In the agreement reached between Li Xuan and Su Jiakang, Su Jiakang was forced to agree to give Li Xuan a way to break out in order to save his own net worth and even the lives of the whole family in order to save his own life and the lives of the whole family.

However, Su Jiakang also put forward several requirements to Li Xuan, first of all, the most important point is that the new army of the Tang Dynasty cannot slaughter the city, and it cannot take a large number of people in the city to escape.

Secondly, he made a small request to Li Xuan, and he asked Li Xuan to help him solve several large households in the city.

Li Xuan was not familiar with the big families in Zhengtai County, and he didn't know what the relationship between Su Jiakang and their struggle was, but although Li Xuan promised Su Jiakang to solve these families, Zhou Yibao didn't say that he would definitely kill them.

Taking these people away can be regarded as fulfilling the agreement with Su Jiakang to a certain extent.

Li Xuan maliciously guessed that Su Jiakang must have a grudge against them, so he wanted to borrow a knife to kill people in this chaotic moment.

Li Xuan didn't mind being killed by Su Jiakang's borrowed knife, but why did he want to kill him?

The Tang Dynasty is an orthodox dynasty, with its own bottom line and sense of justice, how bad it is to shout and kill, it is okay to take it away and take it back to the mountain!

Later, I may be able to use these people to blackmail Su Jiakang again, and maybe I can make some deal with Su Jiakang.

The preparations of the new army of the Tang Dynasty are quite fast, can this be fast, this is an escape.

The bandits of Huangzhushan have always had great enthusiasm and motivation for escaping, as soon as they heard that they were going to break through and flee at dawn, and the people above all swore that they would be able to escape, and the lowly soldiers also acted quickly.

And before fleeing for their lives, the bandits of Huangzhushan did not forget their glorious tradition, and plundered every place they went!

They first removed all the grain and treasury silver in the official warehouse, and then selected a wealthy family in the city to collect the so-called city defense fee.

That's right, this time the bandits in Huangzhushan no longer put slogans such as robbery and robbery on their lips, and when they pried open the door of the rich family, they no longer shouted: "Stop, rob, hand over the silver!" ”

Instead, he will say: "On the order of a certain general, I am here to collect a city defense fee!" ”

And it is also specially levied by high-ranking households, depending on the different family backgrounds, the collection ranges from tens of taels to hundreds of taels of silver, as for the ordinary people, they can't turn over a few taels of silver even if they search their homes, so the bandits of the Tang Dynasty generally disdain to levy city defense fees on them.

This night, the soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty extorted the rich households in the city one by one, and they actually 'levied' more than 2,000 taels of silver, 100 taels of gold, and countless others.

Coupled with the silver and grain harvested from the official warehouse, it can be said that the harvest is huge!

At four o'clock in the morning, when Li Xuan led his ministers to the gate of the city, ready to officially lead the army to break through, he looked at the rows of carts full of various belongings and food behind him, and couldn't help but sigh: "The people in the city are still rich!" ”

In the past, they plundered more villages, and they also robbed a lot of gold and silver, but most of them were dozens of taels, not more than a hundred taels.

Like today, it is the first time that I have encountered a few thousand taels of silver in just half a night.

Fang Dongquan on the side said with a pity on his face: "Time is still less, if there is enough time, we will collect the city defense fee one by one, even if it is tens of thousands of taels of silver, we can get it out!" ”

Butcher Chen on the side didn't care: "What's the use of more gold and silver, you can't eat or wear, it's better to have these grains, with this batch of grain, we don't have to worry about food for half a month after breaking through!" ”

For the army, no matter how much gold and silver is robbed, it is actually useless, the most important thing is food and weapons, don't worry about weapons, the weapons in the Datang New Army are not very lost, and the reserve ammunition has also brought a lot, don't worry for the time being.

However, in terms of food, they have always eaten the enemy, and they are not rich in food on weekdays, and when they entered the city yesterday, because of the hurry, they threw a large amount of food directly to the Ming army.

This time, if you can't get enough food in the city, you will probably have to go hungry even if you break out.

Fortunately, a large amount of grain was found in the official warehouse of the Ming army, otherwise they would have to collect food throughout the city.

Li Xuan said at this time: "Okay, since everything is ready, let's start going out of the city, it will be dawn in a while, maybe there will be any changes!" ”

Although Li Xuan has reached an agreement with Su Jiakang, who knows if Su Jiakang will change his mind halfway, in case this Su Jiakang does not keep his promise and wants to make a surprise attack when they go out of the city, wouldn't it be very passive.

So in order to prevent accidents, this time they were prepared to go out of the city in the middle of the night in advance!

At this time, the cavalry that was sent out to reconnoiter first also returned, and reported to Li Xuan and the others: "The Ming army in the northwest direction has withdrawn to their camp, if we go out of the city now, there should be at least half an hour of safe time, and after half an hour, even if it is still dark, they can catch up!" ”

Li Xuan nodded: "Well, the late one has changed, and he ordered to go down and get out of the city immediately!" ”

He couldn't trust Su Jiakang, and he was even more reluctant to wait until almost dawn before leaving.

