Li An is far away in Canal Town, but he knows the situation in Maia City well, and the subordinates sent to support Artik will pass on the latest situation every day, so that Li An can easily grasp the combat situation of the two sides, and then give his own reasonable plan, so that the situation will develop in the direction of the Tang Empire.

Li An did not intend to interfere in the large-scale battle between the two sides, but when they were almost done, Datang would come out to take charge, anyway, they should have fought enough, and the soldiers on both sides would definitely have great war weariness and would support the relevant proposal for an armistice.

It was Li An's idea to let the surrounding cities reinforce Maia City, he was worried that Artik would really not be able to hold the city, so his plan would not be easy to implement, and the reinforcements of the three-way soldiers and horses could more or less interfere with and consume the Ziad army, thus greatly reducing the pressure on the soldiers and horses defending the city.

However, the situation was even smoother than Li An thought, in order to annihilate one of the reinforcements with an absolute superiority of troops, Qi Yad withdrew all the main troops and horses in the direction of the north gate, which allowed the other reinforcements to enter the city without hindrance, thus greatly enhancing the defensive strength of the city and making it more difficult for Qi Yad to break the city.

As for the loss of reinforcements along the way, it was also to share the pressure of Maia City, which was a well-deserved death, and it was inevitable to lose some soldiers and horses during the war years, and it was not a big deal.

After the army of Ziyad annihilated all the 10,000 enemy reinforcements in one go, the army looked extremely tired, and wanted to annihilate another reinforcement again, afraid that it would take a day to correct and prepare, and after hearing that the 10,000 troops in the east had entered the city, Ziyad was even more annoyed and lamented his mistake.

"The army rests for a day, all the equipment is assembled in the direction of the south gate, and tomorrow morning the reinforcements in the direction of the south gate are broken, as long as we eat the 20,000 reinforcements of Artik, our merit will be justified, even the caliph will not know the sin that we cannot break the city."

Ziyad spoke.

"Yes, General."

The subordinates hurriedly answered.

Subsequently, the army of Qiyad began to rest, and all the besieging soldiers and horses at the gates of the city stopped attacking the city and even retreated a little distance, disengaging from the soldiers and horses defending the city.

Although the besieging soldiers and horses retreated, the Altic army defending the city still did not dare to relax in the slightest, they seized the time to strengthen the city defense, piled up all kinds of garrison materials on the city wall, and were ready to deal with the siege of Ziyad's army again at any time.

However, just when the two sides began to rest, another army of soldiers and horses was quietly approaching, this army is the elite Tang army, the number is not much, at most more than 1,000 people, but the combat effectiveness is more than 100,000, with the absolute strength to crush the Qi Yade army, just the strong fifty ironclad artillery trucks are enough for Qi Yade, these ironclad artillery trucks are also the main striking force of the Tang army, and it is matched by hundreds of transport vehicles and repair vehicles, responsible for transporting various resources and repair tools, of course, there are a small number of cavalry troops.

This Tang army is led by Li An personally, for so many years, Li An has not led the army well, only occasionally has the opportunity to show his hand, and this time is an opportunity.

Because there is a huge generation gap between the two armies, Li An does not have to worry about his safety at all, as long as he sits in the ironclad car, no one can hurt Li An.

And Li An came all the way to see the excitement, but specially came to mediate the war between Artik and Ziyad to obtain greater benefits for Datang.

Li Feiyu and many generals are responsible for accompaniment, as for a few maids in Canal City, it is really inconvenient to take a few maids with such a big distance, besides, it will soon be in Maia City, and it is not easy to find a beautiful chick.

"Big brother, after crossing the high ground ahead, you should arrive at Maia City."

Li Feiyu said.

Li An nodded and said: "Yes, before I arrived at the battlefield, I smelled the smell of gunsmoke, and the murderous aura ahead was very heavy!" ”

"Murderous, the smell of gunsmoke? How come, I think the surrounding environment is very good, the scenery is so beautiful! Ha ha! ”

Li Feiyu looked at the scenery outside through the window of the ironclad car, and laughed and teased.

