The officials of the Tang Dynasty, especially some officials at the middle and low levels, were not as loyal to the Tang Dynasty as Sun Yawei imagined.

So someone ran out that night to descend to Ming, and then after revealing a lot of information to the Ming army, he successfully became the ghost of the Ming army.

It is not a pity for them to die, whether it is the side of the Tang Dynasty or the Ming army, it is impossible to have a good impression of the traitors, but after they escaped from the city, they revealed a lot of information to the Ming army.

The most important of these is that there are no regular troops in the city to defend the city at this time, and there are only three or four hundred thieves and a large number of young people.

"A poaching camp? Isn't it just the official in the puppet Tang thief army! After hearing that there was no regular army of the pseudo-Tang thief army in the city, the confidence of the generals of the Ming army outside the city instantly increased.

These original Ming troops from the west all the way, when they were on the road, they also heard the intelligence of many officials and the puppet Tang thief army, most of which came from the mouth of Song Zhiwen, as well as some rumors, these rumors all focused on one thing, that is, the firearms of the puppet Tang thief army were sharp.

Coupled with the fiasco of Song Zhiwen, Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion fell one after another, resulting in not many Ming troops would despise the firearms of the puppet Tang thief army.

But what they attach importance to is only the firearms of the puppet Tang thief army, and at the same time, there are many people who hold the same point of view, that is, they think that the puppet Tang thief army is just relying on the benefits of firearms, and other aspects should not be very strong, and the use of firearms is inconvenient, and the enemy is only a few shots, and as long as they can rush up to fight hand-to-hand during the war, they will definitely be able to break the thief army.

At the beginning, Song Zhiwen must have been stupid to stand in place and compete with the pseudo-Tang thief army in medium and long-range firepower, which would lead to a fiasco.

They didn't know that in fact, when Song Zhiwen led his troops to fight against the puppet Tang thief army, he suffered several fiascos, of course, because of the sharp firearms of the puppet Tang thief army, but there was also a very important point that they could not stop the spear and bayonet charge of the puppet Tang thief army.

Basically, in large-scale battles, although the firearms of the Datang New Army performed well, it was often hand-to-hand charges that laid the foundation of the battle.

For example, in the recent Battle of the Tonggu Acropolis, the cavalry charged against the wall, and the Fifth Infantry Battalion under the Second Infantry Regiment launched a hand-to-hand counterattack against Qiu Yu's troops.

A hand-to-hand assault charge jointly launched by the Chinese Commando and the 1st Infantry Corps.

This series of brutal, hand-to-hand charges launched in dense formations was actually the most crucial factor in the victory on several occasions.

Although muskets and artillery also play a large role, theoretically speaking, they are still not the decisive factor!

But why did the Ming army have the impression that the puppet Tang thieves had sharp firearms and hand-to-hand combat, this is because the firearms of the Tang New Army were too eye-catching.

Guns, this battle is quite powerful, it is easy to give people an illusion that all the victories of the Datang New Army are fought by musketeers and artillery, and other arms are played with soy sauce.

But in fact, this kind of mistake, and it is very wrong!

The main force in hand-to-hand combat in the Datang New Army, but the spearmen, especially the heavily armored spearmen, are the core and main force in the regular army of the Datang New Army.

For example, the musketeers' close-range salvo in battle is actually to create favorable conditions for the charge of the heavily armored spearmen!

From many examples, we can know that the most powerful thing in the Datang New Army is not musket shooting, artillery shooting, etc., but spear and bayonet charge!

As we all know, the Datang New Army has always liked to engage in the field, and is unwilling to play defensive operations or tough battles, because only this kind of regular decisive battle in the field can maximize the power of the Datang New Army's bayonets and spears to charge intensively.

At the same time, it can also exert the power of muskets and artillery.

But this kind of thing, it is often difficult for outsiders to understand clearly, and now regardless of whether it is the Ming army that has been defeated or has not been in contact with the puppet Tang thief army, it is only one-sided that the puppet Tang thief army has sharp firearms, but the firearms are sharp!

And most of the firearms units of the puppet Tang thief army are concentrated in their so-called few infantry regiments!

The Ming army also has a little understanding of the number of the puppet Tang thief army, and knows that the puppet Tang thief army has several units called 'infantry regiments', and these troops have a large number of firearms troops.

However, the robbery camp is only an auxiliary military force similar to that of the government officials and county warriors, and it is absolutely impossible to have any firearms, and even if there are estimates, there are not many.

After knowing that the puppet Tang thief army in the city was just a group of officials, county warriors, and people, the Ming army outside the city was unwilling to continue to wait.

Early the next morning, hundreds of people were sent to the city to try to launch an attack to test the reality of the puppet Tang thief army in the city.

Well, the main thing is to see if there are any firearms troops of the pseudo-Tang thief army in the city, and if so, how many are there?

If there are many firearms troops of the puppet Tang thief army in the city, they will turn around and leave without saying a word, the firearms of the puppet Tang thief army are sharp, and their current strength is only a thousand people, and it is easy to suffer losses if they fight, in case there are many dead and wounded, it will be difficult to handle.