Although it will be very troublesome to walk at night now, it will be equally troublesome if Su Jiakang regrets it and wants to catch up, otherwise when it is dawn, his actions will be exposed under the noses of the Ming army, which will be too passive.

With Li Xuan's order to go out of the city, more than 500 new troops of the Tang Dynasty also officially took action, and the cavalry team went out of the city in advance, and they wanted to explore the way for the army, so as not to have an ambush by the Ming army in front, and the vanguard led by Chen Butcher later, which was also to avoid an ambush by the Ming army.

In the middle, it was the Chinese army led by Li Xuan himself, including the musket team and a large number of spearmen, and the baggage troops were also following behind.

As for the broken troops, they are still in the city, and they will not retreat until the main force is all out of the city, or even after they have left smoothly.

It is not that they broke off to stop the pursuit of the Ming army, in fact, they were to start slaughtering the city when the Ming army repented!

In order to ensure that the Ming army would not catch up with Li Xuan as soon as he left the city, Li Xuan left his uncle Bai Yunqi in the city, led more than 50 bandits, and escorted hundreds of people to the city, lighting torches for the Ming army to watch.

Once the Ming army makes a move, they will directly start slaughtering the city!

After the main force led by Li Xuan successfully left the city, Bai Yunqi would evacuate Zhengtai County.

Li Xuan and the others led the main force to start evacuating, and this news could not be concealed from Su Jiakang at all, and Su Jiakang, who was also sleepless tonight, learned the news almost immediately.

After learning the news, he once again set his eyes on the city, where many torches were lit, and under the bright lights, he could clearly see a group of pseudo-Tang thieves escorting many people.

Others didn't know why, but Su Jiakang knew that it was Li Xuan threatening himself.

After he took a deep breath, he immediately said to Wang Zhisian and the others who rushed over after hearing the news: "Order, let the soldiers get up and prepare to attack the city!" ”

"Siege?" Hearing Su Jiakang's words, others were a little incomprehensible.

At this time, it is right to pursue the main force of the puppet Tang thief army as soon as possible, and instead of pursuing the thief army, it is a bit of a step to attack Zhengtai County, which has not been defended by many thief troops?

Looking at everyone's doubts, Su Jiakang naturally didn't explain anything, and immediately said: "Now the top priority for us is not to pursue hundreds of thieves, but to recover Zhengtai County, someone has already gone to Fucheng to report yesterday, if nothing else, the soldiers and horses of Fucheng will leave today, and the striker may be able to arrive today, before they arrive, Zhengtai County must be recaptured!" ”

As he spoke, Su Jiakang looked around and said, "In this way, we will have room for maneuver!" ”

At first, everyone didn't quite understand, but when they heard Su Jiakang say the words 'room for maneuver', everyone woke up.

Yes, is it important to hunt down the pseudo-Tang thief army now?

It is indeed important, but it has become less important than retaking Zhengtai County.

However, some people will muttered in their hearts, it is important to recapture Zhengtai County, but it is also important to pursue the main force of the puppet Tang thief army, anyway, we have a lot of troops, and we can directly divide our troops, one to recover Zhengtai County, and one to pursue the thief army.

There are many people who think like this, but none of them dare to say it at this time, Su Jiakang has given orders, you are talking nonsense at this time, isn't this a slap in the face of Su Jiakang.

And besides, if you divide your troops to pursue, the risk is not small, there are more than 500 people in the pseudo-Tang thief army, and you don't know who will fight who if you want to go less, if you are accidentally ambushed by the pseudo-Tang thief army, it will be a big deal.

So the people kept their mouths shut!

And Su Jiakang muttered in his heart, of course Lao Tzu knew that he might divide his troops to chase him, but if he divided his troops to chase Li Xuan, the bastard would immediately slaughter the city!

The best choice for the current plan is to take back the first Zhengtai County, so that the pseudo-Tang thief army will continue to threaten him with the slaughter of the city, and after recapturing Zhengtai County, the next step is to continue to pursue and kill the pseudo-Tang thief army.

Reaching an agreement with the puppet Tang thief army is just an expedient measure, as long as he ensures that there will be no massacre in the city, he will immediately send troops to pursue the puppet Tang thief army.

The Ming army outside the city also acted quickly at this time, and a large number of Ming troops were called, and then launched an attack on Zhengtai County again with torches.

And at this time, Bai Yunqi at the head of the city watched many Ming soldiers outside the city rushing up with torches, and they dared to continue to stay in the city, so they ran away with more than 50 people after the break.

Anyway, he couldn't hold it if he stayed in the city, and since the main force of the Ming army did not pursue the main force of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, but attacked the city, then the safety of the main force was initially guaranteed.

If you don't go now, wait for when

As soon as the puppet Tang thieves left, hundreds of people who had been detained all night in the city also fled in a swarm.

For a while, the city of Zhengtai County fell into chaos again!

It didn't take long for Su Jiakang to take people into Zhengtai County, and after entering the county seat, he didn't even have time to go to the county office, but ordered on the spot: "Immediately send troops to pursue the puppet Tang thief army, and be sure to leave the puppet emperor Li Xuan behind!" ”

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