Anyway, Song Zhiwen also knew that his guards and young men had no combat effectiveness, and if he took them to hurry slowly, it would be better to return to Xingquanfu City with five hundred guards first.

After returning to Xingquanfu City with 500 recruited guards, he was immediately able to integrate many forces in the city and organize the city defense with 500 recruited guards as the core.

As for these guards and young men who were abandoned by him and slowly hurried behind, it was their luck to be able to return to Xingquan Mansion City safely, if they couldn't, then they could only die.

Of course, there is another very important reason: his own life is much more important than those guards and young men.

He is a dignified fourth-grade prefect, a second-class jinshi, who has entered the Hanlin Academy, and may become a noble official who is an important minister of the court in the future, and it is impossible to throw his life here like these big-headed soldiers.

So Song Zhiwen chose to run first without hesitation!

Well, it can't be said that he ran, this is too undignified, it should be said that he took the lead, took the lead in returning to Xingquanfu City, saved more than 10,000 people in Xingquanfu City from fire and water, and resisted the attack of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

But even so, when Song Zhiwen rushed to only five miles away with the five hundred guards who were panting and panting, it was as if he had lost all his strength in an instant.

Because he saw a group of pseudo-Tang thieves in front of him, it seemed that they were also heading towards Xingquan Mansion City, but these pseudo-Tang thief armies were closer to Xingquan Mansion City than them.

It's over, it's over, the pseudo-Tang thief army killed these days actually arrived in Xingquanfu City faster than himself, can he still return to Xingquanfu City now?

At the same time, Hao Bonian also discovered Song Zhiwen and others in their southwest direction!

These Ming troops are coming so fast!

Hao Bonian was also surprised by the speed of the retreat of these Ming troops, and he marched lightly and quickly with his troops all the way, so he arrived outside the city of Xingquanfu at this time, according to his expectations, the speed of the Ming army should lag behind him, and it would take at least half an hour before they could arrive.

In this way, he will have half an hour to rest!

But now, although the Ming army came later than his own, strictly speaking, it is almost the same, so he does not have enough time to rest and recuperate.

But even so, Hao Bonian quickly ordered the whole army to fight!

Even if there is no time to rest, he must stop these Ming troops outside the city of Xingquanfu, and he must not let Song Zhiwen escape back to Xingquanfu City with the Ming army.

It's just that what makes him a little strange is that if there should be more than 3,000 people in the Ming army, how can there only be more than 500 people in front of him.

These 500 Ming troops are less than half of their own strength?

Hao Bonian naturally didn't know that Song Zhiwen abandoned the other Ming troops and came back with 500 recruits and guards first, he also thought that the Ming army was going to play the trick of dividing the soldiers into two ways and attacking the west, and after sending these 500 people to entangle themselves, the main forces of the other Ming troops entered the city from other directions, such as entering the city from the south gate.

Therefore, on the one hand, he sent Li Chunjing to lead the second infantry battalion and the first mixed battalion to continue to rush on the road to intercept the Ming army that might appear in other directions, and at the same time, it was also to prevent the Ming army in the city from rushing out.

As for himself, he led the 1st Infantry Battalion, as well as the grenadiers, archers, and sword and shield men to meet the enemy!

He personally led more than 600 people to meet the enemy, which was enough to stop the 500 Ming troops in front of him.

Song Zhiwen on the opposite side saw that the puppet Tang thief army in front of him was divided into two, and he also couldn't guess how the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side would do this, and thought that the puppet Tang thief army was going to send someone to attack the city first.

But since these pseudo-Tang thief armies in front of him are arrogant and divide their troops, is it possible for him to break through the interception of these pseudo-Tang thief armies and rush into the city?

After some hesitation, he finally made up his mind!

If he didn't rush in, even if he fled with these five hundred people, it wouldn't make much sense, he led the army back first, just to keep Xingquanfu City, if he escaped under Xingquanfu City, then everything was meaningless.

It is certain that Xingquan Mansion City will be breached, and he will still be able to end up well when the time comes?

So after he took a deep breath, he said loudly: "Let's rush over, as long as we rush over, we will be able to return to Xingquan Mansion City!" ”

If the five hundred guards under his command were guards or young people, he would never do this, but the five hundred guards under his command now are the main force of recruitment.

The combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of the guards and the young and strong, as long as you are ruthless, there is hope for rushing over.

Seeing that the Ming army on the opposite side began to line up and prepare to attack, Hao Bonian snorted coldly: "Look for death!" ”

Frontal decisive battle is what the Tang New Army is best at, if there are one or two thousand people in the Ming army on the opposite side, maybe he Hao Bonian will be worried about one or two, but the other side is only five hundred.

As for the physical fitness of both sides, they are tired enough.

With a wave of his hand, the 1st Infantry Battalion and other teams behind him also took a defensive stance, the musketeers began to load, the spearmen raised their spears, and the archers in the rear were also preparing to bend their bows and shoot arrows.

The sword and shield hand is on the back, ready to rush in at any time for hand-to-hand combat!

The Ming army was already charging at this time!

