Xuanzheng Hall.

The palace was discussing matters. The prince was regent in the court, the grandson of the Hanlin Academy who served as the emperor, the grandson of the Political Affairs Hall, the eunuchs from the three provinces, the Privy Council and the chief of the Censorate.

"Li Shimin died of illness. Now the credibility urgently needs to send someone who is capable and prestige and can fight to take over, otherwise he will not be able to suppress Sanhai."

Privy Councilor Su Dingfang said.

Pingzhangshi, Xu Shiji, Minister of War, said, "I think Liu Rengui can take over. He has served as the right governor of Xindu for more than three years. He led the Xindu Military Region with Li Shimin and the Red Sea Military Region. Liu Rengui is a good warrior and has a high prestige in the army. Moreover, he has always been loyal to the saints and is diligent in the king's affairs. It is perfect for him to take over."

Liu Heifu, the commander-in-chief of the Jinyiwei who attended the meeting, looked through the small notebook in front of him and then spoke.

"Dear Prime Ministers and Auxiliary Masters, I have an important news here to inform you of the latest letter from the Jinyiwei Feishu sent from Persia. Under the leadership of the Dashi Caliph, the Arabs defeated the Persian army in the Battle of Caticia. Then, after the long battle of the Persian capital Taixifeng siege, Taixifeng was lost."

This news did not shock the prime ministers sitting there.

In fact, Persia was terrible in the past twenty years. The Qin Dynasty also took into account the alliance between the Three Emperors and helped Persia several times, but Persia was unable to support it.

However, there was no way Persia was so bad. First, not long after Kavard II signed a three-month alliance with the Qin and Rome, the Persian Sassanian Emperor who usurped the throne by killing his father for only one year, was killed by poisoning him.

And the person who assassinated him was his brother.

In the following five years, assassination, usurping the throne and regicide were successively held. In five years, the Sassanian Empire produced ten kings, all of whom claimed to be kings and Persian emperors, but in fact they were just puppets in the hands of great nobles and monks.

After that, Yaztigede succeeded to the throne and called Yisiqi III. This man was supported and supported by the Qin Dynasty and the Roman Empire, which temporarily ended the chaos within the Persian Sassanid.

However, the five years of the ten kings' battles have completely damaged Persia's vitality. In these precious five years, the Arabs have quickly risen on the peninsula.

They favored Daqin's strategic contraction strategy, and took over the land trade routes on the north coast of the Red Sea such as Mecca, and quickly integrated various Arab families and tribes. ::

After the death of the prophet, the Arabs were elected as caliphs by their disciples or comrades.

Several caliphs continued to launch wars of foreign expansion. First, they united King Aksum on the southern coast of the Red Sea to launch an attack on the Kingdom of Hemuyere in Yemen in the northeast corner of the Red Sea. Hemuyere was originally a non-weak force that had been established for six or seven hundred years and had conquered the Yemenian countries one by one. Later, in the battle for Yemen, Hemuyere was first defeated by the Kingdom of Aksum, which crossed the sea to attack, and became a vassal state. Later, Persian Sassanthes sent troops to fight, and was eventually captured by Persia and changed to a vassal state.

After the Three Emperors' Alliance Agreement, the Kingdom of Himuyere turned to a vassal of the Great Qin according to the agreement and became a vassal of the Great Qin. Originally, many forces on the north coast of the Red Sea such as Mecca had already surrendered to the Great Qin, but the Arabs held the eagle flag and acted quickly, and before the Qin people arrived, they seized Mecca and other cities.

After taking down Mecca and other cities, the Arabs began to go east, wanting to conquer Yemen and regain Persian-controlled Oman and other places to the north.

The war begins.

The Kingdom of Himuyere, which had been a vassal for many years, was vulnerable and retreated step by step in front of the Eagle Banner. He had to seek help from the Persian Sassanian army to the north. The Persian army went south to rescue according to the agreement, but the Persian heavy cavalry could not defeat the Arab light cavalry under the Eagle Cavalry.

In the first round of Yemen's battle, Persia was defeated and retreated, the Kingdom of Himuyere was invaded and occupied by the Great Food, and became a vassal of the Great Food.

