Tang Jun picked up the arrows shot from the other side, and hurriedly ran into the tent and handed the scroll on the arrow shaft to Li Siye, General Li opened the envelope scroll and looked at it, and said to everyone with a smile: "The other party agrees to peace talks, but asks us to retreat to Mulu City first." ”

Tian Zhen said disdainfully: "How can you believe the words of the big cannibals, they are simply delaying time, if we believe their words, then there are real ghosts." ”

Duan Xiushi raised his hand, as if he had something to say.

"Old Duan, what do you want to say?"

Duan Xiushi stood up and crossed his hands forward: "My subordinates think that the big cannibals don't believe that we have to negotiate with them at all, and will only think that we are cheating to make them relax, so they will also plan to trick us into retreating." In the current situation, there is no progress in the confrontation between the two sides, so it is better to retreat to Mulu City first and see how the other side reacts. ”

"Retreat? We finally drove more than 300 miles to get here, and now we say that we will go back, and the previous road will not be in vain? ”

Li Siye smiled and asked Tian Zhen: "If you don't retreat, do you Lao Tian have any way to break the enemy?" I was told that we could force our way downstream by a long detour, but after crossing the river, we would still have to face the strong defenses of the city of Tus, and our army might be able to take the fortified city, but it would also have to suffer extremely heavy losses. At that time, even if the city of Tus was breached, our army would not be able to maintain it, and the final result would be to retreat. ”

"Besides, the grain and grass carried by our army will not last long, rather than waiting for the food to be consumed and retreating, it is better to retreat more calmly now, if Bo Xilin dares to pursue behind, we just turn around, give him a blow, and try to wipe out the living force of the great cannibals in the field, so that when we negotiate, we can also open our mouths."

After Li Siye made a decision, he would never be reluctant to linger again, and immediately ordered the whole army to pull out the camp and retreat towards Mulu City.

Standing on the rocks on the other side of the river valley, he looked a little surprised when he watched the Tang army roll up its banner and retreat in an orderly manner. He always thought that the negotiation that Tang Jun said was just a fraud, but he didn't expect that he really retreated to Mulu City, what should he do next? Do you really want to talk to each other?

At this special moment when the country was in crisis, as the founder of the country, he did not dare to be self-conscious, so he decided to discuss it with al-Mansur first, and Mansur was also difficult to decide, so he decided to send a letter to his father and brother Safah Caliph, and after receiving his letter, Safavid Caliph quickly replied.

In his letter, the caliph asked him rhetorically whether it was possible to defeat Li Siye's Anxi army in a short time, or at least to drive him out of the Kizilkum desert. If it is not possible to drive them away quickly, then negotiations will be conducted, but the bottom line of the negotiations is that the Don army must withdraw from the Kyzylkum desert, preferably to the west of the Amu Darya River.

They knew that this area of the river might not be able to be taken back, and the ownership of the area in the river was already disputed, the Tang Dynasty became their suzerainty for a time, and then the previous dynasty Wu Mai Ya grabbed it, and the Abbasids inherited most of the territory of the Wu Mai Yad dynasty, which naturally included the occupation of the river area.

And Posilin, of course, remembered how this war, which had brought great trouble to the fledgling dynasty, had been fought. Gao Xianzhi destroyed the Shi Kingdom first and plundered the capital, causing the anger of the Hu group in the river, and the prince of Shi asked for help from Da Shi. Both Posilin and Ziyad realized that this was a good opportunity to fully occupy the river and completely drive the pro-Tang forces to the east of the Green Ridge, and then led their troops to Talas.

They thought that by taking advantage of the Sogdians' anger against Gao Xianzhi and dividing the contradictions between the Tang army and the alliance, they would be able to easily defeat the Anxi army and successfully control the entire Hanzhong region. However, I didn't think that the Tang army would change generals, and a general named Li Siye came, and they didn't understand the routines of this Li Dafu at all, so Ziad was defeated in successive battles, lost the river, and let the Anxi army invade the hinterland of Khorasan and conquered Mulu City, the gateway to Tus City.

If time can be turned back, he will definitely not let Ziad agree to Prince Shi's request, nor will he take the initiative to send the Khorasan army to provoke the Anxi army, fortunately, this strong enemy army is small in number, except for the Fanguo Association army, there are only more than 20,000 people who really belong to the Anxi army, and only more than 20,000 people can carry the coercion army into such a distance deep into his country, if there are more people on the other side, imagine how terrifying the strength should be.

Bo Xilin thought about it and decided to send a representative to participate in the desert post station meeting proposed by Li Siye, but he did not attach importance to this meeting, not only did he not participate, but the personnel sent were only two small local magistrates, without the slightest sincerity. What they did was to use this contemptuous humiliation to make Li Si angry and attack the Great Food Army in the Kashav River Valley under unfavorable terrain. In this way, the advantage of the Anxi army's strong bow and armor can be offset and the opportunity to defeat the Anxi army can be obtained.

Li Siye was very enthusiastic, he decided to send Cen Shen and Duan Xiushi as a negotiation team, the two sides met in the post station in the Kizilkum Desert, and the other party only sent two people as the host, after a short period of negotiations, Duan Xiushi and Cen Shen found that the people sent by the other party were bullshit, and seemed to be teasing them.

Cen Shen brushed his sleeves away angrily, and although Duan Xiushi had a good temper, he left angrily in the end.

When Li Siye learned of this news, he was surprisingly angry, and ordered a messenger to send a message to the city of Tus again, saying that the two sides had a very happy meeting last time, and that they had exchanged many constructive views, and hoped that the two sides would negotiate again and negotiate a result that would be satisfactory to both sides.

And when Bo Xilin saw the letter sent by Li Siye, he became more and more confused, thinking that he sent someone to entertain him like that, but he was not angry, and he had to send someone to talk, could it be that the combat effectiveness of the Anxi army was exhausted, and it could no longer conduct a battle that could be won, so he said such soft words?

After careful consideration, he decided to personally lead his army to Mulu City to defeat the Tang army and recover the country.

In this sortie, he brought Ziyad, who was suspended from duty and reflective, with him, because Ziad had rich experience in fighting the Tang Army, and even the experience of defeat was experience, and it was worth learning from.

Li Siye was very happy when he learned the current news of the enemy of Bo Silin, and Bo Silin was unwilling to negotiate, because he thought that he had the ability to recover the country, and he also wanted to take Hezhong back from his Li Siye. It is better to wake him up now, let him correctly understand himself, and then be able to sit down at the negotiating table with peace of mind.

Because Li Siye's propaganda in the river was in place, he succeeded in drawing the Sogdians and the Tang army to the same position, making them realize that this was not just a confrontation between countries, but also a struggle for faith between Zoroastrianism and the Great Food Religion. In the name of the Apologetic War, Li Siye received widespread support from the Zoroastrians, as well as from the merchants and travelers in the river. Many wealthy merchants who believed in Zoroastrianism, as well as the kings of Kang and Mi, organized logistics supply delivery teams, coming and going back and forth between the Kizilkum Desert, so that Li Siye had no worries about supplies.

For the coming Great Food Army, he decided to carry forward the combat advantages of the Anxi Army, and set up a formation under Mulu City, waiting for the Bo Xilin Moth to put out the fire.