If I let you stay in Lingnan, how could you become the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty?

Chapter 80 You are pests

into the night.

Li An rode his white horse and walked slowly on a hillside.

In the distance, the light of bonfires flickered in the Turkic camp, and the shouts of the Turks could be heard from time to time.

Behind Li An were his five hundred cavalrymen guarding the Shenji Camp.

All the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion of the Cavalry Guard had their horses' hooves wrapped with cotton, their horses' mouths held rings, and the soldiers held a pearl in their mouths.

Everyone held a musket in his hand with a bayonet on the top.

In addition, each person carried three kerosene cans on his back.

The horse's hooves, wrapped in cotton cloth, made almost no sound on the grass.

The team of 500 people, like a dark tide in the night, slowly and silently walked towards the Turkic camp in the distance.

After a while, they approached the Turkic camp.

The Turks waiting outside soon discovered something was wrong and immediately drew their sabers and mounted their horses to check.

At this time, the 500-man Hussar Guard Shenjiying team had surrounded half of the Turkic camp in a fan shape.

"kill!"

In the crowd, Li An suddenly shouted angrily.

Like a spring thunder, it instantly broke the tranquility of the night sky over the grassland.

In an instant, several muskets were fired.

Because it was a night raid, Li An issued the order to attack on his own, but not to waste bullets.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Shenji Camp who were the first to approach the Turkic outer guards opened fire first.

Boom boom boom...

After a few explosions, several Turkic sentinels fell to the ground.

At the same time, the silence in the Turkic camp was broken in an instant. Many Turkic soldiers who were still in shock after the battle during the day jumped out of their tents, picked up their sabers and rushed out of the camp.

But the Tang cavalry came faster and rushed into their camp in the blink of an eye.

Boom boom!

Boom...boom...the sound of gunfire like thunder came one after another.

Although the Tang people's muskets were single-shot, they could only fire again after reloading after firing a shot.

But because Li An equipped their muskets with two-foot-long bayonets, plus the three-foot-long muskets, together they formed short spears of nearly two meters in length.

Therefore, many soldiers opened fire and immediately stabbed the Turkic soldiers with their bayonets when they encountered them without having time to reload.

Although the Turkic sabers were sharp, they had no chance of winning against the short spears of the Tang soldiers.

Soon, many Turkic soldiers, although not killed by bullets, were pierced directly by the bayonets of the Tang soldiers.

The Tang soldiers adopted the strategy of attacking in groups of three. When one group of soldiers ran out of bullets and there were no enemies around them, they would immediately stop to restock their ammunition, and another group of soldiers would follow immediately to fill in.

They quickly and methodically captured half of the Turkic camp.

Ashina Hawke soon realized that something was wrong and quickly ordered his soldiers to retreat.

At this time Li An discovered that the Turkic soldiers wanted to escape again, so he ordered most of the soldiers to chase them, while a small number of soldiers used kerosene cans to burn the tents in the Turkic camp.

Soon, the Turkic camp was surrounded by fire.

The remaining Turkic soldiers found that the Tang people were chasing them, so they had to flee separately.

After running for half the night, at dawn the next day, Ashina Hawk found that there were only a dozen Turkic cavalrymen left around him.

"I have thousands of Turkic wolf riders!"

Looking at the dozen or so cavalrymen around him, Ashina Hawke felt like crying but had no tears.

At this point, he could only take these dozen cavalrymen back to the nearest tribal camp and wait for the scattered Turkic cavalrymen to come back before he could gather the remaining defeated soldiers. The Turkic people lived wherever there was water and grass, and had no fixed place to live.

The nearest tribal camp to Ashina Hawke was just a few dozen miles away to the northwest.

Ashina Hawk returned to the Turkic tribal camp with a dozen cavalrymen. The men, women, and children in the camp were stunned to see that their leader only brought back a dozen cavalrymen, and all of them were injured.

Thousands of Turkic wolf riders!

There are only a dozen people left?

When have the Turks ever suffered such a great loss!

There was a sudden sound of wailing in the camp.

At this time, Ashina Hawke hurriedly comforted:
"Don't panic, our people have just been scattered. Many cavalrymen have not returned yet. I believe they will be back soon!"

After hearing his words, many Turks seemed to have a glimmer of hope again, so they had to sit outside the camp and wait.

After half a day, some Turkic cavalry returned as expected. They were all those who were dispersed last night, but there were only more than 200 of them.

Seeing that only so many people came back, Ashina Hawke was both angry and furious.

This Tang Dynasty prince is so powerful!

What kind of magic is used to control the things in their hands?
No, we must go back and report to the Khan and ask him to pay special attention!

Thinking of this, Ashina Hawk made up his mind to take the tribe back to the Ashina tribe early tomorrow morning and report the situation here to the Khan.

Soon it was night again, and the Turks had not yet fallen asleep when they suddenly heard singing coming from afar.

"You are pests, you are pests!"

"Just Tang soldiers, just Tang soldiers!"

"We must exterminate all of you pests..."

Along with the singing came a group of Tang Dynasty cavalrymen who came and went like the wind.

Each of these Tang soldiers held a strange iron pipe with a bayonet shining coldly on it.

As soon as they approached the Turkic camp, the iron pipes in their hands made a thunderous explosion, and then the Turks fell down inexplicably.

Many Turks had never seen this and thought that this thunderous sound could kill people.

As a result, many Turks fell to the ground with their heads in their hands as soon as the muskets in the hands of the Tang soldiers fired, thinking that they were dead.

However, this time the Shenji Battalion of the Cavalry Guards did not gradually surround the Turkic tribal camp, but instead fired shots around it.

Many Turks who tried to flee were soon killed by bullets. Some Turks who were lucky enough to avoid the bullets were killed by the bayonets of Tang soldiers while breaking through.

Soon, most of the Turks were killed, and even Ashina Hawke was killed by a hail of bullets.

The rest of the men dropped their sabers and knelt on the ground in surrender.

Feng Lang asked Li An how to deal with the remaining Turks.

Li An took a look at the remaining Turks and found that most of them were the elderly, the weak, women and children, with only a few dozen Turkic men.

"I heard that there is a rule on the grassland that anyone taller than the wheel can be killed. Now that we are here, we must follow the local customs!"

The wheels of the carts in the grassland tribes are at least 1.5 meters wide, and anyone taller than the wheels is an adult.

If such people were left behind, they would become Turkic cavalry enemies of the Tang Dynasty.

Absolutely can't stay!
Feng Lang immediately took the order and asked Xue Rengui and his men to kill all the men in the tribe who were taller than the wheels.

The remaining Turks cried out in grief and all knelt there, not daring to move.

Li An looked at them and said coldly:
"The one who killed the men of your tribe was Li An, the Sixth Prince of the Tang Dynasty!"

"Tell your people this: Anyone who offends the Tang Dynasty will be punished no matter how far away they are!"

(End of this chapter)