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Chapter 300: Five thousand cavalrymen trampled on the Qiang barbarians, and Xi Junmai killed the general alone!
Li Yuanji couldn't help but applaud and praise, saying that Li Er had done a really good job and Li Jing had fought the battle really beautifully.

He really didn't expect it. He thought Li Er was going to take action against Tuyuhun, but he didn't expect that he would do it so quickly. In just two months, he destroyed the Eastern Turks and captured Jie Li.

Especially the degree of confidentiality of the news, the strategy of making a feint to the west and attacking the east, and the methods displayed by Li Er made Li Yuanji once again feel the horror of Li Er.

As expected of a carbon-based creature of this era, it is really scary when it gets angry.

Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty is weak now, and now it has been dealt with by him. Coupled with the natural disasters in the Tang Dynasty, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty has limited Li Er's performance.

If Li Er were given a powerful Tang Dynasty and was in his prime, Li Yuanji couldn't even imagine how capable this guy would be.

Thinking of this, Li Yuanji's blood boiled. Now that Li Er had destroyed the Eastern Turks and demonstrated the strength of the Tang Dynasty, he could not fall behind.

It would not be boring to compete with such a Li Er, and Li Yuanji was looking forward to it even more.

Through this incident, Li Yuanji now roughly knows where the main force of the Tang army is. As long as he knows this, Li Yuanji can fight the coalition forces of various countries with confidence.

As for firearms, he believed that Li Er would not give them. If Li Er did not even have this kind of vision, he would not be Li Er.

As soon as Li Yuanji finished speaking, Su Dingfang, Xue Wanche, Xi Junmai, Yang Shu and others were all shocked. Although they were surprised by the Tang Dynasty's destruction of the Eastern Turks, it was not so shocking that they were unable to recover like they were now.

What really shocked them was that an army of 100,000 people destroyed the Eastern Turks in just two months, two months!

The speed of destroying the country is simply exaggerated. Even if the Eastern Turkic tribes did not resist, it would take more than two months for the Tang army to capture them, right?
They had always heard that Li Jing was good at fighting, and now they finally knew how powerful Li Jing was.

Although it is still unclear how Li Jing fought exactly, at this time, no matter how he fought, it has fully demonstrated Li Jing's ability.

"Your Majesty, this Li Jing is truly a master at using troops!"

Li Yuanji listened to the sighs of Su Dingfang and others. While he agreed with them, he also felt even more headache.

For no other reason, because Li Yuanji suddenly thought that his power in the grassland would definitely be squeezed by Li Er, and he might even face the current situation in Tubo.

Li Yuanji felt more and more troubled the more he thought about it. Now it was Li Er who started to exert his strength, and once he did, he would cause great trouble to him. If Li Er really took over both the grassland and Tibet, the suppression of him by the Tang Dynasty would always exist.

Li Yuanji then looked at Yang Jianhe.

"Go and send a message to Yu Minghe and Feng Ang first, and tell them that no matter what method they use, they must work together and not retreat from the grassland unless it is absolutely necessary!"

Li Yuanji knew very well that Yu Ming and Na had to withstand Li Er's first wave of offensive. After the Turks were destroyed, Li Er would certainly support his own forces.

As long as they could resist the first wave, the various tribes on the grassland would inevitably have different morale. In addition, there was the Xueyantuo who had already become powerful next to the Turks. He really didn't believe that these people would always be united.

Li Yuanji no longer thought about the things happening in the Eastern Turkestan. He was now out of reach and could only rely on Feng Ang, Yu Minghe and Ning Chun. They also had tens of thousands of troops there. As long as they handled the situation well, they would be able to stabilize the situation.

Then he looked at Su Dingfang and others. The most important thing now was Tubo.

"You have just heard that the situation in Tibet is critical and the army will set out tomorrow."

"Xi Junmai, you lead 5,000 cavalry and set off immediately to Yuji City. If there is no war in Yuji City, go to Chawarong immediately.

If Chawarong is there, it must be protected and Chawarong must not be lost.

