Chapter two hundred and ninth, inexplicably hit it down
Seeing that his cavalry squad was following the retreating Ming army towards the city gate, Li Xuan didn't feel happy at all, but his face was full of anger!
This was not only because Li Xuan never planned to actually attack Zhengtai County from the beginning to the end, but also because the cavalry team's actions were completely self-initiated. He never ordered the cavalry to follow the retreating Ming army into the city.
It is very obvious that the cavalry captain Cao Mingda saw the opportunity to follow the Ming army into the city during the pursuit, so he decided to continue the pursuit without asking Li Xuan and wanted to follow the Ming army into the city.
This is clear disobedience!
Damn it, Cao Mingda, that bastard, shouldn't have let this man serve as the captain of the cavalry in the first place, even if Fang Dongquan strongly recommended it, he shouldn't have agreed to it in the first place.
This Cao Mingda is a veteran bandit in Huangzhu Mountain. Because he knows a little riding skills, he became a cavalryman when the cavalry team was established at the beginning of the year. And because he is old enough and has Fang Dongquan’s hard work
recommended, so Cao Mingda became the first captain of the cavalry squad.
Because of his outstanding martial arts skills and his courage to fight, this man personally led the cavalry squad to fight against the Ming army's scouts many times and killed several Ming army scouts. His bravery was like that of Chen Butcher.
But this man was different from Butcher Chen. Even Li Xuan was a little reluctant to appoint him as the captain of the cavalry team because this man was not very obedient.
This disobedience does not only mean that he does not listen to Li Xuan, but he also doesn't listen to Fang Dongquan very much. He always likes to make his own decisions. In the past few times, he led the cavalry to chase the Ming army's reconnaissance cavalry without authorization.
But seeing that this man was brave enough to fight and had impressive military exploits, Li Xuan always turned a blind eye to his self-assertion.
But what Li Xuan didn't expect was that on such an important occasion today, Cao Mingda would pursue the Ming army without regard to the overall situation.
And more importantly, because the incident happened suddenly and the distance was short, by the time Li Xuan discovered that he was chasing after him with his cavalry squad, it was already too late to stop him.
At this time, the cavalry squad had already followed the Ming army cavalry and rushed onto the suspension bridge!
The Ming army also discovered that the situation was critical, and Xu County Prime Minister immediately ordered the city gate to be closed. For this reason, he did not hesitate to abandon the Ming army cavalry still outside the city, in order to avoid letting those puppets
The cavalry of the Tang rebel army followed them into the city.
Once the cavalry of the Pseudo-Tang rebels are allowed to follow them in, it will be impossible to close the city gate again, because the Puppet-Tang rebels dozens of steps behind will come forward to respond in a very short time.
The Ming soldiers behind the city gate struggled to close the city gate under the loud scolding of Xu Xian Cheng, but at this time it was too late to close the city gate again.
It was not Cao Mingda's cavalry that blocked them, but the Ming army's own cavalry that blocked them!
Those Ming army cavalry did not want to be locked out. After rushing onto the suspension bridge, they rushed towards the city gate that was only half open without slowing down at all. The leader of the army, a man from Baihu wearing armor, even shouted: "Get out of the way for me."
open!"
After a while, the horse jumped in through the half-open city gate, and even bumped into two soldiers who were trying to close the city gate. After the hundred households entered the city, the cavalry behind them entered one after another.
After the Ming Army cavalry, there is the Tang Army cavalry team led by Cao Mingda!
When several Ming army officers at the city gate saw that they could no longer close the city gate, they shouted: "Quick, rush up and block the city gate!"
Since the city gate can no longer be closed, the only option is to have it blocked!
What happened at the gate of the city made Li Xuan behind him feel angry and worried at the same time.
Cao Mingda's death is not a pity, but this cavalry team of about ten people cannot be lost at the gate of the city. They must be brought back.
He immediately said to the messenger: "Let the cavalry retreat immediately, and have General Chen attack to prepare to meet the cavalry squad!"
"Let the musketeers and archers keep suppressing the city, and never let an enemy archer take the lead!"
Although the cavalry team's unauthorized attack on the city came too fast and completely destroyed Li Xuan's original plan, at this time he had no time to punish Cao Mingda or regret and complain. The most important thing now was to withdraw the cavalry team.
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As the order was passed down, several messengers on the front line began to ring gold. This was a signal for the cavalry to withdraw its troops and retreat!
After hearing the ringing signal, Cao Mingda at the front seemed to wake up and immediately shouted: "Retreat...retreat..."
But he soon discovered that he couldn't retreat now even if he wanted to lead people to retreat.
Because at this time, his cavalry squad had crossed the suspension bridge and was rushing towards the city gate. A few fast runners had even rushed into the city gate. The high-speed horses knocked away several Ming soldiers in a row.
Others were also riding high-speed charging horses. It was impossible to stop as soon as they stopped. Even if they wanted to turn halfway and pass under the city wall, it was impossible because there were tall barriers on both sides of the city gate.
