It has been more than half a month since Shapur came to Yashen. The convoy that came to see King Solomon had already returned to Saji. They also brought back news to the high priests that Priest Shapur had been left as a guest in Frank.

At first the high priests were dissatisfied with this, thinking that the life of King Solomon Narashapur was threatening them. Some people are still discussing whether to abandon the alliance with the Franks, or after defeating Mori the Kingslayer. Not to return to the Goths the lands he occupied.

But such discussions only lasted for more than a week.

For after ten days Mori declared war on Persia.

He should be called. The Holy King is not dead. Instead, he was imprisoned by the high priests. Because if he assassinated his father. He could have just taken the diadem...but he didn't. This is precisely because the Holy King is not dead yet! killed by the high priests. It's someone else!

He wants to fight back to Persia and rescue his father. Sanction those rebels who colluded with the Franks and put the Holy King under house arrest! But the prestige of the priests is still there. In other words, Li Ping's bad reputation was not in vain, and not many people believed such news. However, even if most people don't believe it at all, rumors continue to spread day by day. The high priests didn't know how he persuaded the soldiers under him to dare to betray their own country! If Zhenli is defeated, the soldiers who participated in the battle may not necessarily have an accident, but none of these messengers will escape.

How dare they openly rebel against the high priests in power when their family members are all in the country! The high priests of the Sassanian bordered on rage.

They even planned to directly label those soldiers as rebels, hang their families to death, and hang them on the city wall! Or at least seek out the relatives of those who spread the word as a threat. But when they calmed down again after their rage, the high priests tacitly stopped mentioning this matter.

It's not their kindness...it's their fear. If there are only one or two rebels, then it is too difficult to decide side by side. However, the troops that Cao Li took away from the city, together with the army that he sent signs from all over the world that day, add up to three based on the intelligence of the spies. In the battle with the Gothic Eastern Army. Murray's army only dispatched a third of them. Because the remaining troops have not yet gathered. And most of them are infantry units, which are actually not very useful in fast-paced pursuit battles. However, he stole all of Persia's chariots, nearly 60% of the one-horse chariots, and all the cavalry in western Persia. This is what hurts the most.

According to the Persian military service system, there are as many ordinary infantry and chariot soldiers as there are. People are not like literati and priests, who have an irreplaceable sense of existence in daily life. Only at this time can they come into contact with these superior people who are usually invisible.

Another purpose is to prevent the current situation.

Once the Persian mainland is invaded by foreign enemies and the number of troops available to participate in the war is not enough, then the Holy King will use the name of Ahura. Immediately mobilize a large number of ordinary people to participate in the Crown War. These people who have undergone short-term training. It is far more elite than the militia directly drawn by other countries. Moreover, as the center of many countries, Persia has a very developed economy. Even for the common people, it is not difficult for each family to prepare long swords and vine shields in advance.

But in history, every time the holy king blows the horn and mobilizes, it is basically a time of decisive battle with foreign enemies. In the past 100 years, Persia has only mobilized conscripts three times. Now, what these conscripts have to face. It would be the Persians on the other side.

But they haven't got the holy crown yet, which makes it impossible for them to counter such rumors. Nor did they dare claim to have received the Holy Crown.

After all, imitating sacred objects is an inexcusable sin. Ahura would punish them himself whether he watched Mori make a move or not. …Can. If someone dares to imitate the holy crown and claim to be the holy seat, the nature will change.

That would be the same as two department managers quarreling over performance, and then one of them stole the general manager's private seal and fired the other.

That's not something that can be dealt with with a few criticisms...it's serious enough to call the police directly. In the absence of the holy crown, the high priests can only not show up at all, as if they have not heard such words. under these circumstances. How much mobilization will they have left? If all the relatives of those soldiers were killed, how many would be left after that?

So after calming down, the high priests immediately decided to drop their excess reserve and arrogance.

- They again sent a mission to Frank. This time they didn't do the same cleverness as last time. Slapping books of the same value on King Solomon's face, insinuating that the Franks are uneducated... but directly sending ten carts full of gold and silver treasures is enough sincerity. But when the messenger returned, he claimed that King Solomon was not agitated. There was even a little disappointment on his face. Just when the high priests cursed King Solomon for his insatiable greed, the "greedy" Frankish king finally acted.

On the third day after the Persian mission returned home, they received news that King Solomon was going south.

But it's not the same as they imagined. It wasn't that King Solomon went south with a guard he almost brought an army. Together with his killing machines, and the archbishops of King Solomonism. besides. He even brought two elephants with him!

How many Goths have never seen an elephant in their life... and those who have seen Persian elephant soldiers are basically cold. King Solomon did not pass by any place, and the local officials wanted to come out to see him. Except for the nobles above the earl, others did not even have the honor to see King Solomon with their own eyes—they could only kneel respectfully on both sides of the road until the two elephants sitting on King Solomon and Pope Leo III passed in front of them. rise. The first elephant carried King Solomon and his queen on his back. And the second head. It was Pope Leo III and the intellectual leader Tupin.

Even the Pope's position is behind King Solomon!

Doubt... It was King Solomon who went south this time to show his strength.

But anyone has to admit that the Franks did. This army is fully armed, with a total of nearly 20,000 people, including more than a thousand battle years. They never stopped a step along the way. Like an iron man who knows no hunger, thirst or fatigue. This kind of willpower and strength makes anyone feel terrified and admired. The low siege engine carried a water tank on its back, and in the front was a huge rock drill with threads and six handles like a rudder. Scholars noticed that the drill bit and the car body were separated. They speculated that the drill bit might have a spring, and it would pop out progressively and get stuck in the city gate when it suffered a huge impact. Then turn the handle again. Perhaps the drill can be retracted into the car, and then popped out a second time, destroying the gate. And its shape is not powerful enough—the siege vehicle is very low, and its shape looks like a locust without wings. Compared with those huge trebuchets, it is nothing at all.

But what surprised some discerning people was that the number of soldiers protected by the locust-like chariot was even twice that of the guards of the catapult. So what is it?