Song Zhiwen ran away, even if he was forcibly taken away by his personal guards, but no matter what, he once again left his army and fled.

The remnants of the 500 Ming Army, who were fighting in front and trying to break through the siege of the puppet Tang thief army, saw that Song Zhiwen had run away, and they still had fighting spirit there.

Even the courage to fight is lost, and the fleeing will soon be fled, and the surrender will be surrendered!

It is naturally best to escape with your life, and if you can't escape, surrender!

Anyway, the surrender of the Ming army to the puppet Tang thief army has almost become a tradition, and every time the Ming army is defeated, there will always be a large number of Ming troops surrendering to the puppet Tang thief army.

And many Ming soldiers have heard many rumors, saying that the pseudo-Tang thief army will not treat these surrendered soldiers of the Ming army too harshly!

Many soldiers of the Ming army who surrendered in the past will become a pseudo-Tang thief army!

When soldiers eat food, they are not in the middle and senior generals of the Ming army, so they don't have to worry about their families being implicated or something, and there is no psychological pressure at all when they surrender to be a thief.

This shows the benefits of the Datang New Army's kindness to prisoners!

If Li Xuan played something like killing prisoners of war every time, or the coolie who captured all these prisoners as slaves, many people in the Ming army would choose to fight to the death when they knew that there was no hope of survival, after all, no one wanted to die.

But they were still alive and well after surrendering, so why did they put up desperate resistance?

After the remnants of the 500 Ming Army completely collapsed, the defenders in the city who had originally planned to come out to meet Song Zhiwen saw this, and they dared to stay there, so they immediately turned around and returned to the city.

When they returned to the city, the Tang army still tried to pursue and even rushed into the city while the chaos was in a hurry, if it wasn't for some hurry, when the Ming army on the city shot a large number of arrows to block it, maybe the Tang army had already entered the city.

However, he failed to take advantage of the chaos to enter Xingquanfu City, Hao Bonian did not feel frustrated, after all, his task was not to risk entering the city now, his task was simple and clear, that is, to prevent the main force of the Ming army from returning to the city, and cooperate with the Tang army pursuing from the rear to inflict heavy damage or even defeat these main forces of the Ming army.

And now, after annihilating these 500 people, Hao Bonian did not send anyone to pursue Song Zhiwen, on the one hand, there was a lack of cavalry troops under his hands, and there were only more than a dozen scouts who crossed the river with him.

Besides, even if someone is sent, it is unknown whether this can catch up, and even if it does, it is estimated that it will not be able to beat it.

The cavalry of the Tang New Army has always been a shortcoming, although their cavalry team is called a cavalry team, but in fact it can only be regarded as infantry on horseback, and many cavalry are just rough horsemanship, and they can't fight on horses at all.

Song Zhiwen's personal soldiers are naturally not ordinary soldiers, they are skilled in riding and have excellent martial arts.

Anyway, although Song Zhiwen is a big official, from a military point of view, he is also insignificant, and he can't affect the overall situation if he runs alone.

After collecting the prisoners and simply cleaning up the battlefield, Hao Bonian led the troops to be stationed outside the city of Xingquanfu and waited for the Ming army to come to the door.

There were quite a few Ming troops retreating from the Lanjiang crossing, far more than these 500 people, and there must be more Ming troops behind.

But he didn't know that the guards and young men who were left behind by Song Zhiwen were not physically fit, and in the early afternoon, they were already caught up by the Tang army such as the Third Infantry Battalion, which was chasing from the rear.

After losing the backbone of Song Zhiwen, the generals of the Ming army in the rear had no intention of resisting at all, so they could only throw down those Ming troops who couldn't run again and again.

As a result, there is a very awkward situation!

From time to time, the Tang army pursuing from the rear caught up with a group of tired and tired Ming troops, and these Ming troops did not even resist when they saw the pseudo-Tang thief army catching up, either scattering and fleeing, or surrendering on the spot.

So much so that the 3rd Infantry Battalion did not fight a few battles along the way, but many prisoners were captured.

The capture of these prisoners even slowed down the pursuit of the Third Infantry Battalion, and Wang Danxu of the Third Infantry Battalion was quite depressed.

By the time they followed the Ming army all the way to the city of Xingquanfu, there were only more than 200 people left in the 3rd Infantry Battalion, because they had to send troops along the way to collect the prisoners and hand them over to the garrison battalion in the rear and wait for the troops to wait for the troops before they left.

However, the Ming army in front of them was getting smaller and smaller, and by the time they arrived near Xingquanfu City, there were less than a thousand people left.

What made them even more desperate was that they finally ran outside the city of Xingquan Mansion, only to find that there was a Tang army waiting for them in front of them.

At this moment, despair is a portrayal of the mood of these Ming soldiers!

Beat? Naturally, he didn't dare to fight, and his only choice was to continue to escape.

But they couldn't run fast at all after running all day, and Wang Danxu behind them couldn't catch up, but Hao Bainian, who had been resting in place for an hour, and the soldiers' physical fitness had recovered to a certain extent, was able to catch up with them.

After a pursuit battle in the evening, the Ming army, which numbered less than a thousand people, also completely disappeared into the field, a small number of them were killed and wounded, some were taken prisoners, and many more scattered in a hurry, running to an unknown place.

Stragglers who have lost their organization and only know how to flee for their lives are much more difficult to catch than pigs.

However, when Li Xuan also rushed to the outside of Xingquan Mansion in the evening, the army of 10,000 people that Song Zhiwen had gathered in the past few months had completely disappeared without a trace.

Only hundreds of Ming troops and many young men in Xingquan Mansion City were left trembling!

After arriving outside the city of Xingquan Mansion, Li Xuan immediately met with Hao Bonian, Wang Danxu, Li Chunjing, Huang Xueren and other generals, and listened to their reports on the war since last night.

After a simple post-war summary, Li Xuan just broke up the meeting and asked everyone to go back to rest, everyone had been fighting hard all day, and they were already exhausted, and tomorrow, they would attack Xingquan Mansion City, how could they do it if they didn't have enough spirits.

That night, more than 3,000 people of the Tang New Army were stationed outside the city of Xingquanfu to rest, but inside the city of Xingquanfu was extremely panicked, the officials were nervous, the gentry were also extremely afraid, and even the ordinary citizens could not sleep well.

Because they all know that the puppet Tang thief army has arrived outside the city, maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after tomorrow, it will be a big attack on the city.

At that time, with hundreds of regular troops in the city and a group of young people, will they be able to stop the pseudo-Tang thief army outside the city?

They don't have faith, they don't believe!

The army of 10,000 people led by Song Zhiwen himself was defeated by the puppet Tang thief army, how could they be able to stop those puppet Tang thief army with this little force in the city?

When people are panicked, there will naturally be people who have thoughts that they shouldn't have, such as opening the city gate and surrendering!