

They were surrounded by mountains, but the nearest mountain was dozens of miles away, so it was impossible for these civilians to escape on foot.

When they entered the city, the civilians were very surprised. Each of them who participated in the labor was given three large naan breads, which were enough for a family to eat for two days.

"Propagate your majesty's decree: Anyone who works sincerely will be rewarded!"

A man in Taoist robes shouted at the city gate, like a devout missionary.

When the common people saw this unexpected surprise, they were all grateful and kept praising His Majesty as a holy man.

There were constant wars during this period, and the black-clad Arabs were burning, killing and looting in the city. All of them hid at home and dared not go out, but they could not go out but could not miss food. The food reserves in their homes were running out, and these three huge naan breads were life-saving for many people.

"After a beating, you have to give a sweet date, otherwise these people will never learn their lesson."

Lin Chong said with a smile.

At this time, Yang Zhi also returned home with his troops.

"Have you caught up with the enemy?"

Lin Chong looked at Yang Zhi and asked.

"No, those guys ran very fast. They had already entered the mountains when I arrived. The defeated soldiers were all over the mountain road, which seriously hindered my pursuit. In the end, I had to give up."

Yang Zhi spoke.

"It's fine if we can't catch up, but in these two battles, the Abbasids suffered nearly 40,000 casualties. I've checked and found that this country is not that strong. These losses are heavy. They probably won't dare to come again in the short term!"

Wang Jin said that Abbas was just a kingdom. Although the land it occupied was fertile, the size of the land limited its population. The loss of 40,000 young and strong people was not easy to recover from.

"This matter has been resolved. The army has begun to march towards the surrounding cities, and will attack this plateau as quickly as possible."

Lin Chong looked at everyone and said that the war was over and all that remained was to continue consolidating the territory and eliminate the resistance groups in the territory.

“I go south to Shiraz!”

Du Fu said that there was still one big city that had not been taken, and that was Shiraz in the south.