Chapter 702 Plan to advance simultaneously by sea and land
"And I am indeed very familiar with their royal descendants. When my father was here, he worked hard to improve the relationship between us and the Lachem people. He once prepared to marry me to the son of their chief!"
"If my father hadn't been murdered by traitors and traitors, I might have married into the Lachem tribe by now!"
Su Chen smiled: "No wonder you want to find the Lachem people, why?
I still want to go to the son of the chief of the Lachem people and ask you whether your marriage still counts?"
Su Chen teased Elsa casually, but unexpectedly made her angry.
Elsa glared at Su Chen with her beautiful eyes, then slammed the door and left!
Seeing Elsa leave angrily, Su Chen shrugged, as for that?
Regardless of whether Elsa goes to find the Lachem people or not, Su Chen has to verify the information about the Lachem people first.
Called Ferdowsi and asked him about the situation of the Lachem people,
Philcido didn't know that the Great Ogre promised the Lachem people to rebuild the kingdom, but everything else was correct.
In this case, Su Chen felt that Elsa's proposal was worth a try, but it still had to be considered. For now, let's see how the situation is on the Persian side.
The successful capture of Bushehr greatly inspired the Persians to have the courage to resist the cannibals, even though they were captured with the help of the Tang army.
In order to boost the morale of the Persians, Su Chen did not reveal to the Persians that Rappasu had handed over Bushehr Port to him.
Moreover, Su Chen had no interest in Bushehr and had no real intention to possess him.
Bushehr is the hometown of Lapu Pasu. Originally, Lapu Pasu was very famous in this area.
Now that he has regained Bushehr from the cannibal, Lapu Pasu's reputation has naturally grown to a higher level.
The nearby Persians joined the camp to resist the cannibals, and the number of men under Rappasu doubled in three days.
By the time the belated Prince Khoslu arrived at Bushehr, Bushehr was under the actual control of Rapupasu within a hundred miles radius.
As Su Chen expected, Rappasu became an important leader of the Persian resistance and the actual ruler of the Bushehr area!
After Prince Khoslu came to Bushehr, he heard some specific information from Lapupa Su, and hurriedly came to see Li Chengqian and Su Chen.
Li Chengqian and Su Chen received Prince Khoslu very politely and agreed to his request to continue helping the Persians.
Prince Khoslu also offered a very sincere reward, not only for Bushehr, but also for any east-west port city that the Tang army was interested in. He said that he could give it to the Tang army.
Anyway, those port cities are in the hands of the cannibals. With their own strength, they probably won't be able to defeat them for a while.
If Tang Jun is interested in it, there is no need to ask him, wouldn't it be the same if he snatched it from the big eater?
It's better to be more generous yourself.
Besides, Lapu Pasu also told him that the Tang army did not have many people in total, and they would return to Datang after packing up the feast.
It is estimated that there will be very few people left by then, and they are unlikely to ask for a lot of land.
Since Prince Khoslu seemed very sincere, and Li Chengqian and Su Chen also intended to strongly support the Persians, the two sides began to discuss in detail the next mutual cooperation.
Su Chen told Khoslu and Rappasu to quickly contact other nearby Persian resistance forces and begin to fully recover the cities along the Persian Gulf.
Su Chen promised Huoslu and Rapupasu that the Marines of the Tang Navy would always fight side by side with the Persians.
The Tang Dynasty did not want any of the land seized from the cannibals along the way, including the current Bushehr, and the Tang Dynasty did not want any of it. It was all handed over to the Persians.
The Tang Dynasty only has the area where the Karon River enters the sea, as well as Bandar Abbas Port in the Strait of Hormuz and several nearby islands.
Huoslu and Lapupasu were very satisfied with Su Chen's conditions.
With the strength of the Tang Dynasty navy, as long as Su Chen likes any place along the Persian Gulf, who can say anything else?
The location of the Karun River is similar to that of the Shatt al-Arab River in later generations. It is not only an independent river flowing into the Persian Gulf, but also the main entrance to the sea of the Euphrates River and the Tigris River.
At this time, after the Euphrates River and the Tigris River merged downstream, there were many forked rivers, and they entered the Persian Gulf in many ways. The Karon River was the largest one.
Now the entrance to the Karon River is mostly swampy and not very developed, but after a little treatment it will become the largest seaport in the Persian Gulf.
Historically, it was only after the cannibals occupied the place that it slowly developed.
The Tang Dynasty's navy totaled more than 10,000 people, and most of them would have to return to the Tang Dynasty in the future. There were not many overseas territories that could be occupied, so of course Su Chen would pick the best land.
As for Hormuz, it goes without saying that the choke point of the Persian Gulf must of course be in your own hands.
Although the big cannibals there were not wiped out when we came, they will definitely be wiped out in the future.
Su Chen's purpose is very simple, to vigorously support the Persian resistance forces led by Khoslu and Rappasu, and see if he can attract the main force of the food industry.
It would be great if the main force of Dashi can leave the vicinity of Ctesiphon and come to fight the Tang Dynasty and the Persian coalition forces.
Su Chen was very unwilling to go thousands of miles inland to go to Ctesiphon for a decisive battle with the cannibals. That would be too passive and the casualty rate would be very high.
If the main force of the cannibals does not come out, then let Khoslu and Rappasu take back bit by bit the Persian homeland southwest of the Zagros Mountains from the cannibals.
Su Chen felt that the cannibals would not just watch the Persians recover.
After discussing the general action plan for the next step, Khoslu and Rappasu rushed to contact other nearby Persian resistance forces.
Although Prince Khoslu is the nominal supreme leader of all the Persian resistance forces in the southwest of the Zagros Mountains, it is difficult to say how much appeal he has.
The Tang navy stayed in Bushehr, waiting for Hoslu to gather troops and help them attack the next place, while waiting for the Persians to help them collect livestock.
The heavy artillery and Wugang vehicles of the Tang Army had to be pulled by animal power to move after they landed ashore.
Last time, the Tang army robbed the camels, horses, and other livestock from the cannibals themselves. They abandoned them when the Tang army left the Red Sea. Some of them were given to the Ham people. It was impossible for the navy to use ships to transport those livestock.
This time the collection of livestock was left to the Persians.
While waiting for the Persians, Su Chen began to discuss with Li Chengqian, Liu Rengui and others about the feasibility of the suggestion that Elsa made to him.
According to Su Chen's original plan, he and the Persians were to advance along the Persian Gulf by sea and land.
When you reach the entrance of the Karun River, if the cannibal is still indifferent, then consider heading north along the Tigris River.
