If spring plowing is delayed in Huangzhushan, at least half of the more than 2,000 people in the Tang Dynasty will starve to death next year.
The same is true over there in the Puppet Ming Dynasty. Their army is all guard soldiers, and these guard soldiers are usually farm serfs, working hard for two meals a day.
If they go to war during the busy farming season, the fields at home can only be cultivated by the old and the weak. One may not be able to complete the sowing in time for the season. When the summer harvest is not harvested enough food, they will be in trouble in the second half of the year.
Have to starve to death!
Not to mention ordinary military households, even the generals in the guard posts are not willing to let their serfs go out to fight when the farming is busy. The serfs have all gone to fight, who will farm the land for them? If the harvest is less
They must have suffered a big loss!
Therefore, unless it is an extremely special situation, it is generally impossible for a country with civilized farming to go to war during busy farming times. Of course, this is just an ordinary situation.
If the two sides really get angry, they naturally can't control it so much. They can start wars all year round, but after defeating the enemy, they will almost starve to death!
As for why the Tang Dynasty and the Pseudo-Ming Dynasty continued to fight in the winter, instead of only fighting after the autumn harvest as many books said, and after the fight, regardless of winning or losing, each went back to his home to hibernate.
That's because Datang is located in the south. Except for a very small period of time in winter here, the daytime temperature is around ten degrees most of the time. If the weather is good, it can even be more than ten degrees. It is not as cold as in the north, where it can often go below zero.
More than ten degrees.
In the mountains where the Tang Dynasty is located, although it is cold in winter, it does not affect people's normal activities.
The people of the Tang Dynasty could open up wasteland in winter, and naturally they could fight in winter!
If the Ming army entered the mountains after spring plowing, not only would the weather become rainy and the roads muddy, which would be conducive to the fighting of bandits like Huangzhushan, but more importantly, with this buffer time, the newly restructured Tang Dynasty Standing Army would
You will be able to have at least two months of integration and training time.
This is very beneficial to the Standing Army of the Tang Dynasty. After all, after the organization is changed, many things have to be started again. Not to mention how well they need to be trained, at least the bandits must recognize their captains and captains and be able to listen accurately.
You have to know how to command.
Li Xuan didn't have many requirements. He only hoped that after two months, this standing army would look like an army on the surface.
Even if it's just a flower display, it's better than the chaos now!
Even if the chance is slim, there is still a glimmer of hope. However, if the Ming army arrives before the integration is completed, then this slim chance will probably be gone.
While Li Xuan was meditating, Fang Dongquan and the others continued to discuss, but the direction of the discussion had shifted to secondary topics.
Because the general direction has been determined, which is to prevent the Ming army from entering the mountain within a month, this must ensure that their position in Huangzhu Mountain is not exposed.
According to what the two prisoners, Mountain Pao and Zhang Laosan, said, there were more than ten men in black from the Feng family who entered the mountain, divided into three groups, and they were just one of them.
This also means that there are two groups of people looking for them in the mountains!
However, they all divided into three different routes into the mountain to search. They were the only ones looking in the direction of the mountain gunners. The other two groups were in other different directions, so it was impossible to find Huangzhu Mountain.
But there is a problem here. When the people of the Feng family find out that Shan Pao and his group failed to return on time, they will definitely become suspicious. After all, there is no way that five strong men who are alive and proficient in martial arts will miss the chance in the mountains.
They all disappeared for no reason.
When people think about it for a moment, they will suspect that they may have encountered Huang Zhushan's troops and were intercepted and killed.
At that time, I am afraid that the people from the Feng family will once again send people to search for them along the route Shanpao and the others took into the mountain. Even if the people from Huangzhu Mountain can intercept them again, this will undoubtedly directly tell the enemy that along the way,
On this road, you can definitely find Huangzhu Mountain.
Huang Xueren said: "We definitely can't wait for them to send people again, otherwise, we will be exposed sooner or later. Even if we stop all the people who come looking for it, they can guess the general direction of our Huangzhu Mountain
, then they will either send spies to sneak over, or simply send a large team of people to investigate, and our position will be completely exposed!"
Fang Dongquan said: "It goes without saying that the other two groups of Feng family members must not be allowed to run back. If we find them and capture them, none of the three groups can go back. Even if the Feng family members know that we did it,
But it’s impossible to guess our specific direction!”
Butcher Chen said at this time: "But how do we find the other two groups of Feng family members? Although we know the route they took into the mountain, it is only a rough route into the mountain, and they may not necessarily follow the route when they return.
In the direction of the mountain, we may not be able to stop them!"
At this time, Qian Mengjiu said: "You are all worried. We don't need to find them in the mountains at all. No matter which direction they come out of the mountains, they still have to return to Fengjiazhuang. We only need to ambush them on the only way back to Fengjiazhuang."
Troops and horses, keep them safe so that no one can return to Fengjiazhuang!"
Hearing what Qian Mengjiu said, Fang Dongquan said: "This is a good idea. Anyway, we only need to stop them. It doesn't have to be in the mountains. We can intercept them outside the mountains!"
At this time, Liu Bagou said: "Now that the Ming army has closed the mountain, a large number of our troops will come out of the mountain. I'm afraid it will attract the attention of the Ming army!"
"Don't worry about this!" At this time, Butcher Chen said: "There are so many roads into the mountain. It is impossible for the Ming army to block every small road. They only blocked the main roads. They couldn't block some small roads at all.
We can only send twenty or thirty people out of the mountain from the trail to ambush, intercept the two groups of people from Fengjiazhuang and return immediately!"
With that said, Butcher Chen turned to Li Xuan and said, "Your Majesty, I am willing to lead my troops to intercept the spies from Fengjiazhuang!"
"I will definitely come back with the heads of the Feng family's thieves!" Butcher Chen was full of confidence when he spoke. It was obvious that he didn't take those members of the Feng family to heart.
But yes, Butcher Chen has experienced many large-scale battles. Oh, no, he is a person in large-scale wars. He has led hundreds of soldiers to charge through military formations under his command. There are only a few nursing homes.
It's understandable that he takes him seriously.
At this time, Fang Dongquan also nodded and said: "General Chen is brave and invincible, and the heavy armor, sword and shield soldiers under his command are also the elite of our army. They will definitely be able to kill all the Feng family thieves here!"
Although Liu Bagou did not speak, he nodded slightly, apparently agreeing to Butcher Chen's proposal to challenge!