If he is not here, you can act when the time is right."

Li Yuanji was really worried. He now only hoped that Xie Shufang and Songtsen Gampo could hold on to the city of Lhasa. It would still take him a long time to travel to Lhasa.

Xi Junmai stood up immediately.

"I will obey your orders!"

Xi Junmai immediately went down and led the cavalry, heading straight for Yuji City.

On the morning of the second day, Li Yuanji led the army and set out again.

"Su Dingfang, you lead 30,000 troops and rush to Yuji City as soon as possible!"

The entire army could not move fast enough, so Li Yuanji had no choice but to let Su Dingfang lead a part of the army ahead to prevent the situation from worsening.

After Su Dingfang accelerated his advance, Li Yuanji asked Xue Wanche to send more people to transport cannons, trying his best to speed up the army.

On the other side, Xi Junmai led 5,000 cavalrymen and marched forward continuously. With light equipment and rapid movement, they moved very fast. After half a month, they arrived within the range of Yuji City.

"Feng Yong, lead the scouts and go immediately to get the news!"

"The army will rest on the spot!"

Xi Junmai made arrangements in an orderly manner. After a long period of rapid march, everyone was very tired.

Two hours later, Feng Yongyong arrived in front of Xi Junmai.

"General Xi, Yuji City is still there, but the enemy is still attacking it, with about 40,000 people.

I specially captured the enemy scouts for interrogation. The fighting here has been going on for nearly two months. The situation in Yuji City is probably not optimistic.

The enemy's main camp was twenty miles north of Yuji City. According to enemy scouts, a month ago, their main camp was ten miles north of Yuji City, but they were attacked at night by a thousand comrades sent by Yuji City, and eventually the main camp was forced to retreat ten miles.

Although we did not find out the exact number of casualties, I think it should not be too small, otherwise the enemy would not have moved their camp back ten miles.

As for the casualties in the city, several enemy scouts gave different accounts. Some said there were still two to three thousand people, and some said there were around a thousand. I don't know the exact number.

When I went to investigate, the battle was still going on, and the enemy should have withdrawn their troops and returned to the camp."

Xi Junmai listened quietly. He knew that there were 5,000 defenders in Yu Rui City, all sent by Yang Shu to prevent any losses.

Five thousand soldiers defended the city for two months, which shows that the enemy outside the city had no idea how many troops were inside Yu Li City.

What Xi Junmai thought of was that the defender of Yuji City was deliberately hiding his troops to cooperate with the army coming from behind, or he wanted to make a big move himself.

Xi Junmai then looked at Feng Yong.

"Have you investigated the enemy camp?"

"We have already investigated. The enemy's defenses are quite strict. They must be traumatized by the previous attack on their camp."

Xi Junmai pondered for a moment and said, "Go contact the people in Yuji City and tell the commander of Yuji City to mobilize all the troops in Yuji City to fight the enemy in three days.

I will appear from the enemy's flank, surprise attack them, and defeat them in one battle!"

Since the enemy camp is well guarded, we should not attack the camp but attack the army instead. It will make no difference.

That night, after making sure that Yu Jicheng had received the news, Xi Junmai also began to prepare.

Three days passed, and Xi Junmai stayed in the camp and kept listening to the information sent back by the scouts.

"General, the enemy troops are leaving the camp, tens of thousands of troops are moving out!"

"General, the enemy has begun to attack the city!"

Upon hearing this, Xi Junmai immediately led his army out of the camp and arrived at the flank of the Qiang barbarians.

"General, shall we start the attack?"

Xi Junmai shook his head and looked at the enemy from afar through a telescope.

"Wait a little longer. These Qiang barbarians have only been attacking the city for an hour. Let's talk about it after another hour."

Xi Junmai knew very well that in this attack, he had to completely defeat the Qiang barbarians outside the city in order to resolve the siege of Yuji City. Only then could he continue to Chawarong and continued to look through the telescope.

