"Tuli, did you deliberately know the enemy's strength and not say it?" Under the huge loss, Wu Yan Tu didn't even care about the minimum etiquette and asked directly.

"Wu Yantu, is your brain stuffed with grass, if I knew the strength of the enemy, I would let me send thousands of warriors to death?!"

"Then why didn't you save yourself when you saw death, and didn't attack?" Wu Yan said suddenly.

Tuli looked at him contemptuously and replied, "Do you understand, if I had rushed after you, you would have been lying on your stomach in the fire like them." Your brother died not so much at the hands of the Tang Army as at your hands. Besides, you just told me before dinner that you could capture Lingzhou City in the evening and invite me to drink, who would have thought that you would be like this."

Wu Yan Tu was speechless by Tu Li for a while, and turned his head to his own soldiers in anger and shouted, "Go back to the camp!" ”。

Looking at the back of Wu Yan suddenly disappearing, Tu Li said to himself: "You idiot, you think you can beat the Han people down with your brute brain? This time I came to Lingzhou, the city walls are more than two feet higher than the last time I came, we didn't even see a Han hair in the villages we passed on the way, you don't have to think about it, if you treat me better, I may tell you, look at your marmot like eyes, if I tell you it, it's weird, Lao Tzu is not your father."

Looking at the sun setting down, Tuli also returned to the camp with his own men.

At nightfall, the Turkic camp was silent except for a few chirping of horses and an unextinguished fire. A dark cloud obscured the moonlight, and suddenly there was a rumbling drum sound from the city, and the shouts of the Tang army were also heard from afar.

The Turkic soldiers guarding at night hurriedly blew the horn of the early warning in their hands, and for a while the people in the Turkic camp shouted and neighed, and when they walked out of the camp tent and got on the horse, they found that there was no sound at the head of the city, which turned out to be a false alarm. In the second half of the night, there was another toss, and there was a lot of scolding in the Turkic camp.

Wu Yan suddenly scolded: "What do these Tang troops who are as brave as rabbits want to do, wait for Lao Tzu to occupy Lingzhou City tomorrow and kill them all!" ”

By the time they had fallen asleep again, the morning star was already hanging high in the sky, the ground was already covered with a morning mist, and a few early Turkic soldiers were ready to start the hot mare's milk barbecue.

The gate of Lingzhou City suddenly opened at this time, and Li Jing rushed out with 3,000 elite cavalry, followed by nearly 15,000 infantry and quickly rushed towards the Turkic camp.

According to the current time, it is about four or five o'clock in the morning, which is the time when people are asleep. Yesterday's siege suffered a heavy setback and was tossed by the Tang army for a night, the Turks were already sleepy, and they never dreamed that Li Jing would sneak attack without common sense, not to mention that they were really dreaming at this time.

When the sentry Turkic soldiers blew their horns again, few people were willing to get up anymore, and the 3,000 iron cavalry led by Li Jing pierced a gap in the Turkic camp like a dagger, and 10,000 foot soldiers poured in like a tide along the gap.

Some alert Turks had just poked their heads out of their tents, and the Tang soldiers who were driven over were stabbed in the head, and their heads rolled back and forth on the ground, and blood spurted everywhere. In the distance, the flying horses that had not been attacked by the Tang army for the time being had not yet sat down, and the rain of arrows like flying locusts was shooting head-on, and the leather armor of the Turks could not resist the powerful bows and arrows at such a close range, and nearly a hundred people disappeared from their horses in an instant.

Wu Yan suddenly heard the movement and rode barefoot on his horse, he tried to gather the army several times, but was crushed and routed by the Tang cavalry as soon as he assembled. The Tang soldiers who rushed over slashed and picked, and the surprise attack was so smooth that the Tang army was extremely brave and killed the Turks to the point of blood. The soldiers were already showing signs of collapse in front of three times the Tang army, and the fierceness of the Tang army and yesterday's return of the feathers had long since vanished the courage in their hearts.

