However, although eight thousand people have been evacuated urgently, Liping City is still the Liping City of the Tang Dynasty, and Sun Yawei has not left yet.
He was planning to continue to lead the bandits from the bandit camp to garrison the city of Liping Prefecture.
This is not to say that he was prepared to defend to the death, but that he ran away before the Ming army arrived, which would damage the majesty of the Tang Dynasty.
Furthermore, if the Ming army fails to attack, Liping City may be able to be saved.
The emergency evacuation operation is just for precaution and to prepare for the worst. To be honest, no one knows how things will develop.
Sun Yawei and the people from the bandit camp were prepared to hold on until the last moment, but the wealthy gentry in the city wanted to welcome Master Wang, but they could only think about it mentally for the time being, and did not have the courage to say it openly.
In this December, even though the weather was already extremely cold, Xingquan and Liping Prefectures were very lively. The news of the impending war could not be concealed at all, and it soon spread throughout the two prefectures, even
Throughout Guizhou and even in Guangxi and Huguang, many well-informed upper-class people, especially officials, also knew that there was a bold Li Xuan in Guizhou, who dared to proclaim himself emperor and establish a separate empire, and gathered tens of thousands of refugees to separate one side.
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And they also knew that Zhu Zhihai, the governor of Guizhou, had already raised an army of tens of thousands, and even openly announced to the outside world that an army of 100,000 was ready to attack the puppet Tang rebel army.
When the war between the New Army of the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Army reached this scale, it was actually no longer a small fight, and its influence had already spread to many places.
To the east, in the prosperous area south of the Yangtze River, many well-informed scholars who were hooked on officials were openly talking about the puppet Tang rebels in the small green building.
In their conversations, many officials would occasionally mention one or two sentences about the traitors of the Puppet Tang Dynasty. In their official documents, there was no shortage of terms such as the traitor army of the Puppet Tang Dynasty and Li Ni.
Of course, when these people thousands of miles away talked about the puppet Tang rebels, they mostly treated them as jokes or gossip.
When many people heard that a small landowner in Xingquan Prefecture openly proclaimed himself emperor and started a rebellion, their first reaction was to laugh!
This is so nonsense!
A mere country rich man dared to rebel, but now he was wiped out by the county government. Although the pseudo-Tang Li Xuan later had some ability and gathered many refugees to resist the government and the army again, such clowns probably could not
It can't last more than a few months.
Maybe a few months later, we will hear the news that the puppet Tang rebel army has been completely annihilated, the puppet emperor Li Xuan has been captured, and three thousand people have been ordered to pay tribute!
Although it was just a joke, in any case, the deeds of the Tang Dynasty had spread throughout the country with a memorial from Zhu Zhihai and the memorials of many local officials in Guizhou Prefecture, and Li Xuan's name was also widely spread.
It's a pity that this was not the prestige that Liu Bagou and the others wanted, but was instead treated as a joke and spread throughout the land of Kyushu.
But they also didn't think about it. If the Tang Dynasty was just a joke, it would have sent tens of thousands of troops to suppress the puppet Tang rebel army. In the end, the entire army was wiped out, and Song Zhiwen, who could only escape alone, would not die unjustly.
At this time, Song Zhiwen, who had been escorted to Henan by the Jinyi Guards and was about to be sent to the capital for trial, was sitting in the prison car with disheveled hair and listened carefully to a Jinyi Guard Baihu next to him: "I heard that Mr. Zhu, the governor of Guizhou, has sent 100,000 troops.
Yu, we will attack the puppet Tang rebel army in two directions. We expect that by the time we reach the capital, the puppet Tang rebel army will have been wiped out!"
However, when Song Zhiwen in the prison car heard about the 100,000 troops, he couldn't help but sneer at the corner of his mouth!
This Zhu Zhihai really dares to say that the army of 100,000 people, even if all the young men and civilian men recruited temporarily are taken into account, it is estimated that there are not 100,000 people!
He, Song Zhiwen, was an official in Guizhou and knew the situation in Guizhou very well. In order to raise troops to suppress the puppet Tang rebels, in addition to the troops he personally recruited, he also gathered troops from three or four surrounding prefectures.
There are only four to five thousand guardsmen.
Of the more than 10,000 people who participated in the war, at least half were young men and civilians. The real main force was the two to three thousand recruited soldiers. The remaining thousands of guardsmen were used to do miscellaneous tasks. As for those young men
Folks can only use it to watch plays.
In the battle against the puppet Tang thief army, the guardsmen were useless, and the young and strong civilians were useless except for wasting food. If you want to fight against the puppet Tang thief army, you must use newly recruited soldiers.
However, how many soldiers Zhu Zhihai could muster, Song Zhiwen guessed would not exceed 8,000. Apart from Fubiao, there were few other prefectures who liked training and recruiting soldiers as much as he did.
The guardsmen are estimated to be able to gather more than 10,000 soldiers!
It is estimated that there will be some of the chieftains' troops remaining, but if we add them all together, it is estimated that they will only be a little more than 20,000 people.
If he guessed correctly, the rest should all be young men and civilian men recruited temporarily.
With an army of one hundred thousand, we can only talk about it. If we fight against the puppet Tang traitor army, at most 20,000 people will go up and fight!
But I heard that the puppet Tang rebel army already had tens of thousands of soldiers. When the puppet Tang rebel army was still nestled in Zhengtai County, it already had three to four thousand soldiers. Later, after their defeat, they separatized the entire Xingquan Prefecture.
, expanding the army to 10,000 people shouldn’t be a big problem!
When Zhu Zhihai used 20,000 regular troops to fight against 10,000 puppet Tang rebels, Song Zhiwen could already foresee Zhu Zhihai's tragic end.