Li An also laughed and said: "It's not bad to have such a mentality, for us, even if it is the environment of the battlefield, it is no different from looking at the scenery, as long as our ironclad artillery vehicles are lined up in a horizontal column, they can sweep away the elite cavalry of the enemy army, so that they have no power to resist, hahaha!" ”

"Big brother, let's mediate this time, do you think Artik and Ziyad will listen to us?"

Li Feiyu asked.

Li An said confidently: "Needless to say, first of all, our strength is here, they all have to weigh their own strength, whether they can beat us, and secondly, they have their own difficulties, except to accept our mediation, there is no better way, they have no way out." ”

"What the eldest brother said is that our Datang is their only savior, whether it is Artik or Ziyad, they must rely on our mediation, Artik's difficulty is that his strength is weak, there are so many empty troops, but his combat effectiveness is not strong, Qiyad is even worse, he has an elite army of soldiers and horses, but he is just a general of the Mansour Group, many times he can't be the master at all, and he has to guard against villains everywhere to make small reports, which is also miserable."

Li Feiyu said.

Li An nodded and said in appreciation: "Feiyu, you have made great progress over the years, you can analyze the problem so thoroughly, that's right, they have their own difficulties, this is the opportunity we can take advantage of, we don't have to care about their difficulties, we just need to use their difficulties to win the greatest benefits for us." ”

"Yes, big brother, I know what to do."

Li Feiyu said with a smile.

"General, the camp ahead is full of corpses, do you need to go around?"

The soldiers who drove the car, after crossing a high slope, saw a messy battlefield.

Li An glanced through the window and said, "You don't need to bypass it, just plug it in from the inside, and by the way, see how tragic the battle is." ”

Soon, the brigade arrived at the battlefield, this is the reinforcement village of Al Tik's Al Al Al Hop City, because it was broken by Ziyad, so almost all the soldiers were killed, and the seriously wounded were also thrown on the battlefield, leaving them to fend for themselves, as for the casualties of Ziyad's army, they have all been taken away.

"Stop and go down and have a look."

Li An opened his mouth and ordered.

Because he participated in the war many times in his early years, Ang Lee has nothing to adapt to the bloody battlefield, even if the battlefield is full of broken arms and stumps, Ang Lee can watch it and will not feel uncomfortable.

"Big brother, the battle here is really tragic, so many corpses are not collected, and wild dogs and birds are allowed to peck at them."

Li Feiyu got out of the car, looked at the tragic battlefield, and spoke.

Li An nodded and said: "It's really too cruel, it seems that Qiyad and Artik are fighting to the death, and they actually fought like this, when I received the news from my subordinates, I still had some doubts, I really came over to take a look, it was really intense." ”

"Big brother, do you want to send someone to bury all the corpses here."

Li Feiyu asked.

Li An shook his head lightly and said, "No need, there are so many corpses, you want to exhaust the soldiers to death!" Our task is to mediate, not to collect the corpses, so let Artik send a team to collect the corpses. ”

"Do you want to go to Artik now?"

Li Feiyu asked.

Li An nodded and said, "Of course, let's go to the high place in the front two miles and set up camp to prepare for mediation between the two sides." ”

The sudden appearance of the elite modern corps of the Tang Dynasty shocked both sides of the war, among them, Artik was more joyful, while Ziyad was more afraid and afraid.

After all, since the war, the Tang Dynasty has always favored Artik, and has provided Altic with a large number of weapons and military supplies, and even sent a small artillery unit to support Altic, but there is no support for Ziyad at all.

In the direction of Maia City, when Artik heard the news that the elite ironclad troops of the Tang Dynasty had arrived, he ran excitedly to the city wall of the urn city, he wanted to personally take a look at the elite troops of the Tang Dynasty in the distance, when he was in Aden City, he had already witnessed the elite ironclad power of the Tang Dynasty, but he was far from seeing enough, and he would not feel tired of seeing it ten thousand times.

"Datang Ironclad Legion, that's right, it's Datang Ironclad Legion, haha! It seems that the Datang reinforcements are here to support us, and Qi Yade is going to be completely finished. ”

Artik jumped up excitedly, if it weren't for his age and inconvenient legs, he could jump out of the city at once, which shows the degree of excitement.

