The Medoan hiccups soon subsided, and Mahdi devoted all his energies to the battle of Gorgan.

Every morning, when he stood on the tower and looked at the Tang Dynasty camp and the banners in the distance, his heart swelled with huge waves more than once.

He already knew that he had underestimated the Tang people, maybe in that battle, the Tang soldiers defeated by the generals of the empire were not his main force, and now they are the real strength.

Every time he thought of this, Mahdi's blood was already boiling, and he longed to defeat the Tang army's army one day earlier, and even fantasized about leading his troops deep into the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, capturing their emperor to Ctesiphon and making a stone for the caliph.

However, he suddenly thought of the Tang Dynasty described by Said. In the Tang Dynasty, the emperor was not the most powerful person, and the one who really held the power was the prime minister, that is, the person named Qin Jin.

And this person is in the military camp opposite at this moment.

As long as the Tang soldiers in front of him are defeated, the pillar of the Tang Dynasty can be broken, and from now on, there will be no more threats from the east in Khorasan.

And now, he had to deal with the cavalry that had been roaming around the flanks of the Great Eclipse.

This cavalry mixed with the Tang and the steppe barbarians, coming and going like the wind, sometimes scattering, sometimes gathering and causing a lot of pressure on the Great Food Army.

It's just that after the failure of the previous plan to lure the enemy, they have become more cunning and cautious, and there is no particularly good way for a while, just last night, Mahdi accepted the advice of his generals, and decided to attack head-on with an absolutely superior cavalry, as long as this Tang soldier dares to resist, he will definitely bite it until the last person is killed.

Zheng Xianli felt the unprecedented pressure, and the Great Eater Cavalry almost came out of the empty nest and chased and intercepted him from three directions, which made him feel unprecedented pressure.

On the one hand, we must not give up the containment of the flank of the Great Eclipse, and on the other hand, we must preserve our strength and not go head-to-head with the overwhelming superiority of the Great Eclipse Cavalry.

The Great Eclipse cavalry was also dominated by light cavalry cavalry, supplemented by a certain number of heavy cavalry for frontal assault. When the two sides faced each other, the barbarian coalition army, which could be regarded as a "rabble", had no power to fight back at all.

As for the cavalry of the Shenwu Army, although the morale and military spirit are beyond the abnormality, they will not be used to fight hard after all, but this time the Great Food Cavalry seems to be determined to chase them down, and they bite their mouths and do not let go.

This made Zheng Xianli very entangled, his mission was to use cavalry to contain the flank of the Great Food Army, but if he retreated, the prime minister's plan would be frustrated.

On the way to fight and retreat, Grolu's right leaf protector Lu Lu saw an opportunity, and after the battle of Zhongambush, his prestige has been completely swept away, and even the Glolu people are criticizing it behind their backs.

In order to restore his former prestige and status, Gu Dulu did not hesitate to take another risk, even risking his life.

That night, Gu Lulu and more than 100 followers took advantage of the night to sneak attack the camp of the Great Food Cavalry, trying to capture and kill the commander of the other party's leading troops. But after the Great Cannibal has gone through a great war, how can he let Gu Lulu succeed easily?

It only took a few moments for Gu Dulu to attack the camp, and the entire camp was already illuminated by torches.

When the governor was defeated, he had to leave behind the corpses of a dozen of his followers and fled back in a hurry.

Mahdi learned of the lame sneak attack the next morning, and couldn't help laughing contemptuously:

"The Tang people are poor in riding skills, and they actually came up with such a naïve method, are the commanders of my big food all stupider than donkeys?"

From this, he came to a conclusion that among the leading generals of the Tang people, there were not necessarily many who could surpass Qin and Jin.

At the same time, Qin Jin was no longer in the barracks, and he rushed to the nearest big city to Gorgan, Silvan, where the imperial envoys from Anxi had arrived.

The general who escorted the envoy was named Wang Renli, and it was he who personally went to Gorgan to report the situation to Qin Jin.

It was the first time he had seen the envoy who had personally arrived from Chang'an.

To Qin Jin's surprise, the envoy who rushed to the Western Regions this time turned out to be Cui Yin, the right scholar from the Boling Cui clan.

The family has always been committed to the center, and few people will take the initiative to go to the border army, and this time Cui Yin was able to come, perhaps because of the lack of ambition.

"The subordinate Cui Yin meets the prime minister!"

This Cui Yin Qin Jin has some impressions, two years ago he was still doing things in Menxia Province, and now he is a scholar and a right man, it seems that he is promoted, but in fact there is a huge difference, in terms of function, it is much worse than personally contacting the edict of the Son of Heaven.

The young man in front of him was darkened and thin, and the originally round facial lines became angular and angular, obviously suffering a lot along the way.

But judging from Cui Yin's mental state alone, the exhaustion of his body still could not hide the excitement in his heart, and his eyes flashed with blazing light.

Qin Jin picked up Cui Yin and patted him on the shoulder.

"The messenger is hard, can the Son of Heaven be well?"

This is just a polite question, and now the emperor of the Tang Dynasty has long been disgraced, and how can Li Heng, who is lying half-dead on the hospital bed, let people have illusions and hopes for him again? In addition, Li Hengzi's nephew's generation really has no talents that can be put on the table, and they are all greedy and incompetent, and the danger of Li Tang's royal family is now not as good as a curtain to break the door.

The current imperial court has even hollowed out the power of the political affairs hall, and almost all the decrees come from the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Cui Yin has no position in the Prime Minister's Mansion, so he is not a descendant of Qin Jin, but since he can be appointed as an envoy, there must be a reason for it.

Although he was the first envoy to arrive from Chang'an, the correspondence between Qin Jin and the Prime Minister's Mansion was not interrupted for a day, and although there was a time difference of more than a month, he could still grasp the dynamics in the imperial court.

"Prime Minister, the Son of Heaven is well, and the whole court is looking forward to the Prime Minister's triumphant return!"

Qin Jin and Cui Yin sat down separately, and said with some emotion:

"The battle between the Shenwu Army and the Great Food is in a critical period, and if you win this battle, you can consider returning to the east, and then you will hand over the military affairs of the Western Regions to the generals. ”

Cui Yin arched his hand and said:

"The prime minister's military might shook the Western Regions, and the big cannibals suffered a great defeat in the land west of the Anxi River, and after the people in the DPRK and China heard about the victory of last year, they all thought that this battle would raise the prestige of our Tang Dynasty! ”

After a few more gossip, Qin Jin went straight to the point and asked:

"Is Cui Youcheng willing to make contributions in the Western Regions?"

Hearing this, Cui Yin's eyes lit up, and he got up and responded:

"The subordinates are dreaming and thinking, if they get the prime minister's approval today, the subordinates will not hesitate to put pen to paper!"

Nowadays, the big families have never focused on military merit, and they all enter the center of the imperial court by the imperial examination. Although the imperial examination is a path for the children of the poor to advance, the family members are often better educated, so the role of the imperial examination for the family is even far better than that of the poor family.

Cui Yin is willing to put pen to paper, and he is really an outlier in the family!