Chapter 145: Preparing for the Attack on the Camp

The more than 1,000 sergeants led by Liu Yi, plus the 1,500 sergeants led by Zhang Qianxuan, already had an advantage in terms of numbers, not to mention that this was a surprise battle in which the Turks had no defense, and the battle turned into a one-sided massacre.

After less than two quarters of an hour of fighting, the first battle commanded by Liu Yi was nearing the end, most of the Turks had been annihilated, and only a few of the more brave Turks were still resisting.

But in the face of the overwhelming superiority of the Tang Dynasty soldiers, these few Turkic warriors were also immediately wiped out, some of the Turks who surrendered were captured, and the Turks who resisted were all cut to the ground.

Before the attack, Liu Yi ordered the brigade commander Wang Sui to lead a team of about 200 sergeants to dodge and kill the Turks with crossbows on the periphery, and monitor the situation, if the Turks were found to have escaped, they would immediately pursue and annihilate them, this small-scale battle could not let a Turk escape, this was Pei Xingjian's order, and it was also something that Liu Yi felt had to do.

The elimination of more than 2,000 Turks was only a prelude to the war, and it was necessary to take advantage of the situation to annihilate all the troops of Ashid who were not far from this place. According to Liu Yi's plan, if he was Pei Xingjian, he would pretend to be a Turk after destroying the Turkic food grabbing troops, approach his camp, attack overnight, and the follow-up army would take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, so that he could defeat or even completely annihilate Ashina's ministry in a battle, and then march eastward, and launch an attack on the Turks led by Ashwin Fu and Ashina before they could respond in the future.

The soldiers are very fast, and the surprise attack can maximize the results, if the attack on the Turkic camp at night, supplemented by a fire attack, the results will be even more surprising, Liu Yi hopes that Pei Xingjian can take the advice he said before leaving, or Pei Xingjian himself can have such a resolution.

The battle has basically ended, Huan Yanfan and Jinghui and others are patrolling the battlefield with their subordinates, searching for the remaining Turks, if there is not a single survivor in this battle, the Turks who are not dead will also help them and send them to meet their wolf gods.

The corpses of more than 2,000 Turks fell to the ground, countless severed limbs and stumps, and some of the sergeants who participated in the battle for the first time showed obvious discomfort, facing the corpses all over the ground, the bloody scene was unbearable, and many of them vomited there.

This is a normal physiological reaction of people, just like when Liu Yi used a sniper rifle to kill someone for the first time in later generations, he saw that the target's head was blown up by him, and the red and white brain pulp flowed to the ground after the head exploded, and he had a physiological reaction to want to vomit, and his mood fluctuations were also very large, but he quickly calmed down. As the number of missions increased, the number of people killed by him also accumulated, and they had turned a blind eye to it and had no reaction. After being reborn until now, this psychology has not changed, and there can be no reaction to the dead person, just like the last time in the palace, two Tubo warriors were killed during the martial arts competition, Liu Yi did not have any mood fluctuations, and now in the face of stump arms and limbs all over the ground, as well as the disgusting smell of blood, Liu Yi also did not feel particularly uncomfortable.

At the same time, Liu Yi instructed his subordinates to interrogate the captured Turks, and at the same time, he also sent someone to report the news of the total annihilation of the Turks to Pei Xingjian, who was at least about 100 miles away from here, and then rode his horse to Zhang Qianqiao, who was commanding the sergeants to search for the remnants of the enemy, and ran over, ready to communicate with Zhang Qianqiao about the plan of action later.

Before this operation, Pei Xingjian ordered them to wait for a new order, which made Liu Yi wonder if Pei Xingjian's order had not come, it would have been impossible to wait here stupidly, and then the meaning of a quick assault would be lost. He also couldn't figure out why Pei Xingjian didn't give him the order for the next action before leaving.

Liu Yi dismounted not far from Zhang Qianmiao, stepped forward to salute his former boss, and said loudly: "General Zhang is brave, the Turks have been completely annihilated by us!"

"Where, where is it, General Liu fought bravely, and he solved the Turks so quickly, the last general is very admired!" Zhang Qianqiao was a little jealous and admired the cruel way of killing the enemy that Liu Yi showed just now, and he couldn't understand why this young general, who was on the battlefield for the first time, didn't have a little stage fright, and didn't have any reaction when he saw such a bloody scene?

Liu Yi's action of killing the enemy just now was clean enough, and at least a dozen Turks died under Liu Yi's gun, including two Turkic leaders.

It was Liu Yi who killed the two Turkic leaders, and the Turks who lost the command of the leaders were so easily eliminated.

Liu Yi was also polite, the two politely praised each other for a while, and then discussed how to arrange the next thing, Liu Yi and Zhang Qianqiao almost unanimously believed that their men and horses should take advantage of the morale of the first battle to continue to march north, and when the Turks were unprepared, they entered the camp to rush and kill.

Liu Yi thought that Su Dingfang dared to rush to kill the Turkic camp with 200 horsemen and won the victory, if he also led these 2,000 Tang soldiers to attack the Turks' tent this time, and also won the victory, it would definitely be famous and impressive.

At this time, Liu Yi's lieutenant Jinghui ran over to report that the interrogation of more than a dozen captured Turks had been completed, and the general situation had been clarified, and all of these captured people had been beheaded after confessing.

