Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 323 Ring
The first time he saw the silver ring, Liang En remembered the silver ring he had summoned Joan of Arc before and was now worn by Joan of Arc.

Because the previous ring brought him a lot of benefits, Liang En checked this ring at the first time, but he didn't expect that the ring on top fell off as soon as he picked up the cover that was placed in the frame.

"Don't accidentally break this thing!" After seeing this scene, Liang Enhan almost got down. Although it is inevitable that this kind of ancient cultural relics will be damaged during the unearthed and excavated process, it is up to him to destroy it. So sad to have it on hand.

Fortunately, after inspection, he found that the damage of this thing had nothing to do with his own operation, but because the ring was welded to the cover, and the welding point was the most likely place to be corroded.

After confirming that the thing was destroyed because of his own reasons, Liang En seemed to relax a lot, and then began to check the ring.

It was a silver ring. Judging from the size and style of the ring, it should be for men. On the front of the ring was inlaid an opal the size of a soybean grain.

Fortunately, the oxide layer on the silver ring was only a thin layer, so it did not hide the engraved lines on the ring, so after wiping off the sundries on it with your fingers, a line of text was revealed.

"Early Arabic - it seems that this ring is indeed precious." Liang En became excited after recognizing the characters composed of a bunch of curved lines and dots.

This is mainly because there are too few ancient jewelry left in the Arab world or even a certain religious world, most of which are after the 17th century.

In particular, there are only a handful of jewels left from the era of the Arab Conquest, and they are fragmented and completely invisible. Now, from the text, this ring should be the jewel of the era of the Great Conquest.

The main reason for this is that there are no funerary objects in Arabia and post-conquest areas due to religious reasons, so almost all the precious metals on their old jewelry have been re-melted, and the gemstones have been re-polished and then made into new jewelry.

As a result, most of the jewelry from that era that can be left today are hoarded cultural relics left in some emergency situations, and the number is very rare compared with similar cultural relics in other civilization circles.

Especially in the era of the great conquest, the Arabs often wore the plundered loot on their bodies, and there were very few such artworks made in the style of desert tribes.

In fact, Liang En is not very good at jewelry, but he found that the style of this thing is not like the jewelry of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Persian Empire, which is the source of the most loot, but a bit like the Coptic jewelry before. .

After simply inspecting the shape of the ring and making a judgment, Liang En quickly studied the inscriptions on the ring, because the words can often provide more information.

Fortunately, this passage is very short, so he quickly translated it with his knowledge of Arabic.

Although there is only one paragraph written, there are actually a lot of information translated. The first sentence means to commemorate the victory in Kadisia under the blessing of the gods, while the second sentence comes from the spoils of Kavi.

"No way!" Liang En turned the ring over, and his eyes widened when he saw the golden-green gemstone whose surface was foggy due to being soaked in sea water for too long.

Because he did not expect that he would be able to find a legendary treasure, or a part of the treasure, on such a remote reef.

At this time, two new cards appeared in Liang En's mind, which confirmed that the engravings on the ring were real, and that the original owner of the ring was not just bragging.

The Battle of Qadisiya mentioned here was one of the most important battles during the Arab Conquest period. The result of the battle was that the Arabs won and the Sassanid Persian Empire was defeated.

This war took place at the end of May 637. The battlefield was located in Qadisiya, west of Najaf in southern Iraq (south of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq today).

This war lasted for three full days. Although the Persians were better equipped, more numerous, and more fully trained at that time, they still couldn't hold on to the religious fanatic Arabs.

In particular, after the elephants used by the Persians were wounded by the fanatical Arabs, they ran around on the battlefield regardless of the enemy and the enemy, which seriously affected the Persians who fought in formation, but had little effect on the Arabs who formed skirmishes.

More importantly, because of the many failures faced by the Arabs before and the long grass-grazing behavior of the Arabs before, the morale of the Persians is not high. These war elephants can be regarded as one of their most important psychological support.

Therefore, the failure of the war elephant seriously affected the morale of the Persian army, and such things as morale can completely affect the success or failure of a war, so in the second afternoon, the morale of the Persian army had dropped to a low point.

That night, the fanatical Arabs spontaneously organized a night attack, and the constant harassment completely lowered the morale of the Persians. Therefore, on the last day, the tight formation that the Persian army could rely on was shaken.

At this time, there was a strong wind on the battlefield. The canopy on the throne of the commander of the Persian army was lifted by the wind, and the commander Rustam himself was blown into the river.

He was crouching under a mule to avoid capture, but was recognized and killed by an Arab soldier.The soldier then mounted his throne and announced the death of the Persian commander.

When the Persian soldiers learned that the commander was dead, they fled one after another, but the Arab army was too tired to pursue them, and the battle ended.

Because the Persian king mobilized elite troops across the country in this war, the loss of these elite troops, especially the death of a large number of officers including the commander in chief, seriously affected the entire Persian army.

At least after the end of this war, Sassan Persia was unable to organize a large number of soldiers with rich combat experience to appear on the battlefield in a short period of time, and this became a fatal problem when facing the aggressive Arabs .

Compared with these material losses, the destruction of the elite and the loss of the most important Kavi battle flag of the Persian army were even more deadly, because it only made the Persians completely lose their courage to fight.

So in the next short period of time, the seven cities of Madain, the wealthiest of the Sassanian dynasty, all fell into the hands of the Arabs. The Persian king Yizudr III could only flee to central Iran, hoping to rely on his vassals from all over the country to serve as king.

At this time, Yi Situ III still has the possibility to keep his old roots. If he can formulate a resistance policy, take measures to avoid war militarily to consume the fighting spirit of the Arabs, and diplomatically form a diplomatic relationship with the Byzantine Empire, even if he cannot counterattack and regain lost ground, he will still be able to fight back. Able to hold on for a long time and wait for a turnaround.

As a result, six years later, Yizuqi III and his nobles still couldn't bear the negative effects of the stalemate, and tried to fight the Arabs. As a result, the last Persian army was completely ruined in the Battle of Nehawin.

Since then, the Persians have permanently lost the core of resistance, and the whole has become a mess like Nanming after Hongguang's death, and was successfully conquered by the Arabs.

In other words, the ring that Liang En found witnessed the decline of the Sassanid Persian Empire and the Battle of Qadishia during the rise of the Arab Empire. As a witness of this turning point, the ring naturally has important historical value.

(End of this chapter)