In a short time, the sky was completely dark, and more than 6,000 Tang cavalry, with rumbling horses' hooves and heavy armor, everyone held torches high, like a long fire dragon, and attacked Xuzhou by night.

These more than 6,000 Tang cavalry worked hard to ride their horses and hurry, hoping to reach the city of Xuzhou as soon as possible and not give the defenders of Xuzhou the slightest chance to react and respond.

When the cavalry of the Tang Army was rushing on the road, the more than 200 routed soldiers, because items such as armor and weapons had already been thrown away, so they fled extremely fast.

These people who escaped from the battlefield were like a group of wild boars fleeing frantically, running away all the way without hesitation, and finally hurried back to Xuzhou City at two o'clock the next day.

Hearing the news that Liu Liangchen had died in battle, the whole army was wiped out, and only more than 200 cavalry had fled back, and Liu Liangchen, who was in charge of guarding the city, was so frightened that he almost fainted.

No, Liu Liangchen brought 30,000 troops, but the Tang army was wiped out in one fell swoop, and Liu Liangchen himself died in the battle, which was really much beyond the expectations of the housekeeper.

For a moment, he only felt a cold air pouring down from head to toe, making his whole body as cold as iron.

So, what should I do next?

The 30,000 main forces have been wiped out, with only these 5,000 soldiers who are demoralized and panicked, can they still hold this huge Xuzhou City?

Don't even think about it.

With no color, for a while, he was like an ant on a hot pot, circling around in the room, but he was clueless and at a loss.

At this time, suddenly another sentinel cavalry came to report, saying that dozens of miles away from Xuzhou, it was found that the cavalry of the Tang Army was attacking at night, and the torches they held high were like a long dragon that meandered only to see its head but not its tail, and the momentum was terrifying.

Now the housekeeper couldn't sit still at all.

No, if you don't make up your mind, you can only sit and wait.

Now, he thought about it quickly, but immediately made a decision.

That is, thirty-six plans, go ahead.

Hmph, what Xuzhou, what subordinates, is not as important as Lao Tzu's life!

The Tang army is strong, it is a lonely city, and the soldiers are outnumbered, although the city of Xuzhou is strong, but it can withstand for a while, it is better to withdraw as soon as possible to save your life.

After all, if you stay in the green mountains, you are not afraid of no firewood, and you may not have no chance to turn over in the future. As long as you can keep this remnant life, as long as you can protect your family's property, even if you lose Xuzhou now and fold your subordinates, what is the pity!

The housekeeper did not hesitate, immediately ordered hundreds of cavalry in the city, hurriedly wrapped his belongings, and brought all his family members, a group of people rushed out from the south gate of Xuzhou City, turned southeast in the direction of Huai'an City, and fled in a hurry.

As for the infantry in the city, these lowly creatures with two legs, who can only be a burden to escape, they can't control so much, they can only be left to fend for themselves.

As for whether they surrendered or fought after the arrival of the Tang army, it had nothing to do with themselves.

And when he arrived at Liu Liangzuo's place, as long as he made it clear to him, in the case that Liu Liangchen's main force was surrounded and annihilated by the Tang army, he led his troops to hold Xuzhou, although he fought bravely to kill the enemy, but after all, he was powerless to return to the sky, and finally abandoned the city and fled.

In the vast night, the butler led the cavalry to flee in a hurry, and the remaining infantry stationed in the city soon got the news that Liu Liangchen had died in battle, and the butler had abandoned the city and fled overnight, and there was a great chaos.

Many timid infantrymen immediately seized the opportunity, abandoned the defense of the city, and fled in a hurry. And some bold and reckless lawless people took advantage of this good opportunity to set fire to the city and plunder, rob the people's property, rape people, and do evil to their heart's content.

For a time, there was chaos in the city of Xuzhou, with fires everywhere and cries shaking the sky. In this dark night, the people of Xuzhou suddenly suffered a great calamity and suffered a lot.

Seeing the fire in the city, Liu Guoneng, the commander of the Tang Army, knew that things had changed, and immediately urged the soldiers and horses to speed up the journey. Thousands of Tang cavalry slammed their horses and galloped, and they arrived at the city of Xuzhou at high speed like arrows from the string.

As soon as the Tang army arrived, the people who had suffered from the chaos immediately flocked to the city gates on all sides of Xuzhou, and together with the remaining defenders, they opened the city gates to welcome the Tang cavalry who had traveled all the way into the city.

When entering from the tall and wide north gate of Xuzhou City, Liu Guoneng's heart was filled with indescribable joy.

I really didn't expect that such a strong city, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's joint forces attacked that day, and they failed to take a strong city, could easily fall into their own hands in such an almost child's play, it was like pie in the world.

