The yellow sand buried the corpses on the battlefield, and before that the Tang army had carefully cleaned the battlefield, which was not necessary for the generals to order, because most of them made a fortune on the corpses, and there were silver dinar coins in the money bags, which could be exchanged for money when they went back to mint silver collars, and the snowflake short knives on their waists, these knives made of Damascus steel were quite valuable, and even the gold teeth inlaid in the mouths of some officers, they were sled down with short knives.

The greatest skill of human beings is to pick up the rags, over and over again, just like picking up ears of wheat in the autumn fields after harvesting, the corpses of others can still be found new, and the dead must be picked up to the bare strips to let go with peace of mind.

Li Siye acquiesced in the actions of the soldiers, and it was a loss for them not to loot the corpses and bury them in the yellow sand. He immediately looked at the dozens of trebuchets standing alone in the yellow sand, and Duan Xiushi asked beside him, "What about these big guys?" “

He immediately turned around, pointed at Mulu City with his horsewhip, and said: "Our army will rest in the city for three days, and after three days, we will take a thousand strong men in the city and let them push these catapults to the Kashav River Valley, and our army will conquer the river valley and take the city of Tus." ”

After a short rest, the Don army again marched to the Kashav River valley, attacked the opposite army with trebuchets across the river, and made several tentative crossings, but the enemy was heavily defended, and he never found a chance to attack it.

The lack of troops has become his biggest limitation, and he can take advantage of the advantage to reduce the number of enemies in the plains, but it is always difficult to overcome the terrain in which we are obviously at a disadvantage.

And Bo Silin also seems to have learned well, no matter how provocative he is, trying his best to show his flaws and temptations, the other party will shrink on the opposite side of the valley and not rise to the top.

The city of Tus was more than ten miles away from him, and the city walls were towering and black flags fluttering, like a beauty with light veils and half covering her body, waiting for him to tear off the fig leaf of the other party, but this distance became an insurmountable moat for him.

"I knew I should have brought more people over, so I didn't have to look at the city like this now."

After more than ten days of confrontation, Li Siye retreated to Mulu City with his army again, and as for the dozens of stone throwers, they were chopped into firewood and turned into ashes of bonfires.

It is now March of the eleventh year of Tianbao, and it has been a full year since he led his troops from Qiuzi, and the Anxi army has never fought for such a long time. Li Siye's desire to force the big cannibal to sign a treaty seems to be in vain, he fought for a year, how much food he spent, how many soldiers he lost, these must always be earned back in the form of compensation, otherwise what to do in this desert oasis Mulu City.

Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji's holy decree traveled thousands of miles to Mulu City, but this was already a book that had lost its timeliness, and the saint still praised him in the holy decree for obtaining the nine kingdoms in the river, subduing the Sogdian Zhonghu, and at the end of the holy decree, he proposed that he create a united Guiyi army in the river as soon as possible, and then return as soon as possible. The so-called United Guiyi Army is also similar to Xiao Bolu's Guiren Army, with the generals of the Tang Army serving as the military envoys of the United Guiyi Army, leaving thousands of people with the Tang Army as the backbone, absorbing the Hu people and soldiers of the Nine Kingdoms to form an army of 10,000 people.

The direct leader of this army was to be the envoy of Anxi, so that the actual strength of his Anxi command would eventually reach 39,000 men.

It's a pity that the emperor's message has been delayed, and he has already led the army to fight back and forth in the territory of the Great Food Country for half a year, and the holy decree can't give any guiding advice, but can only give the soldiers in the army a strong morale.

But this holy decree not only did not play a role in strengthening morale, but because of the last sentence of the will, "I hope that you will settle down in the river as soon as possible, and the class teacher will return to the country", the soldiers have the heart to return home.

The current Tusi City is like Cao Mengde's chicken ribs, the food is tasteless, and it is a pity to abandon it, and the generals of the Anxi Army can also see Li Siye's state of mind, and come to persuade Li Siye to withdraw from Mulu City and return to Kangju City as soon as possible to form a united Guiyi Army. How do they know what Li Siye really thinks, he just doesn't want to make a loss-making deal, and he doesn't want to just pat his ass and leave.

