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Chapter 50 Raid on Yinshan (Part 2)

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    The snow is getting heavier and heavier, blocking the way forward.  The entire land was completely white, and it was bone-chilling cold. The strong winds were about to tear the flags apart, and the horses were so stiff that they couldn't jump.  Zheng Yanqing and other four hundred knights in white cloaks took the horses off their saddles and headed towards the Turkic military camp.

    The Turkic stronghold in the west is only thirty miles away from the main tent.  The entire stronghold made use of an ancient fort that had fallen into disrepair. There were only fifty horses in the stronghold, and it was the foothold of the Turks' sentinels in the west.  Originally, there was no danger to the west, and these people were too lazy to continue patrolling in the snowstorm. A group of people carried the main battalion commander on their backs to keep warm and rest in this small garrison.  The night was getting late, and the Turkic knights, leaning on their horses and leaning on their scimitars, had fallen asleep.

    Zheng Yanqing quietly approached the fort.  But they didn't dare to attack rashly. Although it was easy to destroy the enemies in the fort, it would be troublesome if they alerted the Turks in the east.

    Several Sui soldiers secretly used flying hooks to climb up the garrison. Several black shadows flashed across the wall, and the throats of the sleeping Turkic soldiers on the garrison wall were cut.  There were not many people on the wall, and the Sui army easily controlled the beacon tower.  The Sui troops on the city lowered several hanging ropes along the city wall, and a group of first climbers carried horizontal knives on their backs and lowered them along the city wall, quickly taking control of the entire city wall.

    Ou Yan, who was leading the team on the city, led a group of Sui troops down the city wall. While arranging for people to open the gate and let the army enter, he headed toward the military camp inside the fort.  Without shouting, the group used sharp axes to break open the door, and brandished horizontal knives, short axes and other weapons to chop down the sleeping Turks.  In an instant, more than ten tough Turkic knights died in their sleep without knowing it.

    At this time, the Turks who were awakened by the noise immediately got up, but when the incident came, no one could even find a knife, so they could only grab the things at hand to cover themselves, and they could not organize an effective counterattack.  The Sui army's swords slashed across, and everywhere there were Turks lying on the ground with their hands and legs broken, wailing.

    After the Sui troops in the front cut down the Turks, the Sui troops in the back stepped forward one by one to make up for their wounds.  In less than a cup of tea, all the Turks in several rooms in the military camp were wiped out.

    Zheng Yanqing led a large group of troops into the garrison. Ou Yan led the first sergeant and escorted a bald and braided Turkic man forward.

    The Turkic man originally saw that the other party was wearing a Turkic-style robe, and thought that the other party was a tribe from the grass-grazing valley, so he kept cursing.  He didn't stop until his escort gave him several whips.  Only when he saw Zheng Yanqing and others wearing Sui armor who came in from behind did he become really scared.  He couldn't stop shivering because he couldn't understand how the Sui people crossed the camp in the east and came here.

    This captured Turkic centurion must have never seen those old movies in which Communists would rather die than surrender, and he has no spirit of dedication to the Turks at all.  The chili pepper water and tiger bench hadn't even started yet, so he quickly gathered everything he knew.  It's a pity that Zheng Yanqing didn't have time to place any more prisoners, so he could only give him a happy reward.  The centurion wailed and died.

    Zheng Yanqing and his party tidied up the battlefield and took a rest in the fort while it was still early.  This rest and recuperation was necessary, because under the harsh conditions of the snowy night march, if Zheng Yanqing went straight to the Turkic camp thirty miles away, the entire army might have frozen to death in the wilderness before he arrived.

    Until there were two quarters of an hour left before the fourth watch, Zheng Yanqing, who was standing on the garrison wall looking eastward, suddenly ordered that the troops who had been resting before reorganize their equipment and prepare to set off.  Hu Lusheng and his party, who followed behind, remained near the fort, waiting for the results of Zheng Yanqing's raid before deciding the time to attack.

    It is only thirty miles from the garrison to the Turkic camp. Although it is snowing heavily and the visibility is very low on the entire grassland, it still does not take much time to reach the Turkic camp on horseback.

    Zheng Yanqing and his party reined in their power at the beginning and advanced steadily through the night and snow until they were more than ten miles away from the Turks. They could vaguely see the firelight in the Turk camp.  Everyone stopped holding on and slapped the horse's butt twice. The painful horse rushed towards the Turkic camp like an arrow from its string.

    Although the thick snow reduced the shaking of the earth, 1,600 horse hooves gathered full power on the wasteland and ran at top speed. The sound of "tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap" was still like thunder, making the chest of those who heard it tremble.  Keep moving.

    The Turkic people¡¯s camp is located on the north side of Yuyin Mountain. It is a large sheep basin covered with layers of dried and hardened cow and sheep dung and hair, which has a great thermal insulation effect.  In fact, in this place close to the Sui-Turkish border, the ancient sheep basins that were not destroyed by the Central Plains dynasty are like rare treasures.  The three Turks had thousands of horses, about 16,000 to 7,000 people, and thousands of tents were pitched within hundreds of acres.

    And the entire Turkic camp was extremely defensive.It was weak. The perimeter of the camp was simply surrounded by carts and wooden planks, and there was not much defense at all.

    Zheng Yanqing¡¯s raiding team moved forward, but no trace of the Turkic sentry was found at all.

    It was not until four or five miles away from the Turkic camp that the entire raiding team was discovered by the Turks who woke up on the periphery. However, these Turks were already sleepy-eyed and exhausted, and they had no ability to resist.

    The distance of four to five miles is just a cup of tea for the cavalry who are already running at full speed.  Countless Turks were lying in bed and didn't know what was happening. Zheng Yanqing's cavalry had already arrived in front of them.  The few cavalrymen in front wielded their axes and split open the fence with all their strength, and the cavalrymen behind them poured in like a flood that had burst a dike.

    After a group of people entered the camp, the team in front automatically separated to both sides and set fire to the hay piles, stables, cattle and sheep pens and tents in the camp.  Behind these light cavalry, a group of about fifty cavalrymen covered in heavy armor rushed like humanoid tanks towards the Turkic people who had ran out of the camp.  The heavy horseman, whose whole body was wrapped in armor, held a sharp ax and a saber, and kept swinging them at the flow of people. Within a few breaths, several streams of corpses were left behind that were more than ten feet wide.  The Turks in the camp were frightened by such a bloody scene. They could not find the courage to resist. They only knew how to run for their lives and ran around in the entire camp.

    The Hulu Rangers following Zheng Yanqing¡¯s troops also charged forward with armored cavalry from both wings.  These nomads were even bloodier than the Han cavalry, with every blow of their swords bringing out pieces of blood. All the Turks who tried to threaten the armored cavalry from the side were killed.

    The entire team of supporting troops reserved outside the tent saw the Sui army successfully rushing into the camp and killing people and setting fires everywhere. They also quickly sounded the golden drum of the Sui army's attack that they carried with them.

    The "dong-dong-dang-dang-dang" sound of war drums in the deep night is as terrifying as the greeting of a fierce ghost from hell.  When the Turks in the entire camp heard the sharp sound of the Sui army's war drums, they thought that the opponent was coming with thousands of troops and did not dare to resist. They all fled towards the north and the Chinese army's tent in a swarm.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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