From this, it can be imagined how weak the military strength of the Hongguang puppet court is, and his so-called four pillars, Liu Liangzuo, Huang Degong, Zuo Liangyu, and Zheng Zhilong, are actually what kind of embroidered pillows, which are vulnerable. If the military strength of the Hongguang Dynasty is so scattered and useless, maybe Li Xiao of the Tang Army wants to take the entire Jiangnan, I am afraid that it will be decided by one drum.

Thinking of the scene where he was already able to wave his troops south and drink from the south of the Yangtze River, Liu Guoneng suddenly felt an indescribable excitement and high spirits in his heart.

In this life, I have served the Lord and has a brilliant future, what a joy. Serving Tang King Li Xiao is really the most correct decision in his life.

Liu Guoneng took a long breath, and then issued the first military order after entering the city.

"Passing on my military order, the whole army was divided into two parts, one part killed the rebels in the city, and ordered them to surrender immediately and wait for their fate. Those who dare to continue to cause chaos will be killed. ”

"Yes!"

"Another army of soldiers and horses went to protect the important treasury in the city, and at the same time arranged for the civil officials of the supervision department of the army to take inventory, and strictly prohibit the indiscriminate soldiers from destroying all kinds of materials in the treasury, and if there is a violation, they will also be killed."

"Order!"

Subsequently, the Tang army immediately began to act separately according to the order of the commander, and after nearly an hour, about hundreds of rebellious soldiers were killed by the Tang army on the spot, cutting off their heads and hanging their heads in front of the horse, and the rest were all shocked. The flames that burned everywhere in the city had been largely extinguished, and the whole city had finally regained its calm from the bloody turmoil.

A total of nearly 2,000 unescaped defenders were captured by the Tang army, and all of them were escorted to Liu Guoneng.

On the square in the middle of the city, they looked at Liu Guoneng, the commander of the Tang Army, who was in full armor and had a cold face, with a frightened and overwhelmed look.

However, they were lucky, for these dejected captives, Liu Guoneng did not say much, and immediately ordered that those who had caused chaos and aggression against the people in the city should be imprisoned, and prepared to be sent to Shandong Tielong City immediately after dawn tomorrow to serve hard labor. Those who did not make a disturbance will temporarily enter the military camp in the city with the Tang army to rest, and tomorrow, they will be collected and used together with the previous prisoners.

The soldiers who saved their lives knelt on the ground and kowtowed, thanking Liu Guoneng for his grace not to kill.

At this point, the entire Xuzhou Prefecture, except for a few prefectures and counties, has basically fallen into the hands of the Tang Army. The soldiers and horses of the Sixth Town's attack on Xuzhou Mansion this time can be said to have gone smoothly, and they were captured.

At noon the next day, the Tang army infantry and a group of surrendered troops had arrived in Xuzhou, Liu Guoneng ordered, except for a small number of wounded soldiers and auxiliaries to guard the entire Xuzhou land, the rest of the soldiers and horses were unified and reorganized on standby.

He ordered the general Liu Liangshun to temporarily be the commander-in-chief of the surrendered army with a total of more than 30,000 people, and the whole army was led to the front, and together with the large army of the Tang Army, after resting for a day, he immediately went south to attack Fengyang Mansion.

This step of the plan was actually the plan of Li Xiao, the king of the Tang Dynasty, who asked the sixth town to immediately go south to attack Fengyang, the birthplace of the Ming Dynasty, after taking Xuzhou Mansion.

The current Fengyang Mansion is already in ruins because it has been invaded by the rogues many times, and even the ancestral graves of Zhu Yuanzhang's parents have long been dug up by the rogues and the rebels.

Therefore, all the military towns of the Hongguang Dynasty now look down on this dilapidated land where the Ming Dynasty made a fortune, and only the state government officials sent by the Hongguang Puppet Dynasty are still struggling to support it.

In this dilapidated and crippled place where there was almost no military force, the Tang army, which was well-equipped and had enough troops and tens of thousands of surrendered troops, fell in one go.

Coming to Fengyang City, looking at this white city without a city wall and like a ruin, Liu Guoneng and the generals were full of emotion.

It's a pity, it's a pity that this city born in the Ming Dynasty has almost become a place for foxes and rabbits and ghosts, and this city of the Ming Dynasty is now so desolate and desolate, how can it not be emotional.

And the other county towns and villages in Fengyang Mansion are all the same sparse and sparse, uninhabited, at a glance, hazel and mang, it seems to be like the beginning of the world, not at all the place where people once flourished.

In the chaotic times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, blood and fire were mixed, and the people either died by knives or filled in ravines, struggling on the death line every day. It is really as it is said in the book, prosperity, the people suffer, death, and the people suffer!

