Su Jiakang is reluctant to enter the city of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, that is because he needs to bear great responsibility after the city is broken, after all, no matter what, he will end up with an evaluation of losing the city and losing his land, what will the bigwigs on him think of him?

They will think that Su Jiakang is extremely incompetent, and even let a group of small bandits break through the county seat, isn't this incompetent? How can such an official be in charge of the ruling side and defend the land on behalf of the herdsmen of the Son of Heaven?

If Su Jiakang is unable to rely on his own strength to recover Zhengtai County in a short period of time after losing Zhengtai County, then the consequences will be even more serious.

The imperial court has always been reluctant to treat officials who have lost their cities.

As for Li Xuan's reluctance to enter the city, he was afraid of causing the Ming court to shake, which would lead to the Ming court sending a large army to encircle and suppress it, in which case it would be difficult for his Tang Dynasty to be finished.

But they don't want to do it, but the reality is so fucked up because it rarely goes your way.

It's like a man who is a dick but is still a face control, but he wants to marry a beautiful woman who is as beautiful as a flower; The woman's own appearance can scare passers-by to death, but she is still a money-worshipping girl who likes to be rich and handsome, and her mind is full of wanting to find a rich and handsome, but logically speaking, these two people can't look down on each other.

But in reality, the beauties and the rich and handsome got together, and Diaosi and Ruhua could only hold hands while disliking each other.

Neither of them wants each other, but in the end they get together, this is the reality!

Li Xuan didn't want to enter the city, he didn't want to cause the Ming court to be shaken, but at this moment, he had no choice, if he stayed outside the city, he would be surrounded by the Ming army on three sides, and the rest would be a dead end.

It's better to go into the city to fight, especially when the Ming army in the city has surrendered, he doesn't need to spend much time entering the city, and he won't encounter much resistance, and he can immediately stop the defense after entering the city, and stop the fierce Ming army to get temporary safety.

As for how to get out of danger in the future, this is a matter for the future, whether it is trapped or retreated, it is easy to say, and now Li Xuan has no extra time and mind to think about this.

After Butcher Chen and Fang Dongquan in front of them led the city into the city, the new army of the Tang Dynasty quickly took control of the city gate and the nearby city walls, followed by the musket team, archers and baggage team also entered the city one after another.

They entered the city quite quickly, in just a moment, except for a few dozen people who were on guard behind them, everyone else had already entered the city.

After the new army of the Tang Dynasty entered the city, it immediately divided its troops into several ways, and the main force was advancing along the city gate tower and the city walls on both sides, on the one hand, it was to clear the remnants of the Ming army to control the city defense, and on the other hand, it was more important to immediately carry out the deployment of defensive operations to meet the attack of the main force of the Ming army in the rear.

At the same time, several small troops were divided into various points in the city, such as the county office, school grounds, warehouses and other important places.

As for the gentry who originally planned to surrender, they didn't know where to flee for a long time, and Li Xuan didn't have the heart to deal with them at this moment.

At this time, Li Xuan also entered Zhengtai County under the escort of the guards.

Li Xuan on horseback was wearing a cut and extremely slim modern general's uniform, with a decorative sword hanging from his waist, a pair of long leather boots on the stirrups, and a pair of leather gloves on the hand pulling the reins.

If he is placed in modern times or even modern times, he is a typical image of a general, but in the eyes of people in this era, it seems funny and eccentric.

Many people hiding in the houses on both sides of the street secretly looked at Li Xuan through the cracks in the door panels or windows, and they felt somewhat strange and strange.

No wonder the government says every day that the bandits in Huangzhushan are cannibals, and this young bandit leader knows at a glance that it must not be a good thing.

The eyes of the people in the city naturally did not care about Li Xuan, he rode on horseback, looking at the dirt streets in front of him, and the houses on both sides of the street, he had a sense of freshness of watching historical films, and at the same time a sense of satisfaction of conquest.

Speaking of which, this is the first time he has seen the city with his own eyes since coming to this time and space, and he has just come to this era, that is, he met the officers and soldiers who entered Lijia Village, and then he spent it on the run, and most of the time he spent in the ravine of Huangzhu Mountain.

Although he led people to break through Longhua Town last time, Longhua Town said that it was a city, but in fact it was just a larger Zhuangzi, which was a little bigger than Fengjiazhuang, and it was not a regular city at all.

What's more, he, Li Xuan, didn't enter Longhua Town at all for safety reasons.

Therefore, this is the first time in a long time that he has entered an ancient city!

It's just that this curiosity about the ancient city only lasted for a few seconds, and now he has more important things.

"Now that the defense has been deployed, the drawbridge has been put away, and the city gates have been closed!" Li Xuan turned over and dismounted as he spoke, and then directly took Qian Mengjiu and Zeng Ziwen to the city gatehouse.

