However, although 8,000 people have been evacuated urgently, Liping Mansion City is still the Liping Mansion City of the Tang Dynasty, and Sun Yawei has not left yet.

He was going to continue to garrison the city of Liping Province with the people of the robbery camp.

This is not to say that he is ready to defend to the death, but that the Ming army has not yet come, so he ran away first, which will damage the prestige of the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, if the Ming army can't beat it, this Liping Mansion City may be able to be saved.

The emergency evacuation operation is just to prepare for the worst just in case, and how things will develop, to be honest, no one knows now.

Sun Yawei and the people in the robbery camp were ready to hold on until the last moment, and those gentry in the city wanted to welcome the king, but for the time being, they could only think about it psychologically, and they didn't have the courage to say it openly.

This December, even if the weather is already extremely cold, but Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion are very lively, the news of the imminent war can not be concealed at all, and soon spread all over the two prefectures, and even the entire Guizhou and even Guangxi and Huguang, many well-informed upper-class people, especially the officials, also know that there is a bold Li Xuan in Guizhou, who dares to claim the imperial system, and gathers tens of thousands of displaced people to divide one side.

And they also knew that Zhu Zhihai, the governor of Guizhou, had already raised tens of thousands of troops, and even openly announced to the outside world that the 100,000 army was ready to enter and suppress the puppet Tang thief army.

When the war between the Tang New Army and the Ming Army reached this scale, in fact, it was no longer a small fight, and its impact had spread to many places.

In the prosperous area of the south of the Yangtze River in the east, many well-informed scholars who have been hooked with officials have already openly talked about the pseudo-Tang thief army in the blue building.

In the conversations of many officials, they occasionally talk about one or two sentences of the puppet Tang thief army, and in the official documents, there will be no shortage of words such as the puppet Tang thief army and Li Rebellion.

Of course, most of these people who are thousands of miles away talk about the puppet Tang thief army as a joke or gossip.

When many people heard that there was a small landlord in Xingquan Mansion who openly claimed the emperor's establishment and rebelled, their first reaction was to laugh!

This is too Nima!

A rich man in the countryside also dared to rebel, now it's okay, he was exterminated by the county government, although it is said that the puppet Tang Li Xuan has a little ability, and he has gathered a lot of displaced people to resist the official army again, but this kind of jumping clown is estimated to not be able to jump for a few months.

Maybe a few months later, I will be able to hear the news that the puppet Tang thief army has been annihilated, the puppet emperor Li Xuan has been captured, and Ling Chi has 3,000 years to pay respect!

Although it is just a joke, no matter what, the deeds of the Tang Dynasty have spread all over the country with Zhu Zhihai's letter and the words of many local officials in Guizhou Prefecture, and Li Xuan's name has also been widely spread.

It's a pity that this is not the power that Liu Bagou and they wanted, but it was spread all over the land of Kyushu as a joke.

But they also don't want to think that if Datang is just a joke, then they can once wave tens of thousands of troops to suppress the pseudo-Tang thief army. In the end, the whole army was wiped out, and Song Zhiwen, who could only flee on horseback, had to die unjustly.

At this time, Song Zhiwen, who had been escorted to Henan by the Jinyi Guard, was about to be sent to Beijing for trial, and at this time he was sitting in the prisoner car, listening to a Jinyi Guard next to him: "I heard that Lord Zhu, the governor of Guizhou, has gathered more than 100,000 troops to attack the puppet Tang thief army in two ways, I think that when we go to Beijing, I am afraid that those puppet Tang thief armies have been exterminated!" ”

However, after Song Zhiwen in the prisoner car heard the 100,000 army, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a sneer!

This Zhu Zhihai really dares to say that the 100,000 army, even if all the young men and people who were temporarily recruited are counted, it is estimated that there are not 100,000 people!

He Song Zhiwen was an official in Guizhou, and he was very familiar with the situation in Guizhou, and in order to raise troops to suppress the puppet Tang thief army, in addition to the recruits he personally recruited, he only gathered four or five thousand guards from the surrounding three or four state capitals.

Among the more than 10,000 people who participated in the war before and after, at least half of them were young and strong people, and the real main force was the recruitment of those two or three thousand people, and the remaining thousands of guards were used to do miscellaneous work, and as for those young and strong people, they could only be used to watch the play.

Fighting with the puppet Tang thief army, the guards are useless, and the young and strong people are useless except for wasting food, and if you want to fight with the puppet Tang thief army, you must use newly recruited recruits.

However, how many recruits Zhu Zhihai can muster, Song Zhiwen guesses that it will not exceed eight thousand, except for Fubiao, there are few people in other state capitals who like to train and recruit soldiers like himself.

It is estimated that the guards can make up more than 10,000!

The rest is estimated to have some of the troops of those Tusi, but all of them add up, and it is estimated that it will be a little more than 20,000 people.

If he didn't guess wrong, the rest should be all young men and people who were temporarily recruited.

The 100,000 army can only talk about it, and if it is done with the puppet Tang thief army, at most 20,000 people will go up to fight!

But I heard that the puppet Tang thief army already has 10,000 soldiers, and when the puppet Tang thief army was still nesting in Zhengtai County, it already had three or four thousand troops, and later after their own defeat, they divided the entire Xingquan Mansion, and it should not be a big problem to expand the army to 10,000 people!

When Zhu Zhihai used 20,000 regular troops to fight 10,000 puppet Tang thief troops, Song Zhiwen could already predict Zhu Zhihai's tragic end in his heart.

