Valley Emperor

Under the threat of Li Xuan's massacre, Su Jiakang was forced to agree to give Li Xuan a way to break through in order to save his own life and even the lives of his family.

However, Su Jiakang also put forward several requirements for Li Xuan. First of all, the most important point is naturally that the new army of the Tang Dynasty could not slaughter the city, and they could not flee with a large number of people in the city.

Secondly, he made a small request to Li Xuan. He asked Li Xuan to help him solve several big households in the city.

Li Xuan is not familiar with the big families in Zhengtai County, and he is even more unclear about the relationship between Su Jiakang and their struggle. However, although Li Xuan promised Su Jiakang to solve these families, Zhou Yibao did not say that he would definitely kill them. They ah.

Taking these people away is, to some extent, fulfilling the agreement with Su Jiakang.

Li Xuan guessed maliciously that Su Jiakang must have a grudge against them, so he wanted to use a knife to kill at this chaotic moment.

Li Xuan didn't mind being murdered by Su Jiakang with a knife, but why did he kill him?

The Datang Dynasty is an orthodox dynasty, with its own bottom line and sense of justice, how bad it is to shout and kill, it's okay to just kidnap it and take it back to the mountains!

In the future, I might be able to use these people to coerce Su Jiakang again, or what kind of deal can I make with Su Jiakang.

The preparations of the new army of the Tang Dynasty were quite fast, how could it be unpleasant, this is an escape for their lives.

The bandits in Huangzhu Mountain have always had great enthusiasm and motivation for running for their lives. When they heard that they would break through and escape at dawn, and the people above them swore that they would be able to escape, the lowly soldiers They also act fast.

Before fleeing for their lives, the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain did not forget their glorious tradition: they looted every place they went!

They first removed the grain and silver from the official warehouse, and then selected a group of wealthy households in the city to collect so-called defense fees.

That's right, this time, the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain no longer talk about slogans such as robbery and robbery. Hand it over!"

Instead, he would say: "On the order of a certain general, I have come to collect the defense fee!"

Moreover, it is specially designed to collect high-level households. Depending on the family background, the collection ranges from tens of taels to hundreds of taels of silver. You can also negotiate the price of jewelry to accept soft and low prices. Well, installment payment is not accepted. As for the common people, they could not find a few taels of silver even if they searched all their property, so the bandits in the Tang Dynasty generally disdain to levy defense fees on them.

That night, the soldiers of the Datang New Army extorted the wealthy households in the city one by one. It turned out that they 'expropriated' more than 2,000 taels of silver, 100 taels of gold, and countless others.

Coupled with the silver and grain harvested from the official warehouse, it can be said that the harvest is huge!

At four o'clock in the morning, when Li Xuan brought his ministers to the gate of the city and was about to formally lead the army to break through the siege, he looked at the rows of carts in the back filled with all kinds of property and food, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's still the city. The people are rich!"

In the past, they looted many villages, and they also grabbed a lot of gold and silver, but most of them were dozens of taels, no more than a hundred taels.

Like today, it was the first time I had gotten a few thousand taels of silver in just half a night.

Fang Dongquan on the side said with a pity: "There is still a little time. If there is time, we will collect the defense fee one by one, even if it is tens of thousands of taels of silver, we can get it out!"

Butcher Chen, who was on the side, didn't care: "What's the use of gold and silver, you can't eat or wear things, but these grains are good. With this batch of grains, we don't have to worry about grains for half a month after we break out of the encirclement. !"

For an army, no matter how much gold and silver are robbed, it is of no use. The most important thing is food and weapons. Don't worry about weapons. The weapons in the Datang New Army are not worn out, and the reserve ammunition is not enough. Less, don't worry for now.

However, in terms of food, they have always eaten the enemy, and the food is not rich on weekdays. When they entered the city yesterday, because of the rush, they threw a large amount of food directly to the Ming army.

This time, if you can't get enough food in the city, even if you break out of the encirclement, you will probably be hungry.

Fortunately, a large amount of food was found in the official warehouse of the Ming army, otherwise they would have collected food throughout the city.

Li Xuan said at this time: "Okay, now that we are all ready, let's go out of the city. It will be dawn in a while, so what changes will happen!"

Although Li Xuan has already reached an agreement with Su Jiakang, who knows if Su Jiakang will change his mind halfway through. If this Su Jiakang doesn't keep his promise and wants to make a surprise attack when they leave the city, wouldn't it be very passive.

So in order to prevent accidents, this time they are preparing to leave the city in the middle of the night in advance!

At this time, the cavalry that was sent out to investigate also returned, and reported to Li Xuan and others: "The Ming army in the northwest has withdrawn to their camp. If we go out of the city now, it should be at least half an hour. Safety time, after half an hour, they can catch up even if it is still dark!"

Li Xuan nodded: "Well, those who are late will change, order to go down and leave the city immediately!"

He couldn't trust Su Jiakang, and he was even more reluctant to wait until it was almost dawn.

