As soon as Su Jiakang entered the city, he had not even had time to completely control the various points in the county, and he had already ordered the Ming army to pursue the puppet Tang thief army.

Anyway, a large number of their men and horses have already entered the city, and they are not afraid that the pseudo-Tang thief army will go and return to recapture the city, because in this case, Su Jiakang is even more happy.

If the puppet Tang thief army is desperately running away now, it will be very difficult for him to catch up, but if the puppet Tang thief army shows off his brain and runs back to fight with the Ming army for Zhengtai County, then Su Jiakang can wake up with a smile in his dreams.

It's a pity that Li Xuan didn't show off, and the other Huangzhushan bandits are now all bent on fleeing with the stolen gold and silver treasures, and they don't have the heart to take care of Zhengtai County at all.

They started to leave the city at four o'clock in the morning, because the road was not easy to walk at night, and they also carried a lot of baggage, until half an hour later, in fact, they did not leave Zhengtai County very far.

When the darkest hour before dawn passed and the sky began to show white, they walked out of the road for six or seven miles, and at this time, the bandits of Huangzhushan who walked at the end looked back, and they could still see the city wall of Zhengtai County and a group of Ming soldiers.

"It seems that they really don't give up, they even dare to catch up, they would have killed in the city when they knew it, and then put a fire, in that case, these Ming troops would definitely not have the heart to catch up again!" Fang Dongquan looked at the Ming army hanging far behind, and continued in an unkind tone: "But they are so bold, they dare to catch up with only three or four hundred people, and they are not afraid that we will turn around and eat them in one bite!" ”

Not only Fang Dongquan, but even Wang Danxu said confidently: "Go back and find a place to ambush them, if you are afraid of these Ming troops, they will naturally not dare to catch up!" ”

Regarding Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu's words, Li Xuan was speechless, where did you Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu get their confidence, and they still ate the pursuing Ming army in one bite, it would be good not to be caught up and defeated by others.

The total strength of the Ming army is as high as more than 1,000, this is only the forward in the forefront, and there are thousands of main forces of the Ming army in the back.

After fighting with thousands of Ming troops in Zhengtai County, Li Xuan found that many of his men began to swell.

felt that they could block the attack of more than 1,000 Ming troops in Zhengtai County, and they also snatched a fine light out of Zhengtai County, so they felt that the Ming army was not enough.

Regarding this situation, Li Xuan didn't know whether to say it was good or bad.

The advantage is that when they see the Ming army in the future, as long as the difference in strength is not too large, it is estimated that there will not be a situation of turning around and running, but they will have the confidence to fight a battle, which is of great benefit to the morale of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

But the disadvantage is that they are obviously overconfident, and the Ming army is so easy to deal with? Especially a large-scale Ming army is so easy to deal with?

When they were at the head of Zhengtai County, they did their best to drive the Ming army off the city, and when they broke through the siege, they were stopped by the Ming army, if it weren't for Li Xuan's threat to slaughter the city and let Su Jiakang take the initiative to let go of a breakthrough, they would not have been able to break through so smoothly.

But now Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu obviously forgot the difficulties of fighting the Ming army before, and only remembered that they successfully resisted the Ming army, and finally robbed Zhengtai County and ran out smoothly.

Li Xuan didn't say anything about the optimism and self-confidence of his generals, it's better to have self-confidence than not to have self-confidence.

Especially in today's exodus, it is especially important to keep morale high.

If the morale is low, like a frightened bird, I am afraid that the Ming army will chase and collapse after chasing him, or now, everyone has gold and silver jewelry in their pockets, and it is better to look happy when they return from successful looting.

It's just that the Ming army behind is chasing too quickly, and they have to find a way to get rid of them.

By noon, Li Xuan frowned as he looked at the Ming army in hot pursuit.

Li Xuan, who was riding on a horse, could clearly see the Ming army forwards three or four miles behind, and the speed of these Ming army's forwards was not very fast, but it was not slow, they were all normal marching speeds.

They are probably also afraid of the Datang New Army in front, and they don't dare to run all the way to catch up and then fight, but they maintain the same marching speed as the Datang New Army, and always maintain a distance of about three or four miles, no more, no less.

And this made Li Xuan a little headache, if the Ming army did not hesitate to spend physical strength and forcibly catch up all the way, this would be a good thing, even if they could catch up if they ran all the way for several miles, they would be tired like dogs.

However, the generals of the Ming army who pursued them obviously also had people who understood, and they did not insist on closing the distance so as to consume too much physical strength of the soldiers, and always maintained a considerable marching speed with the new army of the Tang Dynasty in front.

