Valley Emperor

When Li Xuan spoke, he smiled. From his smile, Qian Mengjiu could see his self-confidence. At this time, Qian Mengjiu seemed to feel that the young man in front of him had grown up, and he was no longer the one who needed him and Liu Bagou and the others pushed the young scholar who could move forward, but he was a monarch who could carry thousands of lives and deaths in the Tang Dynasty.

Listening to Li Xuan's words now, I can feel the huge confidence and firmness in his words, so that Qian Mengjiu believes that he can really lead his group of people to escape from this place and return to Huangzhu Mountain alive.

Therefore, Qian Mengjiu buried many questions in his heart and did not ask a second question.

Not only Qian Mengjiu felt a lot at this time, in fact, even Zeng Ziwen felt that Li Xuan at this moment was different from the previous Li Xuan, but the time between Zeng Ziwen and Li Xuan was not too long after all. Not as deep as Qian Mengjiu's feelings, he just felt that although this Li Xuan was only a small mountain emperor, judging from his current demeanor and decisiveness, he was definitely a qualified mountain emperor.

Maybe, following such a person, I am not sure that I can really make a contribution, even if I fail in the end, but I am not sure that I can leave my name in the history books, and finally I may write: "During the Zhengde years, Zhengtai Li Xuan raised the flag. In the fight against the Ming Dynasty, there were countless military generals under his command, and his stalwart Zeng Ziwen led his army across several provinces, trapping hundreds of cities, and the world was afraid of it..."

If you are unlucky, you may only be able to leave a few words in the local county annals, such as: During the Zhengde years, Li Xuan of Lijia Village bewitched the ignorant people in the mountains and wilds to rebel. Countless casualties.

And he, Zeng Ziwen, is this Servant!

That's right, there are only two endings he expected for himself, one is to die as a general of a big rebel, and the other is to die as a small rebel with no name. as basic.

As for success, to be honest, Zeng Ziwen never imagined such a possibility.

He is not Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren, Wang Danxu, who don't know big characters, and spend his whole life wandering in the mountains. Self-proclaimed is still more rational, and see the reality clearly.

The Datang Dynasty in this valley, with luck, at most, it will set off a storm to sweep the surrounding prefectures and counties.

But if it really wants to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, the possibility is almost negligible.

There have been many people who have played rebellion in history. Those who rebelled on a large scale, with tens of thousands of troops or even hundreds of thousands of troops, are numerous, but how many of them have succeeded?

As for the small-scale rebellions, there are countless more. Which of the ancient feudal dynasties did not suppress armed rebellions that could not come to the fore several times every year.

Their Tang Dynasty was just one of countless inconspicuous armed rebellions in history!

Although Li Xuan and his son shamelessly played the trick of founding a country and proclaiming himself emperor, this did not change the fact that the rebellion of the Tang Dynasty was just a joke in the eyes of many people.

However, there are also unsuccessful ways to play. There are many things in life that have no results, but why do you want to do them? What you pursue is nothing more than a process.

When Zeng Ziwen, Qian Mengjiu and the others had a lot of messy thoughts in their minds, Li Xuan had already quickly arranged the evacuation, and asked everyone to prepare quickly to try to evacuate in the shortest time possible.

At this time, Cao Mingda was also preparing to leave with everyone, when Li Xuan suddenly said: "Cao Aiqing, you are temporarily acting as captain of the cavalry team, and lead the cavalry to carefully control the movements of the Ming army. If there is any change in the Ming army, be sure to report it at any time!"

"The minister obeys the order!" Cao Mingda obviously did not expect that Li Xuan would suddenly let you and him act as the captain of the cavalry team at this time. It was obvious that he wanted to make atonement for his merits, but at this time he also knew that the matter was urgent. , It is even more difficult to show any joy, and immediately after kneeling and bowing, he strode away, walked a few steps and got on his horse to reconvene the cavalry squad under his command.

At the same time, Fang Dongquan, Wang Danxu, Huang Xueren and the others had already acted independently, leading the troops to gradually retreat. Under their leadership, the Datang New Army, which was still under the city, began to retreat slowly.

At this time, Xu Xiancheng at the head of the city still didn't understand, what happened to these pseudo-Tang thieves?

They just retreated from the top of the city inexplicably just now, and now they seem to have suspended the siege again. Is it because the sky will be dark, so I want to rest for a night, and wait until the next day to come in again?

Or do you want to fight a night battle?

Xu Xiancheng thought about it carefully, these two possibilities really exist. Now it's almost evening. Those pseudo-Tang thieves must be afraid of what accidents will happen when they enter the city at this time. After all, any accidents in the evening are possible. .

Similarly, those pseudo-Tang thieves may also use the cover of the night to launch a large-scale siege at night, and finally enter the city.

Xu Xiancheng, who didn't know that Su Jiakang had brought the army back with him, couldn't figure out what was going on outside, so he could only use his brain to make random guesses.

