Until the last moment, he still didn't understand why he was defeated!
Until all the soldiers under his command turned and ran away, he still didn't understand why they ran away!
Until Wang Danxu stood in front of him, Wu Baihu still looked confused. He didn't understand how everything happened in front of him.
He was like a child lost in the deep forest, standing there looking around blankly, his eyes empty!
He stood there holding a long knife that was still dripping with blood. The armor on his body had several gaps and was stained with blood that was not known to be his own or someone else's.
He raised his head and saw Wang Danxu riding a horse not far away. Wang Danxu showed a look of contempt, as if he was laughing at his overestimation of his abilities.
After being confused, Wu Baihu let out a strange scream, and then continued to charge towards the puppet Tang bandit army in front!
He was like a fish struggling to swim upstream in the rapids. He ignored the fleeing friendly forces behind him and just rushed forward with his long knife in hand!
Wang Danxu, who was riding a horse, looked at the hundreds of Ming troops rushing towards him in front of him, with a hint of sneer on his lips!
A few seconds later, there were several bloody holes in Wu Baihu's body. The row of spearmen in front of Wang Danxu stabbed Wu Baihu with a decisive and neat thrust, which made several bloody holes appear in Wu Baihu's body!
Wang Danxu didn't even look at the hundreds of Ming soldiers who had fallen into a pool of blood. As he was riding on his horse, he had already focused his attention on the large number of Ming soldiers who were escaping in front of him.
He immediately said loudly: "Catch up and try to catch as many as possible alive!"
There are at least three to four hundred Ming troops fleeing in the front. We can't let them all escape. It's not that these people will cause any trouble to the Huangzhushan bandits after they escape. Most of these people who escaped are civilians and county officials. Yong, these people are not in any danger to begin with. As for the regular troops of the guard who escaped, there are not many, and they are all frightened. How can they muster up the courage to fight against the Tang Dynasty King in the future?
The reason why Wang Danxu asked his men to catch up with them was, more importantly, to capture prisoners to replenish the population of the Tang Dynasty. He also wanted to take away the large amount of military supplies and supplies here.
There was a lot of grain seized. The Ming Army's grain transport team originally needed hundreds of civilians to transport it. Now this grain has fallen into the hands of the Huangzhushan bandits, and the Huangzhushan bandits cannot take away so much. After all, they brought a lot of food with them on the expedition. Not long ago, they attacked a Ming army's food transport team and seized a lot of food.
With so much food and other baggage suddenly appearing, Huangzhushan's own baggage personnel alone could no longer carry it.
As for letting combatants carry food and other baggage, this is not advisable.
The weight of the soldiers is not low. In addition to carrying their own weapons, everyone usually carries enough dry food and drinking water for several days.
If you help the baggage soldiers carry a lot of baggage, it will consume too much physical strength.
The nearly four hundred soldiers need to maintain sufficient physical strength at all times to be ready for battle. Otherwise, if they encounter a sudden battle and lack physical strength, they will be completely ruined.
Wang Danxu and other generals want to capture more prisoners, especially those civilian prisoners. After all, if they capture the Ming army's regular troops, they will have to work hard to recruit them. If they don't surrender, these soldiers will not be easy to deal with. Take them with you. You have to worry about whether they will bite you back.
But if the captive is a civilian, it will be much easier to deal with.
After all, civilians were just ordinary people who were temporarily recruited to transport military supplies. They were not trained, and they didn't even have weapons. Their will to resist was weaker than that of the regular army, and they were also more afraid of death.
Huangzhushan only needs a few people to keep an eye on them and let them transport the captured grain away.
We don't even need soldiers from the standing army and the Guards to guard them, just the old and weak bandits in the baggage train. Although those old and weak bandits are old and cannot fight in battle like the young and strong ones, but no matter what, they
They are all bandits, and they will not show mercy when it comes to killing people. It is not a problem to use them to guard civilians who have little resistance.
It's a pity that those Ming troops ran too fast. After chasing for a long time, the King of Tang Dynasty could only capture less than a hundred people, and the rest ran away to no one knows where.
In order to avoid being too far away from most people, Wang Danxu came back with his people after half a day.
At this time, the Huangzhushan bandits who stayed behind on the battlefield had already cleaned up the battlefield. After Fang Dongquan, Liu Bagou and the others reunited with Wang Danxu, they would formally report to Li Xuan the harvest of this battle.
"Your Majesty, in this battle our army killed a total of thirty-six people of the puppet Ming army, injured countless others, and captured one hundred and thirty people. In addition, we seized more than two hundred knives, spears, swords and other weapons, and more than thirty strong bows.
, twelve pieces of armor, more than two hundred loads of food, and a lot of other arrows and muskets!" After Qian Mengjiu, the Minister of War, finished counting, he immediately said: "What a great victory in this battle!"
Hearing this number, Li Xuan nodded slightly, but there was no obvious expression of ecstasy on his face, just a faint smile.
This is not to say that he is unhappy, but this battle has been going on for a long time. As early as the battle just started, he already knew that he could probably predict today's results. He had already laughed wildly. He couldn't keep acting like a fool.
