Wang Zhi sighed that when they were trying to delay time, Su Jiakang on the other end looked at the small valley where the pseudo-Tang thief army was located a few miles in front of him with a resolute face, and said secretly in his heart: Tonight, Li Xuan must be taken down no matter what.

Otherwise, the time dragged on for a long time, Li Xuan didn't know where to run for a long time, without Li Xuan's head in hand, and without defeating the main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army, he would not be able to deal with the aftermath well.

And if you can't deal with the aftermath, for Su Jiakang, that's not a good thing!

But he didn't know that he didn't care about the lives of Wang Zhisi's martial artists, and Wang Zhisi's martial artists also didn't take annihilating the puppet Tang thief army and capturing Li Xuan alive to their hearts, and even paid attention to delaying time.

In the same way, Li Xuan now also does not know that there are already many contradictions within the Ming army, and at this time he still wants to cover the withdrawal of the baggage team through a defensive operation.

In this battle, he didn't expect to kill or injure many Ming troops, and he didn't even plan to stop the Ming army for long, as long as he bought enough time for the baggage team, he would not hesitate to lead the army to withdraw.

Anyway, a large number of baggage that delayed the speed had been taken away by the baggage team in advance, and when their main forces retreated, they could completely retreat lightly, and the speed was very fast.

Time passed bit by bit, although it was night, but the distance between the two sides was already very close, especially the forward and peripheral troops of the two sides, and skirmishes soon broke out.

The scouts and peripheral scouts on the side of the Datang New Army wanted to get close to the main force of the Ming army and find out their situation in advance, so that the main force in the rear could prepare for the corresponding battle.

As for the Ming army, they also sent a lot of scouts to inquire in detail about the situation on the side of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

Even if Wang Zhi sighed that they didn't want to fight and wanted to delay time, they also didn't want to ambush, so they also sent a large number of scouts and patrols.

In the process of frequent contact between the scouts of the two sides, casualties on both sides are inevitable, but the scale of these casualties is very small, and the casualties are in the single digits, which will not have any impact on the main forces of the two sides.

The scouts on both sides also gradually retreated as the main forces gradually approached.

When Li Xuan led people to set up defenses, the main vanguard of the Ming army finally arrived in this small valley, and the number of this forward was not much, about a hundred people.

These Ming troops seemed to be extremely cautious, and they stopped a few hundred meters away from the valley, Li Xuan thought that they were looking for their weaknesses, but he would not know at all that the main vanguard of these Ming troops was Wang Zhisi's troops, and his hundred households were Wang Zhisi's henchmen.

The reason why they stopped was to delay time, and on the other hand, they really didn't want to fight with the puppet Tang thief army.

Su Jiakang, who was behind, did not move before and after his own striker arrived at the pseudo-Tang thief army formation, and a trace of anger flashed on his face.

And Wang Zhisian nodded secretly, his subordinate really did not let himself down, and fully understood his order to 'act cautiously'.

Seeing that Su Jiakang's face was not very good-looking, Wang Zhixi comforted Su Jiakang and said: "Master Su, now that the striker has arrived, as long as we wait for our main force to go up, we will be able to capture the puppet emperor Li Xuan alive!" ”

Hearing this, Su Jiakang nodded slightly.

Since the puppet Tang thief army did not turn around and flee, then he, Su Jiakang, would not be in a hurry, and when the main force went up, he would kill the puppet emperor Li Xuan in one go.

On the side of the Datang New Army, Li Xuan also discussed with Zeng Ziwen in a low voice.

"What's going on with these Ming troops?" Li Xuan looked at the Ming army that stopped in the distance, at first he thought that these Ming troops were cautious or looking for their weaknesses, but soon he found that those Ming troops were already sitting on the ground one by one, and many of them even lay down directly.

Zeng Ziwen also frowned slightly: "I don't understand, according to common sense, these forwards should have launched a tentative attack to test the weakness of our army, or went around the rear to find the weakness of our army, and prepared for the main attack behind, but now they have stopped, and Your Majesty, you see, they are obviously exhausted, otherwise they would not lie down so directly regardless of the formation!" ”

"Haven't these Ming troops rested all the way? How can they hold on? Although he had long known that the Ming army would be exhausted after chasing all the way, Li Xuan estimated that they should have rested on the road, otherwise how could they launch a night attack.

And now it seems that the physical consumption of these Ming troops is much more serious than he expected!

"It's okay if they don't come to attack, they can just delay time, and now the baggage team is almost gone, as long as we give the baggage team another hour to buy time, we can evacuate directly at that time!" Qian Mengjiu also said at this time: "But the Ming army took so much effort to catch up, I'm afraid it won't give us an hour's time!" ”

Qian Mengjiu's prediction was not wrong, Wang Zhi sighed that these generals of the Ming army wanted to delay time, but Su Jiakang didn't let it!

After Su Jiakang arrived with the main force of more than 1,000 people, although he did not order the troops to attack as soon as possible, but let the troops rest, he only gave the soldiers a quarter of an hour to rest!

