When Bo Xilin heard the officer's cry, he immediately reprimanded him: "What happened to make you so panicked? As a commander, why can't you be a good example to the soldiers?"
The officer quickly adjusted his mentality, stood and bowed his head and said: "Report to Grand Duke Abu, the crossbow arrows are being thrown from the opposite side, and we cannot fight back."
"Why can't you fight back? Your hands are tied by them?"
"The Grand Duke will know by himself when he goes to the river valley and has a look."
Bingbo Xilin rode a camel to the edge of the river valley and saw long banners held by the Tang army on the other side. He put up a pergola and took a closer look. He saw it written in Arabic: "Muhammad.
Bin Abdullah bin Abdul Mutali bin Hashim.”
At this moment, the flames of anger burned Bingbo Xilin's eyes. This group of hateful Eastern pagans dared to use the prophet's name as a shield. This in itself was a kind of joking blasphemy. Even if they were all killed, it would not be enough.
To appease the anger of these sons of the prophets.
He immediately turned the camels and ordered to the generals behind him: "Third Army, Fifth Army! Follow me across the valley. I will openly defeat these devils without faith and let them see what Allah and the power of light are."
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The two generals did not dare to disobey the order and hurriedly summoned their subordinates to prepare for the battle across the river.
Prince Mansour appeared behind Bingbo Xilin and said in a gentle tone: "Grand Duke Abu, I am as angry as you, but we are the commanders of the entire army and we must think carefully before making a decision.
What is the result? Is this a trick used by the enemy to deliberately provoke us?"
Bingbo Xilin suddenly woke up. Mansour was right. He was blinded by anger and was almost seduced into a trap by the cunning Tang people. He calmed down and thanked Mansour: "If not
Your Highness reminds me that Abu almost destroyed the entire army."
Mansur replied: "Duke Abu, this is a good thing for us. Li Siye's Tang army has successfully aroused our anger. We can accumulate this anger and return it to the Tang army in the future."
"We can also use their method. Who are the prophets and saints in China? We also write their names on cloth with charcoal."
"They seem to have many prophets from the Tang Dynasty. Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Sun Wu all seem to be able to be used."
However, they encountered the most substantial problem. They couldn't write Chinese characters, but the forest was big and there were all kinds of birds. They called the entire army for people who could write Chinese characters, and they found such a one. He was from a Khorasan merchant family.
Officer, I heard that this man did business in Chang'an when he was young and learned some simple Chinese characters, which came in handy.
Not long after, the troops on the Dashi Army also hoisted horizontal banners, with four names written on them with crooked charcoal pens.
Li Siye was riding a horse to observe the other side of the river. When he saw the horizontal flags suddenly displayed on the other side, and saw the words Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Sun Wu written on them, he felt a little happy and felt that the cannibals were copying his ideas.
Duan Xiushi, who commanded the crossbow team, ran over and asked him: "Should we stop throwing crossbow arrows?"
Li Siye smiled and asked him: "It depends on your choice. You are a scholar and you want to worship Confucius. They hung the names of the sages on the flags and streamers. Should you throw the rat away?"
Duan Xiushi pressed her chest and said: "Confucius is in my heart, not on those flags opposite. This kind of trick can only be used by us. They are useless to us. The irradiation is correct!"
Boshilin and Mansour were surprised to find that the Tang army on the other side did not accept this trick. When the soldiers informed Boshilin of the situation, the pillar of the Abbasid dynasty thought carefully for a long time.
Then he said: "Order the troops to retreat a hundred steps away from the river bank. At night, send a small group of brave warriors who know the water to sneak across the other bank to attack the enemy."
As a result, there was no commotion in the Tang Army camp on the other side that night, but there was a small group of fierce battles in the river, and then the surviving Dashi warriors fled to the other side wet.
In the early morning of the next day, the leader of the sneak attack team reported to Bingbo Xilin that while sneaking across the river last night, they encountered the Tang army sneaking over. Due to the low visibility at the time, no one knew the losses on both sides.
Bingbo Xilin had no choice but to give up his fantasy, and the two sides continued to confront each other in the Kashav Valley. It was not until the morning of the fourth day that the Tang army, which had stopped throwing arrows for three days, suddenly shot a long arrow over with a Fuyuan crossbow.
The soldiers of the Great Food Army noticed that there was a roll of thin paper tied to the shaft of the arrow, and quickly removed it and presented it to Boshilin. He opened the small scroll, and there was a paragraph written on it in Arabic:
"Our two countries were originally friendly neighbors, but just because of a small conflict, it turned into a large-scale war. This is really inappropriate. Since our Tang army has recaptured nine cities including Talas, Samarkand and Hezhong, you
I will let go of past mistakes. Now we are facing off in the Kashaf Valley, which is not good for both sides, so I suggest that both sides have a frank talk, hoping to resolve this war through negotiation. If General Bosilin is merged
Intention of negotiating with us, we announced at the introduction that each of us would take a step back. I retreated back to Mulu City, General Xilin led his troops to withdraw to Tus City, and we each sent representatives to negotiate at the post station in the Kizilkum Desert.
In order to achieve settlement terms acceptable to both parties.”
After reading this letter, Bingbo Xilin fell into deep suspicion. What Li Siye said in the letter seemed to be delaying time and pretending to negotiate to attract their attention. Logically speaking, what Tang Jun was looking forward to most now
It means that he can solve the problem quickly and go home early, but now his mysterious behavior makes Bingbo Xilin deeply suspicious, but he can't make a conclusion.
The unfamiliar Tang people left him at a loss as to what to do, and he had never fought against this new type of enemy. He was unable to make correct guesses and reactions to his opponent's actions.
He showed Li Siye's letter to His Highness Mansour, but even Mansour couldn't figure out what their enemy wanted.
"In my opinion, Li Siye must have taken new actions, so I sent such a letter to divert our attention to the negotiation."
"I think so too. This is the only thing we and Tang Jun can do at the moment. We insist on fighting them and will never let them succeed and never let their flags cross the river. So I suggest we pretend to agree to them and wait for work.
Let’s see what other plans they have.”
Mansour also sent someone to write a letter in Chinese characters and shot it to the other side with a bow and arrow. The content of the letter was that he agreed to the peace talks proposed by Li Siye, but he must ask Li Siye to withdraw his troops to Mulu City first. Then they had a great meal and judged Li Siye
After expressing his sincerity, he sent negotiators to conduct peace talks at the Desert Station.
Both he and Bingbo Xilin felt that it was novel. This was the first time they had encountered such a thing as negotiation outside the battlefield. In the past, they, the Arabs, had always been head-on, winning the final victory with blood and fire, even when the enemy asked for surrender.
I don't agree either, now we have to deal with some kind of peace negotiation.