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

Chapter 87 Big Killer

Seeing the flames in the Turkic cavalry, Li An showed a sneer on his face.

He is not a fool. He does not want to think that he can withstand the attack of 5,000 enemies with 500 men!

Unless one has the light machine guns of later generations, it would be extremely difficult to use muskets to fight against 5,000 cavalrymen.

The enemy will most likely use their speed and numbers advantage to quickly attack your formation.

Even with a three-stage attack, it is difficult to withstand this kind of impact.

Fortunately, he has a top-secret weapon!
Fire Thunder!!!

This type of fire bomb is made of a sealed iron shell, which is filled not only with gunpowder but also with many iron nails.

Its explosive power is amazing, far stronger than the explosion of black powder.

Moreover, once it explodes, the iron nails inside can kill enemies within a radius of two meters.

This is Li An’s most deadly weapon!
Otherwise, how could we resist this enemy force of 5,000 people!

Sure enough, after a fire bomb exploded, hundreds of Turkic cavalry were killed or injured.

The iron nails flying randomly in the shock wave of the explosion killed and wounded many Turkic cavalrymen. As the nails were scattered all over the ground, more Turks fell down.

The Turkic cavalry was suddenly in chaos. The cavalry in the front were still charging desperately, but those in the back were being blown to death.

But at this moment, the second wave of fire thunder attack began!

Dozens of black fire thunder cans with burning fuses flew over the heads of the Tang army and the Turkic cavalry in front, and landed beside the Turkic cavalry behind.

There was another violent explosion.

This time, hundreds of Turks were killed or injured again.

While the first row of Tang soldiers desperately held up their iron shields to block the Turks, the muskets of the second row of Tang soldiers fired again, another round of volleys.

Boom boom boom...

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of Turkic soldiers fell!
When Ashina Hulun saw this scene, an expression of fear appeared in his eyes.

These Tang army’s weapons are too terrifying.

Fire guns, fire bombs, iron shields, spears...

The combination of several weapons actually blocked the Turkic cavalry of several thousand people!
Now, after two rounds of fire thunder bombardment and several rounds of musket shooting, the Turks’ casualties have reached two thousand!

This is really a terrifying number!

In just ten minutes, two thousand of the five thousand cavalrymen suffered casualties!
How can we fight this!
The other party obviously still has a fire bomb in his hand.

Moreover, Ashina Hulun didn’t know whether they had any other terrible weapons in their hands!
He turned his gaze to the rear of the Tang army.

Now, he placed all his hopes on the flanking Turkic cavalry behind him.

As long as they can get around to the rear of the Tang army and form an encirclement and siege, they can still defeat this Tang army!

As he was thinking, he suddenly saw a cloud of dust rising in the distance.

In the distance, the Turkic cavalry who were encircling Li An were preparing to raid Li An’s rear, when they suddenly encountered 6,000 Tang cavalry led by Huang Junhan!

With 6,000 elite cavalry against 5,000 Turkic wolf cavalry, Huang Junhan was essentially fighting a losing battle!

After the two armies faced each other, the Turkic cavalry was quickly defeated!
In front of the Tang army wearing heavy armor and holding Ma Shuo, the sabers of the 5,000 Turkic cavalry were no match at all, not to mention that the enemy's strength exceeded theirs.

In a short while, the Turkic cavalry was killed and fled, leaving behind thousands of corpses.

Huang Junhan did not pursue them, but led his troops around to the side of the Turkic cavalry in front of Li An and attacked them fiercely.

"Come on!"

"Kill!"

In the blink of an eye, six thousand Tang cavalrymen arrived in front of Ashina Hulun.

Faced with so many Tang cavalry, the Turks no longer had the courage to hold on and turned around and fled.

The cavalry that was attacking the Tang army's iron shields also withdrew from that side and turned around to chase their own troops.

"Get on the horse!" Li An shouted angrily.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion of the Cavalry Guard immediately put down their iron shields, mounted their horses, and chased after the fleeing Turkic wolf riders in front of them, carrying only muskets, spears, and crossbows.

Pursued by the two forces, the Turks left behind another corpse and ran towards Ashina Helu's position.

Huang Junhan and his cavalry quickly joined Li An's troops.

"Your Highness, I am late in coming to your rescue..."

Before he could finish, Li An waved his hand:

"No need to be polite, just obey my orders immediately!"

Huang Junhan was stunned and thought to himself that the Sixth Prince was really quick-witted!

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Li An glanced at the fleeing Turkic cavalry in the distance.

Although the Turkic Wolf Cavalry has a total of 60,000 troops, 10,000 of them have just been dispatched.

At this time, more than half of the 5,000 Turkic cavalry on the front had been killed or wounded, and only more than 2,000 people escaped back to the position.

Huang Junhan also killed thousands of Turks who were outflanked from the rear, leaving only more than 3,000.

The key point is that this battle had a huge shocking effect on the Turks!
The Turks who remained on the battlefield saw that their army of 10,000 had lost several thousand in such a short period of time, while the Tang army on this side suffered almost no casualties. The fear in their hearts was difficult to describe.

In addition, the thousands of remnant soldiers who returned would soon tell their companions about the horrors of the muskets and fire bombs they encountered.

Soon, these Turks will become frightened birds!

The information asymmetry and overwhelming strength on the battlefield will soon shatter the courage of these Turks!

Thinking of this, Li An immediately said in a deep voice:

"Send a message to Duke Qiao, ordering his 20,000 men to leave their positions immediately and attack the Turkic positions head-on!"

Huang Junhan was stunned when he heard his order.

Although more than 3,000 Turks were killed in a short time, they still had 50,000 soldiers on their position!

Duke Qiao has less than 20,000 men under his command, and they are all infantry!

Use 20,000 infantrymen to attack the 50,000 Turkic cavalry head-on?

What do you think, Sixth Prince?

"Your Highness, no!"

Huang Junhan said hurriedly:
"The Turks are powerful, with more than twice our number, and they are all cavalry. Duke Qiao only has 17,000 infantrymen. If we attack the Turks head-on, we will probably be defeated quickly. Then..."

Li An glanced at Huang Junhan:

"Don't we still have people here?"

Huang Junhan was stunned.

Don’t we have 6,000 cavalry on our side?

Even with these 6,000 cavalry, the total number of Tang troops was only over 20,000.

Want to attack the 50,000-strong Turkic army head-on?

I can't do this...

Li An smiled faintly and said:
"It's not a one-on-one duel on the battlefield. Even though the enemy has 50,000 people, it's impossible for them to deploy all 50,000 people in front of us at once. We have to fight them one by one!"

"Although Duke Qiao has only over 10,000 infantrymen, the 6,000 men here are enough!"

"This……"

When Huang Junhan heard this, he broke out in a cold sweat.

This Sixth Prince is so brave.

Not only is the newborn calf not afraid of the tiger, it actually wants to eat the tiger in one bite!
(End of this chapter)