No wonder the gentry and rich families in the city of Liping Mansion are panicking, now is not the time when the puppet Tang thief army has just risen earlier, if it was a few months ago, someone said that the puppet Tang thief army was killed, it is estimated that many gentry and rich families do not care very much, they will hide in the city with peace of mind, waiting for the officers and soldiers to kill those damned rebels and thieves.

will even show a disdainful smile, what are you kidding, can a mere thief threaten the city?

However, the puppet Tang thief army, which was despised before, took the entire Xingquan Mansion in just over a month, which not only made the surrounding state capitals panic, but it is rumored that even the provincial capital was shaken, and the governor had personally ordered to raise a large army, ready to encircle and suppress this gang of thieves who dared to build a country and claim the emperor.

Some time ago, the official document from the governor Yamen has arrived in Liping Mansion, and the governor Zhu Zhihai asked Liping Mansion to be prepared and strictly defend the city, and at the same time raise grain and grass to provide military supplies for the army of the provincial capital that arrived later, it is rumored that the governor is not only ready to transfer the provincial garrison, but also to draw troops from the whole province to gather at least 50,000 soldiers and horses to clear the puppet Tang thief army.

The puppet Tang thief army that can alarm the governor and gather an army of 50,000 for this purpose, and the puppet Tang thief army that can set foot in Xingquan Mansion in just over a month, how can this not make the gentry and rich families afraid.

Now the army on the provincial side has not yet come, but the puppet Tang thief army is about to fight, can this Liping Mansion be able to hold it?

No matter what the government planned, the gentry and wealthy families rushed out of Liping Mansion one by one out of the psychology of avoiding disaster.

In order to stabilize the city's defense and recruit young people in wartime, they can prevent ordinary people from leaving the city, and even recruit young people from the surrounding rural areas, but the officials on the side of Liping Mansion will never dare to prevent the gentry and rich families from leaving.

And it won't be blocked, for and? Because their family is one of the wealthy gentry who fled from the country.

I can't escape because of the official body, so I have to let my family escape, who knows if the city can be defended at that time.

Therefore, the new army of the Tang Dynasty is far from arriving in Liping Mansion City, and the gentry and rich households in Liping Mansion City have already fled, and only a few gentry and rich households who do not believe in the pseudo-Tang thief army can break through the city are still holding on.

It's just that even the families who stayed in the city mostly sent their descendants to leave Liping Mansion City, which can be regarded as leaving a way back, so as not to be really accidental, resulting in the whole family being served in a pot.

Liping Mansion City is not only panicked by the people, but also by the officials, and on the same day, Liping Mansion City has already sent three waves of fast horses to the provincial capital to ask for reinforcements.

At the same time, the officials of Liping Province also vigorously recruited young people in the surrounding areas, and there were not many regular troops, so they could only rely on recruiting many young people to defend the city.

But will they be able to hold on?

In this regard, they themselves are not confident!

At this time, the new army of the Tang Dynasty, which shook Liping Mansion up and down, had just entered the territory of Liping Mansion, and they still had a long way to go to reach Liping Mansion City, and some towns needed to be conquered on the way, and some Tusi along the way also needed to be recovered.

For example, the 2nd Infantry Regiment needs to take the Tonggu Guard first, and the 1st Infantry Regiment also needs to conquer Pingchasho first.

These two places are semi-militarized towns, and when the Ming army pacified the southwest, in order to threaten the local Tusi, a large number of guards were set up in the southwestern provinces.

However, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, most of the toast in Guizhou, especially in the western part of Guizhou, which is close to Huguang, has been completely sinicized, such as Liping Mansion and Xingquan Mansion, which have many names for toast, but in fact, the toast in these areas can no longer be compared with the toast in southwest Guizhou and Yunnan.

Now the Ming Dynasty has already begun to implement the land change and return to the river on the southwest map, and the premise of changing the land and returning to the river is naturally that the power of Tusi cannot resist the Ming army.

If the new army of the Tang Dynasty wants to attack Yunnan and the southwestern region of Guizhou, which is close to Yunnan, it will encounter a large number of Tusi, and it will be a Tusi with real military strength, which may be quite troublesome, but if it only hits Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion, although it will also encounter the existence of Tusi, it is basically not a matter of concern.

Even the local guards of the Ming army were able to suppress them, so they could not pose any practical threat to the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, when the Tusi of a region is no longer strong, then correspondingly, as a defense against the Tusi, the local guards will naturally be relaxed, Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion and even the surrounding areas of the guards are not very strong, and so on to the rise of the Tang New Army in this year, the Ming army has also successively transferred the troops of these local guards, and then lost them one by one in the Lanjiang River.

As a result, in fact, when the new army of the Tang Dynasty marched into Liping Mansion, it was basically unlikely to encounter stubborn resistance from the local Ming army.

The only one who can resist them is the Ming army in the provincial capital that has not yet arrived!

And when Zhu Zhihai, the governor of Guizhou, gathers his troops and travels hundreds of miles to Liping Mansion, he doesn't know when he will go.

As a result, when the new army of the Tang Dynasty marched into Liping Mansion, it became an armed march.

