Li Zhiyun listened to Liu Dewei's words and asked: "You have so many troops, why do you still allow the Turks to do anything wrong?" Liu Dewei was speechless when asked, his mouth opened, and he didn't speak, Li Zhongwen had to come forward to explain: "Your Highness doesn't know anything, the emperor has already decreed that no matter what the Turks do, they must not conflict with them." ”

"What bastard...... Li Zhiyun said halfway through his words, and swallowed back the words behind, although the emperor is his father, but he said such a thing, it is also a great rebellion. He suddenly remembered Jiang's policy of non-resistance in his previous life, whenever he saw this paragraph in the history books, he gritted his teeth with hatred, but he didn't expect that this kind of bastard policy still has a long history.

Li Zhiyun didn't dare to slander Abba's will, so he had to shout at Li Zhongwen, "Then you just stand by and watch?" Are you still a soldier of Datang? Have you fulfilled your responsibility to defend the people of the Tang Dynasty? ”

In the face of Li Zhiyun's accusation, Li Zhongwen was resigned: "Yes, yes, the lower official is guilty, and the lower official is derelict in his duties." However, there is really nothing the lower officials can do......"

Li Zhiyun calmed down. He knew very well that it was unreasonable to be angry at Li Zhongwen, he was just following his orders. The first priority was to get back the women who had been taken captive. Thinking of this, he said to Liu Dewei: "How long have the Turks been gone?" Where did they go? ”

"I left two days ago, all the way north, maybe back to the Turks."

Walked for two days? Go now, and maybe catch up. There is no need to guess what kind of inhuman torture those young women would have suffered if they were caught in the Turks. Li Zhiyun turned to the two subordinate officials and said, "Zhang Zheng, Cai Hu, let's go to the barracks." After that, he didn't say hello to Li Zhongwen, and led his subordinates away.

Li Zhiyun and the others left the governor's mansion and rode to the barracks. After he saw Scarface, Duan Qu and the others, he told them the situation, and then asked Duan Qu, Yinggu and dozens of other followers to stay, let them find a post house to stay, and he led the new army to chase the Turks.

The team left Jinyang City and marched all the way north, marching at the fastest speed. However, I don't know if it was because of the difference of two days, or because the Turks ran too fast, they chased until Yanmen Pass, and they did not see the shadow of the Turks.

When the team came to Yanmen Pass, Li Zhiyun stopped his horse and looked up at the majestic first pass in the world. Zhang Zhengdao, who followed behind him on horseback: "Lord Wang, we have chased so far, and we haven't caught up with the Turks, they are afraid that they have fled back to the Turks, shall we still chase?" Li Zhiyun said in an unquestionable tone: "Chase!" Even if you chase the Turks, you have to snatch those women back! ”

The procession passed through Yanmen Pass and meandered along the avenue. While passing through the city of Mayi, Li Zhiyun inquired with the officers and soldiers defending the city and learned that the Turks had just passed the day before. He perked up and urged his men to speed up the march.

The large group of people and horses marched on the ancient road of Mayi, the mountains on both sides are undulating, the forests all over the mountains are lush and green, and the scenery is beautiful. In that year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent famous generals, ambushed heavy troops, and lured and annihilated the Xiongnu army on the ancient road of Mayi, although it failed to succeed for various reasons, but opened the prelude to the war against the Xiongnu. After more than 200 years and more than 10 generations of efforts, the powerful Xiongnu were finally defeated, forcing the Southern Xiongnu to annex and the Northern Xiongnu to flee to Europe, fully demonstrating the indomitable fighting spirit of the Chinese nation.

After a day's rapid march, at dusk the scouts sent back to report that they had discovered a Turkic camp five miles away. Li Zhiyun rode on a horse, looked up at the red sunset, and thought about it in his heart, feeling that it was better to save people at night, and it was not very convenient to move during the day. So, he ordered the new army to camp on the spot and wait until it was dark before setting out.

Inside the tent, Li Zhiyun, Scarface, and several other generals sat around the table, studying the drawings brought back by the scouts, which depicted the location of the Turkic camp. The terrain is undulating and wooded, and there aren't many suitable sites for camping. The Turkic camp was divided into two camps, one for the main army and the other for the stolen women, and the two camps were about two miles apart.

While everyone was discussing, a guard came in and reported: "Lord Wang, Manager Li is here." When Li Zhiyun heard this, he quickly stood up, only to see Li Zhongwen break into the tent in the dust. He came to Li Zhiyun and hugged his fists and said, "Your Highness, the last general has brought five thousand soldiers and horses, and I am willing to beat those turtle grandsons with you!" ”

When Li Zhiyun heard this, he jokingly said: "Manager Li, if you go against my Abba's will, aren't you afraid that he will condemn you?" Li Zhongwen waved his hand and said, "I can't care so much, let's fight this battle first!" The emperor wants to pick off my head, let him go! ”

"Okay, this is like a man!"

