Li Ke's march took two hours than Zhang Gongjin and others, but the cavalry around Li Ke was much more elite than the cavalry led by Zhang Gongjin... So, although Zhang Gongjin left the barracks earlier than he left, the distance between the two cavalry was not very far away!

The reason why Li Ke arranged this way was not that he could make Zhang Gongjin and the others act as cannon fodder, but that he wanted to confuse Jie Li, making Jie Li think that the number of people pursuing him in the Tang army was not large, so that he could relax his vigilance against the Tang army. Another point was that the two teams were divided into branches, and the two cavalry wanted to pursue the Turks in the wrong way, so that when Jie Li was not rested in the middle, it would have twice the result with half the effort. With these two reasons, Li Ke issued an order like this, and Zhang Gongjin naturally knew what Li Ke meant, and then he would readily accept his orders.

Not far behind Li Ke and his group were the Ashina cavalry of Am and Zadler. The purpose of their trip was very simple, and they would gather the defeated Turkic soldiers. However, Li Ke arranged for Am and Zadler to gather the remaining Turkic soldiers in this way. In addition to the obvious factors that Li Jing thought, he actually had his own purpose in his heart, which was to control this cavalry. The combat effectiveness of the Turkic cavalry was strong, and it was not an exaggeration to say that the king among the cavalry was to truly achieve the Turkic cavalry.

The strength of the horse is not only about how good horses can become an army after training for a few years, but it requires a long and long accumulation time. It mainly trains the cavalry consciousness. The Turkic cavalry grew up on horseback and their cavalry consciousness was very strong. Li Ke knew very well that if he was given a Turkic cavalry and let him train for three years, he would definitely be able to train a cavalry that was stronger than the Blood Wolf Guard. Therefore, in this battle with Jie Li, Li Ke would not give up such an opportunity to control a Turkic cavalry.

However, Li Ke wanted to control the Turkic cavalry and let him control a cavalry himself. Not to mention whether the Turkic cavalry obeyed Li Ke, even the Tang Dynasty court would not agree.

Therefore, Li Ke focused on Tuli. From his interactions with Tuli, he could see that Tuli had already put his treasure on himself. With the relationship between Ashin Yun, he believed that Tuli would be willing to train a talented cavalry for him. Not only that, he also affirmed that Tuli would propose to Li Shimin to marry Ashi Nayun to him after returning to the Tang Dynasty. So as long as he naturally got married to Ashin Yun and handed over all Jie Li's army to Tuli in such a way that he would win over the remaining soldiers, based on his relationship with Tuli, wouldn't he have hundreds of thousands of Turkic cavalry in the future?

It was because Li Ke thought of these things that Tuli wanted to propose marriage to Li Shimin and his marriage to Asunayun that he dared to hand over the task of gathering the remnants of Turkic soldiers to two generals of Asuna's tribe, Am and Zadler.

Li Ke and his group continued to run until dawn, and then ordered the army to rest and prepare for breakfast!

After breakfast was used up, Li Ke received a message from the scout, saying that traces of the Turkic cavalry fighting against the Tang army were found thirty miles ahead.

There were traces of war thirty miles ahead, which meant that Zhang Gongjin had fought with the Turks, which meant that Zhang Gongjin had bitten Jie Li's army. He was probably the time to chase after him now! Li Ke decided in his heart and ordered the order to march, and he asked someone to order Am and Zadler, who were following him, and his own army, ready to collect the remaining soldiers of the Turks at any time.

Li Ke accelerated the marching speed and soon arrived at the place where the Tang army had fought with the Turkic army. He ignored it and continued to accelerate the marching. Finally, after an hour, he discovered the second battlefield where the Tang army and the Turkic army fought.

The Tang army and the Turkic army were fighting in front. Even though the Turkic army was not morale, due to the small number of Zhang Gongjin's troops and Jie Li took the initiative to take the role of commanding the army, the Turkic cavalry and the Tang army were in a stalemate.

The Tang army on the battlefield had the advantage of a psychological victory over the Turks, and the Turks were stopped by the Tang army because of their way home, which smelled like they were desperate. Therefore, the two armies fought bloody on the battlefield.

Jie Li was quietly watching the Tang army and Turkic cavalry fighting on the battlefield under the protection of tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry. Originally, if Jie Li had sent half of the troops, Zhang Gongjin might not have been Jie Li's opponent. Now he might have been defeated. However, after Jie Li suffered the loss of being surrounded by the Tang army by the Tang army after being escorted, he saw that the Tang army was not Li Ke, so he was jealous and sent only 40,000 troops, which allowed Zhang Gongjin to compete with a mere 20,000 Tang army.

However, the Tang army and the Turkic cavalry formed a stalemate, which was a phenomenon that Zhang Gongjin didn't want to see. He pursued Jie Li's army and fought with Jie Li's army for the first time. Without any fighting, Jie Li took the initiative to retreat westward, and he also bit Jie Li tightly. He did not expect that here, Jie Li would stop running away and decisively choose to fight with him. In this way, Zhang Gongjin fell into a bitter battle.

Although neither Tang army nor Turkic cavalry suppressed each other, Zhang Gongjin knew very well that 20,000 Tang army would not be the opponent of 40,000 Turkic cavalry. The Tang army is now besieged by Turkic cavalry with twice its own strength. As long as the Tang army is exhausted too much, and the disadvantage of the number of people will definitely be at a disadvantage.

