Valley Emperor

In order to fight against the bandits who came from nowhere, the broken and small war machine of the Tang Dynasty was quickly turned into operation.

However, although the speed of mobilization for the war was quite fast this time, the battle plan was just determined in the morning. At noon, a team of about 50 forward troops composed of various arms had already set off, and by the afternoon, the brigade was already in an emergency. Assembled and ready to go.

The reason why the speed can be so fast is because the Tang Dynasty has always faced a huge threat from the Ming army. The Ming army in Longhua Town and Zhengtai County has always been regarded as a serious problem by the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers, and they are always on guard. The Ming army entered the mountain, so it can be said that Huangzhu Mountain has always maintained a state of combat readiness, so the speed of mobilization is quite fast.

Secondly, it is because today's Great Tang Wangshi is no longer the half bandit half civilian army of the past. If you want to fight a battle, you must first gather people, and then train for several days before you can form a preliminary organization, and then only Talk about going to war.

Although the number of today's Kings of the Tang Dynasty is much smaller than before, and now there are only over 300 people in full count, but these people are full-time professional troops with a complete and fixed establishment, and they do not need to do farm work on weekdays , but keep the training state.

Therefore, as soon as an order is given, they can assemble and fight immediately.

The only trouble is the logistics, especially the time it takes to prepare dry food.

After all, in order to facilitate the march and even combat, the troops will prepare a large amount of dry food that can be eaten directly without cooking, in addition to conventional food such as rice.

But this time they were fighting at the door of the house, and they didn't expect it to be very long, so they didn't prepare any dry rations, just brought rice rations and set off.

The mobilization speed of the military was extremely fast. Preparations began in the morning, the first troops set off at noon, and then the main troops set off in the afternoon, and the day before and after did not arrive.

This time on the expedition, Li Xuan did not drive himself on the expedition like the last time. After all, the enemies he faced this time were just a group of bandits. It is not the main force of the Ming army, and it does not need Li Xuanyu's personal expedition to boost morale.

This time, Fang Dongquan was the commander-in-chief, Wang Danxu was the deputy commander, and the rest of the generals worked together.

Originally, Li Xuan planned to let Wang Danxu be the commander. After all, compared with other people, Wang Danxu, the former commander of the Guards, knew better and was good at line combat, but Wang Danxu was a junior among the many generals of the Tang Dynasty. Many people will not be convinced by letting him be the commander-in-chief.

Therefore, Li Xuan still chose to let Fang Dongquan be the commander-in-chief.

Fortunately, since the establishment of the professional army, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren have seen that the standing army is gone, and the future combat mode will be the combat mode of the former guards, so in order to maintain their power, they will more or less Take the initiative to learn the tactics of the Guards.

If they were asked to bring the army to fight the Ming army, Li Xuan would still be a little worried, but if they were only asked to bring the army to deal with a group of bandits, then Li Xuan could still rest assured.

The big deal is to be a soldier!

Any famous general needs to constantly accumulate combat experience and hone it. With more combat experience, it is not impossible for the bandit chiefs like Fang Dongquan and Chen Tufu to become qualified generals.

If they really can't support the wall in the future, there will be more than a dozen young officers of the former Guards who Li Xuan personally taught behind them.

Li Xuan has worked so hard to be a kindergarten teacher during this period of time, not only to hand over a few students who can add, subtract, multiply and divide, but to teach a group of qualified officers who can understand basic astronomy, geography and other scientific common sense. , Of course, in the future, you can also select a few talented people from these people and let them change careers as scientists!

Otherwise, Li Xuan would not have chosen these dozen or so people from the young officers of the former Guards.

After Fang Dongquan, Wang Danxu and the others set off with their people, Huang Zhushan regained its former calm. What people should do, at most they just talk a few more words.

Since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, it has been fighting endlessly. From last year to now, it has fought seven or eight wars. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a small war in January and a war in March.

In addition, they were originally bandits, and they often went out to loot and loot on weekdays, so the old and weak women and children in Huangzhu Mountain went out with weapons to their men and sons, it was completely used to it, and even many people would still Thinking about it, I hope that this time, my man and son can bring back more spoils.

In the palace, Dong Yunyun was sitting next to Li Xuan. Seeing Li Xuan bowing her head in thought, she immediately said, "Are you worried?"

"Worried?" Li Xuan didn't understand why she asked, "What are you worried about?"

"Worry about the soldiers going on the expedition!" Dong Yunyun said: "They are going out to fight again, aren't you worried?"

