What is this Sun Yawei doing? He speaks so righteously, does he want them to continue to hold on?
If you want to die yourself, don't get involved with us!
At this time, Sun Yawei could only be heard to continue: "Today, a powerful enemy is approaching the city. We should have sacrificed our lives to become a benevolent person and gain a clear name for the rest of our lives. However, as officials of the Tang Dynasty, how can we put our private reputation in vain and consider the crisis of the country.
Now His Majesty is personally leading the army to come under the stars and the moon. Soon he will arrive to fight to the death with the puppet Ming traitor army. However, we have few major generals in the Tang Dynasty. You must not have the ambition to die. You should be useful for the follow-up decisive battle.
make an effort."
After saying this, he sighed: "I will die today without regret, for fear of ruining His Majesty's plan to annihilate the enemy!"
When everyone heard this, several people wanted to curse at the same time: Damn, what you said is so weird, it would be great to just run away. Just listening to what you said before, I thought I was going to fight to the death!
I am so surprised!
Sun Yawei's words were so righteous that everyone who listened was stunned. When they first heard it, they thought he was asking everyone to fight to the death until only the last person was left.
, But I didn’t expect that the conversation would change, and he would talk about running away and continuing to fight for His Majesty’s great cause of conquest!
Now that they had said that, their faces instantly lit up with joy, and they said in unison: "Your Excellency is wise!"
Listening to these words, Sun Yawei nodded slightly, showing an expression that said, "You won my heart!"
But in fact, he is not in a good mood now. He is planning to run away, so his mood is naturally not that good.
Originally, he thought that he could defend Liping City for a few days to buy a few more days for His Majesty. In this way, even if he was a civil servant, he would be able to gain credit for defending the territory with responsibility.
But I didn't expect that the attacking Ming army was not weak in combat power. Well, maybe the pirate camp and the young men in the city were too weak in combat power.
Sun Yawei has also seen the world. He has witnessed the battles between the New Army of the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Army many times. During the Second Battle of Lanjiang and the Battle of Crossing the River, he stood behind Li Xuan and watched the battle!
In his impression, his new army of the Tang Dynasty was quite powerful, and they won more than they lost against the Ming army.
But he also knew that the defenders in the city at this moment were not regular troops, but just more than 300 bandit camps and a group of young men.
The capture camp in the New Army system of the Tang Dynasty is, to put it bluntly, a group of government officials. It's okay to let them capture fugitives, criminal thieves, or deal with some big dogs, but if you let them fight against a large number of regular troops of the Ming army, then
It's just too forced.
Especially since this bandit-capturing camp in Liping City was established only a short time ago, and many of the people are still the original Ming army officials!
In order to gather and control the former government officials, helpers and other people under the Ming Dynasty, and also to get familiar with and start war work faster, the banditry camps of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty will absorb a large number of former government officials and even idle people from society.
After all, its main purpose is only to maintain local security, and is not used to go to the battlefield. If it goes to the battlefield to fight the regular army, it is natural that it will be defeated miserably.
This morning, with the help of a large number of young men, it was quite difficult to be able to block the attack of hundreds of Ming troops.
Now it is almost impossible for them to continue a decisive battle with the thousands of Ming troops outside the city. They might all be gone.
Since he was destined to be unable to hold on, Sun Yawei had no choice but to abandon Liping City in advance!
Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty did not say that officials had to defend the city, because civil and military affairs did not communicate with each other. Fighting was a matter for military commanders, and civilian officials were only responsible for civil affairs. If the army could not defend the city, it would be nothing if civilian officials fled.
After all, the Tang Dynasty was different from the Ming Dynasty. The military power in the Ming Dynasty was actually in the hands of civilian officials. Therefore, if a battle was defeated and the city was lost, the first people to hold accountable were the local civilian officials, especially
First in command.
After deciding to formally retreat, although Sun Yawei was unwilling to do so, he quickly led everyone to prepare for a breakout.
It is easy to break out of the siege, because there are not many Ming troops in the city and they cannot completely surround Lipingfu City. Even if there are enough Ming troops outside the city, according to general military theory, they will not be completely surrounded.
, otherwise there would be no word Wei Sanjueyi.
Because a complete siege of the city will easily make the defenders want to defend, leaving several gaps, which will make it easier for the defenders to be shaken, and then escape or even collapse.
This is a good thing for the attacker!
Soon, Sun Yawei led thousands of people to break out from the east city gate and the north city gate at the same time!
Naturally, the Ming army outside the city immediately discovered that the pseudo-Tang rebel army in the city was actually trying to break through and escape. They immediately shouted various slogans and quickly rushed towards Liping City. At the same time, a group of troops separated and headed towards
The breakout troops of the puppet Tang rebel army surrounded them.
