Valley Emperor

This time the Ming army suffered a disastrous defeat, and his old opponent Su Jiakang was already defeated like a mountain. It is unlikely that he will gather enough strength to attack his own Datang Dynasty. In this case, Su Jiakang is very likely Head up for help.

Even if he doesn't ask for help, it's hard to hide the fiasco this time from the senior officials above. He doesn't need to stab the capital. As long as the governor on the provincial capital gets the news, he can send tens of thousands of troops casually. attack.

The governor of the Ming court is a real vassal official, with actual military power, and a single order can bring together the entire province's Ming army to attack the Tang Dynasty.

Perhaps seeing the worried look on Li Xuan's face, Zeng Ziwen next to him walked over and said, "Your Majesty, are you worried about the follow-up effects of this battle?"

As expected of a former Ming official, his political consciousness is high, and he could guess what Li Xuan was worried about by looking at Li Xuan's face.

Li Xuan didn't hide it either, nodded slightly and said, "The Ming army was defeated in this battle. I'm afraid it won't be long before a large number of Ming army come to Zhengtai County!"

Zeng Ziwen raised his voice slightly at this time and said: "Su Jiakang's entire army has been defeated in this battle, and we have also breached Zhengtai County before, I am afraid that this time Su Jiakang will not be able to hold back, this matter is very likely to attract a large number of Ming Dynasty. military!"

When he spoke, his face became more and more serious: "However, this matter is also a rare opportunity for me in the Tang Dynasty. The Ming army was newly defeated, and more than a thousand of its main forces were lost here, and it was difficult to gather the fleeing troops. Now that the huge Zhengtai County has no soldiers or soldiers to stop our army, it is the perfect time to seize Longhua and Zhengtai. As long as you control these two cities, you can take full control of the land of Zhengtai and hundreds of thousands of people. , in one fell swoop laying the foundation of my Tang Dynasty."

When he was talking, he suddenly knelt down and said, "I request to send troops to capture the two cities of Zhengtai and Longhua!"

Hearing Zeng Ziwen say this suddenly, Li Xuan looked at him with a hint of hesitation, what happened to Zeng Ziwen today, how could he suddenly make such a radical suggestion.

It's not like him!

Based on the contact between Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen for more than half a year, Li Xuan believes that he still has some understanding of this person, and there are military theoretical exercises, otherwise Li Xuan would not bother to recruit him, but this person's Personality, but it's a bit weird!

On the one hand, he will insist on certain principles righteously, but this insistence has a bottom line. Once the bottom line is exceeded, he will not hesitate to give up this bottom line.

Well, to put it bluntly, it is greed for life and fear of death!

Many of the military suggestions he made before were also with his character, and many of the suggestions were relatively stable, and it could even be said to be conservative.

But today, how could this person say that he wants to attack Zhengtai County?

Is it difficult to attack Zhengtai County? This time is definitely not difficult. Su Jiakang's army can't be defeated any more. If they turn around and attack Zhengtai County, in all likelihood, they can easily win Zhengtai County.

But what about after winning Zhengtai County? How to face the swarming Ming army?

If a thousand Ming troops came, he asked himself if he could hold it, and if he came with two thousand, he could barely hold it, but what about three thousand or five thousand? Even 120,000?

Hold on to the hell!

As for saying that after you occupied Zhengtai County, expecting the Ming army not to attack you, let you slowly recruit and train, build weapons, farm and save food and develop slowly, this is like stealing the bell.

You stupid people Mingjun is not stupid!

To encircle and suppress a bandit gang like the Tang Dynasty, there is no need to report to the court at all, and it takes several months to get ready. If you really want to fight for ten days and a half months, you can send troops.

It means that the mobilization of the army to counter the rebellion is slow, and it will take several months to prepare properly. Please ask King Ning and King Anhua who played rebellion decades ago. They will definitely spit at you.

A few days after King Anhua raised his army, he was counterattacked by the army organized by local officials, and it was over after only 18 days.

Just a few days after King Ning started his army, the local officials of the Ming court began to organize troops to launch a counter-offensive. Wang Shouren organized an army of 80,000 in just over half a month, conquered Nanchang in less than a month, and defeated it not long after. King Ning's army of tens of thousands, from when King Ning raised his army to the moment he was defeated and died, was only forty-three days!

After the Tang Dynasty He Dehe captured Zhengtai County and caused a shock to the Ming court, he could let the Ming court delay for several months before sending troops to quell the rebellion?

Li Xuan dared to guarantee that once he completely occupied Zhengtai County, Song Zhiwen of Xingquan House would personally take at least several thousand troops to the city of Zhengtai in three or five days at most.

Attacking and looting Zhengtai County would at most be a hornet's nest, running fast at most would mean being stung a few times, the pain is certain, but it won't kill anyone.

But if you completely occupied Zhengtai County, it would be like you not only stabbed a hornet's nest, but also stupidly stood beside the hornet's nest and didn't run away. The swarming wasps can sting you alive.

Therefore, Li Xuan really didn't understand why Zeng Ziwen suddenly suggested that he attack and occupy Zhengtai County. Does he not know the crisis after occupying Zhengtai County?

That's a dead end!

Li Xuan looked at Zeng Ziwen with puzzled eyes. He didn't immediately object, but instead asked: "Zeng Aiqing knows that once our army occupies Zhengtai County, it will not take three to five days for thousands of Ming soldiers to enter the city."