Although it would be very troublesome to walk at night now, it would be equally troublesome for Su Jiakang if he regretted it and wanted to catch up. Otherwise, when it was dawn, all his actions would be exposed to the eyes of the Ming army, which would be too passive.

After Li Xuan issued the order to leave the city, the more than 500 Tang new army also officially took action. The cavalry team left the city ahead of schedule. They wanted to find a way for the army to avoid an ambush by the Ming army in front, and wait for the vanguard led by Butcher Chen. , which is also to avoid ambushes by the Ming army.

After the vanguard was the central army led by Li Xuan himself, including the musket team and a large number of spearmen. At the same time, the baggage troops followed.

As for the broken troops, they are still in the city now. They will not retreat until the main force has all left the city, and even after they have successfully left.

They didn't mean to stop the pursuit of the Ming army, in fact, they wanted to start massacres when the Ming army backtracked!

In order to ensure that the Ming army would not catch up with Li Xuan as soon as he left the city, Li Xuan left his uncle Bai Yunqi in the city, led more than 50 bandits, and took hundreds of people to the front of the city. , Light the torch and let the Ming army watch.

Once the Ming army changes, they will directly start massacres!

After the main force led by Li Xuan successfully left the city, Bai Yunqi would evacuate Zhengtai County.

Li Xuan and the others led the main force to evacuate. The news could not be concealed from Su Jiakang. Su Jiakang, who was also sleepless tonight, learned the news almost immediately.

After learning the news, he turned his attention to the city head again. There were many torches lit on the city head. Under the bright lights, he could clearly see a group of pseudo-Tang thieves holding many ordinary people.

Others don't know why, but Su Jiakang knows that this is Li Xuan threatening him.

After he took a deep breath, he immediately said to Wang Zhitan and the others who came after hearing the news: "Send an order to get the soldiers up and prepare to attack the city!"

"Siege?" When they heard Su Jiakang's words, the others didn't understand.

At this time, the main force of the pseudo-Tang thieves should be pursued as soon as possible. Instead of chasing the thieves, they should attack Zhengtai County, which has not been defended by many thieves. Is it a bit of a twist?

Seeing everyone's doubts, Su Jiakang naturally wouldn't explain anything, and immediately said: "What I'm waiting for now is not to chase down hundreds of thieves in the area, but to recover Zhengtai County, and there were already people yesterday. I went to Fucheng to report, if there is no accident, the soldiers and horses of Fucheng will leave today, and the striker may be able to arrive today, and before they arrive, Zhengtai County must be taken back!"

Having said that, Su Jiakang looked around and said, "In this way, we have room to maneuver!"

At first, everyone didn't quite understand it, but when they heard Su Jiakang say the words 'room for maneuver', everyone woke up.

Yes, is it important to hunt down the pseudo-Tang bandit army now?

It's really important, but it's not that important compared to taking back Zhengtai County.

However, some people will mutter in their hearts that it is important to retake Zhengtai County, but it is also important to pursue the main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army. Anyway, we have a lot of troops, so we can directly divide our troops.

There are many people who think this way, but none of them dare to say it at this time. Su Jiakang has already given orders. If you talk nonsense at this time, this is not a slap in the face of Su Jiakang.

Besides, if you divide your troops to pursue the attack, the risk is not small. There are more than 500 people in the pseudo-Tang bandit army. You don’t know who will beat whom if you go less. If you are accidentally ambushed by the pseudo-Tang bandit army That's a big deal.

So everyone kept their mouths shut!

And Su Jiakang was muttering in his heart, of course, I know that I can divide troops to chase, but if I divide troops to chase Li Xuan, that **** will slaughter the city immediately!

The best choice for today's strategy is to take back the county seat of Xianzhengtai, and the pseudo-Tang thieves who are free will continue to threaten him with massacres.

Reaching an agreement with the pseudo-Tang thieves was just an expedient measure. As long as it was ensured that there would be no massacre in the city~www.wuxiaspot.com~ he immediately sent troops to pursue the pseudo-Tang thieves.

The Ming army outside the city also acted quickly at this time. A large number of Ming troops were called up, and then they once again launched an attack on Zhengtai County with torches.

At this time, Bai Yunqi, who was on the top of the city, watched many Ming troops outside the city rush up with torches, and they dared to stay in the city, and ran away with more than 50 people who were broken.

Anyway, he couldn't hold it if he stayed in the city, and since the main force of the Ming army did not pursue the main force of the Datang New Army, but attacked the city, then the safety of the main force would be initially guaranteed.

When not leaving now

As soon as the pseudo-Tang thieves left, the hundreds of people who had been detained overnight on the city head also ran away in a swarm.

For a time, Zhengtai County was in chaos again!

It didn't take long for Su Jiakang to bring people into Zhengtai County. After entering the county, he didn't even have time to go to the county office, but ordered on the spot: "Immediately send troops to pursue the pseudo-Tang bandit army, and be sure to leave the pseudo-emperor Li Xuan behind. Come down!"