Chapter 152: Pursuit

"Ye Hu, there seems to be an ambush of the Tang Army in front of the left, there are very many of them, and they are rushing towards us!" The Turkic leader Asid, who was leading the remnants to flee in disarray, was on duty when he suddenly received a report from the guards around him.

"What? And the Tang Army in the northwest? How many people are there? How far away from us? "Because it was a hasty escape, Asid was no longer able to send scouts to investigate the situation, and then deployed according to the situation. If the Tang army is intercepted in front of it, it cannot be heard at an earlier time, and if the enemy situation is discovered, the people around him will report it, and the enemy army will definitely not be far away.

Now that he received such a report from his subordinates, it was confirmed that the ambush of the Tang Army was nearby, which surprised Ashide again.

"Ye Hu, it's not good... The Tang army came from the northwest, with tens of thousands of people, and it was only a few miles away from us!" Several more of his men came rushing from afar, shouting in terror from afar.

"Ye Hu, what should I do?" Several leaders around Ashide asked in almost unison. Running around and encountering the Tang Army, originally this area was their world, but now it is the opposite, and there are Tang troops from afar everywhere.

They were attacked by surprise by the Tang army at night, countless clansmen were killed or burned to death, and many more were captured, and the Tang army was encountered everywhere on the way to escape, and the defeated Turks all became frightened birds, and when they heard the appearance of the Tang army, they instinctively felt frightened and wanted to pull their horses and escape.

"Ye Hu, please surrender to Tang Jun!" One of the leaders whispered, "We can't escape!"

The equally frightened Asid took the reins, and after turning around a few times, he waved his horsewhip, a little angry, and ignored the instructions and opinions of the other leaders on the side, and gave orders in succession: "Quick, order Fengzha to lead the troops to resist, and the rest follow me and run north!"

"Yes, Ye Hu!" Several of his men obeyed the order and went to deliver the order.

When Ashide led the remnants to flee from the camp captured by the Tang army, he initially fled to the northeast, preparing to flee to the Ashina mud and the Fu department or the Asdwin Fu department, and join them to fight against the Tang army together, or flee to Mobei in a group, but in the process of escaping to the northeast, he was pursued and blocked by the Tang army, and was annihilated by the Tang army and captured thousands of people.

The pursuers of the Tang army followed not far away, only three or four miles away recently, the figure of the Tang army can be seen, and the sound of shouting and killing can be heard, and Ashide also ordered his subordinates to flee to the north as quickly as possible, wanting to widen the distance between him and the Tang army's pursuers.

Facts have also proved that Asster's prediction of his duty is still accurate, after bypassing a few small rivers and crossing some low ridges on the west side of Yinshan Mountain, the distance between the pursuing Tang army and them is slowly narrowing, and now there is no shadow of the pursuing Tang army.

Ashide didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief, and now he encountered an ambush by the Tang army, which made Ashide almost frightened, and he almost subconsciously prepared to flee again in a panic, but Ashide had been rolling on horseback for many years, and he had rich combat experience, so he immediately ordered one of his leaders to lead the army to block the volley of the Tang army, and he himself led his troops to continue to escape.

If you don't divide your troops to block the attack, the rout you lead will not be able to resist the attack of the Tang army ambush waiting here, and you will not be able to outrun the Tang army ambush who is waiting for work, and all the horses will be surrounded by the Tang army.

Ashide led nearly 20,000 clansmen to flee from the camp, intercepted by the Tang army in the northeast, lost thousands of men and horses, and now there are only about 15,000 men and horses around him.

This is a move to lose the pawn and protect the car, so that the rest of the clansmen can entangle with the Tang army and win a chance to escape for themselves.

On the vast grassland, the vision is very good, and Asid, who is about to escape, can vaguely see the Tang army rushing from his side from several directions, and the speed is very fast, so he desperately waved the reins in his hand, drove the mount under him, and turned to the north-east.

After the leader called Ashide Fengzha led nearly 10,000 Turkic people to meet the Tang army, the other leaders and the captain of the guard immediately led the escort personnel and the most elite men of the army who were still neat and tidy, a total of about 5,000 people, broke away from the queue and quickly fled to the northeast.

