Chapter 236: Encounter

Zhang Yunwen walked behind the generals and went out together, but he circled around the corner and turned back to Fengyi Palace.

Seeing Zhang Yunwen, Li Jing smiled: "The old man looked at you just now, looking left and right, as if you had something to say, you knew that you would come back!" ”

Zhang Yunwen smiled and hugged his fists and said, "General Mingjian!" ”

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Li Jing picked up the tea and said leisurely.

"Well, it's the suggestion made by the last general to lead five hundred light cavalry and copy the back road of Jieli, and the last general asks the general to agree to the last general's attack!" At the beginning, Zhang Yunwen proposed to attack the Turkic tent by detour, and since last night, the Turkic tent has begun to migrate on a large scale, and there is no way to talk about this attack on the tent.

And Zhang Yunwen still raised this question, but he wanted Li Jing to promise him to lead his troops to intercept the migrating tooth tent.

As soon as Li Jing heard Zhang Yunwen's words, he knew what he meant, and said with a smile: "Could it be that Yunwen wants to lead troops to intercept Najieli?" ”

Zhang Yunwen nodded lightly.

Li Jing put down the teacup, but his expression gradually became serious: "Yunwen, do you know that if I allow you to intercept Najieli this time, I'm afraid that the other generals will be so jealous that their eyes will be red!" When the time comes, I will isolate you, and you should be on your own? ”

Zhang Yunwen was silent for a moment, and suddenly said: "Since I took charge of the army, I have always been only responsible to Your Majesty, from the Tiger Prison Pass to the Xuanwu Gate, the army led by the last general has been fighting for Your Majesty!" Besides, this official title and this title were given by His Majesty, not by those generals! Moreover, if the last general is one step ahead of them, they can be jealous; But if they are a hundred steps ahead of them, they can only look up! It's like a general. Therefore, the last general asked the general to agree to the last general's request! ”

Listening to Zhang Yunwen's words, Li Jing couldn't help but bow his head slightly and said: "Yunwen is right, it's the old man who has considered the deviation." Yunwen has his own hills and valleys in his heart, and he won't care about these people! Maybe you'll be their general soon! At the end, he smiled slightly.

"Then the general agreed?" Zhang Yunwen said slightly excitedly.

"Well, the old man agreed! But remember, don't take the reconnaissance battalion and artillery with me! ”

"Where can I be!" Zhang Yunwen said with a smile, "Don't worry, the general will take five hundred soldiers and set off lightly, artillery or something, the general will not take it away!" Oh, by the way, general, after the last general leaves, the artillery can be paid to Zhang Hun, and the reconnaissance battalion can be handed over to Zhao Yi! ”

Li Jing smiled and stroked his beard and nodded, indicating that he knew. Just after Zhang Yunwen walked out of the gate, Li Jing got up, looked at the map, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought. Today's trend, but Jieli led the army to the north, and his side sent a large army to pursue. Zhang Yunwen led the light cavalry to insert in front of Jieli, slightly blocking Jieli's way to flee north. And here, Li Jing looked at the direction of Yunzhou, Li Ji's army had already been dispatched and was inserting in the northwest direction. At the speed of the Turkic cavalry and the light cavalry of the Tang army, the place where the Tang army and the Turks encountered may be here, Li Jing's finger tapped a black dot on the map, the white road.

Ten Turkic soldiers with short bows looked at the distant horizon on their horses and struck the horse's buttocks. The horse was hurt and strode up. The knight took control of the reins and ran in different directions.

They were Turkic rangers, specialized in spying on the enemy. The rangers usually carried a short bow, a few arrows and a short knife, wore as little leather armor as possible, and kept the saddle as light as possible. After encountering the enemy, he did not engage him, turned his horse's head and galloped away. If someone is pursuing, shoot back with a short bow in self-defense. Therefore, the Tang army has an extremely headache for this kind of ranger, it is like flying, ordinary cavalry can't catch up, and the number of scout cavalry is too small, what should I do if I fall into someone's ambush.

Today, however, they were confronted by a reconnaissance squad of five reconnaissance battalion soldiers.

When the scout battalion soldiers served as scouts, they were far less equipped. He wore only a cloth coat and a fur hat, and as for the weapons, they were mainly steel crossbows and sabers. The purpose of the simple outfit is the same as that of the Turkic Ranger, but also to reduce weight and horsepower as much as possible.

The leader of these five scouts was Song Yi, a slightly fat fellow who had participated in the raid on the Turkic mission, and was promoted to the rank of captain because of his outstanding performance and superb riding skills. The other four scouts are also battle-hardened veterans.

Shortly after the departure of the ten Turkic rangers, the five-member scout team arrived.

"Fat brother, have you heard of it, the leader took Liu Cheng and them to fight two battles in Evil Yangling and Dingxiang City, and killed the Turks on their backs, it's really fucking refreshing! Tell me, when can we have two good fights? A scout beside Song Yi said to Song Yi with a smile.

