The night is as bright as ink.

A bonfire shines brightly, illuminating this section of the road.

The bonfires were scattered, and the flashing flames illuminated the faces covered with sweat and dust and blood.

The war horse sniffed, and the horse's hooves digged the ground uneasily.

More horses crawled on the ground and remained motionless.

Even if you are carefully selected, you will be a flesh and blood body after all.

The continuous high-intensity combat combined with physical energy consumption has seriously exceeded the upper limit.

After finally having a rest time, we naturally need to hurry up and rest.

Many war horses were already foaming at the mouth and dying, and some were bleeding from the buttocks. They were obviously thrusting blood by their masters using the blood-stinging method to speed up. Now they are lying down and can get up tomorrow.

Even if livestock are like this, let alone people.

The soldiers next to the bonfire are armoured by their hands, swords and guns are in their hands. It is said that this way of sleeping must be uncomfortable.

But when you hear the snoring that comes one after another like thunder, you will know that they are sleeping peacefully one by one.

Severe physical overdrawing makes the body exhausted to the limit. You don’t need a felt to wrap your body. You can lie down anywhere and fall asleep after a few breaths.

However, it would be a big mistake for anyone who thinks he can come to get a bargain at this time. These elite soldiers in the army have long been trained to be much more alert than ordinary people.

Don’t look at the sound of sleeping now, if anyone dares to attack, they will be noticed by these soldiers before they can touch it within thirty steps, and then they will kill and shoot.

There is the cry of night owls in the distance, and there are snoring one after another in the near distance. Coupled with the crackling sound of flames, this night becomes a bit sinister and a bit strange.

The people on the patrol had already set aside to guard the surroundings, while the people in the inner circle were hurrying to get some sleep. The only two people who were awake were Xu Le and Li Shimin sitting by a bonfire.

The tired look on their faces is not much better than others. Xu Le's face is also covered in blood, and his eyes are deep in his eyes and bloodshot.

Li Shimin was haggard and blind, as if he could fall asleep at any time.

But he gritted his teeth and refused to let himself fall asleep, and he just took it here.

It has been two days since the station of the coalition forces.

During the past two days, the Tang army rolled up armor and went around day and night, and firmly held on to Liu Wuzhou and refused to let go.

The battle formations of all sizes were thirteen times in two battles, and the Tang army won the beheadings in every battle, but their physical strength was on the verge of collapse.

In order not to give the Turks a chance to breathe, Li Shimin ordered the entire army to travel day and night to wrap food, so that the Turks would not rest, so naturally he could not rest.

This kind of playing style is extremely rare in this era. Even a veteran like Qu Tutong has seen this kind of playing style that is relentlessly chasing.

In most cases, the purpose of pursuit is to expand the results of the war to obtain first-level military merits.

This kind of behavior must be discussed with a cost. If the loss is small, you will give up.

Otherwise, I have a ruler in my heart and know how many military achievements or heads are the upper limit of my own troops.

When you get almost the same, you will stop when you see the good. If you continue to chase, you may suffer losses. Even if you don’t suffer losses, your gains will not be proportional to your efforts.

Just like the Tang army now, the pursuit of the soldiers without sleep for two days and two nights makes them tired of this.

The army is even more disconnected. At present, Li Shimin controls the Xuanjia Cavalry and the thousands of elite cavalry under his command, which together does not exceed 15,000 people.

The rest of the soldiers were not killed or damaged by the battle, but were forced to stop because they could not catch up.

Fortunately, Li Shimin sent Hou Junji to gather these people, so he would not be worried that they would run away.

But even so, the current state of the army is still very dangerous.

Everyone is so tired that they have reached their limits and cannot receive food supplements, which is also a huge burden for the human body.

Although the army is carrying grain forward, dry food in the army is not comparable to that among the people.

In order to store it for a longer time, dry food is dry and hard and difficult to bite.

If you want to eat, you have to make a bowl of water, or you will use the fire to roast it.

However, in order to pursue the Turks, Li Shimin did not give everyone time to eat food.

Ask soldiers to solve their food, drink, defecation and urination immediately, and do not delay the pursuit.

This leads to most people not eating at all these two days, that is, they just drink a few sips of water when they are extremely thirsty.

This is why Li Shimin is deeply loved by soldiers on weekdays, and this victory is indeed beautiful to push his reputation to the limit.

