Zheng Xianli rescued only about fifty or sixty percent of the grassland barbarians, and many of them either died in the melee or lost contact in the escape.

Because the situation on the battlefield is unpredictable and ever-changing, he will not stop to give those chieftains enough time to calmly gather their men, which is very dangerous, and if he encounters the army of the Great Cannibal again, he is likely to fall into a bitter battle again.

Among these steppe barbarians, especially the Gululu tribe, the most serious losses were also due to the fact that he was the first to raid the bait, and when it was surrounded, a large number of Grolus were killed in the resistance to break through.

The failure of the disintegration of the tribe devastated Gu Lulu, and he finally gathered many warriors who could fight well, but he could not imagine that there would be not much left in one day.

He, the right leaf protector, also existed in name only.

What's even worse is that because the Gu Lu Ye Hu was appointed by the Tang Dynasty, those subordinates who had just joined him did not have much sense of belonging, and the sudden fiasco completely discredited his prestige. Except for the hundred and ten relatives who have been following the left and right, no one pays attention to his right leaf protector.

Of course, the appearance of the cavalry of the Shenwu Army led by Zheng Xianli as a savior made the public even more grateful to the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time, they were deeply afraid of the Tang soldiers' great martial arts.

If the orders of the Tang Dynasty would have been prevaricated and delayed by the chieftains of the various ministries, after this incident, no one dared to openly challenge the authority of the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty.

After marching for half a day, after being sure that the big cannibals had not caught up, Zheng Xianli ordered the army to camp along the river for repair, and at the same time sent someone to report to Qin Jin.

When Qin Jin got the news, it was already the evening of the same day, and the conflict with the Great Cannibal had subsided one after another, and all the armies that had participated in the battle had died down.

A seemingly vigorous temptation made both sides more cautious, and the Shenwu army issued various policy details overnight, the main purpose of which was to strictly prohibit unauthorized provocations and undermine the overall situation at the same time.

In addition to this, the planned attacks have not stopped, but have become more frequent and violent than before.

Zheng Xianli's cavalry hung alone, mainly to make selective and focused strikes on the flanks of the Great Food Army.

Now that the crisis of the steppe barbarians has been solved, and the reality of the Mahdi has been tested a lot, and there are still great cannibals converging on Gorgan from all directions, it seems that the future caliph has a plan to settle the war.

This almost coincides with Qin Jin's thoughts.

Both men tried to solve all the problems in a single decisive battle.

However, the idea is good, but on this battlefield that changes every day, it is inevitably a bit wishful thinking.

No one expected that the cause of the incident was the death of an ordinary herdsman.

In addition to the Persians, Gorgan is also inhabited by many ancient tribes that have existed since the so-called mythological times, especially the Medes, whose people are located in the northwestern part of the Great Eclipse and in part of Anatolia.

The existence of the Medes as a special force has been on the periphery of Ctesiphon's rule for thousands of years, from the Persian Empire to the present great Abbasids.

Due to the war between the Great Food and the Tang Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of people from various tribes gathered here, and the local herdsmen became the first victims.

Almost every day, Medes' cattle were taken away and women were raped.

Just after sunset, the body of a fifteen-year-old male herdsman, heir to a powerful chief of the Medea tribe, was found.

For this reason, he angrily sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty and Da Shi respectively to question who should be held responsible.

However, in addition to the Great Food Army and the Shenwu Army gathered here, more than seventy percent of them were nomadic tribes from all over the world, and trying to find out about this matter was almost equivalent to ascending to the sky.

After Qin Jin received the report, he immediately gathered his troops to find out if there were any people and horses on the Tang Dynasty side who had been active by Haizi.

Unfortunately, two bands of centaurs did appear near the sea, but there is no indication that they were directly related to the murder of the son of the Median chieftain.

Although the Medes were a very important force and the target of the Tang Dynasty, they could not arbitrarily hand over the so-called "responsible persons" to achieve the purpose of wooing.

Therefore, Qin Jin euphemistically expressed his position to the Medesan envoy, and promised that he would definitely find tangible evidence related to the Shenwu army or the tribal army, and he would definitely not tolerate it, and he would definitely give justice to the chieftain.

At the same time that Qin Jin expressed his position to the Median envoy, Mahdi had already handed over three bloody human heads to the Median envoy.

The messenger thanked him again and again, and departed with three heads satisfied.

After sending the Medes away, Mahdi breathed a sigh of relief, of course he did not want to see such a thing, but how could more than 100,000 people be together and control them one by one?

As for how to solve it, it is naturally tacit, and the only way to start is to find a target from the local nomadic tribes.

The Medes have always been on the fringes of the Great Eclipse camp, and have become the preferred targets for the plundering of various departments, and many of the generals of the Great Eclipse have also turned a blind eye to the purpose of punishment and warning.

But on the battlefield with thick smoke the day before yesterday, after a fierce test between the two armies, Mahdi put away his contempt for the Tang Dynasty army and paid great attention to it.

It was all the more important to deal with the Medes, for in the past he would have chosen to be perfunctory, but today, in order to show his closeness, without saying a word, he singled out three unfortunate men from the two tribe armies that had been active on the edge of the sea that day, and cut off their heads, and took their heads as a greeting gift.

This series of changes stunned Saeed, who had spoken a few days earlier about the Medes and had taught them a lesson, and now they had changed so quickly.

At the same time, Saeed also raised his concerns:

"Those two tribes must be disgruntled when they are killed adult warriors, and if they are resentful because of this, will Your Highness lose more than they gain?"

Mahdi replied confidently:

"So that the Medes do not fall to the Tang Dynasty, the two small tribes are resentful, and if you make a choice between the two, what will you choose?"

The Medes have always been a special existence in the northwest of the Great Eclipse, although they are divided into dozens or hundreds of tribes, but once they fight, they will gather together, and they are a force that must not be ignored.

Successive Persian kings and the Great Caliphs have waged conquests against the Medes, but these tenacious Medes have survived tenaciously to this day.

In comparison, the two small tribes that have been attached to the big food for generations are insignificant.