Mahdi's best tactic to lure the enemy did not seem to lure the Tang army out of the barracks this time. However, it was better if the Tang soldiers did not come out, so he bypassed the Tang Dynasty garrison and marched towards Mulu City.

As long as the large and small cities lost by Khorasan are recaptured one by one, it is equivalent to cutting off the back road of the Tang soldiers, and it is seen that they will not be able to get out.

The closest small town to Gorgan is Sylvan.

This is a small city that the Mahdi has never heard of before, tens of thousands of * sharp even the Roman Empire will tremble, let alone a small city?

Outside the city, however, Mahdi encountered the most stubborn and fierce resistance since he led his troops, and there was no such thing as surrendering without a fight.

Disillusioned, Mahdi went to a hillside close to the city of Sylvan to check on the situation.

A cursory observation shows that the Tang Dynasty troops stationed here did make a ruthless arrangement of city defenses, in addition to digging trenches outside the low city walls, but also pouring strange wooden objects on the city walls to strengthen the defensive effect.

The soldiers in charge of storming the city suffered a small loss under this strange defensive weapon.

However, after all, a small city is a small town, and if it does not receive strong foreign aid, it will fall sooner or later.

It was Mahdi who was not in a hurry, the warriors of today's Great Eclipse just suffered the loss of contempt for the enemy, and tomorrow they would treat it solemnly, even if people were crushed by people, there was no reason for this small city to resist.

In order to recuperate, Mahdi ordered the whole army to set up camp, rest on the spot, and attack the city with all its might after sunrise tomorrow.

He even set the goal of breaking the city before noon.

In fact, in his opinion, the midday breakdown was already slow.

According to the example of the Great Food Army, a small city with this level of defense can be completely flattened in the blink of an eye.

"It seems that the Tang people are really a little afraid of death, so let's do what they want!"

Talking to himself, he yawned lazily, and the march was the most tiring, so he lay down in his clothes, and after a moment he began to snore.

While Mahdi was resting relaxed, almost everyone in the city of Sylvan couldn't sleep all night.

In the face of the overwhelming food army, everyone knew that if there was no reinforcement from the main force of the Shenwu Army, Yeerfan City would undoubtedly be destroyed.

At this time, Cui Yin was still in the city, and he even made a bold statement of co-existence with Sylvan City when he was doing the whole mobilization.

Because he received Qin Jin's errand and interrogated the spy in Yeerfan, he delayed it for a few days, not wanting to run into a once-in-a-century scene. It's a pity that this kind of big scene is extremely disparity between the strength of the enemy and us, and the tragic feeling stirs in his chest, burning the blood in his veins.

After returning to the public hall of the council, Ge Hongye sternly refuted his argument of co-existence with Sylvan City.

This made Cui Yin really unacceptable.

In the education he received, motivating the morale of the army is nothing more than the soldiers working together to fight to the end, just like the overlord of Western Chu can give full play to the potential combat effectiveness.

After listening to Cui Yin's explanation, Ge Hongye smiled, and his smile was a little out of breath.

"We don't have a thousand soldiers in the city, so please go to the city wall and count how many people there are? There is no edge in sight, let alone 100,000 people, how can such a battle be fought? What is the difference between taking the initiative to go up and send him to death?"

"For the general, isn't it the duty to drive away the dead and use your life?"

"The prime minister has long said that there is nothing more precious than people in an army, and unless there is a compelling reason, the priority must be to save the lives of the soldiers, rather than needlessly going up to die!

Hearing Ge Hongye say this, Cui Yin seemed to realize something, and subconsciously asked:

"Could it be that General Ge wants to withdraw?"

Cui Yin changed the word "escape" to "withdraw", which can be regarded as saving some face for Ge Hongye.

However, Ge Hongye did not appreciate it and said bluntly:

"Why don't the envoys bluntly say that Ge is going to flee! Now everyone is ready to go, whether to go or not, please let the envoy take care of himself!"

His words were very hard, in fact, the opportunity to escape tonight was all the opportunity given by the great cannibals, and if they had made a little effort to camp around the city of Sylvan, they would not have been able to escape tonight.

In that case, they would be left with only one way to fight to the death.

When it comes to waiting for help, Ge Hongye is most worried about the prime minister and the main force of the Shenwu Army, the big cannibal can come suddenly, could it be that there is something wrong with the battlefield in Gorgan?

It's just that when life and death are at stake, there is not much time to think about these things, and the top priority is to escape safely with hundreds of warriors while the Great Cannibal has not completely crushed Sylvan completely.

Cui Yin didn't choose the stupidest path in the end, and just when Ge Hongye was about to stop and plan to take advantage of the night, he came over.

Seeing Cui Yin, who had changed into a plopping soldier's armor, Ge Hongye smiled, and wanted to say a few words of sarcasm, but the words still stopped when they came to his lips, and now it is not a moment to be funny.

"The envoy made it clear that when I left the city, my department would be divided into three ways to evacuate in the northeast, south, and south, you and I should not be on one road, even if one of them is destroyed, it is possible for the other two roads to evacuate safely!"

The general meaning is that everyone should not die together in a group.

The rangers of the big cannibals are very powerful, even if it is dark, once they find a situation, they can attack in a short time, and these warriors, who are mainly foot soldiers, have little power to fight back.

Now bet on the fact that the cavalry available for mobilization at the time of the Great Eclipse is not enough to pursue from three directions.

"It's better to set another fire and burn the city, leaving not a single brick or tile for the big cannibals!"

Cui Yin's suggestion was again opposed by Ge Hongye.

"No, once the fire starts, it will be equivalent to telling the big cannibal that we have an abnormality, won't it be exposed when the time comes?"

Knowing that Ge Hongye's words made sense, Cui Yin no longer insisted, but cleaned up his clothes and armor, and prepared to go out of the city at any time.

Ge Hongye ordered someone to bring a horse to Cui Yin and handed the reins to him.

"When you get out of the city, there are many crises, run as fast as you can, and if you find the prime minister in the future, you can avenge today!"

These words seemed to stimulate Cui Yin, although he knew that the main task tonight was to escape, but Ge Hongye said that he was like a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death.

The natural arrogance of the clan caused it to unrein the horse.

"Although I can't live and die with Yerfan City, I can still live and die with the soldiers!"

Ge Hongye sighed, this guy doesn't seem to be a fool who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and his impression of the children of the family has changed somewhat.

"Since you don't want a horse, you can always swing the Mo sword, right? The short sword on the messenger's waist can't kill the enemy!"

As he spoke, an attendant had already handed over a heavy Mo knife!