I, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, have risen since I destroyed the Turks

Chapter 689: First Battle, Annihilation of the Zhengbai Banner
But no matter what they think, the fate of the Zhengbai Banner tonight is already determined, and even the gods cannot save it.

There was no need to worry. They were in a camp again. Even if the cavalry of the Plain White Banner discovered the Tang soldiers at this time, they would not have time to pull out their horses.

Everything is destined.

When the Tang Dynasty Tieqimen galloped to a distance of about a hundred steps away from the camp, the Tang Dynasty cavalry no longer suppressed the speed of their horses, and let out earth-shaking shouts of killing, and charged towards the Zhengbai Banner camp with all their might.

The next moment, the huge Zhengbai Banner camp woke up. Realizing that something was wrong, the Zhengbai Banner soldiers wanted to resist, but how could a group of confused soldiers be a match for the iron cavalry?

In an instant, the entire Zhengbai Banner camp turned into a living hell.

Cavalry already has an overwhelming advantage over infantry, but what about the vast majority of them being a group of unorganized infantry?

Therefore, the 100,000 Tang cavalry led by Li Kan encountered almost no decent resistance.

Only around the big tent near the center of the Zhengbai Banner camp did the Tang soldiers encounter a dozen Tatars with martial arts skills, but almost everyone in the 500,000 soldiers selected by Zheng Xuan this time had martial arts skills.

As soon as both sides came into contact, they were both shocked.

The strength of these dozen or so Tartars is probably at the early stage of the innate realm. After figuring out the enemy's details, the Tang Dynasty has its own corresponding masters to deal with these dozen Tartars.

What surprised these dozen Tatars was that the other side had so many martial arts masters disguised as soldiers to attack the camp.

In fact, it is no wonder that they think this way. There are not many people in the Lu Ding world who have martial arts skills. Most of them are from the underworld. Even if they join the army, they usually start as middle-level officers.

They could not imagine in any way that all the soldiers attacking the camp were ruthless people with advanced martial arts skills.

It is obvious that the army led by Li Zheng will continue to bring surprises to the Tatars, causing them to die in shock again and again.

Therefore, it is not surprising that they mistook ordinary soldiers of the Tang Dynasty as masters of disguise.

There was a huge disparity in strength and numbers between the two sides, so the outcome was no surprise. About an incense stick later, more than a dozen Tartar masters were killed.

After that, the Tang soldiers did not encounter any decent resistance for a hundred years.

Although the strength of the two sides was unequal, they were after all more than 30,000 elite Eight Banners Army soldiers. When this one-sided massacre ended, the sun was already high in the sky.

It turned out that when the Tang Dynasty supervisor discovered a dozen Tartars with martial arts skills, he immediately reported to Li Kan.

Li Kan was overjoyed when he heard this. He believed that the appearance of these dozen martial arts masters might mean that Mahara, the leader of the Zhengbai Banner, was currently in the Banner.

But when Li Kan arrived with a group of Tang masters, they did not find the Tatars suspected to be Mahara, but only found several boxes of gold and silver treasures and a deputy governor of the Plain White Banner who was terrified.

This deputy governor did not forget to carry several heavy boxes of gold, silver and treasures with him while fleeing. It is true that people die for money and birds die for food.

Li Kan looked at the boxes of gold, silver and treasures and the deputy governor of the Zhengbai Banner, and his face was full of disappointment.

It is worth mentioning that the Eight Banners system established by the Qin Dynasty had the highest-ranking person in a banner being called the Banner Lord, the lowest level of three hundred people being called a Niulu, and the person second only to the Banner Lord being called the Dutong.

Under the governor-general there were varying numbers of deputy governors-general, and under the deputy governors-general were the lieutenant general, the left commander, and so on.

Under the commander-in-chief is the deputy commander-in-chief, so it's no wonder that Li Kan was disappointed.

Li Kan had expected that even if the leader of the Plain White Banner, Mahara, was no longer in power, he would at least destroy the commander-in-chief of the Plain White Banner. However, he only captured a deputy commander-in-chief, which was unacceptable to Li Kan. So, when the soldiers around him asked how to deal with the deputy commander-in-chief, Li Kan did not even look at him, but directly drew out his personal guard's sword and cut the deputy commander-in-chief in half.

After the depression in his heart had mostly gone, he said to the Tang soldiers beside him: "The emperor said that if we encounter the Tartars on the battlefield, we should just kill them and leave no prisoners!"

Because the Tang Dynasty had an absolute numerical advantage this time, except for a few Tatars who were extremely lucky, the remaining 30,000 Plain White Banner soldiers were completely annihilated by the Tang army.

Li Kan looked at the Zhengbai Banner camp where corpses were scattered all over the ground and sighed with some regret.

But he was not a person who would hesitate. He had won a great victory in this battle, and the strategic goal had been achieved. It was time to withdraw.

So Li Kan ordered the fire to burn down the Plain White Banner camp, and the 100,000 cavalry of the Tang Dynasty rushed back to Jianzhou City.

Shortly after Li Kan left, a team of about 300 people appeared in the camp of the Zhengbai Banner.

Looking at the still burning Zhengbai Banner camp and the broken arms in it, the three hundred troops were stunned for a moment.

All this was too much of a shock to them. The Qing Dynasty had ruled the Central Plains for thirty years, and even when fighting against the Ming Dynasty before its founding, such tragic scenes rarely occurred.

This is the Zhengbai Banner, the elite among the elite of the Qing Dynasty. It is no exaggeration to say that the Zhengbai Banner played a huge role in the Qing Dynasty's ability to rule the Central Plains.

At this time, they were ruthlessly annihilated without even knowing who the enemy was.

The three hundred Tatar Niulu came to their senses and hurriedly delivered this horrifying news to the other eight banner armies.

The other Eight Banners Army who received the news seemed in disbelief, and then became angry, with a hint of fear in their anger.

Mahara, the leader of the Plain White Banner, was also frightened and broke out in a cold sweat.

As the flag master, he generally would not let the navy live in the camp unless there was a war, but he still couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

Because he had stayed in the Zhengbai Banner in the first half of the night, and almost stayed in the Zhengbai Banner at the invitation of the deputy commander who was killed. If it weren't for some urgent things, he might have really capsized in the ditch.

After the shock, endless anger rose in Mahala's heart.

The Zhengbai Banner was at its peak. Although he was still in charge of the Xianghuang Banner, he would definitely be punished by the court after this time.

Thinking of this, Mahala just wanted to catch the mastermind right now and cut him into pieces to vent his anger.

An unknown and powerful enemy.

The banner owners and commanders of the Eight Banners Army held a meeting.

The generals quickly set their sights on Jianzhou City, believing that something major must have happened there.

If the enemy can destroy the Zhengbai Banner silently, they may continue to attack the other banners. For the sake of safety, we should just unite all the troops.

At the same time, all the banner leaders sent reports to the Qingcao capital, describing in detail the changes in Jianzhou City and the demise of the Zhengbai Banner.

Mahara watched the soldiers heading to the capital rush away.

(End of this chapter)