Chapter 409: The Rabble (Third Update)
This Sun Yawei, what is this for, saying so righteously, is this to let them continue to defend it?
You want to die yourself, don't pull us in!
At this time, I only heard Sun Yawei continue: "Today, the strong enemy soldiers are coming to the city, we should have killed ourselves and become benevolent, and Bo I cleared his name, but as a courtier of the Tang Dynasty, how could we ignore the crisis of the country and the dynasty because of our own private name."
Now His Majesty is personally leading the army to come in the stars and the moon, and he is about to arrive in a decisive battle with the puppet thief army in front of him. ”
After that, he sighed: "It's not a pity for me to die today, but I'm afraid of ruining Your Majesty's plan to annihilate the enemy!" ”
When everyone heard this, several people wanted to scold their mother at the same time in their hearts: I grass, what I said is so weird, how good it is to run away directly, just listening to your previous words, I thought I was going to fight to the death and not retreat!
Scared the baby to death!
When I first listened to it, I thought that he wanted everyone to fight to the death and not retreat, and fight until only the last person was left, but I didn't expect that when this word changed, it meant that he wanted to escape and then continue to fight for His Majesty's great cause!
Since they all said so, their faces naturally instantly appeared happy, and then they said in unison: "Your Excellency is wise!" ”
Hearing this, Sun Yawei nodded slightly, revealing an expression that won my heart!
But in fact, he is not in a good mood now, he is going to run away, and his mood is naturally not better.
Originally, he thought that he would be able to hold the city of Liping Mansion for a few days, so that he could buy His Majesty a few more days, so that even if he was a civil official, he would be able to get a credit for defending the land.
But I didn't expect that the combat power of the attacking Ming army was not weak, well, or that the capture camp and the young and strong combat power in the city were too weak.
Sun Yawei has also seen the world, he has seen the Tang New Army and the Ming Army fight many times, and he stood behind Li Xuan to watch the battle in the second Lanjiang Battle and the River Crossing Campaign!
In his impression, his own Datang New Army is quite strong, and the Ming Army has more wins and fewer defeats.
But he also knew that the defenders in the city at this moment were not regular troops, but only more than 300 thieves and a group of young men.
And the robbery camp in the Datang New Army system, to put it bluntly, is a group of officials, let them catch fugitives, Jiangyang thieves, or deal with some big dogs and the like, but if you let them fight against a large number of regular troops of the Ming army, it is too reluctant.
In particular, the establishment of this robbery camp in the city of Liping Mansion is very short, and many of them are still the original Ming army officials!
In order to collect and control the officials and helpers under the original Ming Dynasty, and also to get acquainted with and start the war work faster, the capture and theft camp of the Tang New Army will absorb a large number of officials and even idle people under the original Ming Dynasty.
After all, its main purpose is only to maintain local law and order, not to go to the battlefield, and it is natural that it will go to the battlefield and engage the regular army, and the defeat will be miserable.
This morning, with the help of a large number of young people, it was already quite difficult to block the attack of hundreds of Ming troops.
Now if they want to continue a decisive battle with the thousands of Ming troops outside the city, it is almost impossible, and they may all run out after fighting.
is destined to be unable to hold on, Sun Yawei can only give up Liping Mansion City in advance!
Fortunately, in the Tang Dynasty, it was not said that officials had to defend the city, because the civil and military forces were not interconnected, and the war was the business of the generals, and the civil officials were only responsible for civil affairs, and the army could not hold the city, and it was nothing for the civil officials to escape.
After all, the Tang Dynasty is different from the Ming Dynasty, and the military power on the side of the Ming Dynasty is actually in the hands of civilian officials, so if they lose the battle and lose the city, the first person to be held accountable is the local civilian officials, especially the number one.
After deciding to retreat officially, although Sun Yawei was unwilling, he quickly led everyone to prepare to break through.
If you want to break through, it is simple, because the number of Ming troops in the city is not much, and it has not been able to completely surround the city of Lipingfu, even if the number of Ming troops outside the city is enough, according to general military theory, it will not be completely surrounded, otherwise there will be no word for encirclement.
Because if the city is completely besieged, it is easy for the defending troops to sprout the idea of defending the city, which leaves a few gaps, which can make the defenders more easily shaken, and then escape or even collapse.
That's good for the attacker!
Soon, Sun Yawei took thousands of people to break through from the East City Gate and the North City Gate at the same time!
The Ming army outside the city naturally found out for the first time that the puppet Tang thief army in the city was going to take the initiative to break through and escape, and immediately shouted various slogans one by one and quickly killed the city of Lipingfu, and at the same time, a force was divided into outflanking the breakthrough troops of the puppet Tang thief army.
The generals of the Ming army in front of him naturally would not watch the enemy break through and flee, and they always needed to intercept it, as for whether they could stop it, that was another matter.
