The contrast in the entire Persian County was too great. Other towns in Persian County showed no resistance and chose to surrender one after another.
As for the Persian city, it resisted tenaciously.
Moreover, the strength displayed by the Persian city made Khalid panic.
Khalid could judge based on the intelligence that there were about 50,000 garrison guards in the Persian city.
The defense of the Persian city can be said to be watertight.
Their weapons are also sharper than them.
If they wanted to capture the Persian city, they would have to pay at least three times as many casualties.
The Persian city was just the first city they encountered when they attacked the Tang Dynasty.
If the first city has to be taken at such a high price, how can we defeat the subsequent cities?
However, if they do not capture the Persian city, they cannot continue to attack the cities behind Datang!
There are at least 50,000 Tang troops in the Persian city. This is the nail in their backs.
What Khalid never expected was that he would be blocked by a Persian city just after setting out on the expedition.
In the end, Khalid decided that the Persian city must be captured.
Otherwise, don't think about attacking the Tang Dynasty, just go to bed and do whatever you need to do.
Next, they intensified the siege of the Persian city.
At the same time, the river leading to the Persian city was cut off.
At this time, the water supply in the Persian city basically relied on this river surrounding the city.
If this river is cut off, the Persian city will be short of water for up to a month.
At that time, the Persian city will be destroyed without attack.
Of course, using this method will take a long time.
But for Khalid, there was nothing he could do about it.
They have launched a war of aggression against the Tang Dynasty, and they are bound to capture the city of Persia.
At the same time, they are unwilling to pay a high price, so they can only adopt this method.
Now, they are only looking forward to reinforcements from Datang, which will take at least three months to arrive.
According to Khalid's judgment, it would take at least ten days from the time they attacked the Persian city to the time Datang received the news.
Then, it will take at least one to two months for them to respond, gather supplies, and send reinforcements, right?
It will take at least three months until reinforcements arrive.
This is still under the condition that the roads in Datang are smooth.
If it were done before, this cycle might have been extended to half a year.
Three months was enough time for them to capture the Persian city and continue to advance.
Two days later, the other two armies attacking the Da'anxi Protectorate returned the news.
They encountered a similar situation to Khalid. Those small towns all chose to surrender without resistance.
And everyone is trying their best to cooperate with them.
And they had all received orders from Khalid in advance.
No prisoners should be massacred, no prisoners should be disturbed.
Faced with this situation, the invading Arab Empire's army actually got along well with the Tang people.
This is probably the weirdest thing they have ever encountered, right?
However, they all stumbled in front of the first big city they encountered.
These cities all received the news in advance and took precautions.
After they made tentative attacks, they all encountered fierce resistance. After leaving thousands of corpses behind, they evacuated in confusion.
Next, the generals of the two armies asked Khalid for instructions.
Khalid, on the other hand, fell into deep thought.
Khalid always had a bad feeling.
It seemed that those small towns surrendered without resistance, all at the behest of the Tang Dynasty.
Their purpose in doing this is to reduce casualties as much as possible.
And those big cities resisted so tenaciously and resolutely.
It seems that they are confident that reinforcements will arrive soon.
Although this is not consistent with Khalid's inference.
In Khalid's inference, it was impossible for Datang to get the news so quickly and give instructions.
But the current situation seems to indicate that this inference should be true.
However, the Arab Empire has already fired its bow and has no chance of turning back.
Don’t stop doing it!
Since we are attacking, let’s just be more wild!
Therefore, Khalid issued an order for an all-out attack.
Khalid himself also launched a wave of strong attacks on the Persian city.
Countless Arab soldiers, pushing siege equipment, began an all-out attack on the Persian city.
On the wall of the Persian city, the defensive general was called Zhou Cheng.
This person was not very famous among the many generals of the Tang Dynasty.
However, this person was originally selected by Qin Qiong to stay in Persia County.
Now, General Qin Qiong has already traveled to the west on a crane.
Zhou Cheng, on the other hand, was still waiting silently in Persia County.