As for turning around and retreating, that is even more nonsense. I have never seen charging cavalry turn around and then retreat. They usually make sharp turns and retreat, just like the previous Ming army cavalry, but because
With the horses on both sides, Cao Mingda and the others were unable to turn.
Under the current circumstances, he could either force a stop, abandon the brothers who had already rushed forward, and escape with the remaining people under the counterattack of the enemy's bows and arrows. How far he could escape was unknown, or he could bite the bullet.
Continue to rush forward and fight with the Ming army, wait for the support of the main force, and then look for opportunities to retreat.
After the previous impulse disappeared, Cao Mingda also became afraid. He was afraid that his cavalry team would be damaged here, and he was even more afraid that his own life would be lost here.
At this time, he turned around and looked back, and saw Butcher Chen running towards him with dozens of sword, shield and spear soldiers. He immediately gritted his teeth and said, "Brothers, hold on, General Chen and the others are already here."
Bring someone here to support us!"
While he was talking, he and the remaining cavalry rushed into the city gate, and the fierce fighting he expected did not appear. He originally thought that there should be a large number of Ming troops behind the city gate trying to stop them in a dense formation.
But this situation did not happen. When he crossed the half-open city gate, what he saw was an open space, and the Ming army was fleeing in all directions!
How can we not escape? There were originally forty or fifty people at the city gate, and they were all guardsmen of the Ming army. Their combat effectiveness was not bad. However, the front was attacked by more than twenty cavalry of our own, and the queue was scattered and scattered.
Several people were killed or injured.
Later, they were attacked by more than ten cavalrymen from Cao Mingda, and it was difficult for them not to collapse!
Looking at the fleeing Ming army and the completely open city gate, Cao Mingda was a little confused: They were defeated inexplicably?
At this time, a cavalryman beside him also hesitated and said to Cao Mingda: "Captain, are we still retreating?"
Cao Mingda hesitated. This time he really hesitated. As the captain of the cavalry, he was also qualified to participate in the military meeting. He also knew the strategic intentions of Emperor Li Xuan and big bosses such as Fang Dongquan and Wang Shanxu, which was to only fight
If we don't attack, we will attack Zhengtai County, but we will mainly kill and injure enemy personnel and exert pressure on the Ming army. We have no plans to actually attack the city, so as not to cause shock to the Ming court officials and attract a large army to encircle and suppress them.
Therefore, for his own strategic purposes, he needs to lead his people to retreat.
But he has clearly captured the city gate, and the enemy army has been defeated. It can be said that more than half of Zhengtai County has been captured. As long as Chen Tufu and others follow up, Zhengtai County can hang the flag of the Tang Dynasty.
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He is not willing to retreat like this!
He hesitated for a full three seconds, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Withdraw!"
He still doesn't know that Li Xuan in the rear looked angry and frightened when he saw that Cao Mingda and the others had completely captured the city gate. He could already imagine that after Zhengtai County was captured by him, the Ming court was shocked, and then countless Ming troops came from all directions.
They flocked towards the small place of Zhengtai County.
In the end, if his Tang Dynasty was completely submerged, he would be captured by the Ming army and sent to the capital, where he would be punished by Lingchi.
Cao Mingda, this bastard, I will punish him from all nine tribes!
But then, when he saw Cao Mingda leading the cavalry out of the city gate, he breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, this Cao Mingda was not so confused after all. Otherwise, Li Xuan would have dared to kill this man on the spot.
Killed.
He was even prepared to have the musketeers aim at the cavalry squad. If they did not retreat, he would shoot directly and kill them all.
Compared with causing shock to the Ming army and leading to the destruction of the Tang Dynasty, it is completely acceptable to directly shoot a cavalry squad of more than ten people.
However, Li Xuan had already made up his mind. Even if Cao Mingda retreated with his men and did not disobey the order in a strict sense, his act of making the decision without authorization was intolerable to him and he must be removed from his post immediately.
The cavalry of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty came and went quickly. They had just rushed into the city gate, and they filed out of the city gate in less than half a minute, leaving behind a city gate that had been completely opened!
Xu Xian Cheng looked at the puppet Tang rebels coming in like a tide and receding like a tide, with his mouth half open for a long time and was speechless.
He could not understand the behavior of the Puppet Tang thief army, but he knew that if these Puppet Tang thief army could break through the city gate once, they would be able to break through the city gate a second time, facing the Puppet Tang thief army's own soldiers and young men.
It can't be stopped at all.
There were more than fifty people defending the city gate just now, but when faced with the cavalry attack of the puppet Tang rebel army, they collapsed without even being able to hold on for a few breaths. This made him unable to muster the confidence to defend Zhengtai County.
The retreat of the puppet Tang rebel army did not make Xu County Cheng happy, but made him even more worried!
This time the puppet Tang rebel army retreated inexplicably, but what about next time?
Mr. Su and the others are there now. If they don't lead the army back, Zhengtai County will really be unable to defend it!
Xu Xiancheng didn't know, and Li Xuan didn't know either, but Su Jiakang was leading more than a thousand Ming troops to rush towards the back of the new army of the Tang Dynasty. Its forward was only five miles away from the new army of the Tang Dynasty!