He could never be better than himself!

At the beginning, he still knew how powerful the puppet Tang thief army was, and he fought with the puppet Tang thief army many times, although he was defeated in the end, Song Zhiwen thought that this was his wrong strategic choice.

In the second Lanjiang Campaign, if he did not take the initiative to cross the river, but defended on the edge of the Lanjiang River, with tens of thousands of troops, it was absolutely impossible for the puppet Tang thief army at that time to cross the river smoothly.

At that time, the puppet Tang thief army will be able to trap and die in Zhengtai County, as short as a few months, or as much as a year, and the puppet Tang thief army will have to collapse on its own, after all, with the barrenness of Zhengtai County, it is impossible to support thousands of puppet Tang thief army for too long.

It's a pity that at that time, he was eager to win, and the pressure on himself was too great, so he took the initiative to cross the river strategy, and finally the main force was completely damaged on the west bank of the Lanjiang River, which led to the failure to block the crossing of the river by the puppet Tang thief army soon after, resulting in the complete rout of the whole army and the fall of Xingquanfu.

If there is a chance to do it all over again, he Song Zhiwen has absolute certainty to trap the puppet Tang thief army in Zhengtai County, and then continue to ask for reinforcements from above to completely annihilate the puppet Tang thief army.

But it's a pity that he doesn't have a chance, now he is escorted to the Beijing division by the brocade guards, it is estimated that after arriving in the Beijing division, the three halls will be tried and put in the prison, and whether he can come out alive at that time really depends on luck.

However, if he was defeated, could he wish Zhihai to win?

Joke!

Zhu Zhihai did not ask the imperial court to encircle and suppress with several provincial troops, but only with Guizhou troops, a mere 20,000 regular troops, even if it is claimed to be 100,000, it is useless, and when the time comes, can it beat tens of thousands of puppet Tang thieves?

Song Zhiwen doesn't think so!

Zhu Zhihai, his fate will definitely be worse than himself!

Thinking of this, Song Zhiwen couldn't help laughing!

A few Jinyi guards chatting next to him suddenly saw Song Zhiwen laughing, all of them were like seeing a fool, and one of them even muttered: This person, I'm afraid he's crazy!

Song Zhiwen didn't know if he was crazy or not, but Qiu Yu, the commander of the Ming army outside Tonggu City, was already about to go crazy!

Looking at the small earth city in the distance, Qiu Yu still hadn't figured out why he had been attacking for several days in a row, and there were only more than 500 pseudo-Tang thieves in Tonggu City, but he had more than 2,000 troops, so why couldn't he defeat it.

I won't say anything about it if I can't fight it, and more importantly, the casualties are very large!

After three days of fighting, the 2,000 troops under Qiu Yu's command killed and wounded more than 200 people, especially yesterday when he was ready to try to storm and take Tonggu City in one go, more than 100 people were killed and wounded in less than a quarter of an hour after the battle, and when he wanted to force the troops to continue the attack, the subordinates of the troops even looked at him with suspicion.

He was not willing at all, and if he continued to attack and there was no way to reduce casualties, these men would not hesitate to mutiny.

The reason for such heavy casualties is naturally because of the sharp firearms of the Datang New Army!

Long before the expedition, Qiu Yu had heard that the firearms of the puppet Tang thief army were sharp, and they should not be underestimated, but he did not use firearms, and the army under his command had a lot of handcuffs and even bowl guns, but when he really fought with the puppet Tang thief army, he knew why some people said that the firearms of the puppet Tang thief army were sharp.

These pseudo-Tang thieves have a kind of long-pole handcuff, which can be held by a single soldier, and it is extremely powerful, and it can be worn without armor within eighty steps, and even if the heavy armor reaches fifty or sixty steps, it will be pierced.

In other words, if they want to attack the city, even if they send the most elite heavy infantry, they will be knocked down by the puppet Tang thief army with a single shot from dozens of paces away.

Not to mention that the puppet Tang thief army also put two hundred-pound cannons on the city's head, looking at its style at least one hundred and fifty pounds, and the range is very long, when their own soldiers and horses charge under the city, the puppet Tang thief army artillery on the city head will set off a bloody storm within a hundred steps.

The power is amazing, Qiu Yu thought to himself, what can be compared with this kind of pseudo-Tang thief army artillery is only the Fran machine gun equipped by the border army and the sailor.

However, I heard that the puppet Tang thief army still has hundreds of catties or even thousands of catties of heavy artillery, and one shot can shock dozens of miles, but I don't know if it is true or not, if it is true, then it will be a big trouble.

You can't continue to fight on your own, you have to ask for reinforcements, even if you lose some face, you can't take care of it, otherwise, with these people of your own, I'm afraid you really can't take this copper drum city.

Just when Qiu Yu outside the city was worried about how to ask for reinforcements to take Tonggu City, complete his responsibility as a striker, and open the way for the follow-up army.

An officer of the Tang New Army at the head of Tonggu City also frowned and looked at the large number of Ming troops outside the city!

This person was wearing a major's military uniform and collar badge, and he saw that he took his eyes back from the Ming army outside, and then looked further south, and at the same time muttered in his mouth: "The ammunition is about to run out of ammunition for several days of hard fighting, and if the Ming army attacks again, I am afraid that it will not last long, and when will the reinforcements from the regimental headquarters arrive?" ”