Jianming Chaos

King Darius III of Persia took Governor Diridas and a royal guard of less than a hundred people. After the military meeting was held early in the morning, he hurried out of the city and rushed all the way to the shipyard along the Persian Gulf.

The king took the first step because he believed the slander of Diridas, and he did not bring many followers, so as not to arouse suspicion from others.He didn't expect that Diridas had already used the crow to send a message to the Macedonians in advance, asking them to ambush on the road.

In the evening, the army marched to a forest.The trees here are lush and the roads are narrow. The army can't move fast, but can only move forward slowly.

The king sitting on the carriage with the golden dome suddenly noticed that something was wrong, and asked Diridas who was riding beside him: "The army that transported the treasure out of the city last night should have left traces of the carriage on this road. Why do you see it now?" Less than one rut?"

Diridas said flickeringly: "After a night of strong winds, and there are many fallen leaves in the forest, so the wheel marks are covered up, Your Majesty does not need to worry too much."

The king was not suspicious. One of the biggest mistakes in his life was that he never saw the true face of Diridas.

The army walked another distance, and Diridas suddenly coughed loudly, and grabbed the scarf with his hand as a signal.

Immediately, several knife-wielding men emerged from the ground, wearing leaves and grass as camouflage, and began to launch a sneak attack, attacking the infantry guards.

At the same time, all arrows were fired from the tree, and many cavalry guards were shot down in an instant.

"There is an ambush, protect Your Majesty!" Diridas pulled out his saber and shouted anxiously on purpose.

The king was shocked, knowing that he was in an ambush, he quickly lowered his body and activated the emergency defense switch on the carriage.

Immediately, a one-meter-high trapezoidal iron shield wall was raised on all sides of the carriage at the same time, and tilted inward at 45 degrees, so that the arrow could not shoot inside.

The Macedonian soldiers who had been in ambush for a long time rushed forward one after another, intending to kill the king.Diridas pretended to dismount all the cavalry and tried his best to protect the safety of the king.

The guards were divided into two groups, forming a protective circle around the king. One group used shields at a 45-degree angle to protect the head, and the other group used shields to block the body vertically.This combined shield, invented by Persia, can defend against arrows from trees and the ground at the same time.

For the sake of safety, Diridas also quickly hid behind the shield protection formation to prevent the Macedonians from accidentally injuring him.

After a round of random arrows, the archers on the tree found that the effect was not obvious, so they all jumped to the ground and played a second round.

Arrows were still all rejected.This joint shield formation can be described as an impenetrable fortress, indestructible.

The archers had no choice but to draw out their scimitars, and rushed forward with other soldiers to encircle and suppress the enemy.

Due to lack of preparation, the Persian army was caught off guard. The defensive formation was broken by the enemy's powerful offensive in less than a while, but the soldiers still resisted desperately.

The king, who was hiding in the carriage, was trembling and did not dare to show himself.He still doesn't understand why the enemy predicted his whereabouts and ambushed here in advance.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Diridas said to the king: "Your Majesty, please put away the shield wall immediately, and I will protect you from the encirclement!"

The king was not suspicious, and immediately pressed the switch to put down all the shield walls.Diridas pretended to reach out to pick him up, but suddenly his expression changed, and he stabbed him in the heart.

Just then a soldier fell over and bumped into Diridas, causing him to miss the stab and only hit the king's arm.

The king cried out in pain, and was so frightened by the other party's behavior that he couldn't speak for a while.Seeing that the situation was not good, Diridas blushed and slashed straight at the king.

At this time, Suhrab, the captain of the guards, rushed to the king and yanked the king out of the carriage, avoiding Diridas' knife.

Diridas bit the corner of his lips, and fought with Suhrab.Suhrab was unable to fight with all his strength because he was concerned about the safety of the king, so he only drew with the opponent.

Diridas tried his best, but still couldn't beat the opponent.Because Suhrab is his subordinate, he has to make three-pointers, basically focusing on defense.

Seeing the Macedonians rushing over, Suhrab didn't dare to fight, so he slammed Diridas's horse's leg with the back of his knife.

Diridas turned over and fell off the horse because the horse stumbled.He fell at Suhrab's feet, panicked for a moment.

Suhrab didn't want to kill him either, so he cut the opponent's arm with a knife as a warning, then pulled the king and turned around and ran away.

"Hurry up, come on, go after the king...no, their king!" Diridas ordered the enemy army to hunt down the king, for fear of being escaped, without dressing the wound.

Suhrab found a horse and rode away with the king.Just in case, he made the king sit in front, and he protected the monarch with his body in the back.

The king was very moved. He had never paid attention to this loyal soldier before, so he said to him: "If you can escort me back to the capital safely, you will be rewarded with gold and silver!"

Suhrab smiled wryly and said, "Let's talk about it if we can escape, Your Majesty!"

The remaining guards formed a human wall and swore to protect the king to the death.Under the cover of the human wall, Suhrab whipped his horsewhip and galloped towards the capital.

Several flying arrows struck from behind, Suhrab turned around and chopped off a few of them with a knife, but still a few were fixed on his armor.He reluctantly escorted the king from the battlefield.

Several Macedonian soldiers wanted to mount their horses and pursue them, but they were stopped and killed by the tenacious guards, and they refused to let them go.

Diridas kept giving orders, but because he was not a real Macedonian officer, he couldn't make the soldiers listen to him wholeheartedly.

After a while, the king and Sohrab were out of sight, and Diridas stomped his feet in anger.Knowing that he could not turn back, he had to order the Macedonian soldiers to intensify the encirclement and suppression efforts to clean up the remaining troops; he took advantage of the chaos and left the encirclement.

