Valley Emperor

Hao Bainian thought that the 8,000 Ming army would go to Liuzhou in multiple batches. In this case, even if the army was exhausted, he would not be able to intercept much, and he also thought that the Ming army would turn around and run away.

I even thought that these Ming troops would take the initiative to attack like those Ming troops in Rong County before, and they would fight a field battle with themselves.

But he never thought that these Ming troops would stop, dare nothing, and stationed on the spot.

When he heard that the Ming army had shrunk and started to build the camp, he was a little confused. What did the Ming army want to do?

Do you want to wait for reinforcements?

Or want to sit back and relax?

Hao Bainian couldn't understand why the Ming army made such a choice. After all, he was not an official of the Ming Dynasty, so naturally he could not understand the difficulties of Zhu Zhihai, Song Zhiwen, and Wei Yan.

It’s not easy for them to be officials. Someone above them is staring at them, and if they don’t get it right, they will take their heads. Many of the officials at the bottom are also obedient, and not many people will really carry out their orders with their hearts.

There are ten things in this order, and it is very good to see two or three things that can be really implemented!

Therefore, Hao Bainian did not understand that these Ming troops would make choices that obviously did not conform to military strategy.

Looking at him, if he can't beat him, he will either divide his troops to advance or retreat strategically. No matter what he does, it is much better than staying and waiting to die.

However, he is not a general of the Ming army. He doesn't like to think about the things that many other generals of the Ming army need to consider, such as retreating without a fight. Will this be cut off by the boss in a fit of rage.

After all, the two sides haven't started fighting yet, and Wei Yan and the others don't know how many pseudo-Tang thieves are coming.

After all, they have 8,000 troops, and they are not stupid to go out to fight, and it is not expected that there will be many problems.

If they stay in place, they will be protected by camps, and they will wait for work. In addition, there are a large number of boats on the riverside for them to retreat from the waterway at any time!

If you think about it like this, then you will understand why Wei Yan did this. This is a helpless choice under comprehensive consideration.

If there is a choice, Wei Yan will definitely choose to run away as soon as possible, but can he?

cannot!

As a result, they came in a panic, fearing that the Ming army would run away, the Tang army fluttered in the air!

Why?

Because they estimated the advance route of the Ming army, and then made the advance route, they should have stopped them at a place about ten kilometers away from Liuzhou.

But the Ming army has not come, naturally they can't intercept and get the Ming army, and it becomes natural to flutter in the air.

Since the Ming army is not coming, Hao Bainian will naturally bring the army to find them!

His purpose has always been very clear and simple, that is, with Liuzhou as the center, to gather and annihilate most of the Ming army in Guangxi.

The 8,000 Ming army now is just the beginning of this series of plans!

It is impossible for him to let the 8,000 Ming army Pangu be in Xiangzhou, because the Ming army who will come in later reinforcements will continue to join them. In this way, their number will increase, and the number of enemy troops will be increased by then. Too much, and it's not good to fight.

Not to mention, there are still tens of thousands of Ming troops in Liuzhou City. Although they are not coming out now, who knows if they will appear and attack.

Hao Bainian led the army to the south. This speed is not fast, but it is not slow, because this army was originally going to attack from a long distance, so when they set off from Liping House, the army going south was to gather most of the animals in the Tang army.

The 2nd Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Consignment Regiment to which the troops headed south had more horses, mules, donkeys and other livestock than the 1st Artillery Battalion and the 1st Consignment Regiment combined.

In addition, after entering Guangxi, the Southward Detachment is naturally not patronizing and exhausting, but will try every means to supplement or even strengthen its own strength.

For example, the captured Ming soldiers in Huaiyuan County and Rong County were basically added to the third garrison brigade on the spot after a simple reorganization, to supplement the relatively large loss of troops after the third garrison brigade entered Guangxi.

Then the captured and recruited horses, donkeys and other livestock were also supplied to the troops on the spot, especially for the Second Artillery Battalion and the Second Baggage Battalion.

With a large number of livestock, the mobility of the southward detachment is relatively good in the age of on foot. There is no problem in walking 20 to 30 miles a day. If it is a forced march in a hurry, it can barely walk in a day. Fifty miles.

The army going south said that they were in a hurry, and they said that they were not in a hurry, because the other units of the Ming army were also gradually thinking about advancing in the direction of Xiangzhou and Liuzhou, but their speed was relatively slow. It's been half a month.

That is to say, the time left for Hao Bainian is about ten days.

Ten days, no more, no less!

Speaking of him, it would be very difficult to completely wipe out this 8,000-strong army in ten days in a normal battle.

But if you say he is too many, of course not. At the beginning, Zhu Zhihai's 30,000-strong army was completely defeated in just two days.

