Seeing that his cavalry squad was actually following the retreating Ming army and rushing to the city gate, Li Xuan's heart was not the slightest bit happy, but his face was full of anger!

This is not only from the beginning to the end, Li Xuan never planned to really attack Zhengtai County, but also because the actions of the cavalry squad were completely self-made, and he never ordered the cavalry to follow the retreating Ming army into the city.

It is very obvious that in the process of pursuit, the cavalry captain Cao Mingda saw the opportunity to follow the Ming army into the city, so he decided to continue the pursuit without consulting Li Xuan, and wanted to follow the Ming army into the city.

This is a clear disobedience!

Damn, Cao Mingda, a bastard, shouldn't have let this person be the captain of the cavalry team in the first place, even if Fang Dongquan strongly recommended it, he shouldn't have agreed in the first place.

This Cao Mingda is an old qualified bandit in Huangzhu Mountain, because he knows a little horsemanship, so when he established the cavalry squad at the beginning of the year, he became a cavalryman, and because his qualifications are old enough, plus Fang Dongquan's strong recommendation, Cao Mingda became the first captain of the cavalry team.

Because this person is extremely outstanding in martial arts, and he also dares to fight, he has personally led the cavalry team to fight with the Ming army's scout cavalry many times, and has killed several Ming army scout horses, and his bravery is very Chen butcher's style.

But this person is different from Butcher Chen, and even Li Xuan was a little reluctant to appoint him as the captain of the cavalry team at the beginning, this person is not very obedient.

This disobedience doesn't mean that he just doesn't listen to Li Xuan's words, he doesn't listen to Fang Dongquan very much, he always likes to make his own decisions, and the first few times he took the cavalry team to pursue the Ming army scouts.

But for the sake of this person's courage to fight and his good military exploits, Li Xuan has always turned a blind eye to his self-assertion.

But what Li Xuan didn't expect was that on such an important occasion today, this Cao Mingda actually ignored the overall situation and pursued the Ming army without authorization.

And more importantly, because of the suddenness of the incident and the fact that the distance was already short, by the time Li Xuan found out that he was chasing after him with a cavalry squad, it was already too late to stop him.

At this time, the cavalry squad was already following the Ming cavalry and rushed onto the drawbridge!

The Ming army also found that the situation was critical, and Xu Xiancheng ordered the city gate to be closed as soon as possible, so he did not hesitate to give up the Ming cavalry who were still outside the city, in order to avoid letting the cavalry of the pseudo-Tang thief army follow into the city.

Once the cavalry of the Puppet Tang Thief Army is allowed to follow in, it is unlikely that the gate will be closed again, because the Puppet Tang Thief Army dozens of steps behind will come forward to answer in a short time.

The soldiers of the Ming army behind the city gate struggled to close the city gate under the loud shouting and scolding of Xu Xiancheng, but it was too late to close the city gate again at this time.

It was not Cao Mingda's cavalry that blocked them, but the Ming army's own cavalry that blocked them!

Those Ming cavalry didn't want to be locked out, and after rushing onto the drawbridge, they rushed to the city gate that was only half-open without slowing down, and a hundred households in armor at the head shouted: "Get out of the way for Lao Tzu!" ”

After a while, the horse jumped in through the half-open city gate, and even bumped into two soldiers who were trying to close the city gate.

After the cavalry of the Ming Army, it was the cavalry squad of the Tang Army led by Cao Mingda!

When several Ming army officers at the city gate saw that they could no longer close the city gate, they shouted one after another: "Quick, rush up and block the city gate!" ”

Since the city gate can no longer be closed, then it can only be blocked!

All this that happened at the gate of the city made Li Xuan, who was behind, angry and worried.

Cao Mingda's death is not a pity, but the cavalry team of more than a dozen people cannot be damaged at the city gate, and they must be brought back.

Immediately, he said to the herald: "Let the cavalry retreat immediately, and let General Chen attack and prepare to meet the cavalry squad!" ”

"Let the musketeers and archers keep the city under control, and never let a single enemy archer take the lead!"

Although the cavalry team's unauthorized attack on the city came too quickly, it completely destroyed Li Xuan's original plan, but at this time, he didn't have time to punish Cao Mingda or regret complaining about anything, and the most important thing now was to withdraw the cavalry team.

As the order was laid, several heralds at the front began to sound gold, which was a signal for the cavalry to retreat!

After hearing the Mingjin signal, Cao Mingda in front seemed to have just woken up, and immediately shouted: "Retreat...... Retreat ......"

But he soon found that now he couldn't retreat even if he wanted to lead people to retreat.

Because at this time, his cavalry squad had crossed the drawbridge and was rushing towards the city gate hole, and a few who ran fast had even rushed into the city gate hole, and the high-speed galloping war horse was running into several Ming soldiers in a row.

The others were also riding high-speed horses, and it was impossible to say that they would stop at all, even if they wanted to turn halfway and cross under the city walls, because there were high horses on both sides of the gates.