"Chief, let's go!" The guards of the Wuyantu escorted him to turn around and prepare to flee, and the other Turkic soldiers in the camp were also frightened, and instinctively ran to the camp on the east side of the Turki for protection, but they did not expect to rush the Turki who had just reacted into chaos.

"Bite them and rush over!" Li Jing commanded 3,000 cavalry to follow the direction of Wuyan's sudden defeat and retreat, and then entered the camp of Tuli.

Fifteen miles west of the Turkic camp is the mountainous area, and further there are dense forests. The river flowing out of the mountains divides the flat land into the mountainous area, and the river surface is not very wide, but the water is turbulent, and the Turkic scouts only glanced at the front and back before and after they left.

Before the Turkic soldiers arrived in Lingzhou, Duan Zhixuanji led 3,000 cavalry to hide on the other side of the river, and there was a shallow ridge in the bend of the river into the mountain pass. It was from here that the Tang army hid in the mountains, and standing on the top of the mountain, he could clearly see Lingzhou City.

As soon as the sky was bright, a scout ran over and said that he had seen the fire and smoke at the head of the city from the top of the mountain, and Duan Zhixuan, who heard the news, laughed and said: "It seems that Li Jing has made a move, we should also do activities, these two days have made Lao Tzu stupid, pass the order down, and set off to prepare for war!" ”

Tuli had just climbed on the horse, and before he had time to give orders, he was already confused by the people who retreated from the sudden defeat of Wuyan, and he cursed in his heart but there was no way. He himself had no intention of preventing the disaster for Wuyan, so he turned his head and said to his own soldiers: "Retreat, first distance yourself from the Tang army."

Tuli was right, in terms of the number of his soldiers and horses, his own loss was far less than that of Wuyantu, and now he was running by himself, and with Wuyantu's men and horses behind him, his own losses were not great.

But he didn't expect that his subordinates had been beaten down by Li Jing for the second time, and with the psychological shadow of yesterday's defeat, the order would become a rout. I was just about to run, but I didn't expect another big chaos behind the camp, and then I vaguely heard someone shouting: "We are surrounded by the Tang army!" ”

When Tuli heard this, his heart seemed to fall into an ice cellar, and he settled down and roared to the people around him: "Quick! I must be trying to find a way to rush out! ”。

Duan Zhixuan did not bring many men and horses, but his appearance was undoubtedly a fatal blow to the defeated Turks, he did not desperately block the fleeing Turks, but very wisely held his 3,000 men and horses into a group, and faced the Turks who lost their command and ran like headless flies.

Seeing Li Jing's banner in the army from a distance, Duan Zhixuan was about to rush over with his team, but when he looked up, he saw a group of Turkic people and horses surrounded by a man wearing iron armor and running towards him.

Knowing that the person wearing iron armor among the Turks was a big fish, Duan Zhixuan didn't think about it, hung up his horse, drew his bow and arrows and shouted to the guards behind him: "Shoot!" ”。

More than a hundred oncoming sharp arrows immediately shot Wu Yantu's own soldiers. When the shield was put down, Duan Zhixuan stabbed him with the horse lance, and Wu Yan suddenly picked up the scimitar in his hand and barely took the horse lance out, but four or five horse lances that stabbed him from behind pierced him, and the horse's rushing force drove the tip of the lance to pierce him and take him away from the horse.

Wuyan Tu was too confident, and when he was defeated by Li Jiancheng, he thought he was dragged down by Liu Wuzhou. When he left the steppe, he only listened to his predecessors boast about how the Han Chinese were easy to bully and how they toiled like cattle on the steppe under the oppression of the Turks, but he did not ask them how they survived. By the time he understood before he died, the Sirius King would not be able to protect him.

"Keep his body behind!" After giving the order to the pro-soldiers, Duan Zhixuan rushed into the crowd ...... with his men and horses.

