When Diao Leixun was entangled, Su Jiakang in Zhengtai County was not in a better mood, and he learned that Fengjiazhuang had been broken by those pseudo-Tang thieves who killed him in the evening.

After learning the news, his first thought was to immediately lead the army in pursuit, those pseudo-Tang thief troops would definitely not be able to go fast with so much food.

But looking at the dark sky outside the window, he had to press this thought, this night road pursuit is not an easy task, a pseudo-Tang thief army did not catch up, but he got lost.

However, although Su Jiakang gave up the plan to pursue directly overnight, he still ordered the hundreds of Ming troops in the city to prepare overnight, and leave the city early tomorrow morning to join Diao Leixun's department in Longhua Town to pursue the puppet Tang thief army.

Since these pseudo-Tang thieves went straight to Fengjiazhuang to grab grain as soon as they came out of the mountain, then it must be that Huangzhushan lacked food, otherwise they would not have such a strong purpose, if they could stop this batch of food, then Huangzhushan would not be short of food.

When the time comes, you don't have to go into the mountains to encircle and suppress them, you can starve them to death if you are hungry!

Although Su Jiakang didn't know why the bandits in Huangzhushan were short of food, he could deduce that these pseudo-Tang thief armies were indeed short of food.

Therefore, the idea now is to stop these grains and prevent the puppet Tang thief army from transporting them back.

That night, Diao Leixun in Longhua Town also received a letter from a messenger sent by Su Jiakang, who asked him to pursue the puppet Tang thief army early tomorrow morning, and Su Jiakang himself would also set off with his men and horses early tomorrow morning.

He asked Diao Leixun to catch up with the puppet Tang thief army as much as possible, but he also said that the puppet Tang thief army was powerful, and the five or six hundred people in Longhua Town alone were afraid that the puppet Tang thief army could not be left, so his order to Diao Leixun was to let Diao Leixun catch up and delay the pace of the puppet Tang thief army as much as possible, and not to engage in large-scale battles until the critical moment.

After Su Jiakang arrived with people, he gathered the two armies and then looked for an opportunity to defeat each other!

After Diao Leixun received the order, he finally let go of the entanglement in his heart, he also wanted to pursue at first, but he was also afraid that there would be any accidents, and it would attract punishment from the imperial court at that time.

Now with the support of Su Jiakang, a civil official from Jinshi, he also has confidence, anyway, when the sky falls, there is a taller Su Jiakang on top.

After making some hasty preparations, Diao Leixun had already led about 500 people from the Tong'an Thousand Households out of the city the next day, and pursued towards the mountain, trying to stop the puppet Tang thief army.

At the same time, hundreds of people also poured out of Zhengtai County, about ten miles behind Diao Leixun and marched towards the mountain.

The Ming army in Longhua Town and Zhengtai County went out of the city on such a large scale, naturally it could not be concealed from the spies of the bandits in Huangzhushan, and these spies who had been stationed in Longhua Town and Zhengtai County for a long time immediately rushed to return the letter after discovering the large-scale dispatch of the Ming army.

And the speed of a single person rushing wildly is naturally very different from the marching speed of the army, on the flat terrain, ordinary people can walk twenty miles in an hour.

However, with a large army of baggage, they could only walk twenty or thirty miles a day.

This is also the reason why the spies on both sides were able to report the news to the top brass on both sides in just a few hours, but the movement of the army was still so slow.

On a certain rural road about 20 miles outside Longhua Town, the narrow dirt road was crowded with people silently advancing, these people were either pushing wheelbarrows, or driving chariots pulled by simple animals, or even carrying them on their shoulders, these people were officially the 'pseudo-Tang thief army' that the Ming army was looking for.

However, these people are just the baggage troops in the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain, and in front of the baggage, there is a group of people who beat the vertical formation and march forward with neat steps.

A few miles on either side, several squads of bandits served as alert troops on the perimeter.

At this time, Li Xuan was listening to the report of the spies who ran back from Longhua Town.

The spies' words were very simple, that is, the Ming army in Longhua Town was out of the town, and they were heading straight towards them, which was not a good phenomenon.

After waiting for the spies to push down, Li Xuan immediately said to Dongquan: "Immediately send more people, well, send out the scouts as well, and be sure to control the movements of this Ming army at any time!" ”

Then he said to Bai Yunqi: "You let the baggage team speed up!" ”

The threat of the enemy army is imminent, and the people of the baggage team must speed up and enter the mountain early, otherwise they will be stopped by the Ming army outside the mountain, then the end will not be so wonderful, and a big battle is inevitable.

And more importantly, whether it wins or loses, it is not good for the Tang Dynasty.

Containing the Ming army does not mean that it can be contained through large-scale battles, but to maintain a situation of fighting but not breaking, so that the Ming army has some scruples and does not dare to enter the mountains on a large scale, and at the same time has to avoid a head-on decisive battle with the Ming army as much as possible.

When the baggage team accelerated its march, Li Xuan also discussed with Huang Xueren and Wang Danxu how to face this situation.

In the end, there was only one way that was most suitable, that is, the main force and the baggage troops were divided, and the baggage troops were circulating, and they would rather walk more than a day's journey than pass in front of Longhua Town.