Then the Great Food went north to compete for Oman, Persia increased its troops to defend, and at the same time urgently asked the Qin army to send troops to provide assistance.

At this time, the court sent Li Shimin to lead the expeditionary fleet to provide assistance, and the second Yemen battle broke out.

The war lasted for more than a year. With the help of the Qin army, the Persian coalition of Qin, which had the power to control the sea, first cut off Aksum's logistics line, forcing Aksum to withdraw from the battle first, and then the two families joined forces to fight Persia. At this time, Rome also took the opportunity to send troops from Syria to capture the old lair of the cannibals.

The second Yemen battle ended with the withdrawal of troops from the Great Food and the withdrawal of Yemen.

The Qin army officially entered Yemen and built military ports, fortresses, etc. in Yemen, guarding the estuary of the Red Sea.

Not long after this war, Persian emperor Kawad was poisoned, and Persia was trapped in a five-year civil strife and was no longer able to look at the peninsula.

After the war, Li Shimin returned to Xindu and began to colonize Xindu with all his strength.

After summarizing some lessons, the defeated Dashi began to give up the eastward expansion but began to expand westward, and under the leadership of the Caliph, attacking the Roman army in Syria to the west in revenge on their last dispatch.

However, the Caliph's attack did not have much effect and he died soon after.

Omer was elected as the second caliph. He chose Khalid Ibn Velid, known as the Sword of Allah, as the head coach, and let him lead a great force to re-enlist Syria.

This famous general of the Great Food led 40,000 Great Food Army and unexpectedly passed through the rarely visited Syrian desert and wiped out 50,000 Roman troops in one fell swoop on the banks of the Yarmuk River. In this battle, the Roman army had no soldiers to defend in Syria, and the Great Food Army took advantage of the situation to occupy Damascus, the Syrian capital.

After that, the Great Food Army won victory after victory and besieged Jerusalem for two years, and finally forced him to surrender.

From then on, all the lands on the west bank of the peninsula were taken away by the cannibals. Emperor Chiraclio wrote sadly in his letter to Emperor Luo Cheng of Qin, "Syria, such beautiful and beautiful mountains and rivers, we took back from the Persians, but in the end they were taken away by the Arabs!"

After defeating the Roman legion, the Dashi army took advantage of the victory and advanced eastward. Taking advantage of the Persian civil strife, they began to attack Mesopotamia in the Mesopotamia in the Persian Mesopotamia. Only 40,000 Dashi army marched eastward, but the Persian Sassanian army was defeated and retreated step by step.

The Arabs not only regained the coastal areas along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf, but also captured the fertile Mesopotamia. After looting countless spoils, the Arabs formed a new Western Expedition army and began to go south from Syria along the Mediterranean.

They successfully invaded Egypt and won one victory after another with the support of the Coptics. In the end, the Caliph became the master of Alexander, and the entire Egypt was included in the territory of the Great Food.

After capturing Egypt, the Caliph once again formed an Eastern Expedition Army to reconnect with the Kingdom of Aksum on the southern coast of the Red Sea, preparing to compete for Yemen again and drive the Qin army out.

At the beginning of the war, the Great Food Eastern Expedition Army and Aksum came prepared and formed a 50,000 coalition, and rushed to fight fiercely.

At this time, Li Shimin was standing by the Xindu River and was not idle for the past few years. With his active progress, he had successfully opened the passage from Xindu River to Daxia and occupied the Khyber Pass. Although there were many enemy forces on both sides of the Xindu River, at least he had opened a main line.

When the Third Yemen War broke out, after receiving a letter of help from the Yemeni garrison, Li Shimin asked them to guard the fortress and castle waiting for help, and immediately mobilized their troops. He also asked several other channels such as Daxia, Hezhong, Anxi, etc. to borrow troops.

The Qin army fortress in Yemen lasted for more than a year, but the Dashi coalition failed to capture it, but the fortress was in danger. At the critical moment, Li Shimin finally led more than 20,000 reinforcements from the sea.

The third Yemen Battle began. Li Shimin took advantage of the coalition forces to capture for a long time. When Mr. Shi was exhausted, he launched a surprise attack and defeated the coalition forces.
Chapter completed!