Yes, the fact that the Tang army created such an atmosphere undoubtedly proves that the battle was won.

The situation on the battlefield soon developed towards Li Yuanji's expectations, and the Turks, who were violently attacking the main formation, began to retreat frantically, and the Turkic cavalry they faced also began to quickly withdraw from the battlefield.

Li Yuanji did not chase after him, except for himself, the rest were almost all lacking soldiers, and he had no ability to pursue at all.

"Back to the battle!" With a cold snort, Li Yuanji manipulated the reins and withdrew to the main formation.

It's not that he doesn't want to care about those soldiers who are willing to do their best at the end of their lives, but in the current situation, there is no chance for him to come forward, and that is not helping them, but harming them.

Su Dingfang and the others silently supported those soldiers who were already seriously injured, and slowly walked towards the direction of the main formation.

Returning to the main formation, Xu Xiaosheng was at a loss with embarrassment, the horizontal knife had been put back on his waist, the previous performance was indeed brave, but it was useless, before he could run to the battlefield, the battle was over, and he had no choice but to follow Li Yuanji back to the main formation.

Wei Chi Jingde stared at Xu Xiaosheng with an angry face, making him shiver uncontrollably, this is not a good phenomenon.

However, fortunately, Wei Chi Jingde's attention did not stay on Xu Xiaosheng for a long time, he just swept his eyes lightly, and said to Li Yuanji: "Your Highness, the last general has captured the enemy's head, please deal with it!" ”

Capture the enemy's head alive?

Li Yuanji was not surprised, in this case, the previous abnormalities would be normal.

The generals have all been arrested, what is the strength of this battle? The Turks were already fighting very badly, and now there is no reason to stay.

"How's the battle going?" Li Yuanji didn't ask about the situation of the enemy leader, Wei Chi Jingde and they are all veterans of the battlefield, what to do at this time, naturally they don't have to explain themselves.

"Big win!" Wei Chi Jingde's face was expressionless, and even slightly regretful, in stark contrast to the great victory itinerary in his mouth: "Our army suffered about 600 casualties, and at least 1,000 killed by the enemy. ”

At this time, Wei Chi Jingde set his eyes on Su Lie, in fact, he had already found out that Su Lie was back, but the situation was very different from what he expected, and he couldn't help asking: "Su Lie, what about your people?" ”

Su Lie secretly complained in his heart, annoyed, and depressed, he led seven hundred cavalry to carry out the flank raid mission, but he came back less than two hundred, and after the battle just now, half of the dozens of seriously wounded were directly gone, and the rest were reduced by one-third.

Seven hundred men went there, but when they came back they were not even one hundred and fifteen, and they said they were victorious, but they had never seen a victory in such a state, and they said they were defeated, but they did win.

Perhaps lamenting the injustice of his fate, Su Lie took a deep breath and said: "General, I led my troops to stray into the enemy camp on the right flank, and our troops killed thousands of enemies, and finally killed and retreated the enemy army, but that's all there is to it." ”

Although it is an understatement, it can also make people perceive the difficulty of the battle, and how miserable should the battle scene be when two-thirds of the battle is lost?

At least it will be worse than the main front, and the cavalry responsible for carrying out the raid on the left flank has not yet returned, and no one can say what the situation will be on that side.

Losing 1,100 people and killing 2,500 enemies is not unacceptable, and it is even good.

But in Li Yuanji's view, the Tang Army, which had all the advantages, actually played a humiliating record of 1:2, and with the equipment level of the Tang Army, such a result should never have occurred.

Looking up at the Turks who were only left with billowing dust, Li Yuanji sighed helplessly: "Withdraw the troops!" ”

Wei Chi Jingde was a little hesitant, but when he thought of his own situation, it was indeed not suitable to fight anymore, so he could only nod his head in the end and agree to Li Yuanji's proposal.