Li Xuan smiled and shook his head: "What are you worried about? It's just a group of bandits, and there are not many young people who can fight. Fang Dongquan and the others will take people out, there will be no risk, it will only take three or four days at most. They should be able to win!"

"Then what are you thinking?" Dong Yunyun brought a peeled loquat to Li Xuan's mouth and said at the same time, "You haven't talked much this afternoon!"

Li Xuan directly swallowed the loquat, took two bites and spit out the core of the loquat. At this time, he said: "It's okay, there have been a lot of things recently, and I haven't figured out what to do with some things!"

Dong Yunyun didn't know what Li Xuan was talking about, but she didn't ask in detail, she just snorted and said, "Don't think about it so much, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge!"

Li Xuan nodded, what she said was quite good.

He was not worried about Fang Dongquan and the others, because Fang Dongquan and the others went out to fight the bandits this time. The worst-case scenario was that they failed to capture a large number of prisoners.

The reason why Li Xuan pondered was because he thought that there were obviously many more bandit gangs in this mountain. If he could recapture a wider range of bandit gangs, he might be able to increase his own Datang Dynasty by several thousand. population of people.

But if it is more than 100 miles away, the intelligence is different, and there are other bandit dens where I don't know, and it takes too much time to go back and forth.

It is now May. Although it is said that there is still some time before the busy summer season, this time is a very valuable training and reorganization time for the King of the Tang Dynasty. Li Xuan needs this time to train the newly formed new army. , so as to lead the army to expedition to 'harvest grain' during the summer harvest.

However, Li Xuan is also a little hesitant, because it is very important to absorb the population as much as possible and improve the strength. It can even be said that the Tang Dynasty can continue to fight against the Ming army.

Conquering other bandit dens to capture the population and train the army is like fish and bear's paw, you can't have both.

Li Xuan thought about it for a whole day and couldn't come up with a clue. He simply thought about it. When Fang Dongquan and the others came back, they might be able to get some information about other bandit dens from those bandits, so that he could judge the final decision. Do not send troops to conquer other bandit dens in order to increase the population of the Tang Dynasty and obtain more troops.

For the next two days, Huangzhu Mountain was still calm and leisurely. People seemed to forget that their husbands, sons, and fathers were fighting outside. They treated everything calmly and lived plainly.

However, Li Xuan in the palace was able to get reports from the front-line army every day. The first day's report was very simple, saying that he had traveled a lot and had not encountered any accidents.

The next day, it was said that the predetermined ambush location had been reached, and troops had already been deployed to ambush, just waiting for the bandits to bump into them.

However, the report on the third day said that the bandits did not appear as expected, but stopped about ten miles away.

This made Li Xuan a little worried, why didn't this act according to the script!

Is it because the bandits noticed something, so they didn't go forward and enter the ambush circle.

When Li Xuan was worried, Fang Dongquan and the others were also a little confused. You must know that the spies from Huangzhushan were secretly monitoring this group of bandits all the way. However, since they set up camp in a small valley ten miles away yesterday, they have been two consecutive times. There was no movement in the sky.

"What are they doing?" Fang Dongquan couldn't understand it, and Huang Xueren and the others didn't understand either, and they all looked puzzled.

At this moment, Butcher Chen said: "Why don't we wait and just hit it directly, it's only ten miles away anyway, let's walk faster, it won't take an hour."

However, Wang Danxu shook his head and said, "No, if we move, they will definitely find us. When that time comes, they will run directly to us to arrest people?"

Wang Danxu's words also made Butcher Chen difficult to refute!

Their expedition this time, defeating the enemy is not a victory, only capturing a large number of prisoners is a victory. If the opponent runs away directly because of their hasty actions, then all previous efforts will be lost.

"Then what should we do now? We can't wait forever!" Butcher Chen said: "Or ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ I'll bring a small striker, and if they come, then I won't move. If they want to run, then I'll bring someone to stop them first!"

Fang Dongquan said: "This method is fine, but there are more people here, they will find out, but there are fewer people going, I'm afraid it won't be able to stop it at that time!"

Butcher Chen didn't take it seriously and said, "Not much, just give me twenty people!"

At this time, Huang Xueren and Wang Danxu were also looking at Butcher Chen, and then Huang Xueren nodded and said, "I think it's okay!"

Fang Dongquan also said: "If this is the case, then Lao Chen, you should bring twenty people over first. If they don't run, don't move. If they want to run, you can hold them back!"

After some deliberation, Butcher Chen set off with a small force of 20, consisting of sword and shield soldiers, musketeers, and spearmen.

At the same time, in a small valley ten miles away, Li Zhaizhu had just listened to the report of his subordinates. At this time, his face was gloomy and terrifying!