ps: Since the name of the character Wang (Harmony) Danxu, the General of the Guards, cannot be displayed properly on QQ, it will be renamed Wang Shanxu from now on.
As soon as Fang Dongquan said this, everyone else looked surprised. Everyone present knew very well where Longhua Town was.
That was the place where the Ming army gathered heavily. In the past year, the Ming army stationed hundreds of guards there all year round. The guards of Tong'an Qianhu Station were stationed in Longhua Town.
Longhua Town was not only the place where the Ming Army was stationed in the past year, it was also the most important and even the only logistics base for the nearby Ming Army. The grain and grass supplies for the Ming Army entering the mountains were basically transported from Longhua Town.
Now Fang Dongquan actually said that he would attack Longhua Town?
Seeing everyone's doubts and shock, Fang Dongquan continued:
"Didn't our spies say earlier that most of the enemy troops in Longhua Town have already entered the mountains, and the only ones left behind are two hundred county warriors. There are so many of us, and there are even Guards here, so let's fight
There is great hope to capture Longhua Town in one fell swoop!"
"Once we take Longhua Town and burn their food and grass, the Ming army will definitely retreat back to Longhua Town in order to preserve their retreat. Even if we cannot take Longhua Town, as long as we make this gesture, they must
Get out of the mountains and take extra precautions.
So as long as we attack Longhua Town, the Ming army will have to withdraw from the mountains, and then our Tang Dynasty’s foundation in Huangzhu Mountain will be preserved!"
At this time, Liu Bagou nodded slightly and said: "Surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao is a good idea!"
Qian Mengjiu also pondered for a while and then said: "Longhua Town is the granary of the Ming Army, and it is the place where they must be saved. If they attack Longhua Town, the Ming Army will retreat soon!"
Li Xuan looked at Fang Dongquan and thought to himself, he didn't expect that Fang Dongquan was so courageous and actually said he would attack Longhua Town.
This is something Li Xuan himself doesn’t dare to do!
Even if he has no military talent, Li Xuan also knows that Longhua Town is very important and the Ming army cannot abandon it. There will definitely be a large number of Ming troops there.
The actual military risk in attacking Longhua Town is very high.
What worries Li Xuan even more, and the real reason why he has not dared to take action against Longhua Town, is not that he cannot capture Longhua Town, but because he is afraid of the series of reactions caused by defeating Longhua Town!
What was the reaction? That was that the Ming court was shocked, and then launched more Ming troops to encircle and suppress his Tang Dynasty!
Unlike Fang Dongquan, Liu Bagou, and Chen Tufu who lacked knowledge, Li Xuanhao still had the soul of a modern person. He knew very well that if his Tang Dynasty was just making small fuss in the valley, it would at best lead to chaos.
To attract the attention of the local government and gather hundreds or thousands of people to encircle and suppress the people is basically the limit.
But if Longhua Town or even Zhengtai County is captured, the nature will be completely different. By then, the Ming army will not come with one or two thousand troops, but thousands or even tens of thousands. By then, the Tang Dynasty will be as strong as on the beach.
Just like the castle, it will be destroyed in minutes.
This is like someone in later generations foolishly trying to claim emperor and founding a country with a few people at home. At most, it will lead to suppression by the police station, but it is unlikely to attract regular troops or anything like that.
But if you make a big fuss, such as gathering a group of stupid people to attack important targets such as government buildings and hospitals, then the army will drive tanks over in minutes. If you can survive the military's artillery fire for five minutes, you are considered awesome!
Similarly, it was similar in the Ming Dynasty. You, the Tang Dynasty, were amusing themselves in the valley. The local officials in the Ming Dynasty regarded you as a bandit at most and didn't even bother to open their eyes to look at you. They didn't come to beat you because of
You threatened the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but it was local officials who wanted to take credit.
But if the Tang Dynasty grew stronger and conquered a military town like Longhua Town, or even Zhengtai County, it would truly threaten the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, local prefectures and county officials are no longer able to make decisions on their own. They will definitely report it to the chief envoy or even the capital. After all, this kind of thing can leave a sentence or two in the official history.
When future generations read the actual records of Zhengde, they may see this sentence: Forty years ago, Lear and his son plotted rebellion. In March of the following year, they fell into Longhua and Zhengtai. In April, the army returned to Longhua and Zhengtai. Those who rebelled were punished.
In other words, if Longhua Town is attacked, it is very likely that a large number of Ming troops will be attracted. Even if the Ming court does not send the central army down, the guard troops from several surrounding counties alone will be 100% able to defeat the Tang Dynasty.
The dynasty was completely destroyed.
This is also an important reason why Li Xuan never considered taking the initiative to attack the Ming army during the past half year when the Tang Dynasty was always threatened by the Ming army.
So when he heard Fang Dongquan say that he wanted to capture Longhua Town, Li Xuan's first reaction was not to think about how many benefits he would get after taking Longhua Town, but to think about how many people the Ming army would send to encircle and suppress him.
of the Tang Dynasty.
Maybe by then three thousand people will be the low-level team, and it won't be unusual to have a mid-level team of five thousand people. It's even possible to send a luxurious formation of tens of thousands of people.
