Seeing that there were suddenly cavalry running back in front of him, and one of them was still saying, 'My lord, it's not good', at that moment, these Ming army generals had a very bad premonition in their hearts.

You can even see that these people have obvious panicked looks on their faces.

A deputy general soldier led by him forcibly held back the panic in his heart and asked, "What's the matter, let's talk carefully!" ”

Immediately, another Ming cavalry said: "Five miles ahead, a large number of pseudo-Tang thieves have been found coming towards us!" ”

The deputy chief soldier of the Ming army continued to ask: "How many soldiers and horses?" Is it a real thief or a fake thief of the pseudo-Tang thief army? If it's a real thief, how many real thieves are there? ”

The Ming army still doesn't have a deep enough understanding of the puppet Tang thief army, but it still knows that there are real thieves and fake thieves in the combat sequence of the puppet Tang thief army, and the real thieves are those who wear blue clothes and red pants and have a large number of firearms The puppet Tang regular army, and the initial definition of the fake thief is actually used for those rebels who surrendered to the puppet Tang Dynasty, but later it generally refers to the puppet Tang army that is not equipped with a large number of firearms, including the garrison army and the thief hunting camp.

Of course, such a division is actually not strictly prohibited, most of the time, they simply judge the color of the military uniforms of the pseudo-Tang thief army opposite, and this is also an important factor why in the past half a month, the number of pseudo-Tang thief armies reported by the Ming army has been seriously exaggerated, because they regard all the pseudo-Tang thief army wearing blue clothes and red pants as real thieves, and according to their previous experience in fighting with the pseudo-Tang thief army, there is a real thief of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and there will definitely be one or even two on the side. More than three pseudo-Tang fake thieves.

They still don't know that the Datang Army has completed the elimination of the garrison brigade and the thief hunting battalion, and the backbone of the garrison brigade has been transferred to supplement the main forces and form a pure cold weapon regular army spear regiment, thus creating six major infantry divisions and a number of temporary regiments, mixed regiments and other troops.

Even the Tang Army is not clear about the detailed establishment of the Ming Army, and can only know a general name, or those grass-roots establishments that are difficult to keep secret, such as the big name 'First Infantry Division', or the detailed establishment at the team level or even the battalion level.

However, the Ming army still does not know what infantry regiments are composed of an infantry division, and even how many people there are.

And this lack of understanding of the Tang Army also made these Ming army generals pay special attention to a piece of information, that is, how many people are there in the pseudo-Tang thief army they are facing, and how many real thieves are in it?

If the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side is only two or three thousand, and the real thieves have a thousand people, it is not impossible for them to fight over, but if the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side has four or five thousand people, and the number of true thieves reaches more than two thousand, then they have to think carefully about whether they should choose to fight or escape.

However, the Ming cavalry said: "At least five thousand, and they are all real thieves?" ”

"Are they all real thieves? How can it be? Could it be that there are 5,000 or even tens of thousands of fake thieves behind them? Half a year ago, when the Tang Army and the Ming Army were fighting, there was often an infantry brigade behind it, and there would be the same garrison brigade, or even two garrison brigades to assist in the operation.

The cavalry of the Ming army immediately replied: "It's true, although the distance is a little far, but the thief army we see is wearing that kind of strange military uniform, and there is no fake thief, and they also have a large number of artillery teams and reconnaissance horses!" ”

"And a large number of artillery and scouts? How is this possible, this is definitely the scale of the main force of the puppet Tang thief army, not that the main force of the puppet Tang thief army went north to Hengzhou, even if they left a part of the troops to assist in the defense of the logistics line, but at most, they left so many thousand real thieves and thousands of fake thieves, how could it be possible to leave a whole main force near Yizhang? ”

"They must be the puppet Tang thief army that was chasing us before, I didn't expect them to be the main force of the puppet Tang thief army, and they also went around Yizhang one step ahead of us, probably waiting for us to return to Yizhang!"

"What can I do about this, so many pseudo-Tang real thieves, with our current 8,000 people, it is absolutely invincible!"

Everyone present is a person who understands this, what is invincible, this is slightly translated, in plain words: we can't beat it!

"We can't continue to move forward, we must take a detour immediately, otherwise it will be a dead word to continue to go up!"

"Yes, let's take a detour, Yizhang is only more than twenty miles away from us, as long as we take a detour to avoid them, and when it comes to night, we will continue to march, take advantage of the night to avoid their interception range, and strive to return to Yizhang City before dawn tomorrow, and when we return to Yizhang City, everything will be done, even if the main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army comes to attack Yizhang City, we can hold it and hold on until the arrival of Linwu reinforcements!"

