More than a month ago, Xue Yantuo poured all the warriors of the tribe, led the army all the way south to the foot of Chang'an City, and launched a fierce fight with the Tang army.

Unexpectedly, the Tang army had already prepared, and deployed medium and heavy troops on the bank of the Weishui River to snipe the remnants of Xue Yantuo, and a fierce battle of life and death broke out between the two sides.

However, because Xue Yantuo suffered a defeat before, his morale was low, the army suffered heavy losses, and the Tang army's backup came with thunderbolts, Xue Yantuo's troops, who had nowhere to escape, were defeated by the Tang army after all, with tens of thousands of dead and wounded, more than 10,000 people captured, and Yinan Khan and his son were captured.

The Xue Yantuo tribe surrendered. At the same time, Li Jing, who was conscripting troops in northern Hebei and originally planned to intercept Xue Yantuo at the last checkpoint out of the customs, changed his action strategy because Xue Yantuo announced his surrender in advance, and he led the mobilized generals, a total of more than 50,000 people, took advantage of Xue Yantuo's surrender to enter the northern grassland, retract, and conquer the northern participating tribes. The army penetrated 2,000 miles deep into the northern grasslands, gathering tens of thousands of tribesmen, territory, and countless cattle and sheep. It can be described as a great victory.

Seeing that the tribes of Xue Yantuo were almost conquered, the weather was getting colder and colder, and the grain and grass were about to run out, Li Jing also planned to order the collection of troops. Complete the handover with the following troops.

But at this moment, the unexpected happened.

Now Li Jing led his army 2,500 miles deep in the northern steppe, that is, the border between Mongolia and Russia in later generations.

This is basically the limit that the Chinese people have explored in the north for generations, and further on is the extremely cold land, which is not easy to penetrate. And the reality is that there is really no way to advance now, the snow is almost knee-deep, it is impossible to march any further, and the soldiers are also enduring the freezing cold, and it is indeed time to go back.

But it was at this time that an unexpected accident happened - they were attacked by an extremely strong group of centaurs.

The number of opponents is wrong, there are only a few hundred, but they are tall and powerful, not only walking like flying in the ice and snow, but also infinitely powerful, like a humanoid monster bear.

Li Jing didn't expect to meet people in such a northerly place, and these people were extremely aggressive and attacking. And in terms of appearance, it is very different from the northern nomads. The complexion is snow-white, the body hair is large, and it is brown, with a high nose bridge and large cheekbones, which is a bit similar to the legendary people of the Great Food Country in the Western Regions.

They wore no cotton and linen, but were wrapped in a thick hide, and carried in their hands very old weapons, such as spears made of sharpened wooden poles, stone axes made of stone, mallets, and so on.

If it weren't for the fact that they were communicating in their own language, Li Jing would have wondered if he had encountered a group of uncivilized savages.

When they first encountered these people, they stood on a high slope, "chirping", shouting condescendingly at Li Jing and the others, and grabbed the school blocks on the ground and threw them at them, as if to warn them not to approach.

Although the 50,000 army was divided into 40,000 to deal with the Xue Yantuo tribe, there were still more than 10,000 people around Li Jing, how could he endure the provocation of hundreds of natives?

Without waiting for Li Jing to give an order, the generals behind immediately couldn't help it, and drew their bows and shot an arrow at the natives.

An indigenous was hit by an arrow in the neck, pierced the neck, and immediately fell to the ground, rolling for a while and dying of exhaustion.

This time it directly became the fuse for the outbreak of war between the two sides, and the natives screamed, and they were suddenly enraged, and they picked up their weapons and rushed towards the Tang army.

"Bastard! Who told you to shoot the bow! Li Jing scolded angrily, but he didn't have time to punish him now, so he immediately organized the army to launch a counterattack.

Although these hundreds of natives have primitive weapons and savage fighting methods, their physique is extremely strong, and one person can resist two or three Tang troops, and they are not afraid of death.

However, war has never depended on individual bravery, the cooperation of the Tang army, advanced weapons, dozens of times more than the number of natives, and advanced formations........ Almost in the time of a stick of incense, the war was over.

Without any doubt, most of the hundreds of natives died, and about dozens of others were captured.

In addition to the death and wounding of more than ten people at the beginning, the Tang army almost pressed the opposite side in the back.

However, the war was far from over, because of the encounter with this group of natives, although a conflict broke out between the two sides, it did not affect the curiosity of Li Jing and others.

There are still people living in such an extremely cold place, and it is a human race that has never been in contact with it, Li Jing feels the need to understand the situation.

While arranging for people to try to communicate with the captives, he sent people out to find out the traces of people.

What I didn't expect was that at night, Li Jing was attacked by an unknown number of people, and the number of opponents was not large, and it did not cause many casualties to the Tang army, but judging from the intention of the other party's attack, it should be to rescue those who were captured, and it can be inferred that they still have accomplices scattered around.

Immediately, Li Jing gave an order and sent a detachment of soldiers to follow the trail left by the other party's retreat.

As a result, this group of soldiers encountered a trap set by the enemy on the way, and after paying the price of several soldiers' lives, they finally tracked down these people.

It was found that these natives were some old, weak, sick and disabled, huddled in the small village chief and shivering, looking at the Tang army with weapons in their hands with fear on their faces.

"Village? Where there is a village, there must be a rule. This was the conclusion that Li Jing had reached, and he suspected that they had inadvertently intruded into the border of a country that had never been discovered.

I don't know the specific strength of this country, but judging from the very beginning of the fight, if this country really has a large-scale army, it is undoubtedly a very terrifying force, Li Jing decided not to venture when he is not sure of the real situation of this country.

And now the army is almost at its limit, and it is really not suitable to continue to advance. In the end, he released most of the captives, leaving only a few fierce captives, tied them up, and then ordered the army to retreat, preparing to go back to report the matter to Li Shimin.

The discovery of a new country is definitely a big event, and this country is still clinging to the newly conquered land plates, and it is not known what kind of conflict will break out in the future, so the matter about the newly discovered country is taken as an urgent report, eight hundred miles.... No, it was 2,500 miles expedited to Chang'an.

Li Jing kept trying to communicate with several captives, trying to understand their language.

Unfortunately, the pronunciation of these captives was very strange, and it sounded like meaningless "babbling" shouts, which were even more incomprehensible. I figured it out for a long time and didn't understand what they meant.

However, this kind of thing is not in a hurry, although Li Jing is very good at fighting, but after all, he is not a major in language studies, and he has a specialization in the art industry, so it is normal that he is not good at this industry.

The army is on the way back, so far, the Northern Expedition has ended smoothly and successfully, the territory equivalent to half of the Tang Dynasty in the north has been included in the territory, and the territory of the Tang Dynasty has expanded rapidly, announcing that the world, the empire of the East, has risen!

It's the weekend, and I'm already in a small town in the south, frozen into a dog on a rainy winter

Zhao Lei must have never been to the winter in the south!

(End of chapter)