"Cross the hillside on the left, brothers, kill them."
Now that he had determined the surrounding situation and there were no other targets within a radius of 30 kilometers, Li Xiang had no reason to be polite. More than 6,000 cavalrymen under his command rushed to the left like crazy.
"According to this configuration, immediately form several other teams and have them monitor the area within a ten-mile radius around us."
Li Xiang exchanged for another three balloons. Each group of fifteen people was equipped with a four-wheeled carriage. You must know that in this era, all carriages have two wheels. Li Xiang has already started to design four-wheeled carriages and has built quite a few in Liangzhou City. First of all, four-wheeled carriages are more stable to run, and secondly, they can carry more things. In this era without cars, four-wheeled carriages can be said to be the best means of transportation.
Li San immediately began to assign his men. They were all exchanged from the system, so they could communicate with their brains within a range of hundreds of meters, which was something ordinary people did not have. Unfortunately, there was no way to do it at high altitudes. If there was a way at high altitudes, there would be no need to communicate using flags.
The royal court of Tuyuhun has issued an order for the surrounding small tribes to retreat south. Except for the large tribes with thousands of cavalry, other tribes are not allowed to continue operating within a 200-mile radius around Liangzhou City.
Woo woo woo…
A heavy horn sounded, and Li Xiang saw that the cavalry in front had only rushed out less than 500 meters, and the other side had already discovered our whereabouts. It seemed that since the last assault, the major tribes of Tuyuhun had also sent out their own scouts. At least within a radius of ten miles around the tribe, they were not defenseless.
"Step up the assault."
Huo Qubing also knew that the enemy was on guard, but with our high-speed attack, the enemy did not even have five minutes. As long as we acted fast enough, the enemy would have no effective way to attack except to escape.
As Huo Qubing thought, there were originally thousands of cavalrymen in the tribe. However, when the leader of the tribe saw a large number of cavalrymen coming down the hillside in the distance, he immediately ordered his men to retreat to the south. As for the remaining old, weak and sick people in the tribe, he could no longer take care of them.
After some of the cavalry mounted their horses, they immediately followed their leader to retreat south. These people had no relatives in the tribe and were basically single. Moreover, they were all rational. They knew that if they continued to stay, they would not only be unable to withstand the attack of the Tang army, but might also lose their lives in the opponent's first wave of attack, so it would be better to retreat to the south.
But it was different for another group of people. Their wives and children were all in this tribe. They also knew that the Tang army had massacred the entire tribe before, so they could not abandon their wives and children now. However, when they waved their swords to protect the tribe, the Tang army's bows and arrows had already arrived.
They had never seen such a rigorous arrow formation, especially when the enemy archers were charging on horseback, so the accuracy of their archery would be even worse. However, these archers in front of them were different from any they had seen. Thousands of arrows were shot in the sky, and more than 70% of them hit their military camp. This was simply a jackpot.
The people of Tuyuhun did not know how Li Xiang's archers were trained, but Li Xiang himself knew very well that all these archers came from the Qin archery formation. They had made great contributions when sweeping across the six kingdoms.
After three rounds of arrows, more than two hundred cavalrymen were ready for battle, but at this moment half of them had fallen in the tribe. By the time the rest of them drew their scimitars, the first batch of cavalrymen had already rushed in under the leadership of Huo Qubing.
When the two sides engaged in close combat, the Tuyuhun warriors found their swords useless. Every time they chopped with all their might, their scimitars were directly cut off. After the enemy chopped off their swords, they did not stop there. Instead, they used the force of the chopping to directly cut through their armor. What kind of weapon was this? How could it be so sharp?
When Li Xiang came down from the hillside, the battle in the tribe was basically coming to an end.
"Reporting to the general, no Han people were found."
His men have already searched the tribe, which shows that this tribe is doing a good job and has not plundered Han people as slaves in the border areas.
"Except for the young and strong men, spare the lives of the others. Have them set up a pot and cook a meal immediately, either roasting or boiling mutton, so that all our soldiers can have a hot meal. Also, take away all the dried meat and burn all the tents. In short, burn all the supplies that can sustain them. Don't kill them, and let them escape to the grasslands."
Li Xiang knew very well what to do now. Although he did not kill these people, the remaining people were all old, weak, sick and disabled. These people were wandering on the grassland. If other tribes accepted them, they would become a burden to the other tribe.
If they were not accepted, they would be killed by wolves or starved to death on the grassland, which would also indirectly cause conflicts within Tuyuhun.
More than 600 young and strong men were gathered together and all of them were forced into an open space in the middle. The women from the surrounding tribes began to cook and they prepared a hot meal as quickly as possible. When our soldiers had eaten and drunk their fill, these young and strong men in the middle had no choice but to be killed. There was no other way now. If we took them back, we would waste a lot of time.
"Tell me, are there any other tribes around here?"
Although the tribal leader fled, some of the tribal staff did not flee. Li Xiang forced these people forward and made them kneel in front of him.
The first person didn't say anything, Li Si just raised his knife and said, "Since you don't want to be friends with our prince, there is no need to keep your people."
I have to say the people in this tribe are quite particular. They killed only the seventh person before someone pointed southeast and nodded, indicating that there was another tribe over there that they were more familiar with. The two tribes would often exchange supplies...