It's not that Su Jiakang doesn't want to let the soldiers under him rest for a while, but he looks at the pseudo-Tang thief army in front of him and has already found something wrong.

The number of these pseudo-Tang thief army in front of him seems to be a little less, only more than 300 people, and judging from yesterday's situation and the report of the spies not long ago, the pseudo-Tang thief army has more than 500 people, and they also carry a lot of baggage.

But now there are only more than 300 pseudo-Tang thieves here, and there are still 200 people who have disappeared, and then look at their baggage, which has disappeared, he knows after a little thought that some of the pseudo-Tang thief army has already fled with the baggage team first.

And these pseudo-Tang thieves in front of them are obviously preparing to stop them for a while, so as to give those pseudo-Tang thieves who are carrying baggage time to evacuate.

How long will this time be?

It can be as little as half an hour, and as much as only an hour or two.

Once the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army retreats, it will be even more difficult for them to pursue, because at this time, Su Jiakang already knows that the soldiers under his command do not have enough physical strength to continue the pursuit.

When the time comes, Su Jiakang can only watch the puppet Tang thief army escape!

Taking advantage of the fact that there is still time, Su Jiakang is planning to fight first, even if he can't win, but as long as the fight starts, these pseudo-Tang thieves will not want to escape smoothly.

As for what to do if the soldiers' physical strength is not enough after the fight, and their combat effectiveness is greatly reduced?

What else can I do? Chilled salad!

Besides, Su Jiakang is not stupid, he led the Ming army to pursue all the way, although his side did not have time to rest, resulting in great physical consumption of the soldiers, but the pseudo-Tang thief army in front of them was no better.

They had not yet run all day, and had only rested in this valley for an hour, or they were forced to get up and fight.

Now both sides are extremely physically exhausted, and no one can say who is not.

The only trouble is that the soldiers of the Ming army have more physical exertion, but this is nothing in Su Jiakang's opinion, because he has an absolute advantage in strength!

More than 1,000 people dealt with a mere 300 pseudo-Tang thief army, and the advantage in strength was enough to make up for the physical disadvantage.

After a quarter of an hour, he looked left and right, and then sighed to Wang Zhi and said, "Let's start!" ”

When Wang Zhisian heard this, he sighed in his heart!

It's just that what he thinks in his heart is that he will never dare to expose it in front of Su Jiakang, and immediately said: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

Immediately, Wang Zhisian strode out, with a group of generals ready to attack, looking at his striding out, people who don't know still think that he is eager to fight.

But outsiders will never know, but now Wang Zhixian has made up his mind to pay attention and continue to delay, how long can it be delayed.

In order to delay time, he made quite detailed preparations for this attack, not only giving orders to each hundred households and deputy thousand households, but also personally walking into the ranks of soldiers, greeting the soldiers one by one, checking whether the armor was well worn and whether the steel knives were sharp.

Even when he encountered a soldier with an untidy armor, he personally helped the soldier take off the armor, and then put it back on, after putting it on, he didn't forget to smile and pat the soldier's shoulder, and said: "This armor is not neatly worn, but it will affect the battle, pay attention in the future!" ”

Seeing this scene in the eyes of many soldiers, they couldn't help but have a good impression of Wang Zhisian by several points.

This is a good general, personally shushing the soldiers, boosting morale, and inspecting them so carefully, and wearing armor for the soldiers himself!

This is not moving, you are still a soldier under General Wang!

And no one knew that Wang Zhixi spent five minutes wearing armor for this soldier!

No one carefully calculated how much time Wang Zhixian spent checking the soldiers' preparations, and if someone pinched the stopwatch, they would find that Wang Zhixian spent thirty-two minutes and twenty-four seconds.

When Wang Zhisian helped the last soldier tie his shield, he reluctantly came out of the queue, and then returned to the front of the formation.

At this time, he looked back at Su Jiakang behind him, and knew in his heart that he couldn't drag it anymore, and if he dragged Su Jiakang any longer, he would be furious.

That's why he ordered the soldiers to officially step forward!

And the pace of the soldiers is to follow the pace of Wang Zhixi and other middle-level officers, not surprisingly, these Ming army generals who have already been discussed are walking very slowly, and the speed will not be much faster than the turtle climbing.

Although the speed was slow, the Ming army finally came, and for this reason, Fang Dongquan on the opposite side was ready one by one, and even many officers shouted loudly:

"Ready!"

"Cheer up!"

"Remotee, light the arquebus!"

But as soon as they finished speaking, they found that the Ming army on the opposite side actually stopped, and they walked about 100 meters, and then stopped.

How did they stop?

The enemy is in front of you, the distance between the two sides is only more than 200 meters, you still stop, stop a fart, and rush up with a shout!

For the Ming army that stopped, Li Xuan was puzzled, and Su Jiakang, who was watching the battle behind, was also puzzled! 12910