Therefore, Zhang Gongjin, Cheng Mingzhen and Du Junchuo all led their personal guards to fight hard, hoping to gain more time to maintain such a situation and wait for the arrival of Li Ke's army.

When Li Ke saw the Tang army and Turkic cavalry fighting on the battlefield, he decisively issued the horn of charge.

The sound of the ox horn sounded in the empty grassland. When Jie Li turned his ears, he heard that it was the sound of the horn of Li Ke's black-clothed guards, and he also found a black-clothed cavalry slowly rushing towards his position.

"Stop them!" Jie Li ordered the generals beside him.

When a Turkic general led 10,000 cavalry toward Li Ke, Jie Li began to retreat slowly. Seeing Li Ke killing him instead of the Turkic cavalry fighting against the Tang army on the battlefield, Jie Li knew very well that Li Ke's purpose was not the Turkic people but himself.

"Li Meng once blocked this cavalry for me!" Li Ke ordered Li Meng.

"No" Li Mengchang agreed, and he led 10,000 Tang cavalry to welcome the Turkic 10,000-man team that killed Li Ke, while Li Ke himself, Sun Erlang, Ren Hu and others led the army to pursue Jie Li.

After chasing for about ten miles, Li Ke could see Jie Li's banner in the Turkic army from afar.

When Jie Li saw Li Ke chasing him, he knew that he would not be able to get rid of Li Ke so easily. So, with his order, another 10,000 cavalry rushed towards Li Ke, cutting off the rear for him, and giving him time to retreat.

"Sun Erlang, lead the remaining Bingzhou army to hold them back for me!" Li Ke ordered Sun Erlang.

"No" Sun Erlang took the order, and he led the Tang cavalry to attack the Turkic cavalry that cut off the back of Li Ke and killed Li Ke.

Li Ke avoided the interception of the Turkic cavalry, and led Ren Hu's ghost-faced cavalry and the eagle guards to chase after him.

In fact, according to Li Ke and the Eagle Guard, the Ghost Face Cavalry could chase Jie Li. But if he didn't do this, he just followed Jie Li closely. His purpose was very simple, so he asked Jie Li to send Turkic cavalry to intercept him and constantly disperse his troops. This way, the combat effectiveness of the Turkic cavalry would be greatly reduced. Moreover, they cut off the rear for Jie Li, which means that Jie Li abandoned them. In this case, as long as the Tang army slightly caused lethality to the cavalry, it would be much easier for Am and Zadler to gather them together.

Therefore, if Li Ke and Jie Li continue to waste so much, his purpose is not to chase and kill. He just wants to get more Turkic cavalry to get more Turkic cavalry than beheaded by the Tang army.

Therefore, when Jie Li sent two cavalry to intercept Li Ke but still did not intercept him, he began to panic. However, Jie Li saw that when he sent cavalry to intercept Li Ke, Li Ke would leave a Tang army, so that the number of Tang troops around Li Ke was much smaller. Therefore, he also knew very well that as long as he sent cavalry to intercept Li Ke again, he would not have too many troops to pursue him.

Therefore, Jie Li gave the order decisively, and this time he sent 20,000 cavalry to kill Li Ke, with the purpose of delaying Li Ke and consuming Li Ke's pursuit.

When Li Ke saw Jie Li leaving 20,000 cavalry to block his way to pursue him, he said to Ren Hu beside him, "These 20,000 Turkic cavalry will be handed over to you to buy, don't let me down!"

"Your Highness--you only have more than a thousand eagle guards around you, so I will be worried..."

Ren Hu had to continue speaking, but when Li Ke interrupted Ren Hu, he said in a stern tone, "Execute the order!"

"No—" Ren Hu saw Li Ke's serious expression and did not dare to disobey Li Ke. "Take care!" After saying that, he led the Ghost Face Cavalry to the 20,000 Turkic Cavalry left by Jie Li.

Li Ke continued to avoid the 20,000 Turkic cavalry and continued to lead more than a thousand eagle guards around him to follow closely behind the explanation.

Li Ke was not worried at all that there were more than a thousand eagle guards around him, and Jie Li would take this opportunity to lead him to kill him.

Because Jie Li was not stupid, he knew very well that the Turkic cavalry he left behind could only hold the Tang army for a while. As long as he stayed away from them, the battle of this Turkic cavalry would weaken, not dragging the Tang army for too long. Even if there were only more than a thousand eagle guards around Li Ke, now that Jie Li was asked to turn back and kill Li Ke, with the strong combat effectiveness of the eagle guards around Li Ke, he probably would be dragged by the Tang army that had been killed before he could kill Li Ke.

Therefore, Li Ke knew Jie Li very well and knew Jie Li’s current thoughts. He was so arrogant that he led more than a thousand Eagle Guards to follow Jie Li tightly.

Jie Li also understood Li Ke's idea. Li Ke wanted to use himself as bait to lure him to lead his army back and kill him, and he could fight for time to hold him back.

Therefore, Jie Li did not turn around and kill Li Ke, who had only more than a thousand people.

Therefore, a strange scene appeared in the grassland in Mobei, that is, more than a thousand people led by Li Ke were chasing tens of thousands of troops led by Jie Li, and the scene seemed very strange.
Chapter completed!