Chapter 65: The Importance of Scouts, First Battle
The cavalry marched fast on the steppe, advancing a distance of a hundred miles in less than an hour.
According to the distance, this should be regarded as the boundary of the Turkic tribe that has just entered the Monan steppe.
Referring to the description of Hu Shang who came to the grassland in winter, there are two small tribes about 100 miles out of Fengzhou in the north, and there is a tribe named Chumukun about 300 miles, 400 miles......
"The team stopped to rest, and a hundred people were on alert."
"Ge Dahai, look for the surrounding water source, take the water source as the starting point, explore!"
After knowing that there were two Turkic tribes nearby, Li Yan naturally chose to send scouts to investigate.
After all, Ge Dahai's mounts of the three of them are not used for frontal combat at all, and the combat power of these three pig cavalry is not high, but from the perspective of scouts, they are the top in the world.
"Okay, boss."
The three of them had long been accustomed to the scout's mission, and immediately broke away from the team and began to investigate.
At this moment, the speed of the creature from "Minecraft" exploded, and in a blink of an eye, the three of them appeared in the distance.
Looking at the three departing scouts, the team immediately began to talk.
"I heard that the three of them are riding wild horses."
"The speed of this wild bib ...... It's terrifying. ”
"I heard that it took a lot of effort for General Li to catch it, and you all know General Li's force, in order to catch these three wild birds, General Li has made great efforts!"
The cavalry were talking about the mounts of Ge Dahai and the three, and they didn't know how the rumors were spread, and many people didn't pay attention to these three wild horses, but were highlighting Li Yan's ability.
Li Yan didn't care about this phenomenon, and since the first day Li Yan extracted the accelerated pig from "Minecraft", he was mentally prepared.
After all, this is also a helpless move, the extraction of the acceleration horse is too expensive, and Li Yan did not have so many gold mines at the beginning, accelerating the pig is the only option, and Li Yan does not regret his decision.
He extracted the acceleration pig early and formed a three-person super scout team, which was reflected as early as the defense of the city of Toyosu.
If it weren't for these three scouts at that time, I was afraid that even if Fengzhou could hold it, those villagers outside the city would also suffer.
In the midst of the discussion, the mood of the soldiers gradually relaxed, which can be regarded as an alternative release of pressure.
After about a quarter of an hour, Zhang Dazhu and the three returned to the team.
"Boss, both tribes have been found, but according to our observations, these two tribes should not have survived this snow disaster, there are many corpses in the tribe, some starved to death and froze to death, and some were injured to death, it seems that they were injured by triangular nails."
"These two tribes are empty, and eighty percent of those who are alive have gone to other tribes."
The scouts only took a quarter of an hour to investigate, and the information they received was very detailed, directly determining that the two tribes had become empty cities.
"Return to the team, rest and recuperate, continue to the north for two hundred miles, the Mukun tribe is a medium and large tribe, we will have a battle today!"
Li Yan did not hesitate and continued to lead the team to set off.
Now that Li Yan has set his sights on the first medium and large tribe on this journey, Li Yan is planning to complete the first actual battle of his cavalry with the Mukun tribe.
In this way, the cavalry began to gallop again.
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At noon, the cavalry troops led by Li Yan simply rested, took out the dry food and water they carried with them to replenish them, and then marched again.
This time, it didn't take long before an accident happened.
This was about 200 miles from Fengzhou, and when Ge Dahai's three-person scouts were scouting within ten miles of the large army in advance, they stumbled upon a Turkic procession.
The team consisted of about a hundred Turkic cavalry, hundreds of women and children, and dozens of ragged men.
Ge Dahai made a decision the moment he discovered them, and the two of them continued to follow them, and one of them returned to inform Li Yan.
A few minutes later, Ge Dahai personally returned to report:
"Boss, there is an enemy situation ahead, it should be a small tribe of men and horses migrating, there are more than 100 cavalrymen, hundreds of old and weak women and children, and dozens of slaves suspected of being Tang people."
Ge Dahai calmly reported the situation, even when he said that there were captured Tang people in the ranks of the Turks, he was still calm, and the anger in his heart did not show on his face.
"Do you take the Tang people as slaves?"
Li Yan said to himself.
To be honest, Li Yan had known for a long time that this would be the case among the tribes of the Turkic people.
Although the Turks usually only looted supplies, some Turkic tribes actually had some farming, and these tribes liked to take the Tang people as slaves and use them as laborers.
Although Li Yan knew about this situation, this was the first time he had seen it.
The slightest anger was born from the depths of the blood, this is the emotion born in the bones of the children of the Han family, even if Li Yan is a traverser, he can't suppress it, after all, Li Yan's soul is also a descendant of Yan and Huang.
"Full speed ahead!"
Li Yan's order was conveyed, and 1,200 horsemen suddenly kicked up dust on the grassland and began to sprint.
Ten miles was not too far for a cavalry, and it took less than ten minutes at full speed to reach it.
Therefore, under the guidance of Ge Dahai, the ranks of the Turks soon appeared in sight.
While the soldiers were charging, the Turks naturally discovered the situation in the distance.
"With so many people, which tribe are they from?"
"Don't be a tribe of the Moon Tribe, we have sinned against them before......"
"No, it's a Tang person!"
When the distance reached within 300 meters, the Turks realized that it was not their compatriots who rushed in, but the heavily armed Tang army!
The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and from the perspective of Tang Jun, it can already be found that those people with ragged clothes and haggard faces are indeed Tang people!
As the sons and daughters of the Han family, the soldiers were instantly born into angry emotions.
The distance of three hundred meters was instantaneous, and at this moment some of the Turks had not even had time to climb on their horses.
"Kill!"
Li Yan sprinted to the front, dancing a Fang Tian painting halberd and directly launched a merciless slaughter.
Poor this group of Turks had just experienced a snow disaster, and finally waited until the weather was mild to migrate to the big tribe, and they had been hungry for I don't know how many days, and they had no ability to resist at all.
This group of Turks didn't even have the strength to resist at all under Li Yan's hands, and none of those who were touched by Li Yan could survive more than three seconds.
Of course, other Turkic people who came into contact with the Don army were no exception.
The Turks, who were supposed to be superior to the Tang army in terms of physique, had no ability to resist at all, and there was no way to kill the Tang army, and in just a few minutes, all the Turks with weapons were already dead.
"Don't kill me! Come near me, and I'll kill him!" ”
Suddenly, a childish voice came.
It turned out to be a Turkic child who picked up a scimitar and put it on the neck of a Tang slave.
This hard-working man was scrawny, his face was gray, his eyes were blank, and he did not resist in the slightest.
Seeing this scene, Li Yan, who was still a little entangled in his heart, immediately made up his mind.
Li Yan picked up the longbow behind him, bent the bow and set the arrow, and in the blink of an eye, an arrow flew out, instantly piercing the Turkic child's head.
"Kill!"
Accompanied by Li Yan's order and the stimulation of this picture.
Massacre, go on......