If you look closely at the sword in Li Xuan's hand, then you will find that the long sword in his hand is pointing in the direction of Zhengtai County.

At the same time, the flag bearer beside him also waved the flag, and the meaning of the flag was to launch a charge to the northeast!

What is the place in the northeast, and the county seat of Zhengtai is also!

What prompted Li Xuan to change his idea of breaking through to the northwest at the last moment, so as to attack Zhengtai County instead?

The reason is simple and simple, and it is complicated to say that it is complicated, and the first factor that prompted Li Xuan to make this choice was that it was not the Ming army he expected who opened the city gate from Zhengtai County, but a group of gentry and young people.

There are no civilian and military generals of the Ming army, no guards wearing uniforms and holding standard weapons, but a group of gentry and young people!

The person at the head also holds a big white flag!

At the same time, as soon as the gentry opened the city gate, a few people with loud voices shouted at Li Xuan: "The general is dead, and the truce is peaceful." ”

Even though there was still some distance from the city gate, Li Xuan could still tell from the chaotic crowd that these gentry were extremely frightened, especially when they saw the new army of the Tang Dynasty put on a look of going to a decisive battle.

They didn't know that Li Xuan was preparing to break through to the death, not to attack the city.

When Li Xuan saw this scene, he chose to attack the city without hesitation!

He didn't care whether the Ming army in the city really collapsed and fled, or was ambushed in the city, but now the city gate is wide open, as long as he rushes up, then he can break the city, and finally capture this Zhengtai county, and after capturing the county seat, whether it is choosing the right time to withdraw from other city gates, picking out the encirclement of the Ming army, or directly relying on Zhengtai County to fight a defensive battle, it is a hundred times better than the current situation.

If he doesn't enter Zhengtai County, he can only break through in the northwest direction, and in fact, he can also break through in the southeast direction, but there is the direction of Fucheng, the hinterland of the Ming army, and this time into the hinterland of the Ming army, they will face countless Ming troops, and they will definitely not be able to escape at that time.

Otherwise, the Ming army's encirclement would not have vacated the southeast direction, not only because there seemed to be no enemy in the southeast direction, but that was a dead end.

And there are 300 Ming troops in the northwest to intercept them, whether this can break through to the past to be honest is really difficult to say, even if it succeeds in the end, it is estimated that half of these 500 people will have to be lost.

If it doesn't go well, I'm afraid that the entire army will be wiped out.

After a short analysis in his mind, Li Xuan didn't have time to think too much, so he could only make a choice based on his intuition, that is, to attack Zhengtai County, at least jump out of this encirclement first.

Li Xuan issued the banner of the whole army attacking the city, and personally led the guards to attack, although at this time, Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren and Wang Danxu and their main generals still did not know why Li Xuan suddenly changed the direction of the breakthrough, but what the Chinese army pointed to was the direction in which they launched the attack.

Immediately, Wang Danxu held his command knife high: "The musket team listens to the order and steps forward in unison!" ”

The siege of the city required the fire support of the musket team, and the musketeer team had to go forward to provide early fire cover for the troops who landed in the city.

At the same time, Butcher Chen was also holding high the pig-killing knife: "Brothers, rush!" ”

Whether it is to climb the city or wait to kill directly through the city gate, the main force will inevitably be these heavily armored sword and shield soldiers under the command of Butcher Chen.

However, Butcher Chen and the others will not fight alone, and Fang Dongquan will also lead the spearmen to step forward together to guard against a surprise attack by the enemy.

With Li Xuan's order, the entire Datang New Army was running at high speed, and almost immediately launched a charge towards Zhengtai County in front.

This frightened the gentry and young men who opened the city gate and raised the flag to say that they were going to surrender, and when the new army of the Tang Dynasty strode forward, at first there were still a few people who tried to come forward and shouted what we are willing to surrender, offering wine, meat, military rations, and so on.

But seeing that the ranks of the Datang New Army did not stop at all, and when these gentry and young men at the gate of the city were all killed, in less than ten seconds, they just turned around and fled back to the city in a swarm.

Only a big white flag was thrown on the ground!

At the same time, three miles away from the rear of the Tang Dynasty's division, a group of Ming troops was hurrying with their heads bored, and from the physical fitness, age and mental state of the soldiers of this group of Ming soldiers, it can be found that this group of Ming troops is absolutely impossible to be those serf guards.

The soldiers in the guards are all lifelong soldiers, the young ones are only in their teens, and the old ones are forty or fifty years old, but this group of Ming troops is all young and strong, and most of them are in their twenties and thirties.

In the surrounding Ming army sequence, such an army can only be a recruiting force.

The recruits who can appear in Zhengtai County, looking at the entire Xingquan Mansion, are only recruited and trained by the prefect Song Zhiwen and brought over by Wu Nuanzhi.

