Chapter 66: Sweeping Monan

In just a few minutes, all the remaining Turks fell to the ground and were silent.

Those Tang people, who were regarded as slaves by the Turks, did not return to a little anger in their eyes until the Turks died.

"The food and water brought by these Turks are left for you, and the army will soon sweep through Monan, so return home on your own."

Li Yan did not make any arrangements for these people, and now their 1,200 cavalry can be said to be short of time and heavy tasks.

They must completely pacify Monan before the Turks react, so that the news of the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks cannot reach Mobei from Monan, and then they have a chance to complete the planned beheading operation and capture Jieli Khan alive!

"Thank you, General, for your kindness!"

"Thank you, General!"

The anger in the eyes of these Tang people gradually turned into hope, and then they knelt in front of Li Yan with a plop to express their gratitude in their hearts.

"Keep going!"

After Li Yan nodded to them twice, he gave the order to continue the march.

Now that the first medium and large tribe is not far away, the more time is wasted, the greater the probability of being detected by the Turks in advance.

A group of 1,200 horsemen wiped the blood from their horses and swords, immediately obeyed Li Yan's orders, and continued to set off towards the north.

Half an hour later, the three-person scout team led by Ge Dahai successfully explored the location of the Mukun tribe and gave Li Yan accurate information.

Judging from the external situation, the Chumukun tribe also suffered extremely serious losses in this winter, outside the tribe, there were many burial tents, and the frozen corpses of cattle and sheep were displayed outside.

It can be seen that after the snow disaster in winter, the tribal system still exists, but due to heavy losses, the people of the tribe cannot slaughter sheep and sacrifice them outside the tent according to the custom after death, and can only be filled with those sheep that freeze to death in winter.

According to the number of burial tents, it is inferred that among the Mukun tribe at this time, the combat strength of young and middle-aged people is likely to be seriously insufficient, and the charge of 1,200 horsemen is enough to completely destroy it in a short period of time!

So......

"A team rushes into battle, four columns surround, kill!"

Li Yan gave an order, and even four hundred people followed him and launched an attack towards the entrance of the fence around the Mukun tribe.

The remaining 800 people were divided into four columns, and they hurried towards the four corners of the Mukun tribe.

In a moment, a team like a stray arrow quickly penetrated into the Mukun tribe, and at the same time, an encirclement appeared outside the tribe to prevent anyone from escaping.

The shouts of killing shook the sky, instantly terrifying all the Turks.

They are still immersed in the fear of the winter snow disaster, and they are also immersed in the grief of the death of their loved ones.

Who would have thought that there would be a Tang army to kill at this time.

In this way, the Chumukun tribe, which had little combat strength left, completely fell within ten minutes.

"Heaven is dead, I am a Turk!"

When Li Yan led the people into the tent of the tribal leader, Chu Mu Kunluo whispered in despair.

He could see that this group of Tang people was afraid that they had already prepared to start a war against the grassland.

This cavalry team is by no means something that the Datang Border Pass City can have......

Before he could fully figure out the strategic purpose of the Tang Army, he died under Li Yan's Fang Tian Painting Halberd in the next moment.

After that, Li Yan didn't even look at Mu Kunluo, and directly led people to continue the slaughter.

In Li Yan's eyes, Chu Mu Kunluo was just the leader of an ordinary tribe, and in the next conquest, Turks of this status were indispensable to fall under his hands.

In other words, in this battle, except for Jieli Khan, who wanted to be captured alive, none of the other Turks who had the power to fight, Li Yan did not intend to let go.

After the death of Chumukun Luolu, the entire Chumukun tribe was almost dead, and the remaining old and weak women and children Li Yan were not prepared to waste time, and were directly left to the follow-up army.

He led all the cavalry directly in the direction of the next tribe.

……

1,200 cavalry began to crisscross this Monan grassland, and almost no tribe could resist in front of this 1,200 cavalry for more than half an hour.

In just one day, seven or eight tribes were wiped out.

In the evening, the cavalrymen changed into cotton clothes on horseback and wrapped themselves in quilts to rest in a tribe that had just been completely destroyed.

The moment the sun rose, the entire cavalry team continued to move, sweeping through one after another Monan steppe Turkic tribes.

……

On the second day, he was among the Mukun tribes.

The army led by Cheng Yanjin had just arrived here, and he learned from the remnants of the old and weak Turks about the terrifying killing efficiency of Li Yan's cavalry team.

He led the army to the present, and he has not seen a living Turkic young man.

Those Turks, who had even a little combat power, had already fallen into the hands of the cavalry ranks.

"This is not ready to leave a little battle merit for my old Cheng......"

Cheng Yanjin shook his head helplessly.

Now that the army has only advanced three hundred miles north, Cheng Yanjin conservatively estimates that Li Yan's team has advanced at least eight hundred miles.

And I'm afraid that in the range of 800 miles, all the Turkic tribes have been wiped out, and the tribes they encounter in the future are very likely to be similar to the fate of the Chumukun tribe.

"Slow down, the army can't keep up......"

Cheng Yanjin didn't have even a little joy after he was helpless, he wished that Li Yan's marching speed could be slower.

Cheng Yanjin knew very well that Li Yan's ultimate goal must be to advance into the Mobei King Tent.

Cheng Yanjin was afraid that when Li Yan crossed the desert, their army did not even walk down half of Monan.

At that time, once Li Yan had an accident in Mobei, the army would not be able to give them any help at all, and not even a trace of pressure would be given to the Turks.

The situation in the next two days basically confirmed Cheng Yanjin's guess, and on the third day, the army advanced more than 800 miles, just about half of the range of Monan.

According to the interrogation obtained from the remnants of the tribes along the way, Li Yan killed a place of 800 miles on the first day.

According to such a fast marching speed, Cheng Yanjin has reason to believe that Li Yan may have led people into the desert and set off straight to Mobei.

……

Cheng Yanjin's estimate was very accurate, and Li Yan did complete the purge of almost all the tribes in Mo Nan at noon on the third day.

The entire Monan Grassland had no strength to fight at all, whether it was a medium-sized tribe like the Chumukun tribe or a large tribe like the Chuyue tribe, they couldn't stop the attack of Li Yan's cavalry team.

In the past two days, this cavalry harvested at least tens of thousands of Turkic lives, but at the cost of only four killed and more than ten lightly wounded.

At this moment, Li Yan has led people into the Gobi for more than half a day, the sun has set, and Li Yan is about to take people to spend the first night of entering the Gobi.