(Chapter 47 Three Sui Ping Halicarnassus - Five Sons Admitted to the Imperial College 2)
That night, Greek soldiers patrolling outside the military camp discovered a masked man of unknown origin suddenly appearing near the painting.
They rushed forward to find out their identity, but the taxpayer was more agile and carried the person on his back, quickly disappearing into the night.
The Greek soldiers immediately started chasing, but the other party quickly boarded a small boat. Further out on the sea, by the time they found the ship, they could no longer determine the other party's escape direction.
This incident immediately caused an uproar. You must know that Alexander is a face-saving person. The painting that promoted his military exploits was stolen like this, which of course made him very angry.
So all the people related to this matter, as well as the main generals, were summoned, and Li Ning also came to Alexander from his camp.
However, he arrived a little late, so he had to trouble Alexander to explain something to him.
Alexander's words were very simple, but to the point. One of them impressed Li Ning the most.
"Judging from their size last year, they should not be Greek soldiers."
"That's our guy."
"Yes, it is almost certain that these are the soldiers of the Kingdom of Heaven. But we did not expect that the soldiers of the Kingdom of Heaven would actually do such a thing."
These words made everyone present in the Song Dynasty blush.
"There's nothing surprising about this." Li Ning waved his hand and looked at the painter, Apelles, with a smile, "Your painting must have put a lot of thought into it, and it must have been done very well. "
"Of course, haven't you seen it?" The painter replied proudly, "I asked many soldiers to completely restore the scene of that night."
"Oh, that's right. Then my soldiers from the Chinese Empire had every reason to steal the painting. Of course they wanted to pay homage to the glory of their compatriots. Moreover, your painting was probably painted using Greek techniques, right? "
"I did use the techniques from my hometown. It may be different from the paintings in Heaven."
Although the painter was arrogant, he was also very smart. He immediately understood what Li Ning meant, that is, different countries may have different painting styles, which can be seen from the differences in Greek and Persian paintings.
Of course, what he didn't expect was that when Li Ning sent someone to place a landscape painting in front of him, he could more clearly and clearly feel the huge, gap-like difference.
Then his answer became more certain: "You are absolutely right. I drew that picture in the Greek style, not yours."
"That's right, I now suspect that the soldiers may not only want to admire the glory, but also see the novelty of this painting, so..."
"So they stole the painting out of joy." Puyane appeared in the military camp at some point. At this moment, he was leading his men into the tent slowly and said hello to Li Ning and Alexander. .
What is somewhat surprising is that although he was full of respect and even fear for Alexander, his performance was mediocre and he seemed not to take this famous King to heart.
This made Li Ning feel strange, but he didn't say anything.
Just listen to Puyane continue to say: "My respected King, you must forgive this behavior of the soldiers, because they are greedy for the glory of your victory. Are they soldiers of the heaven or your soldiers? Or are they my soldiers?" You should forgive these Arab soldiers for their behavior. Oh, by the way, maybe you should let this great painter make some. In this case, the subjects of the entire Asia Minor region can see it. Your power.”
"Oh, that's good advice."
Alexander's vanity was apparently quickly repaired.
But Li Ning did not agree with this opinion.
"This can easily lead to leaks. I think it would be better to process the entire war into a slightly mythical way and let those stupid Persians fall in front of our lives. How about describing gunpowder as lightning falling from the sky, vertically destroying solid buildings?" The city wall, and the fire bull formation tonight is like the roar of an angel, oh, you don’t have angels here yet? It doesn’t matter, they are dressed in white clothes, with swan-like wings or dragonfly-like wings on their backs, Descending from the sky and looking down at the common people. Well, that’s the image anyway. Dear painter, these creations will be completed by you, and your life will be jointly protected by Macedonia and Heaven. Do you understand?"
The painter is indeed a smart man. Of course he understood. This is a threat, which means that only you know this secret and I dare to leak it. The person who protects you is the person who kills you.
But what he knew more clearly was that since Li Ning had already said this, he had no choice. Looking at Alexander's fierce eyes, he had no other way out except agreeing.
Therefore, his attitude immediately became humble and pious. In an almost God-like tone, he swore to Alexander and Li Ning: "I am willing to use my most magnificent talents to publicize the great achievements of these two people to those stupid people." of Persian slaves.”
"that's enough."
Alexander nodded again with satisfaction. He was angry about that painting, but Li Ning immediately turned around and ordered Cao Jie, Zhang Fang and Ma Sui in Chinese to immediately find out which bastards stole that damn painting. painting.
At the same time, Zhang Sui's little eyes began to patrol back and forth on the wall of Wangjiawei City, and then,. He turned to the tongue man assigned to their command and asked, "Can you communicate normally with the people in the city?"
"No problem, I even learned Persian along the way."
"Very good, I want you to take this painting and go in to have a good talk with that perverted guy. Ask him, can he withstand such a fierce battle?"
The so-called guy named Se, of course, refers to Serasi Brolos.
The tongue man hesitated for a moment, perhaps it would be appropriate to leave such a dangerous task to others.
After all, he is just a talker.
However, Zhang Shijiang immediately made an offer that he could not refuse.
