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

Chapter 90: Attack from all sides
Xue Rengui held a musket in one hand and a short crossbow in the other, roared as he rode on his horse, and rushed towards the banner of the Turkic Khan in the distance.

Behind him were five hundred cavalrymen from the Shenji Battalion of the Huqi Guard!
Although many soldiers had been injured when facing the previous charge of the Turkic cavalry, fortunately most of them were not seriously injured. After a rough bandage, none of them left the battlefield!

Nearly five hundred cavalry guards, each holding a musket with a bayonet installed on the barrel, roared and rushed towards the banner of the Turkic Khan.

Li An was also in the middle of the team, also wielding a musket and leading his soldiers to rush forward.

Feng Lang glanced at him and didn't dare to dissuade him.

This was what they did in Lingnan before. His Royal Highness the Prince led his soldiers and rushed forward with swords raised, roaring. If anyone dared to stop him, he would chop that person to death immediately.

Therefore, Feng Lang just followed Li An carefully and rushed forward with a musket in hand like him.

In the blink of an eye, they had rushed to the vicinity of the Western Turkic Khan's banner, only a hundred meters away from his personal guards.

Many soldiers immediately pulled the trigger on their crossbows.

The shooting range of this short crossbow can reach three hundred meters, but in order to increase the hit rate, they all started shooting when they were one hundred meters away, just like Xue Rengui.

Whizzing……

Many of the Khan's personal guards who were running towards them were suddenly hit by the heavy rain of crossbow arrows, and many of them fell down.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion of the Cavalry Guard immediately put down their crossbows and picked up their muskets.

Just fire one crossbow arrow, and then the musket will attack autonomously!

Within a hundred meters, the attack effect of the musket is much stronger than that of the crossbow. Although the crossbow can pierce leather armor, the Khan's personal guards basically wear iron armor, so the effectiveness of the crossbow will be greatly reduced.

But the musket is different!
boom! Boom boom...

As Xue Rengui fired the first bullet, the muskets in the hands of other soldiers also fired.

At a distance of dozens of meters, their shooting accuracy is very high, almost reaching a hit rate of 60%!

Such shooting accuracy is extremely rare in horseback combat, especially with firearms such as muskets which have poor accuracy.

Coupled with hard training and adaptation to a series of fierce battles, the potential of these soldiers has been greatly enhanced!

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of Khan's guards fell.

Here, Ashina Helu saw that the situation was not good, so he mounted his horse and ran towards his main cavalry with dozens of guards.

There are more than 30,000 of his troops there, and he will be fine as long as he joins the main force.

But Xue Rengui, wielding a musket and using his bayonet to kill several of the Khan's personal guards, roared and led a team of a hundred men to rush towards Ashina Helu.

Li An, who was watching from behind, couldn't help but admire:

"As expected of the warrior I picked!"

Feng Lang came over at this time:
"Your Majesty, the Turkic Khan is about to escape!"

Li An shook his head and smiled:

"He can't run away!"

After saying that, he pointed to the west.

Feng Lang looked in the direction his finger was pointing and saw a column of dust rolling in from the setting sun in the distance.

The Tang army’s reinforcements have arrived!
The 30,000 Tang troops who came from Suzhou galloped non-stop and have already arrived near the battlefield!

"Haha, that's good, the Turks can't escape!"

Feng Lang couldn't help laughing.

At this time, Li An rode his horse directly to the wolf banner of the Turkic Khan, swung his sword and chopped it hard on the flagpole of the banner.

Snap! The big banner broke with a sound!

In the distance, the Turkic Wolf Cavalry who were fighting fiercely with Huang Junhan soon discovered that the wolf flag was broken, and the Turkic guards in front of the Khan's carriage were being killed by the Tang army.

"Oh no! The Khan was ambushed!"

"The wolf banner has fallen, the Khan is dead!"

While the Turkic wolf riders were terrified, Huang Junhan and other Tang soldiers started shouting loudly.

After this burst of shouting, the Turkic Wolf Cavalry lost their will to fight.

While they were fighting here, their lair was destroyed by the Tang army over there. It was unknown whether the Khan was dead or alive, and the wolf flag had fallen.

Can this battle still be fought?

"Kill! Kill all these wolf cubs!"

Huang Junhan roared at this moment and waved his Ma Shuo to attack the Turkic cavalry again.

Although the Turkish cavalry still outnumbered them by twice, the mentality of these Turks had changed at this time.

The Khan was ambushed and his wolf banner was broken, which was a huge shock to them and made them lose the courage to continue fighting.

Faced with Huang Junhan's desperate charge, although they clearly outnumbered the Tang army, they had no intention of fighting anymore and turned around and left.

Huang Junhan took the opportunity to lead the Tang army in pursuit.

At this time, Ashina Helu was about to run to his main force with dozens of personal guards, but was surprised to find that the Tang army in the west had already arrived, while the cavalry in the east had lost the courage to fight because the Khan escaped with the broken flag, and was chased and beaten by the enemy who was far smaller than their own.

"It's over!"

Ashina Helu immediately realized that the situation was hopeless, and hurriedly fled with dozens of his personal guards, while ordering them to blow the ox horn to signal the retreat.

After the ox horn sounded, the Turkic cavalry that were originally attacking Chai Shao's infantry formation fiercely became confused and turned around to escape.

The Tang army had suffered thousands of casualties in its position, but when they saw that the Turks were preparing to retreat, Chai Shao immediately led his infantry in a counterattack against the enemy.

Tonight, the Tang army infantry launched an attack on the enemy with spears in hand, and the spears harvested the lives of the Turkic soldiers who had no time to escape!

At this time, reinforcements from Suzhou had also arrived.

These 30,000 Tang cavalry quickly rushed directly to the front of the Turkic cavalry and launched a direct attack on their western troops.

The Tang army, clad in iron armor and holding long spears, was like an unstoppable torrent, and in a blink of an eye they had opened a gap in the Turkic army's western flank.

The Turks became even more panicked and retreated in a hurry.

After Ashina Helu joined forces with his main force, he turned around and fled to the northwest.

Although Xue Rengui caught up to the enemy nearby, he was only accompanied by a team of 100 men, so he had no choice but to chase after the remaining enemy troops and start slaughtering them.

The tens of thousands of Turkic troops were divided into several groups at this time. One group was chased and beaten by Huang Junhan's cavalry, and fled north in a panic, leaving behind many corpses along the way.

One group, led by Ashina Helu, fled to the northwest.

The number of defeated soldiers along this route was the largest, but they fled at a fast speed, running all the way towards the northwest.

The Suzhou reinforcements quickly dispatched 20,000 elite cavalry to chase and attack the enemy.

The remaining Turks were broken up into three or four small groups, two of which were surrounded by Chai Shao's infantry and Suzhou reinforcements, and were quickly defeated.

The war situation, which had been precarious just now, instantly turned into a one-sided massacre of the Turkic cavalry by the Tang army.

The remaining several thousand Turkic cavalry no longer had the courage to fight. They dropped their weapons, fell off their horses, knelt down and begged for surrender!
Chai Shao, with bloodshot eyes, wiped the blood off his face, looked at the Turkic cavalry begging for mercy all over the mountains in the distance, and couldn't help laughing.

(End of this chapter)