Kabul River, Tang army camp.

Pei Min held a small meeting with his civil and military advisers.

The main purpose is to discuss the current strange situation.

As Pei Min analyzed before, Pei Min put himself in his shoes and considered it from the Arab side.

The wise decision is to withdraw the troops at this moment.

To put it in detail, Arabia is not a defeat.

Of course, this depends on the definition of victory or defeat. For example, the Tang Dynasty's definition of victory or defeat was very strict.

If you send troops to conquer, you will fail if you fail to destroy the opponent.

But some people define victory and defeat very simply. When the enemy invades a large amount of time, the local guards retreat for a while. When the enemy is full and drinks and his spirits dissipate, he will defeat him. This is a great victory.

But generally speaking, it is normal to not attack when facing the enemy's defense, and it cannot be simply judged by victory or defeat.

Although Arab's Northern Expedition was even better than the Tang Dynasty, it was far from being hurt.

The confidence is still there.

This is the best time to retreat.

Moreover, Pei Min will not pursue the victory.

It’s not that you are worried about failure, but that you can win but you can’t win.

If you really fight to the death with Arabs, even if the Tang army wins, according to the current situation, it will be a tragic victory.

You get nothing but a name.

After the tragic victory, the Tang army was unable to capture Arab territory.

Instead, it will be cheaper for Byzantine, Frank, and Persians. They may take advantage of the Arab defeat, take advantage of the situation and expand their power.

Pei Min will not do the stupid thing that fisherman will benefit from fighting against snipe and clam.

Only when he could expand westward would Pei Min take the initiative to provoke Arabs.

At this time, Pei Min felt that he and the lion should have a clear mind. They retreated their troops, went back to their own houses, and looked for their own mothers.

Pei Min can also go back and see his child he hasn't met yet.

The result was that things seemed to be beyond Pei Min's expectations.

The Arabs' behavior incoming was a bit abnormal. They did not attack anymore. However, they did not retreat, but instead looked at each other with the Tang army on the other side of the Kabul River.

Pei Min wanted to try the Arab reaction, send someone to clear the river channel and clear out the gravel corpses piled up in the river.

The Arabs immediately responded and directly sent their crossbowmen to stop the Tang army from acting, as if they were willing to go north to the north.

This situation made Pei Min feel very strange. I wonder what Arabs are thinking?

Consume?

Now the Tang army is not afraid of consumption at all.

Two months later, the autumn harvest season is coming.

Pei Min's previous military camp opened thousands of hectares of fertile land in the Western Regions, and these foods completely relieved the logistical pressure of the army. Moreover, Dazhalu Gong from Qinghai Lake also gave them a big gift, which could be consumed even if it took another one or two years.

The Arab intelligence system cannot be unaware of this news.

On the contrary, because he had blown up the main Arab bridge, even though the logistics and transportation environment of the Arab army was much better than that of the Tang army, the logistics of the 100,000 troops was ultimately astronomical.

The Arab economy is one level lower than the Tang Dynasty. It is a huge burden to support it in one or two years.

What is the point of Arab persisting in this situation?

Pei Min couldn't figure it out, so he was discussing this issue by summoning his civil and military officials to discuss it.

The results of the discussion were not optimistic. Feng Changqing, Xu Yuan, Gao Shi and others all had the intention of not knowing the abnormal Arab behavior for a while.

"It's not because of the face of the care of yourselves!"

Xu Yuan proposed an illusion that was not very reliable.

Pei Min smiled and said, "It's not that there is no possibility, it's like the Battle of Hanzhong back then."

The Battle of Hanzhong is certainly far inferior to Guandu, and the Battle of Chibi is familiar to everyone.

But in fact, the excitement of the battle in Hanzhong is not inferior to the previous two.

This battle was one of the most luxurious battles during the Three Kingdoms period. Liu Bei personally led the generals Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Huang Quan, Fa Zheng, Wei Yan, Wu Yi and other generals to the north. These people were all core members of the Shu Han military force.

The Cao army was also Xiahou Yuan, Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen, Cao Hong, Zhang He, Xu Huang, Guo Huai, Du Xi, etc., and they were all core generals of Cao Wei.

In the end, with the outstanding performance of Zhang Fei, Huang Quan, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun and others, Liu Bei's army first turned defeat into victory step by step and conquered Hanzhong.

Cao Cao was the most outstanding military strategist in the Three Kingdoms period. He was defeated by Liu Bei, the old enemy. He was disgraced and hesitated between retreating and not retreating. Even Yang Xiu's famous saying "small ribs" happened.

Although Mosremasa is not as good as the talented and powerful Emperor Wu of Wei, his good face is even better than that in this regard.

It is reasonable to be stalemate and unwilling to retreat for the sake of face.

But Pei Min felt that his opponent should not be a guy who could not afford to lose.

Just like Cao Cao, even though he felt embarrassed, he chose to withdraw his troops to avoid causing greater casualties.

Hesitated for a while, it is understandable.

But if you delay for a long time, there must be a reason.

Pei Min told his subordinates not to be careless, and at the same time asked Sun Zhou to pay close attention to the movements in the Arab territory.

For several days, the Arab barracks were calm and there was no intention of attacking, but they just refused to retreat.

Pei Min received a letter from Zhang Jiuling on that day.

Pei Min couldn't wait to take it and opened the envelope with anticipation, but he couldn't help but frown slightly after reading the contents of the letter.

The content of the letter was not what he expected about the management plan for Qinghai Lake, but what Zhang said.

Pei Min still admires Zhang Shuo very much.

As a generation of literary masters, Zhang Shuo led the literary world for decades and was a top scholar.

But he was not the kind of literati who studied hard, but was full of radicalism and a representative of the hawks of civil officials.

He is one of the few people among civil officials who have expansion consciousness, and many of his ideas coincide with Pei Min.

Among them, the recruitment system proposed by Pei Min was proposed by Zhang Shuo in history.

The military strength of the prosperous Tang Dynasty also arose.

In recent years, he was in charge of the outside world, and Zhang said that he was in charge of the inside, and he was in charge of the inside, and he was in a particularly tacit understanding.

Pei Min did so comfortably, in addition to Li Longji's emphasis, Zhang Shuo's cooperation was also extremely important.

But I didn't expect that in less than a year and a half, Zhang Shuo was actually imprisoned in the Censorate?

Zhang said that he was the prime minister of the country and the important minister of the country, and made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty.

Such an important official should not be humiliated easily. What happened to be imprisoned in the Taiwan Prison of the Censorate?

What happened to this temple?

Pei Min suddenly realized something wrong. This time, because of Nanzhao's defeat, his strategy was completely destroyed.

He had no choice but to take a decisive move and take a gamble.

If you forcefully operate the Tang Dynasty machine, you should start first.

Arabia was Pei Min's most powerful enemy. He used his weak forces to resist the main army. He had to do everything he could to do and he didn't care about anything else.

He knew nothing about the situation in the temple. He had no impression of who Wang Hui was in this letter.
Chapter completed!