There will always be many strange things in the world, and it is not so unusual to suddenly find that the enemy is your own brother on the battlefield.

After all, Zeng Ziwen was also a thousand households in the Ming Army, and he appeared in the Tang New Army because he was captured because of the defeat, but the news of his capture was not hyped by the Tang Dynasty, and even in order to avoid implicating his family, Zeng Ziwen also used a pseudonym 'Li Congwen', but this pseudonym is only used to be public, and everyone is still used to calling Zeng Ziwen internally.

As for whether the Ming army knows about it, this matter is debatable, the high-level Ming army on the side of Zhengtai County, such as Su Jiakang, they should probably be aware of it, but Zeng Ziwen has never appeared in public, and he has not led troops to fight with the Ming army, so the accurate news Su Jiakang They should not know yet, otherwise the Zeng family would have been finished long ago.

Or maybe Su Jiakang noticed the strangeness, but pretended not to know in order to cover it up.

At the beginning, Su Jiakang said that Zeng Ziwen had been 'martyred', and then put the responsibility for the defeat of the Tiger Valley on Zeng Ziwen's head, and the court had already issued all the relevant pensions to the Zeng family.

As a person with political wisdom, even if Su Jiakang knew it, he would definitely not publicize it, but on the contrary, he would try his best to deny it, saying that Zeng Ziwen of the Tang Dynasty was not Zeng Ziwen of the Ming Army.

At least so far, the Zeng family is fine, and has not been punished by the imperial court, if the news of Zeng Ziwen's thief was revealed, it is estimated that the Zeng family has been raided several times.

In this case, when Zeng Ziwen found out that the Ming army wandering on the logistics line of the Tang New Army turned out to be his own brother, his inner feeling was broken.

And when Li Xuan heard Zeng Ziwen talk about this, he was also quite speechless.

What is this, fratricide?

This is not counted, it is estimated that Zeng Ziwen's younger brother does not know that Zeng Ziwen is still alive, and he has always thought that Zeng Ziwen has died in the hands of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and it is estimated that he wants to exterminate the pseudo-Tang thief army to avenge his eldest brother.

Looking at Zeng Ziwen's helpless look, Li Xuan said, "So what are Zeng Aiqing's plans now?" ”

Hearing Li Xuan ask, Zeng Ziwen was stunned at first, and then his expression changed slightly, he didn't understand it at first, but after thinking about it slightly, he understood why Li Xuan asked him what his plans were!

Now Zeng Ziwen's younger brother led the army to attack the logistics line of the Tang New Army, and also caused considerable trouble to the Tang New Army, the Tang New Army lost at least 30 people, and the logistics line also became unsmooth, in order to ensure the logistics line, Li Xuan even transferred the main force to form a temporary mixed force, in order to exterminate the Ming army led by Zeng Ziwen's younger brother.

According to the combat effectiveness of the temporary mixed troops led by Hao Bonian, as long as the Ming army led by Zeng Ziwen's younger brother is not super elite, the possibility of defeat is extremely great.

When the time comes, it will be difficult to say whether Zeng Ziwen's younger brother will be dead or alive.

As for saying that because the person who led the army was Zeng Ziwen's younger brother, it was absolutely impossible to let this Ming army go unnoticed.

As long as he is against the Tang New Army, not to mention that he is just Zeng Ziwen's younger brother, even if he is Li Xuan's younger brother, Li Xuan will still want to kill him.

In the face of military affairs, what does the children's private affairs count, whether they should be killed or killed, whether they should be buried or buried, at most they should leave a whole corpse for him.

Zeng Ziwen did not answer Li Xuan immediately, but was silent for a long time, and only said after a long time: "Your Majesty, before the army moves, can you give the minister a chance, the minister will personally persuade my brother to join my Tang New Army, no matter how bad it is, let him retreat!" ”

After Li Xuan heard this, he also did not answer immediately, but pondered, then looked at the map spread on the table, and soon pointed to the Lanjiang ferry on the map and said: "Our army is located at the Lanjiang ferry, and it is impossible to leave in a short time, and the more than 1,000 soldiers of the Datang New Army absolutely cannot bear to have a Ming army wandering behind the flank, threatening our supply line at any time!" ”

Li Xuan's words didn't seem to answer Zeng Ziwen's question positively, but Zeng Ziwen heard it, what Li Xuan meant was that if he was obedient, then everything would be easy to say, but if he was unwilling to submit, then Li Xuan would not let him go.

In a huge Zhengtai County, except for Li Xuan, the Ming army in Longhua Town and Zhengtai County, who was unwilling to fight, the Ming army that appeared in the countryside needed to be annihilated, because this was not only a military issue, but also a political issue.

Liu Bagou and his colleagues are now preparing to establish more village-level administrative points in the rear, intending to bring all the rural areas of Zhengtai County under their actual control, so as to lay the foundation of the Tang Dynasty.

At this critical moment, Li Xuan needed to block the Ming army in Fucheng to the east of the Lanjiang River, and he needed to block the Ming army in Zhengtai County and Longhua Town in the city, so that there would be no large-scale Ming army that could block their follow-up plans.