Song Yi smiled and pointed to the horseshoe prints on the ground: "You can fight right away!" ”

The scout jumped off his horse, and when he looked down, he saw that in the pale horseshoe prints on the ground, the broken rhizome of a small grass was a bright green instead of yellow, and the juice was bubbling out. Comparing the width and length of the horse's hoof prints with his hand, the scout said, "It's the hoof prints of a Turkic horse." Looking at the depth, it should be a Turkic ranger, and it takes less than a quarter of an hour to pass from here! ”

Song Yi nodded: "Well, it seems that I met my peers today!" I'm afraid this Turkic army is not far from here! As he spoke, his face was grim, "Pass my order, all the staff are ready to fight, find out these Turkic rangers for me, and destroy them one by one!" ”

The four men answered in unison, took their steel crossbows from their saddles, loaded their arrows, and galloped away in the direction of the hoof prints.

After running for a while, everyone was surprised to find that the horseshoe prints had been separated, but it was the Turkic rangers who had dispersed and reconnoitred.

Looking at the hoof prints in different directions, everyone didn't know which direction to chase.

Pulling down the reins of the horse and stopping the horse's steps, a soldier asked, "Fat brother, what should I do?" To chase or not to chase? ”

Song Yi looked at the horseshoe prints, then looked at where everyone was now, clapped his hands and smiled: "What are you chasing, it's so big here, who knows where those Turks ran to." Besides, there are only five of us, and if we go to them one by one, I don't know when it will be, and what if we miss a few? ”

The four soldiers nodded suddenly.

"So, this team is deciding that we will have a 'wait for the rabbit', right here, waiting for those Turks to come and throw a net!"

"Well, fat brother, but how do you know that the Turks will be back here?"

"Look at the terrain around here, a flat river, only here is on a gentle slope, the field of vision is wide, it is really an excellent lookout point, if Lao Tzu is a Turk, he will also set up a mobile post here!"

"The fat brother is really smart!"

After saying that, the crowd began to act. First, the horses were hidden in a low bush two miles from here. Then carefully lean down and slowly cover and eliminate the horseshoe prints and movement marks left on your side. Finally, they tore off the weeds and shrubs not far away, weaved them into a camouflage net, draped them over their bodies, and smeared their faces and arrows with grass juice, lest the light of the arrows would startle the Turkic rangers.

It took almost half an hour to do these things.

Song Yi estimated that the time was almost up, so he and four soldiers ambushed in this vicinity.

The five of them formed an inverted figure-eight shape and lurked in the grass, semi-encircling the gentle slope of the place.

All that's left is to wait.

In the meantime, the insects and ants in the grass crawled over them, leaving a stinging sensation on their skin, but the scouts didn't move for half a minute, still aiming their steel crossbows at the top of the gentle slope.

They knew that they could not move at this time, maybe the next moment the Turkic Turkic rangers would come, maybe they happened to see one of their movements. So they gritted their teeth and endured in silence, hoping in their hearts that the damned Turkic ranger would come soon.

I don't know how long I waited, but Song Yi only knew that his exposed palm had been crawled by ants three times and bitten by an unknown insect. Eventually, the Turkic rangers returned one after another.

One, two, three......

Song Yi silently counted the number of people in his heart. Why are there only nine people, look at the horseshoe print, there are obviously ten people! He was a little anxious and confused, especially after seeing the nine men talking to each other for a while, he was about to beat his horse and leave.

At the moment, he didn't care about another person, Song Yi aimed at a ranger in the lead and pulled the trigger.

Hearing only a slight sound of strings, the Turk who was about to mount and leave immediately stuck an arrow in the back of his head, and his body suddenly stiffened and slowly fell.

Seeing that his team was shooting the first arrow, the remaining four pulled the trigger almost at the same time. Four arrows were pinpointed into the bodies of the four Turks who were in doubt.

The remaining four Turks watched their companions hit by arrows, and immediately knew that there was an ambush here, and in line with the principle of being attacked and leaving as soon as possible, the four of them quickly got on their horses and were about to leave here.

At this moment, I saw five humanoids with colorful faces and branches covered in grass and branches suddenly got up from the ground and rushed towards the four Turks who were about to leave.

When the Turkic rangers saw the five people who suddenly appeared, especially when they saw the mixed green and black colors on their faces, they were immediately shocked and involuntarily pulled the reins of their horses. The horses that were about to start suddenly stopped.

At this time, I saw the five scouts pull out the military thorns on their waists and throw them at the four of them at once. Five stabs were inserted into three people, two Turks were very miserable and received two stabs, and one did not receive a single stab.

After all, this is a hasty shot, and there is no pre-battle target distribution between each other, so the possibility of repeated damage is still very high.

The remaining Turk heard the screams of his companions, and dared to stop, and a whip struck the horse's rump, and the horse galloped on all fours like a convulsion, and was about to leave the place.

At this time, Song Yi took out the arrows for a long time, pulled the crossbow string, put on the arrows, and aimed at the Turkic rangers who were rushing wildly.

The speed of the horse was very fast, and just when Song Yi was aiming at the wind, he had already run to the position of a hundred paces. The range of the steel crossbow was only one hundred and twenty paces, and seeing that the ranger was about to rush out of the range of the steel crossbow, Song Yimeng pulled the trigger, and the crossbow arrow flew out, sticking straight into the back of the Turkic ranger.

The man threw himself forward, but he did not fall off his horse, and the horse continued to gallop away with him.

"Damn it!" Song Yi scolded, "Damn, since the Turkic rangers have appeared, their main force must not be far away, we have to tell the general the information quickly!" ”

As he spoke, he mounted the Turkic horse that had been left behind and galloped to the southeast. The remaining four scouts also turned on their horses and chased after Song Yi.