Valley Emperor

After discovering that the Ming army in front of him is not the expected grain transport team, but a regular army of the guard station disguised as a grain transport team, the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain still have the mind to fight, whether it is Li Xuan or Liu. Eight Gou and even Butcher Chen, all thought of turning around and leaving.

And they did exactly that!

If they were the regular army of a serious dynasty, they might also be concerned about the face of the court. It is estimated that the emperor's face, Li Xuan, but what kind of regime was the Tang Dynasty?

Although it bears the name of the Tang Dynasty, and there are similar officials and generals, it is still a den of bandits in essence, and at most there are more bandits than ordinary ones.

Therefore, at this critical moment, no one would think about the issue of shame, and would not think about whether it would be shameful to run away when encountering an enemy, which would affect the prestige of the dynasty and the like.

They just want to escape and save their lives!

When they made the decision to retreat, the Great Tang Wang Shi's actions were quite fast. How fast was it?

As soon as the order was issued, it was not even passed on to the ears of the soldiers at the lowest level, nor did they even arrange to retreat quickly, but some people had already started to run backwards!

Who are these bandits in Huangzhu Mountain?

They are all well-informed and rich in means of escape. Many bandits in the standing army see that the situation is not good, and when they see someone fleeing behind, they simply do not listen to the so-called orderly retreat arranged by the generals above. , just turned around and joined the fleeing army.

Seeing that the standing army that was still in order in the front collapsed instantly, and then scrambled to escape back one by one, Li Xuan in the back couldn't help but want to cover his face.

Nima, it's really embarrassing, the Ming army on the opposite side is still far away, but now all of our personnel have collapsed.

Even when the retreat order was issued, Li Xuan had expected chaos, but he did not expect it to collapse so quickly.

The only thing that comforted him was that, because the Ming army was still far away, the escaped Huangzhushan bandits finally did not throw away the weapons such as long knives and spears they were carrying before fleeing, but most of them took them with them. .

"Your Majesty, we should go too. If we don't go, it will be too late!" At this moment, Wang Danxu walked to Li Xuan's side.

Li Xuan also knew at this time that at this point, he was already powerless, and although the situation was extremely chaotic, at least the Ming army hadn't caught up, and no actual losses were caused.

It's nothing to be embarrassed when fleeing, at most it's just humiliation.

Immediately he got on his horse and said, "Let's go too!"

Wang Danxu got on the horse himself, and then shouted to the nearby guard soldiers: "Let's go!"

Immediately, Li Xuan quickly left the battlefield under the **** of the Guards!

As for the other high-level officials of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Bagou, Wang Wenhua, Qian Mengjiu and other officials naturally retreated with Li Xuan. Although they were not riding horses, they were also riding donkeys, mules, etc. If so, their physical strength would not be able to keep running for too long.

As for the other generals of the Tang Dynasty, they were scattered all over the place, leading their men to retreat. Although the standing army is a bit chaotic now, the basic organization can still be maintained. Butcher Chen and Fang Dongquan are still in control of themselves. The confidant of the team under his command.

In less than five minutes, the Grand Master of the Tang Dynasty, who had been lining up to fight the Ming army, was running away.

The whole process shocked Mr. Wu and Diao Leixun!

Can you not be so shameless, you masters of the Tang Dynasty have just arrived, you haven't even completed the formation, and you haven't even played a trial attack, so you just ran away?

This situation made the resourceful Mr. Wu a little depressed!

According to his expectations, under normal circumstances, the pseudo-Tang thief army should fight with him first, even if it is just a small-scale trial battle, and it will be observed for a while.

But there will be thought that these pseudo-Tang thieves have just discovered that the Ming army is not an ordinary grain transportation team, but a regular army of the guardhouse, and they turned around and ran away without even a moment's hesitation.

And it runs so fast!

"What are you waiting for, let me catch up!" Diao Leixun jumped angrily.

Before, he thought that the pseudo-Tang thieves would come to fight, so he spent all his time arranging the formation and preparing for the attack of the pseudo-Tang thieves, but he would think that the pseudo-Tang thieves would not fight, Just turn around and run.

After the Ming army changed from the formation of the frontal decisive battle to the formation of the chasing army, a moment had passed, and the pseudo-Tang thieves had already run far away.

It was too late to be remorseful, too late to be shocked, and Diao Leixun hurriedly led his troops to chase after him!

This pursuit battle lasted for several hours, and it was not over until it was dark!

After it got dark, and after chasing for an entire afternoon, the Ming army, who had exhausted himself, stopped and set up camp.

