Twilight spring, dusk.

The grassland appears calm, and the sunset in the distance looks beautiful.

Xue Wanche didn't expect that watching the sunset on the grassland would be more beautiful than watching the sunset in other places.

The wind blows a warmth.

On the opposite side of Xue Wanche, there was a team of more than 1,000 people, and this Turkic soldier and horse were full of anger.

The leader glanced at Xue Wanche, and his eyes immediately turned red.

"You Tang Army are so disgusting, you actually did something to the innocent people of my Turks."

The man shouted angrily, but Xue Wanche laughed: "My Tang Army is hateful? You Turks took advantage of the accession of my Tang Emperor to the throne, led 200,000 soldiers and horses to attack my Datang, I don't know how many people killed my Datang, it was you who were shameless first, and my Datang was just a tooth for a tooth. ”

was exposed by Xue Wanche, the man was immediately annoyed and angry, and without saying much, with a wave of his big hand, the soldiers and horses behind him rushed directly towards Xue Wanche.

In the face of the angry Turkic soldiers and horses, Xue Wanche did not have the slightest fear.

"Soldiers, let's have a real duel, kill!"

With a shout, the Tang soldiers and horses also fought bravely.

In the past few days, they have been taking advantage of the Turkic people, to be honest, they have never done this kind of thing before, and they are very aggrieved, and now they finally met a real soldier, and they want to vent all these grievances, so they are crazy about killing.

Only killing the Turkic soldiers is an honor for them, what is it to kill the people?

Killing the people is just being forced to be helpless.

The Turkic people were killed, and these Turkic soldiers were all indignant and murderous, in their opinion, they had such a murderous aura, and there should be no difficulty in destroying this Tang army of more than 1,000 people.

But after the real fight, they found that the Tang Army was not as easy to deal with as they imagined, and this Tang Army, which was doing it to ordinary people, was even crazy about killing.

Kill, kill.

The evening breeze blew, the smell of blood began to permeate the grassland, and one after another soldiers fell, some Tang and Turkic.

When the sun sets, the surroundings are quickly surrounded by a dark curtain.

The Turkic soldiers and horses had night blindness, so when night came, they did not dare to continue to entangle, and soon retreated, only waiting for tomorrow, and then fought with the Tang army.

The Turkic soldiers and horses retreated, and Xue Wanche immediately began to count the number of people.

"General, there are only seven hundred soldiers and horses left."

In this battle, the casualties on both sides of them were about the same, and if the battle continued tomorrow, the casualties would continue, and he was worried that the other Turkic tribes would rush to hear the news of the arrival here.

Although he really wanted to fight, Xue Wanche was not a reckless man, and he did not forget the purpose of their coming to the grassland.

They want to slaughter the Turkic people, so that they will be greatly injured and unable to fight in the Tang Dynasty, and they will force the Turks to retreat, not just bury them on the grassland.

Some of the Tang troops brought here are dead, and they may have to be buried here forever.

Xue Wanche took one last look at the corpses of those soldiers, and then without hesitation, he immediately ordered: "Go!" ”

Seven hundred soldiers and horses followed Xue Wanche away, but while they were far away from the Turkic soldiers and horses, they searched for other people on the steppe overnight.

It was already late at night, and some herders gathered all their tents together and entered their respective tents into their dreams.

This is a herdsman of about 400 people, there were only 200 before, and then they met their companions, because they were worried about the Tang army, so they partnered.

In addition, they also selected a dozen people to patrol every night.

There was still a bonfire burning outside the tent, and several herdsmen sat together and chatted without saying a word, and some people sat around the campfire and had to take a nap.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves around them, and the herdsmen jumped up.

"It's not good, the Tang army is here......"

As he was talking, Xue Wanche led the Tang army and rushed in.

"Kill!"

Xue Wanche roared, the Tang army did not hesitate, and directly rushed to kill, four hundred herdsmen, the strong ones were only about a hundred or ten people, and most of the others were old and weak women and children, and more than a hundred or so people were vulnerable to a Tang army like Xue Wanche.

Moreover, in the darkness of the night, they are even more defenseless and vulnerable.

The killing lasted for an hour, and after an hour, there were already a lot of corpses scattered around the tent, and their cattle and sheep had already dispersed, Xue Wanche ordered people to bring their food and set off again to find the next prey.

At dawn, the wind on the steppe was warm, the sun was shining, and the killing of last night was still obvious.

The grass was stained red with blood, and several wild wolves were gnawing on human bones, and their howling voices were very sad.

A group of Turkic soldiers and horses finally arrived here at the end of the day and discovered the tragedy here.

"Damn, Tang Jun is hateful, don't let me meet you again, otherwise I will break you into thousands of pieces."

The leading Turkic general was very angry, but at the same time rushed to an indescribable helplessness, the Tang army of several hundred people was wreaking havoc on their steppe, but they could not deal with them.

Hateful.

If it weren't for their 200,000 Turkic soldiers and horses to attack the Tang Dynasty, these more than 1,000 Tang troops would not have survived for three days on their grassland.

Anger spread, and then the frenzied Turkic soldiers began to chase Xue Wanche's team across the steppe.

It's just that Xue Wanche is no longer ready to confront them head-on, and the grassland is so big, and the main Turkic force is not there, so it is really not easy to really help them.

In the Turkic steppe, a battle for deer continued to be staged, and more and more Turkic people were killed.

Grief, grief.

At the same time, on the side of Lingzhou City, it is a different situation.

The messenger from the capital soon came to Lingzhou City and took Li Shimin's edict to Li Jing.

After Li Jing saw it, his expression suddenly moved.

"I really didn't expect that the Turks actually used the strategy of diverting the tiger from the mountain, tens of thousands of troops were on the Lingzhou side to contain the main force of our Tang army, and he took 100,000 soldiers and horses to approach the Tang Dynasty."

"Damn...... Damn ......"

Li Jing said, and soon felt that Li Shimin was right in the edict, if you want to force back the Turkic soldiers and horses, Lingzhou must fight a victory, let Jieli Khan know that if he insists on attacking Chang'an, then they will let the Turks have no more troops available.

Otherwise, if the Turks can't be forced back and Chang'an fights, then the prosperous Chang'an, which the Tang Dynasty has spent so many years building, will probably be burned.

Many people must also be displaced.

Li Jing walked back and forth in the big tent in the army, and after a while, he immediately called a group of generals.

"Order the soldiers, get ready, tonight, I will lead the troops to attack the camp and hit the Turks hard."

Since he led the troops to Lingzhou, Li Jing's soldiers and horses have never gone out of the city to fight, but now for the safety of Chang'an, he must go out of the city.

(End of chapter)