When Li Xuan spoke, with a smile, from his smile, Qian Mengjiu could see his self-confidence, at this time Qian Mengjiu seemed to feel that the young man in front of him had grown up, and he was no longer the young scholar who needed to be pushed by himself and Liu Bagou and others in order to move forward, but a monarch who could carry the life and death of thousands of people in the Tang Dynasty.

Listening to Li Xuan now, he can feel a huge amount of confidence and firmness from his words, so much so that Qian Mengjiu believes that he can really lead his group of people to escape from this place and return to Huangzhu Mountain alive.

Therefore, Qian Mengjiu buried many questions in his heart and did not ask the second question.

It's not just that Qian Mengjiu feels a lot at this time, in fact, even Zeng Ziwen feels that Li Xuan at this moment is different from Li Xuan in the past, but Zeng Ziwen and Li Xuan's contact time is not too long after all, and it is not as deep as Qian Mengjiu's feelings, he just feels that although this Li Xuan is just a small ravine emperor, but judging from his current demeanor and decisiveness, he is definitely a qualified ravine emperor.

Perhaps, with such a person, he may not be able to make a meritorious service, even if he fails in the end, but he may not be able to leave his name in the history books, and finally he may write: "During the Zhengde period, Zhengtai Li Xuan raised the banner to resist the Ming, and commanded countless military generals, and his fierce general Zeng Ziwen led the army to crisscross several provinces, trapping hundreds of cities, and the world was afraid of it......"

If you are unlucky, you may only be able to leave a few words on the local county records, such as: During the Zhengde period, Li Xuan of Lijia Village bewitched the foolish people in the mountains and fields to rebel, and the county ordered Su Jiakang to lead the troops to attack him, Li Rebellion was defeated and killed himself, and the servants were killed and injured.

And Zeng Ziwen is this servant!

That's right, there are only two endings he expected for himself, one is to die as a general of the big thief, and the other is to die as a little thief, both of which are based on the fall of the Tang Dynasty.

As for success, to be honest, Zeng Ziwen has never imagined such a possibility.

He is not Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren, Wang Danxu, these big characters are illiterate, he has only been circling in the mountains all his life, and he is not a bandit leader who lacks knowledge, nor is he Liu Bagou or Qian Mengjiu, who has lost his mind and wants to daydream, he prides himself on being more rational and can see reality clearly.

The Tang Dynasty in this ravine, if you are lucky, at most you will set off a storm and sweep the surrounding prefectures and counties, and if you are unlucky, you will be beaten down by the Ming army all of a sudden.

But to really overthrow the Ming Dynasty, the likelihood is almost negligible.

There have been many people who have rebelled in history, and there have been countless large-scale rebellions that have tens of thousands of troops or even hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, but how many of them have succeeded?

As for the small-scale rebellions, there are countless of them, and the ancient feudal dynasties, which one of them did not suppress several armed rebellions that could not be brought to the table every year.

Their Tang Dynasty is just one of the countless inconspicuous armed rebellions in history!

Although Li Xuan's father and son shamelessly played the trick of founding the country and becoming the emperor, this could not change the fact that the rebellion of the Tang Dynasty was just a joke in the eyes of many people.

However, there are also unsuccessful ways to play, many things in life are inherently fruitless, but why do you have to do it, what you pursue is nothing more than a process.

When Zeng Ziwen, Qian Mengjiu and others had many messy thoughts in their hearts, Li Xuan had already quickly arranged the retreat affairs, and asked everyone to prepare quickly and strive to evacuate in the shortest possible time.

At this time, when Cao Mingda was also about to leave with everyone, Li Xuan suddenly said: "Cao Aiqing, you temporarily act as the captain of the cavalry, and lead the cavalry to carefully control the movements of the Ming army. ”

"Obey the order!" Cao Mingda obviously didn't expect that Li Xuan would suddenly let him act as the captain of the cavalry team at this time, which was clearly to make him atone for his crimes, but at this time he also knew that the matter was urgent, and it was even more difficult to show any joy, so he immediately bowed and left in stride, walked a few steps and turned over his horse to reconvene the cavalry squad under his command.

At the same time, Fang Dongquan, Wang Danxu, and Huang Xueren had already taken their own actions, leading the troops to begin to retreat gradually, and under their leadership, the new army of the Tang Dynasty, which was still under the city, began to retreat slowly.

At this time, Xu Xiancheng at the head of the city still didn't understand, what happened to these pseudo-Tang thief army?

Just now, they retreated from the city for some reason, and now they seem to have suspended the siege again, could it be because the sky is getting dark, so they want to rest for the night, and wait until the next day to come in again?

Or do you want to fight a night battle?

Xu Xiancheng thought about it carefully, these two possibilities are really there, and now it is close to evening, and those pseudo-Tang thieves must be afraid of any accident when they enter the city at this time, after all, any accident at night is possible.

Similarly, those pseudo-Tang thief armies may also use the cover of night to launch a large-scale siege at night, and finally enter the city.

