Jun looked at the Tang army rushing towards him, and the leader of the horse thieves, Hu Yanjie, showed a little hideousness on his face.

As expected by Cui Xiyi and Cao Yingjie, Jieli Gu was not a horse thief at all, but a soldier of the Shatuo Turks in the grassland.

Shatuo Turk is a branch of the Western Turks, living in the southeast of the Junggar Basin, in the eastern part of the Tianshan Mountains in the area of Balikun, where there is a large moraine, named Shatuo, so it is called "Shatuo Turk".

After the fall of the Western Turks, the Shatuo Turks descended to the Tang Dynasty, and later they were awarded the Governor of Jinmanchu Prefecture for their meritorious service in the conquest of Tiele.

At the end of Wu Zetian, this powerful old woman became more and more faint, and the frontier was turbulent.

The Shatuo Turks turned their backs on the Tang Dynasty and defected to the Turkish, and they have been wandering between the Turkishes and the Tang Dynasty all these years, just like the grass on the wall.

Both Datang and Tuqi Shi saw through the urine nature of the Shatuo Turks and no longer paid attention to this wall grass.

Originally, the Shatuo Turks would receive a certain amount of support regardless of whether they followed the Tang Dynasty and the Turkish, ensuring that they had no worries about food and clothing.

But both sides cut off their care for the Shatuo Turks, and the Shatuo Turks had a hard time.

They didn't dare to deal with the Tang Dynasty openly, but only dared to pretend to be horse thieves and loot supplies.

The Shatuo Turks were extremely careful and never made a mistake.

Cao Yingjie, the governor of Dexi Prefecture, was anxious, and he could only suspect in this regard, but there was no evidence.

Pei Min parachuted into Hexi, and transferred Cui Xiyi to Xizhou as the governor.

The patriarch of the Shatuo Turks and the advisers of the clan did not dare to come out in fear.

Pei Min has successively defeated the Tibetans and Turks, and has become a big man who cannot be ignored in the northwest, and has extraordinary prestige in the hearts of all the tribes in the grassland, and is not inferior to Ma Chao, the divine general of the year.

Especially his style of using soldiers, which is based on killing, every time he fights, the opponent will pay a painful price, which is by no means a small fight in the past.

The Shatuo Turks are greedy by nature, and they don't dare to provoke a big man like Pei Min, and they are reluctant to give up their wealth, so they have been paying attention to the situation in Hexi.

All the changes in Hexi are in their eyes, and they also mean that if Pei Min is really allowed to develop like this, they will never have the opportunity to loot Xizhou again.

But until he gets his hands on it, it's worth a try.

Especially the generals of Xizhou were not in harmony, and the governor Cui Xiyi and the general Xia Shan did not get along, which gave them an opportunity to take advantage of.

Next, it seems that God has also done them a great favor, Pei Min was assassinated, and the contradictions between Cui Xiyi and Xia Shan intensified, all of which made Xizhou full of loopholes.

The patriarch of the Shatuo Turks also knew that there was only one opportunity, and used 3,000 soldiers for the first time, in order to eat and drink enough at one time.

Huyan Jieli Gu is a warrior of the Shatuo tribe, who has been responsible for the raids of Xizhou many times, and has run to the tribal groups near Gaochang with ease.

He has "visited" many times and knows the situation in Xizhou well.

The current Xizhou can be regarded as polarized, retaining both the style of the Gaochang period and the Han culture of the Tang Dynasty.

The sinicization in Gaochang City is serious, and it is no different from other towns in the Tang Dynasty, but there are still tents everywhere outside the city, and they have not gathered into villages.

They can't plunder the towns, and the cattle and sheep people scattered near Gaochang City are his targets.

Along the way, the drive is straight and non-stop.

But they didn't want the Tang army to directly attack their rear and intercept their way.

Hu Yanjie was also aware of the plan and did not want to entangle with the Tang army, so he decisively gave up the raid and intended to flee in a roundabout way.

I didn't want them to give up, but Tang Jun didn't let them, and followed them in a roundabout way, just blocking in front of them.

This clay man still has three points of fire, not to mention the grassland warrior Hu Yanjie?

Hu Yanjie defeated the pursuit of the Tang army many times, and had a certain contempt for the Tang army, and directly made an offensive posture.

He never thought that his side had not yet launched an attack, and the opposite side had already charged first.

The momentum is particularly fierce.

Hu Yanjie suddenly felt contempt, held his mace high, and shouted: "The wolf cubs of the grassland, the cunning Tang people's heads have squeezed the buttocks of the cows, and the warriors who grew up on our horses are fighting on this grassland land...... Haha, today, we want them to know what a rabbit is and what is a wolf, and what is called looking for death. ”

He commanded his three thousand cavalry to slowly approach forward, compared to Xia Shan's light cavalry running at full speed, their speed was extremely slow, just slowly raising the speed and trotting forward.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Tang Army was about to enter the land of one stone, Hu Yanjie showed a hideous smile and shouted: "Get on the bow!" ”

One by one, the Turkic cavalry took out their bows and arrows, and drew their bows and wound them as they ran.

Mounted archery is the strongest weapon that their steppe people rely on for survival.

"Shoot the arrows!"

The bowstring is ringing!

Three thousand arrow feathers flocked to the cavalry of the Tang Army like locusts!

Hu Yanjie held a large bow in his hand, ready to listen to the miserable cry.

He had already seen that the cavalry of the other side was the same as them, they were all light cavalry. There is no heavy armor, a light suit, and the speed of maneuvering is the best.

With the speed of their impact, the power of the arrows falling from the sky will be more than doubled.

He is extremely confident in their tribe's archery skills, this arrow place, although it can't be hit, but the range will not deviate by one zhang apart, in the face of three thousand army formations, as long as the luck is not too bad to shoot a target, it will cause huge damage to the other party.

But the next scene made Hu Yanjie stunned.

In the face of the arrow feathers flying in the sky, Xia Shan calmly whistled, and at that intolerable moment, the three thousand Tang army light horses were like elves dancing in the air, scattered left and right in the spurs, revealing a large open area, except for a dozen cavalry that were a little slower and fell off their horses, most of the arrow feathers fell into the air and landed in the open space that the Tang army avoided.

Hu Yanjie was dumbfounded, this kind of riding skill is simply indescribable in words!

Even they Turks can't do this!

The Tang Army's riding skills are even better than them?

Hu Yanjie couldn't believe his eyes, and a feeling of fear welled up in his heart.

"Shoot, shoot!"

Hu Yanjie's tone is a little messy!

The rest of the Turkic cavalry was also shocked, and shot the arrow feathers in their hands in a panic.

This time, because of the panic, the shooting was too substandard, and the arrows were too scattered, which caused more than 30 casualties to the Tang cavalry.

But at this moment, Xia Shan was already approaching, and the Turkic cavalry had no chance to shoot the third round.

Hu Yanjie was alerted to this, they were known for their light cavalry, and they always fired arrows from afar, and once the enemy approached, they immediately retreated.

But the speed of the Tang Army's light cavalry was far beyond his expectations, and their arrow feathers did not block the pace of the opponent's attack, and they couldn't pull the distance away at all when they retreated at this moment, but because they couldn't accelerate instantly, they caught up, causing a terrible situation of losing their backs. But with such a head-on hedge, there isn't much distance to give them a speed boost.

At a moment when he barely thought about it, Hu Yanjie stiffened his head and chose to attack!