Tibet

Chapter 876 Encounter Battle

Li Fei Yuanli looked up and down the young nobleman for a moment, and saw that he was indeed young, with a short and stocky figure, small eyes, and a face as round as a pancake. However, the clothes he wore were very elegant and were made of high-quality brocade. He was disheveled and looked very embarrassed, with half a gold medal exposed in his arms.

Li Fei Yuanli picked out the gold medal in his arms with the tip of his knife. The gold medal was engraved on both sides, one side was in Turkic and the other was in Chinese. It seemed that his official name and name were actually Ye Hu.

"Your name is Mule?"

The young noble raised his head proudly and ignored him. Li Fei Yuanli was furious and slapped him. The young noble's face suddenly became swollen and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.

"stop!"

Dagan shouted: "You can't abuse him like this, he is still a thirteen-year-old child!"

"What the hell are you?" Li Fei Yuanli looked at him and asked.

"I am the Prime Minister of Huihe!"

Li Fei Yuanli narrowed his eyes. The prime minister and the prince were both caught. This is a bargaining chip that can be exchanged for big money!

He immediately turned his horse and ordered: "Clean up the battlefield and light the corpses on fire!"

A black smoke rose into the sky in the fog, and the Tang army began to burn the bodies and bury them deeply.

An hour later, three thousand Tang Army cavalry returned to Yunzhong City with prisoners of war. The riverside was cleaned up, as if nothing had happened.

Two days later, Li Fei Yuanli met the 50,000 main force of the Tang army led by Bai Xiaode on the way.

Li Fei Yuanli had already forced Dagan to confess on the way, and when he asked about the information about the Huihe army, he hurriedly went to see Bai Xiaode.

In the big tent, several generals gathered together. Li Fei Yuanli pointed at the map and said: "The main force of the Uighur army is only five days away from their envoy team. So now they are about three or four days away from the base camp where they ambush the envoy." About a hundred miles away, if we speed up, we can intercept the enemy's main force one day in advance."

Bai Xiaode nodded and asked, "Since you caught the Uighur envoy, you should have asked for other information!"

"Of course there is. The Uighur army sent about 20,000 troops. It was led by Yao Luoge, the younger brother of Dengli Khan and the governor of Hulu. This army was pieced together from various Uighur tribes. These tribes all wanted to plunder Hebei and were willing to send troops. There are nine tribes in total, and each tribe sends about two to three thousand troops."

Duan Xiushi, who was standing next to him, smiled and said: "This means that they fight in separate formations, and there are fighters inside!"

Bai Xiaode nodded, "With our 50,000-strong army against 20,000 enemy troops, there is no problem in winning, but His Highness King Qi means that this interception battle will focus on personal annihilation, without leaving prisoners of war, and try to annihilate most of the enemy troops and weaken them." Uighur’s strength, so our mission is to annihilate as many enemy troops as possible.”

At this time, Li Fei Shouyu, who had been silent, said, "I do have a plan!"

Bai Xiaode ordered the prisoners of war captured by Li Fei and Yuan Li to be sent back to Yunzhong County for detention, while he led an army of 50,000 people to rush eastward.

Two days later, they arrived at the envoy's camp. Judging from the surrounding environment, the main enemy army should not have arrived yet.

Bai Xiaode immediately ordered Zhang Dian, the scout general, to lead three hundred of his men to search for traces of the enemy's main force.

Zhang Dian divided his 300 men into six groups, each of fifty men, and rushed towards the north in a fan shape in six directions.

He personally led a group of cavalry to take the due north route. This route was the most likely and the most dangerous. He left the danger to himself.

As night fell and the sky was filled with stars, Zhang Dian led fifty cavalrymen running on the endless grassland.

All the scouts have an excellent sense of direction and will not get lost easily. Zhang Dian is even more powerful. He can use the stars and wind direction and speed to judge the direction at night, which is very accurate.

Everyone rode towards a high slope. Zhang Dian suddenly realized something and shouted: "Stop everyone!"

Everyone reined in their horses. Zhang Dian dismounted and ran towards the hillside. Everyone dismounted and ran up the hillside with all their strength.

Everyone was lying on the top of the hillside. Everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them. They saw endless tents set up a few miles away, brightly lit, and surrounded by Huihe patrol posts.

