After discovering that the Ming army in front of him was not the expected grain transport team, but a regular army disguised as a grain transport team, the bandits in Huangzhushan still had the intention of fighting there, whether it was Li Xuan, Liu Bagou or even Chen Butcher, they all wanted to turn around and leave.

And that's exactly what they did!

If they are the regular army of a serious dynasty, they may still be afraid of what kind of court face, it is estimated that Li Xuan, the emperor, has a problem with the face, but what kind of regime is the Tang Dynasty?

Although it bears the name of the Tang Dynasty, and there are plausible officials, generals, etc., it is still a bandit den in essence, at most it is more than the number of ordinary bandits.

So at this critical moment, no one will think about the question of whether they will lose face or not, whether they will lose face and affect the prestige of the dynasty if they run away when they encounter an enemy.

They just want to escape and save their lives!

When they made the decision to retreat, the Tang Dynasty Wang's actions were quite fast, how fast?

As soon as the order was given, it was not even passed to the ears of the soldiers at the most basic level, and it was not even arranged to retreat quickly, but someone had already begun to run backwards!

Who are these bandits in Huangzhushan?

Many bandits of the standing army saw that the situation was not good, and after seeing someone fleeing from behind, they didn't listen to the so-called orderly retreat arranged by the generals above, and directly turned around and joined the fleeing army.

Seeing that the standing army that was still in order in front of him collapsed in an instant, and then scrambled to flee backwards one by one, Li Xuan in the rear couldn't help but want to cover his face.

Nima, it's really embarrassing, the Ming army on the other side is still far away, but now their own personnel have all collapsed.

Even when the retreat order was given, Li Xuan had already expected chaos to occur, but he didn't expect it to collapse so quickly.

The only thing that comforted him was that because the Ming army was still far away, the fleeing Huangzhushan bandits finally did not throw away the long knives and spears and other weapons they carried with them and then fled, but most of them took them.

"Your Majesty, we should also go, if we don't leave, it will be too late!" At this time, Wang Danxu walked to Li Xuan's side.

Li Xuan also knew at this time that when things came to this point, he was already powerless, and although the situation was extremely chaotic, at least the Ming army had not caught up, and there was no actual loss.

It's nothing to be embarrassed when you flee, at most it's just a shame.

He immediately turned over and got on his horse, and then said, "Let's go too!" ”

Wang Danxu himself got on the horse, and then said loudly to the nearby Guards soldiers: "Let's go!" ”

Immediately, Li Xuan quickly left the battlefield under the escort of the guards!

As for the other high-level officials of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Bagou, Wang Wenhua, Qian Mengjiu and other civil officials naturally retreated with Li Xuan, although they were not riding horses, but they were also riding donkeys, mules or something, otherwise they would not be able to keep running for too long with their physical strength.

As for the other generals of the Tang Dynasty, they are scattered everywhere, leading their subordinates to retreat, although the standing army is now a little chaotic, but the most basic establishment can still be maintained, Chen Butcher, Fang Dongquan They still control the henchmen under their command.

It was less than five minutes, and the Tang Dynasty Division, which was still lining up to fight with the Ming army, was not a single person left.

The whole process was a shock to Mr. Wu and Diao Leixun!

Can you not be so shameless, you Tang Dynasty masters have just arrived, and you haven't even finished the formation, and you haven't even fought a tentative attack, so you just ran away?

This situation made the resourceful Mr. Wu a little depressed!

According to his prediction, under normal circumstances, the pseudo-Tang thief army should have a fight with him first, even if it was just a small-scale tentative battle, no matter how bad it was, he would observe it for a while.

But there will be thought that after these pseudo-Tang thief troops just discovered that the Ming army was not an ordinary grain transportation team, but a regular army of the guard, they didn't even hesitate for a moment, and turned around and ran away.

And it's running so fast!

"What are you waiting for, catch up with Lao Tzu!" Diao Leixun was also jumping angrily on the side.

Before, he thought that the puppet Tang thief army would come to fight, so he spent all his time sorting out the formation and preparing to deal with the attack of the puppet Tang thief army, but there would be thought that the puppet Tang thief army would not fight, so he would just turn around and run.

By the time the Ming army changed from the formation of a frontal decisive battle to a pursuing marching army, a moment had passed, and the puppet Tang thief army had already run a long way.

There was no time to regret it, too late to be shocked, Diao Leixun hurriedly led the people to catch up!

This pursuit battle lasted for several hours, and it was not over until it was dark!

After it got dark, after chasing all afternoon, the Ming army, who was tired enough to choke, stopped and set up camp.