The main force is to stay to confuse the sight of the Ming army, if you can take the Ming army around, it would be better, even if not, it should be able to buy the baggage troops for most of the day or even a whole day, and the time gap of this day is enough for the baggage troops to return to the mountain with food.

After all, they are only twenty or thirty miles away from the mountain now, which is already a day's journey, and if there is a one-day time gap, the Ming army will definitely not be able to catch up.

After making a decision, Li Xuan immediately ordered Huang Xueren to personally take a baggage force of about 300 people around the rear.

And Li Xuan himself, as well as Fang Dongquan, Chen Butcher, and Wang Danxu, most of their generals, led the main force to fight the Ming army.

This time, the Tang Dynasty still maintained their fine tradition, that is, they fled very quickly, especially those in the baggage team, who were actually young and strong bandits in the standing army in the past, these people had no other skills, and their ability to escape was still quite good.

After learning that the Ming army was about to catch up, they didn't need to be urged by the generals above, they walked fast by themselves, if it wasn't for Huang Xueren and them to stop them, it is estimated that they would be able to directly throw down the food and run away.

The remaining main force of the Tang Dynasty Division did not continue to advance, but sent a large number of small-scale patrol troops, and the task of these training troops was not to find the main force of the Ming army, it was the business of those professional scout spies, and the task of these patrols was to find and intercept the nearby Ming army spies to prevent them from continuing to catch up with the retreating baggage troops.

After cleaning up, they really caught several spies of the Ming army, and they were not polite to these spies Huangzhushan bandits, and they were cut down on the spot, without giving them a chance to surrender.

Time passed bit by bit, and two hours later, at noon, Li Xuan once again led the men and horses to set off, but they still did not go fast, and the spies also reported the news of the Ming army at any time.

"The vanguard of the Puppet Ming Thief Army is only eight miles away from us, and its main force is ten miles away from us!"

"The Ming army in Zhengtai County marched out of the city, and it is rumored that it was Zhengtai County that ordered Su Jiakang to personally lead the team!"

"The thieves' headquarters are less than five miles away from our army, but their speed has slowed down!"

"The thieves have sent a forward of about a hundred men, and they are expected to arrive in two quarters of an hour!"

Listening to the spies' continuous returns, Li Xuan's sight also saw the Ming army!

Although there was still a distance of four or five miles, he could still see a group of people and horses in the distance, Li Xuan calculated the time, it was almost time to go, and immediately said: "Order, the whole army will set off, return to the mountain!" ”

Li Xuan said that he would return to the mountain, and even go back to the mountain along a straight road, not to say that he would go around the back road like the baggage troops, in other words, they would swagger back to the mountain from the eyes of the Ming army.

If the Ming army came in pursuit, they ran.

If the Ming army ignored them and pursued the baggage troops to the rear, then Li Xuan would have to take the next step and launch a surprise attack on the Ming army from the flank and rear positions.

In the distance, Diao Leixun looked at the pseudo-Tang thief army that had slowly set off in the northeast direction, and he couldn't pay attention to it again with thick eyebrows and a slight frown.

"Are you sure that the baggage team of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army has already retreated first?" At this time, Diao Leixun stared at one of the scouts of the Ming army.

The scout said, "It's true, the little one saw them divide their troops with his own eyes!" ”

"And where is their baggage squad now? Where is the grain? Diao Leixun asked.

The waiter said with a bitter look: "It's not clear for the time being, when they divided their troops first, several of our brothers also wanted to follow, but they were all stopped by those pseudo-Tang thief army, but looking at their direction, they should have made a detour to the rear into the mountain!" ”

After listening to this, Diao Leixun did not embarrass the scout, but after asking in detail, he gave the scout a big reward.

He can also guess why the puppet Tang thief army wants to divide the troops, it is nothing more than wanting to leave the main force to buy time for the baggage troops, and he can also guess the general direction of those baggage teams, heading towards the southeast, he will definitely be able to find the baggage team that has run away first.

But the question is, should he go to that baggage team now, or should he continue to chase the main force of this pseudo-Tang thief army?

The former has the grain that Huangzhushan urgently needs, and the latter has the elite main force of Huangzhushan.

Stopping their grain may plunge Huangzhushan into a food crisis, while stopping the main force of the puppet Tang thief army may completely annihilate the enemy army.

In the face of this kind of strategic decision, he couldn't make up his mind left and right, so he could only continue to follow Li Xuan, and then send a fast horse to report the situation to Su Jiakang and ask for instructions.

After Su Jiakang, who was more than ten miles away in the rear, received the report from Kuaima, he was quite dissatisfied with Diao Leixun's hesitant move, you have to delay at least a few hours to return the letter, and the baggage team of other people would have run away long ago if there was this time.

The baggage teams of the people have run away, what choice can they have except to continue to pursue the main force of the puppet Tang thief army?

But fortunately, if you can catch up with and annihilate the main force of the puppet Tang thief army, this puppet Tang dynasty will be completely finished.

Thinking of this, Su Jiakang looked at the sky in the distance, the sky in the distance was extremely gloomy, and the dark clouds were pressed very low, as if to indicate that a big war was coming!

This battle will be a big gamble, whether the official will be promoted to the third level or the black hat will be removed, it depends on the victory or defeat!