The grassland in June is filled with the smell of green grass mixed with cow dung.
Everywhere you look, there is scenery.
Fuqi City, the royal court of Tuyuhun, stands on the bank of Qinghai Lake at the moment. Under the setting sun, its shadow seems to have lengthened, appearing lonely and lonely, like a dying old man, living with the last breath.
Under Li Ke's feet was the endless prairie.
The breeze under the setting sun blew his slightly weathered cheeks, and the pastures all over the mountains were dotted with white cattle and sheep and clusters of small yellow flowers.
Behind Li Ke, there were more than three hundred riders standing.
The war horse stood quietly, snorting occasionally. The cavalry on the war horse were armed to the teeth and exuded a cold air, making people afraid to approach.
At the end of the grassland, a small black spot appeared. It slowly enlarged and turned into a woman riding a war horse, running towards her at high speed.
"Young Master, the master has returned." Mei Niang said quickly.
Sishe turned over and dismounted, quickly came to Li Ke's side, bowed and said: "Young Master, the situation in Fuqi City has been found out clearly. This is detailed information about Fuqi City."
Sishe took out a parchment scroll from his waist and immediately spread it out on the grass. The map was drawn in a very sloppy way, obviously it was drawn hastily in a hurry.
"Fuqi City is divided into an inner city and an outer wall. The inner city is made of rammed earth. The wall base is more than five feet wide and about four feet high. It has only one palace gate, facing the Cukunoor Sea."
"There are walls on three sides of the outer city. They are made of gravel. The walls are two feet high. The Caiji River is on the north. The overall area is about more than 200 acres."
"Most of the people living in the city are Murong nobles and some party nobles."
"According to the information obtained by Shadow, since Fu Yun's personal conquest, everything in the city has been decided by Fu Yun's queen and Di Lian Jie, the son of Di Lian Wu. Fu Yun's eldest son Murong Shun is imprisoned in the palace."
"But the Queen and Dilian Wu do not live in Fuqi City, and their whereabouts are unknown."
"However, Fuqi City is not heavily guarded. During the day, nobles and merchants are allowed to enter and exit..."
"Everything in the city is business as usual, there is no chaos."
"One hundred and eight members of the Shadows are already lurking in the corresponding locations, just waiting for the young master's order to control important people."
Li Ke frowned. It seemed that Fu Yun's queen was not simple. Maybe she had heard some news and hid it.
This queen must be caught.
The white-faced scholar lay on the ground, looked at it for a long time, then raised his head and said, "Your Highness, I think that because Fu Yun's Queen is not in the palace, she may not have heard about our attack."
"How to say it?"
"Your Highness, when I came to Hexi, I heard a local saying: 'Although there is a city, I don't live there, but I always stay in the dome, raising animals with water and grass.' This is the Murong family's custom."
"My subordinates speculate that the queen probably went to one of the tribes she is closest to, so we don't have to go to the city to take risks."
Sishe heard the conversation between the two, and immediately thought of the words in the intelligence, and said: "Young Master, the people in the shadow once said that after Fu Yun's personal expedition, a large number of convoys left the city and went upstream along the Caiji River. It is said that it was Go and pray to the grassland gods that this war can be won."
Li Ke's eyes were bright. There was no doubt that this girl might have really gone to the upper reaches of the river to offer sacrifices.
For herdsmen, the river is blood, and the Caiji River has nurtured the Murong family. In the Murong family's heart, it is a god.
"Hahaha, capture the old ladies of the Fu Yun family alive tonight, and go to the Death City to call the door tomorrow."
"Si She, notify the people in the shadows immediately and ask them to stand by. When I capture the old women of the Fu Yun family alive, let them take action and kill the important Murong nobles in the city."
"It is useless to keep them. Only by killing them will nobles more loyal to the Tang Dynasty be born."
The snake took the order and left.
Li Ke led more than 350 elite cavalry upstream along the Caiji River.
On this prairie, unlike the Central Plains, there are checkpoints everywhere. The most common thing here is piles of tents.
And these herdsmen had long been accustomed to seeing cavalry rushing back and forth on the grasslands, and they never imagined that these were cavalry from the Tang Dynasty.
Even if they thought about it, there would only be a dead end.
Li Ke and others walked along the river all night. At dawn, they finally saw hundreds of tents next to a lake, surrounded by cavalry on guard.
After observation, there are more than 3,000 people stationed here, most of whom are civil servants and nobles from Tuyuhun. There are less than 2,500 people capable of fighting.
"Young Master, kill..."
"Only three thousand people..."
Yan Yunda glanced at the unsuspecting Tuyuhun camp and grinned, as if the fish on the chopping board were right in front of him.
I remember that when he and his uncles were fighting against the Turks in the Youyan area, the Turks' cavalry went south and looted a village of 500 people, burning, killing, and looting, and no one survived.
In order to retaliate, the leader of Yanyun's Eighteen Cavalry ordered to fight tooth for tooth.
That night, they rushed into a tribe of three thousand people and killed them for two hours. When they came out, there was no survivor in the entire tribe.
And that tribe was the same group that sacked the village, with more than a thousand light cavalry alone.
From that time on, the reputation of Yanyun's Eighteen Cavalry spread. After that, they went deep into the grasslands and chased the Turkic cavalry for thousands of miles. When the Turks heard that they were coming, they ran away.
In his opinion, the three thousand people in front of him are nothing to be afraid of. They are now armed to the teeth. Even if seventeen of them rush in, they can kill seven in and seven out.
Li Bingdao clenched the Hengdao hanging on his waist. Yan Yunda and his gang were usually too arrogant. Every time they went on a mission, they were no match for them, and they were no match for them even in normal competitions.
But they are the regular army, and they are the best selected from hundreds of thousands of troops.
"Your Highness, the general also believes that it is nothing to fear and can be taken."
Each of the one hundred people he led was extremely brave. After years of training, it could be said that they had reached the ultimate level of tacit understanding. They were only three thousand people, not to mention that they had no defense at all.
In the early days of His Majesty's establishment of this army, they once performed a mission and killed a thousand rebels, and those thousand people were all elites.
The teenagers in the youth camp also had excited faces. They had seen blood along the way and had fought against Tuyuhun's cavalry no less than ten times.
They also feel that they can follow their seniors and pick up the slack.
Li Ke looked at the people around him, nodded, and agreed to the attack.
How can you see a rainbow without going through wind and rain?
Excellent warriors all come out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Talents who can take on big responsibilities cannot be cultivated in a greenhouse.
Death is terrible, but people who talk about it on paper are even more terrible.
"We will act as the main force and attack from the front." Li Bingdao said first.
Yan Yun laughed. He also wanted to see what the combat prowess of the people Li Shimin carefully selected was like?
"We charge from the left."
Then Yan Yunda looked at the youth camp and said coldly: "We are divided into three teams, each with fifty people, led by the captain. If the captain dies in battle, he will be commanded by the deputy captain..."
"The first team is following our side, the second team is following Commander Li, and the third team..."
Li Ke smiled and said: "The third team is commanded by my king, plus these one hundred cavalry, and charges from the right wing."
"Little Lord……"
"I'll go..." Mei Niang took a step forward and bowed to ask for orders.
"Women, get out of here..."
Biquge
