After waiting all night in Baiyangping, the cold wind blew all night, and early the next morning, the Turkic envoys arrived.
After Li Yuanji sent people to conduct careful reconnaissance, he led Ma Sanbao and the two hundred men under Ma Sanbao to kill without hesitation.
There are more than 350 people in the Turkic envoys. They are well equipped with soldiers and armor, and have excellent horses. They appear to have good combat effectiveness.
In terms of numbers, Li Yuanji was completely at a disadvantage, but Li Yuanji still led his troops to kill without hesitation.
Faced with the sudden attack, the Turkic envoys only panicked for a moment before regaining their composure.
The leader was a Turkic teller. After a cursory glance at the costumes of Li Yuanji and his party, he smiled cheerfully, "They are horse thieves from the Tang Dynasty!"
Horse thieves are at the middle and lower levels of the food chain in Western Turks and the entire Western Region. In East Turks, they are completely at the bottom of the food chain.
Therefore, after Turtle saw that Li Yuanji and his party were horse thieves, he was not afraid or frightened. Instead, he felt a little bit excited.
After hearing Teller's shout and seeing the costumes of Li Yuanji and his party, the other Turks also relaxed their vigilance and started laughing.
When it comes to burning, killing, looting, and looting homes, they are the experts.
In their eyes, horse thieves are just low-class goods.
If they hadn't been envoys and had to follow certain rules for their missions, they would have started looting all over the Tang Dynasty. In their view, every place in the Tang Dynasty was rich, and as long as they used their hands a little bit, they would be rich.
It can rob many slaves, a lot of food, and a lot of gold, silver and jewelry.
But the rules of the mission restricted them, and they could only watch it all slip away before their eyes.
Now someone took the initiative to send them to their doorstep, and even delivered more than 200 good horses at once. Finally, they no longer had to be constrained by the rules of missions, and could let their hands and feet go freely.
Teller, the leader, shook the scimitar in his hand and shouted excitedly to the others, "The first horse belongs to me, and you divide the rest!"
Each Turkic man waved the scimitar in his hand and screamed excitedly.
More than two hundred good horses are worth a lot of money. As long as they get these good horses, they can quickly cash them in Xiaoguan, the nearest place here, and then go to Ganzhou outside Xiaoguan to buy a lot of the goods they need.
Transport their tribes to exchange for more good horses or cattle and sheep.
This is nothing to Teller, who has a distinguished status, but to them, it is a huge harvest and a fortune delivered to their doorsteps. How could they not scream with excitement.
"kill!"
When Li Yuanji and his party were about to rush down the gentle slope, Teller, the leader, took the initiative to mobilize his horses to meet them.
The reason why he chose to take the initiative to face the enemy was to end the battle as quickly as possible.
The reason why he chose the leading horse among Li Yuanji's group was because there was a knight in full armor sitting on the horse's back. He was also the only knight among the horse bandits who wore armor.
A stomach is a very precious thing in both the Tang Dynasty and the Turks.
Especially if it's full armor, it's worth a lot of money.
Although Teller has his own full armor, it does not prevent him from getting an extra set and giving it to his confidants and those he likes.
It's a pity that he had a good idea but chose the wrong person.
"Pfft..."
When the horses are charging, they are very fast, and the encounter between soldiers is almost instantaneous.
It was at this moment that Turktel realized that Li Yuanji and his group had extraordinary status and were not ordinary horse thieves.
It was at this moment that Turktel realized that he seemed to have chosen the wrong person.
It's a pity that he has no room for regret.
Because at this moment, a very ordinary horizontal knife swept past his neck, and his head rolled down his shoulders like a polo ball.
"Leave no one behind!"
After Li Yuanji beheaded the leader of the Turkic envoy with a sword, he quickly killed a Turkic cavalryman who was following him with his sword, and then coldly gave orders to Ma Sanbao and the others.
Ma Sanbao had already gone to the battlefield and didn't have so many thoughts in his mind.
Even if he felt that Li Yuanji's actions were wrong and would bring great disaster to the Tang Dynasty, he would implement every order given by Li Yuanji.
This is the fighting quality developed by serving in the army for a long time.
On the battlefield, there is no right or wrong, only victory or defeat, only life and death, and there is no room for anything else.
So after hearing Li Yuanji's order, he became even more ruthless, and so did everyone else.
"Huhuhu..."
Li Yuanji and his men blew through the Turkic envoys like a gust of wind. Among the Turkic envoys there were more than forty horses with empty war horses on their backs.
"Taylor is dead?!"
"The thief is not an ordinary horse thief. He is invincible. Run away in the direction of Xiaoguan!"
"..."
After just one charge, everyone in the Turkic envoy understood the gap between themselves and Li Yuanji and his party.
The leading man in full armor was really cruel, and he would always kill him with one sword wherever he went, and he would never use a second sword.