If another marshal is arranged like this, the soldiers below will probably have been quitting.

How can this make people trouble?

Aren’t it just Turkic people? They just run away. What’s the benefit of chasing you so relentlessly?

Although they did not make a fuss about Li Shimin's face, Li Shimin himself knew in his heart how much impact this incident had on the soldiers.

Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't do that, but now I have to do it.

Even if they resent themselves, they have to grit their teeth and persevere! "The Turks regard wolves as gods, and have always regarded themselves as wolf gods, thinking that they are wolfs on the grassland, and the others are their prey.

This time, let them know what it feels like to be prey.

Even those who are lucky enough to die will be shattered after this defeat in the future when they hear the word "Tang Dynasty".

I guess they dare not come to Central Plains again easily.”

Xu Le slowly looked at the fire, his words full of praise.

It is said that Xu Le and his Xuan Armored Cavalry are the vanguard, and this kind of pursuit battle has the heaviest and most tiring task.

He is most qualified to say something strange.

But Xu Le not only said nothing, but also fully supported Li Shimin's proposal and led the Xuanjia Cavalry to charge forward.

These thirteen consecutive victories were certainly because the Tang army took the initiative and fought with Xu Le's life and every time they fought acne, they were inseparable from the charge.

Li Shimin was not polite to Xu Le, but nodded, "What I want is that they dare not have the idea of ​​invading the Central Plains again.

Otherwise, if the eight Turks attack in turn, we will be able to do nothing.

This time, both courage and wisdom are needed. The most important purpose is to let the Turks know that no matter what they compare, they can only be losers."

Xu Le said: "Deliberately letting Liu Wuzhou's subordinates cause a drag on the Turks. Because it is difficult to lead the way with Liu Wuzhou's troops, they must take these infantry and whether they can take them or not.

Then launch an attack while they are resting, so that the enemy will not get a breath.

Although our army is trapped, lacks soldiers and is exhausted, the enemy's situation will only be worse.

I dare say that the Turkic people nowadays have to open one eye even when they sleep! The Rat and Chop Valley is ahead, and this place is just the right place for them to bury their bones!"

Li Shimin smiled and said, "I am the same as my husband.

I don’t play conspiracy with them this time, and if I want to use it, I will use open conspiracy.

Don’t escape if you have the ability, stop and compete carefully to distinguish between high and low.

What's the point of being able to escape only! Didn't they rely on the method of riding and shooting to think that they can come and go like the wind and no one can catch them?

Let’s see where they can go this time!”

After these two days of fierce fighting, the Tang army's harvest was not only on beheading.

More importantly, at the strategic level, the Tang army firmly controls the initiative.

The association rate originally wanted to enter Jinzhou to rest, but was chased by the Tang army and failed to enter the city.

I wanted to enter Luzhou again, but I was defeated again.

Not only did he fail to enter the city, he watched Luzhou City replace the Tang Dynasty flag in front of him, and even the original guard was beheaded by the rebels at the top of the city, giving the association a warning.

After two days of long-distance marches, the Turks were naturally much worse than the Tang army.

They have all the problems of the Tang army, and they have them also have problems that the Tang army does not have.

For example, morale, and security issues.

Originally, the association rate had thought of giving up the army and fleeing by himself, but after successive defeats and rebels attacking everywhere, he also gave up this plan.

Now in the army, he can still save his life.

If a large group of people is abandoned, people will be peeled off by the blood debt owed by the Turks and the skin of the association rate.

Li Shimin understood this point, and he was not stupid to think about the association rate.

They have observed these two days that the association rate has never left the army, and this is obviously what they are afraid of.

Although he got two days, he never had the chance to do the rest of the army.

Li Shimin intentionally controlled the rhythm of the battle and used the rhythm of loosening and tightening to pull the Turks, making it impossible for them to calm down and fix the team.

The attacks of the army and mental torture were tortures for the Turks.

Their discipline and organizational degree cannot be compared with the Tang army. It can be imagined what kind of virtue they are now.

The place where their troops were stationed was called Gaobiling, and before passing here was the Rat and Bird Valley.

After passing the Rat and Bird Valley, Jie Xiu was ahead.

If you just run like this, you will lose all the cities you get from Liu Wuzhou.
To be continued...