Li Xuan decided to tentatively attack Zhengtai County, on the one hand, in order to continue to test the reality of the Ming army in Zhengtai County, to see if the main force of the Ming army was really gone, or whether the previous actions of the Ming army were fake, and the main force of the Ming army was hiding in the city.

Or rather, the main force of the Ming army did not go to Huangzhushan, but stayed near the county seat of Zhengtai.

These are all things that can only be tested by a real gun's firepower, and it is estimated that it is impossible to test them out just by wandering around the outside a few times.

In addition, what Li Xuan wanted to know more was whether these Ming troops wanted to go to Huangzhu Mountain in order to confuse and ambush themselves, or did they really plan to go to Huangzhu Mountain to end their lair!

With all kinds of doubts, Li Xuan led the army all the way to Zhengtai County, and even in order to create a certain influence and force the Ming army to take the initiative to appear, Li Xuan did not deliberately conceal the route of the march, but swaggered along the mainland to Zhengtai County.

Naturally, we will not forget to grab a few handfuls along the way, so that the army's grain reserves will always maintain a relatively high level.

Otherwise, wait until there is a shortage of food and then look for food, and it will be too late.

If you eat outside the mountains, you must not forget to grab a handful every day, at least one day's food must be snatched, and if you can not move the reserve food, try not to move.

The new army of the Tang Dynasty swept all the way like a tiger down the mountain, unscrupulously swept all the way, and looted three small villages in a row, so that the people along the way were frightened and fled.

Looking at the fleeing people on both sides of the road, Li Xuan was not very comfortable, what are you running away from, uncle, I am fighting the Ming army, and the robbers are all landlords and tyrants, you dicks who don't even have a piece of intact clothes on your body are running a fart!

For these people, Li Xuan was quite speechless, even if they begged Li Xuan to rob them, Li Xuan was unwilling, these people were poorer than the bandits under him, they wanted food without food, they wanted silver without silver, robbing them was a waste of time and energy.

Although Li Xuan thought so himself, these people were still running away in fear, for fear that they would be caught by the bandits in Huangzhushan if they ran slowly, why, because in the past year, the prestige of the bandits in Huangzhushan has spread throughout Zhengtai County, and now the pseudo-Tang thief army has really killed Zhengtai County, and it is still burning, killing and looting along the way, if the people are not afraid, it will be hell.

These people are not the bandits of Huangzhushan who rob them of food or silver, because they don't have these in the first place, they are afraid that the bandits of Huangzhushan will kill them and take away their wives and daughters.

Not to mention, these worries of theirs are real, these bandits in Huangzhushan have really done this kind of thing, the bandits in Huangzhushan in the past are really not much better, burning, killing and looting for them, just like the dicks of later generations, this is part of their daily life.

Even now, the bandits of Huangzhushan have hung up the signboard of the Tang Dynasty, and they don't play burning, killing and looting as they did before, but robbing the population is still their established policy.

The current bandits in Huangzhushan are also robbing the population as before, but in the past, they generally only robbed the big girls of Huanghua, but now they are all packed and taken away regardless of men, women and children.

And the Huangzhushan bandits who have become like this will actually make ordinary people afraid, if they rob their wives and daughters, forget it, if they are lucky enough not to die, then it is a big deal to marry another wife and have children, but now these damn Huangzhushan bandits do not even let go of men.

Moreover, in order to replenish their troops and labor, the bandits in Huangzhushan now prefer to kidnap young men compared to the old, weak, women and children, which makes quite a lot of men in the ordinary people, especially young and strong men, quite afraid.

For the fleeing people on the side of the road, Li Xuan frowned slightly, but he didn't care too much, now he didn't have the heart to deal with these ordinary people, but he wouldn't stop and shout with a loudspeaker: "Hometowns, our Tang Army is the king of justice, and we will never rob you of a stitch!" ”

Because not to mention that he doesn't have much time to deal with these ordinary people, and more importantly, no one believes what he says, the people will think that you bandits are not just taking a stitch and a thread, but taking everything!

With the panic of the people fleeing, the Tang Dynasty royal division swept through a large field like an autumn wind, and arrived outside Zhengtai County in the afternoon of the same day.

Standing on a small hill outside the city, Li Xuan squinted at the small county town in front of him!

Although the distance is a little far, Li Xuan, who has good eyes, can barely see two big characters hanging on the gate of this county, even if these two big characters are not clear, but he can guess that they must be Zhengtai.

Although Zhengtai County is only a medium-sized county in the official, but this is because it is a poor and remote country, not to mention rich products, and the humanities are not outstanding, but in terms of area and population alone, Zhengtai County is a typical large county, and it will not be much worse than those high-class counties or even Sanzhou.

As a result, the scale of Zhengtai County is also much larger than that of ordinary county seats.

Zhengtai County in sight is very large, but this is just the appearance, strictly speaking, the real urban area of Zhengtai County is not large, and it can even be said to be very small, and it is very reluctant to live two or three thousand people.

However, on the outskirts of the inner city, that is, in a large area near the city walls, there were large buildings, and outside these outer buildings, a two-zhang high wall was built.

In this way, a pattern of inner and outer cities was very common in ancient times!

In ancient times, many cities had to increase the size of the city after the population increased because the scale of planning was relatively small at the beginning, and then the inner and outer cities, or even the three cities stood side by side.

Generally speaking, the subsequent expansion of the outer city is generally due to the large area, the city wall is low, the defense ability will be relatively weak, and the strongest defense ability is generally the inner city.

The same is true of Zhengtai County, the outer city is a scattered residential area and commercial area, and the city wall is only one and a half zhang high, but the inner city is a two-zhang high city wall, and the inner city is not only where the government is located, but also where the powerful people live, and the protection ability is much stronger than the outer city.

However, for Li Xuan, this difference is not big, because it will not be more difficult to fight because the city wall is half a zhang higher than half a zhang or half a zhang less, because he really plans to go into the city, and he will not even go into Zhengtai County to grab a handful in a clever way.

Zhengtai County is a more sensitive place than Longhua Town, although you will also have a certain impact if you are fighting outside, but as long as the city is not broken, then it is not a big deal, there are quite a lot of small-scale riots or rebellions in ancient times, and it is common for the local county to be besieged, as long as the city is not broken, then the court is not serious.

But even if you don't plan to really break through the city, this Zhengtai County still has to fight, even if it's just to test and intimidate.

"The order is down, the whole army is ready to attack the city!" Li Xuan didn't hesitate for long, and soon gave the order to attack the city!