So after communicating with Zhang Juntai on the front line, and confirming that Zhang Juntai was also ready for battle, Li Wenyuan decided to officially start the Battle of Talas, the main goal of this battle is to defeat the army of the Sassanid Empire in one fell swoop, so as to completely occupy the Green Ridge and the Talas region, and also hope to make a name for himself through this battle, so that his Western Regions Army also has a certain right to speak in the entire Central Asian region.

Although Zhang Juntai had business to do every day on the front line during this time, it was all meaningless intelligence things, which were very boring, far less enjoyable than fighting a battle. But Li Wenyuan didn't give the order, and Zhang Juntai didn't dare to act rashly. After all, the prestige of the army of the Sassanid Empire on the other side in Central Asia was also heard of when he led the army to attack the Western Turks in Central Asia. Therefore, at this time, he did not dare to act rashly, thus burying the current good situation. Therefore, every day, in addition to dealing with official business, Zhang Juntai can only stuff himself in the tent and constantly deduce on the sand table, repeatedly deducing the battle situation after the battle between the two sides to make himself happy.

The generals under his command have not fought for a long time, and at this time, they are all gearing up, and they can't hold back the belligerent emotions in their hearts. So the documents that asked for war every day were sent into Zhang Juntai's account like snowflakes, and at first Zhang Juntai also read them carefully one by one, but later Zhang Juntai was also annoyed to read them, so he ordered his subordinates to separate these documents, and all those who asked for war were thrown directly into the brazier next to them and ignored them, which fell into the leisure of those days.

Just when Zhang Juntai couldn't hold back the restlessness in his heart, and at the same time, his generals also had some feelings that couldn't suppress the desire to fight, Li Wenyuan's order was finally delivered to the front line of Talas in a timely manner like spring rain. Li Wenyuan's order made Zhang Juntai very happy, and even ordered the whole army to make final pre-war preparations. But after Zhang Juntai gave this order, when he carefully looked at the second half of the order in his hand, his brows were still tightly wrinkled.

The second half of the order mentions that the woman who came to deliver the letter was named Ellie, a descendant of the orthodox Roman Empire, and belonged to the same clan as the northern army of the Sassanid Empire opposite. Let Zhang Juntai cooperate with Ellie to try to surrender the Roman army in Beiying, in order to weaken the combat effectiveness of the Sassanid Empire army as much as possible, and also reduce some unnecessary casualties of your own army.

Zhang Juntai raised his head helplessly and looked at the woman in front of him. Seeing that her eyes were different from the more conspicuous bridge of her nose and the clear and bright brown pupils in her sunken eye sockets were indeed somewhat similar to the Roman legions in the northern camp opposite. And the seal on this document is indeed Li Wenyuan's, Li Wenyuan even printed a seal on it in order to convince Zhang Juntai of the authenticity of this document.

Zhang Juntai put down the order in his hand, looked at the woman in front of him called Ellie, and said, "How many people do you need to confidently surrender the Roman army on the opposite side?" ”

After giving Zhang Juntai a lady's salute that is very common in the West, Ellie shook her head at him and said, "I am not 100% sure how many people I can bring down this Roman army, but since the governor has orders, and the master mother has agreed that I will carry out the orders of the governor, then I will try anyway." Since it is not a thing that can be successfully achieved, then I will not drag any innocent people to look up together. Tonight the general can send me out of the camp of the Romans, and leave the rest to me, and if I do not come out of the camp by daybreak, then the army that escorted me will retreat on its own, and the general may consider me a failure to persuade me to surrender, and proceed with the battle according to your own plan. ”

Seeing that a female streamer in front of him could talk about life and death so frankly in front of him, Zhang Juntai couldn't help but sigh that there are really many talents among the night owls. But since Ellie has said it so frankly, then naturally he can't be embarrassed by his own family, right? Then he said to her, "I will personally escort you there this evening, and I will go with you into the camp of the Romans." If there is an accident, I will definitely be able to bring you out alive. ”

After hearing Zhang Juntai's words, Ellie didn't do much hypocrisy, and immediately gave a gift to Zhang Juntai again and said with a smile: "It is really a great honor for me to be personally escorted by the general." Then whether this matter succeeds or fails, it is always thanks to the general in advance. Later today, I'll pay a visit to the general. ”

At this time, a military lord broke in from the outside, and after entering the tent, he didn't look at Ellie next to him, and directly knelt down on one knee and hugged his fist at Zhang Juntai and said, "General, this time I caught a few spies." However, this time they were not speaking Sassanian, and our Sasanian interpreters did not understand it, and we suspected that they were spies from the Romans from the north. It's just that there are no people in our army who can speak Roman now, so how to deal with these spies is up to the general to decide. ”

Zhang Juntai laughed after listening to the soldier's words, and then pointed to Ellie standing next to him in the soldier's puzzled gaze and said, "It's okay, there is a person here who can speak Roman." Take her and interrogate the Romans. ”

After hearing Zhang Juntai's words, the military lord got up and answered yes, and then made a gesture of invitation to Ellie and said to her: "This young lady, please go this way." I'll take you to meet the captured Romans. ”

Ellie also wanted to know more about the Romans in person, so as to increase the possibility of her success in persuasion, so she happily followed the military lord to the place where the Roman spy was imprisoned.

When he got there, he saw a naked man with only a pair of cloth pants on his lower body, tied up in a wooden cage, each of which was held by four strong men in four corners to prevent him from escaping. The man was covered with a black hood, and when he heard footsteps, he struggled to get up, but because he was tightly locked to the wooden pillar in the wooden dragon, he couldn't move, and could only keep crying and saying things that the soldiers guarding him couldn't understand.

However, although the soldiers did not understand, Ellie heard it clearly. That's the standard Roman dialect that couldn't be more standard: "Please, don't torture me!" I'm not a Sassanid, I'm a Roman! I'll tell you whatever you want to know, but I beg you not to torture me. ”

(End of chapter)