Although there is nothing to see in the east now, but it is only because it is blocked by the hills and mountains, just now the scout cavalry reported that a large number of pseudo-Tang thieves were found a few miles away in the east!

The preliminary estimate is that the strength of the army is no less than 5,000 people!

Moreover, the 5,000 people were wearing the unique military uniforms of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army, not the same as the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army that came before, and there were a large number of surrendered troops.

In the past period of time, Zhu Zhihai can be regarded as judging that the pseudo-Tang thief army wearing the Ming army uniforms that appeared before should be the previous Ming army surrenders, because these surrenders are too different from the authentic pseudo-Tang thief army's performance in battle, so that it is easy for others to judge it.

So although there were 4,000 puppet Tang thieves who came before, Zhu Zhihai didn't have much to worry about!

However, the more than 5,000 people who came over now were different, according to the scouts, the formation was neat and tight, and there was no chaos during the march, and there were at least 2,000 firecrackers among them.

All this shows that these 5,000 people who came are definitely the main force of the puppet Tang thief army!

Its combat effectiveness is probably stronger than the more than 2,000 pseudo-Tang thief troops it encountered at the beginning!

Because of the reconnaissance report, the generals they saw in the puppet Tang thief army were hung with the words Hao, the First Infantry Corps, and the Second Infantry Regiment!

The Ming army and the Tang army fought each other many times, and each side would collect each other's information, and some numbers that could not be kept secret and the names of the main generals were naturally well known to both sides.

Zhu Zhihai knew that among the various units of the puppet Tang Dynasty thief army, the so-called 'First Infantry Corps' was the most powerful force, and it was led by a thief army general named Hao Bonian.

The appearance of the main force of these pseudo-Tang thief army made Zhu Zhihai even more worried, he was afraid that the more than 10,000 people who were still outside the city at this time would be used to contain the pseudo-Tang thief army, provide cover for the army and provide the broken soldiers and horses, I am afraid that I will encounter accidents.

In this case, his first reaction was naturally to withdraw all the troops as much as possible, and the first thing to withdraw must be his own descendants, that is, Fubiao recruitment.

Zhu Zhihai knew that the main force of the puppet Tang thief army was about to arrive, and although he did not publicize the news, many senior generals of the Ming army still learned the news for the first time.

For example, on the front line, he was still fighting with more than 6,000 people of the puppet Tang thief army against the main general of more than 10,000 people: Yang Guishan, the commander of Guizhou.

He got the news that the main force of the puppet Tang thief army was coming, and he didn't get the news long later than Zhu Zhihai got the news!

"The main force of more than 5,000 pseudo-Tang thieves, I'm afraid it's going to be troublesome this time!" Yang Guishan is a veteran of about fifty years old, but although he is old, he is old and strong, and he is still wearing a suit of armor and riding on a horse at this time, using a heavy ring-headed knife.

Under the armor, his expression is not very good-looking!

After several battles today, he can already confirm that the combat power of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army is not bad, especially the main force of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army with a large number of firearms, its military formation is extremely tight, and the order is prohibited, and the generals of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army who can lead such an army are really enviable.

Whether it was the 5,000 forwards led by Chang Pingchang in the afternoon, or the 5,000 people led by the follow-up Xinglongwei commanding Tongzhi Shen, they were all defeated by the puppet Tang thief army.

And the total number of the puppet Tang thief army is only more than 2,000 people.

And the past achievements of the puppet Tang thief army and today's performance also made Yang Guishan dare not act rashly although he led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and could only rely on the advantage of troops to confront each other to cover the entry of the troops!

But now, the main force of the 5,000 puppet Tang thief army has arrived, and in this way, the situation on the battlefield is very, very bad for him.

If one doesn't do well, I'm afraid it will capsize outside the city of Liping Mansion!

At this time, Zhu Zhihai's order also reached Yang Guishan's side, and when he heard that Zhu Zhihai wanted to let Fubiao's soldiers and horses retreat into the city first, Yang Guishan's face was even more ugly.

Seeing that the main force of the puppet Tang thief army was about to arrive, the first thing he wanted was not to fight to the death, but to preserve the strength of his descendants.

Such a person makes him extremely shameful!

Even if he doesn't decide to fight to the death, even if he wants to retreat, then he has to let his guards retreat first!

Their guards are the regular army of the imperial court, and the target is just a group of recruits who pay their lives for money!

Could it be that the lives of those recruited soldiers should be preserved, and the lives of these guards and soldiers should not be preserved?

While he was pondering, a commander next to him whispered to him: "My lord, it's not good, the person who caress the standard is gone!" ”

When he heard this, he looked back, and saw that the more than 2,000 Fubiao infantry on the left flank of the array had already begun to turn and retreat in unison, and as for the 500 cavalry in Fubiao, they had all turned over and mounted their horses, and they were walking faster!

"Damn it!"

"They all deserve to die!"

