The Eastern Roman army knew that the Arabs would definitely take revenge, so they had been making defensive troop movements and were fighting the remaining Arab troops. However, they did not expect that the Arab reinforcements would come so quickly. They thought that the Arab reinforcements would come so quickly.

The man fell from the sky, and immediately the entire Roman army was in chaos.

Then General Khalid gathered all the Arab warriors in the area together and put him under unified command. Suddenly the morale of the entire Arab army was greatly boosted, and its combat capabilities were very powerful! Moreover, the Arab cavalry was also very powerful.

In fact, the Arabs are nomadic people who have grown up on horses, so their army is mainly based on cavalry. The main weapon is the throwing gun. This kind of weapon can be projected over long distances and is also good at desert combat. The organization of the army

It is very strict. The cavalry troops are highly maneuverable and fast, so they can achieve suddenness in combat. However, the Arabs are not good at using bows, swords, spears or even siege equipment. The Arabs usually use force attack or siege equipment.

It is to instigate rebellion and blockade.

We learned that the Arab cavalry was powerful, and we also understood that the Roman legion at this time was as if it was sick and had no real lethality at all. Therefore, the Arab army led by Khalid successively attacked

Defeated! The Roman army suffered too many casualties, with corpses everywhere and desperate cries for help from the wounded, so they had to retreat into the city of Damascus under repeated defeats. But we also had a preliminary understanding of the Arabs before.

They were not good at siege warfare. At this point, the Arab warriors had surrounded Damascus, the capital of Syria. It was at this time that Khalid fully understood that this was originally the territory of Eastern Rome! No wonder the Romans wanted to attack them.

, I thought they were all here to rob, but it seems things are not that simple.

It is not difficult to see from General Khalid's judgment that the Eastern Roman Empire at this time not only had a very vast territory, but also seemed to have some loopholes in the provincial management model of the border areas, which made others think that this was not Rome.

The place where the empire is, it can be seen that this kind of loophole is still very big.

Of course, let’s not ignore the huge loopholes in the centralization of power in the Eastern Roman Empire for now, because the city of Damascus is currently completely surrounded by Arab armies. If it were placed in the previous Roman Empire, would this kind of thing be possible? The Roman emperor would definitely be divided

It would be possible to lead a large army to rescue the siege in minutes, and it would be even more possible to lead a large army to carry out devastating revenge on the Arabs! But at present, the top leaders of the Roman Empire are extravagant and extravagant all day long. Therefore, the Roman emperor knew that Damascus in Syria was occupied by the Arabs.

People gathered around him, and he tried to continue compulsory conscription, but what did the Roman Empire say at this time? If conscription was really compulsory, it could still get an army, but it was afraid that the civilians would completely resist, and uprisings among the civilians continued.

It had been going on intermittently, so what did the Roman emperor think of Syria? Anyway, it was not possible to hit the center of the Roman Empire for the time being, so he started to let it go.

The Roman troops and civilians in the city of Damascus, Syria, have been waiting for the Roman Emperor to send troops to assist them, and have been resisting the Arabs. They have never given up. But these Roman soldiers and civilians have been waiting in the city of Damascus.

After a year, they had not yet received reinforcements from the Roman Empire, and even the food in Damascus was completely exhausted. Therefore, the civilians and soldiers of the Roman Empire were extremely disappointed and decided to surrender.

Moreover, the soldiers and civilians of the Roman Empire really wanted to surrender to the Arab general Khalid. The next day, the Christian Archbishop of Damascus, on behalf of all the residents of Damascus, stood at the top of the city and shouted to Khalid: Dear

General Khalid, victory is already in front of you. If we give up resistance, can you guarantee the safety of our people in Damascus?

The Arab general Khalid rode his horse to the city and shouted to the archbishop on top of the city: As long as you surrender, I promise you that I will never harm you! And I guarantee that your property and church will never enter your home.

houses, as long as you pay a small amount of head tax.

The archbishop felt that this condition was completely acceptable, at least much better than the current disgusting emperor of the Roman Empire, so the archbishop thought for a while and signed a peace treaty with the Arab general Khalid. So far, the Arabs have

Driving into Damascus in a mighty manner.

After the Arabs entered Damascus, they did strictly abide by the promise made by General Khalid to the Archbishop. So far, no major conflicts have occurred. Everything seems to be calm, and the Arabs seem to be here to collect.

The head protection fee is the same, and nothing else is done.