They may not want to be too far away from the main force of the Ming army in the rear and suffer some accidents.

But now the situation is fine during the day, everyone is marching, in motion, and during the day the line of sight is open, and you can clearly see the movement of the pursuers behind.

But after nightfall, there is a possibility of accidents!

Once it gets dark, then it will be difficult for Li Xuan and them to control the movements of the Ming army in the rear at all times, what if these Ming troops walk for so many hours in the night, and then sneak up in the night?

And if the main force of the Ming army in the back walks for an extra hour or two, then it can also shorten the distance with the strikers and even make peace with their forwards.

In this way, when it is tomorrow, the Ming army followed behind the ass will not be a forward of three or four hundred people, but the main force of the Ming army of more than a thousand.

Near noon, Qian Mengjiu said: "Your Majesty, the soldiers have been on the road for most of the day, most of them are tired and hungry, is it not to rest for a while, let the soldiers have a full meal before they go?" ”

Li Xuan shook his head, he pointed to the Ming army forward behind him and said, "Let's stop, they won't stop, give the order to continue on the road, and eat dry food while walking!" ”

The meal must be eaten, but it is not necessary to eat a hot meal, how can this army flee for its life and march like a normal march, walk for a few hours to stop and bury the pot to make rice and eat hot food, this can have a mouthful of dry food to eat.

Li Xuan ordered the troops to continue on their way, which made many bandits complain, they basically didn't have much rest last night, they set off after a hurried breakfast at four o'clock in the morning, and now they have been marching for four hours in a row.

Not only is it hungry and faint, but the physical exertion is also quite large.

Seeing that the soldiers were sighing one by one, even a few guards around him also showed a sighing look, Li Xuan rode through the queue, and shouted loudly at the same time: "The Pseudo-Ming striker is behind us, if we stop, they will catch up, and there will be a fierce battle at that time!" ”

"I know that everyone is tired, but not only we are tired, but the Ming army behind us is also tired, and now if we want to get rid of them, we must hold out longer than them!"

"I said that I would successfully break through the siege, and now I have successfully broken through, but whether you can get rid of the tracking of the Ming army depends on yourself!"

"As long as you get rid of the Ming army behind you and return to Huangzhu Mountain, I will let everyone eat and drink happily!"

At this time, in order to boost morale, Li Xuan didn't care about the emperor's decency, so he rode directly through the queue on horseback, and said repeatedly to the soldiers in the queue.

When Li Xuan did this, Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu also continued to boost the morale of their subordinates, so that these soldiers who had almost exhausted their physical strength continued to hurry.

But it didn't take long for someone to start falling behind due to lack of physical strength!

When Li Xuan saw that there were several people in a row who couldn't walk, and the speed of the team was getting slower and slower, he said to Huang Xueren beside him: "Huang Aiqing, throw away some unimportant baggage on the carriage and let those soldiers who can't walk sit on it!" ”

Huang Xueren hesitated after hearing this: "Your Majesty, most of the baggage we carry are important materials, in addition to ordnance, it is food and iron tools, if you throw it away, ...... it."

When they first entered Zhengtai County, the bandits in Huangzhushan fled into Zhengtai County when everything was basically empty except for ordnance and ammunition.

However, last night they robbed a large one in Zhengtai County, and seized a lot of gold, silver, food and ordnance, gold and silver are easy to say, the weight is not heavy, thousands of taels of gold and silver and even those messy jewelry, it is only a few hundred catties.

Except for a small part of the gold and silver that was left by the soldiers themselves, most of them were concentrated on Li Xuan's side and let the two horses carry them away.

The real slowdown is still food, ordnance and iron.

Some of these ordnances are the ordnance carried by the Datang New Army itself, such as the armor of the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers, these armor dozens of catties are naturally impossible to wear on the march, they have to be carried by the carriage, and they will not be put on armor to fight when the battle breaks out, and even the spearmen of the spearmen are also because they are too long and not light, and many times they are placed on the carriage, and the spearmen are marching on foot.

And then there were spare ammunition and bows and arrows or something, which were not much.

Most of them seized a lot of standard swords and armor of the Ming army from the ordnance warehouse of the Ming army.

The ordnance of the whole army was fully loaded with more than a dozen wagons.

Compared with ordnance, what is heavier is grain and messy things, there are more than a dozen carts of grain, and then there are all kinds of messy iron tools.

That's right, it's iron, such as iron pots and hoes, in short, they grab iron things!