Zeng Ziwen nodded!

"Since Aiqing knows, why do you want to occupy Zhengtai?" Li Xuan couldn't understand this person's thoughts. He was stupid, knowing that he would die?

Zeng Ziwen said: "After our army occupied Zhengtai, waiting for the Ming army to attack is naturally a dead end, but if our army takes the initiative to attack, it can turn death into life.

After capturing Zhengtai, our army immediately took the surrounding young men and marched eastward to meet the enemy at the Lanjiang Ferry. As long as the enemy in Xingquan Prefecture was stopped at the Lanjiang Ferry, the Zhengtai Baili can be kept safe for several months! "

Lanjiang ferry?

Hearing this term suddenly, Li Xuan recalled a little, that is, he found the memory of Lanjiang from the memory of the original body. This is a river that spans Xingquan Prefecture. It flows from south to north in the mountains. This Lanjiang It is not a big river, but this section in Xingquan Mansion is due to the terrain, the water flow is quite fast, and it is barely considered a moat.

However, Li Xuan still continued to ask: "Even if the enemy relying on Lanjiang to block Xingquan is outside Chint, Lanjiang can only defend the east. What if the Ming army attacked from other directions?"

Zeng Ziwen said: "My Zhengtai County is located in the southwest of Xingquan Prefecture, and my Xingquan Prefecture is located in the southeast of Guizhou, with Huguang in the east and Guangxi in the south. The south of my Zhengtai is a mountain, even if the soldiers and horses of Liuzhou Prefecture in Guangxi in the south get news and want to If you want to come, but it is impossible to come across the mountains so quickly, not to mention that the troops and horses from the neighboring province want to enter the province, the trouble here will not be less than the direct transfer of troops from the imperial court.

Both the west and the north of my Zhengtai are Liping Mansion. There is no garrison in this mansion. In the past, we relied on the garrison of Xingquan Mansion to send troops to suppress bandits. Moreover, it is also difficult to travel a hundred miles away on both sides! "

Zeng Ziwen was talking about the geographical environment around the Zhengtai Mansion, and Li Xuan knew a little about these things before, but he didn't have the details that Zeng Ziwen knew.

However, these geographical advantages cannot guarantee the absolute safety of Zhengtai County, the safety of the Datang Dynasty, and the safety of his Li Xuan's life.

Because the Ming army will definitely come, and it will come very quickly, many!

A mere Lanjiang River and the surrounding mountains can't stop these Ming troops. It can't stop them for a month, but it can't stop them for two months.

So Li Xuan shook his head slightly: "Zhengtai is the place of death, it can't be broken!"

At this time, Zeng Ziwen said again: "Your Majesty, as long as our army blocks the Ming army from Xingquan Mansion at Lanjiang Ferry, then we can buy our army at least a month, and within this time we can train more than 5,000 troops. Make a thousand muskets, and after ten months, fight with the reinforcements of the Ming army on the Lanjiang River. As long as the enemy can be destroyed on the Lanjiang River, then the surrounding prefectures and counties can enter the hands of our Tang Dynasty.

In the hands of the land of Shufu, you can train 100,000 troops and build 10,000 guns in March. With this, the army can go east to Huguang and south to Guangxi, and lay the foundation for the great cause of the Tang Dynasty! "

Zeng Ziwen became more and more excited as he spoke, as if he had already seen commanding a hundred thousand troops to attack the city!

Li Xuan was speechless when he saw this man: Are you too optimistic or I am too pessimistic?

After capturing a county, you can train 5,000 troops in just one month? Not to mention whether he can recruit 5,000 qualified soldiers, even if he recruited people, he, Li Xuan, found so many weapons, armor and muskets to equip them?

Even with weapons, at most the most basic formation training is completed in just one month, and there is no way to train 5,000 elite soldiers.

The musketeers are the easiest to train. Any peasant can be pulled into the battlefield after three months of training, but it takes three months!

Will the Ming army give him three months to train?

What a joke, absolutely impossible, unless the generals in the Ming army are all fools!

Not to mention that he will train 100,000 troops in a month, but that's 100,000. Even if Li Xuan falls down with 100,000 elite soldiers full of troops, he can't find so many qualified officers to command this. Army!

The core of an army is not soldiers~www.wuxiaspot.com~ but officers. Without many qualified officers, the combat effectiveness of 100,000 elite soldiers is not much stronger than that of 100,000 pigs!

It may even be faster than 100,000 pigs. After all, it is not so easy to catch or kill 100,000 pigs, but it is much easier to make 100,000 people surrender!

Based on these worries, Li Xuan will never go to occupy Zhengtai County to seek death at this time.

However, what Zeng Ziwen said was right. After Su Jiakang's fiasco today, there is really no large-scale Ming army that can stop his Great Tang master in this hundred miles of Zhengtai County.

It's okay to take advantage of this time to get some benefits. It's better to talk about looting people and food, which is much better than occupying Zhengtai County.

More than 8,000 people died in Zhengtai County, and they just grabbed a handful of Zhengtai County, and now they won't gain much by capturing Zhengtai County.

But there are 70,000 or 80,000 people in the vast countryside of Zhengtai County. So many people are in the countryside. It should not be a problem to recruit thousands of young people from it and grab enough food for thousands of people for half a year!