Ibrahim naturally had his subordinates to take care of him. The journey was very tiring, and it was necessary to let him rest for a while to recover his strength and energy as soon as possible.
Altik discussed with his subordinates how to take care of Ibrahim. This was a problem that had to be solved as soon as possible.
"My Lord, Ibrahim came all the way here. This is his support for us, and it will make our uprising more legal."
"Yes, Mansur will say that we are traitors, but as long as Ibrahim is here, we are not traitors. He, Mansur, is the real traitor."
"If we want to increase our influence, we must respect Ibrahim as our lord. Of course, he does not need to command the war. He only needs to be the nominal leader."
"That's right, City Lord. We should respect Ibrahim as our master. Only by borrowing his banner can we better expand our forces."
"Why don't we respect Ibrahim as the Caliph? This way, Mansur will be a traitor, and all the Shia people will support us. "
Many of his subordinates said.
Altik was a devout Shia, and he naturally supported Ali's descendant as the Caliph. Now that Ibrahim was in the city, he naturally approved of it.
"You are right, and I think so too. When we drink tonight, we will officially elect Ibrahim as the Caliph."
Altik said.
All of his subordinates were very excited. These people were all devout Shia, and to be able to elect Ali's descendant as the Caliph was to achieve their life goal. The resentment that had been suppressed for hundreds of years was finally released, and they could very well comfort their ancestors.
After dark, the banquet was held as scheduled. Altik warmly entertained Ibrahim, and after a few drinks, he announced a major event, which was to elect Ibrahim as the Caliph of the Islamic world.
"Ardiq, what have I done to deserve to be the caliph? No, no, it should be my brother, Mohammed, who should be the Caliph. My brother should be elected as the Caliph. "
Ibrahim was overjoyed, but he still refused it verbally. He still had to decline such a high position. No matter how willing he was, he still had to decline it verbally to appear humble.
Altik was the first to persuade him. "Ibrahim, don't refuse. You were able to come here smoothly, which means that the Caliph's position is yours. This is fate. Let's be honest! We need a banner now, and only you can be our banner to guide us to defeat the traitor Mansur. No matter how excellent Mohammed is, he is useless, because he is not here. He will not play the slightest role in our great cause of our recovery.. "
"Ibrahim, our Caliph, we support your ascension to the throne."
"Caliph, Caliph Ibrahim, we will always surround you."
"When the Caliph ascends to the throne, the entire world will support us. We will definitely unify the world."
Everyone strongly supported Ibrahim's ascension to the Caliph's position.
Ibrahim was overjoyed. He had risked so much to escape to Altik in order to ascend to the Caliph's position. Otherwise, why would he take the risk to come to the peninsula when there was food and drink in Khorasan? Was it to warn Altik? Obviously not.
"Since everyone thinks so highly of me, I will reluctantly do it. If there is a more suitable person in the future, I will give up the Caliph's position."
Ibrahim said magnanimously.
Next, it was time to celebrate, eat, and drink. It was a joyous day. The Shi 'ite believers had worked hard for hundreds of years and finally achieved their original goal of electing the descendants of Ali as the Caliph. Their persistence had finally paid off.
There were still many Shi 'ite believers. After the news spread, the morale of the soldiers under Altik's command was greatly boosted. More civilians chose to join Altik's camp, thus allowing Altik to gain more troops and strength.
This was great news for the Altik Group, but it was not good news for Osman and Mansur. At this moment, Osman and Altik had formed a temporary alliance in order to jointly deal with the powerful Altik Group. But now that the Altik Group had raised the banner of Ibrahim, its strength had been greatly enhanced, and its troops continued to expand.
As a result, Osman, who had formed a temporary alliance with Artek, felt uncomfortable, especially when he knew about the ambitions of Artek's men. He felt even more uncomfortable.
He had been helping Altik fight for the country. According to the agreement with Ang Lee of the Tang dynasty, the entire peninsula belonged to Altik, and his territory was in Egypt. He did not manage Egypt now, but he was camping in the northern part of the peninsula, and he and Altik were at opposite ends of the peninsula. If Altik really needed him, it would be fine. But Altik's strength had been greatly enhanced, and his troops were more than twice his. In this case, if he helped Altik defeat the army of the Mansur Group, would Altik take the opportunity to attack him and take down Egypt as well?
After all, the scouts he had sent out had clearly heard such words. Altik's subordinates had already shouted that they wanted to unify the Islamic world. If that was the case, wouldn't it mean that they wanted to destroy him?
"General, Altik is really amazing. He has already expanded his army to 80,000 soldiers. In a few days, he will break through 100,000 soldiers, which is three times our military strength."
"It's all because of Ibrahim. Altik and the others have always supported Ali's descendants. Now, they have elected Ibrahim as the Caliph as they wished. Naturally, they have received a lot of support. On the other hand, we are more miserable. We contributed a lot during the war, but the support we received was far less than Altik's. Even the Tang dynasty supported Altik more than they supported us. We are at a disadvantage!"
"What nonsense are you talking about? Altik bought them with money. Otherwise, how could there be so many weapons for him? We didn't pay a single gold coin. Naturally, the Tang dynasty won't give us too much. Fortunately, we have fewer soldiers and horses, so we don't have a high demand for weapons."
"General, since the entire peninsula belongs to Altik, why are we still staying here? We should go to Egypt early to develop. Staying here is a waste of time."
