When Bo Silin heard the officer's shout, he immediately reprimanded: "What happened so alarmed, why can't you be a good example to a soldier as a commander?" ”

The officer hurriedly adjusted his mentality, and stood and bowed his head and spoke: "Report to the Grand Duke of Abu, throw crossbow arrows from the opposite side, and we can't return fire." ”

"Why can't you fight back? Are your hands tied to you? ”

"The Grand Duke will see for himself the edge of the valley."

And Posilin rode his camel to the edge of the valley, and saw the long banners in the ranks of the Tang army on the opposite bank, and he put his hand on the pergola to look at it, and saw that it was written in Arabic: "Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Abdul Mutali ibn Hashem." ”

The flames of anger burned into the eyes of Icbo Sirin, and the fact that these hateful pagans of the East dared to use the name of the prophet as a shield was in itself a playful blasphemy, and even killing them all would not be enough to appease the anger of their prophetic descendants.

He immediately turned his camel and ordered the generals behind him: "Third Legion, Fifth Legion!" Cross the valley with me, and I will defeat these faithless devils with dignity and show them what Allah and the power of light are! ”

The two generals did not dare to disobey the order, and hurriedly ran to gather their subordinates to prepare to cross the river and fight.

Prince Mansur appeared behind him and said in a gentle tone: "Grand Duke Abu, I am as angry as you, but we are the commanders of the whole army, and we must think carefully about what the result of this is when making a decision, and whether this is a trick by the enemy to deliberately provoke us. ”

And Posilin suddenly realized that Mansur was right, he was carried away by anger, and was almost tempted into a trap by the cunning Tang people. He calmed down and thanked al-Mansur and said, "If it weren't for His Highness's reminder, Abu would have almost buried the entire army. ”

Al-Mansur replied, "This is a good thing for us, Archduke Abu, Li Siye's Tang army has succeeded in arousing our anger, and we can accumulate this anger and return it to the Tang army in the future." ”

"Their methods, we can also use, what are the prophets and saints in China? We also wrote their names in charcoal on the cloth. ”

"They seem to have a lot of prophets in the Tang Dynasty, Confucius, Mencius, Lao Tzu, Sun Wu, it seems that they can all be used."

However, they encountered the most substantial problem, they couldn't write Chinese characters, but the forest was too big to have any birds, and they summoned people from the entire army who could write Chinese characters, and they really found such one. He was an officer of a family of merchants in Khorasan, and I heard that this person had been a merchant in Chang'an when he was young, and he had learned some simple Chinese characters, which came in handy.

It didn't take long for the army on the side of the Great Food Army to put up banners, on which four names were written on them with crooked charcoal.

Li Siye was riding a horse and was observing on the other side, and saw the horizontal banner suddenly made on the opposite bank, and saw that Confucius, Mencius, Lao Tzu, and Sun Wu were written on it.

Duan Xiushi, who commanded the crossbow team, ran over to him and asked, "Do we want to stop throwing crossbow arrows?" ”

Li Siye smiled and asked him: "It depends on your choice, you are a scholar and you want to worship Confucius, they hung the names of the sages on the flags, should they be jealous." ”

Duan Xiushi pressed his chest and said: "Kong Sheng is in my heart, not on those flags on the opposite side, this kind of trick can only be used by us, they are useless to us, and the illumination is correct!" ”

When the soldiers informed him of this, the pillar of the Abbasid dynasty pondered for a long time before he spoke: "Order the troops to retreat, a hundred paces away from the bank of the river, and send a small force of warriors who know the water to sneak across the opposite bank to attack the enemy at night." ”

As a result, there was no riot in the camp of the Tang army on the opposite bank that night, but a small fierce battle took place in the river, and then the surviving warriors of the Great Food fled to the opposite bank wet.

In the early morning of the second day, the captain of the sneak attack team reported to Hebo Xilin that when he was smuggling across the river last night, he encountered the Tang army sneaking over, and because of the low visibility at that time, no one knew what the losses of the two sides were.

The two sides continued to confront each other in the Kashav valley until the morning of the fourth day, when the Don army, which had stopped throwing arrows for three days, suddenly shot a long-pole arrow with a Fuyuan crossbow.

The soldiers of the Great Food Army noticed that there was a roll of paper tied to the shaft of the arrow, and quickly removed it and presented it to Heposilin. He opened the small scroll, on which was written a passage in Arabic:

"Our two countries were originally friendly neighbors, but only because of a small conflict turned into a large-scale war, this is really not right, because our Tang army has recaptured nine cities including Talas, Samarkand and the Transoxiana region, and I am not responsible for your past mistakes. At the moment we are facing each other in the Kashav Valley, which is not beneficial to either side, so I suggest that both sides talk openly and honestly, hoping to resolve the war through negotiations. If General Bosilin wishes to negotiate with us, we will announce that we will retreat to the city of Mulu, and General Silin will withdraw to the city of Tus with his troops, and we will each send representatives to negotiate at the post station in the Kizilkum desert, with a view to reaching a mutually acceptable terms of reconciliation. ”

After reading the letter, Bo Silin fell into deep suspicion. Li Siye said this in the letter, as if he was stalling for time, pretending to negotiate to attract their attention, it stands to reason that what Tang Jun is looking forward to most now is to be able to make a quick decision and go home early, but now the mysterious move makes Bo Xilin deeply suspicious, but he can't be determined.

The strange Tang people left him at a loss, and he had never been at war with such new enemies, and he could not properly guess and react to his opponent's actions.

He showed Li Siye's letter to His Highness Mansour, and even Mansur couldn't understand what their enemies wanted.

"In my opinion, Li Siye must have a new action, which is why I sent such a letter in order to divert our attention to the matter of negotiations."

"I think so too, this is the only thing we can do with the Tang Army at the moment, we insist on fighting them, never let them succeed, and never let their banners cross the river. So I suggest that it is better to pretend to promise them and wait and see what else they can do. ”

Mansur also sent someone to write a letter in Chinese characters and shoot it with a bow and arrow to the opposite bank, the content of the letter was to agree to the peace talks proposed by Li Siye, but Li Siye must be asked to take the lead in withdrawing the army to Mulu City, and then they Dashi judged Li Siye's sincerity before sending negotiators to conduct peace talks at the desert station.

He and Bo Silin both felt the novelty, and it was the first time they had encountered such a thing as negotiating outside the battlefield, and in the past, they Arabs had always been tough and tough, and they had won the final victory with blood and fire, and even the enemy did not agree to surrender, and now they had to deal with any peace negotiations.