There will be a continuous operation in the future, and it is impossible to advance with the captives, and it is impossible to separate men and horses to see the prisoners, and there is no way to do such a cruel thing.

Judging from the information told by the captured Turks, the Turks did not know that my follow-up army had arrived in the Anbei area, and the camp was still stationed in the same place and did not move, and they still thought that the tens of thousands of troops who stayed in this area were still the tens of thousands of troops led by Xiao Siye.

This is a good phenomenon, in this era when the transmission of information is very inconvenient, even if the edict of the imperial court is issued, hundreds of thousands of soldiers from all directions go on the expedition, and the Turks in the desert area do not know, that is a normal thing.

While Liu Yi and Zhang Qianqiao were discussing the next action, the vigilant sergeant ran over to them and loudly reported to them that there was a situation.

Liu Yi also hurriedly got on the horse, raised his treasure-like monoculars, and followed the sergeant's hand to check the situation.

In Liu Yi's binoculars, he saw that a few cavalrymen in our sergeant outfits were running over quickly, but they were not the people Liu Yi had just sent out to report the news, and it was impossible for the herald who also reported the news to come back so quickly.

Whether it is friend or foe, Liu Yi will not let these people easily accept our people, Liu Yi also immediately ordered, let Huan Yanfan lead a group of sergeants to meet him, investigate the situation, and at the same time make his subordinates ready for battle.

After a while, Huan Yanfan, who led his subordinates to greet him, came back with those people, and it turned out to be a sergeant sent by Pei Xingjian to give orders.

The sergeant who gave the order dictated the order, and asked Liu Yi to lead his troops to quickly go north, preparing to attack the Turkic department where Ashide was serving, and handed over Pei Xingjian's warrant to Liu Yi.

Liu Yi took the order in Zhang Qianmiao's slight embarrassment.

This order was given to him, not Zhang Qianqiao, who had a higher position and rank, which made Liu Yi a little proud, but Pei Xingjian still appreciated himself more.

Pei Xingjian said in the order that when Liu Yi and Zhang Qianqiao's troops surrounded and annihilated the Turks' grain grabbing detachment, the rest of our army had quickly moved north, preparing to cross Qingshan and arrive in the Yinshan area to strike a surprise blow at the Turks stationed in this area. Pei Xingjian also ordered Liu Yi, with his original men and horses, as well as Zhang Qianxuan's men and horses, to go north as fast as possible after the end of the battle, and prepare to launch an attack on the Turks' tent, and the rest of the materials were left in place, and someone would come to receive them.

Such an order made Liu Yi overjoyed, it turned out that Pei Xingjian's attack plan was exactly what he thought, this annihilation of more than 2,000 Turkic grain grabbing detachments was just a prelude before the start of the war, and it was also an opportunity for him to make meritorious contributions, Pei Xingjian did not worry at all about the more than 1,000 people he led, plus Zhang Qian's 1,500 people, could not annihilate the Turkic grain grabbing detachment.

Let himself be in charge of more than 2,000 people, Zhang Qianmiao also has to obey his own command, which makes Liu Yi a little proud, Zhang Qianmiao, who has just reported to the Left Guard Army, is a general who is a little cold to himself, but now he has to obey his own command, he is the commander-in-chief of this Tang Army detachment, to a certain extent, he can freely play his own decision-making, the generals who went out for the first time, rarely have such an honor.

Liu Yi also presented the warrant to Zhang Qianmiao, who did not dare to disobey the order, and immediately convened the department to prepare to obey Liu Yi's dispatch.

Zhang Qianmiao's troops did not have horses, and the more than 2,000 ownerless war horses of the Turks just provided them with foot strength, and each of them had a surplus.

At this time, the results of the battle have also been counted, in this raid battle, there are 2,12 Turks killed by our side, none of them escaped the net, our sergeants are also more than 100 killed, more than 200 wounded, Liu Yi ordered the injured sergeants to continue the battle to stay, waiting for the rescue of the follow-up army.

Liu Yi faced the more than 2,000 soldiers who were lining up on the grassland to prepare to go north, and announced the next course of action, telling the soldiers to seize the time to rest, replenish food and water, and set off half an hour later, passing through the valley where the ambush had just been set up, and marching north.

After interrogating the Turkic captives just now, Liu Yi got the report, and he also roughly understood the location of Asid's office.

The distance between the camp where Asid was appointed was not close, and after crossing the Daqing Mountain, there were still more than 200 miles away, and according to Liu Yi's estimate, their men and horses could arrive outside the camp of the Turks at night the next day.

From the briefing from Pei Xingjian, Liu Yi can also deduce that if the army led by Pei Xingjian marches lightly day and night, it will probably be able to arrive at the location of Ashid's post from the night of tomorrow to the morning after tomorrow.

Since Pei Xingjian is ready to completely annihilate Ashide's service department, there is no reason not to speed up.

Liu Yi also understood at this time that Pei Xingjian asked him to command the first battle of the army was selfish, that is, to create an opportunity for him to make meritorious contributions, and originally sent any army to attack, more than 2,000 Turks would have no chance to escape!

After a short rest, Liu Yi ordered all the soldiers to mount their horses, and all the extra horses were also brought with them, and they headed north...

(To be continued)