Fortunately, they had dismounted, otherwise they would have been spotted by the opponent's patrol sentry if they had ridden up the hillside. Zhang Dian silently calculated the distance and found that it was about 90 to 100 miles away from the main force of the Tang army, which was exactly a day's journey.

He immediately sent his men back to report, and he led a dozen of his men to monitor the Uighur army from a distance.

Early the next morning, the Uighur army continued to set off. As the Tang army received information, the 20,000 troops dispatched this time were composed of Uighurs and their nine affiliated tribes.

Of course, not all tribes wanted to plunder the Tang Dynasty. Many tribes that had good relations with the Tang Dynasty were unwilling to send troops. For example, the Sijie tribe, the Beyegu tribe, and the Pugu tribe did not send troops, but looked on with cold eyes.

This time the troops were sent not to fight, but to plunder Hebei's wealth and population. The soldiers' morale was high and they were all eager to try, wishing they could fly into the Tang Dynasty.

Plundering the women of the Tang Dynasty is the dream of every grassland man. Seeing that the dream is about to come true, why are they not excited and looking forward to it?

Yao Luoge, the leader of the Uighur Army, is the younger brother of Dengli Khan. He is only twenty years old this year and is already a famous warrior on the grassland. He is tall, mighty and powerful.

His adviser was Prime Minister Dagan, who had already gone south first.

A long line of cavalry lined up on the grassland. In the afternoon, a spy came to report, "Captain, there is a cavalry here, said to be the Yan Army cavalry, to greet us?"

Yan army cavalry? Yao Luoge was stunned for a moment, there was no such arrangement!

"How many people are there on the other side?"

"About 20,000 people!"

"what!"

Yaoluoge was shocked. The 20,000 troops were not coming to greet him. They must be enemy troops.

He immediately ordered: "If there is enemy situation, the entire army must assemble!"

The long Uighur army began to gather quickly. At this time, a black line appeared in the distance, and the Tang army finally arrived.

The two armies formed a large formation on the grassland, both cavalry, 20,000 versus 20,000, with the same strength, depending on who was stronger.

The grassland army never takes a defensive position. Yao Luoge drew his sword and shouted: "Attack!"

"Woo——"

A low trumpet sound sounded on the grassland, and 20,000 Huihe cavalry suddenly launched into action. The horses galloped like a surging ocean tide.

Bai Xiaode coldly ordered: "The front row will form a spear formation, and the back row will prepare bows and arrows!"

The formation of the Tang army changed rapidly. The 10,000 cavalrymen held their shields and short spears high, forming a dense forest of spears, while the 8,000 cavalrymen behind them had their bowstrings fully drawn and horned crossbows in their hands, ready to attack.

The galloping Uighur cavalry also drew their bows and arrows, preparing to shoot at the Tang army.

The bows and arrows of the Uighur Army were inherited from the Turks. They were composite bows made of wood and bone. They were also very sharp. They had not used them in the previous battles with the Tang Army and suffered a big loss. This time they no longer used them. Underestimating the enemy, the army rushed a hundred steps away. Both sides fired arrows at the same time. The black arrows in the sky shuttled back and forth, clustering in clusters, and moving so powerfully that they seemed to have built an arch bridge made of arrows.

Countless soldiers on both sides were struck down by arrows.

There are still fifty steps. ． ． ． ． The Tang Army's war drums sounded like thunder, and an earth-shaking roar suddenly erupted from the Tang Army's camp. More than 2,000 Modao infantrymen rushed out, half-crouched on the ground, and formed a large formation of Modao Blades.

Amidst the screams, thousands of Huihe cavalry rushed into the Mo Dao formation. Their bodies were pierced by the extremely sharp Mo Dao. Blood splashed everywhere and corpses piled up quickly.

The Tang army's cavalry split into two, fought out from both sides of Modao's army, and rushed directly to the left and right sides of Huihe's cavalry.

Two thousand heavy armored infantry also stood up, lined up in a wall, and brandished their gleaming swords to kill the Turkic cavalry.

Although the Uighur army came from scattered sources, they were all elite troops and their combat effectiveness was very strong. The 40,000-strong army fought bloody battles on the grasslands.

(End of this chapter)