Chapter 375: Submission to the Tang Dynasty, Paul's Body Intact (Part 1)

In fact, General Turhong was not sure whether the Great Tang Emperor Chen Huaian would accept his challenge.

After all, the Tang army outside the city was strong and powerful. After all the soldiers of the Empire's Eastern Expedition Army in Meijian and Khatun surrendered, the Tang Dynasty could mobilize enough troops to besiege Black Tiger City;

On the other hand, the more than 200,000 Empire's Eastern Expedition Army trapped in Black Tiger City had already been exhausted, and their morale had dropped to the freezing point;

The Great Tang Emperor Chen Huaian had no need to risk injury to accept his challenge. After the army besieged for three to five days, Black Tiger City would fall without attack.

After sending away the generals in the tent, only the Arab Empire's Eastern Expedition General Turhong and his personal guard captain Bisuma were left in the huge central army tent.

Turhong calmly ordered: "Bisuma, put on the armor for this general!"

"Yes, General!"

Bisuma, the captain of the personal guards, was an orphan adopted by General Turhong when he was young and fighting in Damascus. The two were like father and son.

Therefore, even at the most difficult moment of the Empire's Eastern Expedition Army, Bisuma still stood firmly beside General Turhong, and was ready to go out of the city with the general to fight to the death.

Soon, Bisuma brought up General Turhong's golden armor and helped the general put it on.

After putting on the armor, Turhong put his falcon-shaped helmet on his head, and then looked sideways at himself in the bronze mirror.

In the bronze mirror, the tall golden figure was still tall and sturdy, the standard Middle Eastern face was still handsome and majestic, and the deep blue eyes still showed a firm and domineering look.

Looking at himself in the mirror, Turhong seemed to see himself thirty years ago when he just joined the army.

He couldn't help but recall the scene when he rode a warhorse, holding a spear, and shouted loudly under the city of Damascus, asking the enemy commander who was guarding the city to come out and fight him on horseback to fight to the death.

As the first warrior of the Abbasid Dynasty, Turhong grew from an unknown soldier in the army to a general who led 800,000 troops and conquered the Tang Dynasty for the empire.

On his growth path, he has always been influenced by General Khalid, another outstanding general of the Arab Empire a hundred years ago, who was known as the "Sword of Allah";

When they were young, both of them admired force and liked to fight against the enemy's main generals on horseback with their spears and scimitars, and destroy the enemy's military spirit and morale through the primitive and fair duel of beheading the generals in front of the battle;

However, as Turhong accumulated military exploits and gradually became a general of the Abbasid Dynasty, he has not ridden his horse to kill the enemy and fought against the enemy's main generals for many years.

Now, Turhong, who knows that he has no hope of breaking through, wants to use this way that made him famous at the beginning to make himself more decent and regretless in the last course of his life.

"Bisuma, bring me my spear and sword!"

"Yes, General!"

Bisuma still resolutely followed the order of General Turhong and brought him the spear and sword.

As a general of the Abbasid Dynasty, Turhong used the same weapons as the Arab Empire cavalry. The spear was the Ruhem spear, which had a wooden handle and a metal head and was about 12-13 meters long.

The straight sword was a straight sword forged with Damascus steel, which was known for its superior toughness and hardness.

With the spear and sword in hand, Turhong's temperament suddenly became fierce. It was vaguely visible that he was wielding the spear and sword on horseback and beheading the enemy's main general on horseback.

Clang, clang, clang!

Turhong waved the sword in the air a few times, and the clang of breaking the wind was still sharp.

"The general is so brave!"

Almost subconsciously, the captain of the personal guard Bisuma in the big tent immediately applauded and cheered for the general.

Haha!

Turhong also laughed twice with satisfaction.

After a moment, Bisuma asked again with a bit of depression: "General, you say, then, can the great emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Huaian, agree to your challenge letter?"

Uh--

Hearing this, Turhong's expression obviously froze.

Obviously, he was not completely sure about this question, and he didn't know how to answer the captain of the guard Bisuma.

"Report--"

"Report to the general, General Haiti is here to report!"

Suddenly, the voice of the messenger outside the big tent broke the slightly awkward atmosphere in the big tent.

General Turhong immediately sheathed his sword and said to the outside of the tent: "Come in and talk!"

Immediately afterwards, General Haiti, who was previously appointed by Turhong as a messenger to deliver a letter of challenge to Emperor Chen Huaian in the Tang army camp outside the city, hurried into the central army tent.

Turhong asked anxiously: "General Haiti, how is this trip?"

"Then, did the Tang Emperor Chen Huaian agree to my challenge?"

Hu——

General Haiti, who had returned with the message, breathed a sigh of relief, and then replied to General Turhong: "Report to the General, the Tang Emperor Chen Huaian accepted the challenge and agreed to the General's request;"

"At 5 p.m., the Tang Emperor Chen Huaian will be outside the Black Tiger City, waiting for a duel with the General!"

Hu!

As soon as he heard that Chen Huaian accepted the challenge and agreed to his request, Turhong finally let go of his hanging heart, and he immediately breathed a long sigh of relief, looking relieved.

He said to himself: "It seems that the Great Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Huaian, is a hero. The rumors about him are true!"

Immediately, Turhong said: "Since the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty can go into battle so readily and forthrightly, then I, the general, must also be very prepared. Only then can I respect my opponent!"

""Come here, send the order, this general wants to eat! "

"The general will get the order!"

...

At the same time, outside Black Tiger City, the Tang Army's central army was in its tent.

Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian was also having a meal, and beside him stood anxiously the powerful generals of the Tang Dynasty such as Anxi Hou Lanyu, Zhenxi Hou Guo Dingfang, Changxin Hou Zuo Liangcai, Champion Hou Huo Qubing, and the Chief of the Imperial Forest Army Zhao Zilong.

At this time, they already knew that the emperor had accepted the challenge from the enemy general Turhong in the city and would challenge Turhong outside Black Tiger City at Shen Shi.

All the generals looked at Chen Huaian in the chief seat with concern.

Although, as for the value of Emperor Zhaowu's military force, they, all the warriors who had followed Emperor Zhaowu to conquer the world, had seen it with their own eyes;

However, the current emperor is still the emperor, the most noble emperor.

Not to mention whether it would be a loss of national dignity for the emperor to go to battle in person and challenge an enemy general in a duel. If the emperor made any mistake, every one of the Tang Dynasty warriors present would count, regardless of who belongs to the nine tribes. Want to run.

Therefore, these people immediately found Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian and wanted to persuade him to take back his life.

Zhao Zilong, the chief general of the Royal Forest Army, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, otherwise, let the last general fight on your behalf. Then Turhun is just a general of the Abbasid Dynasty in the Eastern Expedition;"

"The last general is the chief general of the Royal Forest Army of the Tang Dynasty. Fighting against him is enough to give him face, and there is no problem of losing the national dignity!"

"Your Majesty, what General Zhao said is absolutely true!"

"The Emperor is a noble person and cannot compete with a warrior like Turhong. Although I am not as brave as the Emperor in terms of force, I am still willing to fight on the Emperor's behalf;"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, please think twice..."