A letter was sent to Chang 'an by a knight on horseback.
He rushed to Chang 'an twenty-four hours a day without stopping.
Every time they arrived at a courier station, they would change horses. Even if they were exhausted to death, they had to send the horses to Chang 'an in the shortest time possible. This was the 800-mile express.
On the 6th day of the 7th month, on the plains north of Dangzhou and Minzhou, Tuyuhun and the Tang army were less than five miles apart. It looked like a great battle was about to break out.
Li Yuanba took the left military guard as the left wing, the right military guard as the right wing, and the left military guard as the central army.
Time was running out. Li Yuanba didn't want to waste too much time with Tuyuhun, nor did he want to discuss any tactics. He just wanted to defeat the Tuyuhun army head-on.
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Mu Rong Qianlin was a famous figure with real power in Tuyuhun. Nominally, he was the nephew of Murong Fuyun, the Tuyuhun Khan, but in fact, he was Murong Fuyun's illegitimate son.
Murong Fuyun had inherited his brother's throne, but before he ascended the throne, he had already had an affair with his sister-in-law.
After ascending to the throne, he had very righteously taken his brother's woman into the harem. However, Mu Rong Qianlin was born right after he ascended the throne.
Although it was a tradition for a younger brother to inherit everything from his older brother, it was not allowed to have an affair, whether in the grasslands or in the Central Plains.
In order to secure his position, Mu Rong Fuyun could only give Mu Rong Qianlin the title of nephew. As for whether he treated Mu Rong Qianlin as his nephew or his son, it was all up to him.
Therefore, Mu Rong Qianlin had been loved by Mu Rong Fuyun since he was young. After he grew up, he even commanded 20,000 elite cavalry of Tuyuhun.
"Who dares to have the courage to fight us? They actually dared to fight against our 20,000 cavalrymen. Are they not afraid of death?”
Mu Rong Qianlin was about twenty-one or twenty-two years old. He was riding on a very handsome horse. His expression was arrogant as if he looked down on the Tang army.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, before the third year of Zhenguan, all the nomads in the north looked down on the Great Tang.
This was because from the first year of Wude until the third year of Zhenguan, the Eastern and Western Turks, Tuyuhun, and other races had been harassing the Great Tang's borders and pillaging it every year.
For example, this was the fourth time Tuyuhun had invaded the Great Tang this year. But the Great Tang didn't even dare to make a sound.
As for the Eastern Turks, they had invaded the Great Tang more than ten times this year. This was one of the reasons why the nomadic tribes around the Great Tang looked down on it. If he didn't check the information, he wouldn't know. Once he checked the information, he was shocked. Son of a b * tch Turks, in the early Tang Dynasty, they couldn't be described as invading every year, but rather as invading every month. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Turks constantly invaded the borders of the Great Tang, coming several times a month. Every time I see this, I feel inexplicably angry!
"Your Highness Qian Lin, there are more than 100,000 Tang soldiers. We can't be careless! Why not retreat for the time being and let the twenty thousand cavalrymen from Minzhou City come to support us before fighting the Tang army?”
Beside Mu Rong Qianlin, there was a rough grassland man riding on a horse as he looked at Mu Rong Qianlin and said. He was Mu Rong Qianlin's ten thousand man commander. At the same time, he was also a subordinate that Mu Rong Qianlin trusted very much. He was someone that his father, or rather, his second uncle, had given him.
"Humph! What was there to be careless about! What was the use of these Han people other than having more people? This year, the warriors of my tribe have already invaded several times, but they don't even dare to make a sound.
Right now, they are just some infantry. As long as I let the warriors charge, won't they collapse?”
Mu Rong Qianlin's contempt for the Tang Army was apparent. In the future, we only saw the Tang army's illustrious military might in textbooks. We only saw the Tang army's invincibility.
We have only seen the majesty of the Great Tang and the glory of Li Shimin as the Heavenly Khan, but has anyone ever noticed how the Great Tang was despised before it rose to power?
Just like now, Mu Rong Qianlin's contempt represented the contempt of the entire Tuyuhun and the entire nomadic race.
After Mu Rong Qianlin finished speaking, he pulled out the scimitar at his waist and waved it forcefully. He shouted loudly,""Warriors of Tuyuhun! Go! Go and seize the slaves and wealth that belong to you!”
As soon as Mu Rong Qianlin finished speaking, the cavalrymen around him started to gallop towards the Tang Army on the opposite side.
Tens of thousands of warhorses stepped on the ground, causing the entire ground to tremble violently.
"Phew ~"
Li Yuanba comforted his horse. The violent tremors seemed to make the divine chariot uneasy.
"Mo Saber Battalion, step forward. Sword-shield soldiers, retreat. Spearmen, get into formation.”
Li Yuanba's cold voice came out from his mouth. His expression was extremely cold.
The Tuyuhun people didn't have any strategy or tactics. They just used the essence of the cavalry-offense.
Moreover, they did not use any so-called probing tactics, nor did they use any tactics to fuel the enemy. They all charged forward. They probably wanted to rely on these 20,000 cavalrymen to directly break through their own army formation.
Flags were constantly waved, and Li Yuanba's orders were quickly conveyed to the Left and Right Guards through flag signals.
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"Cut off the horse's legs!"
Tuyuhun's cavalrymen were approaching. A Tang general saw the approaching Tuyuhun cavalrymen and shouted.
"Bang ~"
"Bang ~"
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Horse legs were cut off one by one, and Tuyuhun cavalrymen were thrown off their horses. At the same time, countless Tang soldiers fell on the battlefield forever.
Li Yuanba looked at the battlefield in the distance. His expression didn't change at all. He knew in his heart that there was no war without death. The key was to see if the death was worth it.
After Tuyuhun paid a great price, he finally broke the formation of Mo Saber Camp. Some of the Tuyuhun cavalrymen had already rushed towards the shield soldiers of the Tang army.
"Pass down my order, Mo Saber Camp retreat, shield soldiers welcome the enemy! Let Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong act according to the plan!”
A cold and emotionless voice came out from Li Yuanba's mouth.
It had to be said that flag signals were a great invention in the history of China's military. The speed at which the army received orders through flag signals was much faster. At the same time, orders could also be transmitted to the generals in time.
Cheng Yaojin shouted after receiving Li Yuanba's order,""Shieldbearers, place your shields according to the method we practiced two days ago.
The rest of the troops immediately circled around the Tuyuhun Cavalry from the left flank and surrounded them!”
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