Xu Xiancheng, who didn't know that Su Jiakang had returned with an army, couldn't figure out what was going on outside, so he could only use his brain to guess.

And the more he guessed, the more scared he became, all kinds of messy possibilities were thought out by him, and all the possibilities that he thought of were not too good, except for the city or the city broken.

And at this time, suddenly someone ran over from behind, and then leaned over and said in his ear: "My lord, the doctor said that the lead bullet fragments on Long Qianhu's body have invaded the internal organs, and I am afraid that he will not be able to take it out, and the wound on Long Qianhu's chest has been bleeding non-stop, and the doctor said, I'm afraid it won't last long!" ”

Hearing his subordinates say this, Xu Xiancheng frowned, and for the time being, he didn't think about whether the pseudo-Tang thief army would attack the city at night, and he didn't think about whether they would attack the city tomorrow, so he went to see the situation on Long Dajun's side first.

When he walked to a hall behind the city gate tower, the first thing he saw was Long Dajun surrounded by several doctors.

Now he looks like he has difficulty breathing, and the bullet that hit him in the chest has caused a lot of damage to his lungs and other internal organs, and the lung injury naturally affects his breathing.

However, although it seemed that he was already out of breath and inlet in less, Long Dajun still opened his eyes slightly, he saw Xu Xiancheng who walked in, and then said intermittently in an extremely weak voice: "Outside...... Outside...... How's it going? ”

Xu Xiancheng did not hide it, and immediately told everything that had just happened, including the cavalry he sent out of the city to attack, and the cavalry of the pseudo-Tang thief army followed into the city, and finally retreated inexplicably.

After hearing Xu Xiancheng's words, Long Dajun said intermittently: "They are afraid that we will be ambushed in the city!" ”

"Wait until tomorrow, I'm afraid that the thief army will launch a fierce attack in one go, and then everything will be entrusted to Lord Xu!"

Long Dajun seemed to know that his life was short, and he spoke with an extremely pessimistic attitude: "The thief army is fierce, when Lord Xu is defending the city, remember not to fight, if you are not defeated, ......"

If you are defeated...... Xu Xiancheng didn't hear what he was talking about, because Long Dajun could be said to have fallen into a semi-comatose state at this time, and his speech was intermittent, and these simple words were said for a long time, and they also exhausted his last trace of strength, so that when he said it, his eyes were closed, and he was completely unconscious.

Xu Xiancheng looked up at the doctor next to him, and the doctor showed a hint of helplessness.

Sighing, Xu Xiancheng stood up, then looked at several generals on the left and right, and then said, "Gather people here and discuss matters!" ”

Xu Xiancheng, who knew nothing about the movements outside the city, convened all the civil and military officials to discuss after Long Dajun was completely unconscious, and there was naturally only one thing to discuss, that is, what to do.

But after the people came, most of them didn't speak, they were all silent with bitter faces, and only a few people said a few innocuous words.

Seeing this scene, Xu Xiancheng didn't know what they were thinking, because he himself was thinking about it.

The puppet Tang thief army outside the city is sharp, and I am afraid that this county town will not be able to hold it, and this is not only the judgment of Xu Xiancheng, but also the judgment of Long Dajun, who died frequently, and the judgment of other civil and military officials in the city.

In the previous few small battles, the two sides could even be said to have not engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and the pseudo-Tang thief army had not yet entered the city to fight, but the Ming army had already suffered heavy casualties, and there were at least more than 20 archers and other soldiers who were killed and wounded by muskets on the city.

The more than 30 cavalrymen who went out of the city to counterattack only returned half in the end, which means that more than 10 more people died at the hands of the thief army.

When they were at the city gate, they were killed by the cavalry of both the enemy and us, and although there were not many dead and wounded among the more than 50 soldiers guarding the city gate, none of them knew where they had fled to, and it was estimated that they would not be able to find them for a while.

That is to say, before the puppet Tang thief army officially attacked the city and climbed to the top of the city, it has already lost nearly 100 people, and half of them are still the main force defending the city, the guards of the fairy stone thousand households, you have to know that there are only more than 200 guards in the city, and now it can be said that a quarter of them have been lost.

In the face of such a ferocious pseudo-Tang thief army, can Zhengtai County hold it?

Long Dajun, a real high-ranking general, has no confidence, and almost said what to do in case the city is broken, in this case, can you still count on Xu Xiancheng, a civilian official, to have confidence, can you count on those ordinary low-level officers to have confidence?

After everyone was silent for a long time, at this time, someone suddenly trotted in and lowered his voice to everyone: "Tell everyone, Lord Long died just now!" ”

After hearing this, everyone was even more silent, so that the atmosphere in the side hall was a little depressed, and finally I don't know who muttered in a low voice: "Why don't we go to Fucheng to ask for help?" ”

As soon as this sentence came out, the eyes of everyone in the side hall suddenly lit up, because they all heard this, and the focus of this sentence was not 'go to Fucheng to ask for soldiers', but 'we'!