In the rear of the three hundred Xingquan Mansion recruits, it is the main force of the Ming army of thousands of people, Su Jiakang rode on a horse and walked in the middle, he occasionally looked up to look ahead, but unfortunately because of the undulating terrain, he could not see the Tang New Army and Zhengtai County only a few miles away in front of him.

At this time, he didn't know that Deputy Qianhu Long Dajun had been seriously injured and died after being shot, and Xu Xiancheng had fled in a hurry.

What he didn't know was that Zhengtai County had been broken by the Datang New Army, and strictly speaking, this was the second time that the Datang New Army had broken in.

Therefore, after he crossed the undulating low hills, what he saw was the scene of the new army of the Tang Dynasty rapidly entering the city.

When he saw this scene, he was stunned for a long time without speaking.

His expression suddenly became angry, and he suddenly became afraid, and in the end, he didn't care about other people around him, and he didn't care about his dignity as a Jinshi official, so he scolded on the spot: "Long Dajun, how did he defend the city, this official left him two hundred officers and soldiers and six hundred young people, and he guarded the city like this?" He couldn't hold it for a few hours, and the official was going to cut him! ”

"And the bastard surnamed Xu, the official asked him to assist in defending the city, Long Dajun wanted to surrender, why didn't he stop him, the official wanted to kill him!"

The former he dared to say that he cut it on the spot, because with Su Jiakang's identity, for a deputy thousand households like Long Dajun, to be honest, he would cut it, and it would be a big deal to go back and make up for it, and it would not cause too much trouble, but Xu Xiancheng couldn't say that he would cut it.

Although Xu Xiancheng is not from a Jinshi background, he is also from a people's background, and he Su Jiakang is really not good at cutting him directly, so he can only talk ruthlessly and refer to him.

Looking at the puppet Tang thief army in front of them, instead of being surrounded by themselves, they finally fell into the tragic scene of being attacked from front to back, but instead attacked Zhengtai County, which made Su Jiakang angry.

Because now there is a situation that he does not want to see, and at the same time, he was extremely worried before, and even wanted to refuse Song Zhiwen's suggestion for a while, that is, the pseudo-Tang thief army invaded Zhengtai County.

Half a month ago, Song Zhiwen, the prince of the palace, sent his henchman Wu Nuanzhi to Zhengtai County again, and proposed to Su Jiakang a plan to exterminate the puppet Tang thief army.

That is, through a series of plans, the puppet Tang thief army was attracted to the city of Zhengtai County, and then gathered troops to annihilate it, for which the prefect Song Zhiwen sent 300 recruits, and at the same time transferred a thousand households from Linxian County.

If you add the two thousand households originally stationed in Zhengtai County and Longhua Town, then in this plan, Su Jiakang's subordinates will be able to gather about 1,500 guards and 300 recruited soldiers from three thousand households, and this force has not been counted in the young and strong people who have been recruited in Zhengtai County.

According to the plan, he wanted to confuse the puppet Tang thief army by sending troops out of the city many times, and at the same time, in order to let the puppet Tang thief army dare to come, there were not too many regular troops left in Zhengtai County, and there were only 200 troops in total.

After all, if there were too many troops in Zhengtai County, those pseudo-Tang thief troops would be so cunning that they would definitely not dare to come over.

At the same time, he asked Diao Leixun of Longhua Town to send troops into the mountains with great fanfare, putting pressure on the puppet Tang thief army.

In this way, according to the practice of the last time the puppet Tang thief army attacked Longhua Town, it is very likely that these puppet Tang thief army will besiege Wei and rescue Zhao again and try to attack Longhua Town or Zhengtai County.

As for him, Su Jiakang, he lurked in a remote valley between Zhengtai County and Longhua Town with a regular army of 1,200 men and 600 young men.

According to the plan, he will arrive at Zhengtai County in the evening today, and surround and annihilate the main force of the puppet Tang thief army under Zhengtai City, killing or capturing the puppet emperor Li Xuan.

All these plans were so perfect that Su Jiakang was willing to risk the fall of Longhua Town or Zhengtai County.

But he never thought that Zhengtai County, which had two hundred regular troops and six hundred young people defending, would not be able to hold out for even a few hours.

He had expected that Zhengtai County would not be able to stop the main force of the Pseudo-Tang Dynasty, but it would be able to support it for a day or two, and with this time, it was enough for him to lead his troops back to the division to annihilate the Pseudo-Tang thief army.

He didn't calculate everything, as soon as the battle started, Long Dajun, who was entrusted with the important task by him, was seriously injured by a bullet, and he didn't support it for long to die, so that Xu County Cheng and their group of soft eggs who were afraid of death were left, and as soon as Long Dajun died, they all ran away, leaving the entire Zhengtai County for the Datang New Army.

In order to avoid being slaughtered after the city was broken, the gentry and the only few small leaders in the city chose to follow the old story of Longhua Town and surrender to offer wine and food to save everyone's lives.

And Li Xuan was also surrounded and urgently needed to pick out the encirclement, so there was a situation that neither side was willing to appear: the new army of Datang actually attacked Zhengtai County!