Diao Leixun said to Mr. Wu with a look of regret: "Those thieves are running too fast, otherwise, they will definitely be kept here this time!"

Mr. Wu said: "It is not bad to be able to behead more than ten and capture dozens of them. After today's battle, the opponent will definitely not dare to intercept food easily. My army has no worries about food!"

Diao Leixun showed a wry smile when he heard this, because only he knew that although they caught up with a part of the bandit army this time, they killed more than ten of them and captured dozens of people, but they were interrogated. It was only after these captives that they found out that the people they were chasing were actually civilian husbands who had been captured by the pseudo-Tang bandit army a few days ago.

In other words, in this pursuit, he did not catch up with a real Huangzhushan bandit, let alone kill or capture him.

But even so, he still agreed with Mr. Wu's last sentence, that is, after this battle, I am afraid that the pseudo-Tang bandit army will not have the courage to attack the grain transportation team again.

He didn't know that the Huangzhushan bandits who failed in the ambush this time and made themselves embarrassed and fled, not only were not as frightened as they imagined, but they planned to bring a big one.

"Today is really too dangerous. If it wasn't for Mr. Liu, you said later that you let the newly captured civilians confuse the Ming army, I'm afraid we would have been caught up by them!" Bai Yunqi looked terrified!

Huang Xueren said: "Yeah, these Ming troops can really run, and they almost caught up with them!"

However, Fang Dongquan shook his head and said, "What are you afraid of, even if we don't release the people as bait, they won't be able to catch up with us. We are very familiar with this mountain, so let them drill a few more ravines to make sure they get dizzy. Can't get out!"

Fang Dongquan said this with confidence, but he took the Ming army around in the mountains several times.

You let him take the bandits from Huangzhushan and the Ming army to fight head-on, that is impossible, and he can't do it, but if you let him escape with someone, it is absolutely first-class.

If he didn't have the ability to escape with one hand, Fang Dong would have died at the hands of the Ming army long ago.

After everyone sighed again, the generals began to report various losses today.

I was in a hurry to escape today, and I lost a lot of luggage, especially food. But it doesn't matter. Master Wang of the Tang Dynasty originally carried a lot of grain with the army, and later grabbed the grain transport team of the Ming army twice. almost half of the food they carried, but they were still very plentiful.

As for casualties, the biggest loss is the dozens of civilians who were thrown away by the abandoned sons, but those civilians were captured just a few days ago. They were originally the civilians of the Ming army, and now they are thrown back to the Ming Dynasty. The army is nothing, not a loss. .

As for the personal losses of the Huangzhu Mountain bandits, because the two sides never fought from the beginning to the end, and the distance between the two sides was only a mile or two when they were closest, the loss of casualties can be ignored.

On the other hand, there were twenty or thirty people who ran away and disappeared. I don't know if they were lost or if they saw the opportunity and left the large army to flee for their lives.

Li Xuan feels that the latter is more likely!

Those who disappeared or fled, plus dozens of people who were abandoned, the Tang Dynasty lost a lot on this day, and the team of more than 800 people fell back to more than 700 people again.

But Li Xuan felt fortunate that none of the guards escaped privately, and there was no casualty.

As long as the Guards are still there, the actual combat effectiveness of the Great Tang King's division will not be weakened much!

After the inventory was completed, the Tang monarchs and ministers gathered together again to discuss the follow-up actions!

Butcher Chen said: "Today we were put together by them, and we must avenge this revenge. When we look back, we must find a few more people who were singled out to eat it!"

Butcher Chen continued: "And that's not to mention, we have to completely block the food route of the Ming army. There are so many Ming army guarding in this mountain. It is difficult for us to do it. , let's have a surprise..."

Hearing Butcher Chen's words, he stopped, and Liu Bagou, who was beside him, consciously helped him finish his words: "Surprise, attack it!"

Butcher Chen said: "Yes, it's just a surprise attack. Their troops have all entered the mountain to find us. There are at most a few checkpoints on the periphery of the mountain. We can take it down and guard it, waiting for the grain transport teams. If they don’t believe it, they can guess that we are going to the edge of the mountain to attack their checkpoint!”

After Butcher Chen's words fell, Fang Dongquan, who was beside him, fell into deep thought, and then saw him suddenly stand up: "What if we go directly to attack Longhua Town?"

"Where did the food and grass needed to enter the mountain come from? Longhua Town, since we can't cut off their food supply, then we simply go and shoot down Longhua Town, and burn their food and grass with a fire!"