Ever since Li Yuanji equipped the army with telescopes, the army has had an absolute advantage in intelligence gathering.

Another hour passed, and the scouts continued to report back on the battle situation at the front.

"General, the enemy has been attacking the city for two hours, and some of them have gradually started to climb up to the top of the city walls, but they were quickly driven down.

Now the enemy has stepped up its siege efforts and is sending more troops to attack the city."

In Xi Junmai's heart, he had a great respect for the defender of Yuji City. In order to completely attract the attention of the Qiang Man and make them intensify their siege efforts, he pretended that the city was about to be breached.

Another half hour passed, Xi Junmai looked at the sky, and saw that it would be noon in another hour, so he immediately looked at the messenger. "Pass my order! Everyone, put on your armor! Mount your horses!"

Xi Junmai was the first to mount his horse, and the others began to mount their horses one after another, and the army began to deploy.

"In this battle, there is only advancement and no retreat! Those who are afraid of fighting and those who retreat without permission will all be killed!"

Xi Junmai raised his weapon and turned to look forward.

"Horse trample the Qiang barbarians! Kill!"

At Xi Junmai's command, five thousand cavalrymen immediately rushed out and charged towards the Qiang barbarian army.

Five thousand cavalrymen, like thunder, exploded in the sky and earth, making the Qiang and Man army speechless for a moment.

"Form up! Form up! The enemy attacks!"

Xi Junmai watched the Qiangman army hurriedly forming a battle line, his eyes full of disdain. These people, do they know how to form a battle line?

As the distance got closer, he gave the order again.

"Musket ready!"

The cavalryman charging in the front took out his flintlock rifle and held it with one hand.

"put!"

The front row fired and then put away their flintlocks.

"Spear! Throw!"

The cavalry in the rear drew out their iron spears, and using the inertia of their high speed and the strength of their waists, threw the spears into the Qiang barbarian army.

The two long-range attacks made the already panicked Qiang barbarians even more panicked.

"Step into the formation!"

The cavalry charged into the Qiangman army. Without any military defense, the Qiangman were like lambs to be slaughtered in front of the cavalry.

Xi Junmai held a spear in his hand, continuously reaping the lives of the Qiang barbarians, and led the cavalry to charge forward.

In Yuji City, the defender on the city wall saw Xi Junmai leading the cavalry to attack, and immediately gathered 2,300 people in the city and rushed out of the city.

Although the Qiang and Man armies were numerous at the moment, they could not communicate with each other and fell into chaos. After a long time, the cavalry finally arrived in front of Xi Junmai's cavalry, and the army in the rear began to counterattack the Tang army that had launched an attack out of the city.

But at this moment, it is undoubtedly too late.

Yang Ping, the defender of Yuli City, and his 2,300 men rushed into the group of tens of thousands of Qiang barbarians as if they were entering an empty land.

Xi Junmai broke through the flank of the Qiangman army, looked at the enemy army rushing towards him, and then looked at the big banner in the distance, and suddenly he felt murderous intent.

"Send the order! Wang Ding leads a thousand cavalry to attack the Qiang barbarians in the front army!"

"Xu Kuang leads a thousand cavalrymen to the right wing!"

"The rest of you, follow me and kill the Qiangman army!"

The five thousand cavalrymen dispersed, Wang Ding and Xu Kuang each led a thousand cavalrymen to deploy to the two wings, and Xi Junmai led the rest of the army to rush straight to the Qiangman cavalry and kill towards the central army.

"Break the formation!"

Xi Junmai took the lead, charging in front, wielding his spear and killing one person at a time. Every time he swung his spear, a Qiang barbarian would fall off his horse.

The cavalry in the rear followed Xi Junmai's footsteps closely, and each of them burst out with extremely strong fighting power to kill the Qiang barbarians.

These 5,000 cavalrymen were the absolute elite that Li Yuanji brought from Chang'an. During the expansion in Lingnan, the use of cavalry was very small due to terrain restrictions.

It can be said that these 5,000 cavalrymen have been in a state of rest, training, and exercise. This time can be regarded as their first real battle in the true sense.

