Chapter 484: Raid on the Iron Mountain Camp

Jieli fled to the Iron Mountain camp and finally breathed a sigh of relief, where he still had an army of 100,000 and hundreds of thousands of people, which was enough to resist the Tang army for a while. At that time, it is estimated that Zhao Deyan also brought rescue troops from the Western Turks, and he can fight against the Tang army.

Jieli sent people to Li Shimin to ask for surrender to buy time, and at the same time actively reorganized the army for war. He once again arranged for his generals to come to the Tang Dynasty, pretending to apologize and ask for surrender. Li Shimin ordered Hongluqing, Tang Jian, and general An Xiuren to go to comfort him.

At this time, Li Jing also came to Yinshan, and their three-way army merged together to discuss how to solve the Jieli of the Tieshan camp.

At this time, Li Shimin's edict arrived, saying that the Turkic Jieli Khan had surrendered and asked them to stop the attack, and the imperial envoys Tang Jian and An Xiuren had arrived at Tieshan to negotiate with the Turks.

Li Jing, Li Shiji, and Chai Shao couldn't stop frowning when they received the order. Chai Shao said: "Jieli will never be willing to surrender, this is still his delaying tactic!" If you can't eliminate him in one fell swoop this time, it is equivalent to returning to the mountain with endless troubles. ”

Li Shiji also said: "Although Jieli was defeated, there are still many people and horses, if you walk through the desert and get the protection of the nine surnamed Tiele, the road is far away and dangerous, it will be difficult to catch up with them." Now that His Majesty has sent Tang Jian there, the Turks will definitely relax their vigilance, and we will attack later, so that we can pacify the thieves without a fight. ”

Li Jing held his wrist and said happily: "Your words are Han Xin's strategy to destroy Tian Heng." The two of us coincide. As the saying goes, it will be outside, and the monarch's order will not be affected! Let's write a note to Your Majesty to explain the current situation, so that we don't have to wait for a reply, and directly send troops to attack Jieli. ”

General Zhang Gongjin frowned slightly and said, "General, now that Lord Tang Jian and General An Xiuren are in the enemy camp, if we rashly launch an attack, I am afraid that we will kill them." ”

Li Jing gritted his teeth slightly and said, "If you can destroy the Eastern Turks in one fell swoop, then you can't care so much." However, Lord Tang Jian has merit with the country, and he can't ignore it. Arrange special forces to infiltrate in this way, and do your best to obey the fate of heaven! ”

Li Jing judged that there would definitely be a heavy snowfall the day after tomorrow, so the three of them discussed that Li Jing selected 10,000 elite soldiers to take advantage of the heavy snow to raid Jieli's Tieshan camp. And Li Shiji led the remaining men and horses to capture Helin and block the entrance to Jieli's escape to the desert.

Li Shiji first reorganized his troops and horses and went to Helin; Three days later, the black clouds were at the top, the sky was dark yellow during the day, and the north wind was howling for a short time, and the snow was falling, and people could hardly see people clearly.

Li Jing personally led 10,000 elite horsemen, each prepared 20 days of rations, set off overnight, and galloped towards Tieshan. They braved the snow to reach the Yin Mountain and encountered small Turkic tribes, about 1,000 tents. Li Jing ordered the army to suddenly attack and completely capture this tribe.

Here they rested for a while, and let the captives and the army as guides to lead them to the Iron Mountain camp.

At this time, it happened to be dawn, and the fog was thick, Li Jing sent Su Dingfang to lead 200 special forces to infiltrate the enemy camp first, and agreed with him that no matter whether Tang Jian could be found or not, the Tang army would launch a general attack after an hour.

Su Dingfang agreed, and with his special elites, dressed in Turkic clothes, took advantage of the fog to go straight to the Turkic Iron Mountain camp.

Jieli saw that the Tang envoy had arrived, and this Tang envoy was not an ordinary courtier in the Tang Dynasty, but from Long Laochen, the dignified Ju Guogong, and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. It seems that Datang sincerely accepted his request to surrender and was ready to negotiate peace.

In this negotiation, I might as well set the standard a little lower, so that the Tang Dynasty can feel face-saving, and I can also take the opportunity to reap some benefits. Wait for yourself to ease up and settle accounts with the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, Jieli made up his mind, lowered his posture very low, and arranged for Tang Jian and others to live not far from his Jinding Tooth Tent, and arranged for his own clan women to serve them. Therefore, Tang Jian and An Xiuren are now complacent, thinking that their mission can be successfully completed.

At this time, Su Dingfang and others mixed into the Turkic Iron Mountain camp. There were 100,000 Turkic troops in this large camp, as well as hundreds of thousands of Turkic people; It stretches for dozens of miles.

How easy is it to search for the whereabouts of Dao Tang Jian and An Xiuren in such a large area? They didn't dare to startle the snake, so they searched for an hour but did not find the whereabouts of Tang Jian and the others.

A cold light flashed in Su Dingfang's eyes and said: "Everyone, the time for the general attack has come, and no one can stop the army from moving." It's just that Ju Guogong's luck is too bad, so let's immediately launch an attack on the Golden Tooth Tent and show the way for the army. ”

These special elites all agreed to Su Dingfang's strategy, so they rushed towards the crumbling Turkic tent.

Before they could get close to the Turkic tent, they were spotted by the guards. These people saw hundreds of Turkic soldiers rushing towards them with scimitars, and each shouted, "What are you doing? In front of it is the Khan's tooth tent, and if you don't stop, you will open your bow and arrows. ”

Su Dingfang and the others laughed secretly in their hearts, they ignited the thunderbolt in their hands, and shouted: "Let you taste the power of the bomb!" Then he threw it at him.