Perhaps when seeing this, some of us feel very strange, shouldn't war be like this? Shouldn't it be burning, killing and looting? How could it be such a gentle and peaceful model? In fact, this is what we all have not understood

After analyzing this matter clearly, why did General Khalid not burn, kill and loot? In fact, it is very simple. From the moment the archbishop signed the peace treaty, Damascus no longer belongs to the Roman Empire. It belongs to the Kingdom of Arabia.

Territory! That is to say, General Khalid captured Damascus in disguise. Now it is the place of their own Arab people, so why do they burn, kill and loot? Isn't this strange?

But this kind of thing is easy to analyze clearly, because Damascus immediately broke away from the Roman Empire and was no longer part of the Roman Empire. The Roman emperor originally didn't want to care about this kind of thing, but some high-level nobles and even rich people felt that

I am very unhappy. Why did Damascus, which was the territory of Rome, suddenly become the territory of the Kingdom of Arabia? Doesn't this make it impossible to exploit civilians? Isn't this strange?

However, if we understand this matter according to our current thinking, this is not the high-level people of the Roman Empire or even the nobles and rich people. During the year when Damascus was besieged, they simply continued to exploit the civilians and continued to live in poverty.

He lives a life of extravagance and debauchery, and simply ignores this matter. In the past year or so, if the top brass in Rome had paid a little attention to this matter, it would not have become what it is now.

Look like this.

But no matter how we analyze it, the high-level officials, nobles and even rich people of the Roman Empire are very unhappy at present, so they keep talking nonsense in the ears of the Roman Emperor. In the end, the Roman Emperor also becomes inexplicably angry! So the Roman Emperor

This time, he and his brother actually led an army of more than 100,000 people, and then attacked Khalid in an attempt to regain Damascus.

At this time, Khalid's men were supplemented by Damascus, and there were about 20,000 soldiers in total. When Khalid knew that the Roman emperor had led an army of 100,000 this time, he understood that the enemy was outnumbered. So Khalid

In order to avoid its sharp edge, they directly abandoned Damascus. Because the Arabs could not attack the city, but the Romans could! So Khalid led his troops to retreat to the Yarmouk River, a tributary of the Jordan River.

The Eastern Roman army of more than 100,000 people reoccupied Damascus effortlessly. However, the Eastern Roman emperor was still very angry, so he ordered the army to continue marching in an attempt to annihilate all the Arabs in one fell swoop.

So in August 636 AD, the Roman emperor's army fought a war with the Arabs! Although the Eastern Roman army at this time was very large and had an absolute numerical advantage, all of this army was obtained through forced conscription.

, and more of them are not Roman civilians at all, because the Roman civilians have been squeezed to the point where they have no food to eat and no clothing to cover their bodies, so the number of Roman civilians has also been greatly reduced, mainly because they starve to death, or

I am exhausted and basically don’t want to farm.

The common people of Rome were unwilling to farm. Some people may say that the Romans were lazy. In fact, this was not the case. The common people of Rome were not lazy at all. Who doesn’t like to get a lot of food after farming? So the Roman common people did not farm.

The reason is that even if they work hard, they will not get food. They will be expropriated by the country, or forcibly taken away by nobles, or even deceived by rich people using magic tricks. They will still be hungry.

They die on the ground, so there is no point in farming.

Now that we have talked here, let us also talk about the Indian issues in our current era. I have also seen many people on the Internet scolding Indians for being lazy, not sweeping the floor, not farming, etc. In fact, these Chinese people are scolding Indians.

, did not analyze the matter clearly at all. In fact, in India at present, the common people cannot get food from farming. The state levies it and the rich and nobles rob it. They really can’t get any food, so what’s the use of farming?

What’s the meaning? If it were me, I wouldn’t farm, and I would rather starve to death, because I can’t resist. The power of the nobles, the rich and even the top leaders is too great, and there are too many troops. But India has been trying to change this status quo.

Unfortunately, the effect is not very good, because the greed of the rich and nobles is too powerful.

Okay, let’s go back to the topic of the Roman Empire. We also learned this. This proves that the population of civilians in the Roman Empire has been greatly reduced, and there are very few people who can reach the physical fitness of soldiers. Therefore, the Roman Emperor

Of the 100,000 troops brought this time, at least 80,000 are pure slaves! They are the talking tools in the eyes of the Romans. Although these people work day and night and have very good physiques, it is a pity that these talking tools
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