"General, let's leave! Look at Altik's attitude. They are not inferior to Mansur at all. They can win by themselves. Why are we here? It's time to go. "
Osman's subordinates all supported leaving immediately. They did not want to have anything to do with Altik anymore. After all, their political goals were different and they had nothing in common. Originally, they had united to protect themselves and were worried that they would be eaten up by Mansur's group. However, now that Altik had raised Ibrahim's banner high, his strength had greatly increased, and he had bought a large number of bows and sharp weapons from the Tang dynasty, his strength had made Osman and the others panic. Therefore, they had already regarded Altik's group as a threat. Naturally, they were unwilling to cooperate anymore lest they were accidentally swallowed up by Mansur's group.
Since all his subordinates had expressed their intention to leave, Osman naturally would not object. He also wanted to leave the peninsula as soon as possible and concentrate on managing his own territory in Egypt. According to the news sent back by the people he had sent earlier, Egypt was almost powerless now. As long as his elite army killed their way to Egypt, they would soon be able to control the whole of Egypt. They could even expand to the west and south step by step, establishing a huge empire with a larger territory.
"It's time to leave. However, we can't leave the peninsula empty-handed. We can't leave behind a single bit of wealth from the captured cities. We have to transport them all to Egypt."
Osman said loudly.
"Yes, General."
His subordinates responded.
On the way north, Osman had been plundering the wealth of the people. He had looted all the wealth, food, and other resources of the cities he had conquered. He did not leave any livestock behind. If anyone dared to resist, he would not be polite and would directly kill them. Thus, they had plundered too many resources along the way. After conquering the cities behind them, they abandoned the cities in front of them and looted all the remaining resources.
Thus, Osman's army was relatively wealthy at the moment. They still had a lot of wealth, but it was still a little lacking compared to Altik. After all, Altik had managed the prosperous Aden City, so he could naturally obtain a lot of wealth. The wealth he had obtained from killing the former city lord was even more shocking.
In order to prevent his wealth from being robbed, Osman forced many people to transport the wealth. He gathered the wealth he had robbed in the Sinai Peninsula and prepared to transport it to Egypt at any time.
Now, Osman only controlled the three northernmost cities. As long as the wealth of these three cities was emptied, there was nothing left for him to stay on the peninsula.
Since he was going to leave, he had to plunder all the wealth. Osman had his subordinates complete this task. Once they were done, he had his subordinates lead the troops and escort the wealth to the Sinai Peninsula. Osman himself and his twenty thousand cavalrymen stayed behind. They would be the last to leave to cover the wealth transfer plan.
Even an idiot could tell that Osman was going to leave the peninsula. Otherwise, there would be no need for him to transport all the gold, silver, and rations to Egypt. Wherever the army was, there would be a pile of rations.
When Altik heard about this, he did not think it was a big problem. He was no longer the same person as before. He believed that he could crush Mansur's attack with his own strength. He did not need Osman's help at all. Moreover, he and Osman were not on the same side.
"Let's go! It's good that he's gone! I was afraid that he wouldn't leave! "
Altik said disdainfully.
"City Lord, that bastard Osman has plundered half of the peninsula's cities and transported as many as one hundred thousand civilians. He's too despicable!"
The subordinate said hatefully.
Altik smiled. "Forget it. He's helped us a lot, so let's let him get some benefits! Besides, his plundering will surely make the people hate him. As long as we treat the people of the peninsula a little better, the people will stand on our side. Don't you think this makes sense? "
"Oh, it's still the City Lord who thinks far ahead.
We understand, "the subordinate said.
"Right, after Osman withdraws, send ten thousand soldiers to take over all the cities that Osman has abandoned and station three thousand soldiers at the border."
Altik said.
"Yes, this subordinate understands."
The subordinate replied.
Although Altik had already honored Ibrahim as the Caliph, Altik was still in charge of military affairs. In other words, Altik was the true ruler of the peninsula, while Ibrahim was only the nominal leader.
It wasn't that Ibrahim didn't want to seize power, but that the entire peninsula's army had been led by Altik and was loyal to Altik. Ibrahim had only just arrived, and if he rashly tried to seize power, it would be very troublesome. Moreover, Ibrahim was not very familiar with many things, so he would be under a lot of pressure to deal with them. It was better to let Altik handle them, and he was happy to be free.
The main reason was that Altik and the others were devout Shiites, and the purpose of Shiites was to support Altik's descendants to become the Caliph. Therefore, Ibrahim was not worried at all that Altik would replace him. In other words, whether or not Altik had real power, Altik would not replace him.
The situation in the north of the peninsula was a little tense, but in the city of Aden, the southernmost part of the peninsula, it was a peaceful scene. The merchants and the people were very comfortable and didn't care about what was happening in the north.
The Tang dynasty army led by Ang Lee had nothing to do now. Only the military ships were busy producing all kinds of cold weapons and selling them to Altik at a relatively low price to help the Altik Group improve its fighting power.
The construction of the new port had already begun, but due to the lack of advanced machinery and equipment, the construction progress was very slow. Of course, the canal wasn't opened yet, and the port in Aden City was still large enough to accommodate the existing ships, so there was no need to rush the construction of the new port. It would be better to build it slowly.
Ang Lee didn't have much to do now except to pay attention to the situation in the north. Other than eating, drinking, and having fun, he also went to the city to have a look.
Ang Lee had seen almost all the beauties in the brothels in Aden. Some of them were served by him, but most of them were just glances. Ang Lee's energy was very limited, and he couldn't pamper all of them. Otherwise, he would be exhausted to death.
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