Of course, this condition is that Li Wenyuan asks for a sky-high price, and the Western Turks naturally want to repay the money on the ground. The Western Turks knew that the current situation was stronger than others, and who would let their army be no match for Li Wenyuan's Western Regions Army? Therefore, the defeat of this war is inevitable, and the only thing that can be done now is to reduce the losses caused by the defeat of this war to the country as much as possible. Therefore, after obtaining the permission of the Khan, the negotiators of the Western Turks reluctantly agreed to admit defeat and cede land to Li Wenyuan, but it is naturally impossible to cede as much land as Li Wenyuan proposed. In the negotiation conditions proposed by the Western Turks, while acknowledging the victory of Li Wenyuan's army, they ceded Gaochang, Yanqi, Zhujubo, Khotan and Pantuo to Li Wenyuan, and at the same time provided Li Wenyuan with a certain amount of cattle and sheep every year as war compensation, and made a promise not to deploy heavy troops on the border with Li Wenyuan in the next ten years.

This proposal obviously could not meet Li Wenyuan's needs, after all, Li Wenyuan had almost exhausted all the troops he could mobilize to come and fight a major war with the Western Turks, and the consumption of manpower, material resources, and financial resources was naturally not offset by the benefits that these vassal states of the Western Regions could bring to him. As a result, in the face of such a large number of conditions for talks, the two sides failed to reach a consensus after several successive talks, so this first contact was dissolved.

In the following month, the two sides successively made several tentative negotiations, but the Western Turks themselves did not come with the sincerity of peace talks, so they always held the core interests that Li Wenyuan wanted and refused to let go, but they continued to delay for a while, and finally the Sassanid army arrived on the battlefield at the front.

The Sassanid army did not immediately enter the battle after arriving at the front line, but stationed in the Talas region west of the Green Ridge, partly because they were desperate to rest after days of marching, and partly because the composition of this army was still very complex, and it was a miracle that they could be hastily assembled and guaranteed to reach the front line at this time. Therefore, the commander of this army needs some time to gradually sort out the various clues of this army in his hands and sort out various problems so that this army can give full play to its own combat effectiveness.

The composition of this army is very complex because it was made up of Romans who had fled east from the Byzantine Empire, Roman warriors who had been captured on the battlefield, and soldiers of the Sassanid Empire itself. At this time, the Western Front of the Sassanid Empire was facing off against the Byzantine Empire in Armenia, where many Romans had settled. Most of these Romans fled eastward from central and western Europe by various means when the Western Roman Empire was facing the fall of barbarian invasions, and they were settled in Armenia by the kings of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium. Later, when the Sassanid army conquered part of Armenia, in order to ensure the stability of the occupied areas, these Romans were relocated to the hinterland of their own land, and at the same time, in order to reduce the war-weariness caused by casualties in their own country, the Sassanid king recruited the young and strong Romans and organized them into an army. However, this army, which was the same Roman as the Byzantine Empire, apparently could not secure the Sassanid kings to fight the Byzantine Empire on the Western Front, so the army was stationed on the eastern border of Armenia, thousands of miles away.

The arrival of this army showed the Sassanids the invincible phalanx of the Romans, as well as a variety of more advanced formations and tactics. Therefore, in several conflicts with the countries in the Indian region, these very brave Roman legions gradually won the trust of the Sassanid kings, so this time as a task to fight in other countries fell to the head of this Roman legion, but although these Roman legions fought bravely, but after all, they were inferior in numbers in order to make up for this shortcoming. The Sassanid king recruited a group of soldiers from within the country and marched together with this Roman legion to fight Li Wenyuan's army in the Western Regions in Turkic territory.

It has to be said that the army was a melting pot at any time, and within a few years, the Roman legion was completely loyal to the Sassanid Empire, so at this time it was not very resistant to the Sassanid nationals in the legion, but their lack of resistance did not mean that the Sassanid nationals did not contradict them. The Byzantine Empire and the Sassanid Empire have been fighting wars for hundreds of years in order to compete for dominance in Central Asia and the Middle East, and they are still going on at this time, so almost every Sassanid citizen has relatives who joined the army to fight against the army of the Byzantine Empire and died as a result, so the Sassanid people are still relatively resistant to the Romans, but at this time, due to the suppression of the generals, it is fortunate not to have a physical conflict with the Romans in the army. Where else can they fight with the Romans?

The generals who led the team in these things naturally knew about it, but they couldn't come up with any effective solutions to solve this matter. He may not know what military spirit is, but he knows that it is obviously unwise to kill each other in front of the enemy. In order to avoid such a situation, he simply divided his army into two armies, one was the Roman legion, which had previously been invincible in India, and the other was the Sassanid legion, which consisted entirely of Sassanids. The two legions fought independently, and generally did not come into contact with each other except in special circumstances, so that the arrangement could effectively suppress the battle between the two sides and allow them to unite with each other.

The news of the arrival of the Sassanid reinforcements naturally could not be concealed from Li Wenyuan, and after the night owl passed back the food consumption of the Turks on all fronts, it was possible to roughly calculate the location of the Sassanid army that came to support. Naturally, this position was marked on the sand table in front of Li Wenyuan by staff officers stationed in Dunhuang County, and Li Wenyuan looked at the mark with some tears and laughter. The wheels of history are rolling forward, and it seems that any regret is always going to be made up. As soon as he decided in his heart to replace Li Yuan and establish a new Li Tang Dynasty, history threw his hands on Talas, and arranged a battle of Talas with the Persians.

(End of chapter)