This time, it was time to test him.
Facing the crazy attack of the Arab Empire, Zhou Cheng personally appeared on the city wall and commanded in an orderly manner.
The ones used on the city walls were repeating crossbows and armor-piercing crossbows.
These crossbow arrows do not require manual operation and can be fired continuously.
Moreover, the crossbow body is made of alloy and can break armor.
In front of the armor-piercing crossbow, let alone the armor on the Arab soldiers.
Even the thick and heavy shields they held in their hands had no effect at all.
When an armor-piercing crossbow is fired, even shields and people will be mercilessly penetrated.
Under the city wall, the corpses of Arab soldiers were left one after another. Blood flowed everywhere, dyeing the land around the city wall dark red.
The disgusting smell of blood filled the air.
There were a hundred thousand Arab soldiers, but it took a whole hour to not get even half a step closer to the city wall.
There were a total of five thousand corpses left on the ground.
The defense of the Persian city simply made the soldiers of the Arab Empire feel desperate.
In an entire hour, five thousand corpses were left behind!
So in one day, wouldn't they have to throw in 50,000 corpses?
The number of people they set out to conquer this time was only 600,000?
How many days does it take to die?
But the good news is that there don't seem to be many such armor-piercing crossbows on Persian cities.
Just when Khalid frowned, preparing to withdraw the army to avoid unnecessary casualties, he was ready to think of another way.
But suddenly, he discovered that the armor-piercing crossbow on the city wall had stopped firing.
It seems that their armor-piercing crossbows have been used up.
This discovery made Khalid's eyes light up.
Great, so great!
The armor-breaking crossbow is actually gone, it’s a great time to destroy the city!
Thinking of this, Khalid no longer hesitated and immediately commanded his soldiers to increase the intensity of the siege.
The ensuing siege battle fell into a state of anxiety.
The counterattack methods on the Persian city were full of tricks.
It always inflicted heavy losses on the soldiers of the Arab Empire.
However, their manpower must still be too few.
The siege soldiers pressed forward step by step, approaching from the moat to the city wall.
Now the ladder has been set up, and the soldiers on the ladder are brave and tenacious, and they are about to enter the city wall.
Despite the huge sacrifice, when Khalid saw this scene, his eyes still showed excitement.
This Persian city was the first stop of their Arab Empire's expedition.
Even if you have to pay some price, as long as you can win it, it will be worth it.
They are Arab warriors, brave and good at fighting.
As long as you can set foot on the enemy's city wall, there will never be a time when the city cannot be broken.
Now, their warriors are about to set foot on the city wall, and I believe that it won't be long before they can capture the Persian city in one fell swoop.
However, at this moment, something unexpected happened at the scene.
The Tang army on the city wall suddenly raised some strange-shaped vessel that they had never seen before.
Then it shot out violent flames at the ladder below.
The blazing flames burned the ladder mercilessly.
The Arab soldiers on the ladder screamed and fell under the burning flames.
The air was filled with a burning smell.
Even the ladder began to melt quietly under the burning flames.
The Arab Empire's originally fierce and unusual siege momentum could not help but slow down.
Khalid, who was watching the battle, couldn't help but frowned tightly.
How many secret cards does this Persian city have?
At every critical moment, they can always come up with new trump cards and save the day.
This time, they took out this fire-breathing vessel.
Before they can find a way to crack it, they can only fill it in with human lives.
However, they have already paid too many lives at this time.
Khalid hesitated for a moment, and then immediately made the decision to withdraw his troops.
But at this moment, Khalid discovered that the flames emitted by those vessels slowly weakened until they went out.
It turns out that these vessels that can breathe fire cannot keep breathing fire for a long time.
Think about it, if they could breathe fire for a long time, wouldn't they be invincible?
Now is the time when the Persian city is at its weakest!
Khalid immediately ordered the soldiers to continue the attack.
…
For a whole day, the Arab Empire failed to capture the Persian city.
Even, he couldn't wait to reach the wall of the Persian city.
