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Surman stood in front of the city of Talas, looking at the Abbasids and others in the city, his face was cloudy.

Abbasid said, "General, you are well, and help me to launch a counterattack against Parthia!" ”

Sulman sighed lightly and saluted the Abbasids before he said slowly: "Honorable Caliph, please lead the people to surrender to General Tumergel,

He would beg the king of Suridai to let us go back to Baghdad. ”

When Abbasid heard this, his pupils suddenly shrank: "Sulman, what nonsense are you talking about?!" ”

Surman avoided the aggressive gaze of the Abbasids and continued: "Tumergel has decreed that His Excellency the Caliph will return to Baghdad safely as long as we are willing to accede to the Parthian terms. ”

Abbasid finally understood that Sulman had turned his back on him, and that this was his most trusted general.

Holding back the grief in his heart, he slapped one hand on the buttress wall and said, "Uncle Sulman, you are like my father in my heart,

I remember when I was a child, in order to escape the pursuit of the Umayyad soldiers, you carried me on your back and hid in the dry desert for three days and three nights.

Relying on the rain collected to pull me back from the brink of life and death, and even more so, to support me to overthrow the tyranny of the Umayyad dynasty and free the country from the quagmire of decay.

I've always trusted you and treated you as my family, but why did you surrender to those barbarians?

Are you still my great general? ”

Sulman sighed lightly, closed his eyes and pondered for a long time, and suddenly said: "Your Highness the Caliph, allow me to call you that again,

I know that your betrayal has made you extremely irritable, but ask yourself, how did you treat us meritorious men after the establishment of the Abbasid Empire?! ”

Abbas: "I've made you a great general, isn't that enough?" ”

Sulman shook his head and said, "No, Your Highness the Caliph, you are wrong, I don't care about my own position, but you have broken your original promise,

Our war against the Umayyad is to help the thousands of suffering soldiers and civilians of the Great Eater to get out of their predicament, in order to build a more perfect country.

But what have you done? You have overthrown the walls of Damascus, and you have plundered them, turning the city that should have been the capital of the country into ruins.

Don't you know the dangers of the Sassanid control of the government? As a result, the moment you established the dynasty, you immediately reactivated this batch of moths.

You should have promised to abolish the slave trade, but you continued to let it exist, and the people did not change their current poor lives.

You have not done what you promised, you have deceived us, you have deceived the whole people of the Great Eater! ”

The Abbasid was silent and did not come back to his senses for a long time.

On the side, Geng Gong listened to Ying Bailuo and Asaph's translation, and generally had a little understanding of the current situation.

After a long time, Abbasid said in a trembling voice: "Because of this, you chose to betray?" You deliberately led the Parthians into our army, right? ”

Sullman didn't reply, which was a disguised acquiescence.

Without Sulman's betrayal, the Parthians would never have been able to penetrate the Great Food camp.

The Abbasid was grief-stricken: "That's why you're going to choose to work with these beasts?" To mutilate your own people? ”

Sulman shook his head: "What is needed for change is sacrifice, a small amount of sacrifice in exchange for a long period of peace, everything is worth it,

General Tummegg has promised me that in the future he will make me the Governor of the Great Food, and you are still Your Excellency Caliph, the son of the Muslim Lord.

And all they asked for was five million silver dinars a year and three hundred maidens. ”

Abbasid sneered: "When in history did the Parthians keep their promise? Do you really believe that the beasts will build the Great Food into the kingdom you envisioned?

You're only pushing the Great Eclipse into the abyss from which it will never recover! I confess that I am not a worthy king, but our nation has only just been established,

It takes enough time to slowly change and improve, and you can't do it in one breath, do you understand?

The reason why I did not abolish the old Umayyad rule is because I know that the empire has just experienced turmoil and needs to slowly recover before it can fulfill its promises.

The vows I made to Muhammad have always been in my heart and have never changed! ”

Surman: "But I'm old, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for this day, so Your Excellency Caliph, I'm really sorry, for the sake of eating the fate of the next thousand years,

I have to do it, I don't care what the history books say about me, I don't care if it's right or wrong, I just care about one thing, and that's to make it better than before. ”

"But no matter what, you can't cooperate with the Parthians!" Abbasid slammed against the wall and cried out, "As soon as the Parthians enter my cities,

You should understand what will happen, shops will be looted, men will be mercilessly killed, women will be raped in the streets,

Have you forgotten what happened to Sasansan, Sajuk and other countries back then? Why are you so stupid! There are many things that you and I can discuss! ”

"If you could listen to half of it, I wouldn't choose this path!" Sulman also roared and replied, "My Caliph, since you defeated the Umayyad Dynasty, your whole being has become unreasonable, have you not found that you have lost any advice?"

As for the issue of the Eastern Crusade, in fact, I have always been against it, because now we have no name, but in the name of the Muzhu, do you think the Oriental people will listen to this set? ”

Abbasid: "Is it wrong to expand the territory and fight for more living space for my people?"

The Western Regions has the arable land and pastures we have always dreamed of, and with that land, we can completely rely on commerce and trade. ”

"Then first change the living conditions of the people in the country, instead of directly pulling hundreds of thousands of people to the battlefield where they don't know the details of their lives in vain!

Now you should also see it, Talas is only a Han army of more than a thousand people, let me tens of thousands of soldiers and horses sink into the sand, if you enter the territory of the Western Regions,

When we meet the rumored Bai Qi nicknamed Ren Tu, do we really have a chance of winning? ”

Abbas's face darkened: "So, you betrayed me like this, betrayed the Great Food?" ”

Sulman said: "This is not a betrayal, but cooperation, the Parthians ask for nothing more than money and women, as long as they are satisfied, they will naturally retreat,

And if you continue to use military force like this, you will only put Da Shi in danger of destroying the country! ”

Abbasid took a deep breath: "Sulman, remember to me that if you were to let a Parthian into the realm of the Great Eclipse and plague a common people, I would definitely make you pay a heavy price, unless you could make it impossible for me to leave this ruined city!" ”

Sulman chuckled: "Your Excellency Caliph, I don't think you have figured out the situation yet, and all the 40,000 remnants of the army I have contained are willing to pledge allegiance to me.

If you don't surrender, counting me and the Parthian army, what odds do you think you have of getting out alive? ”

Abbasid: "The heirs of the Muslim Lord only die in battle, and never wag their tails and beg for mercy with the enemy, go back to Sulman, let us face off on the battlefield!" ”

Seeing that the Abbasids could not be persuaded, Surman bowed deeply and said, "Respected caliph, rest assured, I will do everything in my power to let you know the value of my existence!" ”

After speaking, he turned around and left with the team.