Defeated, everything failed so suddenly. The Mahdi hero was short of breath, thinking that he was about to become an outcast of the empire, and that he would no longer have anything to do with the position of caliph, and his heart was like ten thousand steel knives twisted at the same time.

"Your Highness, Tang reinforcements are arriving one after another, please hurry up and make a decision, if it is a little later, the army will be forced to fight a decisive battle!"

The word decisive battle made Mahdi's eyelids flutter, and once upon a time, this was what he wanted to impose on the Tang. But now it has been fulfilled in such a vague way. How can this be accepted? What an irony!

However, the reality is cruel and will not leave him a chance to think and hesitate, and Mahdi must make a decision immediately.

At this moment, Mahdi suddenly realized that his arms were being strangled by force.

As the prince of the Great Food, Mahdi was furious when he was offended by such an unannounced offense, but after seeing the person who had offended him clearly, the anger was extinguished in an instant.

The subordinates looked at themselves eagerly, did they have a second way to choose?

So he half-pushed and half-obeyed the advice and hostage of his subordinates.

Nearly 20,000 people broke through to the north, where the vast grasslands and Gobi were beyond the reach of the Great Food Empire, and fleeing there might be the best choice.

Taking advantage of the gap when the Tang Dynasty reinforcements had not fully arrived, this Great Food Army divided into several routes and attacked the north with an extremely decisive posture, and anyone who stood in the way would fight to the death.

Jiang Fengxiang was keenly aware of the changes on the battlefield, and began to order the shrinkage of troops, until after receiving the military order from Qin Jin, he only made a surveillance drive for those Great Food Troops who were advancing to the north, and would not struggle to stop them.

As for the remnants of the Great Food Eater who were abandoned on the battlefield, they did not have such good luck, and the Shenwu Army dealt a plough-like blow to these people, choosing either to die or to surrender.

The soldiers of the Shenwu Army have long been dragged by the battle, and with the heavy casualties today, even if some big cannibals choose to surrender, they will be killed mercilessly.

As the core of the Shenwu Army, Qin Jin finally made effective contact with the various ministries, and the banner of the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty not only stood strong, but also inspired and guided the people and horses of the various departments to fight hard battles with the Great Cannibals, and finally won the battle.

Zheng Xianli was a little regretful, because this battle did not wipe out the Great Food Army, but let go of half of its elite main force.

However, he only has a slight regret, and those who participated in the fierce battle this time know that with the current strength of the Shenwu Army, it is extremely difficult to annihilate Da * Rui in a battle without the blessing of firearms.

These Great Food Armies are all battle-hardened founding soldiers, and their military might and momentum are extremely difficult to defeat.

Today's victory, of course, has the factor that the Shenwu army is not afraid of death, but more is formed by the combined force of various factors.

But no matter what, from today onwards, the beard of the Great Food Empire has been completely plucked out by the Shenwu Army. From this day forward, the tribes that have been conquered by the Great Cannibals with an iron fist will be ready to move.

Although the Battle of Sylvan was not enough to shake the foundation of the Great Food Empire, the significance of this battle was that the Black Food was no longer without opponents in the homeland of the Persian Empire.

As the Tang Dynasty's power extended westward, they faced unpredictable challenges.

These challenges come from both internal and external sources.

"Now is not the time to think about this, there are many things waiting for us to clean up the battlefield and consolidate the results!"

Qin Jin knew Zheng Xianli's thoughts, more than ten years had passed since the last fiasco in today's war, and he had waited too long, Gao Xianzhi, Feng Changqing and others had been abandoned by the wheel of history, so for Zheng Xianli, his heart was complicated.

Zheng Xianli's regrets and expectations are still quite far from reality, the big cannibal will not collapse after this defeat, and the Shenwu Army will even usher in a more violent counterattack in a short period of time.

After all, Da Shi has the advantage of the land, and the Shenwu Army is thousands of miles away from the Tang Dynasty itself, if you want to completely defeat Da Shi in this land, the first problem to be solved is this.

How to minimize the disadvantage of being far away from home.

The Qin and Jin chose to take the first step in conquering the Henghe River valley in the northern part of the subcontinent, which was a land-rich grain-producing area.

As long as the food supply that has the biggest problem is solved, many problems will be solved.

There were three main sources of replenishment of troops, one was the transfer from the mainland, and the other was the recruitment of the Sogdians, Tielers, Turks, and Tocharians in the Tocharian and Hezhong regions, who were deeply influenced by Han culture.

The third aid is to gather all the departments of the steppe in the river as a vassal army.

For the choice of soldiers, Qin Jin has always refused to come, and even the big cannibals will accept it.

It is precisely because of the reasons in western Zhejiang that in the first battle of Xierfan, more than 10,000 reinforcements were actually black-clothed soldiers.

In Zheng Xianli's view, although Qin Jin's method of not refusing to come is very effective, it is also a kind of risk, when fighting a good battle, everyone will do their best, and once they encounter huge resistance, help may become the biggest threat.

At that time, Zheng Xianli had always been haunted by the Qarluq Ministry, and it was from that time that he no longer trusted any soldiers and horses of different races, let alone handed over his flanks and rear roads to these dissidents.

Therefore, Qin Jin would not hand over the affairs of dealing with the contradictions of various ministries to Zheng Xianli, nor would he let him lead his troops to pursue the Great Food Defeat of Sylvan in the first battle.

Although the main force of the Great Food Soldiers was defeated, their main force still existed, and if they were forced to hurry, they might let the other side bite back, which was not perfect for the victory of this battle.

In the final analysis, Qin Jin was very conservative and cautious in his attitude towards the first battle of Sylvan, and he would not easily fight a decisive battle, and once he fought a decisive battle and won a victory, he would not use troops uncontrollably.

What he needs most now is to stabilize the results.

The significance of the First Battle of Sylvan was that the Black-Coated Food completely lost control of Khorasan, and the two river valleys, where the imperial capital was located, were unshielded, and they would face a military threat from the east.

And what Qin Jin has to do is to unveil the mystery of this military threat as late as possible.

Mahdi's fiasco will surely make Caliph al-Mansur furious, and the next revenge can be imagined. Therefore, the Shenwu Army will have to avoid a life-and-death decisive battle with the Great Food Army for a long time in the future.

Qin Jin is a person who likes to gamble, but at the same time he is a very cautious person, the Shenwu Army has achieved the results of the battle in the Western Regions with great difficulty, how can he use it to make a desperate bet!