Otherwise, there is a Ming army of several hundred people wandering around the countryside of Zhengtai County, and those rural landlords and gentry have to rebel every day, besides, there is no large-scale garrison in those village-level administrative points, and there are only a dozen or so people to maintain law and order, and they can't stop the invasion of hundreds of Ming troops at all.

Seeing Zeng Ziwen's expression a little embarrassed, Li Xuan said: "In this way, Zeng Aiqing can go with the army, and then Zeng Aiqing, you try your best to persuade him, if he is not willing to lead the army anyway, then bring him back after the war, our Datang New Army can still afford to raise a person!" ”

After hearing this, Zeng Ziwen said: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

Li Xuan's words have already shown that even if Zeng Ziwen's younger brother is unwilling to lead the army to surrender, then after Hao Bonian and they defeat his army, they will capture this person and bring him back.

In other words, it's about sparing his life!

Zeng Ziwen was worried about his brother's life, afraid that before he arrived, he would be shot to death by the musketeers under Hao Bonian's command, so he immediately withdrew, and then rode directly on the horse and rushed to Hao Bonian with his men.

The speed of riding a fast horse was quite fast, and Zeng Ziwen only took half a day to find Hao Bonian and them.

At this time, Hao Bonian didn't know why Zeng Ziwen didn't stay in the Lanjiang ferry, but wanted to come to him.

"Master Zeng, why are you here?" Hao Bonian is still very curious about Zeng Ziwen's arrival, could it be that His Majesty has any new will, and it is a lot of strategic changes, so he will let Zeng Ziwen, the combat division, come over to convey it in person?

However, after Zeng Ziwen explained his intention to him, Hao Bonian was also quite speechless.

Like Zeng Ziwen and Li Xuan, he didn't expect that the opponent he had been looking for for three days would be Zeng Ziwen's younger brother, and he heard Zeng Ziwen say that that guy is only sixteen years old this year, and this age is still a virtual age, and he really belongs to the little kid who has not dried up.

When he thought so, he consciously forgot that he himself was only nineteen years old, and that most of his fellow officers from the Guards were sixteen or seventeen years old, and even a few were only fourteen or fifteen years old, and none of them were more than twenty years old.

In today's Datang New Army, its core officer class can be described as all young officers.

Hao Bonian was slightly silent and said after the meeting: "What is Your Majesty's will?" ”

Hao Bonian didn't care what Zeng Ziwen himself thought, he was more concerned about his teacher, what His Majesty thought.

Zeng Ziwen said: "Your Majesty means to persuade you to surrender as much as possible, if you can't persuade to surrender, you will defeat this Ming army and capture the leading generals alive!" ”

Hao Bonian muttered at this time: "Are you caught alive?" That's not a problem! ”

At this time, he glanced at Zeng Ziwen again: "Presumably, Lord Zeng, you came here to persuade you to surrender?" ”

Zeng Ziwen nodded and said, "Yes, this official came here for this matter!" ”

"In that case, let's go together, and if nothing else, we will be able to catch up with or even surround them tomorrow morning!"

When Hao Bonian said this, he was full of confidence!

Zeng Ziwen didn't say much, but nodded, and finally said: "Then please ask Lord Hao for the follow-up!" ”

If it was usual, Zeng Ziwen would not call Hao Bonian an adult, but would be commensurate with his position, after all, Zeng Ziwen's status in the Tang New Army was still higher than Hao Banian, even if Li Xuan never let Zeng Ziwen lead the troops, but Zeng Ziwen has always been a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and he was a staff officer to Li Xuan, and he had a greater influence on Li Xuan.

The word adult is generally used by Hao Bonian to call him.

But today, for the sake of his younger brother's life, Zeng Ziwen had to save face!

Hao Bonian naturally offended Zeng Ziwen for no reason, as long as it did not affect his task, he did not mind selling Zeng Ziwen's favor.

Immediately, he said, "It's easy to say! ”

On that day, Zeng Ziwen marched with Hao Bonian's troops, Hao Bonian led the troops to march quite fast, and even in order to speed up the speed, he threw down the baggage troops and marched with only 200 combat troops.

However, in order to prevent accidents, the soldiers themselves will still carry weapons, ammunition and food necessary for the battle.

That night, Cao Mingda's scouts reported that the Ming army they were tracking was five miles away, but although the enemy was already close at a time, Hao Bonian did not order to continue the attack, but let the troops camp and rest early.

However, the next day, before dawn, Hao Bonian had already led the troops to set off, and the five-mile journey was completed in less than an hour, and at this time their enemies were still burying pots and preparing breakfast!

By the time those Ming troops found out that the puppet Tang thief army had caught up, it was already too late, because at that time, Hao Bonian had already ordered to start attacking!

This is not only a surprise attack, but also on the opposite side of the more than 100 Ming troops, Hao Bonian led the force of 200 people, the strength of the advantage, and there is also half a team of elite musketeers as the core, this battle has been decided from the beginning!