When the Second Infantry Regiment launched an attack on the Bronze Drum Guard, it found that there were only more than 1,000 defensive troops left in this Bronze Drum Guard, and most of them were untrained young and strong, and the real regular guard would definitely not exceed 500 people.

There were no surprises in this attack, and before the hand-to-hand troops of the 2nd Infantry Regiment could land on the city, only after the two guns of the reinforced artillery corps were used to collapse a section of the low wall of the Bronze Drum Guard, the defenders of the Bronze Drum Guard collapsed on their own.

Some of them abandoned the city and fled, while some of them surrendered on the spot and joined the glorious and great family of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Chunjing was very satisfied with the fact that the enemy surrendered without even sending the infantry, and he came to the artillery team and praised the two guns again and again.

"These are all good things, this cannon hits, and ordinary small city walls can't stop it at all!" Li Chunjing sighed: "It's a pity that there are less, if there are more than a dozen cannons, our Second Infantry Regiment alone should be able to take Liping Mansion City!" ”

Immediately, there was a humane beside him: "This is a lot, and there are only three heavy artillery pieces on the side of the First Infantry Corps!" ”

In order to strengthen the strength of the two main infantry regiments that acted as the vanguard, Li Xuan directly gave them the original five 500-pound guns in the artillery battalion, but this was only a reinforcement, and in terms of establishment, these five artillery pieces still belonged to the artillery battalion.

As for the artillery battalion headquarters left behind in the rear, there is only one 800-pound Italian cannon left, but the workshop of the Ministry of Industry is already stepping up to build artillery, and it is expected that in the next month, it will be able to get three more 800-pound guns.

With the help of artillery, the 2nd Infantry Regiment took the Bronze Drum Guard without much effort, and the 1st Infantry Regiment encountered less pressure.

They did not even encounter organized resistance from the Ming army along the way, not even sporadic harassment.

Through the investigation of spies, Hao Bonian learned that the Ming army of Liping Mansion planned to shrink all its forces back, and then rely on the strong walls of Liping Mansion City to defend it.

Since they did not encounter resistance, the first step of the corps naturally recovered the Pingcha House smoothly, and then the troops pointed directly at the city of Lipingfu, and the time required to reach the city of Lipingfu was three days less than they expected.

The whole process of marching was like an armed march, and there was no resistance at all!

Arriving at Liping Mansion, although Li Chunjing's Second Infantry Regiment had not yet arrived, Hao Bonian still planned to fight a dozen first, and test the city defense of Liping Mansion before speaking, so that after waiting for the Second Infantry Regiment to arrive, he could directly launch a general attack.

After Hao Bonian made such a decision, the first step of the corps naturally began to prepare for the siege, that is, to start cutting wood on the spot to build climbing ladders and other equipment, and at the same time sent scouts to continuously reconnoiter the terrain of the ambush on the city wall of Liping Mansion, so as not to encounter any ambushes and the like.

And when the first corps did this, the civil and military officials of the Ming court at the head of Liping Mansion City looked at the Tang New Army outside the city in horror.

"Are these the pseudo-Tang thief army? The livery is so ugly, you can tell at first glance that it is a nondescript bandit! Immediately, some people expressed their contempt for the puppet Tang thief army.

"Yes, Li Cheng prides himself on being a descendant of Li Tang, but there is a little bit of Li Tang's demeanor there, it is full of nondescript things, I heard that their official system is not six, but nine, this is simply a big joke in the world, from ancient times to the present, it is three provinces and six departments, but they are engaged in nine departments, and at a glance you know that it is a joke made by the foolish people in the countryside!"

The person who spoke obviously did not get the latest information about the puppet Tang Dynasty, and now the cabinet of the puppet Tang Dynasty has not only nine ministries, but has developed to ten.

Moreover, if the Tang Dynasty sends people to continue to expand, ten will soon become eleven, twelve, or even more.

But this is not to blame them, it is not easy for them to know by hearsay that there are nine departments of the Tang Dynasty, after all, the Tang Dynasty is still very mysterious to the outside world, and most people still think that they are just a group of bandits, even in Xingquan Mansion, there are not many people who can know the true situation of the Tang Dynasty, let alone in Liping Mansion.

In the camp of the Ming army, the person who knows the Tang Dynasty best should be Su Jiakang, Su Jiakang and the Tang Dynasty have been dealing with each other for more than a year, and he led the army to destroy Lijia Village, and then continued to fight with the Tang Dynasty for more than a year.

His understanding of the Tang Dynasty is still relatively profound.

But it's a pity that he is still a prisoner of war of the Tang Dynasty, and since he was captured, he has been locked up in a prisoner of war camp, accompanied by several other civil and military officials of the Ming Court who were captured together and refused to return to him.

The ignorance of these Ming court civil and military officials about the Tang Dynasty caused them to despise the Tang Dynasty on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also caused them to panic about the Tang Dynasty.

The reason for this is that they have always firmly believed that the Tang Dynasty is just a group of bandits, and the panic is that they don't understand how the bandits can take the land of Yifu and hit Liping Mansion.

The unknown is the most frightening thing!