Chapter 552: The people fled at night
After several months of fierce fighting, although the Linghui army won a complete victory, the army's physical strength also decreased significantly.
Li Hao led the Linghui army to repair and renovate in Lingzhou City for several days, and then the army marched towards the Turkic hinterland again.
During this period, Tart Bakuru never returned to the aid of a single soldier, he took his tens of thousands of troops to shuttle back and forth over the super distance, the dragon saw the head and the tail, and has been threatening the troops of the Turkic royal court, so that they do not dare to send troops to reinforce the front.
The Linghui Army was able to clear the food road ambush so smoothly, and he contributed a lot.
He is like a nail, nailed to the door of the Turkic people's life, and he is worthy of being the god of war of the party clan.
It is really because of the existence of Tart Bakuru that the Linghui Army went north for the second time, and they didn't even have to worry about ambushes on the road, and they were no longer as worried as they were the first time when they walked on the grassland.
This time, in the western mountains at dusk, the Linghui army set up camp by a small river.
After the last battle with the abandoned Suelluo, Li Hao had realized the importance of the steppe to the Turks, and they were well versed in the dexterity of fighting in the grass, which was a gap in hard power, and it was impossible for the Linghui Army to smooth this gap in a short time.
When it is bright in the daytime, fighting on the grass, the Linghui army may not be able to defeat the Turks, let alone when the vision is not good at night.
Therefore, Li Hao set out for the second time and avoided marching at night.
In the tent, Li Hao and Tart Yanyan sat together and discussed the next plan together.
Now the Turkic army has suffered heavy losses, and the number of troops that can be used is only more than 100,000 people, and the strength of the two armies is equal, so there is no need to divide the troops to attack.
"General Kuru's troops are a hundred miles northwest of us, and at the current pace of marching, the two armies will be able to converge in three days at most."
Tart Yan Yan pointed to the map and said to Li Hao.
She is a wise general, and with her help, Li Hao is also very handy in fighting.
After these months of fighting, the cooperation between the two has become more and more tacit, and there is more and more a sense of sympathy for each other.
Li Hao looked at the map: "Together with General Kulu's troops, our strength will surpass that of the King of Hades, and the Turkic royal court is only a few hundred miles away from us, compared to the final battle is about to start." ”
Tart Yan Yan smiled slightly: "I just don't know what surprises this King of Hadesaro can bring us!" ”
"I hope it's not a fright!" Li Hao laughed self-deprecatingly.
The battle of the grassland has completely smoothed out his edges and corners, and he no longer looks down on this group of defeated subordinates who once became.
"General Kuru has been fighting in the steppe guerrilla for more than a month, and his troops should be very tired compared to him, so let's let them join us as soon as possible!" Li Hao groped his chin and muttered to himself.
"Black Hawk!"
After thinking about it again and again, Li Hao suddenly shouted outside the tent.
Black Eagle immediately lifted the curtain and walked in: "Lord Wang! ”
"Take a thousand cavalry and go overnight to the place where General Kuru is encamped, so that they can join our army at once tomorrow morning, and by tomorrow evening, be sure to be with our friends!"
"Yes, Lord Wang!"
"Be careful on the road, this is the grassland, the enemy's territory. They couldn't find where General Kuru was, and we don't know where they were! ”
"Yes!"
With that, Black Hawk quickly left the camp tent and ran out of the camp at night with a thousand elite cavalry. Run in the direction where the Kuru army is.
Nothing was said all night.
Early the next morning.
Li Hao was commanding the army to pack up and prepare to go on the road, but before the army could start, he saw more than ten cavalry rushing back.
The leader is the new member of the Falcon Squad who is quite familiar with Li Hao, and the personal disciple of Black Hawk - Young Eagle.
He was supposed to go with Black Eagle to the camp of Tart Kuru to deliver the message, but at this moment, he suddenly appeared here, and Li Hao realized that something was wrong.
He hurriedly led someone to meet him.
The young eagle turned over and dismounted and ran in front of Li Hao, his face was solemn, and he was a little angry: "Lord Wang, it's not good!" ”
"Don't panic, what's wrong, talk slowly!"
The young eagle took two deep breaths and calmed down: "Lord Wang, yesterday I went out of the camp with my master, and as soon as I walked out of less than forty miles, I saw a group of Turkic people fleeing from the direction of Wangcheng with their families, and many of them were people of the Tang Dynasty. ”
Datang borders the Turks, and although the two countries are quite contradictory, on the surface, the two countries still have a lot of business dealings. Therefore, in the Turkic countries, there are still many Tang Dynasty people living in them. At this moment, they suddenly fled, and there must be something strange.
Li Hao asked, "And then?" ”
"The master felt that something was wrong, and he didn't dare to stop the task privately, so he asked me to come back first and report this matter to the prince!"
Li Hao and Tart Yan Yan glanced at each other.
Tart pulled Yan Yan and said: "The war is invading, and the people are fleeing. ”
Li Hao nodded: "It was the Turkic army that came, and the people saw the army approaching and knew that there was going to be a war, which would inevitably affect the pond fish, so they fled overnight." ”
"Where are the victims now?" Tart Yan Yan hurriedly asked.
After staying in the Li Kingdom for all these years, Tart Yan Yan is already well versed in Li Hao's way of governing the country. To completely conquer a country, it is not the end of defeating them, the most important thing is to conquer their people.
Now that the Turks have been defeated, they urgently need a hearty victory to salvage the situation. In this case, they did not experience too many scruples, so they provoked the people to flee.
At this moment, it is a good time for the Linghui Army to buy people's hearts.
"The people are walking slowly, the master has already divided three hundred cavalry along the way to protect them, and is coming in the direction of our camp, there should be ten miles compared to it!"
"How many are the people?"
"It's too dark to see clearly, to say the least, there are 10,000 or 20,000!"
"Good guy, that's a lot!"
Li Hao frowned.
The decisive battle with the Turks is about to begin, and the Linghui army does not dare to be careless, in case this group of people is mixed with the ambush soldiers of the Turkic army, once they are included, there may be an accident.
"Lord Wang, we still have a lot of supplies, let's not dismantle the camp first, leave it to those Turkic people, we will set off immediately to respond. Find out what the hell is going on! ”
"Good!"
Tart Yan Yan also guessed Li Hao's thoughts, and arranged everything for him in one sentence.
The grain road of the Linghui Army has been completely opened, and now the army has abundant grain and grass materials, and whether this camp is dismantled or not does not affect their army. Rather than bringing more supplies to slow down the march, it is better to leave this group of refugees to be a favor.
Anyway, the Turks don't have many troops now, and even if they want to place ambushes in the Linghui army, it is impossible to divide too many troops.
As long as you don't keep this group of people around, everything is not a problem.
"The whole army obeys the order! The camp stayed, everyone packed up their belongings and set off immediately! ”
"Yes, Lord Wang!"
The army responded in unison, immediately put down the half-packed camp, picked up weapons and set off with Li Hao.
The army had gone ten miles before they saw the group of refugees that the young eagle had spoken of.
These people are dressed in Turkic characteristics to serve, dragging their families and mouths, pushing large and small vehicles, and looking like they are embarrassed.
Since the two countries were at war, they were still a little afraid when they saw the large army of the Linghui Army, and when they saw Li Hao running with the army, they shrank into a ball and trembled in fright.
Seeing their appearance from a distance, Li Hao's heart was also a little relieved.
Fear can't be pretended, at least not everyone has such good acting skills, judging by their reactions, there should be no army hiding in it.