Fu Biao's unauthorized retreat will cause a huge gap in the array of his 10,000-strong army, and the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side will definitely see it and take corresponding measures.

When the time comes, his army of 10,000 people will not be able to leave.

It's to retreat, then it has to be arranged, cover each other, and retreat alternately, you pick up the pacesetters and horses and leave first, what is it to throw us down!

And at this time, he also saw the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side move!

The puppet Tang thief army has already begun to trot forward, looking at this posture, they know that they have already seen their own array shaken and chaos, so they have already begun to attack.

What he expected was not wrong, Fang Xitong did see the movement of the Ming army's array for the first time, and without the slightest hesitation, he directly ordered the troops to move forward!

Seeing this scene, Yang Guishan took a deep breath, and then said, "Order, Mingjin withdraws his troops!" ”

Can the pacesetters run? Can't they run away from their guards? Are you kidding!

With Yang Guishan's order, tens of thousands of troops turned around and began to run wildly!

Seeing this scene, Fang Xitong and his friends on the other side were stunned!

What's going on, he can understand that there are 2,000 people retreating in the array opposite, but tens of thousands of people retreating together, what do they want to do?

Aren't they afraid that they will pursue themselves and then cause their complete rout?

Fang Xitong naturally couldn't understand Yang Guishan and Zhu Zhihai's thoughts!

Their motivation for doing all this is actually very simple, the first premise is that they all have a deep understanding that the combat power of the puppet Tang thief army is not weak, so when they heard that the main force of the puppet Tang thief army is about to arrive, their first reaction is to flee, not to say that they will fight to the death!

Well, this can't be said that they are timid, in fact, their approach is correct, if Zhu Zhihai does not order a retreat, but intends to have a decisive battle with the pseudo-Tang thief army outside the city, then Li Xuan will definitely wake up laughing from his dreams.

You must know that the mission of the Second Brigade is to keep them, but they can't stay!

But retreat is the right choice, but how to retreat and who to retreat first arises here and there are disagreements and problems.

Zhu Zhihai wanted to let his Fubiao retreat first, because in Zhu Zhihai's view, in the more than 30,000 army, in fact, only his own Fubiao and the other 2,000 recruits had combat effectiveness, and the others were just foils.

However, this is just Zhu Zhihai's idea, in the eyes of Yang Guishan and a group of generals of the guard, their own lives are the most precious, what is the matter of raising standards and recruiting soldiers, and want Lao Tzu to cut them off and let them escape by themselves?

Think beautifully!

As a result, the more than 10,000 troops outside the city retreated together, in no particular order!

In this way, there is no order, and the retreat of the organization is not much different from the rout.

Fang Xitong didn't know why this happened to the Ming army opposite, but he knew that this was what he had been looking forward to, and it was an extremely rare opportunity.

So he did not hesitate to order the whole army to start charging!

It's no longer the slow advance before, but a direct charge!

The core of the Chinese army, composed of the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the 10th Infantry Battalion, is advancing at a very fast speed, and although the 7th Infantry Regiment on the flank says that the quality of the soldiers is not very good, it is still an army no matter how bad it is, and it is difficult to let them fight a tough battle, but it is still very reliable to let them fight a good battle like the current one.

Even, at the instigation of some of the Ming generals, the Ming troops of the 7th Infantry Regiment even ran faster than the 3rd Infantry Regiment.

Because the Third Infantry Regiment still has to maintain a formation, and the soldiers of the Seventh Infantry Regiment can't care about any formation at all in order to grab credit.

No matter what the officers from the main force of the Datang New Army above say, they can't maintain a complete formation!

In the end, Li Shuangxi, the commander of the 7th Infantry Regiment and the former deputy commander of the 5th Infantry Battalion, could only look at the army running wildly in front of him with a helpless look.

When the army launched a charge, he was powerless to stop the spontaneous charge of these surrendered troops, so he could only follow behind with more than 200 regular troops directly under him.

Next, there was a very interesting scene on the battlefield, more than 6,000 people in the Tang Dynasty New Army chased after tens of thousands of Ming troops!

It didn't take long for the tens of thousands of troops in front of them to begin to disperse, and they didn't say that they all ran in the direction of the city gate, because at this time the city gate was already impassable, and some smart people saw this scene and consciously ran to both sides.

And this behavior is not caused by the orders of the generals, but by the spontaneous behavior of the middle and lower rank officers and soldiers!

And in this way, even though some of them can escape for their lives, there is also a scene that is extremely dangerous to the Ming army.

That is, the other Ming troops that were originally covered by them and some of the baggage troops that had not yet had time to enter the city were completely exposed to the front of the new army of the Tang Dynasty!

What's more, the First Brigade led by Hao Bonian finally trotted into the battlefield and killed it directly from the east!

At this time, if the Ming army no longer makes effective measures, then what awaits these Ming troops outside the city will be a massacre!