"Boom!" "Boom!" The sound of the explosion was loud, the scene was filled with gunsmoke, and flesh and blood were flying. The Turkic guards were killed and wounded in large numbers and fled in all directions. Su Dingfang led people to take the opportunity to kill them and went straight to the Turkic tent.

It has long been a mess here, and the Turks are scurrying around. They saw that they were about to enter the tent, and suddenly the curtain of the big tent next to them was lifted, and two disheveled Han people ran out of it; Su Dingfang looked at it, it wasn't Tang Jian and An Xiuren.

Fortunately, Su Dingfang kept his mission in mind, and quickly gave up the sneak attack on Jieli, turned around and surrounded Tang Jian and the others, and he shouted: "Lord Tang, the last general, Su Dingfang, has been ordered by General Manager Li to take you to break through." ”

Tang Jian still doesn't understand that a good peace negotiation has turned into a war, but there is no possibility of peace talks after the big war, so he has to follow Su Ding's direction to kill outside.

Jieli knew that it was not good when he heard the explosion, he knew that this was the secret weapon of the Central Plains people, why did he suddenly start a fight just now? And all at once the enemy rushed into the hinterland.

It seems that the Tang army sent peace talks to be a ploy, in order to indulge their vigilance and take the opportunity to break through their Tieshan camp. Because he did not know how many of the enemy were coming at once, he hastened to order his army to retreat; In the end, he was unwilling and sent his generals to kill Tang Jian and others to vent his anger.

Li Jing led people to quietly touch the place seven miles in front of the Tieshan camp, and suddenly heard a dense explosion inside, knowing that this was Su Dingfang transmitting a message, he led the cavalry to rush straight to the direction of the explosion without saying a word.

Now the people in the Turkic camp are shouting and neighing, and there is a mess. These Turkic civilians had never seen thunderbolts at all, nor did they think that there would be thunder in winter; They all thought that it was the Tang Army's demon law that was wrong, and they scattered and fled one by one, and they couldn't organize effective resistance at all.

Li Jing led the men and horses into the long drive, they saw the golden tooth tent, and rushed up to the shark as if they were bloody.

At this time, Su Dingfang brandished a horizontal knife and fought fiercely with the Turkic generals, and their two hundred people were besieged by more than ten times their own enemies, and their faces still did not change. These people are far away with crossbows, and when they enter with swords, they will detonate thunderbolts and die with the enemy.

Yahu led more than 3,000 people who couldn't take them for a while, but forced them to retreat again and again.

At this moment, Li Jing's reinforcements arrived, and 10,000 iron horsemen rushed over, and everything where the iron horsemen passed turned into powder. Yahu saw that it was not good, and quickly ordered to retreat.

Where would Su Dingfang let him go, chased after him, and stabbed him in half while he was distracted.

When the war came to this, Jieli had no chance of winning, and he rode a thousand-mile horse and fled west under the protection of his own soldiers.

Li Jing sneered and did not chase after him, but let the army force down the Turks in the Tieshan camp. The battle did not end until the evening. After the first battle, more than 10,000 Turkic soldiers were killed and 30,000 were taken prisoner. Another 100,000 Turkic herdsmen, men and women, were captured; The Turks were crippled in almost a battle.

Tang Jian heard the report, he knew that Li Jing was a great credit, not to mention that he was rescued by someone else and did not have an accident, but died; Li Shimin will not blame Li Jing either.

"Alas!" Tang Jian let out a long sigh, and without saying a word, he took the initiative to congratulate Li Jing. Li Jing did not get carried away, and immediately said: This time it was himself and Tang Jian who made a plan, and Lord Tang was willing to take risks and paralyze Jieli to make the first battle a complete success, and Tang Jian, the Duke of Juguo, should be the first credit. ”

Tang Jian felt a lot more comfortable when he heard this, and while being humble, he calmly accepted Li Jing's gift, and the unhappiness between the two disappeared without a trace.

After Jieli was defeated, he fled to Helin again, as if he wanted to return to Mobei. As a result, as soon as I arrived in Helin, I found that there was thick smoke billowing there, as if there was a war.

In the first battle of Tieshan, his 100,000 army was killed, 10,000 were captured, and 20,000 or 30,000 were scattered, and now he has less than 40,000 men in his hands.

"Let's take a look at what's wrong with Kazurin?" Jieli was shocked and hurriedly ordered someone to investigate. As a result, the people had not yet gone out, and the surrounding suddenly shouted and killed. The two brothers Qin Shubao and Zhang Gongjin took the lead and rushed straight over with swords and guns.

Jieli is now a frightened bird, and when he sees the enemy, he does not dare to resist at all, so he turns around and runs away with the army. The Turkic army also fled, and the Tang army then covered up and seized a lot of knives, guns, equipment, and baggage tents.

Retreat to Mobei, this road is impassable. Jieli only seems to be prepared to make a detour from the extremely cold land to Mobei.

At this moment, Cheng Zhijie's brigade was slowly moving in the depths of the prairie, and their goal was to block Jieli's northward rout.

Zhao Deyan did everything possible to come to the Western Turks and meet the Great Khan of the Western Turks. The period of Tongyehu Khan was the peak of the Western Turks; Now the Western Turks claim to have hundreds of thousands of people who control the strings, and their martial arts surpass those of the previous khans.