"If we fail to successfully capture this royal family, among the rewards I receive, the official position will go to me, half of the gold and silver will go to you, and the remaining half will be divided equally among the brothers. What do you think?"
When the speaker heard this, he immediately gritted his teeth and agreed.
So, early the next morning, Thracybulus saw the messenger shouting outside the city gate.
At the same time, Li Ning and Pu Yane finally had time to talk.
"Are you done with everything in Granicas City?"
"No." Puyane, who was originally stationed there, replied, "But it is no longer appropriate for me to stay there. Do you know? Some time ago, a large army was ambushed and defeated during the Eastern Expedition. But now, it has become a place to collect the defeated troops, so Mr. Chun is in charge of it himself. And those of us who are easy to be looked at by others, naturally it is best to avoid it. "
"You want to come out to find some military glory, right?"
Pu Yane did not expect that Li Ning would hit his idea straight to the point.
But he still praised it like a joke: "I knew I couldn't hide it from you."
"You know you can't play with me? Oh, that's why you came to me, right?"
"That's right." Pu Yane couldn't keep up with Li Ning's train of thought.
"It seems that you have brought conditions that you think are suitable. Then you can talk about it."
Of course, Pu Yane did not bring any conditions. He only had a general ambition, but this could barely be used to try to persuade Li Ning.
"I know that you are different from those Song Dynasty officials, so I am willing to share my ideas with you and hope that you can do it with me."
"Tell me."
"Officials in the Song Dynasty had a habit of trying not to get into trivial matters. Therefore, almost all of our people in the Shipping Department in Guangzhou are handling the details. I hope that Quanzhou can also follow up on the details. Convention. Leave it to us, and of course you, to do it.”
"You may be overthinking it. Light Screen and Shibosi are not the same. The imperial court will not..."
"No, you are wrong. If someone can handle unfamiliar things for them, those bureaucrats will not mind how much authority these people have in this field. The matter of the Guangzhou Shipping Department is enough It proves this, I have been active in Guangzhou and know this very well.”
"As you said, we may still have this opportunity in an unfamiliar field, but I want to tell you that the light curtain brings not only the opportunity to communicate with the outside world, but also about the history of the outside world. , history is extremely valued in Central Plains culture. This is one of the most important fields for scholar-officials. Once they become interested, countless people will invest in it. By then, the unfamiliar fields you mentioned will be greatly reduced. .”
Puyan was silent for a long time. After a long while, he continued: "But I always feel that there is a chance."
"Yes, we have an opportunity, and it's not an opportunity to exploit the gap, but an opportunity to fill the gap and lead more people to fill the gap to strengthen us."
These words immediately lit up Pu Yana's eyes. He grabbed Li Ming's hand with surprise and asked excitedly: "How do you say this?"
"I said before that we should live like the sun, and then we will build schools. By cultivating more suns, the entire Song Dynasty will be illuminated by our light. By then, what do you think we are? We He is a hero who brings infinite vitality to the public, a new saint. He is an existence like Confucius."
These words shocked Pu Yana, who did not expect that Li Ning's ambition was far higher than his own.
It's pitiful to see that his ambition is so small that it is nothing compared to the other party.
At this time, a new news came.
"Wong Kar-wai surrendered."
Cleitas brought the news to everyone, including Li Ning and Alexander.
Everyone was shocked because they didn't hear the battle cry.
Therefore, they were unable to determine why Wangjiawicheng chose to surrender.
So more than one person began to hurriedly inquire about it, but in the end they were unable to determine what the cause was.
Of course, the real reason will not be released immediately. You think that the instigator is still inquiring about some information. It is not until he learned that Alexander was not too serious and angry about the phone call that he boldly jumped. He came out and acknowledged his contribution.
Zhang Sui, a tenth general transferred from the Shaanxi front line, used his bold ideas to persuade Thracybulus to surrender to Alexander.
Just as he speculated, the opponent simply could not afford such an intense battle, so I chose to surrender.
But in fact, the stupidest photojournalist didn’t know that the island where the Royal Guards City was located had no extra soil for them to dig tunnels.
If they don't want their tunnels to be filled with seawater and many colorful fish swim in, then they'd better not choose such a dangerous operation.
But the interesting thing is that Thrasibulus, who was in the Royal Acropolis, like the stupid speculator, did not realize this at all.
This made Alexander realize that he had to capture the city as soon as possible, so he hurriedly ordered and led a phalanx infantry brigade there.
Fortunately, foolish Thrasibulus did not notice this huge omission.
The Royal Acropolis, Halica, was the last remaining place where the remaining forces were entrenched, and eventually fell into the hands of Alexander.
At this point, the series of battles in Halicarnassus came to an end. Five cities, including Mendos, the three acropolis and the main city, were successfully captured by the coalition forces of Alexander and the Song Dynasty.
During this period, in addition to the heroic performance of Li Ning and some Greek generals, the outstanding performance of the three Song Dynasty officers was the most talked about.
What's more, although these three Song Dynasty officers have different surnames, they use the same name.
The related deeds of Ma Sui, Yang Sui, and Zhang Sui quickly spread back to the Song Dynasty, and became the objects of common people's inquiry and even worship.
Even the officials in Bianjing City learned about the various stories between Sansui and Halicarnassus from Li Ning's letters.
