Instead of taking the usual route, Iprasin's 5,000 cavalry made a surprise attack north from the northern states of Tochar, bypassing the Wuhu River, and he expected to encounter panicked traitors. However, he suffered a small loss at the Iron Gate.

The two armies met at night, and he planned to attack them at dawn the next day, but who would have thought that those traitors had no intention of holding out here, and when he led his army to carry out the planned surprise attack, he found that the traitors in the Iron Gate Pass had fled.

Feeling deeply fooled, Iprahim decided to teach the traitors a hard lesson, their blood as a warning to those who dared to start a rebellion.

Before leaving, Abbas took his hand and told him over and over again that the Transoxiana region was the grain source on which Khorasan relied to sustain its large army. This quelling of the rebellion must not be delayed for too long, otherwise it will bring great trouble to the coalition forces of the Eastern Crusade.

It is based on this that Iprahim is in a hurry to make a surprise attack a sensation. It's just that the careful preparation did not pay off as it should be, making him feel like a punch in the air.

Even so, Iprahim was not discouraged, but sent a large number of scouts to lock down the traitors and continue the pursuit.

The elite cavalry of the Great Food was invincible in the middle of the river, and even the most difficult steppe barbarians, such as Grolu and Turgish, bowed down to them, not to mention the tribes of Bahanna, who were not much stronger than the Sogdians.

In addition, Iprasin's confidence lies in the fact that he not only has 5,000 of the most elite cavalry, but also the elite infantry mobilized by the governor Abbas from the western plateau of Khorasan, a total of 30,000.

In the past few years, the dynasty conquered the entire Hezhong region, and the big * sharp used was only more than 20,000 foot riders.

Abbas sat in Mulu City and mobilized almost all the elite infantry of Khorasan, and it was only a matter of time before the rebellion in the river was put down.

Iprahim was not stupid, and he also understood that the reason why his uncle was so active was to extinguish the rebellion of the various tribes in the river as soon as possible, otherwise once the momentum was formed, it would not be so easy to completely quell it.

What's more, half of the elite of Khorasan were far away in the Hexi of the Tang Dynasty, and there could be no surprise in the Hezhong region, which was the pillar of grain and grass in the rear at this time.

In this regard, Iprahim also devised a series of strategies, loose and tight, fast and slow, in order to confuse the traitors, make them completely lose their fighting spirit in the alternation of hot and cold, and then rush up and kill them all.

Soon, Iprahim discovered that the fleeing traitors did not seem to be just fleeing, but had launched an attack on the important towns in the western part of the Green Ridge as he deliberately relaxed.

This greatly annoyed Iprasin, because Kumi was the only way to Shule Town, one of the four towns in Anxi, and if this group of traitors were allowed to capture Kumi, it would have a great impact on the rule of the Great Eclipse in the river.

This also runs counter to the original intention of resolving the rebellion in the river as soon as possible.

"Quick, quick, rush to Kumi and kill all those thieves who are making trouble!"

By this time, Iprasim had lost his patience to play with cats and mice, and was ready to wipe out the traitors under the city of Kumi. However, things always came unexpectedly, and when he put on an aggressive posture, the traitors actually sent someone to express their readiness to surrender.

Iprahim smiled, was it too late to surrender now, and besides, he intended to use the blood and heads of these thieves to warn the tribes of the river that were about to move. If it is surrendered so quietly, won't the gains outweigh the losses, and it will backfire?

After thinking about it for a while, he decided to take advantage of the traitor's eagerness to surrender, why not trap all of them by accepting surrender?

With this in mind, Iprasin immediately agreed to the traitor's request for surrender, and agreed on a time and place to formally accept the surrender on a beach in the Wuhu River. This was the place he had carefully chosen, where the Wuhu River was so fast that it could block the traitor's path to the south, and to the north of the river beach was the steep Bosi Mountain, and only the road leading to Kumi City was flat.

Iprahim was confident that as long as he fought the traitors again, he was sure that they would not be able to escape.

But on the day of surrender, the beach of the Wuhu River was empty, and there was no half a figure at all. With love, Iprahim was also afraid of the traitor's tricks, so he carefully reconnoitred within a radius of ten miles of the river beach, but the result was still empty.

After some investigation, it was found that the traitors were still gathered under the city of Kumi, and did not rush to the Wuhu River beach to surrender as agreed.

Enraged, Iprahim felt that he had been fooled, and he planned to rush to the city of Kumi and annihilate it with dignity.

However, just as Iprahim was furious, the traitor sent another messenger, and after some angry rebuke and curses, he finally understood the traitor's explanation. It turned out that the problem was with the calendar.

Khorasan used the Persian calendar, while the traitors used the calendar of the Tang dynasty in Middle-earth.

There was a three-day difference between the two different calendars on the agreed date of surrender, which is why such a drama took place.

The traitor sent a whole cart of jewels and gold as a sign of surrender, and the messenger swore an oath to the heavens and the earth, saying that if he violated the oath again, he would let heaven and earth not tolerate it, and ten thousand arrows pierced his heart.

Iprasin's mind is moving again, if he can kill those traitors at the lowest cost, why not?

As soon as the three days passed, Iprahim came to the agreed beach again, but it was still empty.

At last, Iprahim realized that he had been tricked again, and his anger and shame made him furious, and he was played twice in a row by the traitor, which was a great shame, and he must let the traitor leader not survive and die.

But just as he was galloping to Kumi City with his cavalry, the scout cavalry brought back bad news that Kumi City had fallen.

Iprahim understood that the surrender was only to delay time, and it was precisely because of this that the city fell into the hands of traitors.

"I'm going to kill that idiot!"

Iprahim roared loudly, but his generals were at the mercy of who was a fool.

When they arrived at the city, all they saw was billowing smoke and charred ruins, a good town had been burned to the ground, and the city's people, goods and materials were all gone.

And the cunning traitors are gone.

Iprahim waved his arms in vain and cursed the cunning leader of the traitors, and there was no other way for him to vent his anger.

That night, a wolf-stained military report arrived in the hands of Iprasin, and Xue Yu, the prince of Bakhana, led his army to besiege Mulu City!