As the sun rose on a new day, Asta licked his chapped lips, the rapid march of nearly a hundred miles made him extremely tired, but seeing the city wall in front of him, it was worth it to be tired of danger.

"This is the city of Elam, the warriors of the Sogdian tribe, do you have the confidence to defeat it before the arrival of the Shenwu army?"

"Shoot Elam, shoot Elam!"

No one could have imagined that Asta would lead 5,000 Sogdian cavalry to kill the city of Elam at an unbelievable speed.

In this way, the defenders of Elamite did not even know that the enemy was present.

In fact, Muhammad sent an army with Ibn to stop the Shenwu army, and had already taken most of the elite soldiers in the city of Elam, and those who remained were basically old, weak, sick and disabled.

Asta was not a reckless fool, but he also knew that it was a disadvantage to attack the city with cavalry, so he had people raise the banner of the Great Food Army.

The emblem on the banner was different from that of the local tribal leaders, and it was also very different from Ctesiphon's Praetorian Guard. These flags were captured during the battle against Mahdi in the north of Mount Sylvan, and were originally intended to be used as show-off trophies, but they were not intended to come in handy here and today.

The people in the city of Elam had already discovered the cavalry of the Great Eclipse Banner, and they were identified as belonging to the direct army of the court of Ctesiphon.

Naturally, the defenders would not be too nervous, after all, the Praetorian Guard had just cleared a riot, and now they had sent troops directly under the imperial court, so it was reasonable to further suppress the remnants of Qajar.

The walls of the early city of Elamite were destroyed during the great war between the Umayyad and Sassanid Empires, and the current walls were built intermittently during the Umayyad period for a hundred years, but the scale is far from comparable to that of the Persian Sassanid period.

Asta's use of the banners captured by the Mahdi army could only confuse the defenders of the city at first, and once the other side sent someone to negotiate, it was bound to be exposed.

For this reason, he was not lucky, and was even prepared to sacrifice two or four horses in order to break the city in a battle, in order to make a name for himself as a Sogdian department before the battle against Ctesiphon began.

Sure enough, the city sent people to negotiate, on the one hand, to ask about the intentions of this group of people, and on the other hand, to properly settle them, and on the other hand, to cause unnecessary misunderstandings and troubles.

But Ace's dress is very different from the black-robed and black-armored cannibal, and the big eater also speaks with a strong accent, and the officials who came to negotiate immediately discovered the problem.

However, it was too late to leave, and several Sogdian cavalrymen brought him up to Asta like eagles carrying chickens.

"I am the Sogdian Asta who is the vanguard of the Shenwu Army, and the city of Elam is about to be replaced with the banner of the Tang Dynasty, if you still want to live well, don't resist stubbornly, and cooperate with me...... You should have also heard that the army of the Tang Dynasty has just defeated and captured Mahdi in Sylvan, and even the prince Qajar has surrendered to his prestige, so how can he compete with the army of the Tang Dynasty with the little Elam?"

The official was frightened, and a few days earlier Muhammad had taken most of the elite and the Praetorian Guard and marched west to stop the Tang attack.

But it has only been a few days, and the forward of the Tang Dynasty has already hit the city of Elan. Could it be that they were also defeated by the Tang Dynasty like the Mahdi?

"Muhammad and Ibn were also defeated by you?"

Asta was stunned for a moment, then gritted his back molars, and he suffered a great loss under Muhammad and Ibn and was almost wiped out. Fortunately, they were not young eagles who had just flown out, and they had rich combat experience, so they finally withdrew like Wang Renli before the Praetorian Guards closed up.

But it was the thrill of that night that made Asta look differently at the Praetorian Guards, especially Ibn, whose combat command was supposed to be superior to Mahdi's.

Therefore, Asta avoided Ibn far away from the failure of his division, and of course he would not go back to see Wang Renli in such a disgraced manner, so he chose to take further risks.

Fortunately, there were no accidents along the way, and there was no obstruction from the local army of Ilam, so they arrived at the city of Elam unimpeded.

In the Abbasid region, except for the areas close to the frontier, there were governors who held the military and political power in their hands, and there were also more combat-ready armies, and in relatively safe places such as Ilam, only tribal men served as soldiers in times of war.

And now the situation in Elamite City is that most of the men have been taken away by Muhammad, and most of the people who remain are old and weak and women, and only a small number of strong men are difficult to form much fighting power.

Asta forced all the officials to come out with little effort, and told him the basics of the city of Elam.

Upon hearing this excellent news, Asta threatened the official to lead the way, and let them take and control one of the gates of Elam, as long as they controlled the gates, they would control the gates of Elam, and nothing could stop the Sogdian warriors from entering Elam.

The officer shook his head and said again and again that he did not have that ability.

"I'm just a small official, otherwise I wouldn't have been sent out to be responsible for negotiating with Ctesiphon's direct army, this kind of work is thankless, and if I don't get it right, I will offend the magnates from Ctesiphon......"

He said as he spread his hands, tears of fear and snot on his face.

Asta disliked this guy for being too timid, so he reprimanded:

"Don't the big cannibals say that they are lions in the desert, why are you scared into the appearance of a mouse? What a shame for your ancestors!"

The official nodded repeatedly.

"I'm really cowardly, it's really useless, let the general go, let me go, I will, I will definitely listen to the general's orders!"

"Listen to my orders, and you won't even try to open a city gate, what do you say?"

"The villain really doesn't have this ability, and within the scope of his ability, he obeys the general's orders!"

With panic and helplessness on his face, the official almost knelt on the ground and wanted to take out his heart and show it to Asta, as long as he could escape from the hukou, he would not hesitate to do anything he wanted.

Asta would not let go of this opportunity, sent two hundred-man teams, and personally forced the official to go to Elamand City.

Whether it succeeds or not, let's talk about it first, in case the defenders of the city are a bunch of stupid donkeys with no brains, and then open the city gates.

As long as the city gate is opened, even if it is just a small crack, Asta is confident that he can fight it with two centurians.

As soon as the city gate is controlled in one fell swoop, and five thousand cavalry roar in, the city of Elam will immediately become a fat sheep to be slaughtered.

Asta stabbed the terrified official.

"Shouting ...... above"