Soon, it was completely dark, with more than 6,000 Tang cavalry, rumbling horse hooves and thick armor. Everyone held torches high, like a long fire dragon, attacking Xuzhou at night.

These more than 6,000 Tang cavalry fought hard to get to the city of Xuzhou as soon as possible, and did not give Xuzhou defenders any chance to respond or respond.

While the Tang cavalry rushed on the road, the more than 200 defeated soldiers had already been thrown away all of them, so they escaped very quickly.

These people who escaped by chance from the battlefield were like a group of wild boars fleeing wildly, fleeing and running wildly regardless of their butts. Finally, at the second moment, they hurried back to the city of Xuzhou.

When they heard the news that Liu Liangchen had died in battle and the entire army was gone, only more than 200 cavalrymen fled back, the housekeeper Liu Liangchen, who was responsible for defending the city, was so scared that he almost fainted.

No, Liu Liangchen brought 30,000 troops, but was destroyed by the Tang army with the internal and external forces. Liu Liangchen himself died in the battle formation, which was really beyond the expectations of the butler.

For a moment, he felt a cold air pouring down from head to toe, making his whole body as cold as iron.

Then, what should I do next?

All 30,000 main forces have been destroyed. Can these 5,000 soldiers with low morale and panic still defend this huge Xuzhou city?

Don't even think about it.

With no one's face, he was like an ant on a hot pan, wandering around the room, but he was confused and at a loss.

At this moment, another whistle came to report that he had been dozens of miles away from Xuzhou and found that the Tang cavalry were attacking at night. The torches they held high were like a long dragon winding and winding head but not at the tail, with a terrifying momentum.

Now the butler couldn't sit still.

No, if you don’t make any decisions, you can only sit back and wait for death.

Now, he thought about it quickly and immediately made a decision.

That is, the thirty-six strategies are the best.

Humph, Xuzhou or subordinates are not as important as my life!

The Tang army was powerful, with a lonely city, with few soldiers and few generals. Although the city of Xuzhou was strong, it would take a long time to withstand it? It would be better to leave as soon as possible to save your life.

After all, if you keep the green mountains and don’t worry about losing firewood, you may not have a chance to turn over in the future. As long as you can keep this life and protect your family’s property, even if you lose Xuzhou now and lose your subordinates, what a pity!

Without hesitation, the housekeeper immediately ordered hundreds of cavalrymen in the city, hurriedly wrapped their belongings, and took all his family with him. A group of people ran out from the south gate of Xuzhou City, turned southeast towards Huai'an Prefecture City, and fled quickly.

As for the infantry in the city, these two-legged low creatures can only be a burden to escape, so they can't take care of so much, and they can only let themselves die.

As for whether they surrender or fight after the arrival of the Tang army, it has nothing to do with them anymore.

When he arrived at Liu Liangzuo's office, he only reported to him that when Liu Liangchen's main force was surrounded and annihilated by the Tang army, he led his troops to defend Xuzhou. Although he fought bravely, he was powerless to turn things around and finally abandoned the city and fled. I believe that Liu Liangzuo, the eldest uncle of Guangchang, had nothing to say.

Under the vast night, the housekeeper led the cavalry to escape in a hurry. The remaining infantry guards in the city soon received news that Liu Liangchen had died in battle and the housekeeper had abandoned the city and fled overnight. There was a sudden chaos.

Many timid infantry immediately seized the opportunity, gave up defending the city, and fled quickly. Some bold and lawless people took this opportunity to set fire to plunder the city, rob people of the people, and do evil deeds.

For a moment, the city of Xuzhou was in chaos, with fire everywhere and crying. On this dark night, the people of Xuzhou suddenly suffered a great disaster and suffered all the hardships.

Seeing the fire in the city from afar, Liu Guoneng, the commander of the Tang army, knew that something had changed, immediately activated his troops and accelerated his journey. Thousands of Tang army cavalry knocked their horses and galloped. They arrived at the city of Xuzhou like arrows leaving the strings.

As soon as the Tang army arrived, the people who suffered from chaos and soldiers immediately rushed to the city gates on all sides of Xuzhou. Together with the remaining defenders, they opened the city gates to welcome the Tang cavalry who were running wildly all the way into the city.

When entering from the tall and wide northern gate of Xuzhou City, Liu Guoneng's heart was filled with unspeakable joy.

I really didn't expect that such a strong city could not be captured by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's joint forces that day, but they could not have the strong city they had captured. They could easily fall into their own hands in such a nearly playful way. It was like a pie from the world.

