In Zhengtai County, there can still be more than a hundred Ming troops. In addition to the Ming troops from Longhua Town and Zhengtai County, the only Ming troops coming from the opposite city are the Ming troops.
Longhua Town and Zhengtai County are the key monitoring areas of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. There are spies from the New Army of the Tang Dynasty monitoring both inside and outside the city day and night.
Therefore, the Ming army in Longhua Town and Zhengtai County only sent a few people to disguise themselves and sneak away. The New Army of the Tang Dynasty may not be able to detect it, but if the other party sends more than a hundred troops out of the city, those spies can immediately
After discovering it, he immediately passed the news to Li Xuan.
This is why Li Xuan's first reaction was not that the Zhengtai Ming Army, but that the Fucheng Ming Army sneaked across the river.
It is impossible for Zhengtai's Ming army to escape the surveillance of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, which can be called a dragnet, and thus send more than a hundred Ming troops quietly. Only the Ming army on the other side of the Lanjiang River can do this.
But where did these Ming troops cross the river from, and when did they cross the river?
The grain collection team was attacked, and the infantry team of nearly a hundred people was defeated. They threw away the food they had grabbed and fled in panic, and also lost more than 20 people. Although Li Xuan was also concerned about this matter, he did not arrive.
To the point where he pays attention and worries.
What really worries him is that if this Ming army is really the Fucheng Ming army, does it mean that the Fucheng Ming army has another channel for crossing the river? Where is this place? Will the main force of the Ming army follow it?
Suddenly everyone crossed the river through this passage?
These problems are more critical and even fatal.
Thinking of this, Li Xuan immediately asked Zeng Ziwen beside him: "Zeng Aiqing, has there been any change in the Ming army opposite? Have their troops been reduced?"
Zeng Ziwen had also been listening to the conversation between Li Xuan and the reconnaissance cavalry. Although he did not interrupt, he knew the details of the matter and immediately said: "Your Majesty, our army has people paying close attention to the Ming army on the other side of the river day and night. Yesterday
A group of people who crossed the river at noon are still lurking on the other side of the river to observe the Ming army. Since the puppet Ming rebel army arrived yesterday, there has been no sign of them leaving in large numbers!"
Hearing this, Li Xuan frowned. This was not a good sign, and it was a very bad sign, because it meant that this sudden appearance was obviously not the Ming army that arrived on the other side of the river yesterday. It might be someone else.
Ming army from somewhere?
But no matter how Li Xuan guesses now, he can't guess where this Ming army of more than a hundred people came from!
Soon he summoned Cao Mingda: "Lead the cavalry team to find the Ming army and report the news at any time!"
As for what to do after finding these Ming troops, what else can they do? Get rid of them. We can't let such a Ming army of more than a hundred people wander around their logistics lines. Then they have to worry about their logistics lines being attacked every day!
Just when Li Xuan made relevant arrangements because the grain collection team was attacked, in a small village with only dozens of households more than thirty miles away from them, a young man wearing the uniform of a hundred households of the Ming Army was grinning.
He smiled and said: "Haha, there are rumors outside about how sharp the puppet Tang bandits are, but today it seems that they are nothing more than that!"
"Young master, you led the army well and took the lead in killing the enemy bravely. It is natural that the puppet Tang thief army was defeated. In this battle, our army killed the 30th level of the puppet Tang thief army with one hundred and fifty people. It can be called a great victory!"
"Immediately, there was a middle-aged commander beside him and complimented with a smile.
But when he said this, there was a hint of worry in his eyes!
Perhaps seeing the worry in his eyes, the young man said: "Why, Uncle Yun has something unspeakable to say, please tell me!"
Immediately, the middle-aged general, who was called Uncle Yun, said: "Sir, there are rumors outside that the Puppet Tang thief army has sharp guns, but the Puppet Tang thief army we ambush before did not have such guns.
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The young master didn't take it seriously: "Isn't this a good thing? This shows that the puppet Tang rebel army does not have many fire guns, maybe only a few dozen. Their fire guns can hit so far and are so powerful.
It’s huge and must have cost a lot of money to build. It would be a lot to have dozens of them. Such expensive weapons must be at the Lanjiang Ferry. How could they have time to come to us?”
This person's guess was more than half correct. There really weren't many muskets in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. So far, only the First Infantry Battalion of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty was equipped with almost two hundred muskets, while the Second Infantry Battalion and
Although the 3rd Infantry Battalion has two musketeers and is trained as a musketeer, they are not equipped with muskets in batches for the time being. Normal training requires sharing muskets with the 1st Infantry Battalion.
Therefore, the total number of muskets owned by the New Army of the Tang Dynasty totaled only about two hundred, which was completely different from the rumor that the New Army of the Tang Dynasty had only one musket.
But even so, it is enough to support the current combat power of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. If the New Army of the Tang Dynasty can have more than a thousand muskets, Li Xuan will dare to attack Xingquan Mansion, and he will be confident to fight in the face of the encirclement and suppression of tens of thousands of Ming troops.
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But now, there are fewer new soldiers in the Tang Dynasty, fewer muskets, and without the advantage of weapons and military strength, they can only be cowardly and hide in Zhengtai County to stabilize their foundation first.
Just as Zeng Ziwen once said, if Li Xuan is given a few months to run Zhengtai County, then the Tang Dynasty will be able to control at least tens of thousands of people in the surrounding area and recruit at least thousands of soldiers.
Great things can happen, but they will be much better than what they are now.
But now the Ming army did not give Li Xuan so much time. The Ming army in Fucheng came over, and another Ming army appeared behind him out of nowhere.
This made Li Xuan greatly puzzled and at the same time extremely vigilant!
The most terrifying thing is not the powerful enemies, but the enemies that appear out of nowhere, because this means that you don’t know if a large group of enemies will suddenly appear next moment!
The unknown is the scariest thing!
And this kind of unknown is what Li Xuan hates. As the emperor of the Tang Dynasty and the supreme commander of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, he needs to control the overall situation and understand the surrounding information to make the best choice.
And the current unknown is enough to affect his subsequent judgment. For example, if he is determined to let the Ming army do something big, and a group of Ming army suddenly appears from behind, it doesn't need to be many, just a few.
If hundreds of people come from behind and kill them, the new army of the Tang Dynasty will be finished.
This kind of thing is absolutely not allowed by Li Xuan. Therefore, finding and annihilating the Ming army that suddenly came out has become Li Xuan's top priority.