And the more he guessed, the more scared he became. All kinds of messy possibilities were thought of by him, and all the possibilities that he thought of were not very good ones, except for Cheng Po or Cheng Po.

At this moment, someone suddenly ran over from behind, and then leaned into his ear and said, "Sir, the doctor said that the fragments of lead bullets on Long Qianhu's body have penetrated into the internal organs, and I am afraid that they will not be able to be taken out. The wound on the top has been bleeding continuously, the doctor said, I am afraid it won't last long!"

Hearing what his subordinates said, Xu Xiancheng frowned. For the time being, he didn't think about whether the pseudo-Tang bandit army would attack the city at night, nor whether they would attack the city tomorrow. First, he went to see Long Dajun's Let's talk about the situation on the side.

When he walked to a hall behind the city gate tower, the first thing he saw was Long Dajun surrounded by several doctors. At this time, Long Dajun's face was extremely pale due to severe blood loss, and he made a sound from time to time. A feeble moan.

Now he looks like it is extremely difficult to even breathe. The bullet that hit his chest caused a lot of damage to his lungs and other internal organs. After the lungs are injured, it will naturally affect his breathing.

However, although it seems that there is more air out and less air in, Long Dajun still opened his eyes slightly, he saw Xu Xiancheng walking in, and then said intermittently in a very weak voice: "Outside...outside... How's it going?"

Xu Xiancheng didn't hide it either, and immediately told what happened just now, including the fact that he sent cavalry out of the city to attack, and the cavalry of the pseudo-Tang bandit army followed into the city, and finally retreated inexplicably.

After hearing Xu Xiancheng's words, Long Dajun said intermittently: "They are afraid that we will be ambushed in the city!"

"Wait until tomorrow, the bandit army is afraid that they will launch a fierce attack in one go, and then everything will be left to Master Xu!"

Long Dajun seems to know that his life is not long, and he speaks with an extremely pessimistic attitude: "The bandit army is fierce, when Master Xu is defending the city, remember not to fight in waves, if you lose the enemy..."

If you lose... Xu Xiancheng didn't hear what was said later, because Long Dajun could be said to have fallen into a semi-conscious state at this time, and he spoke intermittently. These simple words were spoken for a long time, but they were also exhausted. He took the last bit of strength, so much so that when he said that, he closed his eyes and fell into a coma.

Xu Xiancheng looked up at the doctor next to him, and the doctor showed a hint of helplessness.

With a sigh, Xu Xiancheng stood up, then looked at a few generals on the left and right, and said, "Call everyone here and discuss the matter!"

Xu Xiancheng, who knew nothing about the movements outside the city, called all the civil and military officials to discuss the matter after Long Dajun was completely unconscious. Naturally, there was only one thing to discuss, and that was what to do.

But after the people came, most of them didn't speak, all of them were silent with bitter faces, only a few people said a few innocuous words.

Seeing this scene, Xu Xiancheng still didn't know what they were thinking, because he himself was thinking.

The pseudo-Tang bandit army outside the city is sharp, and this county is afraid that it will not be able to hold, and this is not only the judgment of his Xu County Chancellor, but also the judgment of Long Dajun, who is dying frequently, and it is also the judgment of other civil and military officials in the city. .

In the previous small battles, the two sides could even say that they did not engage in close-range hand-to-hand combat. The pseudo-Tang thieves had not yet fought in the city, but the Ming army had already suffered heavy casualties and was shot dead by muskets on the city head. There were at least 20 wounded archers and other soldiers.

The more than 30 cavalrymen who left the city to counterattack finally returned only half, which means that more than 10 people were killed by the bandit army.

When they were at the city gate, they were attacked by the cavalry of both the enemy and our side. Although there were not many casualties among the more than 50 soldiers guarding the city gate, none of them knew where they had escaped. return. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

In other words, the pseudo-Tang thieves have not yet officially attacked the city and climbed to the top of the city, and they have already lost nearly a hundred people, and half of them are still the main force defending the city, the guards of the Fairy Stone Thousand Households, You have to know that there are only more than 200 guards in the city, and now it can be said that a quarter has been lost.

In the face of such a ferocious puppet army of Tang thieves, can Zhengtai County hold on to it?

Long Dajun, a truly high-ranking general, has no confidence, and he almost said what to do if the city is broken. In this case, you can still count on Xu County Cheng, a civil servant, to have confidence, and to count on those ordinary low-level officers. Are the officers confident?

After everyone was silent for a long time, suddenly someone trotted in and said in a low voice to everyone: "I tell everyone, Lord Long just passed away!"

After hearing this, everyone became even more silent, so that the atmosphere in the side hall was a little depressed. Finally, I don't know who whispered: "How about we go to Fucheng to ask for help?"

As soon as this sentence came out, the eyes of everyone in the side hall suddenly lit up, because they all heard it. The point of this sentence is not 'go to the city to ask for troops', but 'we'!