Tibet

Chapter 219 Continue Northward
At noon the next day, Li Ye and a thousand soldiers were gathering to eat roasted mutton. The mutton was roasted until it was browned and oily, sprinkled with spices and salt, and the soldiers ate heartily.

At this time, a scout cavalry rushed over. He got off his horse and knelt down on one knee to report to Li Ye: "Qi report to the captain, the Ge Luolu people have withdrawn."

Ge Luolu's evacuation was expected by Li Ye, he asked with a slight smile, "When did you evacuate?"

"They disappeared from the camp before dawn. We saw with our own eyes that the Ge Luolu team was heading northwest, carrying carts and luggage."

Li Ye nodded and smiled, "I see, let's eat a few pieces of barbecue before going to investigate."

"Follow the order!"

The scout soldiers took a few pieces of roast meat, got on their horses, and galloped westward while nibbling on the meat.

Several school captains stepped forward one after another, raised their thumbs up and praised: "The captain knows things like a god!"

Ding Sheng was a little worried, and said in a low voice: "Could it be the other party's plan to pretend to retreat and come back when we are not prepared!"

Li Ye shook his head and smiled: "We know we only have 1000 people, but the other party doesn't know. If we can kill 5000 people from the Xue Department, at least there is not much difference. The other party only has 3000 people. Can we compete with three or four thousand regular Tang troops? So they In all likelihood, they retreated."

Everyone suddenly realized that it was so!
Li Ye smiled without saying a word.

In fact, he has already seen through the opponent's strategic intentions from a higher perspective. The Ge Luolu people are just testing the Tang army, and they don't really want to occupy Juyanhai. The Ge Luolu people are fertile and thousands of miles away. Once they find that the Tang army is attacking forcefully, they will definitely retreat immediately and will not really start a war with the Tang army.

The Ge Luolu people have their deadly enemies, the Huihe people. If they really angered the Tang Dynasty strategically, and the Tang Dynasty joins forces with the Huihe people and the Sijie people to attack Ge Luolu, then Ge Luolu will perish.

Li Ye was very clear about the other party's intentions, and last night he chose Xue's army instead of Ge Luolu's army as the target of the sneak attack, that's why.

Now that the emperor finally rejected Ge Luolu's intention of 300 million sheep, and the Hexi Army fought back against the Juyanhai Rebellion, I believe that Ge Luolu people dare not act rashly against the Xue tribe for the time being.

But Li Ye would not let the Xue tribe go.

After eating the barbecue, Li Ye led a thousand cavalry to drive the horses and flocks, and headed for the enemy camp last night.
The camp of Xuebu has been burned to a white ground, and the barracks have also been burned into coke. A few barracks are still emitting green smoke. 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 the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, pile up the corpses, burn them and bury them deeply.

A total of 4000 and 800 corpses were collected, including the charred corpses that were burned to death. In other words, [-] people from the other party escaped, and they should have fled back to the Xue tribe.

The soldiers packed up more than 3000 intact leather bags, which were not burned. This is the private property of the enemy soldiers and generals.

Li Ye immediately issued an order that each soldier could take three horse bags as a reward at will. The soldiers cheered and formed a long queue.

This is very similar to opening blind boxes in later generations. Each person takes three blind boxes, and the horse bags all have the same appearance. No one knows what they can get?
This is actually a game of luck, and it's fair, but there will definitely be gains. The Tiele people have the habit of carrying valuables with them, and the Dangxiang people are the same. That's why Li Ye collected a lot of wealth from the horse bandits.

Li Ye also took three bags. His luck was pretty good. He got two pieces of meteoric iron and a dozen or so fragments of natural gold, adding up to about thirty taels and twenty taels of silver, and then a pile of cheese. .

Every soldier got gold, more or less. One soldier named Pan Qun was very lucky. won the jackpot.

There are hundreds of other belongings in the horse bags collected, some of which are given to the generals separately, and the rest are given to the soldiers who are not lucky. Some soldiers only get two or three taels of silver, and no gold at all. A little compensation to comfort their frustration.

The soldiers were all happy. After cleaning the battlefield, Li Ye led his army to the camp of Ge Luolu's army. The barracks, sheep and horse pens were still there, and the huge hay shed was also there, with fodder piled up like a mountain, but the tent was gone. The armor and materials are all cleaned up.

Li Ye ordered thousands of war horses to be put into the sheep and horse pen, and he ordered ten former spies 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. When an opportunity arises, you must seize it. If Pei Fang leads the reinforcements to arrive, with Pei Fang's prudence, it is very likely that he will not allow himself to lead the army to kill the Xue tribe. Ask An Sishun for instructions, or ask the court for instructions, and in the end it will inevitably be nothing.

Now it is his own decision, and of course he must make the most of his power.

Don't let Xue tribe have a good taste of his iron fist backlash, those bastards thought they could put a reward on his head at will.

Two days later, Pei Fang led an army of 4000 troops to Juyanhai. After hearing the fire commander's report, Pei Fang was shocked. He killed more than [-] Xuebu soldiers. He didn't hurt a single soldier, but they only had [-] soldiers.

This heavy result made Pei Fang, who has decades of experience, feel a little ashamed. The opponent is a young man. Heroes have been born since ancient times. This child will have a great future!

A total of more than 6000 two hundred war horses, the spoils are very rich.

Pei Fang's 6000 troops consisted of half infantry and half cavalry, and now they had more than [-] horses, which just matched his [-] infantry.

But when Pei Fang heard that Li Ye had led a thousand cavalry into the Xue Tribe, his brows furrowed. This kid is a bit greedy, how could he enter the Mobei Grassland?Even if there are tens of thousands of sheep, they can't be so reckless!
The eldest son Pei Jia persuaded in a low voice: "Father, I don't think Ye'er is reckless. If he was reckless, he would definitely go after Ge Luolu's army, but he went into the Xue tribe. This is an opportunity to make a great contribution! "

"why would you say so?"

"Father, the Xue tribe is not the Xue Yantuo of the past. The Xue tribe is just a small tribe with tens of thousands of herdsmen. The old and weak women and children are removed. The army does not exceed [-] people, but Li Ye has killed more than [-] people before, nearly half of them. , now the Xue tribe invaded our Juyanhai first, if we take the opportunity to conquer the Xue tribe, my father will be a great hero to the court."

Pei Fang's heart skipped a beat, he also knew that the Son of Heaven would be more successful, he wasn't sure about attacking Ge Luolu, but he was sure about defeating Xue Tribe, not to mention that now Xue Tribe had already had a leg broken by Li Ye.

"You're right, the Xue tribe invaded Hexi first, and we fought back against the invaders, occupying righteousness!"

Pei Fang immediately ordered: "Order the army to prepare dry food for ten days, and we will continue to go north."

(End of this chapter)