Diao Leixun said to Mr. Wu with a look of pity: "Those thieves ran too fast, otherwise they would definitely be able to leave them all behind this time!" ”

Mr. Wu said: "It's not bad to be able to behead more than ten and capture dozens of people, after today's battle, the other party will definitely not dare to intercept the grain easily, and my army has no worries about the grain!" ”

When Diao Leixun heard this, he showed a wry smile, because only he knew that although they caught up with some of the thieves in this pursuit, and killed more than ten of them and captured dozens of people, but after interrogating these prisoners, they found that these people they caught up with were actually the people who had just been captured by the puppet Tang thief army a few days ago.

In other words, in this pursuit operation, he Diao Leixun didn't even catch up with a real Huangzhushan bandit, let alone kill or capture it.

But even so, he still agreed with Mr. Wu's later sentence, that is, after this battle, I am afraid that the puppet Tang thief army will not have the courage to attack the grain transportation team again.

He didn't know that the bandits of Huangzhushan, who failed in this ambush and fled in embarrassment, were not as frightened as they imagined, but instead planned to make a big move.

"It's too dangerous today, if it weren't for Lord Liu, you later said that you let those people who had just been captured confuse the Ming army, I'm afraid we would have really been caught up by them!" Bai Yunqi looked scared!

Huang Xueren said: "Yes, these Ming soldiers can really run, and they almost caught up with them!" ”

However, Fang Dongquan shook his head and said: "What are you afraid of, even if we don't release the people as bait, they won't be able to catch up with us, we are very familiar with this big mountain, take them to drill a few more ravines, make sure they can't get out of the dizzy!" ”

Fang Dongquan was confident in saying this, but he had led the Ming army around the mountains several times.

You let him take the bandits of Huangzhushan and the Ming army to fight head-on, it is impossible, and he can't do it, but you let him escape with people, it is absolutely first-class.

If he hadn't had the ability to escape with one hand, Fang Dong would have died in the hands of the Ming army.

After another sigh, the generals began to report today's losses.

Today, I was in a hurry to escape, and I lost a lot of baggage, especially food. But it doesn't matter, the Tang Dynasty Wang Division originally carried a lot of grain with the army, and then robbed the Ming army's grain transport team twice, which was so much that they couldn't find enough people to pick it up, although they lost almost half of the grain this time, but the food they carried was still very sufficient.

As for casualties, the biggest loss is the dozens of people who were thrown away by the original outcast, but those people were just captured a few days ago, they were originally the people of the Ming army, and now it's nothing to throw them back to the Ming army, it's not a loss.

As for the losses of the bandits in Huangzhushan themselves, because the two sides have not fought from beginning to end, and the distance between the two sides is also one or two miles away when they are closest, so the loss of casualties is negligible.

On the contrary, twenty or thirty people ran and disappeared, and I don't know if they were lost or if they saw that the opportunity was not good, they left the large army and fled for their lives.

Li Xuan felt that the latter was more likely!

The missing or fleeing people, plus the dozens of abandoned people, the losses of the Tang Dynasty in this day can be regarded as heavy, and the team of more than 800 people once again fell back to more than 700 people.

But what made Li Xuan feel fortunate was that no one in the guards fled without permission, and there were no casualties.

As long as the Guards are still there, then the actual combat effectiveness of the Tang Wang Division has not been weakened much!

After the inventory was completed, the Tang monarchs and ministers gathered together again to discuss the follow-up actions!

Butcher Chen said: "Today we were put on a table by them, this revenge cannot be avenged, we must find a few more of their lone men and horses to eat!" ”

Butcher Chen continued: "And this is not counting, we have to completely block the grain route of the Ming army, there are so many Ming troops guarding in this mountain, we are not easy to do, so we will go to the edge of the mountain to guard, we will have a surprise ......."

Hearing Butcher Chen's words, he generally paused, and Liu Bagou on the side consciously helped him finish his words: "Surprise, attack it unprepared!" ”

Butcher Chen said: "Yes, even if they are unprepared, their men and horses have come into the mountain to find us, at most there are a few sentinel checkpoints on the periphery of this mountain, we can take it down and then guard, waiting for those grain transport teams to come to the door by themselves, and they can guess that we are going to the edge of the mountain to attack their outposts!" ”

After Butcher Chen's words fell, Fang Dongquan on the side fell into deep thought, and then saw him suddenly stand up: "You say, what if we go directly to attack Longhua Town?" ”

"Where does the grain and grass needed to enter the Ming army come from? Longhua Town, since we can't cut off their grain routes, then we simply go and knock down Longhua Town, and burn their grain and grass with a fire! ”