Damascus City!

Ancient Arab books once wrote: "If there is heaven on earth, Damascus will be in it; if heaven is in space, Damascus will be as famous as it."

Although this is a bit exaggerated, Damascus is indeed qualified to receive such praise in the distant West.

Damascus is located on a plain at the foot of the majestic Mount Kerin, located on both sides of the Barada River. The Avash River flows through the suburbs of the city, with mountains, water and plains combined. The grass is green and the flowers are fragrant, and all trees are competing for beauty. Therefore, it is also praised as "City of Gardens", "City of Poetry", "City of Mosques" and so on.

This is too long to talk about the history of Damascus.

In the fifteenth century BC, the Aramis who lived in the northern Semites of the ancient Arabian Peninsula established a kingdom here; in 333 BC, the king of the Macedonian kingdom, Alexander the Great, defeated the Persian Empire and took the city away from the Persians; in 64 BC, Pompei's Roman legion invaded Damascus, and in 661 AD, the Arab Umayyad dynasty established its capital here, making it the center of the powerful Arab Empire.

However, today, Damascus, which has been safe for a long time, has been baptized by artillery fire.

The navy of the Byzantine Empire passed through the Mediterranean Sea and directly attacked the Arab capital Damascus.

After the baptism of artillery fire, Damascus was shaky.

The Byzantine commander in charge of the siege was Justinian, the governor who went to Chang'an in the past.

This Byzantine veteran looked at the shaky city of Damascus with great enthusiasm at this moment, feeling proud.

Byzantium has bullied Arabs so badly over the years, as a descendant of the Roman Empire.

The Byzantine Empire was originally the most brilliant and powerful country in the West, with its territory including the Balkans, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Transcaucasus, and even incorporated the west of North Africa, the southeast of Italy and Spain into its territory.

However, the rise of Arabs was that they stepped on the Byzantine body and grew step by step. Syria, Egypt and other places that should have belonged to Byzantine were completely reduced to part of the Arab Empire.

If Constantinople had not been easy to defend but difficult to attack, Byzantium had the most powerful naval army in the world, Byzantium would have destroyed its country long ago.

After suppressing for half a lifetime, it was finally time for them to be proud.

However, Justinian looked at Dongfang with some concern, wondering in his heart what Tang Jun would react.

In order to resist the Arab Empire, Byzantium gave up the dignity of its Holy Roman Empire, recognized the position of leader of the Tang Dynasty in the East, and dealt with Arabia together.

Pei Min and Mosremasa's showdown in the Western Regions touched the heartstrings of everyone in the East and the West.

In the end, the Tang army led by Pei Min won. The arrogant lion king in the West fell into the Western Regions, and the nearly 200,000 Arab army was destroyed. Arabia suffered the biggest crisis since its founding.

No one doesn’t like to do things like putting in trouble and hitting dogs.

In Byzantine, the Frank took the opportunity to send troops and began to recover the land and city occupied by Arabs, blowing the horn of a counterattack.

Byzantine's initial performance was fair and did not dare to be too presumptuous.

After all, the Tang Dynasty was the leader of the allies, and Mosremasa, who was invincible in the West, was defeated by Pei Min on the East. What did they use to fight Pei Min?

But soon they got another news that Mosremasa sent troops to the east because of internal problems in the Tang Dynasty. Thinking of Pei Min's victory over Mosremasa, he did not personally lead his troops westward and took advantage of the situation to expand his territory. Instead, he divided his troops and led his troops eastward, and Byzantium's courage became stronger.

Moreover, the city of Damascus is separated from the Mediterranean Sea from their Byzantine capital Constantinople. If the Tang Dynasty really wants to capture the city of Damascus and gain a foothold here, it will be extremely unfavorable for Byzantium in the future.

Weighing the pros and cons, Byzantine III decided to attack Damascus first, and before the Tang Dynasty arrived in Damascus, it defeated Damascus.

Leo III's gambling king Zhongsi didn't have the courage to go to war with them when he was unstable within himself.

And even if the war begins, Leo III doesn't feel that he will lose.

He only knew that there was a Pei Min in the East, and he didn't know who Wang Zhongsi was.

Justinian was also a member of the main battle. He felt that he had no reason to lose to the Tang army who came from thousands of miles away: but the Tang army was faster than they thought, and had already attacked Baghdad three days ago.

Baghdad means "God-given" in Arabic, just like Luoyang of the Tang Dynasty, and belongs to the capital of Damascus and is also an extremely important existence for Arabia.

The Tang army blocked the city of Baghdad, but as long as the Tang army conquered Baghdad, the next one was Damascus.

Byzantine, the Tang Dynasty is an enemy or a friend, so it depends on this dynasty.

Justinian knew the power of the Tang Dynasty and was inevitably worried.

"Governor-General, the Tang army captured Baghdad!"

A bad news came to Justinian's ears.

Justinian shuddered and said in a daze: "How could it be so fast?"

He immediately asked again: "What are the actions of the Tang army?"

"Return to the Governor, no, they repaired the city after they attacked Baghdad, and there was no news of continuing to advance."

"Huh!" After breathing a long sigh, the big rock in Justinian's heart fell and said, "I'm right, they really don't want to be enemies with us under such circumstances. They have also captured a lot of land. There is no need to be enemies with us for this Damascus city."

On the other side, Wang Zhongsi and Feng Changqing stood on the city tower in Baghdad and looked towards the direction of Damascus, chatting happily.

Wang Zhongsi said: "Let them fight for a while longer. Our soldiers are tired from this long journey. It's time to have a good rest."

Feng Changqing said: "Then wait for them to break through the outer city? In this way, we can directly pick up a ready-made cheap. What do the governor think?"

Wang Zhongsi moved his arms and said, "It's settled. I'll find a way to inform General Gao and let him rest well and not rush to advance."

Three days later!

Justinian watched with his own eyes the walls of Damascus break a gap for them, and shouted ecstaticly: "Get in, go in! The time for avenging them is here!"

Just as Byzantine soldiers rushed into Damascus, a light boat warship came across the sea, bringing news.

Five thousand Tang troops arrived in Constantinople.

Justinian felt a bolt from the blue and almost fainted.

Constantinople is a strong city in the world, but in order to recover the lost land, they divided their troops to fight. Now Constantinople only has less than 2,000 defensive power...

"How is that possible?"

"How did Tang Jun do it?"

Justinian said at a loss: "Hurry, send people to Baghdad. We are allies, how can we fight against our allies?"

The messenger arrived in Baghdad.
Chapter completed!