However, they naturally would not be stupid and rushed directly towards the Tang army's phalanx, they chose a detour.

After all, their purpose was not to defeat the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side, they just wanted to escape back to Xingquan Mansion City.

Song Zhiwen rode on a horse, and also saw the crowds surging in the city of Xingquanfu three miles away, and after a while, the city gate was half-opened, and then hundreds of Ming troops rushed out.

They're coming out to answer themselves!

As long as you can rush through, then you can escape back to Xingquan Mansion City!

However, in the next moment, he knew why the pseudo-Tang thief army had divided its troops before, because the pseudo-Tang thief army that had been divided had already headed towards the Ming army that rushed out of the city gate, and put on a posture of array.

Obviously, they want to stop the friendly forces from coming out to meet them!

When these things came to mind, Song Zhiwen also kept urging the soldiers to speed up!

However, they tried to bypass Hao Bonian's troops, but Hao Bonian naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to let the troops stand in place and line up, and after seeing Song Zhiwen's troops trying to bypass, he immediately said: "The whole army turns left, the horizontal team becomes a column, and runs in small steps!" ”

At this time, if you look down from the sky, on this wilderness outside Xingquan Mansion City, four phalanxes are slowly approaching!

The defenders in the city slowly marched out, while the Tang army led by Li Chunjing lined up to meet the enemy.

As for the troops led by Hao Bonian and Song Zhiwen, they are moving rapidly.

However, if this trajectory continues, Song Zhiwen will not be able to bypass Hao Bonian's interception.

Because of Hao Bonian, they are always in front of Song Zhiwen's department!

After running for a while, Song Zhiwen looked at the puppet Tang thief army that was getting closer and closer, and then looked at the city wall of Xingquanfu City, which was only two miles away, and then he gritted his teeth and said, "Array, let's rush over!" ”

He knew that he couldn't get around, and if he wanted to rush through, he could only break through!

If you rush past and have friendly troops to respond, you can return to Xingquan Mansion City, and if you can't rush over, then everything will be closed!

At this time, Hao Bonian also saw Song Zhiwen in a big red robe, and immediately said loudly: "Stop them and arrest the Song thief alive!" ”

Hao Bonian's voice, like other martial artists, was very loud, and this roar was not only heard clearly by the soldiers of the Tang Army, but even Song Zhiwen who was two or three hundred meters away.

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the Tang Army also shouted out the slogans before the battle one after another, and the invincibility of the Tang Dynasty was shouted out, as if it was a monstrous wave, constantly beating Song Zhiwen's heart.

Song Zhiwen, who was still in the battle for the first time, couldn't help but be frightened when he heard it.

Although Song Zhiwen has personally led the army to fight several battles with the puppet Tang thief army, he, like Li Xuan, is actually in the rear most of the time.

It was still more than 100 meters away from the battle line.

Although he was used to seeing the scene of the two armies fighting, when he faced this kind of fighting scene in person, he was still a little unaccustomed to it, and even fearful.

His feet were even a little weak, and his head was a little dizzy, but as an official of the imperial court, he needed to maintain dignity and dignity, so he forced himself to ride on horseback

However, as the distance between the two sides continued to get closer, he became more and more nervous, and finally couldn't help but slow down the speed of his ride, and was surrounded by more than a dozen personal soldiers in the middle and fell behind.

Motionlessly, he watched the soldiers in front of him rush towards the array of the pseudo-Tang thief army!

Two hundred meters, one hundred meters, at this time, the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side fired, and the Ming soldiers on the charging road fell a lot, and then they continued to rush forward.

At the same time, their archers also began to shoot back with their bows in a stop-and-go manner.

When they rushed to less than thirty meters, the soldiers of the Ming army were already shouting all kinds of slogans, trying to break through the interception of the pseudo-Tang thief army in front of them.

However, at this time, the officers of the two musket teams in the Datang New Army also waved their command knives in unison, which was the most commonly used salvo by the Datang New Army when the enemy rushed to close range.

The salvo of nearly two hundred muskets knocked down a whole row of Ming soldiers rushing to the front almost instantly, killing and wounding no less than forty or fifty people, so that the Ming army in the charge instantly appeared a big hole!

At this time, the grenadiers also lit the grenades, and with a single drop, the grenadiers threw the first wave of grenades!

When the explosion sounded, the musketeers and spearmen with bayonets had already strode forward and launched a counter-charge towards the Ming army!

Launching a counter-charge after a salvo is thrown, which has almost become the standard tactic of the Datang New Army, and it is naturally handy to use!

Song Zhiwen, who was behind, looked at his own soldiers one by one, no, it should be said that they fell in rows one by one, and finally showed a completely desperate look, and he didn't even hear the voice of the soldiers beside him: "My lord, if you don't leave, it's too late!" ”

His personal soldiers were stunned when they saw Song Zhiwen, and they didn't react at all, and immediately a leading personal soldier said: "Let's escape with adults!" ”

In the next moment, these dozen or so soldiers who were also riding horses directly led the horses holding Song Zhiwen and fled backwards quickly, the speed was staggering!