Valley Emperor

After the autumn harvest, the calm of Huang Zhushan did not last long, because Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan soon proposed plans to form a standing army.

Although his intuition told Li Xuan that this plan was not unusual, but that Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren were fighting for power and profit behind it, and that it would affect Li Xuan's future arrangements for the Guards, he still approved it.

Compiling and training the standing army will definitely affect the future status of the Guards. Before, Li Xuan always regarded the Guards as the regular army of the Tang Dynasty, and was also trained by his private army. Now he is being trained by Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren. Doing so will inevitably squeeze the resources of the Guards.

After all, the expenditure required by the regular army is very large. Even the young militiamen like the Guards who do not need to pay wages and even bring their own rations, the cost is not small, at least one meal at noon, weapons and so on. uniform equipment.

However, even though Li Xuan knew that the formation and training of the Standing Army would restrict the development of the Guards, he still did not object.

Because the combat effectiveness of the bandits in Huang Zhushan has improved, it is also a good thing for Li Xuan. When they resist the attack of the officers and soldiers in the future, they will be more confident in repelling the officers and soldiers.

Besides, even if Li Xuan wants to oppose it, he can't oppose it. Although he is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he is only a puppet emperor. The power of Huang Zhushan is in the hands of Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan, even Liu Bagou It can only manage the civil affairs, and the military aspects cannot be involved.

After Li Xuan approved the plan to train the standing army, he issued an imperial decree to prepare the left army of the standing army and the right army of the standing army. Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren were responsible respectively.

Anyway, Li Xuan also knew that he couldn't get involved, so he simply ignored it.

Just when Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren were scrambling to train their respective standing armies, Li Xuan himself also quietly increased the training of the guards.

While increasing the training of the Guards, it also increased the supply of resources for the Guards, especially in terms of food.

Anyway, the food in the 'national treasury' is the same for everyone, so it's better to give it to his guards.

As a result, there was a wave of army formation and training up and down Huangzhu Mountain, with a total of more than 100 young and strong bandits training on the playground every day.

However, although Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan have organized their own standing armies, the training method is no different from the spontaneous training of the bandits in the past. They are all training with knives and guns, focusing on personal martial arts drills.

This made Li Xuan see it. There were joys and sorrows. The joy was that Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren were still holding the same old bandits. There is no difference from the past, so when his guards are formed, he can rely on the guards to win the real power of the Tang Dynasty.

What is worrying is that they did not improve the actual combat effectiveness of the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain. When facing the attack of the officers and soldiers in the future, they may not be able to stop the attack of the officers and soldiers.

Now it seems that if you want to survive, you still have to rely on your own guards.

No matter how Li Xuan thought about it, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren were still happily training their standing armies.

After training in such a mess for more than ten days, Huang Xueren said in the court meeting that his standing army, the right army, had been training for many days, and the morale was high, and he could already be pulled out to encircle and suppress other bandit gangs around.

"Our army has been training hard for half a month, and the combat power of our soldiers has been greatly improved. Now it's time to declare war on those stubborn rebels!" Huang Xueren continued: "In the past few days Here, the prestige of our Datang Dynasty has spread all over a hundred miles, and five villages have bowed their heads and declared themselves ministers one after another. They are willing to naturalize me in Datang.

However, today there are still Jiguan Mountain, Huanggui Mountain, and Heihu Village, which refuse to obey Wang Hua, and refuse to submit to my Tang Dynasty to serve His Majesty. The immortality of such rebels is not enough to show my great Tang grace! "

When Huang Xueren spoke, his tone was very firm, as if he wanted to swallow all the three villages in one bite.

At this time, Fang Dongquan stood up and said: "The three villages including Jiguanshan and other villages refuse to accept Wang Hua, which is naturally unbearable, but now our Tang Dynasty is facing a huge crisis of the Ming army, and it is necessary to prepare the strength and the Ming army. When it is time to fight to the death, going to attack the three villages including Jiguan Mountain at this time will undoubtedly divert our strength, so if the officers and soldiers come to attack, we will be in danger!"

Fang Dongquan has always been a representative figure who supports the preparation of the army to fight to the death with the officers and soldiers, so he is very opposed to Huang Xueren, regardless of the threats of the officers and soldiers, and going all out to attack other villages.

Fang Dongquan objected to this, and immediately divided the court into two distinct factions, and then they quarreled.

Listening to their argument, Li Xuan closed his eyes slightly.

He has no interest in interfering in the dispute between Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren. At this time, all he needs to do is sit on it and wait for them to quarrel with a result, or simply disagree, and then The meeting is over, what are you going to do?

However, although he does not intend to interfere in the disputes between Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, this does not prevent him from carefully considering the possibility of attacking Jiguanshan and other three villages.

After the autumn harvest, according to Liu Bagou's suggestion, UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com The Datang Dynasty sent envoys to send edicts to recruit and surrender to the eight bandit gangs within a hundred miles around Huangzhu Mountain.

The edict was drafted by Liu Bagou himself and polished by Wang Wenhua. Naturally, his literary talent was so good that the bandits could not understand or even understand it.

But it doesn't matter, because the meaning of these edicts is very simple, and most of the space is devoted to how the Tang Dynasty was so powerful.

In the blunt words relayed by the messengers: we have three great generals in the Tang Dynasty, and just blowing your breath can turn your village into scum.

We still have three great prime ministers, one of which is better than one. Among them, the prime minister Liu Bagou is the reincarnation of Zhuge Liang.

As for our Great Tang Emperor Li Xuan, he can no longer be described in words, because his arrogance has broken through the sky, and the entire universe cannot tolerate it.

After bragging about how awesome the Tang Dynasty is, the rest of the page is to give both kindness and power, saying that our Datang Dynasty felt that you were not hungry or warm, and came here to take you back to Huangzhu Mountain, so that you can enjoy the mighty kindness of the emperor. , eat well and drink well, which is said to be graceful.

Then there is the threat: if you are not willing to surrender, then you will also enjoy the following imperial favors, but this imperial favor will become the Great Tang will send a large army to attack you,

In this way, the arrogant Tang Dynasty recruited the five surrounding villages in one breath, ranging from dozens to hundreds of people.

However, in the face of such an awesome Tang Dynasty, there were still three bandit villages that refused to surrender. Among them, the messenger who went to Jiguan Mountain even had one ear cut off by the bandits in Jiguan Mountain.

This made Liu Bagou and Huang Xueren angry, especially Huang Xueren, who has been clamoring to attack Jiguanshan for the past two days, so that the people of Jiguanshan can enjoy a thunder, rain, and dew!