Chapter 3 Encountering the Turks, True One Dozen Ten
After Li Yan accidentally almost closed Ge Dahai, the inspection task was carried out as usual.
The main task of the inspection of the North City Gate is to inspect the five surrounding villages to ensure that Datang is not invaded by other places.
But having said that, since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, it has not been able to prevent the Turks from coming to the Tang Realm to fight the autumn wind when the winter is approaching, and the people at the border can be said to be unbearable, so they can only prepare an extra ration and be ready to hand it over at any time to save their lives.
The group passed by the first village, which was the site of the attack on the patrol of the Toyoshu garrison a few days ago.
Now there are several families in the village who are doing white things, and their relatives were killed during the Turkic captivity.
Li Yan could see that the people in this border village were already full of disappointment with their Fengzhou defenders, they didn't seem to see any future death, and the whole person was desperate like a pool of stagnant water, and could only obediently wait for fate to slaughter.
Seeing this scene, Li Yan's psychology is not comfortable, he comes from the era of the rise of China in later generations, and now seeing his compatriots being bullied by foreign races to despair, Li Yan's psychology is full of awkwardness.
"Keep patrolling!"
Li Yan found that the few Hanhan behind him were depressed, and immediately shouted, now is not the time to be sad.
Now that winter is coming, the Turks will inevitably do their last round of raids before the cold comes!
Even Li Yan knows that this year's north will usher in a heavy snowfall, and the heavy snow will cover the entire grassland and even form a snow disaster.
In the event of a catastrophe, it will be extremely difficult for nomads like the Turks to survive, and their only option is to plunder!
They will plunder all the villages on the border of the Tang Border, which is a disaster for the Turks and a challenge for the defenders of the Tang border!
Li Yan didn't know if he had the ability to lead the team against the Turks at that time, he only knew that he had to hurry up and develop, otherwise he would not be able to protect the people, and when the time came, he was afraid that it would be difficult for him to protect himself in the face of the Turks who jumped over the wall in a hurry.
In a mist of thought, the team left the first village and continued to follow the predetermined path to begin their patrol.
The team was still the same team, but the mood of the team was completely different from when they left the city, and everyone was a little less frivolous and a little more serious and cautious.
"Boss, there's movement ahead!"
When he was about to enter the second village of the patrol route, Zhang Dazhu suddenly shouted.
A noisy sound suddenly came from the left front of the team, and Li Yan clearly heard the sound of horses' hooves.
"Cavalry, it's the Turks! You line up to defend, Ge Dahai, quickly return to the city to report! ”
Li Yan reacted quickly, and immediately ordered the team to form a defensive formation, and at the same time sent someone to send a message to Fengzhou.
"Yes, Boss!"
The reaction of everyone is not bad, after all, after a few days of hellish training, the conditioned reflex has been formed.
Ge Dahai quickly returned to the city to report after breaking away from the team according to the order, and the rest of the people were lined up in formation, ready to meet the battle at any time.
It didn't take long for the two sides to encounter, and a group of twelve Turkic cavalry came to Li Yan and the others.
Originally, when they saw this Tang army from a distance, they only thought that they could destroy it at will, but the moment they saw Li Yan, who was fully armed, they were stunned.
It had been a long time since they had seen the Tang army in iron armor, and they vaguely remembered that the last time they saw such a well-armed Tang army was Li Shimin's Xuanjia army that they saw next to Weishui.
"Big brother, what is the number of this Tang Army? So well equipped? ”
"He's definitely a general! Capture him alive, bring him back, and present it to the Khan, this is a great achievement! ”
"Shall we do it, then?"
"Do it!"
There was no pre-battle speech, there was just a sudden confrontation.
A group of Turkic cavalry completely ignored the eight people who were forming a formation on the side, and they directly charged at Li Yan, who was the leader.
"Boss!"
Zhang Dazhu immediately felt bad, and the Turks seemed to be all eyeing their own boss.
"Don't mess up the formation, I'm fine!"
In the face of the charging Turkic cavalry, Li Yan did not panic, he had an intuition that he seemed to be able to deal with it.
A Turkic cavalry wearing leather armor arrived in front of Li Yan first, and he looked at Li Yan in front of him who was unresponsive, and he was overjoyed, thinking that Li Yan was stupid and couldn't move.
Overjoyed, the Turkic cavalry took advantage of the impact speed of the war horse to aim the scimitar in his hand at Li Yan's arm and quickly slashed!
Being disabled does not affect the command to capture alive!
The imaginary bloody picture did not happen, the scimitar only left a white mark on Li Yan's arm armor, but in the next moment, Li Yan's right hand was violently forced, and the long sword in his hand was raised horizontally to penetrate the abdomen of the Turkic cavalry, and lifted it off the war horse.
"What?!"
Although the follow-up Turkic cavalry found that the momentum was wrong, the charge of the war horses did not stop when it was stopped.
Three Turkic cavalrymen rushed in front of Li Yan one after another, and they could only leave white marks on Li Yan's iron armor without exception, unable to hurt Li Yan, and two more cavalrymen were dragged off their horses by Li Yansheng and taken away with two swords.
The remaining cavalryman who rushed did not die, but his war horse was chopped off by Li Yan's sword, and he tragically fell into the circle formed by Zhang Dazhu and others and was instantly captured.
"Heavy armor, heavy sword!"
The remaining eight Turkic cavalry suddenly hesitated, they could see that the armor on Li Yan's body was heavy armor, and the sword was also a heavy sword, their scimitar could not cut Li Yan's armor, but Li Yan's sword could chop off their horses' heads!
"The boss is mighty!"
"The boss is strong! A dozen ten! ”
Seeing that Li Yan alone had overturned one-third of the small Turkic cavalry team, the soldiers behind him immediately began to cheer.
"What to do? This kind of Tang Army has never encountered it. ”
"What if you can't cut it? Hit him, I can't do it, he can withstand the cavalry impact! ”
"You're going? Can't see that it's a heavy sword in his hand? Can your horse carry it? When the time comes, you won't die, your horse will be gone! ”
The Turks began to hesitate, they just came out today to plunder the resources for the winter, and there was no need to fight with the Tang army.
Especially now that they have lost four warriors without gaining anything, the Turks are even less like fighting Li Yan.
"Withdraw! Our task is not to deal with the Don Army! ”
The Turks led by them prepared to retreat and continued to plunder, not wanting to run into a hard encounter with Li Yan.
"Those who offend my Tang territory and deceive the people of my Tang Dynasty will die!"
Li Yan clearly saw the purpose of this cavalry, how could he watch them plunder the surrounding villages of Fengzhou.
It's a pity that Li Yan is now a heavy infantry at most, if the cavalry wants to fight him to the death, it's fine, if the Turks fight guerrilla with him, he really can't stop this group of Turkic cavalry.
"Hmph, let's withdraw!"
The Turkic people led by him were more worried that Li Yan was not alone, and he was afraid that every patrol team of the Tang Army would have such a heavy infantry, so he chose to return first and ask the opinion of the tribal leader.
After a few minutes, the Turks retreated, leaving only three corpses and one prisoner.
"Zhang Dazhu, you take two people to escort this Turkic barbarian back to the city, and the three corpses will be beheaded to repay the merit!"
"The others will continue to patrol with me!"