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At noon the next day, Li Ye and a thousand soldiers gathered together to eat roasted mutton. The mutton was roasted until it was brown and oily, and sprinkled with spices and salt. The soldiers ate happily.

At this time, a scout cavalry rushed over. He dismounted, knelt down on one knee and reported to Li Ye: "Captain Qi, the Geluolu people have withdrawn."

Li Ye expected the Geluolu people to evacuate. He smiled slightly and asked, "When did they evacuate?"

"Their camp disappeared before dawn. We saw with our own eyes the Geluolu people's team heading northwest, carrying carts and baggage."

Li Ye nodded and smiled: "I know, let's eat a few pieces of barbecue first and then go investigate."

"Follow the order!"

The scouting soldiers took a few pieces of barbecue, got on their horses, gnawed on the meat, and galloped away to the west.

Several captains came forward one after another, gave a thumbs up and praised: "The captain knows things like a god!"

Ding Sheng was a little worried and whispered: "Could it be the opponent's plan to pretend to retreat and then come back when we are not prepared?"

Li Ye shook his head and smiled: "We know that we only have a thousand men, but the other party doesn't know that if we can kill 5,000 people from the Xue tribe, then at least it's not too different. The other party has only 3,000 people and can compete with our 3,000 or 4,000 regular Tang troops." ?So they most likely retreated."

Everyone suddenly realized that this was the case!

Li Ye smiled and said nothing.

In fact, he has seen through the opponent's strategic intentions from a higher perspective. The Geluolu people are just testing the Tang army, and do not really want to occupy Juyanhai. The Geluolu people have fertile fields thousands of miles away, and they do not need this little pasture. Once they find out that the Tang army is attacking forcefully, they will definitely retreat immediately and will not really go to war with the Tang army.

The Geluolu people had their mortal enemies, the Uighurs. If they really angered the Tang Dynasty strategically, and the Tang Dynasty joined forces with the Uighurs and Sijie people to attack the Geluolu people, then the Geluolu people would be destroyed.

Li Ye knew the opponent's intentions very well. Last night, he chose the Xue army as the target of the sneak attack, instead of the Geluolu people. This was the reason why.

Since the emperor finally rejected Geluolu's intention of raising three million sheep, the Hexi army responded strongly to the Juyanhai rebellion. I believe that the Geluolu people will not dare to act rashly against the Xue tribe for the time being.

But Li Ye would not let go of the Xue tribe.

After eating the barbecue, Li Ye led a thousand cavalrymen and drove the horses and sheep towards the enemy camp last night.

Xuebu's camp has been burned to a white ground, and the camp fences have also been burned to coke. A few camp fences are still smoking, and there is not a single living soldier in sight. There are corpses everywhere, and the blood has solidified and turned into dark red.

Li Ye immediately ordered Ding Sheng to lead his soldiers to clear the battlefield, pile up the corpses, burn them on fire and bury them deeply.

A total of 4,230 corpses were collected, including the charred corpses that were burned to death. In other words, 700 to 800 people from the other party escaped, probably back to the Xue tribe.

The soldiers packed up more than 3,000 intact leather bags that were not burned. These were the private property of enemy soldiers and generals.

Li Ye immediately passed the order, and each soldier could take three horse bags as a reward. The soldiers cheered and lined up in a long queue.

This is very similar to the blind box opening in later generations. Each person takes three blind boxes. The appearance of the horse bag is the same. No one knows what they can get?

This is actually a matter of luck, and it is fair, but there will definitely be gains. The Tiele people have the habit of carrying valuable items with them, and the Dangxiang people are the same, so Li Ye collected a lot of wealth from the horse bandits.

Li Ye also took three bags. He was very lucky. He got two pieces of meteorite, a dozen pieces of scattered natural gold, which totaled about thirty taels, and twenty-odd taels of silver, and then a pile of cheese. .

Every soldier got gold, more or less. A soldier named Pan Qun was very lucky. He got the captain's horse bag, which contained more than two hundred taels of gold and a bunch of gems. He was considered a winner. Hit the jackpot.

The rest of the property in hundreds of horse bags was collected, part of which was given to the generals individually, and the rest was given to the soldiers who were less lucky. Some soldiers only received two or three taels of silver and no gold at all, so naturally they had to be given to them. A little compensation to soothe their frustrations.

The soldiers were all happy. After the battlefield was cleaned, Li Ye immediately led his troops to the garrison of Ge Luolu's army. The camp gates and sheep and horse pens were still there, as was the huge hay shed with piles of fodder inside, but the tents were gone. The soldiers, armor and supplies were all neatly packed away.

Li Ye ordered thousands of horses to be put into the sheep and horse pens, and ordered the ten spy soldiers from before to guard the horses. He led a thousand cavalry and continued to kill the Xue tribe in the north with tens of thousands of sheep as rations.

This is Li Ye's style of doing things. Whenever an opportunity arises, he must seize it. If he waits for Pei Fang to arrive with reinforcements, Pei Fang's stability will most likely not allow him to lead his army to kill the Xue tribe. He will certainly Asking An Sishun for instructions, or asking the imperial court for instructions, will inevitably end in nothing.

Now that he is in charge, he must make the most of his power.

Without letting the Xue tribe have a taste of the backlash from his iron fist, those bastards thought they could put a bounty on his head at will.

Two days later, Pei Fang led an army of 10,000 to Juyanhai. After listening to the fire chief's report, Pei Fang was shocked. He killed more than 4,000 Xue soldiers, and he himself did not lose a single soldier, but they only had 1,000 soldiers. .

This heavy victory made Pei Fang, who had decades of experience, feel a little ashamed. The opponent was a young man. Since ancient times, heroes have been born in young men. This child will be great in the future!

There were more than 6,200 war horses in total, and the loot was very rich.

Pei Fang's 10,000 troops, half of which are infantry and half of which are cavalry, now have more than 6,000 horses, which can be matched with his 5,000 infantry.

But when Pei Fang heard that Li Ye had led a thousand cavalry to attack the Xue tribe, his brows suddenly furrowed. This kid was a little greedy for merit. How could he attack the Mobei grassland? Even if there are tens of thousands of sheep, they cannot be so reckless!

The eldest son Pei Jia whispered: "Father, I don't think Ye'er is reckless. If he was reckless, he would definitely chase Ge Luolu's army, but instead he attacked the Xue tribe. This is an opportunity to make great achievements! "

"why would you say so?"

"Father, the Xue tribe is no longer the Xue Yantuo of the past. The Xue tribe is just a small tribe with tens of thousands of herdsmen. Excluding the old, weak, women and children, the army does not exceed 10,000 people. But Li Ye has killed more than 4,000 people before, nearly half of them. , now the Xue tribe has invaded our Juyanhai first, if we take the opportunity to conquer the Xue tribe, my father will be a great contributor to the imperial court."

Pei Fang's heart was pounding. He also knew that the emperor was more interested in making great achievements. He was not sure about attacking Ge Luolu, but he was very sure about attacking the Xue tribe. What's more, the Xue tribe had already had one of its legs broken by Li Ye.

"You are right. The Xue tribe invaded Hexi first. We fought back against the invaders and occupied Dayi!"

Pei Fang immediately ordered: "Send orders to the army to prepare dry food for ten days. We will continue to go north."