It was not surprising that Butcher Chen asked Li Xuan to fight. No one else but Butcher Chen could take on such a situation that required men to fight with real swords and guns. Not only was Butcher Chen's own bravery, but also because of his subordinates.
More than twenty gangsters!
In this kind of small-scale fighting, a small number of ordinary bandits are unreliable. If too many people go there, it will easily attract the attention of the Ming army, so only a small number of elites can be sent there.
The only elites in the Tang Dynasty were Butcher Chen and his more than 20 gangsters!
He immediately nodded: "General Chen is commendable for his loyalty and bravery. I am sure. In addition, you will bring ten more archers!"
Since it is an ambush, it is best to use archers to shoot a wave first. Maybe a wave of arrows will be shot out, and those people in Fengjiazhuang will be finished, and there will be no need for Chen Butcher and others to take risks and fight closely.
Now that the matter was decided at the court meeting, Butcher Chen did not delay. In order to prevent any accidents, he began to gather people to make preparations that day, so that he could set out early tomorrow morning to find a necessary place to return to Fengjiazhuang.
Set up an ambush.
At the same time, in order to prevent the other two people in Fengjiazhuang from not following common sense and changing directions while walking, more people will be arranged to monitor all small roads within a ten-mile radius of Huangzhushan. Once traces of outsiders are discovered,
No matter whether he is an outsider of the Feng family or not, he will take it down first.
Early the next morning, Butcher Chen set out with thirty gangsters, and at the same time, those peripheral sentinels were also arranged to go out. But even this did not make Li Xuan feel much at ease, because even if everything went well, the plan
, we can only buy Huangzhushan two or three months. After two or three months, the Ming army will definitely enter the mountain. When the Ming army enters the mountain on a large scale, it will be impossible for Huangzhushan to hide it.
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A war is unavoidable no matter what!
Now, what Li Xuan has to do is to improve the combat effectiveness of this group of bandits in Huangzhushan as much as possible before this big war comes!
Not only the Guards must strengthen their training, but also the Standing Army must not relax.
Considering that the bandits in the standing army were all experienced, and each one of them was tired and suffering from training, so this time Li Xuan also adopted an unconventional method.
Soldiers of the standing army who complete the training as required every day during these two months will be provided with a meal directly from the public school. In addition, only those who excel in training can become corps commanders.
For this reason, Li Xuan ignored the objections of Fang Dongquan and others and forced all positions at the level of corps commander to be vacant. He then announced to all soldiers in the standing army that the future corps commander would be selected from among them with the best training results.
This gives them a competitive upward channel!
If there is no competition, there will be no pressure. If you want to be a corps leader, then you have to follow orders and train well.
If you're cheating and cheating, don't worry, you should continue to be your top soldier!
Even bandits, bandits all want to get promoted and make a fortune. Being an ordinary bandit and being a small leader are completely different concepts.
Naturally, this treatment is not reflected in salary or the like, because the Tang Dynasty never pays wages!
Regardless of whether they are ordinary soldiers, generals like Fang Dongquan, or even Liu Bagou, the chief assistant, they are all free coolies without even a penny salary!
The reason is also very simple. The Tang Dynasty had no money, so the few hundred taels of silver they had stolen had to be taken out to buy necessities.
Especially salt and ironware. Needless to say, salt, people cannot live without this seemingly cheap and ordinary thing, but ironware is equally important. Iron is not only needed to make swords, guns and armor, but also for normal agricultural production.
Iron farm tools were used.
The money stolen by the Tang Dynasty was basically used to secretly purchase salt, iron and other necessities from outside the mountains, and it was impossible to use it to pay wages.
And even if they took the money, they had nothing to spend it on. Huang Zhushan is just a small ravine, and you can't buy anything if you have money.
Since the difference between the leader bandits and ordinary bandits cannot be reflected in wages, how is it reflected?
Nowadays, the Tang Dynasty has continued the spoils distribution system that has been passed down from generation to generation in the mountains. That is, the higher the status, the more capable you are of fighting, and the more spoils you will get!
The bandits have to distribute the things they have stolen. How to distribute them? Naturally, the higher the status, the more they get, and the lower the status, the less. The lowest-level ordinary bandits can only get the most basic loot.
In addition, in order to strengthen the transformation of these corps commanders into professional soldiers, Li Xuan specially issued instructions to issue a military uniform to each corps commander and a certain amount of food every month.
But correspondingly, there are also stricter requirements for corps commanders and above, that is, they must not be absent from daily training without excuse, and they must not retreat in case of battle.
After all, Li Xuan paid such a high price not to cultivate a few bandit leaders, but to cultivate the first batch of professional soldiers.
It costs a lot to raise a professional soldier these days. Even if Li Xuan doesn't give him money, he still has to give him food. This food is not only for the soldiers themselves, but also for them to feed their families.
After all, a professional soldier must be young and strong. The loss of a young man as a labor force in their family will definitely have a great impact. One of them may starve to death. If you don't provide food for professional soldiers to feed them,
Family, he will only serve as a soldier for you if his brain is burned out!
In Li Xuan's plan, the salary system was a necessary measure to transform the Tang Dynasty's standing army from bandits into a regular professional army, and it was a better measure than organizational structure, dedication, etc.
Originally, Li Xuan wanted to distribute food to all the soldiers, but the Tang Dynasty's family was too weak. There was not much food in the palace, and the Guards required a large amount of food expenses every month.
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Therefore, for the time being, we can only narrow the scope to a few dozen people. As for most ordinary bandits, they are still not given a grain of food or a penny. They are even required to bring their own weapons and dry food when fighting.
However, these ordinary soldiers will also be rewarded, because if they win, they can distribute the spoils. As for if they lose, it will be good if everyone can save their lives, let alone the spoils.
In later generations, it was a typical gangster or a self-made cent, and it was a particularly noble kind. Therefore, there was no difference between a self-made gangster and a bandit who brought his own dry food.
Of course, the former can only talk nonsense online, but the latter can actually go into battle with a knife. From this point of view, self-made gangsters are far inferior to bandits who bring their own dry food.
Especially the bandits of Huangzhushan are not comparable to the talkers of later generations. They used fearless dedication to the rise of the Tang Dynasty and Li Xuan's hegemony. They resolutely brought their own food without a single grain or penny.
They went into battle with dry food and weapons.
Even if they were defeated by chance, they still tried every means to protect themselves and leave a spark for the rejuvenation of the Tang Dynasty!