Chapter XVIII: The Turkic Retreat
It was dark, and the cold wind gradually subsided again.
However, the chill caused by the snowfall did not dissipate much, but continued to penetrate the skin because there was no flow.
Li Kong opened his eyes suddenly, threw the fur on his body away, and then looked at the Turkic camp opposite.
In the camp, the bonfires were almost extinguished, except for a few sparks that shimmered in the snow.
To Li Kong's surprise, the Turkic army showed no signs of agitation, and it stands to reason that they would definitely find the dead people in the big tent now.
"Could it be that labor and management spent most of the day working hard to stay up in this ice and snow for so long, and only killed two inconsequential people?"
The thought in his heart made Li Kong very depressed, although even if Tuli and Jieli did not die now, it would be absolutely impossible to attack Jingyang again, but if such a good opportunity did not accomplish something, Li Kong always felt a little aggrieved in his heart.
But now that the enemy has moved, the entire battalion except for those who died due to the extreme cold, the rest of the camp is constantly flipping and walking around in the battalion, and there is no chance to attack again.
I don't know how long it took, a white line gradually appeared in the eastern sky, and the whole world instantly entered extreme darkness, and after an instant, a trace of light sprinkled onto the earth, coupled with the reflection of the snow, Li Kong's vision finally returned to normal.
"This is ......" As his sight recovered, Li Kong suddenly found that the people in the entire Turkic camp were a little strange, some soldiers were actually controlling some other soldiers, although there were some wandering outside, but those people were only a very few, estimated to be less than one-tenth of the total number.
After about half an hour, the earth had completely returned to its drowsy day, and although it was still a little blurry, it no longer affected human activity.
The Turkic battalion finally began to pull out the camp, not so much as to gather up the things scattered on the ground, and then drive the horses together.
The whole process of pulling out the camp was very short, and in less than a quarter of an hour, this group of Turkic soldiers had all been assembled, but what made Li Kong stunned was that after they gathered, they actually headed north.
However, after yesterday's bitter cold, today's Turks are already sleepy and look lifeless, and coupled with the strange situation in the middle, their march speed is very slow.
But perhaps in order to confuse the Tang army behind, they still walked neatly and neatly, without the slightest sign of collapse.
Seeing this situation, Li Kong suddenly realized that his assassination last night should have been effective, and the reason why there is such a situation now is that it is estimated that the surviving guy preemptively controlled the other group of people.
Thinking of this, Li Kong no longer hesitated, quickly turned around and ran towards the place where the horse was tied.
But what made him speechless was that last night's heavy snow directly froze his mount to death, looking at the white horse lying motionless on the ground, stiff, Li Kong's heart was a little uncomfortable, such a big horse, it was too much of a loss to die here, if it was in the city, it would still be ...... Well, it should be pretty good to eat it on fire.
Shook his head and snuffed out this thought, horses in this era are military supplies, unless they reach the point of exhaustion, otherwise killing horses is a big crime.
Sighing again, he could only open his legs and walk back to Jingyang.
At the same time, on the top of the Jingyang city wall.
Li Shimin took Li Tao and others to climb high and look into the distance, preparing to meet the Turkic attack.
The snow had piled up on the walls, already submerging the ankles, creaking and creaking on them, and a biting cold pierced through the soles of the feet and rushed to the brain.
"Report ......" As soon as everyone stood still, a guard rushed over, turned over and dismounted directly, and shouted loudly under the city wall: "Your Majesty, the Turkic army has withdrawn!" ”
Li Shimin was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Everyone, the Turkic army can't bear the severe cold, so it is the first to withdraw, do you dare to go with me to kill it?" ”
Hou Junji, Cheng Yanjin and other fierce generals are eager to try.
But Li Jing said: "It's better to go and see the situation first, if this is the Turkic strategy to lure the dragon out of the cave, we will rush forward so rashly, it is no different from sending it to death." ”
His words were like a basin of cold water, poured directly on the heads of the already cold people, making everyone shiver in unison, not cold, but frightened.
If it's just them, these generals are okay, after all, the generals will inevitably die in battle, but the key is that Li Shimin is still there, if Li Shimin makes a good move, then the Tang Dynasty that they have worked so hard to fight will fall into turmoil again, and some forces hidden in the shadows will inevitably take advantage of the situation to rise, and even if Datang can survive at that time, it will be over.
Although Li Shimin was also a little cold, he was unwilling to let such an opportunity slip away, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go, let's go over and have a look first." ”
A moment later, the group rushed out of Jingyang with 30,000 cavalry and went straight to the location of the Turkic camp.
On the other hand, Jieli is now a mixture of anger and surprise, he can't understand, why did he sleep and wake up as a murderer?
Although he really wanted Tuli to die, but he was inexplicably used as a gunman, so that his pride could not bear it at all, and the most important thing was that he also took the life of his own general's insistence, which was too special.
Looking at the hateful look in Ashdewu's eyes as he followed him, Jieli could almost predict what would happen when they returned to the grassland.
But it was all a battle within the grassland, and it was much better than being here now and finally being killed by Datang.
What's more, although the prestige of the Turks is good, but his tribe is not really ironclad, even if Ashdewu is not strong, if he wants to fight back, he will have to prepare for several months, and he, maybe he can take this opportunity to completely unify the entire Eastern Turks.
When the time comes...... Jieli's eyes narrowed slightly, and his eyes were already full of murderous intent when he looked at Ashdewu again.
The stretch of official road was covered with heavy snow, and if it weren't for the stubborn dead grass on both sides of the road, Li Kong doubted that he would have gone into the ditch.
The snowflakes had become very small, but they were still floating in the shuttle, and from time to time a few pieces of ice drilled into his eyes, and the cold feeling directly stimulated his tear ducts, so that he couldn't help but burst into tears, and then was frozen into ice slag, the taste was really sour.
Fortunately, his resistance is good, and coupled with the constant running, he didn't feel much cold.
Suddenly, a violent tremor came from the front, and when I looked up, tens of thousands of cavalry rushed towards this place in the snow, and the huge bright yellow imperial flag fluttered in the wind in front.
His eyes lit up, Li Kong hurriedly ripped off the scarf on his head, moved more than a dozen steps to the left, and then waved it vigorously......