Hao Bonian did not relax the offensive without the younger brother of Zeng Ziwen, the general who led the army, on the contrary, he did his best at the beginning, and also rejected Zeng Ziwen's request to persuade him to surrender first.

The reason is very simple, if Hao Bonian has sufficient troops and surrounds this Ming army on all sides, then in the case of victory, he does not mind letting Zeng Ziwen have enough time to persuade him to surrender, because even if the persuasion fails, it will not affect anything, and if the persuasion is successful, the casualties of the soldiers can be avoided.

But now, although the troops in his hands are more than the Ming army on the opposite side, they are not so many that they can completely encircle the other party, so he chose a surprise attack in the early morning, rather than an encirclement battle, what he wants is to use the effect of the surprise attack to ensure victory to the greatest extent, and at the same time try to avoid casualties in the battle.

Even though casualties in the war are inevitable, but on the premise of ensuring victory, avoiding casualties as much as possible is something that most generals will consider, this is not to say that the generals will pity the life and death of the soldiers, and the people who succeed in becoming a general, even if they are unqualified generals, in their hearts, the lives of soldiers are just a data, the reason why Hao Bonian did this is because he killed a thousand enemies and lost eight hundred, and he did not annihilate the other party with a few casualties.

Hao Bonian's pursuit is military exploits, which are enough to send him to the throne of the battalion officer!

As Hao Bonian ordered a surprise attack, Zeng Ziwen, who was behind, could only pray in his heart that his younger brother would not be unlucky enough to be shot by muskets, not to be shot by bows and arrows, and not to be hit by knives and spears.

As for persuading Hao Bonian, he never thought about it!

As a former Ming army thousand, and now in the Privy Council of the Tang Dynasty, he knows better than other officers of the Tang Dynasty that military power cannot be interfered with.

In today's battle, the commander is Hao Bonian, and Zeng Ziwen is just an unrelated person who accompanied the army because of personal matters.

If he dared to dissuade Hao Bonian, Hao Bonian would definitely look at him with contempt, and even the corners of his mouth still showed a sneer.

When the two armies are fighting, how can you change your plan because of your own selfish feelings, to put it mildly, you Zeng Ziwen is the oldest, if you dare to be verbose, Hao Bonian dares to directly cut him in the name of disturbing the army's morale and obstructing the battle.

Zeng Ziwen himself is a senior general who has been in the army for many years, and naturally he knows what the generals in the army scruple about, so even if he is worried about his younger brother, he can only watch dryly, praying that his younger brother will not be so reckless, and directly rush to the musket team of the Datang New Army.

After Hao Bonian led the army to attack, he was still cooking, and the Ming army, which had not even eaten breakfast, was suddenly in a mess.

Several officers were shouting loudly, trying to organize the soldiers into formation.

In this era, in the face of the enemy's attack, the most important thing is to form a confrontation as soon as possible, otherwise the end will be very miserable.

In those days, there were no skirmish tactics, and the battle of the large army was not about individual bravery, one side advanced in a tight formation, while the other side fought alone, and victory or defeat was almost 100% certain.

Individual bravery can only play a relatively large role in some melee battles, such as when they appear in battle, and other times, as long as one side is in a mess, it is basically equated with defeat.

At this moment, how could the Ming army, which was still in chaos, resist the new army of the Tang Dynasty that suddenly appeared and advanced rapidly in a dense formation?

Impossible!

Even if the soldiers of this Ming army are all brave and fierce generals, but without the support of the formation, they have to be beaten into a hornet's nest in the face of the dense phalanx composed of musketeers and spearmen of the Datang New Army!

A surprise battle, from the beginning to the end, lasted less than five minutes, and more than half of the Baiduoming army suffered casualties on the spot, and the rest dispersed in a hurry.

After the battle subsided a little, there were soldiers escorting two people to Hao Bonian and Zeng Ziwen, both of whom were wearing the costumes of Ming Dynasty military generals, and they knew at a glance that they were Ming army officers.

The two of them were a little embarrassed at this time, their clothes were not neatly dressed, and the young man's clothes were still stained with blood.

This man seems to be tied up and still unconvinced, he is struggling, this man looks young, but his body is extremely thick, and the strength of the struggle is still small, and the two soldiers holding him on the side have a lot of effort to hold him down.

However, this man's struggle stopped the moment he saw Zeng Ziwen, and at this moment his mouth opened wide, as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing, he quickly closed his eyes, and then opened his eyes to look again.

Then he said tentatively: "Big brother? ”

Zeng Ziwen had already taken a few steps forward at this time: "Zisong!" ”

The young man called Zisong showed a ghostly look at this time: "You, why are you still alive, are you a human or a ghost?" ”

Zeng Ziwen took out his brother's face at this time and said: "What are you talking about, you live a good life for your brother, why is it a ghost!" ”

After Zeng Ziwen said that, Zeng Zisong's face changed again, and then he asked again: "Big brother, why are you here?" How could you be with the pseudo-Tang thief army? ”

Zeng Ziwen said: "Brother Wei is now serving my emperor and serving as a member of the Tang Privy Council. ”

Zeng Zisong's face changed greatly at this time, and then he showed an angry expression and said: "My Zeng family has been loyal for generations, you, you are a thief!" ”

Zeng Ziwen was said by him, his face suddenly turned the color of pig liver, although he had already joined the Tang New Army, but he joined the Tang New Army, definitely not because he saw that the Tang Dynasty could unify Kyushu, but because he had to do it, on the one hand, he was a prisoner who wanted to regain his freedom for a long time, and on the other hand, Li Xuan's sincere invitation also moved him.

Even if the Tang Dynasty collapsed in the end, if you can do a big vote, you won't live in vain.

But as a knowledgeable person, he knows what outsiders think of the Tang Dynasty, that is, a thief, and an anti-thief!

Even sometimes, he himself thinks so.

So now Zeng Zisong, his own brother, said it directly, and heard Zeng Zisong say: "You are smearing the family, you are bringing the disaster of extermination to the clan, you are a thief, our Zeng family is doing this?" It won't take a few days to be wiped out by the imperial court! ”

Hearing these words, Zeng Ziwen's face became even more ugly, but he relied on his brother's name and forced himself to say: "What do you know, there is naturally a reason to be a brother by doing this for your brother!" ”

Hao Bonian, who was on the side, saw the Zeng brothers arguing with each other, and he was too lazy to take care of other people's housework, anyway, he was caught alive, and he could be regarded as worthy of Zeng Ziwen.

Immediately, he said to Zeng Ziwen: "Master Zeng, you and Brother Ling are chatting first, I still have trivial matters to deal with, so let's go first!" ”

Zeng Ziwen said to Hao Bonian: "Lord Hao, you are busy in advance, Zeng Mou can handle it by himself here!" ”

Hao Bonian nodded, and then left first, he really had something to deal with, and the cleaning of this battlefield also needed to be arranged, and in addition to Zeng Zisong, they also captured another twenty, twenty or thirty people, all of which needed to be arranged one by one.

As for how Zeng Ziwen talked to his younger brother Zeng Zisong and what the final result was, it was none of his business!