From this we can imagine how weak the military strength of the Hongguang puppet court was. His so-called four pillars, Liu Liangzuo, Huang Degong, Zuo Liangyu, Zheng Zhilong, were actually so embroidered pillows that were vulnerable. If the military power of the Hongguang Dynasty was so dispersed and useless, perhaps Li Xiao, the Tang army, wanted to take over the entire Jiangnan, it would be a matter of one blow.

Thinking of the scene where Liu Guoneng was able to drive his troops south and drink horses in Jiangnan, he suddenly felt an indescribable excitement and high spirit in his heart.

I am so happy to serve the wise master in this life and have a bright future. It is really the most correct decision in my life to serve the Tang King Li Xiao.

Liu Guoneng took a long breath and immediately issued the first military order after entering the city.

"We passed our military orders and the entire army was divided into two parts. One part suppressed the riots in the city, ordered them to surrender immediately and wait for the defeat. Those who dared to continue to rebel will be killed without any hesitation."

"yes!"

"Another army went to protect the important treasury in the city, and arranged for the civil servants of the supervisory and supervisory department to count it. It is strictly forbidden for riot soldiers to damage all kinds of materials in the treasury. If there is any violation, they will be killed without any attention."

"Get orders!"

Afterwards, the Tang army immediately began to act separately according to the order of the commander. After about an hour, about hundreds of riots were killed by the Tang army on the spot. They cut off their heads and hung their heads in front of the horse. All the rest were shocked. The burning flames everywhere in the city had been basically extinguished, and the entire city finally gradually calmed down from the bloody turmoil.

A total of nearly two thousand unenvoyed troops were captured by the Tang army and all were taken to Liu Guoneng.

In the square in the city, they looked at the Tang army commander Liu Guoneng, who was full of armor and a cold face in front of them with a look of fear, anxiety and at a loss.

However, they were lucky. Liu Guoneng didn't say much about these dejected prisoners and immediately ordered those who had committed rebellion and invaded the people in the city to imprisonment, and prepared to immediately take them to Tielong City, Shandong Province after dawn tomorrow. Those who had not committed rebellion temporarily entered the military camp in the city with the Tang army to rest. Tomorrow, they would be incorporated and used with the previous prisoners.

The soldiers who had saved a life of life knelt down and kowtowed, thanking Liu Guoneng for his grace of not killing.

At this point, except for a few prefectures and counties, all of the entire Xuzhou Prefecture had basically fallen into the hands of the Tang army. The Sixth Town's troops attacked Xuzhou Prefecture this time were all smooth and easy to capture.

At noon the next day, the Tang army's infantry and a group of surrendered soldiers had arrived in Xuzhou. Liu Guoneng ordered that except for a few wounded and auxiliary soldiers, they would be unified and arranged to stand by the entire Xuzhou area.

He ordered the surrendered general Liu Liangshun to be the general leader of the surrendered army with a total of more than 30,000 people. The entire army was led as the front line. After resting for a day, he immediately went south and attacked Fengyang Prefecture.

This plan was actually the plan of King Li Xiao of Tang. He asked the Sixth Town to immediately go south to attack Fengyang, the birthplace of the Ming Dynasty, after taking over Xuzhou Prefecture.

The current Fengyang Mansion has been destroyed because of the attacks by bandits many times. Even Zhu Yuanzhang's parents' ancestral tombs had long been dug up by bandits and riots.

Therefore, the various military towns in the Hongguang Dynasty now looked down on this dilapidated land that made its fortune in the Ming Dynasty. Only the state government yamen runners sent by the Hongguang pseudo-dynasty were still trying hard to support them.

This place where there is a broken and disabled place and almost no military force exists, the Tang army, which is well-prepared and has sufficient soldiers and has threatened tens of thousands of surrendered soldiers, has come down in one go.

When he arrived at Fengyang City and looked at the white-district city without a wall, Liu Guoneng and all the generals were filled with emotion.

It’s so a pity, it’s so a pity that this city that was born in the Ming Dynasty has now almost become a place for foxes and rabbits and ghosts. This city that made its fortune in the Ming Dynasty is now so desolate and down-and-out. How can it not be sad?

The other county and villages in Fengyang Prefecture are all the same as deserted and deserted, and at first glance, they are full of wilderness, as if they were just beginning to open up in the world, and they are not the place where people were once prosperous.

In the chaotic times in the late Ming Dynasty, blood and fire were mixed, and the people either died by the sword or filled in gullies, and they struggled on the brink of death every day. As the book says, the prosperity of the people is suffering, and the death of the people is also suffering!

After capturing Fengyang Prefecture, according to Li Xiao's plan, the troops in the Sixth Town would continue to move south and capture Luzhou Prefecture. After capturing Luzhou Prefecture, they would continue to go south and finally take down the important military brigades that blocked the Yangtze River and cut off the east and west, Anqing Prefecture.