"Xu Xiaosheng, you go to the left flank and tell Xu Hu to withdraw to Weiqiao as soon as possible." Wei Chi Jingde glared at Xu Xiaosheng fiercely, and then arranged a task for him.

"No!" Xu Xiaosheng sucked his slightly sore nose aggrievedly, and I knew that it would be like this.

"General, I am willing to go to the left flank to find Captain Xu." Su Lie stepped forward, knelt on one knee and clenched his fists in pleading.

"Get out!" Wei Chi Jingde couldn't help but be furious, when did it take to brew? Still adding to the chaos?

"Since he is willing to go, let him go with Xu Xiaosheng!" Li Yuanji said coldly.

Wei Chi Jingde was slightly stunned, and then waved his hand helplessly, and Su Lie and Xu Xiaosheng galloped towards the left wing.

"Send someone to the right flank to check the battle situation, this king wants to know the specific number of enemies destroyed, at least accurate to 100." Looking at the figures of the two leaving, Li Yuanji said in a low voice.

"There's something wrong with that, isn't it?" Wei Chi Jingde was obviously a little reluctant.

Who to send at this time? Su Lie has already said that if there are thousands of enemies annihilated, then it must be thousands, and it is impossible to falsely report military achievements, if you send people at this time, wouldn't it be clear to everyone that you don't trust them? Although this is also for the sake of rigor, it does hurt morale.

"You didn't remind the king, but you forgot!" slapped his forehead violently: "Divide three hundred people to the right wing to collect the corpses of the brothers, and when you go, you will have to bring back a lot of them." ”

Monkey business!

Wei Chi Jingde's mind only had these two words left, which was just nonsense.

It's not uncommon to collect your own corpses on the battlefield, but there has never been such a ridiculous practice.

Under normal circumstances, people will be sent to the enemy camp to inform and coordinate, and after the two sides agree on the time, each side will send a corpse collection team to enter the combat zone without any weapons to collect their own corpses, and if there is no agreement, they will rashly enter the combat zone to collect the corpses, and if the enemy forces seize the opportunity, those who go to collect the corpses will not survive.

What's more, the main Turkic force was nearby, and they had encountered so many enemy troops just about twenty miles from Weishui, didn't it prove the danger here?

"This king just wants to let the Turks know that my Datang not only has the ability to defeat them, but also has the ability to bring back the corpses of my Datang soldiers before they arrive." Li Yuanji said confidently, and he already had a way to deal with the Turks in his heart.

"No, it's too dangerous, this is disregarding the life and death of the soldiers, I will never agree." Wei Chi Jingde shook his head violently, what Li Yuanji said was indeed quite relieving, but it was not realistic at all.

Li Yuanji silently took out the secret edict from his chest and put it in front of Wei Chi Jingde: "Now, what this king says is counted!" ”

Looking at the secret edict, Wei Chi Jingde was itching with hatred, but there was no way, he didn't dare to disobey the order, so he had to send three hundred people to collect the corpse.

The rest of the people sent a part to the back to lead the war horses, and it only took a quarter of an hour to collect the corpses of the three hundred people who returned to the main formation, and the corpses of more than five hundred soldiers were brought back one by one, and the main formation also packed everything up.

Later, Li Yuanji sent another 200 people, each with three war horses, to the left flank to collect the corpse, but this time it was not mandatory, if it could be collected, it would be collected, and if it could not be collected, it would be withdrawn.

After doing all this, Li Yuanji took back the secret edict again, and Wei Chi Jingde was full of depression with his scarred soldiers and hundreds of corpses to retreat in the direction of Weiqiao.

"Su Lie's side killed at least two thousand enemy troops!" Wei Chi Jingde's face was still rigorous, but he looked a little better, he lost 500 and killed 2,000 enemies, even if the whole army was wiped out, Su Lie could not be blamed for such a record, but only too many enemy troops.

"The rest is to drive the sheep...... Li Yuanji muttered alone.