Su Chen didn't ask Elsa and Hashim who Elsa was pretending to be.
And what other purpose does Elsa have for going to the Lachem people?
It would be enough for her to inquire about the specific situation of the Lachem people for herself.
Elsa took a group of marines disguised as cannibals as escorts, and found a few maids from the Persians.
There are also some camels selected from the Persians, which look like the female family members of a wealthy nobleman traveling.
Su Chen sent three frigates to take Elsa to a remote harbor on the east coast of the Dashi Peninsula.
After Elsa and her party landed there, they entered the vast desert.
The east coast of the Dashi Peninsula used to be the territory of the Persians. With their help, it was easy to find an uninhabited landing place.
Not two days after Elsa left, Hoslu and Rappasu came back. Judging from their expressions, they must have recruited many forces to join them.
Seeing that Khoslu and Rappasu had returned, Su Chen immediately prepared to help the Persians capture Borajan northeast of Bushehr.
It was a Persian city a hundred miles away from Bushehr, much larger than Bushehr.
Moreover, Borajan is surrounded by mountains on three sides and only faces the open flat land towards the Persian Gulf.
The entire terrain is like a dustpan, which is typically easy to defend but difficult to attack.
The Great Eater also gathered many defenders in Borajan.
However, this city must be captured. It is one of several large cities in the southern part of the Zagros Mountains and the northern shore of the Persian Gulf.
Unless the area is captured, the Persians will not be able to safely advance northwestward along the northern shore of the Persian Gulf with the Tang navy.
Besides, Khoslu and Rappasu are planning to use it as their central city!
Just like last time on the Red Sea coast, six transport ships lined up at the pier and began to carry all kinds of luggage to the shore.
Rapupasu had already seen him once, so his reaction was a little smaller.
Standing on the shore of Khoslu is worth your eyes!
No wonder the Tang people had so many big ships and only brought so few people with them. It turned out that the ships were all loaded with these things!
Wugang chariots, cannons, trebuchets, etc. are all disassembled and loaded on ships. They must be reassembled after landing ashore before they can be pulled forward by animals.
Otherwise, let alone six transport ships, sixty would be more or less.
This time he united with the Persians to attack Borajan, and Li Chengqian was so excited that he insisted on going to the battlefield to see it.
He said that he had never seen the spectacular sight of cannons bombarding the city wall.
In fact, Su Chen had never seen it with his own eyes. Last time, Medina was captured by Yuchi Baolin who took advantage of the emptiness in the city and used a grenade to sneak attack.
The only person in the fleet who has seen cannons bombarding a city is Cheng Wuting. He has been to the Liaodong battlefield.
At that time, the first actual battle with artillery was the Liaodong attack on Gaoguli.
So this time Cheng Wuting and Liu Rengui stayed behind to guard the fleet in case your big ship suddenly went crazy and ran out in the Strait of Hormuz.
Su Chen, Li Chengqian, Yuchi Baolin, Cheng Chubi, Liu Jingren, Xue Rengui, etc. all went ashore to attack Borajan together. The lineup was very luxurious!
The area of Borajan is similar to that of Medina, but the walls are slightly higher.
After all, the Persians' city-building technology was still better than the nomadic cannibals in the desert, and the Persians also had richer resources than the cannibals.
But the garrison of Borajan was much smaller than that of Medina, with a total of just over 10,000, and half of them were Persians.
This was pieced together from several nearby towns!
The total population of the Great Eaters is only two to three million. If every city they occupy is sent with a large number of manpower to defend it, it will not be enough for the entire population of the Great Eaters.
Therefore, after Dashi occupied a large amount of territory in the North African countries and Persia, the local armed forces still needed a large number of local people.
This is similar to what the Japanese were doing back then.
The problem is that now, under the call of Khoslu and Rappasu, the Persians have begun to draw their swords against the big man-eater.
In these days, Khoslu and Rappasu actually gathered more than 20,000 people and gathered towards Borajan from all directions.
With a large number of Persians at the front, this battle was much easier to fight than the one in Medina.
There are only a little over 10,000 garrison troops in Borajan City, and only about 6,000 cannibals.
Facing the more than 20,000 Persian and Tang coalition forces, he showed no fear at all.
He even wanted to take the initiative to leave the city and attack the coalition forces when they had just arrived at the city and had not yet established a stable foothold!
As a result, after being bombarded by a burst of intensive artillery fire, he did not rush to the front of the Tang Army's artillery position.
Only 10% of the 5,000 troops who left the city were lost.
Then Cheng Chubi led five hundred fully armed marines into the enemy formation, as if entering an uninhabited land.
The Persians also rushed forward in a swarm,
Although the Persians are not as powerful as Dashi, they still have more people!
After a period of chaotic fighting, the Bolajan garrison who fled back to the city was less than 2,000 strong, but most of them were cannibals.
In other words, nearly half of the Persians who followed the cannibals were consumed as cannon fodder at one time.
Unfortunately, the fighting power of the Persian resistance forces was still weak and they were unable to take advantage of the chaos to capture the city gate.
It was impossible for the Tang Army's marines to help them seize the city gate. The casualty rate was too high!
Not to mention helping the Persian resistance, even if the Tang army attacked the city themselves, they would not be able to follow the old siege method, risking the enemy's attack and forcing the city wall to climb and hit the city gate.
The big eater had gunpowder and Greek fire in his hands, and if he threw them from the city wall, they would kill a large area!
Su Chen asked the Persians to step aside and not block the cannons.
Then he pushed the cannon close to the range of the big man-eating trebuchet and started bombarding the city gate!
Field artillery with a range of 1,500 meters focused on the original wooden city gates at a distance of 3 to 400 meters.
In just a few volleys, the city gate would be blown to pieces!
By the way, I also cleaned up the big cannibal hiding behind the city gate.
At the same time, the Tang army's trebuchets and divine arm crossbows relied on their range advantage to suppress the defenders on the city wall.
Then just let the Persians rush to the city in a swarm!
The city gates have been opened for you, and I have also helped you suppress the defenders on the city wall. If you still cannot capture the city quickly,
Then there is no need for the Tang army to unite with the Harpoos.
After easily capturing Borajan, Su Chen gave the Persians three days to rest and deal with some of their own affairs.
Then the coalition forces will continue westward along the northern shore of the Persian Gulf,
At that time, the Tang Dynasty navy will also advance from the sea and the army on the road.
Su Chen, Li Chengqian and others rested for a night in Bolajan and were preparing to return to the fleet the next day.
Outside the city of Borajan came a few dusty Byzantines dressed as cannibals.
Su Chen was delighted when he heard the news, finally waiting for news from the Byzantines!
Some time ago, we asked the Persians to inquire about Byzantium, but they have not heard back yet.