"Did you get hit by an arrow? It looks like you are struggling!" The king sitting in front of the horse felt that Suhrab was moving forward with injuries.

"...protect Your Majesty...until death!" As soon as Suhrab spoke, a mouthful of blood could not help but spit on the king's shoulder.

Although Suhrab has a small official position, he has always been loyal to the king; he had always suspected that the governor had a tendency to treason, so he paid special attention to his movements just now and saved the king's life.

On the contrary, Diridas is a villain who sees profit and forgets righteousness. The only purpose of eating inside and outside is to get promoted and make a fortune;In fact, he had already been highly valued in Persia, and the king trusted him so much that he entrusted the main military power to him. This was also the main reason why he dared to confront the envoy of God head-on in the temple, even without giving the king face.However, as the saying goes, "the heart is not enough to swallow the elephant", he is still not satisfied with the power in his hands, and he is instigated by the words of some noble dynasties, and his desire for profit leads to his ultimate treason against the country and the people.

The Royal Guards of Persia still have certain strength. Although they lack actual combat experience, they have all undergone brainwashing training. Facing such a sudden attack, they are not afraid and regard death as home.

However, the Persian army's conservative tactics of using defense as an offense obviously could not last long. Under the powerful offensive of the Macedonians, fatal loopholes soon appeared.At this moment, their defensive formation has changed from watertight to full of holes.

The Macedonians pursued the victory and hacked all the Persian soldiers to death.Although the guards died tragically under the knife, they died well, without complaint or regret.

Later, Diridas followed the enemy to the shipyard on the shore of the Persian Gulf and joined the Macedonian army.

In fact, Alexander had received a report from the rebel army half a month ago, knowing that Darius III had secretly set up a shipyard and a naval base here, and sent a navy to attack here three days ago, killing all All Persian soldiers were arrested to prevent the news from leaking out.

At present, the coastal area of ​​the Persian Gulf has become a new stronghold of the Macedonian army, including the treasure escort team that set off early last night, all of which have been planted. All the treasures in the palace treasury have fallen into the hands of Alexander, but Darius III has been kept in the dark .

Suhrab rode the king back to the capital overnight on horseback. At this time, his back was stained red with blood. The arrow pierced through the armor and pierced his flesh mercilessly.When the city gate opened, he had fainted on the horse due to excessive blood loss.

The king ordered that all efforts be made to rescue Sohrab.The defender general Obaris was also there at this time, and while ordering the soldiers to send Suhrab to first aid, he personally escorted the king back to the palace.

Later, the Greek alchemist invited back by Kloos saved Suhrab's life. It happened that Suhrab's own brother was also working in the palace, and his blood type was the same as his.This is for later.

On the way back to the palace, the king told Obaris what had happened.Obaris suddenly understood why Diridas was unwilling to open the city gate.

When the king returned to the palace, Prince Hills had died and his body had just been put into an ice coffin.After the king learned the details, he regretted the credulity of Diridas in the past.

When Xiaolan told him the method to revive the prince, the king said nothing, and was willing to donate his own blood, even if he had to exchange his own life.Of course, it was also because of the influence of Diridas's rebellion that the king repented.

At this time, it has been more than two hours since Zhiming left the city...

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Zhiming ran all the way to a small town on the edge of the desert.This small town is quite popular, and the shouts and cries of vendors on the street keep coming and going, but Zhiming can't understand a word.

No one noticed him at first, but the smell on his body was "scented for thousands of miles". After a while, people around him avoided him, thinking that a beggar who hadn't bathed for more than a day came.

Zhiming was very embarrassed and couldn't understand the language, so he could only use gestures to signal to everyone that he needed to take a bath and change clothes.It's a pity that no one is willing to pay attention to him, and they all shook their heads and waved their hands.

When Zhiming was helpless, a kind-hearted man wrapped in a thick turban seemed to understand his words, and signaled with sign language for him to follow.

"I finally met a good man." Zhi Ming led the horse unsuspectingly, followed the uncle into a small alley, and came to a small house.

The equipment here is simple, but the living functions are complete.The uncle asked him to put down his things first, go to the bathroom to wash his body, and said to find clean clothes for him to change.

Zhiming thanked the uncle, and after unloading the weapons and items, he went to the bathroom to take a refreshing shower.After that, he washed all his dirty clothes again.

Suddenly, he heard a scream, rushed out to have a look, and heard a panic of running away, the "kind-hearted uncle" had disappeared without a trace.

He realized that he had been duped, and quickly counted the weapons and items. Fortunately, he only lost the short knife he picked up, and even his belongings were still there.It seems that the scream just now should be that "Uncle Kindness" was shocked by electric shock when he wanted to walk away with the Excalibur.

"It turns out that he brought me here with a conspiracy to steal my things!" Zhiming suddenly realized, "It seems that guarding against others is indispensable. However, he did not steal property, which is puzzling. Still Alright, brother Jian is enlightened and helped me keep the crystal ball. It's a pity that the mysterious knife..."

Zhiming felt very regretful, he was naked now, so it was inconvenient to chase after him.Fortunately, the cunning uncle left him a way out and prepared a local costume for him.

Thinking of this, he didn't intend to chase him anymore.At this moment, Zhiming had no idea what the origin of this dagger was.

After changing into clean clothes, Zhiming tidied up his belongings and was ready to go.

He had just walked out the door when he saw six or seven armed natives rushing in from the alley, including the "kind-hearted uncle". It seemed that the matter was not over yet.