Facts have proved that General Su Dingfang's prediction is also correct, ten days after he said this, the latest battle report came from the front, His Royal Highness King Wu's troops were divided into three routes, of which the left army and the right army were empty, and the middle route army led by His Royal Highness King Wu personally faced Xue Yantuo's main force.

King Wu led 15,000 elite soldiers, Xue Yantuo up and down 30,000 iron cavalry, the two sides met near the Turkic royal court, the so-called enemies met very red, there was no prelude, the armies of both sides directly launched an impact.

Although the number of the Tang army is relatively small, but the 12,000 Tang border troops are not afraid of death, they also know what the result is when they encounter the enemy on the grassland, if you dare to show your back, then wait to be chased by the enemy to death, no matter how many enemies you have in front of you, you must rush forward, as long as we are brave, we must be able to have a bloody road.

As for the 3,000 forbidden troops brought by King Wu from Chang'an City, they did not have any fear, they guarded around King Wu and followed King Wu into the center of Xue Yantuo's army.

This battle can be said to be a dark killing, both sides are the main force against the main force, and in an open grassland, there is no place for opportunism, in the end Xue Yantuo's army can not hold on, three hours after the start of the war there are deserters, the army is most afraid of the appearance of deserters, when the first deserter appears, this is like dominoes, soon able to implicate others.

Although Xue Yantuo's 3,000 reinforcements came from the left, Xue Yantuo's main army had already begun to break and flee, no matter how Xue Yantuo Khan stopped, there was no way to stop this deserter in the end, and after four hours of fighting, Xue Yantuo's army retreated north.

However, at this moment, Wu Wang Li Ke has no power to pursue, although we have achieved victory, but our casualties are also a lot, the casualties have been more than one-third, if you continue to pursue, it will be extremely unfavorable to our soldiers, so Wu Wang Li Ke saw the enemy fleeing, symbolically chased twenty miles, and hurried back to rescue the wounded.

According to the imperial court, a total of 15,000 troops of Xue Yantuo were annihilated this time, but for these news in the imperial court, everyone has to subtract a part of the water, Li Xiang is also a person who often leads troops on the battlefield, so he naturally knows how big this water is, even if a part of the water is subtracted, then we still have brilliant results, at least kill their 8,000 elite soldiers.

When they heard Su Dingfang analyze this number, many young generals in the camp showed disdainful expressions on their faces, mainly because they had been following Li Xiang for a long time, and they had killed 8,000 people in a battle, which didn't even need to be brought to the table to talk about.

Seeing their arrogant appearances, Su Dingfang had to teach them a lesson, if they went to the battlefield with this kind of thought, they would definitely suffer a big loss in the future.

"You people don't look down on others, your war is different from others' wars, before you fight, first the artillery opened the way, and then there were all kinds of bows and arrows, when you went to the battlefield, the enemy didn't have much strength, but the soldiers led by King Wu did not have such equipment, they all relied on the knives in their hands, not to mention that Xue Yantuo's elite was by no means comparable to the cavalry of Goguryeo."

Li Xiang did not object to what Su Dingfang said, these people under his command are indeed a little floating, if they continue to float like this, the safety of Datang in the future will not be able to be placed on them.

"Didn't the imperial court equip them with gunpowder?"

Li Xiang remembered another thing, he had already contributed the formula, even if it was the most powerful black powder, the imperial court should equip them.

"This time the troops were sent out in a hurry, the imperial court did not make much gunpowder at all, most of the gunpowder was supplied to Goguryeo, according to many ministers of the imperial court, it is not suitable to send troops now, it should be accumulated for more than two months, and we should send troops, but the emperor ......"

Su Dingfang didn't finish speaking, but everyone also understood what was going on, what the emperor thought in his heart was different from what we thought, we all had to listen to what the emperor wanted to do, if it was accumulated for two months, the emperor was afraid that Li Xiang would make a ghost from it, maybe Li Xiang had already set off from Goguryeo with someone, you must know that if you go from here, it will save time than Chang'an City.

Li Xiang looked at the hour and it was not early, let everyone go back to rest, and if it was time to conduct night training, we would not be able to do anything here, so we could only continue to wait for news from the front line, although Li Xiang's military camp had gunpowder, but he still had to look at the two southern countries, plus the bandits were still being suppressed in Goguryeo, and Li Xiang couldn't take care of the grassland.

What's more, even if Li Xiang sends someone to send it, it is very likely that it will not be used there, and if people want a pure credit, they must not mix any Li Xiang factors.

After the war, both sides were recuperating and recuperating, and the Tang army began to gather, and the eastern and western armies sent their own spies, but the grassland was too big, and it was not so easy to find each other.

Although King Wu wanted to copy Li Xiang's combat method on the Tuyuhun grassland, and rushed thousands of miles to attack the opponent's camp, he had no choice but to probe the balloon, and he didn't know the surrounding situation at all, relying on the secret agents in his hands to detect, it was really time-consuming and laborious, the most important thing is that the effect was not so good, and if he was not careful, it was possible for the other party to find himself, in case the other party gathered a large army to come, King Wu was likely to fall into a heavy siege, after all, it had reached the hinterland of Xue Yantuo.

The war dragged on like this for more than a month, and all things on Li Xiang's side went smoothly, and the people from Chang'an City had already settled down in various places, their houses had already been built, and various public facilities had also been built, just waiting for the seeds to be sown next month, and the harvest would be in May next year.

But the king of Wu who is on the grassland does not have such a good life, they have been on the grassland for more than a month, and in this month's time, they are looking for people everywhere to fight a decisive battle, Xue Yantuo Khan is not a fool, after the last rout, he has already noticed that he can't fight hard with the Tang army, the difference in strength between the two sides is obvious, if they fight hard with the Tang army, they have no good results.

So this guy is ready to drag it down, anyway, they adapt to life on the grassland, and every grain of rice from the Tang Dynasty army has to be transported from Chang'an, and they can afford to wait......