Silvan, just a day ago, was a quiet, almost insignificant town. Who would have imagined that just one day later, a small place would unfold an army of more than 100,000 people, and a decisive battle was in front of them.

Qin Jin came to Sylfan again, and he squinted his eyes, observing the terrain here.

It is said that the terrain here is not suitable for the battlefield of large-scale decisive battles, but since you can't do a decisive battle in the place you choose, you can't let the big cannibal Mahdi choose.

Therefore, Sylván, who was unsatisfactory in all aspects, appeared in everyone's sight in a series of coincidences.

"Prime Minister, I heard that the children of the Bolingcui clan are trapped in Sylvan, and they don't know life and death, if he is so unclear and died in Sylvan, it's really a pity!"

It was Zheng Xianli who spoke, he knew the influence of the wealthy family, even if he controlled the entire Shenwu army of the imperial court, it would be difficult to shake them in the slightest.

In order to let these children of the family set their sights on the Western Regions that the imperial court was preparing to vigorously explore, since the Western Expeditionary Army left, the Shenwu Army and the imperial court have used all their tricks.

Cui Yin, as the first batch of children of the family to come to the Western Regions, there are definitely countless pairs of eyes staring behind him.

If he dies before he leaves the school this time, I'm afraid that many people who are watching will retreat.

Another rumbling war drum pulled Qin Jin's mind back to the battlefield.

The vanguard of the Shenwu Army has already fought with the big cannibals, and because of the light and rapid march, a series of firearms such as artillery are on the way, so this battle is a real battle with real swords and guns, and there is no time to be opportunistic at all.

In fact, veterans like Zheng Xianli, who have been in the army for many years, think that firearms are opportunistic objects and cannot be regarded as real combat effectiveness.

Therefore, the Shenwu Army has always been believed that without these opportunistic things, it will be invisible to everyone.

Before coming to Sylvan, he had been worried that the Shenwu Army might suffer under the hands of the Great Cannibals, but now it seems that his previous worries were superfluous, and the two sides were at least evenly matched.

Moreover, the Great Cannibal also faced up to this sudden decisive battle, and actually mobilized a large number of troops to surround the advance of the Shenwu Army.

Zheng Xianli was born in the old army, and what he used and believed in was the traditional set in the Tang soldiers. In his view, the Shenwu Army overemphasizes military discipline and neglects the training of combat effectiveness, which is a kind of putting the cart before the horse.

It wasn't until today that he completely believed Qin Jin's words, that harsh military discipline could be transformed into combat effectiveness at critical moments.

It seems that the Shenwu Army, which is extremely moderately trained, can actually be evenly matched with the elite of the Great Cannibal in the field.

The scene from ten years ago resurfaced in front of Zheng Xianli again.

After that fiasco, he had asked himself more than once, if the Glolu people had not defected on the battlefield, would Gao Xianzhi really be sure to win that battle?

The facts are not allowed to be assumed, and in the face of the staggered front, Zheng Xianli put all his energy on the present.

With a few men and horses in place as a reserve force to support the vanguard, the decisive battle between the two sides will be in a state of see-saw before the arrival of artillery.

Judging from the strength of the Shenwu Army's rapid march to arrive here, it is impossible to try to fight in one battle, and before the arrival of all the main forces, they can only wait for the opportunity to move.

"Tell me, what is Mahdi most thinking about right now?"

Qin Jin suddenly asked, and Zheng Xianli thought for a while and said:

"What Mahdi wants most is definitely a quick victory!

Qin Jin smiled:

"What if I want to do it quickly, too?"

Zheng Xianli was stunned, puzzled:

"Why does the prime minister have such an idea?"

He was a little shocked, what Qin Jin said about the quick battle was not supported by the strength of the Shenwu Army that arrived on the battlefield at this time, once it was hard, it was likely to collapse the situation that had just been stabilized.

But he didn't rush to stop him, and planned to listen to Qin Jin's thoughts first.

In this western expedition, although Qin Jin considered himself the commander, he rarely directly intervened in the implementation of tactics. Today's abnormality also makes Zheng Xianli unable to figure out the reason in his heart.

"If our army tries to stabilize the situation with static braking, it will confirm the conjecture that it is not strong, and the Mahdi will deploy troops unscrupulously. If this three kicks are a little more ruthless, the Great Food Prince may not be able to figure out the details, and choose a conservative troop allocation in order to be invincible!"

"But once this happens, our army is also extremely risky, in case it ......"

"How can there be no last resort to march and fight? Sometimes if you are reluctant to take risks, you will not get anything!"

In Zheng Xianli's opinion, Qin Jin wants to win this battle too much, and sometimes if he is too obsessed, he will make mistakes, and this decision is obviously not considered.

However, judging from the current performance of the Shenwu Army, it is not impossible to take a temporary risk.

It's just that Zheng Xianli is getting older and has rich battlefield experience, but he is becoming more and more cautious.

Moreover, Zheng Xianli also had other considerations, after all, since Qin Jin raised troops in Hedong, almost no mistakes were made in the decisions, and almost no defeat in the battles he personally commanded, and it was based on this that although he had different views, he finally kept it in his stomach.

Qin Jin looked up at the sun in the sky, it was just past noon.

"Before it gets dark, to make Mahdi taste the pain, the current arrangement is too conservative. Move those two reserves out and attack Mahdi's center directly from the flank. ”

"This, how does this make ......?"

Zheng Xianli was completely stunned by Qin Jin's plan, these two reserves were left to protect Qin Jin, once they were all transferred out, there were only more than a thousand guards left by Qin Jin's side, and once they encountered an emergency, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Of course, Qin Jin knew what Zheng Xianli wanted to say.

"The Mahdi army has been attacked, and I am still too busy to take care of myself, how can I have extra energy to come to my bad luck?"

At the same time as the two were discussing, Mahdi was also making arrangements to his subordinates, he didn't expect the reinforcements of the Shenwu Army to come so quickly, and he was really a little hurried at the beginning, and transferred more than half of his troops to deploy and encircle.

But after the battle line was stabilized, he realized that this might be just a partial division of the Shenwu Army, so he had the idea of completely destroying it. If the main force of the Shenwu Army was completely eliminated before they rushed over, it would be tantamount to forcing the Shenwu Army to put themselves in a disadvantageous position in the tactics of fueling.

It was precisely with this idea in mind that Mahdi not only did not reduce the movement of troops, but increased his troops again, intending to fight a beautiful war of annihilation before dark.

The Caliph had made it clear that the Roman Empire's armies had already been identified and that he wanted to end the war in the East as soon as possible.