It is absolutely impossible for him to be better than himself!
At least he was somewhat aware of the power of the Puppet Tang thief army at the beginning, and had fought against the Puppet Tang thief army many times. Although he was defeated in the end, Song Zhiwen believed that this was the wrong choice of his strategy.
He should not have taken the initiative to cross the river in the hope of victory. During the Second Battle of Lanjiang, if he had not taken the initiative to cross the river, but stayed on the edge of the Lanjiang River, with tens of thousands of troops, the puppet Tang thieves at that time would have been defeated.
It is absolutely impossible for the army to cross the river smoothly.
At that time, the Puppet Tang thief army can be trapped in Zhengtai County. It can take as short as a few months or as long as a year. The Puppet Tang thief army will have to collapse on its own. After all, with the poverty of Zhengtai County, it is impossible to support the Puppet Tang thief army.
Thousands of people for too long.
It is a pity that at that time, I was eager to win, and the pressure on me from above was too great, so I adopted a risky and proactive strategy of crossing the river. In the end, all my main forces were lost on the west bank of the Lanjiang River, which led to the defeat not long after.
It failed to stop the puppet Tang rebels from crossing the river, resulting in the complete defeat of the entire army and the fall of Xingquan Prefecture.
If he had the chance to do it over again, Song Zhiwen would be absolutely sure to trap the puppet Tang rebels to death in Zhengtai County, and then continue to request reinforcements from above to completely annihilate the puppet Tang rebels.
But it is a pity that he has no chance. Now he is being escorted to the capital by the royal guards. It is estimated that after arriving in the capital, he will be interrogated by three halls and thrown into the sky prison. Whether he can come out alive by then depends on luck.
However, if he was defeated, could Zhu Zhihai be able to win?
joke!
Zhu Zhihai did not request the imperial court to use troops from several provinces to encircle and suppress, but only used Guizhou troops to encircle and suppress. A mere 20,000 regular troops, even if they were said to be 100,000, were of no use. By then, would they be able to defeat the tens of thousands of puppet Tang thieves?
Song Zhiwen doesn’t think so!
Zhu Zhihai, his end will definitely be worse than mine!
Thinking of this, Song Zhiwen couldn't help laughing!
Several Jin Yiwei who were chatting next to them suddenly saw Song Zhiwen laughing loudly. They all looked as if they saw a fool. One of them even muttered: This man is probably crazy!
I don’t know if Song Zhiwen is crazy or not, but Qiu Yu, the Ming army commander outside Tonggu City, is already going crazy!
Looking at the small earthen city in the distance, Qiu Yu still hasn't figured out why he has been attacking it for several days. Moreover, the puppet Tang rebel army in Tonggu City only has more than 500 people in total, but he still hasn't figured out why.
We have more than 2,000 soldiers, so why can't we defeat them?
Not to mention whether we can win or not, but more importantly, the casualties are extremely high!
After three days of fighting, Qiu Yu's 2,000 troops killed and wounded more than 200 people. Especially yesterday when he was preparing to attack Tonggu City with all his strength, more than 100 people were killed and wounded in less than a quarter of an hour after the battle began. He thought later
When he was about to force the troops to continue the attack, the Qianhu and Baihu subordinates of the troops even looked at him with suspicion.
He was not willing at all. If he continued to attack with force and there was no way to reduce casualties, these men would probably choose to mutiny without hesitation.
The reason for such heavy casualties was naturally because of the sharp firearms of the new army of the Tang Dynasty!
Long before the expedition, Qiu Yu had heard that the firearms of the puppet Tang bandits were sharp and should not be underestimated. However, it was not like he had never used firearms. The army under his command had many handguns and even bowl-mouth cannons, but the real and
After the Puppet Tang Dynasty rebel army was attacked, he realized why some people said that the Puppet Tang Dynasty rebel army's firearms were sharp.
These pseudo-Tang rebels have a kind of long-handed blunderbuss that can be held by a single soldier and is extremely powerful. It can penetrate unarmored soldiers within eighty steps, and even heavy armor can be penetrated at fifty or sixty steps.
In other words, if they want to attack the city, even if they send out the most elite heavy armored infantry, they will be shot down by the puppet Tang rebels dozens of steps away.
Not to mention that the puppet Tang rebels also placed two hundred-jin cannons on the top of the city. Judging from their style, they weighed at least one hundred and fifty kilograms and had a long range. When their own soldiers and horses launched a charge below the city, the top of the city
Once the cannons of the puppet Tang bandit army are fired, a bloody storm will start within a hundred steps.
The power was astonishing. Qiu Yu thought to himself that the only artillery that could be compared with this kind of artillery of the pseudo-Tang rebels was the Fran cannons equipped by the frontier army and the navy.
However, I heard that the puppet Tang rebels had heavy artillery of hundreds of kilograms or even thousands of kilograms. One shot can be powerful for dozens of miles. I don't know if it is true or not. If it is true, then the trouble will be big.
We can't continue to fight on our own. We must ask for reinforcements, even if we lose some face, we can't care about it. Otherwise, with these people of our own, we may not be able to take down this Bronze Drum City.
Just when Qiu Yu outside the city was worried about how to ask for reinforcements to capture Tonggu City, fulfill his responsibility as a vanguard, and open the way for the following army.
An officer of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty at the top of Tonggu City also frowned at the large number of Ming troops outside the city!
This man was wearing a major's military uniform and a collar badge. He turned his eyes away from the Ming army outside, and then looked further south. At the same time, he murmured: "The ammunition has been exhausted after several days of hard fighting. Ming
If the army attacks again, I'm afraid it won't be able to hold on for much longer. How long will it take for the reinforcements from the regiment to arrive?"