How the next battle will be carried out depends on the choices of the generals on both sides and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers.

But what is certain is that in Xiangzhou, a big battle is about to break out!

When the war was about to break out, in the Huaiyuan County Yamen, which had just been brought under the control of the Tang Dynasty, Mei Pingdong sat on the main seat of the county hall with a satisfied face, looking at the many landlords and businessmen below!

Mei Pingdong is different from most of the civil servants in the Tang Dynasty. He is not a poor scholar. Although he can read and write first-hand articles, he has absolutely nothing to do with scholars. He used to be an accountant.

Well, that is, Mr. Pala Abacus, he carries the copper-clad abacus passed down from his father's father's father's father's father's father's side wherever he goes.

At the beginning of this year, when he took it with him in his hometown, because he knew arithmetic, he was taken away by the pseudo-Tang thief army. Oh, no, he should have voluntarily surrendered to the great Tang Dynasty.

After becoming a member of the Tang Dynasty, he worked hard every day for the revival of the Tang Dynasty, in order to be loyal to His Majesty, and to feed himself and his family.

But how to count, those who don't know will be promoted slowly, from the beginning from the ninth-rank section staff, to the ninth-rank deputy section chief, and then the eighth-rank section chief, along the way It can be considered to be slowly integrated into the big family of the Tang Dynasty.

Until last month, the personnel department sent someone to talk to him and asked him if he would like to contribute more to the sage of the ancients, Li Xuan, and the revival of the Tang Dynasty.

As soon as he heard this, he knew that he was about to be promoted, because the previous time when he was promoted to section chief, the above also said the same.

Promotion, this is a good thing, definitely willing, he immediately nodded, expressing his willingness to contribute all his strength to the revival of the Tang Dynasty, and begging the organization to give him a chance.

Then, he became the magistrate of Huaiyuan County in Guangxi. Crossed from the seventh grade, and jumped directly to the county magistrate of the seventh grade.

This made him extremely excited. Their old Mei family went through the genealogy and counted up to eight generations, and they were all accountants, but when he arrived at Mei Pingdong, he was mixed with an official body. It was hard to be unhappy!

After receiving the appointment, Mei Pingdong brought a few trusted confidants with him, and temporarily found a few friends' nephews and nephews from outside to take office with him.

When he first arrived in Huaiyuan County, he had a big boss like Ma Wei and many big bosses in the military on his head. Naturally, he had no sense of existence as a small seventh-rank county magistrate.

But after the army left, and Ma Wei and many other officials also went south to Rong County, Huaiyuan County became his side of the world.

Looking around, Huaiyuan County has a radius of dozens of miles. He is the most powerful existence. Countless people rely on his breath to live, especially those big landlords and gentry who couldn't even look at themselves a year ago. Now they are looking at themselves with a pleasing face.

This feeling, how to say, just one word: cool!

‘Aren’t you guys really good at the time, everyone said that they are from a scholarly family, why are they all soft-spoken, haha, the tax inspection team doesn’t feel good! ' Seeing the deceased parents of a group of gentry landlords, he was so cool!

Haha, let you not pay taxes, it’s alright now, if you are being targeted by the tax inspection team, if you are targeted by them, you will have to be skinned even if you don’t die!

Humph, the most powerful fighting force in our Datang Dynasty is not the Datang Wang Shi, but the tax inspection team!

Even if we officials are paid, they dare to come to ask for personal income tax, Nima, since ancient times, Mei Pingdong has never heard of such a tax!

When he remembered that he had just taken office as the county magistrate, he had not received his salary for this month, but at least 25% of the tax was deducted by Zhou Papi from the tax department, which made him very painful.

The Tang Dynasty did not want to let the horses run like the Ming Dynasty did, and they did not feed the horses. Although the salaries of these officials were not very rich, they could definitely maintain their decent status as officials.

In addition to salary, there are several kinds of subsidies, such as war zone subsidies, which are for officials serving in war zones, such as ice charcoal subsidies, which are issued in winter or summer.

In addition, in order to reduce the burden on the officials, their various followers, including the master, have a quota, and then the imperial court pays them, and they don't need to ask for their own money.

Taking a low-level county like Rongxian as an example, the county magistrate's salary and various subsidies can add up to more than 80 taels of silver a month, but if he pays taxes like this, he will pay 25%. It is equivalent to cutting every month, and I spend almost ten taels of silver on my own.

you don't pay? If you want to be beautiful, you don't need the tax inspection team to take action. The tax department directly deducts this so-called personal income tax from your salary!

No chance of tax evasion at all!

This behavior of deducting personal income tax from officials' salaries was considered among officials of the Tang Dynasty as: taking off your pants and farting, and doing nothing more.