Immediately, the deputy chief soldier led by him also suppressed the panic in his heart, and immediately said: "Since this is the case, then we will immediately detour to the west to avoid the main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army in front!" ”

However, as soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound of horses' hooves in front of him, and as soon as he heard the sound of the hurried horses' hooves, he knew that he must have returned again, and he was still alive, and he said again: "My lord, it's not good!" ”

Now at this critical moment, a scout hurriedly ran back, and another adult came, no, it must have encountered a big bad thing.

Damn, what's the super bad news?

Another main force of the puppet Tang thief army is ahead?

The generals of the Ming army, who had just heard a super-big bad news, had to force themselves to listen to the second bad news.

I only heard the cavalry who hurried back to say: "A large number of thieves have appeared in the northwest direction ahead!" ”

"There is a pseudo-Tang thief army again? A real thief or a fake thief? How many? Without waiting for the deputy general soldier to ask, the general of the Ming army next to him couldn't wait to ask.

The herald cavalry said: "They are all real thieves, although the distance is farther, but at least there are no less than three thousand!" ”

Hearing that there are 3,000 pseudo-Tang real thieves, and they are still in the northwest not far from the west where they are scheduled to retreat, this means that if their 8,000 people want to retreat to the west, they are very likely to be cut off by this pseudo-Tang thief army.

At this time, some of the generals of the Ming army who were not very good at concentration were already a little dizzy, their feet were soft, and if they were not riding horses, they would probably be paralyzed directly to the ground!

However, at this time, the deputy chief soldier still calmed down, and then said: "It seems that we can't go to the west, and now our only way to retreat is to go to the east!" ”

So, the order to retreat to the east was quickly conveyed, but as soon as the direction was adjusted, the army had not yet gone a few hundred meters, and another herald cavalry ran in front of these Ming army generals, and this had just arrived, so he said in the same panicked tone: "My lord, it's not good!" ”

Hearing this, he was still calm a few seconds ago, and commanded the army to turn around and retreat to the east, and the deputy chief soldier of the Ming army finally said with a panicked face: "What's the matter, could it be that the main force of the puppet Tang thief army has also been discovered in the east?" ”

When the herald cavalry heard this, and saw the panic on his general's face, he was also a little puzzled, he hadn't reported the news yet, why did his own adults know?

He didn't know that before him, there were already two groups of herald cavalry who had reported bad news to these Ming army generals!

However, although he was puzzled, he still said quickly: "Our scouts have found that the thief cavalry that we got rid of yesterday has caught up, and now their direction is in the southeast, and we are only three miles away!" ”

Hearing this, the deputy commander-in-chief, who had always forcibly calmed down and maintained the majesty of the general, finally couldn't support it, and muttered: "It's over...... It's over......"

After muttering these two words in his mouth, his eyes were dark, and he fell directly from the horse's back!

"Your Excellency!"

"Your Excellency!"

Seeing this, several other generals and personal soldiers around the deputy chief soldier quickly stepped forward to check the situation, fortunately, although the deputy chief soldier was riding a horse, but the horse was standing and did not move, and the direction in which he fell was also relatively lucky, and he did not hit his head directly on the ground, otherwise, it was also a high probability to break his neck directly.

After everyone checked the situation of the deputy commander-in-chief, they found that their own commander had fainted, so they pinched the person and shook it vigorously, and finally woke up the fainting deputy commander-in-chief.

As soon as the deputy general soldier woke up, everyone couldn't wait to ask, "My lord, what should we do now?" ”

"Yes, my lord, now that nearly 10,000 pseudo-Tang thief troops have surrounded our army from three sides, what should we do now?"

"My lord, what should I do?"

"Adult ......"

The poor deputy soldier had just woken up, and it was only a few seconds before he heard a gossip of questioning, and it was a question that even he could not answer.

What can he do?

If he had known what to do, he wouldn't have fainted in despair just now.

In the face of everyone's questioning, the poor deputy general soldier, who had just woken up, tilted his head very simply, and fainted again......

Just when the 8,000 Ming troops were at a loss, they were about five miles to the north, and Colonel Sun Shuangxi personally led the headquarters of the First Advance Corps and artillery and other auxiliary troops to the south, and about three miles away from the headquarters of the First Advance Corps, the troops composed of a reserve battalion and a baggage battalion of the First Advance Corps were rapidly moving south from the northwest.

At the same time, in the southeast direction of the Ming army, the 1st Cavalry Battalion was also rushing to the battlefield!

And all these troops combined, there are only about 5,000 people, far less than the nearly 10,000 real thieves reported by the Ming army's scouts!

But even though there were only 5,000 people, it was still the fact that the 8,000 Ming army was surrounded from three directions at the same time!