Naturally, the generals of the Ming army in front of them would not just watch the enemy break through and escape. They would have to intercept them. Whether they could stop them is another matter.
Speaking of escaping, it is a tradition for the new army of the Tang Dynasty. As early as the Lijiacun period, Butcher Chen and Liu Bagou took Li Xuan and ran all the way, thus escaping the pursuit of the Ming army.
During the Huangzhushan period, the new army of the Tang Dynasty also kept running away, constantly avoiding encirclement and suppression by the Ming army!
To put it bluntly, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty was established through constant escape!
Even though the Tang Dynasty has grown and expanded, with hundreds of miles of land and hundreds of thousands of people under its rule, the tradition has not been forgotten.
Even though the army led by Sun Yawei was not a regular army, just a group of bandits and young men, its escape still captured the essence of the light retreat of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
Before they even left the city, more than half of the soldiers threw away all their weapons. As soon as they left the city gate and saw the first group of Ming troops chasing after them, the remaining half also threw away all their weapons.
, and the armors on several low-level officers also did not remain, they all took off, and then ran away wearing only civilian clothes.
While running, even the flags held by the messengers were nowhere to be found, and all the food and other things that the other soldiers originally carried were thrown away.
If you don’t throw it away, how can you implement the tactic of retreating lightly?
After running out for a few hundred meters, a small group of Ming troops about tens of meters outflanked and chased him. Ren Jiu, who was facing hundreds of new Tang troops, showed his courage and continued to run away without looking back, despite being attacked by the puppet Ming thieves' swords and guns.
On the body of his comrades, but he himself will not look back even if he dies.
During this escape, the new army of the Tang Dynasty performed freely and boldly, decisively and quickly. With such military appearance and such speed of retreat, only the Ming army can compare with it!
The Ming army general who was chasing behind him looked at the puppet Tang rebels running across the mountains and plains in front of him. There was a hint of disdain in the corner of his mouth, and then he said softly: "A bunch of rabble!"
"Yes, these pseudo-Tang rebels are just a group of thieves. They were able to capture Xingquan and Liping prefectures in the first place purely because of chance and coincidence. The local officers and soldiers were too incompetent!"
"If the army is so defeated, it will be enough to send a hundred households to chase it. It is useless for the main force to chase more. We should enter the city quickly to prevent the situation from changing!"
"Your Excellency is wise!"
The general of the Ming army made such a decision, not because he was kind-hearted or because he underestimated the enemy, but because he thought that the more than a thousand people who fled under Sun Yawei were too much for him to pay attention to, not to mention that these puppet Tang rebels were already all.
There is no order, and it has completely collapsed on its own while running.
You only need to send hundreds of people behind to chase and kill, and you can gain a lot. There is no need to waste the main force in pursuit.
What's more, with such a Liping Mansion City in front of them, they want to enter the city as soon as possible, and then become a major contributor to regaining the lost land!
After running wildly all the way, Sun Yawei finally led a group of elite soldiers and generals under his men to successfully escape the pursuit of the Ming army. Then he turned back and counted the number of people who were still following him. He just wanted to curse.
At the beginning of the breakout, there were more than 1,200 people in total. Even if they were intercepted and killed by the Ming army after leaving the city, the casualties would not exceed a hundred people. Most of them successfully escaped the Ming army's pursuit.
But why are there only more than 300 people left behind?
Where have the rest gone?
Only the devil knows!
Along the way, some people will fall behind because of lack of physical strength, some will fall behind because they take the wrong road, and some will fall behind on purpose because they run away.
The number of people keeps getting smaller and smaller as we keep running.
Now it is considered good to be able to leave more than 300 people for Sun Yawei.
Although he was depressed, Sun Yawei still had to take them to continue running. At this time, they were still too close to Liping City and too close to the Ming army. The danger was still there, and it was very big!
But what made Sun Yawei happy was that when they were preparing to spend the night in a small village in the evening, they encountered a scout troop of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
This scout force was obviously preparing to conduct reconnaissance in the direction of Liping City. Sun Yawei immediately told the scouts in detail that a large number of Ming troops had appeared under Liping City and that Liping City had fallen.
After hearing the news, the second lieutenant who led the scout team did not dare to neglect at all. He immediately dispatched a fast horse to report to the rear. He wanted to pass the news back to the forward troops as soon as possible, and then let the forward troops pass it back to the central army in the rear.
His Majesty the Emperor.
This will allow His Majesty to better judge the military situation and make better strategic decisions.
At the same time, he hurriedly said goodbye to Sun Yawei, and then led his scout team to continue heading southwest towards Liping City.
It is normal for the Ming army to appear in Liping City. It is nothing if Liping City is captured by the Ming army. But the key thing is, how many Ming troops are there?
Is it just a forward force of more than a thousand people, or will there be more Ming troops?
More importantly, where is the main force of the Ming army now?