Tang Jun picked up the arrows shot from the other side, and quickly ran into the tent and handed the scroll on the arrow shaft to Li Siye. General Li opened the envelope and took a look at the scroll, and said to everyone with a smile: "The other side agreed to peace talks, but asked us first
Retreat to Mulu City."
Below, Tian Zhen said disdainfully: "How can we believe what the cannibals say? They are simply stalling for time. If we believe what they say, then there will be real ghosts."
Duan Xiushi raised his hand, as if he had something to say.
"Old Duan, what do you want to say?"
Duan Xiushi stood up and crossed his arms and said: "My subordinates think that the Great Eaters don't believe that we want to negotiate with them at all. They only think that we are cheating to make them relax, so they also use their tricks to trick us into retreating. At the moment,
Given the situation, there is no progress in the confrontation between the two sides, so it is better to retreat to Mulu City first and see how the other side reacts."
"Retreat? We have finally traveled more than three hundred miles to get here. Now we are going back. Wouldn't the previous journey be in vain?"
Li Siye smiled and asked Tian Zhen: "If you don't retreat, how can you, Old Tian, defeat the enemy? Someone told me that you can take a long way to cross the river from the lower reaches, but after crossing the river, you still have to face the strong defense of Tus City.
, our army may be able to capture this fortified city, but it will also suffer extremely heavy losses. Even if we capture the city of Tus by then, our army will not be able to sustain it, and the final result will be a retreat."
"Besides, the food and grass carried by our army will not last long. Instead of waiting for the food to be used up and retreating, it is better to retreat more calmly now. If Bingbo Xilin dares to pursue him from behind, we will just turn around and give him a blow.
Try to eliminate the active force of the giant man-eater in the wild, so that when we negotiate, the lion can open his mouth."
After Li Siye made his decision, he would never hesitate again and immediately ordered the entire army to break up camp and retreat towards Mulu City.
Bingbo Xilin stood on the rocks on the other side of the river valley, watching the Tang army roll up their flags and retreat in an orderly manner. He seemed a little surprised. He always thought that the negotiations mentioned by the Tang army were just a fraud, but he did not expect that they actually withdrew to Mulu City and took over
What should I do when I get down? Do I really want to talk to the other party?
At this special moment when the country was in crisis, as the founding hero of the country, he did not dare to act on his own. He decided to discuss it with Mansour first. Mansour was also unable to make a decision and decided to write a letter to his father and brother, the Caliph Safah.
, Caliph Safah quickly responded to his letter after receiving it.
In the letter, the Caliph asked Binbo Xilin whether it was possible to defeat Li Siye's Anxi army in a short time, at least to drive them out of the Kizilkum Desert. If they could not be driven away quickly, then negotiate,
But the bottom line of the negotiations is that the Tang army must withdraw from the Kizilkum Desert, preferably to the west of the Amu Darya River.
They knew that the area in the middle of the river might not be taken back. Moreover, the ownership of the area in the middle of the river was originally controversial. The Tang Dynasty once became their suzerainty. Later, the previous dynasty Umayyad snatched it back, and the Abbasid family inherited the Umayyad state.
Most of the territory of the Maiye Dynasty naturally included the occupation of Hezhong.
Of course Bingbo Xilin remembered how this war, which brought huge trouble to this emerging dynasty, started. Gao Xianzhi first destroyed the Shi Kingdom and looted the capital, causing the barbarians in the river to be furious.
Shi asked for help. Both Bo Xilin and Ziad realized that this was a good opportunity to fully occupy the river and completely drive the pro-Tang forces to the east of Congling, and then led their troops to Talas.
They thought that by taking advantage of the anger of the Sogdians in the river towards Gao Xianzhi and further dividing the conflict between the Tang army and the alliance, they could easily defeat the Anxi army and successfully control the entire Hezhong area. However, they did not expect that the Tang army would change their generals and a general named Li Siye would come.
, they did not understand Doctor Li's tactics at all. As a result, Ziad lost consecutive battles, not only abandoning Hezhong, but also allowed the Anxi army to invade the hinterland of Khorasan and capture Mulu City, the gateway to Tus City.
If time could be turned back, he would never let Ziad agree to the request of the Prince of Stone Kingdom, nor would he take the initiative to send the Khorasan army to provoke the Anxi army. Fortunately, this powerful enemy army was small in number, except for Fan Guoxie.
Outside of the army, there are only more than 20,000 people who really belong to the Anxi Army. Only more than 20,000 people can coerce and threaten the army to penetrate such a long distance into his country. If the other party has more people, imagine how powerful it would be.
fear.
Bingbo Xilin thought about it and decided to send representatives to participate in the talks at the Desert Station proposed by Li Siye. However, he did not pay attention to the talks. Not only did he not participate, but the personnel sent were only two small local police officers, without any trace.
Sincerity. What they did was just to use this slight and humiliation to make Li Si angry and attack the Dashi army in the Kashav Valley under unfavorable terrain. In this way, they could offset the advantage of the Anxi army's strong bows and armor.
Get a chance to defeat the Anxi Army.
Li Siye was quite enthusiastic. He decided to send Cen Shen and Duan Xiushi as the negotiation team. The two sides met at the post station in the Kizilkum Desert. As the host, the other party only sent two people. After a short negotiation, Duan Xiushi and Cen Shen discovered
, the people sent by the other party don’t understand nonsense and seem to be teasing them.
Cen Shen walked away angrily, and Duan Xiushi, although good-tempered, also left angrily in the end.
After Li Siye heard the news, he was surprisingly not angry and ordered a messenger to deliver the message to Bingbo Xilin in Tus City again. The letter said that the two sides had a very happy conversation last time and exchanged many constructive opinions.
It is hoped that both parties can negotiate again and come up with a result that satisfies both parties.
When Bo Xilin saw the letter sent by Li Siye, he became more and more puzzled. He thought that he sent someone to entertain him like that, but he was not angry yet, and he still sent someone to talk. Could it be that the Anxi Army's combat effectiveness was exhausted and could no longer continue?
You are fighting a winnable battle, so you say such soft words?
After careful consideration, he decided to personally lead his army to Mulu City to defeat the Tang army and regain his territory.
In this attack, he brought Ziad, who had been suspended from duty for self-reflection, with him, because Ziad had rich experience in fighting the Tang army, and even the experience of failure was experience and worth learning from.
Li Siye was very happy after learning the news about the current enemy of Bingbo Xilin, but Bingbo Xilin was unwilling to negotiate. The reason was that he believed that he had the ability to regain the country, and also hoped to take Hezhong back from Li Siye's hands. It is not as good as now
Just wake him up and let him understand himself correctly, so that he can sit at the negotiation table with peace of mind.
Due to Li Siye's propaganda in Hezhong, he successfully brought the Sogdians and the Tang army to the same position, making them realize that this was not just a confrontation between countries, but also a conflict between Zoroastrianism and the Great Food Cult.
In the name of the war to protect the religion, Li Siye received widespread support from Zoroastrian believers, and also received a steady stream of support from merchants and travelers in the river. Many wealthy merchants who believed in Zoroastrianism, as well as the kings of Kang and Mi, organized logistics
The supply transport team traveled back and forth between the Kizilkum Desert, so Li Siye did not have to worry about supplies.
Regarding the coming Dashi army, he decided to take advantage of the Anxi army's combat advantages and set up a formation under Mulu City, waiting for the moths to fly into the flames.