In Li Xuan's eyes, Longhua Town is like a hornet's nest. One bucket will cause him great trouble, and he will be stung to death if he is not careful.
But while he was meditating, others were happily discussing the many benefits of conquering Longhua Town, such as explaining that the army would withdraw from the mountains, and that there must be a large population in Longhua Town.
Go back to Huangzhu Mountain to open up wasteland and farm, and maybe catch some craftsmen to improve the technological level of the Tang Dynasty and make more muskets, swords and other weapons.
Seeing that everyone only saw Longhua Town and limited their attention to Zhengtai County, Li Xuan secretly sighed. It would be extremely difficult to lead this group of bandits to rebel!
He coughed lightly immediately, and after everyone's eyes turned to him, Li Xuan slowly said: "What if taking Longhua Town shocks the Ming court and causes the Ming army to send more people?"
Li Xuan didn't directly say that Longhua Town was a hornet's nest and couldn't be attacked. If it was attacked, the Ming army would jump and everyone would be doomed. He just put forward a hypothesis and let them think about it themselves.
Sure enough, as soon as Li Xuan said these words, the originally lively scene suddenly calmed down. Whether it was Fang Dongquan or Liu Bagou, although these people were a little less experienced, they were not fools. They were so excited before.
Because I didn't expect it.
Now that Li Xuan was reminded like this, he quickly reacted: Yes, what if they take Longhua Town and the Ming army sends more people to encircle and suppress them?
Now the Ming army has only sent two thousand people, half of them are county warriors and civilians, which makes the Tang Dynasty full of dangers. What if the Ming army sends more people? Everyone will die!
Don't doubt whether there are so many people in the Ming army. Even if it is just Xingquan Prefecture itself and the guards of several surrounding prefectures, they can easily gather a few thousand regular troops and then recruit thousands of young and strong civilians.
Bring out an army of ten thousand people.
After everyone pondered for a long time, the commander of the Guards Wang Shanxu took the lead and said: "The risk of attacking Longhua Town is still too great, but if we just make a gesture of attacking Longhua Town and draw the Ming army out of the mountains, the impact will be
It’s not that big anymore!”
Fang Dongquan also said: "Yes, there are many people over there in Longhua Town. Although most of them are brave civilians in the county, it would be troublesome to fight. Why don't we pretend to fight in Longhua Town and wait until the Ming army comes out?
Just retreat back to the mountain!"
"With this coming and going, it will be impossible for them to enter the mountains again for at least a month. After a while, it will be almost busy in summer, and then it will be even less likely for them to enter the mountains!"
At this time, Butcher Chen said: "We can also attack some small villages outside the mountain and bring all the people back to Huangzhu Mountain. In this case, the harvest will not be much less than that of taking Longhua Town!"
Wang Shanxu said: "Yes, the total number of craftsmen in the surrounding villages will not be less than that in Longhua Town. If we bring these craftsmen back, we can build more muskets faster."
As the commander-in-chief of the Guards, Wang Shanxu was naturally very concerned about the production of muskets. Some cold weapons such as swords and spears could still be seized from the Ming army, but there was no way to seize the matchlock gun because the Ming army itself had
Without this stuff, they only have some extremely primitive handguns.
You can only make a matchlock yourself, and making muskets requires craftsmen, so he is extremely concerned about how many craftsmen he can capture!
Listening to everyone's words, Li Xuan thought this was a way to make a gesture of attacking Longhua Town, but without actually attacking Longhua Town. This would not only make the Ming army entering the mountain feel threatened, but would not cause a major outcry among the Ming army.
shock.
You can also attack the surrounding villages and so on to increase the population of the Tang Dynasty.
He immediately said: "In that case, let's go out without further ado tomorrow!"
While speaking, he looked around at everyone present and said in a very cautious tone: "But when we went to attack Longhua Town, we only surrounded it but not attacked it. As soon as the Ming army came out of the mountain, we immediately retreated back to the mountain!"
Longhua Town is like a hornet's nest. It's okay to pretend that you want to poke a hornet's nest, but you can't really poke it. If you really poke it, you might get stung like a pig's head.
As a fledgling dynasty, the Tang Dynasty had "extremely high" administrative efficiency. A few bandit leaders went out and shouted twice. Basically everyone knew that they were going to go out to rob the country tomorrow, so everyone started to make various preparations one after another.
Early the next morning, the bandits from Huangzhu Mountain came out in great force, and this time they did not really intend to capture Longhua Town. The main purpose was to lure the main force of the Ming army out of the mountain.
Therefore, although there was no fanfare along the way, they were not deliberately secretive. They even spared a few spies of the Ming Army, just to allow the spies of the Ming Army to report in time and let the Ming Army generals who led the team know that they
The Heavenly Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are going out to attack Longhua Town, so hurry up if you don't want your escape route to be blocked.
The bandits in Huangzhu Mountain set off, and they were heading out of the mountain. This news was quickly learned by Mr. Wu and Diao Leixun.
Mr. Wu thought for a moment and then said, "Not good!"