Walking up to the city gate tower, you can vaguely see the corpses of the Ming army and many wounded, and there are still many weapons scattered on the ground, as well as boulders and huge trees that have not yet had time to be used, boiling oil and other equipment used to defend the city.

The head of the city is now completely occupied by the Datang New Army, and the few dozens of young men who have not had time to escape are being guarded by the soldiers of the Datang New Army and squatting in the corner.

Li Xuan didn't look at the scene on the city, when he entered the city, he had already arranged it in detail, Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu took the musket team and archers, spearmen and other main forces to arrange the city defense matters, and Huang Xueren took the men and horses in the baggage team to clear the Ming army in the city to occupy the key points.

Now that they have a clear division of labor, they don't need Li Xuan to say anything more, so Li Xuan didn't interfere too much with Fang Dongquan's work.

Instead, he took Qian Mengjiu and Zeng Ziwen to climb the relatively high city gate tower, and then looked from a distance, and Li Xuan finally saw the Ming army forward in the mouth of the scout.

It was an army of about 300 people, dressed in the uniforms of the Ming army, and it was about a mile away from the county seat of Zhengtai at this time.

As for the farther away, he could probably see more Ming troops coming, but because of the undulating terrain, he couldn't see it too clearly.

The southwest of Zhengtai County is not very open, but there are low hills one after another, which do not affect farming, but affect the line of sight.

Unlike to the east and north, it was an open area, with a fairly good view, and the enemy could see it clearly for miles away.

When Li Xuan observed the Ming army outside the city, the new Tang army in the city had already closed the city gate again, and the musketeers and archers used as the main force for defense had also gone to the city.

As for Huang Xueren, they cleaned up the city quite quickly, this Zhengtai County, like many ancient cities, is not big, it doesn't take long to run a lap, plus Huang Xueren They also know that the matter is urgent, and they can't waste too much time on the Ming army in the city, so they are running wildly, and at the same time shouting slogans such as those who surrender and don't kill, they successfully captured important places such as the county government and the official warehouse.

It is actually not right to say that it was captured, because the Ming army in these places had already run out, and most of them fled with Xu Xiancheng and other civil and military officials, and some of them were also hiding, and they did not dare to fight with the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

As for the young men who originally had hundreds of people, it was even more unbearable, Xu Xiancheng and them would not take them with them when they fled, and after Xu Xiancheng and their officials were gone, the leaderless young men had already dispersed in a hurry before the new army of the Tang Dynasty attacked the city.

Otherwise, the gentry in the city would not have simply chosen to open the city gate and surrender.

That is to say, before Li Xuan and them entered the city, in fact, Zhengtai County became an undefended city, and the Datang New Army attacked Zhengtai County, actually taking over Zhengtai County.

Soon, after clearing the remnants of the Ming army in the city, Huang Xueren came back with most of the men, not counting when they came back, and they came back with hundreds of people.

Without waiting for Li Xuan to ask, Huang Xueren took the initiative to explain: "When I was at the Northeast City Gate just now, I saw these young men running away, so I stopped them, and now our army is short of manpower to defend the city, and they are just lined up to be useful!" ”

Qian Mengjiu on the side said: "Will these people make trouble during the war of our army?" Thus causing the unexpected? ”

But at this time, Zeng Ziwen spoke: "Don't worry about this, these young and strong people are very obedient, if someone supervises them, they can't make a mess!" ”

Zeng Ziwen was a thousand households in the Ming army before, and when he was fighting, he also liked to recruit young people to transport baggage with the army or fight directly, and he had a deep understanding of these young and strong people.

These young men are definitely unwilling to give their lives to the Datang New Army, but they are also unwilling to give their lives to the officials and soldiers before, but the officials and soldiers can force them to sell their lives with knives, and the Datang New Army can also do it.

Li Xuan nodded slightly after hearing this, with this group of young and strong captives joining in manual labor, at least when defending the city and fighting, he would be able to draw out more fighters, instead of dividing people to carry miscellaneous things such as stones, wood, and boiling oil.

When the new army of the Tang Dynasty was actively preparing for defense in the city, and did not even bother to deal with the gentry and ordinary people in the city, the main force of the Ming army led by Su Jiakang finally arrived at the city of Zhengtai County.

Su Jiakang, who was riding on a horse, looked at Zhengtai County in front of him, his face was gloomy and terrifying.

That is his Su Jiakang's Zhengtai County, but now it has fallen into the hands of the pseudo-Tang thief army, if he can't recover it quickly, I'm afraid his fate will not be too good, losing his official position is the lightest, and if he doesn't do it well, he will be beheaded and robbed.

Immediately, he sighed to Wang Zhi beside him: "While the thief army has just entered the city, now they have an unstable foothold, we must attack the city as soon as possible, immediately give an order, and attack the city immediately!" ”

With Su Jiakang's decisiveness and resoluteness, the Ming army launched a counteroffensive against Zhengtai County as soon as it arrived in the city, intending to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the new army of the Tang Dynasty to recover Zhengtai County.