As for turning around and retreating on the spot, it would be even more nonsense, I have never seen the cavalry that is charging can turn around on the spot, and then turn around and retreat, generally make sharp turns and retreat, just like the previous Ming cavalry, but because of the rejection of horses on both sides, Cao Mingda They couldn't turn.

In the current situation, he either forcibly stopped, abandoned the brothers who had rushed up, and fled back with the rest of the people under the enemy's bow and arrow counterattack, as for how much he could escape back, it was unknown, or he continued to rush up and fight with the Ming army, waiting for the support of the main force, and then looking for an opportunity to retreat.

After the impulse just now disappeared, Cao Mingda was also scared, he was afraid that his cavalry team would be lost here, and he was even more afraid that his life would be lost here.

At this time, he turned his head and looked back, and saw that Butcher Chen was already leading dozens of sword and shield soldiers and spearmen running, and immediately gritted his teeth and said: "Brothers, hold on, General Chen, they have already brought people over to support us!" ”

Speaking kung fu, he himself and the rest of the cavalry rushed into the city gate hole, and then the expected fierce battle did not appear, he originally thought that there should be a large number of Ming troops behind the city gate with a dense queue to try to stop them, but this situation did not appear, when he crossed the half-open city gate, what he saw was an open space, and the Ming army was scattering and fleeing!

Can you not escape, there were originally forty or fifty people at the city gate, and they were all guards of the Ming army, and their combat effectiveness was not bad, but this front was hit by more than 20 cavalry of their own house, and the queue was scattered and several people were killed and wounded.

After being hit by Cao Mingda's more than a dozen cavalry, it was difficult for them not to collapse!

Looking at the fleeing Ming army and the completely open city gate, Cao Mingda was a little confused: Inexplicably, this is down?

At this time, a cavalryman beside him also hesitated and said to Cao Mingda: "Captain, should we still withdraw?" ”

Cao Mingda hesitated, this time he really hesitated, as the captain of the cavalry, he was also qualified to participate in the military meeting, and he also knew the strategic intentions of the emperor Li Xuan, Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu, that is, only to fight and not attack, Zhengtai County is to fight, but to kill and injure enemy personnel, put pressure on the Ming army, and did not say that he really planned to attack the city, so as not to cause the Ming court to shake the government and attract the army to encircle and suppress.

Therefore, for the sake of his own strategic intentions, he needs to lead people to retreat.

But he has obviously taken the city gate, and the enemy army has been dispersed, it can be said that more than half of this Zhengtai county has been taken, as long as the Chen butcher behind them follow, this Zhengtai county can hang the banner of the Tang Dynasty.

Retreat like this, he is not reconciled!

He hesitated for a full three seconds, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Withdraw!" ”

Now he doesn't know that Li Xuan in the rear saw that Cao Mingda and they had completely captured the city gate, his face was angry and frightened, he could already imagine that after Zhengtai County was broken by himself, the Ming court was shaken, and then countless Ming troops swarmed towards the small place of Zhengtai County from all directions.

In the end, he completely submerged his Tang Dynasty, and he would be captured by the Ming army and sent to Beijing, where he would be punished by Ling Chi.

Cao Mingda, this bastard, Lao Tzu punished him for the nine clans!

But then, when he saw Cao Mingda retreating from the city gate with the cavalry, he was also relieved, fortunately, this Cao Mingda finally didn't get home, otherwise, Li Xuan would dare to kill this person on the spot.

Even he was prepared to let the musketeers aim at the cavalry squads, and if they didn't retreat, they would shoot them all and shoot them all.

Compared with the collapse of the Tang Dynasty caused by the shock of the Ming army, it is completely acceptable to directly shoot a cavalry squad of more than ten people.

However, Li Xuan has already made up his mind to pay attention, even if Cao Mingda is now retiring with people and there is no disobedience to orders in the strict sense, but the act of making decisions without authorization just now is unbearable for him, and he must be removed immediately.

The cavalry of the new army of the Tang Dynasty came and went quickly, and they just rushed into the city gate, and in less than half a minute, they rushed out of the city gate, leaving a city gate that had been completely opened!

Xu Xiancheng looked at the pseudo-Tang thief army that was surging like a tide and receding like a tide, and he couldn't speak for a long time with his mouth half-open.

He couldn't understand the behavior of the puppet Tang thief army, but he knew that if these puppet Tang thief army could break through the city gate once, they would be able to break through the second time, and they couldn't stop the soldiers and young men under the puppet Tang thief army themselves.

Just now, there were more than 50 people defending at the city gate, but in the face of the cavalry impact of the puppet Tang thief army, they didn't even hold on for a few breaths and collapsed directly, which made him unable to raise the confidence to defend Zhengtai County.

The retreat of the puppet Tang thief army did not make Xu Xiancheng much happier, but made him even more worried!

This time, the pseudo-Tang thief army retreated inexplicably, but what about next time?

Lord Su, they are there now, if they don't come back with the army, this Zhengtai County will really not be able to hold it!

Xu Xiancheng didn't know, and Li Xuan didn't know either, the current Su Jiakang was leading a Ming army of more than 1,000 people to rush towards the back of the Datang New Army, and its forward was only five miles away from the Datang New Army!