The undulating Yin Mountains were not far from here, less than a hundred miles from where they were, and Ashide was expected to escape into the mountains, using the steep mountains as a cover to escape from the pursuit of the Tang army.

If he could reach the vicinity of Yin Mountain, Asid was confident that with his familiarity with the terrain in this area, he could escape this catastrophe.

The Turks are still relatively strong, and more than 10,000 men and horses, under the leadership of Asid Fengza, bravely met the intercepted Tang army-

"General, the Turks have come up, and there are nearly ten thousand of them!" Several sergeants quickly ran to the right guard general Li Zhishi, who was leading the pursuit of the Turkic rout, and reported loudly.

"Brothers, the Turks are rushing over, they are all routs, and they can't resist our attack, so they will kill me fiercely, and if they dare to resist, kill them all!" Li Zhishi was very excited, waving the long lance in his hand and roaring.

The guards around him also roared angrily, conveying Li Zhishi's order so that more soldiers could hear it, and some sergeants who had passed the order flew out and passed Li Zhishi's order to other generals.

On the withered yellow grassland, a large group of Tang cavalry soldiers in jet-black armor, waving the weapons in their hands, shouted to kill, and rushed towards the Turkic formation, which was obviously inferior in numbers.

The shouts of the Tang Dynasty soldiers and the sound of tens of thousands of war horses running and trampling converged into a majestic war march, echoing at the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain.

The two teams of men and horses running at a relatively high speed quickly approached, and the crossbowmen in the Tang army array shot the first round of arrows on the galloping horses, and the dense arrows flew into the sky, forming a parabola, and then fell down, falling into the Turkic formation, many Turks fell to the ground with arrows, and then the second and third rounds of arrows flew into the air and shot down into the Turkic formation, and more Turks and horses fell to the ground with arrows, and the neighing of the horses and the wails of the Turks came one after another.

There were also arrows flying out of the Turkic formation, but the density was far less than that fired in the Tang army's formation, and only a few Tang soldiers fell from the arrows.

After a few rounds of arrows, the men and horses of both sides were already infinitely close, and the crossbowmen had already abandoned their bows and drew their swords and rushed towards the opposing team.

In the shouting of killing, the two sides were soon strangled together.

As the commander of this army, Li Zhishi, the general of the right guard, did not directly participate in the battle, but led his personal guards to gallop up a higher hill to observe the situation on the battlefield and make new commands and arrangements at any time.

At the foot of the hillside, there are thousands of men on standby, ready to join the warband.

The situation on the battlefield is very gratifying, our soldiers are very brave, coupled with the superiority in numbers, in many places two or more of our soldiers are fighting around a Turk, which also makes the situation on the battlefield very optimistic, the Turkic soldiers who were cut off their horses are much more than the number of people who fell off our horses.

As the Turks continued to be cut down and dismounted, our advantage became more obvious, and the Turks who had been defeated and fled could no longer resist, and many people dismounted and surrendered.

"General, a group of Turks has fled to the northeast, it seems to be the head of the Turkic tribe!" Several scout-looking men rode over, panting and reporting.

Following the gesture of a scout, Li Zhishi put his hand in front of his eyes and squinted ahead.

It was almost close to noon, the sun was very strong and dazzling, under the reflection of the sun, it was almost impossible to see the scenery in the distance, Li Zhishi squinted his eyes for a while, and only then in the bright sunlight, he vaguely found a team of people and horses running away in the northwest direction, and they were almost gone.

"Order General Wu to lead his troops in pursuit!" Li Zhishi gave the order almost without thinking. When he saw the Turks who had fled, he immediately understood that the Turks who came up were covering for the escape of another Turk, and the Turkic people who fled must have been led by some leader, and it was likely that it was the remnants of Ashid's personal leadership. If they were allowed to escape, it would be a dereliction of duty, and they would probably be punished by the coach Pei Xingjian, and Li Zhishi immediately ordered the 3,000 men and horses who were on standby at the foot of the hillside to quickly pursue them.

Pei Xingjian deployed Li Zhishi's tens of thousands of horses in this direction, precisely to prepare for the attack and prevent the Turks from escaping.