"City Lord, with the support of the Datang Ironclad Legion, what can Qi Yade do even if he has a million male divisions, their cavalry is far from being the opponent of the Datang Ironclad Legion."

"That's right, the Datang Ironclad Legion is invulnerable, it can't be defeated by any force, with the support of the Datang Ironclad Legion, Qi Yade only has the share of the entire army."

"It's okay now, we have the support of 10,000 reinforcements inside, and the response of the Datang Ironclad Legion outside, it's impossible not to win the battle! Hahaha! ”

"City Lord, let's go out of the city and join forces with the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses, and attack the Qiyad army together!"

The subordinates were all excited, as if the Tang soldiers and horses were their subordinates, and they were not reserved at all.

"City Lord, the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses suddenly appeared, and they didn't say that they wanted to help us, are we a little happy too early."

One of his subordinates poured a basin of cold water on his mouth.

"The Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses are not here to help us, will they come to help Qi Yade, this is unlikely! With our relationship with Datang, Datang has no reason not to help us. ”

One of the subordinates said.

"If Qi Yade gives Datang more benefits, will they also cooperate with Qi Yade? Everything is possible, but this is unlikely, and Datang still has a better chance of helping us. ”

The subordinates discussed.

"City Lord, look, Datang has sent someone to the north gate, let's open the city gate."

One of the subordinates said loudly.

Artik hurriedly ordered: "Quick, open the city gate and let the Tang soldiers enter the city." ”

The gate of the urn city was quickly opened, anyway, there are no enemies in the direction of the north gate now, and it doesn't matter if the city gate is opened, the main city gate was also opened later, so that the Tang soldiers can enter the city smoothly.

There are only a few cavalry soldiers from the Tang Dynasty who came over, they are here to deliver the message, and they don't need many people to come together, as for the main force of the Tang Dynasty, it is good to stay outside the city, so as not to stimulate Qi Yade too much and make him feel that the Tang Dynasty is biased towards Artik.

Soon, Artik saw the young general sent by Li An, and hurriedly greeted him warmly.

"You're the lord of the city! Li Shilang asked me to come over and inform you that there are 10,000 troops killed on the west side of the city, it is your soldiers, and now there is no one to collect the corpses, you send hundreds of people out of the city to collect the corpses, and bury all the dead soldiers! ”

The Datang junior said straightforwardly, and was about to leave after speaking.

"That's all, that's all."

Artik's eyes widened in surprise, and he couldn't believe his ears.

"That's right! That's all, what's the problem? ”

The Datang junior said calmly.

Artik hurriedly said: "No problem, no problem, you immediately send a few hundred people to bury the body outside the city, go quickly." ”

As he spoke, he asked one of his subordinates to lead some of his men and horses outside the city to dispose of the corpses.

After the Datang junior general and several subordinates left, Artik and many subordinates were all dumbfounded, they thought that these Datang junior generals were here to contact the army to form an alliance, but they didn't expect that the other party just let themselves collect the corpses, which caused a big gap in their hearts, which made them not understand what Li An meant.

"City Lord, what does this mean, let's go outside the city to collect the corpses?"

"City Lord, is there something we have done badly that makes Datang dissatisfied."

"City Lord, it will definitely not work if it goes on like this, we have to take the initiative to send people to contact the Datang side and ask them what they mean, we can't just do it and wait!"

"Yes, we have to talk to Datang to see what they mean."

Several subordinates said.

Artik is also very worried, but since Datang still has a small army in the city, it is enough to show that Datang will not use force against him, which is still guaranteed, but he can't figure out what Datang wants to do, whether there is anything else to ask for.

After hearing that the Tang Ironclad Legion had arrived near Maia City, he was so frightened that he hurried out to check, and after finding out that it was true, he was so frightened that he almost fainted, and urgently stopped the attack and preparation for the attack on the enemy reinforcements in the south, and prepared for defense in an all-round way, preparing to deal with new threats.

However, after discovering that the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses were camped, Qi Yade gradually relaxed, maybe the Tang Ironclad Legion was not here to fight, otherwise, with the strength of the Datang Ironclad Legion, they would have rushed over in one go, where do they still need to camp, or, they can drive directly into Maia City, there is no need to camp outside the city.