Valley Emperor

Although I still can't see anything in the east, it is only because it is blocked by the hills and mountains. I just reported that a large number of fake Tang thieves were found several miles to the east!

Preliminary estimate of the strength of no less than 5,000 people!

And those 5,000 people were all wearing the unique military uniforms of the Puppet Tang Bandit Army. They were not the same as the Puppet Tang Bandit Army that came before.

In the past period of time, Zhu Zhihai can be considered to have judged that the pseudo-Tang thieves who appeared before in Ming army uniforms should be the former Ming troops who surrendered, because these surrendered soldiers were fighting with the authentic pseudo-Tang thieves. The performance of the time is so different that it is easy for others to judge.

Therefore, although there were 4,000 pseudo-Tang thieves who came before, Zhu Zhihai was not too worried!

However, the more than 5,000 people who come here are different. According to the reconnaissance cavalry, the formation is neat and tight, and the march is not chaotic at all, and there are at least 2,000 fire gun soldiers.

All this shows that the 5,000 people who came here are definitely the main force of the pseudo-Tang bandit army!

Its combat power is probably stronger than the more than 2,000 pseudo-Tang thieves encountered at the beginning!

Because of the reconnaissance report, they saw the words Hao, 1st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Regiment, etc. hanging on the flag of the pseudo-Tang bandit army!

The Ming army and the Tang army have fought with each other many times, and each will collect information on each other, and some of the names and the names of the main generals that are not very secret are naturally known to both sides.

Zhu Zhihai knew that among the various divisions of the pirate army of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, its so-called 'First Infantry Regiment' was the most powerful unit, and was led by a thief general named Hao Bainian.

The appearance of the main force of these pseudo-Tang thieves made Zhu Zhihai even more worried. He was afraid that the more than 10,000 people who were still outside the city at this time would be used to contain the pseudo-Tang thieves, provide cover for the army and the broken soldiers and horses would encounter unexpected events. .

In this case, his first reaction is naturally to want to withdraw all the troops as much as possible, and the first to be withdrawn must be his own direct line troops, that is, Fubiao recruiting.

Zhu Zhihai knew that the main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army was about to arrive, and although he did not advertise the news, many senior generals of the Ming army were still the first to know the news.

For example, on the front line, he is still fighting with more than 6,000 people from the pseudo-Tang thief army, who is holding more than 10,000 people: Yang Guishan, the commander of Guizhou.

He got the news of the attack of the main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and it was not much later than Zhu Zhihai got the news!

"The main force of the more than 5,000 pseudo-Tang thieves army, I'm afraid it will be troublesome!" Yang Guishan is a veteran of about fifty years old, but although he is old, he is old and strong. At this time, he is still wearing a suit of armor and riding a horse. , using a heavy ring-head knife.

Under the armor, his expression is not very good-looking!

After several confrontations today, he can already confirm that the combat power of the pseudo-Tang thief army is not bad, especially the main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army with a large number of fire guns. The army's pseudo-Tang thief generals are really enviable.

Whether it was the 5,000 strikers led by Chang Pingchang in the afternoon, or the 5,000 men led by Master Tongzhi Shen, who was commanded by Xinglongwei, they were all defeated by the puppet thieves.

Moreover, the total number of the pseudo-Tang bandit army was only more than 2,000.

The past record of the Puppet Tang Bandit Army and its performance today also made Yang Guishan lead tens of thousands of troops, but he still did not dare to act rashly and could only rely on the superiority of his troops to face off to cover the troops' entry into the city!

But now, the main force of the 5,000 pseudo-Tang thieves has come again. As a result, the situation on the battlefield is very, very bad for him.

If one is not good, I am afraid that the boat will capsize outside the city of Liping!

At this time, Zhu Zhihai's order was also passed to Yang Guishan's side. When he heard that Zhu Zhihai wanted to let Fubiao's soldiers and horses retreat into the city first, Yang Guishan's face became even more ugly.

This surnamed Zhu has a good calculus. Seeing that the main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army is about to arrive, the first thing he wants is not to fight to the death, but to preserve the troops of the direct line.

Such a person makes him extremely shameless!

Even if it is not a battle to the death, even if it is to retreat, then the guards under his command must retreat first!

Their guards are the regular army of the court, and they are just a group of recruits who work hard for pay!

Could it be that the lives of those Fubiao recruits have to be preserved, so the lives of these guardsmen and soldiers don't have to be preserved?

While he was contemplating, a commander beside him whispered to him: "Sir, it's not good, the person who caresses the mark is gone!"

After listening to it, he turned around and saw that the more than 2,000 Fubiao infantry on the left wing of the array had already started to turn and retreat in unison. As for the 500 cavalry in Fubiao, they had already turned on their horses, and they were walking faster!

"Damn!"

"Damn them all!"