After the general surnamed Wu Zhonglang was killed, he immediately led his men and horses to gallop away from the slope of the hill where Li Zhishi was located, swept past the battle site between our army and the Turks from the north side, and quickly pursued him.

"General, there's another man coming from behind!" A guard on the lookout pointed to the southeast and reported loudly.

When Li Zhishi heard the sound, he immediately looked over and saw a dense group of men and horses coming from the southeast, and divided into two divisions in the distance, one coming in the direction where his army was located, and the other chasing in the northeast direction.

"It's our chasing army!" Li Zhishi shouted excitedly, from the faintly visible armor and armor, as well as the fluttering flags, Li Zhishi could determine that this large number of men and horses was our army chasing the Turkic rout.

"Brothers, follow me, rush, don't let the Turks escape into the mountains!" Li Zhishi waved the weapon in his hand and shouted. Our army's pursuers have come up, and the advantage in the comparison of forces has been further expanded, and there is no need for any scheduling, and the two roads must annihilate the Turks, and catch up with the Turks who fled, Li Zhishi also immediately led his own personal guards, and a sergeant of about 1,000 people, rushed down the hillside and joined the battle group.

Seeing that a large group of Tang soldiers joined the battle group, the pursuers behind had already arrived, and the Turks who were still struggling to support had no fighting spirit, and more people dismounted and knelt down to surrender-

At the foot of the southwest side of Yinshan Mountain, a large group of Tang cavalry was rapidly marching eastward.

The horsemen galloped back against the direction of the march of the army, and stopped in front of a young general.

"Report to General Cheng, traces of Turks have been found ahead, the number of which is about four or five thousand!" One of the leading sergeants reported loudly after the young general stopped his mount.

The resolute face of the young general showed a hint of joy, and he ordered: "Pass my order, the whole army will speed up, intercept and destroy this Turk, and not let one person slip through the net!"

This is the Tang Army that set out from Fengzhou, led by Cheng Wuting, the governor of Fengzhou, and the young general just now is Cheng Wuting.

After receiving Pei Xingjian's order, Cheng Wuting led an army of more than 15,000 people to set out from Fengzhou in the starry night and galloped to the northeast, preparing to join the Turks besieging the area south of Yinshan.

Cheng Wuting, who would not necessarily be included in the sequence of this campaign, was happy for no reason when he knew that Pei Xingjian was required to go with the army when he was in charge, and as Pei Xingjian's deputy, he was happy for no reason, he knew that this was the opportunity for Pei Xingjian to make meritorious contributions for him.

Cheng Wuting has participated in the war for many years, and his father Cheng Mingzhen has a good reputation, but he has not got too many promotion opportunities, the most important thing is that he does not have the great military achievements under his own command, and now Pei Xingjian has fought for and created such an opportunity for him in front of the emperor and empress, such an opportunity is very rare, Cheng Wuting also cherishes it, after receiving Pei Xingjian's order, galloped to the northeast at the fastest speed they could, ready to take the lead in attacking the Turks according to Pei Xingjian's order.

Along the way, they did not encounter many Turks, and they did not make much effort to clean up, but the situation along the way was complicated, and they encountered some accidents when crossing the Yellow River and the Jin River from Fengzhou, which affected their travel speed, and the speed of their marching was so fast that in addition to Cheng Wuting's accident, when they arrived at the front line of Yinshan, the attack on the Turkic Ashid Ministry had begun, and the Ashed Ministry had been defeated, and Cheng Wuting and they missed the opportunity to launch the first attack, which made Cheng Wuting a little annoyed, I felt sorry for my position as the former army commander, but Cheng Wuting was also a veteran of the war for a long time, and he immediately made adjustments, preparing to gallop to the southern line of Yinshan Mountain to intercept the fleeing Turks.

After a continuous and rapid march, the army had reached the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain, and Cheng Wuting also ordered his subordinates to be on strict alert, ready to launch an attack on the Turkic people who appeared, and at the same time sent a large number of scouts to listen to the news.

Now that he heard the report of his subordinates that he had discovered the enemy's situation, Cheng Wuting, who was on fire, was very surprised, and he immediately ordered the soldiers to disperse in a certain queue and prepare to encircle and annihilate this small number of Turks...

(To be continued)