The soldiers' hearts became heavier and heavier, and Li Siye's heart was also shaken, but he still insisted on waiting, waiting for an opportunity to appear.

The emperor has paid off, and the opportunity has finally come.

……

The Great Food Army had lost nearly 200,000 troops on the Eastern Front battlefield against the Tang Army, and the entire Khorasan garrison was completely wiped out, leaving only the old and weak. The al-Safah Caliph was forced to transfer troops stationed on the border with Byzantium on the peninsula of Asia Minor and the Caliph's personal guard to resist the invasion of the Don army.

The generals of the Byzantine Empire were really late in smelling, and it was already February when they received the above information, and finally realized that this was a once-in-a-lifetime warplane. The Abbasids weakened, they were defeated by the Tang army on the Eastern Front, and the opportunity for the Byzantine Empire to come.

They reported the news to Constantine V, obtained the emperor's approval, and began to cross the Torus Mountains in preparation for the occupation of all of Asia Minor.

When the news reached Baghdad, the Safhh Caliph was shocked, how could the Abbasids on the peninsula of Asia Minor be able to withstand the Byzantine army, which was insufficient in their forces?

He immediately sent messengers to Khorasan to inform his younger brother Mansur and Bosilin that he should redeploy his army back to Asia Minor and agree to the Tang army's demands for peace, and there was no other way.

The peninsula of Asia Minor was a matter of life and death for the Arabs, and to lose Baghdad would be to look down on the enemy, and Mansur knew how powerful it was, and personally went to meet and Posilyn with his brother's letters.

"Grand Duke, I will take most of the army here, and the war in Asia Minor will break out again."

And Bosilin was taken aback, and then calmed down, and he asked Mansur: "How many people is your Highness going to leave for me?" ”

"I am going to leave you with about 15,000 defenders to maintain the defense and governance of the Khorasan region."

"Hey, only 20,000." And Bo Xilin gasped: "You must know that in Mulu City, less than three hundred miles away, there are more than 38,000 people stationed in Li Siye's Anxi Army and his subordinate troops!" If you leave me a little more, thirty-five thousand, nay, thirty thousand, and I will be able to hold the Kashav valley and the city of Tus. ”

Mansur replied categorically: "Archduke Abu, there is no need to pretend that you don't hear clearly, there are not even 20,000 people, only 15,000, we need to devote most of our forces to Asia Minor, as for Li Siye, who is eyeing in Mulu City, the caliph said that as long as he does not make excessive demands, he can agree to him." “

"What do you mean by not being overly demanding? As long as you are forced to negotiate, you will definitely lose your power and humiliate the country! If I do this, I will make all the people of Allah curse me bloody and I will be nailed to the pillar of shame forever! ”

Mansur replied without question: "Archduke Abu, if we lose Asia Minor, it will not be as simple as the pillar of shame, and the inheritance we have worked so hard to create will be in vain, and we will no longer be qualified to control the land left by Muhammad, which will be an irreparable failure!" ”

And Posilin frowned and fell into hesitation, Mansur stood opposite him and continued: "Archduke, I ask you, how far is Constantinople from Baghdad, and how far is Chang'an from Baghdad? No matter how greedy Li Siye is, he is not as dangerous to us as the Byzantines, and no matter how strong the Tang Empire is, their arms will not be as good as they are after all. I have been to Chang'an, and I have also been to the Central Plains, the land is intact and fertile, and compared with the Central Plains, Anxi and Hezhong are simply barren and barren land. We have been here for a long time, and once something happens in their Central Plains, they will be able to take care of Gu Anxi flawlessly, let alone in the river. As long as we have the opportunity, we can always regain what we lost. ”

"As for the matter of humiliation, our negotiations with the Tang Army were kept secret, and any treaties signed with them were quietly hidden from outsiders. No one will ever know about it. ”

After Mansour's unremitting persuasion, and Posilyn nodded silently, he finally agreed.

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