Speaking of escaping, there is a tradition for the new army of the Tang Dynasty, as early as the Lijiacun period, Chen Butcher and Liu Bagou took Li Xuan all the way to run wildly, so they escaped the pursuit of the Ming army.
During the Huangzhushan period, the new army of the Tang Dynasty also kept fleeing, constantly avoiding the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army!
To put it bluntly, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty was established from the constant escape road!
Although the Tang Dynasty has now grown and grown, and there are hundreds of thousands of people under its rule, the tradition has not been forgotten.
Even if the army led by Sun Yawei is not a regular army, just a group of thieves and young people, but it still has the essence of the retreat of the new army of the Tang Dynasty with light equipment.
This has not yet gone out of the city, more than half of the soldiers threw the weapons in their hands, this just out of the city gate, when they saw the first group of Ming troops chasing over, the remaining half of the people also threw away the weapons in their hands, and the armor on several low-level officers also did not remain, all took off, and then fled only wearing a cloth suit.
As they ran, they didn't even know where the flags held by the heralds were, and the food and other things that the other soldiers had been carrying were also thrown away.
If you don't throw it, how can you implement the tactic of retreating lightly?
After running out a few hundred meters, a small group of Ming troops of about tens of meters outflanked and chased up, and the hundreds of new troops of the Tang Dynasty in front of them showed their indomitable courage, and continued to flee without looking back, allowing the knives and guns of the puppet Ming thief army to cut at the bodies of their comrades, but they did not look back.
This escape, the new army of the Tang Dynasty showed freedom and unrestrained, decisive and fast, this kind of military appearance, such a retreat speed, looking at the universe, only the Ming army can be compared with it!
The general of the Ming army who was chasing behind looked at the pseudo-Tang thief army running all over the mountains in front of him, and a trace of disdain appeared in the corner of his mouth, and then said lightly: "A group of rabble! ”
"Yes, these pseudo-Tang thieves are just a group of thieves, they were able to conquer Xingquan and Liping at the beginning, purely because of coincidence, the local officials and soldiers were too incompetent!"
"If the army is so routed, just send a hundred households to chase it, it is useless for the main force to chase more, we still enter the city quickly to prevent the situation from changing!"
"Your Excellency is wise!"
The generals of the Ming army made such a choice, not because they were kind-hearted or underestimated the enemy, but because they thought that the more than 1,000 people who fled under Sun Yawei really made him not pay attention to it, not to mention that these pseudo-Tang thief armies were already completely disorganized, and they had completely collapsed by themselves while running.
You only need to send a hundred people to chase and kill in the back, and you can get a lot, and you don't need to waste the main force to pursue at all.
What's more, with such a Liping Mansion city in front of them in front of them, they want to enter the city as soon as possible, and then become a great hero in recovering the lost territory!
After running wildly all the way, Sun Yawei finally led a group of elite soldiers under his command to successfully get rid of the pursuit of the Ming army, and then looked back and counted the number of people who were still following behind, he just wanted to scold his mother.
At the beginning of the breakout, there were more than 1,200 people in total, and even if they were intercepted and killed by the Ming army for a while after leaving the city, the casualties would not exceed 100 people, and most of them successfully escaped the pursuit of the Ming army.
But why are there only more than 300 people left behind now?
Where did the rest go?
The devil knows!
Running all the way, there will be people who fall behind because of lack of physical strength, some people who will fall behind because they take the wrong road, and some people who will deliberately fall behind because they run away.
The number of people running is getting smaller and smaller.
Now it is good to be able to give Sun Yawei more than 300 people left.
Although he was depressed, Sun Yawei still had to take them to continue to run, at this time they were still too close to Liping Mansion City, too close to the Ming army, the danger was still there, and it was very big!
However, when Sun Yawei was happy, when they were preparing to spend the night in a small village in the evening, they encountered a group of scouts from the Datang New Army.
This scout force was obviously preparing to go to the direction of Lipingfu City to reconnoitre, and Sun Yawei immediately told this scout force in detail that a large number of Ming troops had appeared under the city of Lipingfu, and at the same time, the news that Lipingfu City had fallen.
After hearing the news, the second lieutenant who led the scout team did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and immediately sent a fast horse to report to the rear, he wanted to transmit the news back to the forward troops as soon as possible, and then let the forward troops pass it back to His Majesty the Emperor of the Chinese army in the rear.
So that His Majesty can better judge the military situation and make better strategic choices.
At the same time, he also hurriedly said goodbye to Sun Yawei, and then continued to head towards the southwest direction of Liping Mansion City with the scout team of the headquarters.
It is normal for the Ming army to appear in Liping Mansion City, and it is nothing that Liping Mansion City was conquered by the Ming army, but the key thing is, how many Ming troops are attacking?
Will there be only a forward force of more than a thousand people, or will there be more Ming troops?
And more critically, where are the main forces of the Ming army now?