In a small valley on the edge of the mountain, thousands of Ming troops were crowded here, and this small valley was crowded.

These Ming troops did not pull up simple tents casually in order to be in a hurry as usual, or simply slept on the ground without setting up tents, but on this night they set up a serious camp and erected a large number of tents.

This also allowed the soldiers of the Ming Army who had been drilling in the deep mountains and forests for seven or eight days to finally get a good night's sleep.

In the past seven or eight days, in order to pursue the pseudo-Tang thief army in front, whether it was Diao Leixun or Su Jiakang, they all chased them all the way with their soldiers, and they didn't stop for half a day, and even set off at dawn for two days, and didn't stop until nightfall, not only did Su Jiakang and them die tired, but also made the soldiers below complain.

If you can catch up with the pseudo-Tang thief army by doing this, forget it, but you can't catch up!

The puppet Tang thief army in front was just like the woman on the street, occasionally stopping and waving a handkerchief and shouting to the Ming army: "Uncle, come on, the slave family is waiting for you, you see, I don't have underwear inside!" ”

But when Su Jiakang took the Ming army to death and forcibly drove for a long time, he found that the puppet Tang thief army was nowhere to be found.

It's okay for the first two days, these Ming troops haven't noticed the sinister intentions of the puppet Tang thief army, but in the next two days, even Su Jiakang, who is bent on chasing the puppet Tang thief army, has noticed that the puppet Tang thief army in front of them is deliberately leading them in circles.

Su Jiakang is not a stupid person, and soon thought of the previous two times when he was taken around by the puppet Tang thief army, each time he was tired and tired, but the puppet Tang thief army didn't catch a single hair.

I'm afraid it won't work to continue chasing, since I can't catch up, I don't plan to continue chasing, so I will camp early in the afternoon today, get ready to rest for a night, and then go out of the mountain tomorrow, as for those pseudo-Tang thieves, what do you like to do, anyway, Su Jiakang doesn't plan to accompany them in circles.

That night, Su Jiakang discussed with Diao Leixun and several other generals, and finally decided to go out of the mountain and not continue to go around in circles with those pseudo-Tang thief army.

The movements of the Ming army were naturally monitored by the spies sent by Li Xuan at any time, so early the next morning, these Ming troops got up, not only did they go in pursuit, but turned around and walked out of the mountain, and the Tang spies immediately rushed to report the relevant situation to Li Xuan.

"Are they leaving? Are you sure? When Li Xuan asked, there was an obvious look of doubt.

In the past few days, the Ming army has been chasing them so quickly, and they look like they won't stop if they don't catch up, why don't they suddenly chase them today?

The spy immediately said: "It's true, the little one watched them leave with his own eyes, and in order to prevent them from cheating, we still have people who follow and continue to watch!" ”

"In this way, these puppet thieves are indeed going out of the mountain!" Qian Mengjiu said with a relieved look: "I've been chasing hard enough these days, and if I continue to chase like this, I'm really afraid of any accidents!" ”

At this time, Fang Dongquan also said: "Since they are gone, then we have to follow too!" ”

Hearing Fang Dongquan's words, several people looked puzzled, and Wang Danxu said: "It's not good to keep up, what if these Ming troops are pretending to retreat, but actually want to ambush us halfway?" ”

Butcher Chen also said: "What are you going to do, we can't stop them on the road, they are more than a thousand people, with our current three hundred people, it's not easy to fight!" ”

The gap between the forces of the two sides is too large, which has always been the main reason why the Tang Dynasty division cowered and did not dare to fight a frontal decisive battle when facing the Ming army.

Let's not mention what the reaction of the Ming court will be after defeating the Ming army, whether it will send more than ten or twenty guards to suppress them, but the key thing is that even if they want to fight, they may not be able to fight!

Three hundred to more than one thousand, these bandits are so weak no matter how they look at it!

Therefore, these bandits in Huangzhushan, in the limited few battles with the Ming army, secretly beat their partial divisions of dozens to more than 100 people, whether it is a grain transportation team or a forward, this is the case.

But as soon as they met the main force of the Ming army, it didn't take much, and when they met three or four hundred people, these bandits turned around and ran away as soon as possible, staying to fight a tough battle.

As a last resort, these bandits are absolutely unwilling to fight a head-to-head duel with the Ming army, because if they lose, they will suffer a loss, and if they win, they will suffer a loss, and it will not be good for them whether they win or lose.

Li Xuan also thought about it and said: "Don't worry, let people watch the movements of those Ming troops, we have been tossing for half a month, let's rest for a few days first!" ”

Since coming out of the mountains before the summer harvest, the Datang New Army has been running around for more than half a month so far, even if there have actually been two small-scale and easily resolved battles in this half month, but the physical exertion of the soldiers is still very large.

Can you not get tired of running around every day?

Since the Ming army took the initiative to retreat, regardless of whether it was true or not, Li Xuan had to take this opportunity to rest for a few days, but if the rest is rest, this battle will definitely continue to be fought, and it is impossible to go back like this.

One of their two goals for going out of the mountain this time has been completed: collecting grain. And the second goal is to firmly contain the Ming army and prevent them from having the opportunity to attack Huangzhushan.

Therefore, after the rest, it is still necessary to go out of the mountain to continue their plan in order to achieve the second goal.

With the Ming army's initiative to retreat, the pursuit and escape of the two sides can be regarded as a temporary end, but what made Li Xuan a little depressed was that when the Ming army came out of the mountain, he easily called back a sentry that was captured by the bandits of Huangzhushan in front of him.

The Huangzhushan bandits who stayed at the sentry were only more than 20 ordinary young people, and there was not a single soldier of the New Army, so they naturally did not have the courage to confront the Ming army.

However, Li Xuan also didn't care about this, it was just a sentry, and it was not the only checkpoint in and out of the mountain. Since this sentry was taken back by the Ming army, they just laid another checkpoint as an entry and exit channel, he didn't believe that the Ming army could still guard all the passages in and out of the mountain, if he really wanted to do this, Su Jiakang had to have at least tens of thousands of horses under his hands.

This time, the new army of the Tang Dynasty rested for three days, and also joined the baggage team led by Huang Xueren before re-entering the mountain, thus opening the fourth battle that was enough to decide the survival of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Xuan looked at the bandits under his command and couldn't help but sigh: This is another battle for the country!