Just keep laughing.
So after he was happy, he naturally would not continue to lose his temper in front of his subordinates!
After all, as an emperor, even if he is a mountain emperor, he must always maintain the majesty of the emperor in front of his ministers. If he just smiles like a fool after winning a battle casually, doesn't this make ministers like Fang Dongquan look down upon him?
After being the emperor for so long, Li Xuan has gradually figured out how to be a good mountain emperor!
"Thank you for your hard work in today's battle!" Li Xuan said with a smile: "Especially the soldiers fighting on the front line!"
Immediately Fang Dongquan said: "I am just following orders. The victory in this battle depends entirely on your Majesty's wisdom!"
Wang Danxu also took a step forward and said: "The results of the Guards today are all due to His Majesty's wise and wise personal training and guidance, otherwise the soldiers of the Guards would never be as powerful as they are today!"
Liu Bagou also held his head high and went out and said: "Your Majesty is the only sage king in the past thousand years. Thunder and rain have spread all over the fields. The king's army has received rain and dew from your Majesty, and the puppet army of the Ming Dynasty has received your thunder. It is all thanks to the emperor's grace!"
Liu Bagou, the leader of the hundred officials, spoke, and naturally Wang Wenhua, a bitch, was not to be outdone. He quickly stepped forward and kept spouting a lot of complimentary words.
So the next period of time became a time for the emperors and ministers of the Tang Dynasty to praise each other.
Li Xuan said that Liu Bagou, Wang Danxu and other civil servants and generals were loyal and capable, and they were really the bones of the Tang Dynasty.
Liu Bagou and the others looked moved and said that Your Majesty's wisdom and martial prowess were the only factors that led to the victory of this battle. We, the ministers, just did some inconspicuous things.
After the group of people complimented each other for a full quarter of an hour, they stopped. By this time, the army had packed up and was ready to leave.
Just like the last time they attacked the Ming Army's grain transport team, this time the Tang Dynasty King's Division still quickly left after attacking the Ming Army's grain transport team.
This is to avoid encountering the main force of the Ming army.
Attacking the Ming Army's grain transport team and attacking the Ming Army's main force are two different things.
The previous Ming Army grain transport team seemed to have a lot of people, with hundreds of people, but the real Ming Army actually numbered more than a hundred people, and the rest were civilians who were brought in temporarily and did not even have weapons.
If the main force of the Ming army came with hundreds of people, it is hard to say whether these bandits in Huangzhushan could defeat them.
Li Xuan estimates that it is very likely that he will fail miserably!
Because among the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain, there are very few who can fight. The Guards are worthy of being the main force, but there are only more than ninety people in the Guards.
Of the standing army of more than 300 people left, the only ones who could fight and dared to fight were the twenty or thirty tough bandits led by Butcher Chen, and the rest were just scum.
If these people of the standing army are fighting against the wind, such as ambushes, they will be fine, but in a head-on confrontation, their combat effectiveness will plummet. They are no match for the regular Ming army. Even the Ming army itself is just a group of serf-like guardsmen.
The combat effectiveness of the standing army can at best only deal with county warriors, civilian men and the like. A head-on confrontation with the regular army is basically impossible to count on. If we insist on fighting, the end will be very tragic.
This can be seen from the previous exchanges between more than 70 archers of the standing army and more than 40 archers of the Ming army. The more than 70 archers of the standing army of the Tang Dynasty were defeated by more than 40 archers of the Ming army.
If Wang Danxu hadn't ordered the Guards' musketeers to fire a round of volleys and then ordered the charge to begin, it is estimated that the more than 70 archers of the standing army would have completely collapsed after suffering a round of arrows, which would have caused a panic in the entire standing army.
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Judging from the situation of this battle, the standing army really makes Li Xuan lose any confidence!
The standing army was not very good, and the strength of the Guards was too small, so Li Xuan naturally did not want to encounter the main force of the Ming army. The only way to clean the battlefield and leave with the captured goods was to clear the battlefield.
The Ming army's grain transport team was attacked again, and dozens of people were killed and injured. More than a hundred people were captured and all the grain transported was lost. When the news reached Su Jiakang's ears, he was furious.
"Diao Leixun is a loser. With so many people guarding the grain road, he can actually let the puppet Tang bandits go around to the back and attack the grain transport team!" Su Jiakang was very angry now!
If the attack on the grain transport team last time was just an accident, then the attack on the grain transport team this time is a typical failure of responsibility.
There was only a hundred miles of food roads along the way. He sent Diao Leixun to guard a thousand households and hundreds of counties. Even if they were guarding in sections, they had enough troops. In this case, they could still let the puppet Tang Dynasty
The thieves took advantage of the opportunity.
"We can't let those damn pseudo-Tang bandits mess around in the back, we must find them and kill them!"
While Su Jiakang was getting angry and thinking about how to find Li Xuan and the others, Li Xuan, Liu Bagou and the others were also discussing what to do next!