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Chapter 1608 Conqueror

Saladin's boat quickly reached the shore, and he got off the boat alone, while the boatman stayed on the boat on the shore.

Saladin looked at the Qi army not far away. After not seeing them for some time, the army was still neat and solemn, just like a sword sealed in a scabbard. On the surface, it did not seem sharp, but once it was unsheathed, it could kill all enemies.

"His Majesty!"

Saladin saluted Sun Lei.

"I see you're quite free, but you're haunting me like a ghost. Are you haunting me?"

Sun Lei looked at Saladin and asked, even if Saladin did not cause trouble for Baldwin IV, there should be a lot of things to do within the Caliphate, and integrating forces is not an easy task.

"Your Majesty has misunderstood. I just came from Baghdad!"

Saladin looked at Sun Lei and said.

"Oh, so what are you doing here?"

Sun Lei asked again, Baghdad should be under the control of the Abbasid Kingdom now, and the Abbasid Kingdom had just suffered a great defeat in Isfahan.

"I want to sign an agreement with your Majesty on behalf of the Arab countries. We will live in peace with each other, and the plateau will be the boundary, and all of it will be your Majesty's territory!"

Saladin raised a hand and spoke as if swearing an oath.

"protocol?"

Sun Lei stroked his chin and looked at Saladin with a playful smile on his face.

"Don't you think it's too late now?"

Sun Lei looked at Saladin and said.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

Saladin asked quickly.

"You don't think I've been wandering around in the mountains and don't know anything, do you? Two more ports should have been captured today. My Qi naval fleet has already controlled the entire Persian Gulf and is now attacking Dulima Xinfu. If we capture this port, the estuaries of the two rivers will also be controlled, and the fleet can go upstream..."

Sun Lei smiled and talked about the current situation while looking at Saladin.

Saladin looked at Sun Lei in shock. He didn't expect that Sun Lei already knew about what happened at sea. He only got the news yesterday.

The Qi naval fleet appeared outside the Persian Gulf five days ago, and within five days it captured ten ports inside and outside the Gulf. Every battle was decisive and efficient.

All resistance was so powerless. Qi's artillery could destroy everything. There was also a terrifying ironclad warship with a full hull and huge chimneys emitting white smoke, like a steel beast.

That huge ironclad ship didn't even need to use artillery. It simply rammed into the Arab warships, knocking them down like an axe chopping wood. The overwhelming force made everyone tremble.

When the news spread, the Arab nobles who had been clamoring for a decisive battle with Qi were stunned. Compared with Qi's army, the navy was more terrifying to them.

At present, the Qi navy is only in the Persian Gulf, but tomorrow it may reach the Sea of ​​​​Arab or the Red Sea. At that time, the war will sweep across the entire Arab Kingdom.

That's why Saladin came overnight to negotiate peace. Saladin believed that Sun Lei, who was far away from the southern coast, did not know the situation at sea. As long as he took advantage of this information gap and completed the peace negotiations, the Qi army could withdraw.

But now it’s different. Sun Lei already knows the situation at sea, and he knows the news more timely than him.

"You want to fight when I propose peace, so I naturally have the right to refuse it!"

Sun Lei shook his head.

"Besides, your tricks are too crude. Do you think I can do nothing if you take away all the boats on both sides of the river?"

"Once we take down Dulima Xinfu, our Qi fleet will go upstream. The water here is shallow, so giant warships can't get in, but ordinary ships can still get in!"

Sun Lei pointed at the river in front of him and said with a smile that he came to the two river basins not just for leisure.

Saladin's face changed several times. He couldn't see through Sun Lei any more. The abyss-like feeling made him fear from the bottom of his heart. "He is obviously over there in the Caspian Sea. How could he mobilize the navy from the far east? How could he know what happened at sea yesterday and the battle today! How did he manage to command the whole situation!"

  Saladin's heart was filled with shock. The Qi army seemed to be guided by a god, looking down on the entire earth from the sky. If this was the case, how could this war be fought?

"Your Majesty, we Arabs do not want to be your enemies. We can live in peace!"

Saladin spoke sincerely.

"I am a conqueror! I came to this land to conquer it. I will not do anything before I complete the conquest! If you want to live, you can choose to surrender. If you think you are strong, then let me see what you are capable of!"

"As for the so-called peace, that is something I will consider after I win, just like when you conquered this land!"

Sun Lei smiled and said that the Arabs never used peaceful means to conquer this land. Even after the conquest, there were constant wars and divisions within the country. The so-called peace never came.

"conqueror!"

Saladin's face turned extremely ugly. Sun Lei's attitude was to start a total war and conquer everything.

"Your Majesty, is there really no room for easing the situation?"

Saladin looked at Sun Lei and asked.

"With your intelligence, you should know that this is already a foregone conclusion!"

Sun Lei said.

In this world, the strong are king. If Qi State becomes powerful, it can conquer everything it can. In the past, there were mountains, oceans, and Gobi Deserts blocking the way, and wars were affected by distance.

But now all this has changed. Not only did Qi's army attack, but its navy was also rampant, almost reaching the heartland of the Arab states.

"If we withdraw from this plain, will your majesty be willing?"

Saladin gritted his teeth and said that the plains in the two river basins were the best land here, and the only land that could be compared to it was the Nile River basin in the Fatimid Kingdom.

Sun Lei shook his head, his pace of conquest would not stop.

Saladin saluted Sun Lei, turned around and returned to the boat and returned to the other side of the river.

"Your Majesty, this guy doesn't seem willing to surrender!"

Li Zhu looked at Sun Lei and said.

"He will surrender! In the face of absolute strength, they are just ants!"

Sun Lei said.

"Your Majesty, will they cooperate with Baldwin IV?"

Yue Fei opened his mouth and asked, the greater the threat from Qi, the more likely the enemy would do crazy things, even if it was a feud, it was not impossible to let go of the hatred.

"You mean they will unite against us because of the principle of "lips and teeth are cold"? Just like the Sun-Liu coalition forces joined forces to fight Cao?"

Sun Lei said.

"It's not impossible!"

Yue Fei clasped his fists.

"No, the Crusaders are even worse than the Arabs. If they knew the Arabs were suffering, they would only gloat over their misfortune and add insult to injury. You underestimate religious hatred!"

Sun Lei shook his head.

"Besides, what good can they do if they unite? Those Crusaders are still thousands of miles away. How many of them can you expect to come over?"

Sun Lei pointed to the northwest. The Crusaders were very far away from here. With their backward means of transportation, they could not sustain a war this far even if they wanted to.