In this case, they would rather wait for a day or two more, and wait for the follow-up troops to come up before launching a counterattack on Liping Mansion City, after all, Liping Mansion City is here, and they can't run if they want to.

But if there are not a large number of firearms troops of the pseudo-Tang thief army in the city, then they will have to plan a formal siege of the city, and maybe if one of them is not good, they will be able to easily defeat the city of Lipingfu.

And the next situation surprised the generals of the Ming army on the opposite side, the hundreds of people they sent rushed all the way to the city wall, and even some people began to climb to the top of the city, but the pseudo-Tang thief army in the city still did not shoot.

Although this tentative attack ended in failure and lost more than 20 people, it could not hide the joy on the faces of the Ming generals.

It's all a credit, a great credit!

The puppet Tang thief army in the city is only hundreds of old and weak, and the combat strength is weak, just now he just sent a few hundred people to test the attack, and he almost beat it, if he increases his strength, won't he be able to easily take Liping Mansion!

This is equivalent to the credit of picking it up for nothing, and it is also a great credit!

The puppet Tang thief army has successively captured Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion, and so far, no one has been able to achieve any big victories, let alone conquer Liping Mansion City and Xingquan Mansion City.

That is, I heard that some time ago, the friendly forces in the north took the Acropolis of the Bronze Drum!

But how can the Bronze Drum Acropolis be compared to the Liping Mansion City?

Is it not good at the same level, how can a small and broken earthen city be compared with the seat of a government?

The friendly army in the north has just taken a bronze drum acropolis, but if they take the city of Liping Mansion on their side, they will definitely be able to show their faces in front of the governor, and it will not be a dream to be promoted and make a fortune at that time!

At this time, these Ming army forwards under the city of Liping Mansion did not know that the Ming army in the north had been defeated, after all, it was only three days after the Battle of the Tonggu Acropolis.

Moreover, after the defeat of the Ming army in the north, it was too late to even flee for their lives, and there was time and mood to report to the friendly forces in the west that they had fought a big defeat.

As for the grapevine, there was no news, because the two places were dozens of miles apart, and the most important thing was that at that time, the vicinity of the Tonggu Acropolis was a decisive battlefield for the armies of both sides, and the idlers and others did not dare to approach at all, and they could not approach.

At that time, there were actually no ordinary people in the vicinity of the Acropolis of Tonggu, and even in the Acropolis of Tonggu, and even if there were, they hid at home trembling and did not dare to come out.

Therefore, if you want to learn the results of the battle on the Acropolis of the Bronze Drum through the grapevine, I am afraid that it will be necessary to wait for several days.

Therefore, the rout of the Ming army on the North Road did not affect the confidence of the Ming army on the West Road in the slightest, because they did not know that the Ming army on the North Road had been defeated.

In the morning of the same day, the Ming army outside the city hurriedly had lunch in advance, and after preparing to let the soldiers have enough to eat and drink, they began to launch a general attack on the city of Lipingfu and seek a great feat.

The movement of the Ming army outside the city was naturally seen by Sun Yawei and other officials and soldiers guarding the city in the city.

Standing on the bloodstained city wall, Sun Yawei's face was not very good-looking, even if he knew that he could not hold the city of Liping Mansion for too long, but he didn't expect that it was just the first day, and he would face the danger of breaking the city.

The battle in the morning was just a tentative attack for the Ming army outside the city, but for the new army of the Tang Dynasty, it was an extremely uncomfortable defensive battle.

They did their best to drive these Ming troops off the city!

However, although the Ming army retreated, they left fifty or sixty casualties on the side of the Datang New Army!

Don't look at the number of casualties, but the dead and wounded are all soldiers of the hunting camp, which can be said to be a traumatic injury for the capture camp.

After all, there are only less than 400 people in the robbery camp!

"Master Sun, what should we do now?"

"Now that the general attack of the puppet Ming thief army is imminent, I'm afraid this battle will be difficult to fight!"

"Yes, even if I can stand it this time, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep it for the second time!"

Listening to the fearful words of the officials under his command, Sun Yawei turned his head to look around at everyone, and then stared at everyone and said loudly: "I am the Tang Dynasty by the mandate of heaven, Your Majesty came out by the dragon, and on the day of his accession to the throne, there will be a phoenix to come to the court, this is an unprecedented thing, only my emperor encounters it, and these ancient saints must lead us to replace them!"

As the officials and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, we have no reason to be afraid of fighting, and we will fight when we encounter the enemy! ”

Speaking of this, he paused, then took a deep breath, and said with a righteous face: "The soldiers in the city are worthy of being the fierce generals of my Tang Dynasty, so as to live up to Your Majesty's high expectations, and the people's expectations will be blatantly repelled in the morning The attack of the thieves was repelled, and the many people were killed. ”

When everyone listened to his words, several people's legs began to tremble, and they were even unable to stand steadily!