Su Chencheng wrote a letter to Chubi explaining some things, leaving him solely responsible for negotiating with the Ham people.
After Cheng Chubi received the letter, he scratched his head. He was a military general who had never done this before.
He called over some Ham people who claimed to be envoys from Akmu Kingdom and asked them about their strength.
Several Ham people boasted for a while, and Cheng Chubi was so angry that he wanted to throw them into the sea. There are tens of thousands of you, why do you come to us for help?
Finally, Cheng Chubi promised them that he could help them capture the port of Adulis on the west coast of the Red Sea, and he could also give them a batch of armor, weapons and gunpowder.
After seeing the power of gunpowder, several Hams were overjoyed!
Immediately said: After the capture of Adulis Port, it will belong to Datang, as long as Datang allows them to do business in Adulis Port in the future!
Their performance made Ang Cheng Chubi feel that these seemingly unreliable Ham people were actually very smart!
These Ham people knew very well what they wanted, and they also guessed what Tang Jun wanted.
The fleet has always wanted to have a port on both sides of the Red Sea.
However, it was easy to capture a port, but there were no extra troops to defend it, so this plan was abandoned.
Well now, it would be best if we could get a port on the territory of the Ham people.
Of course, the premise is that the Ham people are really capable of driving away the giant cannibals.
The Ham people also knew that they could not hire people to work in vain, nor could they take other people's weapons and equipment for nothing, and they had nothing to offer, so they might as well give Adulis Port to Tang Jun.
Anyway, this port is now in the hands of the cannibal. It means that he has received a batch of weapons and equipment, as well as the very terrifying gunpowder, without paying anything.
Moreover, this Port of Adulis may be the link between himself and the Tang Army in the future. Why not do such a good thing!
So the Ham people happily promised Cheng Chubi that in three days, they would assist the Tang army in attacking Adulis Port from land.
After success, they handed over the weapons and equipment that Tang Jun promised to them there.
Cheng Chubi looked at the shrewd Ham people in front of him and was speechless: To put it nicely, if you don't create a passage, you won't be able to move back no matter how much stuff is given to you?
He even said he was helping us!
But it doesn’t matter. According to what the commander said, as long as we can get a safe port,
Anyway, as for the preparations, the gunpowder was all seized from the Great Eater. It was of no use to our own people. It was originally intended to be transported to the Persian Gulf to see if there was any resistance there.
I heard that King Yisi of Persia has not been captured by the cannibals, and maybe there are still resistance forces in Persia.
But it is not given to anyone, let’s give it to the people of Ham first.
Li Chengqian finally waited for the special envoy from the Byzantine Empire,
Su Chen's guess was correct. As expected, the Great Cannibal intercepted and killed the Byzantine Empire's envoy on the way. The envoy sent by Heraclius almost died on the way.
The Byzantine envoy came to Medina and brought bad news to Su Chen. The elite troops of Dashi heading south from Damascus were less than 300 miles away from Medina!
However, Su Chen was well prepared and had already begun to evacuate.
"To be honest with you, Special Envoy, if you don't come here in the next two days, we will leave Medina!"
Li Chengqian said with a smile.
"I heard that the artillery of the Tang Dynasty was invincible and could wipe out the 30,000 defenders of Medina in three days. Even if Dashi's elite army came, they should be able to defeat them easily. Why did they retreat in such a hurry?"
Su Chen smiled and said: "Our army is thousands of miles away from home and has insufficient logistics supplies. We don't want to fight a war of attrition with the cannibals."
"Besides, the Dashi Peninsula is a barren desert and has no strategic value!"
"Our army is going to the Persian Gulf to join up with another army and prepare to attack the Great Cannibal in the Mesopotamia. Compared with the barren desert, I think the Great Cannibal is more concerned about the fertile Mesopotamia plain."
The Byzantine envoy opened his eyes wide: "The Tang Dynasty sent another army?"
Su Chen said matter-of-factly: "Of course, the crown prince of our country is here, how can he only bring so many people with him?"
"That army set off later, so it's almost time to arrive!"
The Byzantine envoy thought about it and felt that he was right: the princes of the Tang Dynasty were here, and they would definitely not spare the cannibal lightly. With their current military strength, it was indeed far from enough.
After thinking about His Majesty's instructions, the Byzantine envoy felt that it would be better to initiate the alliance on his own initiative.
"Your Highness, you must also know that the Great Cannibal is cruel, cruel and greedy. He has attacked our country many times. His Majesty is about to raise an army to attack us."
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came all the way here because he wanted to teach the cruel and cruel cannibal a lesson. How about our two families becoming allies and cooperating with each other?"
Li Chengqian smiled and said: "The lonely king has this intention! Our army has come all the way from afar. After all, we are alone. It would be great if we could have a strong ally."
Since both sides are willing to form an alliance to deal with the cannibals, it's easy to say.
Next, the two parties began to discuss in detail how to cooperate.
In fact, there are not many details to discuss. First of all, both parties are not familiar with each other. They just come together because the enemy of the enemy is a friend.
However, the two armies were too far apart to coordinate accurately. At that time, the north and the south would at most coordinate their attacks and attack at the same time to disperse the cannibal's forces.
But this can play a very big role.
The fighting power of Dashi's army is unparalleled in terms of the opponents around it. Against the Tang army, Dashi's army is fighting against the five scum.
Compared with the Tang army, the Great Cannibals had stronger troops, but compared with Byzantium, they were far behind.
The population of Byzantium was much larger than that of the cannibals, and there were only a few cannibals in the entire peninsula.
The Byzantine and Tang royal navies can be said to have complementary advantages.
? Some specific cooperation matters were agreed upon, the superiors said goodbye to each other, the Byzantine envoy returned to China, and Su Chen and Li Chengqian evacuated Medina and returned to the fleet.
When Dashi's army arrived at Medina, they found that the Tang army had already withdrawn for a day.
Although we can still catch up with the Tang army if we pursue at this time,
But General Havalli, who was leading the army, thought about it and gave up!
The order he received was to recapture the holy city of Medina. Since the Tang Dynasty took the initiative to evacuate, he had completed his mission.
If we rush after him rashly, who knows what the result will be?
Based on the intelligence I have collected, even if I can defeat the Tang army, the damage will be very heavy!
Since the Ottoman Empire came to power, the power struggle within Dashi has become increasingly fierce. It is better for me to be cautious.
Havali always felt that he was sent to regain Medina this time because someone deliberately wanted to take advantage of the Tang Dynasty to deal with him.
After Su Chen heard that the Big Eater had given up chasing him, he breathed a sigh of relief and avoided a fierce battle!
"Pull back everyone left along the way. Let's board the ship and go directly to the Persian Gulf!"
