The soldiers in the sky quickly sent back a message, saying that they had discovered the retreating Western Region coalition forces in the northwest direction, with a number of about two to three thousand people.
The soldiers in the sky also underwent a series of training. For example, the Tang army specifically set up different formations in different places to let their eyes adapt to the number of people there. The next time they conduct reconnaissance in the field, they will be able to judge the approximate number of people.
Although there will be some deviations in doing so, it is better than before, and the accuracy has also increased a lot. This is also an improvement for the Tang Dynasty army.
"Then let's chase after them?"
A lieutenant general next to him said this, but soon he was slapped on the head by Niu Jinda.
"Aren't you mentally ill? If we chase them, wouldn't that be like starting a war with them openly? We're out here looking for trouble. As long as we can find some trouble and have a legitimate reason, we can fight them. If you chase them now, what reason do you have? Are you bothered by these vegetable stalks they left here?"
Niu Jinda said unhappily, and the people around him finally understood why they couldn't chase after him. They had known for a long time that the mission this time was different from the previous ones, but they didn't expect it to be so different.
"Besides their main camp, there are two small military camps nearby. Why don't we try our luck there?"
Another general under his command came up with an idea. We are not large in scale, and if we go to their main camp, we probably won't gain much advantage. Only by going to the surrounding military camps can we be sure of winning.
"Stop messing around and go straight to their main camp. Tell them their investigators beat up one of our people and ask them to hand him over."
Niu Jinda waved his hand and led the two thousand men to the main camp of Lin Jia. He was not afraid of the hundreds of thousands of people there. These men were also skilled and brave. They had all followed Niu Jinda to fight. What difference did the enemy's numbers make? Back then, the number of Goguryeo people was much larger than ours, and we just killed them directly.
In the minds of these people, as long as we are brave enough and can suppress the opponent's momentum at the beginning, no matter how many people are in the opponent's camp, we have already lost when they become afraid.
The group immediately reorganized their troops and rushed towards the main camp of the Western Region Allied Forces at full speed, completely ignoring the fact that they were on someone else's territory, just like their own home.
This scared the spies around. After seeing this situation, they took a shortcut back to report, but Niu Jinda's army was too fast. They were riding the best war horses, all of which were obtained from the Turks. If the Turks had not fallen, how could the Tang Dynasty have war horses with such good endurance?
But it is no use to say this now. When the Turks bullied the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin signed a humiliating treaty. But now if you want to blame someone, just blame us for progressing too fast.
"What did you say about the Tang army heading this way?"
The camp of the Western Regions coalition forces was still in chaos. So far, they had not received a reply from the Khan of Western Turkic Khaganate. Although replies from other countries had come back, the Western Turkic Khaganate had the highest status in the Western Regions, so they had to wait for a reply from the Khan of Western Turkic Khaganate. Only after they received the reply could they submit a new set of terms to the Tang Dynasty.
But during this waiting process, the Tang army suddenly attacked them.
Originally, the Western Regions coalition forces were divided into four camps, but when they heard that the Tang army had crossed the border, General Kang Ying ordered them to move closer to the main camp and try not to spread out on the grassland. If something happened and they were destroyed by the Tang army, there would be no one to provide support for them.
General Kang Ying’s thinking is correct. Once all our troops enter the main camp, we will have more than 100,000 people. Even if the Tang army wants to cause trouble, they cannot go straight to our main camp.
But I didn't expect that there would be such fearless people in the Tang army. You all gathered together, and they really brought people here, and there were only about 2,000 people. With this courage, they suppressed all the people present. If I gave you 2,000 people, would you dare to go to Gaochang?
"Prepare for war."
Although General Kang Ying was reluctant to give this order, he could no longer care about so many things at the moment. If the other party really got in, it would cause us huge casualties. Although they were unwilling to fight with the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty's army was coming here. Do you think they were here to visit relatives?
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the entire military camp immediately took action. All the troops knew that the Tang army was coming. Many of them had seen how the Tang army fought, and some of them had heard about it from the Xueyantuo soldiers a long time ago, so they were all a little scared.
However, there were also some people who were quite courageous. They thought that there were only two thousand of them, and that the number of people was very important in fighting on the grassland. No matter how useful these two thousand of your men were, if our tens of thousands of people rushed in, they could be trampled to death by the horses' hooves alone.
When they were still ten miles away from the Western Region Allied Forces camp, Niu Jinda ordered his men to slow down and stop about four or five miles away.
From his position, he could see that the Western Region Allied Forces camp was very vast, and outside it was already filled with cavalry.
"He's still a man. I thought they wouldn't even dare to come out."
Niu Jinda said approvingly that the people of Western Turkestan also fled from Turkestan in the past and were also a strong enemy of the Tang Dynasty. Now they have not brought shame to their ancestors.
"Set up the guns."
Niu Jinda did not dare to be negligent. Facing the powerful troops of more than 100,000 on the grassland, Niu Jinda had to take precautions.
The soldiers on the carriage moved quickly, turning the four-wheeled carriage around and aiming it towards the Western Region Allied Forces. All kinds of artillery shells were ready, waiting for General Niu Jinda's order to fly over.
The secret formula of gunpowder has also been improved. Now when a shell is fired, people within ten meters of the explosion point will definitely be killed or injured. Even for some people who are far away, the shock wave can cause great trauma to their bodies. Many people will become deaf without knowing it.
"How about we play a round first?"
Someone nearby made a suggestion, but Niu Jinda looked at him with some contempt and said, "If you fight a round now, the other side may start a full-scale war with you. Our two thousand people are not crazy enough to challenge one hundred thousand people."