Li Zhiyun originally planned to only rescue the robbed woman, but now Li Zhongwen brought 5,000 men. In this way, they greatly outnumbered the Turks in strength. Li Zhiyun decided to change his strategy, first rescuing the robbed woman, and then encircling and annihilating the Turkic army.

Li Zhongwen volunteered to personally lead the team to rescue the robbed women, saying that he did not fulfill his responsibility to protect the people as a parent official, and this could be regarded as atonement. Li Zhiyun thought about it and felt that if the new army was used to save people, firearms would easily cause accidental injuries, and it would be better to use knives, guns, arrows and crossbows, so he agreed to Li Zhongwen's request. He asked Scarface to send a battalion to assist Li Zhongwen, in case the Turks chased after him after the rescue, he could use firearms to suppress the other party and cover the evacuation of the women.

As night fell, Li Zhongwen set off with the team. There were 500 Turkic soldiers guarding the robbed women in that camp, and Li Zhongwen brought 1,000 men, plus a battalion of the new army.

Half an hour later, they arrived at the Turkic camp and entered a nearby wood. Li Zhongwen hid behind a large tree at the edge of the forest, observing the Turkic camp.

A round moon hung in the night sky, spreading a silver veil to the ground, and everything in the camp was clearly visible. The Turkic soldiers cut down trees to build a barracks, probably because it was a temporary camp, and the barracks were built very simply, with a large gap between the stakes, and only one crossbar, which people could get into from below. From time to time, however, Turkic soldiers patrolled along the barracks.

Li Zhongwen saw that there were more than a dozen tents in the southeast corner of the camp, which were probably occupied by Turkic soldiers, because the robbed women were all staying in the open air, and they were crowded in the open space in the center of the camp, a large area of black oppression. These women were forced to leave their homes and relatives, driven like livestock, and left alone, as they can say: "When they cry, they cry, and when they sit in sorrow", what awaits them will be an unknown fate.

Li Zhongwen asked his soldiers to call several generals over, assigned them tasks, and agreed with everyone to launch an attack in a quarter of an hour.

When the time came, the Don soldiers rushed out of the woods. Li Zhongwen held a big knife in his hand and took the lead. As soon as he entered the barracks, he was spotted by the patrolling Turks, who shouted loudly. Li Zhongwen rushed forward in a few steps, slashed a soldier to death with a big sword, and the others rushed up to eliminate the patrol.

Li Zhongwen led people to rush to the tent in the southeast corner, and the Turks in the tent had been alarmed, and they ran out with weapons in hand.

The robbed women were overwhelmed by the sudden fight, and they held their breath and stared blankly at what was happening in front of them, until the soldiers who were responsible for guiding the evacuation ran over and told them to run in the direction of the woods, and they realized that they had been saved. Soldiers had already torn down a large section of the barracks, and the women rushed like a tide in the direction of the woods, and soon disappeared without a trace.

The fighting in the southeast corner was still going on, and the soldiers of the new army wanted to participate in the battle, but the two sides were mixed up and could not fire at all, so they could only gather around and watch the battle. Some of the Turkic soldiers, unable to resist them, tried to escape, but were killed by them with firearms like rabbits.

After Li Zhongwen led a team to rescue the robbed woman, Li Zhiyun commanded the rest of the soldiers and horses to surround another camp of the Turks, and more than 30 red-coated cannons were set up on a nearby mountain. When everything was ready, Li Zhiyun gave the order to open fire.

The red-coated cannons spewed flames in the darkness, and the shells whistled down the hill and smashed into the tents in the middle of the camp, many of which burst into flames with a loud explosion. The sleeping Turkic soldiers were caught off guard, some soldiers were blown to pieces, some soldiers were stunned by the air waves, and many soldiers did not have time to put on armor and weapons, and ran out of the tent with their heads in their hands. A frightened horse galloped through the camp, and the air wave from the explosion in front of it lifted it into the air, and the horse fell and happened to hit a Turkic soldier, as a result, both men and horses died.

The Don army attacked from all sides, and the soldiers of the New Army rushed to the front, they fired with muskets, throwing grenades at the enemy. The Turkic soldiers fell in pieces like leeks, and the explosions, shouts, and screams formed a magnificent symphony of war.

Li Zhiyun stood on the hillside, observing this spectacular battle scene with a telescope. The fire on the battlefield reflected his face, and the corners of his mouth flashed with a cruel smile: Those who commit my strong man will be punished even if they are far away! No matter how far you run, I will catch up with you and kill you all!

It was almost a one-sided battle, in which the superior Don soldiers were high-spirited, fierce and tenacious, and the Turks were overwhelmed and had no fighting spirit. In the face of the powerful offensive of the Tang army, the unsuspecting Turks could not resist at all, except for a dozen people who escaped with the exception of Tong Livo, the rest were all annihilated.

The battle was a complete victory, not only rescuing thousands of robbed women, but also exterminating 5,000 Turkic men and horses, and capturing a large number of military baggage. The soldiers who had not slept all night were elated, and immediately after cleaning up the battlefield, they set up camp, beat the victory gong and beat the victory drum, and marched south in a mighty way.