Fu Biao's retreat without authorization will cause a huge gap in the array of his 10,000-strong army, and the opposite pseudo-Tang thief army will definitely see it and take corresponding measures.

At that time, his army of 10,000 people will not be able to leave.

Even if they are scattered, they are going to retreat, and then they have to make arrangements to cover each other and retreat alternately.

At this time, he also saw the movement of the pseudo-Tang bandit army on the opposite side!

In between, the pseudo-Tang thief army has already started to trot forward. Looking at this posture, they know that they have already seen their formation shaken and chaos has appeared, so they have already started to attack.

What he expected was correct. Fang Xitong did see the changes in the Ming army formation for the first time, and without any hesitation, he directly ordered the troops to move forward!

Seeing this scene, Yang Guishan took a deep breath, and then said: "Send the order, Ming Jin withdraws troops!"

Can the troopers and horses run? Their guards can't run away? What a joke!

Following Yang Guishan's order, the tens of thousands of troops turned around and started running!

Seeing this scene, Fang Xitong on the opposite side and his friends were stunned!

What's going on? He can understand that there are 2,000 people retreating in the opposite array, but tens of thousands of people are retreating together. What are they trying to do?

Aren't they afraid to pursue their own pursuit and cause their complete rout?

Fang Xitong naturally couldn't understand Yang Guishan and Zhu Zhihai's thoughts!

Their motivation for doing all this is actually very simple. The first premise is that they all deeply realize that the combat power of the pseudo-Tang bandit army is not weak, so when they heard that another 5,000 pseudo-Tang bandit army is about to arrive. , the first reaction is to escape, not to fight to the death!

Well, it can't be said that they are timid. In fact, what they did is correct. If Zhu Zhihai did not order a retreat, but planned to have a decisive battle with the pseudo-Tang thieves outside the city, then Li Xuan would definitely wake up laughing from his dreams. .

You must know that the mission of the Second Brigade is to keep them, but they can't!

But retreating is the right choice, but how to retreat and who should retreat first, there will be differences and problems here.

Zhu Zhihai wanted to let his Fubiao retreat first, because in Zhu Zhihai's view, among the 30,000-strong army, in fact, only his Fubiao and the other 2,000 recruits had the fighting power. The words must first sacrifice the young and strong people, and then sacrifice the soldiers of the guards.

However, this is just Zhu Zhihai's idea. In the opinion of Yang Guishan and other generals of the guards, their own lives are the most precious. What are the markings and recruiting? They want to let Lao Tzu break them off and let them escape for their own lives. ?

Think beautifully!

As a result, the 10,000-strong army outside the city retreated together, in no particular order!

There is no order in this way, and the retreat of the organization is actually not much different from the defeat.

Fang Xitong didn't know why this situation happened to the Ming army on the opposite side, but he knew that this was what he had been looking forward to, and it was an extremely rare opportunity.

So he did not hesitate to order the entire army to start charging!

It is no longer the previous slow advance, but directly launched a charge!

The core central army composed of the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the 10th Infantry Battalion moved forward at an extremely fast speed. Although the 7th Infantry Regiment on the flank said that the quality of the soldiers was not good, it was still the army. It is difficult to fight a tough battle, but it is still very reliable to let them fight the current tailwind battle.

Even under the instigation of some of the descending generals of the Ming army, the descending soldiers of the 7th Infantry Regiment even ran faster than the 3rd Infantry Regiment.

Because the 3rd Infantry Regiment still has to maintain the formation, and the descendants of the 7th Infantry Regiment simply don't care about any formation in order to grab credit.

No matter what the officers from the main force of the Datang New Army said above, they couldn't maintain a complete formation!

In the end, Li Shuangxi, the commander of the 7th Infantry Regiment and the former deputy battalion commander of the 5th Infantry Battalion, could only look helpless at the rushing army ahead.

When the army launched the charge, he was no longer able to stop the spontaneous charge of these descendants. He could only follow behind with more than 200 directly affiliated regular troops~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Next, appeared on the battlefield. There was a very interesting scene, the Datang New Army of more than 6,000 people ran after the tens of thousands of Ming Army!

It didn't take long for the tens of thousands of troops in front of them to disperse. They didn't say that they all ran towards the city gate, because the city gate was already waterlogged at this time. Some smart people saw this scene and consciously moved to both sides. run away.

And this behavior is not caused by the orders of the generals, but the spontaneous behavior of middle and low-level officers and soldiers!

In this way, even though some of them could escape, there was a scene that was extremely dangerous to the Ming army.

That is, the other Ming troops that they had originally covered and some of the baggage troops that had not yet had time to enter the city were completely exposed to the front of the Datang New Army!

More importantly, the first brigade led by Hao Bainian finally trotted into the battlefield and killed it directly from the east!

At this time, if the Ming army no longer takes effective measures, then there will be a massacre waiting for the Ming army outside the city!