Among the more than forty people, eight were killed by him with one knife.
Although the others are powerful in combat, they are not invincible.
If there were no leading full-armored men, they would still have the confidence to fight.
With the leading men in full armor, they simply can't win.
As a group of people who grew up on horses and experts in horse fighting, they know better than anyone else what the leading horse means to a cavalry team.
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguo to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with more sounds.
So after they came to the conclusion that they were invincible, they began to flee crazily in the direction of Xiaoguan.
Right now, only the Tang army in Xiao Guanzhong can save them.
Although they are not Tang people, they are envoys. Before they leave the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty are nominally responsible for taking care of them.
"Swipe, swipe, swipe..."
Sharpened wooden spears whizzed through the air, and the Turks fell to the ground like dumplings.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The Turks began to flee, and began to flee crazily, from fleeing in groups at the beginning to scattering in the end.
Li Yuanji led his men in pursuit for more than ten miles and killed the last man with a stone before reining in his horse and stopping.
"Breathe...breathe..."
Ma Sanbao panted heavily and chased Li Yuanji to report, "Your Highness, kill everyone!"
Li Yuanji rode his horse and strolled up to the Turkic man whom he had stoned to death. After cutting off the man's head with a knife, he ordered: "Send someone to see if there are any survivors. If there are any, they will be killed by me."
Ma Sanbao nodded heavily and ordered people to silence him.
Li Yuanji asked again: "How many people have we lost?"
Ma Sanbao said in a deep voice: "Twenty-four died and more than eighty were injured..."
There is no such thing as undead in a battle, even if it is a calculated and unintentional surprise attack, people will still die, so it is normal to have injuries.
Especially in this kind of running battle with fewer hits and more long-distance pursuits, injuries are more likely to occur.
"Let our people take the dead, clean the battlefield, and return the same way!"
Li Yuanji exhaled a breath of turbid air and gave instructions again.
Ma Sanbao hesitated and said, "Should we bury the brothers who died in the battle on the spot?"
Li Yuanji frowned and said: "If the Turkic mission is destroyed, my father will definitely send people to investigate and bury the people here. They will be easily found and dug out."
Speaking of this, Li Yuanji glanced at Ma Sanbao and said, "You don't want them to die in the wilderness, right?"
When people from the imperial court are investigating corpses, they naturally don't mind digging up graves and desecrating the corpses in order to track down evidence. But if you expect them to bury them back after digging and investigating, that's simply impossible.
Because without relevant preferential treatment documents, they would not give preferential treatment to a group of sinners who broke the diplomatic rules of the Tang Dynasty and violated the laws of the Tang Dynasty.
"I understand, I will give the order now."
It wasn't that Ma Sanbao didn't understand the reason behind this, but he didn't know whether Li Yuanji wanted others to find out about him, or whether he didn't want others to find out about him, so he asked this question.
The most important thing is that burying people on the spot is a fine tradition developed by soldiers and horses of all dynasties during their marches and operations.
The main reason for doing this is to avoid wasting troops transporting corpses, and also to avoid the occurrence of plague.
When there is not enough time to bury them on site, they may even burn them with fire.
Although the ancients emphasized the tradition that one's body, hair, and skin should be taken from one's parents and should not be insulted lightly, and that fallen leaves should return to their roots, these are nothing compared to the plague.
After a major disaster, there must be a major epidemic, and many times this major disaster refers to war.
Therefore, when it comes to war and epidemic prevention, the ancients were quite rigorous in their work.
"Tell our people that of everything captured this time, the brothers who died in the battle will get 50%, the brothers who were injured will get 30%, and the remaining brothers will get 20%.
I will give you another reward after you return."
Li Yuanji added another sentence when Ma Sanbao was about to go down to deliver the order.
Ma Sanbao cupped his hands and said, "Brothers, I would like to thank Your Highness."
Li Yuanji shook his head and said: "You're welcome, I should."
The people who died in the battle died because they were doing personal things for him, not because they were doing things for the Tang Dynasty, nor because they died for the inheritance of Chinese culture and the defense of China's inherent territory, so he gave him more injuries.
, it is appropriate to give more compensation.
In this regard, people in the Tang Dynasty didn't talk much about reason or morality, but they did.
"Your Highness, everything has been packed according to your instructions. Can we go back?"
An hour later, everything was settled, and Ma Sanbao rushed to Li Yuanji to ask for instructions.
Li Yuanji was sitting on a tree stump drinking. After hearing Ma Sanbao's words, he raised his head and asked, "There weren't any twists and turns, right?"
Ma Sanbao cupped his hands and said: "Two caravans passed by during this period, but they were frightened away by the people sent by me."
These days, there is almost no one, or three or two people, traveling together in the barren mountains and mountains. Some are large groups, some are caravans, and some are teams that have been put together by various counties to travel together.
Teams of the imperial court, as well as various teams such as envoys.