The current Luzhou Prefecture and Anqing Prefecture are all dispatched by the forces of Zuoliang Yu tribe, which have occupied most of Hubei and southern Henan. Therefore, the main opponent of the Sixth Town is the Zuoliang Yu tribe.

After the Tang army troops in the sixth town took down all the prefectures and counties of Fengyang Prefecture with almost no blood, they immediately rushed south and attacked Luzhou Prefecture.

On the official road to Luzhou, smoke and dust rolled and iron armored. The Tang army and Liu Liangshun's troops surrendered, like a giant beast armed to the teeth, attacked directly to Luzhou Prefecture City (which is today's Anhui Province capital Hefei).

When the Tang Army's Sixth Town Army went south from Fengyang Prefecture and attacked Luzhou Prefecture, they set out from Andong Wei Port, Shandong and attacked Huai'an Prefecture from sea. Under the leadership of the town mayor Cao Bianjiao and deputy mayor Jin Tongwu, they were transported by Tang Army Navy all the way, and they had successfully landed from Hala Port.

After landing, they immediately followed the plan set by Li Xiao, and the entire army marched westward to advance, preparing to conquer Yukou Town, Maluo Township, Suzuikou and other important places, and finally arrived directly at Liu Liangzuo's last residence and Huai'an Prefecture City.

The troops in the seventh town of the Tang army were filled with iron flowing, and they attacked westward like a long steel dragon. The Tang army suddenly came from the sea, which made the local Liu Liangzuo army defenders in Huai'an completely unexpected.

Like the current Yukou Town, there are only hundreds of old and weak soldiers. They never thought that the Tang army would not fall from the land and attack from the sea. Therefore, when the boundless Tang army soldiers appeared from the east, everyone was frightened. Some of the soldiers guarding the city wall were so scared that they almost fell off the city wall.

Faced with such a powerful and fierce force, resistance was meaningless. Therefore, they did not hesitate at all, and the defenders of the entire Yukou Town immediately chose to surrender.

The Tang army won the first battle, and it successfully occupied this important seaside town without bloodshed.

At this moment, Liu Liangzuo, the Guangchang Body of Huai'an Prefecture, and the General of Huai Xu, who was highly expected by the Hongguang pseudo-Church, were like a trapped beast, wandering around the room.

Now, he has received terrible news that Liu Liangchen died in battle, the loss of Xuzhou, and the capture of Yukou Town by the Tang army.

These two news came together, almost completely defeating Liu Liangzuo's remaining confidence.

Liu Liangzuo said that he was also a powerful general of the Ming Dynasty. He had experienced countless battles of all sizes and was nicknamed Huama Liu. This was a name that was shot out with one sword and one shot on the battlefield.

However, he, known as a brave general, is now wandering around in the room and helpless.

Unexpectedly, the Tang army acted so quickly, the offensive was so fierce, and their route was so unexpected.

I really didn't expect that the Tang army had landed on land instead of land, and directly attacked his heart city from the shortest distance. This was like a sharp stab in his weakest place.

You know, the most terrible thing is that now I have already placed my main forces at the junction of Huai'an and Shandong to prepare for the sudden attack of the Tang army. However, I did not expect that the Tang army suddenly came from the sea, which completely caught me off guard.

How can such a strategic mistake be truly true?

But now, after thinking about it, it seems that there are only two choices.

First, the entire army was ordered to withdraw as soon as possible to defend the city with thousands of existing defenders in Huai'an Prefecture. It hoped to use its military strength and city reserves to resist the Tang army's offensive and delay the Tang army's attack, and wait for other military towns to come to rescue. Then, we will work together with them to counterattack and repel the Tang army.

The second is that he took advantage of the opportunity that the Tang army had not yet arrived and immediately led the remaining troops in the city to flee south with all his might, and ran to Yangzhou Prefecture to meet with General Huang Degong, and then stood firm in Yangzhou, thus waiting for the opportunity to change and recover.

However, both solutions have huge loopholes, which made Liu Liangzuo think repeatedly and feel unsatisfied.

The first solution is that if the Tang army has not yet withdrawn and the Tang army has arrived in Huai'an Prefecture City, it will become a turtle in a jar and will never escape.

The second solution is to escape by yourself, which can save your life and family wealth smoothly, but doing so is equivalent to giving up all the foundation for a stable life to the Tang army. For a warlord in a chaotic world, this is like an almost suicide act. He has no soldiers and no power, and is no different from a pig waiting to be slaughtered.
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