The defense of the Persian city was really too tenacious.
Whenever the soldiers of the Arab Empire were about to step onto their city walls, they always had a trump card up their sleeves.
Can instantly change a passive situation.
But this kind of trump card cannot last long.
Each time, it gave the Arab Empire great hope, but in the end, this hope would be ruthlessly wiped out.
At night, when Khalid was organizing his army, he suddenly discovered it.
In one whole day, they actually lost the lives of more than 10,000 warriors.
Khalid suddenly had a strange feeling.
It seemed that the garrison of the Persian city had been whetting his appetite.
Keep giving him the feeling that he is about to take it down.
But every time, I couldn't get it off.
The other party is using this method to continuously eliminate their vitality.
This feeling is really too ridiculous.
It was just a Persian city, with only 50,000 garrison troops.
Thank God that they were able to defend the city. Do they still dare to commit suicide like this?
This idea is really too ridiculous.
Khalid refused to believe that all this was true.
But for some reason, Khalid always felt that this seemed to be the most correct explanation.
…
At this time, in Chang'an City, in the imperial palace, and in the royal study.
Emperor Li Ke of the Tang Dynasty was drinking tea with Li Min, the King of China.
Tang Emperor Li Ke couldn't help but frown and asked Li Min: "Sixth brother, the emperor has something that I don't understand."
"The Great Food Empire raised an army of 600,000 to attack our country, the Tang Dynasty. This matter is somewhat confusing."
"Do they think that these 600,000 troops can destroy the Tang Dynasty?"
Datang made various arrangements to deal with the attack of the Food Empire.
But there has never been a good answer to the reason why the Dashi Empire attacked the Tang Dynasty.
The Dashi Empire had already fought against the Tang Dynasty more than ten years ago.
That time, the King of Shu led 50,000 troops and drove them out. It can be said to be a disastrous defeat.
More than ten years have passed, and now the national power of the Tang Dynasty has reached a higher level.
And what about Dashi?
After experiencing a civil strife, the civil strife in the country has just subsided.
The invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire was also hindered by the participation of Huaxia City.
Under such circumstances, the Dashi Empire actually raised 600,000 troops to attack the Tang Dynasty?
Is their king out of his mind?
Now the officials of the Tang Dynasty have been discussing for several days, but it has been difficult to find a suitable motive for them.
But this time, Emperor Tang was puzzled and couldn't help but think of his sixth brother.
There seems to be no problem in this world that the sixth brother cannot solve.
Therefore, Li Ke couldn't help calling Li Min over and asked him about this problem.
In fact, Li Min knew about the invasion of the Dashi Empire immediately.
But Li Min was also very troubled as to why the Dashi Empire wanted to invade the Tang Dynasty.
In the end, it can only be attributed to the fact that the king of the Dashi Empire had his head caught by the door panel.
Of course, now that the emperor asked this question, Li Min was naturally embarrassed to say so.
All I could do was laugh and say, "Brother, I guess there are people who are alarmist in front of the King of Dashi, thinking that we, the Tang Dynasty, are their biggest threat."
"And they probably feel that this is the time when our country, the Tang Dynasty, is at its weakest, right? If they attack now, they have the greatest chance of success. I think that's probably the case."
After hearing Li Min's guess, Tang Emperor Li Ke nodded in agreement.
Not to mention, Li Min made a random guess at a reason and almost guessed the truth of the matter.
The only person who didn't guess correctly was probably the alarmist, someone sent by aristocratic families.
Of course, now this is the only reason that can barely explain why the Big Food Empire went berserk.
Tang Emperor Li Ke asked again: "Sixth brother, this time, how far do you think it is best for us to defeat Dashi?"
Now, news is reported every day from the Persian City and the Da'anxi Protectorate.
They know the situation over there very well.
The strength of the Dashi Empire is strong.
But compared with their Tang Dynasty, they are really not on the same level.
Therefore, how the war will be fought actually depends on the Tang Dynasty.