After capturing Fengyang Mansion, according to Li Xiao's plan, the soldiers and horses of the Sixth Town will continue to go all the way south and capture Luzhou Mansion. After taking the Luzhou Mansion, it is necessary to continue to the south, and finally take the important military place that blocks the Yangtze River and cuts off the east and west, Anqing Mansion.

The current Luzhou Mansion and Anqing Mansion are both garrisoned by the forces of Zuo Liangyu, which has occupied most of Hubei and southern Henan, and soldiers and horses are assigned to garrison, so the main opponent of the Sixth Town is mainly Zuo Liangyu.

The soldiers of the Tang Army in the sixth town, after taking all the prefectures and counties of Fengyang Mansion almost bloodlessly, immediately waved their troops south and attacked Luzhou Mansion directly.

On the official road to Luzhou, the smoke and dust were billowing and the iron armor was forested, and the Tang army and a group of Liu Liangshun troops surrendered, like a giant beast armed to the teeth, and went to the capital city of Luzhou (that is, Hefei, the capital of today's Anhui Province), and attacked it.

The soldiers and horses of the sixth town of the Tang Army, moving south from Fengyang Mansion and attacking Luzhou Mansion all the way, set out from Weigang, Andong, Shandong, and attacked Huai'an Mansion by sea.

After landing, they immediately followed the plan set by Li Xiao, and the whole army marched westward, preparing to capture Yukou Township, Maluo Township, Suzuikou and other important places successively, and finally reached Liu Liangzuo's last stronghold, Huai'an Fucheng.

The soldiers and horses of the seventh town of the Tang army, full of troops, were rolling, like a long dragon of steel to attack the west, and the Tang army suddenly came from the sea, so that the local Liu Liangzuo defenders in Huai'an were completely unexpected.

Like the current Yukou Town, there are only hundreds of old and weak soldiers, and they never thought that the Tang army would attack from the sea instead of falling by land, so when the black pressure on the boundless Tang army soldiers appeared from the eastern boundary, all the people were terrified. The soldiers guarding the city wall even scared and almost fell off the wall.

In the face of such a powerful force, there is no point in resisting. Therefore, they did not hesitate, and the defenders of the entire Yukou town immediately chose to surrender.

The Tang army won the first battle, and the soldiers occupied this important seaside town with great success.

At this moment, Liu Liangzuo, the Guangchang Bo in the city of Huai'an, the Huaixu general who was pinned on by the Hongguang puppet dynasty, was like a trapped beast, going back and forth in the room.

He now has received the terrible news of Liu Liangchen's death in battle, the loss of Xuzhou, and the capture of Yukou Town by the Tang army.

These two pieces of news came together, almost completely crushing Liu Liangzuo's remaining confidence.

Speaking of which, Liu Liangzuo can be regarded as a fierce general of the Ming Dynasty, who has gone through countless battles large and small, and is nicknamed Huama Liu, which is a famous name on the battlefield with a knife and a shot.

It's just that he is known as a powerful general, this Guangchangbo and Huaixu General Soldier, but now they are spinning around in the room, and they are at a loss.

Unexpectedly, the Tang army moved so quickly, the offensive was so fierce, and their route was so unexpected.

I really didn't expect that instead of taking the land route, the Tang army had already landed from the sea and directly attacked its own heart city from the shortest distance, which was simply a stab in its weakest place.

You must know that the most fatal thing is that the current self has already deployed its main forces at the junction of Huai'an and Shandong to prepare for a sudden attack by the Tang army. Unexpectedly, the Tang army suddenly came from the sea, which completely caught him off guard.

Such a strategic mistake, how can it be true!

And now I am self, in fact, I think about it, and it seems that there are only two choices.

The first is to order the troops placed in the border of Shandong to withdraw as soon as possible, and defend the city together with the thousands of defenders in Huai'an Prefecture. It is hoped that the advantage of troops and city reserves can be used to resist the offensive of the Tang army, drag the Tang army's attack, so as to wait for other military towns to come to the rescue, and then work with them to counterattack and repel the Tang army.

The second is that he took advantage of the fact that the Tang army had not yet arrived, and immediately led the remnants of the city to flee south, and ran all the way to Yangzhou Mansion to join the general soldier Huang Degong, and then held Yangzhou together, so as to wait for the opportunity to change, and Xu Tu recovered.

It's just that these two plans have huge loopholes, which makes Liu Liangzuo think about it again and again, and he feels not very satisfied.

The first plan is that if their own troops have not withdrawn, and the Tang army has already arrived in Huai'an Fucheng, it will become a turtle in an urn, and it will be difficult to escape.

The second plan is to run for his life like this, although he can successfully save his life and family wealth, but doing so is tantamount to giving up all the foundation of his life to Tang Jun. For a warlord in troubled times, this is tantamount to an almost suicidal act. Without soldiers and without power, he is simply no different from a pig waiting to be slaughtered.

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