"Thank you General Li, the general is worthy of me as the first general of the Tang Dynasty, this time these commanders with the troops of the Bird Turks died in my hands, and my old Duan was caught in it", Duan Zhixuan played with a golden arrow in his hand, and looked at the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield with joy.

"Old Duan, don't be happy first, I, Li Jing, have one more thing I want you to help with" Li Jing frowned and said.

"If you say you help, you'll see the outside, and it's okay to say it directly."

"You also heard the word when you interrogated those prisoners on the spot just now, this time Jieli led 200,000 troops and horses to directly attack my Tang Dynasty, I am worried that the small victory in Lingzhou City will not be enough to change the situation of the battle."

"What are you afraid of, anyway, this time we have already cut off Jieli's hand first, tomorrow we will move the master as soon as possible to save the king of Qin, with you Li Jing here, Lao Tzu is still afraid that he will not succeed?"

"Old Duan, our 30,000 talents are less than 10,000 cavalry, if we really meet the main force of Jieli, it is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. I want to give him a siege of Wei to save Zhao this time, starting from Lingzhou to the northwest of five hundred miles is Wuyuan County, where Jieli's Yating is located. This time, he took all 200,000 horses out of the limit of his tribe's control of the strings, and there must be no protection on the grassland, so I will stab him in the back at this time, hehe......."

Duan Zhixuan looked at Li Jing in surprise and said, "When did you have this idea?" If you really want to learn from Wei Huo, it will be a great deal, and the saint will not let us do this."

"I didn't accept the order of the foreign monarch, I didn't have it yesterday, but today I dare, because the Turks gave me a big gift," after speaking, Li Jing pointed to the nearly 10,000 war horses abandoned on the battlefield with a horsewhip.

Duan Zhixuan thought for a while and said: "Okay, what do you need my old Duan to do, for my Datang, even if there is really thunder, I will be with you."

"Then thank you General Duan, I asked General Duan to help very easily, the Turks were afraid of being beaten by us, and the Turks generally went deeper when they won the battle, and they asked for peace if they lost the battle, and they were not ashamed. Besides, Tuli is also a soft commodity, otherwise he wouldn't have let his uncle snatch his sweat throne. I believe that he will never come to Lingzhou again in the short term, and General Duan will help me a lot if he takes the infantry to defend Lingzhou City", Li Jing arched at Duan Zhixuan and said.

"No problem, this matter is on my old duan!" Duan Zhixuan said with a laugh on his horse.

"Then Li Jing thank you!".

Wuyuan, the grassland in early autumn has been flushed yellow in the green, as if a huge golden carpet spread under the firmament, the Tianshan Mountains stretch for thousands of miles, it is the end of here, the grass in this area is abundant, the river is as jade as a belt under the blue sky and white clouds, the shepherd's tent is like a flower on the grassland, the sheep move in the smoke, the hunting dog runs, the woman milks the cow in front of the cow, and the eyes are full of life.

At the end of the endless grassland, a black line suddenly appeared, and there was a faint sound of muffled thunder coming down the ground, which was the sound of the hooves of thousands of horses galloping! The experienced old herdsmen also smiled and told people that their own troops had returned, and when they saw the faces of these troops, they were so frightened that they had no time to pack their things, so they dragged their families and fled for their lives.

The black line is getting closer and closer, and it turned out to be a cavalry of 5,000 people, they rode on horses and galloped forward, like the waves roaring and swallowing the grassland in an instant, this team is the Tang Dynasty cavalry led by Li Jing, these cavalry each have three or five horses, and the horses are loaded with swords, spears, bows, arrows, shields and other ordnance.

"Kill all the men in the tribe and retreat immediately!"

As Li Jing's order was issued, the Tang army began to roar towards the herdsmen's tents.

After entering the hinterland of the grassland for more than ten days, Li Jing did not encounter any decent resistance. After chasing and killing the herdsmen on the grassland, thousands of sheep in the grassland also suffered, all of them were taken away by the Tang army and turned into marching grain and grass, and they had fought for thousands of miles by plundering the herdsmen's sheep for rations.