Everyone is working hard now. In the army, you can be idle, but you must not be incompetent!

The longhair and the big knife in his hands kept stabbing and slashing at the Qiang barbarians beside him, and the speed of the charge never slowed down.

However, during the charge, despite the advantage of military equipment, the army began to suffer casualties.

Someone was knocked off his horse, but he still stood up and waved the long spear in his hand to kill the Qiang barbarians. The Qiang barbarians' spears stabbed at him, but could not penetrate his armor for a while, but the pain was still intense. He killed two more people. One of the Qiang barbarians pulled the horse reins tightly, and the warhorse raised its front hooves, intending to crush him to death with its hooves.

The soldier on the ground rolled over to avoid the attack, and the spear pierced the belly of the Qiang barbarian's horse. The horse fell down, and the Qiang barbarian fell to the ground with it. The Tang soldier killed it, and with the help of his comrades, he grabbed a horse and continued to kill forward.

Xi Junmai charged forward, like an arrow, constantly tearing open the gaps in the Qiang cavalry, with more than a hundred people following closely beside him.

Half an hour later, Xi Junmai had already cut through the Qiang Man cavalry. Without looking back, he led 232 cavalrymen and charged towards the Qiang Man central army.

Xi Junmai stared at the Qiangman banner.

"Kill the general! Seize the flag! Kill!"

More than two hundred cavalrymen, like a thousand-man army, frightened the Qiang barbarians in the center and caused them to become chaotic. The Qiang barbarians in the front began to retreat continuously.

Xi Junmai led 232 cavalrymen to charge in. The Qiang barbarians in front were unable to stop them and had long lost the will to fight. After being defeated, the entire army began to gradually collapse and fled backwards.

Xi Junmai watched the Qiangman banner gradually move backwards and suddenly became anxious, looking at the more than 30 riders around him.

"Do you dare to follow me and chop off the head of the Qiang barbarian leader?"

"kill!"

Xi Junmai responded with only one word. He laughed loudly, broke away from the rest of the cavalry, and rushed towards the Qiang barbarian leader with more than 30 cavalrymen around him.

As they pursued all the way, they were getting farther and farther away from the rest of the cavalry. Seeing this, the Qiang barbarian leader stopped immediately and killed Xi Junmai who was chasing them.

Xi Junmai's face was full of ruthlessness and he went straight forward to kill.

"Come die!"

A long spear thrust out, and a man was lifted up by Xi Junmai and smashed hard onto several Qiang barbarians nearby.

Xi Junmai continued to charge forward. The Qiangman leader looked at Xi Junmai who was getting closer and closer to him. The sneer on his face disappeared, and only fear remained.

"escape!"

The Qiang Man leader fled, and the Qiang Man army was immediately defeated, with everyone fleeing in all directions.

Xi Junmai only had eyes for the Qiang barbarian leader, who kept approaching.

"Die!"

The army killed and approached the Qiang barbarian leader in the chaos, which shocked the leader. He turned around and saw that there was only Xi Junmai and dozens of people around him. He became ruthless and turned around to kill Xi Junmai.

However, Xi Junmai was like a god of war, wielding his spear indifferently, killing one person after another, until the Qiang barbarian leader was also killed by Xi Junmai, and the Qiang barbarians fled in all directions again.

Xi Junmai took off the head of the Qiangman leader and held it up with a spear.

"kill!"

Xi Junmai's eyes turned red and he laughed out loud.

Any barbarians who dare to oppose Li Yuanji and send troops to attack should be killed!
The Qiang barbarians looked at the head of their leader and immediately ran away even faster.

The Tang cavalry was even more determined to chase and kill these Qiang barbarians.

"Ha ha!"

Xi Junmai felt extremely happy when he saw the defeated Qiang barbarians.

Xi Junmai then continued to chase the Qiang man. Although he was alone, no Qiang man dared to stop him and they all wanted to avoid Xi Junmai.

(End of this chapter)