In the past few days, he had always looked like he was in a daze when he went to court, but it was not because Liu Bagou, Wang Wenhua and the others were as disheartened as they imagined, and they were afraid of offending God and had doubts about the future.
As an up-and-coming atheist, God is for poking and God is for stepping on. When it rains heavily, I want him to think that God is angry, and then I will be extremely afraid of the next one.
Is the sinner punished?
Just kidding, even if God sends a flood that covers the whole world, the most he can do is raise his middle finger and scold God for being worse than your mother!
On the contrary, this heavy rain gave him a clearer understanding of the path he should take in the future.
If before this heavy rain, Li Xuan still thought about not irritating the Ming army and wanted to hide in the ravine to entertain himself, then this heavy rain completely shattered Li Xuan's illusion and made him
After recognizing the facts clearly, it is not safe to take sides, and it is not easy to amuse yourself as a local emperor in the mountains and valleys.
The environment in the mountains was so harsh that a single heavy rain could destroy 40% of the Tang Dynasty's fields. It was impossible to develop peacefully in such a barren place.
If you want to survive and develop, you can only look beyond the vast mountains. Even if the Tang Dynasty is currently weak, in order to avoid the shock of the Ming Dynasty, it cannot attack Zhengtai County or Longhua Town, but who stipulates that outside the mountains
Only in Zhengtai County and Longhua Town?
How could there be only these two cities in such a large area outside the mountain?
There is also a vast countryside!
As long as he doesn't stupidly attack cities like Longhua Town and Zhengtai County, is it possible that Su Jiakangzhang's eldest brother still cares about the lives of ordinary villagers in the countryside?
Just kidding, Li Xuan himself doesn't care, and he doesn't believe that those officials in the Ming Dynasty would care.
As long as Zhengtai County was not breached and Longhua Town was still in the hands of the Ming army, there should be no big problem in his activities in the countryside outside the mountains. The local Ming court officials would be furious at most, and then send people to encircle and suppress them.
But as long as it doesn't make a big fuss, it probably won't go as far as the provincial chief envoy.
It's just that I want to send people out to carry out large-scale activities. I don't know what my civil servants and generals will think, and I don't know if it will scare them.
Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him again, Li Xuan slowly said: "The heavy rain that destroyed the farmland was due to unfavorable weather conditions and it is not your fault!"
Seeing that Liu Bagou and the others were about to say something, Li Xuan immediately pressed his hand and motioned for them to speak first. At the same time, he continued: "The destruction of farmland cannot be stopped by manpower, but the food shortage crisis in the second half of the year is.
It can be saved with human power!”
As soon as Li Xuan said these words, several people immediately showed thoughtful expressions, and Butcher Chen even agreed. What would happen if there was a food crisis in Huangzhushan? He would definitely not wait to starve to death.
The best, and it can also be said that the only way is to just go out and grab it like last year.
Last year they robbed Fengjiazhuang, and this year they can also find a second Fengjiazhuang to rob. As long as they can rob enough food, then even if the farmland is washed away, they will still have food to support them.
This is why in the past few days, people all over Huangzhu Mountain are talking about when they will go out to grab a piece of it.
This is because when these bandits in Huangzhu Mountain encounter a problem, the first thing they think of is to take the old road and go out to grab a piece of it.
But now when Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren looked at Li Xuan, they all looked happy. Their emperor seemed to have the same thoughts as them, and was not the same as Liu Bagou and others who were stupid in reading.
He was afraid of this and that every day. One moment he was afraid of the Ming army, and the next moment he would offend God.
At this time, they heard Li Xuan continue: "I want to lead the army out of the mountain during the summer harvest!"
These words were within their expectations, so Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren didn't have much idea, but the next moment Li Xuan's words frightened them, because Li Xuan said:
"This grain collection operation is not only about collecting grain, but also looking for opportunities to contain the Ming army in Longhua Town!" At this point, Li Xuan stood up: "They can't always be the ones who come into the mountains to attack us.
We must fight back too!”
Although Li Xuan still had no intention of taking Longhua Town and Zhengtai County, he had the idea of weakening part of the Ming army's strength in Longhua Town and Zhengtai County.
The more than a thousand guardsmen of the Ming army and the thousands of brave county men were always a threat to the Tang Dynasty, and they were still a big threat.
Li Xuan can say with certainty that when the Ming army is ready, they will definitely enter the mountains again to encircle and suppress his Tang Dynasty.
The Ming army will definitely be on strict guard against Liangdao and Longhua Town next time. It is unknown whether they will still have a chance to reverse the situation by attacking Liangdao and Longhua Town.
In order to avoid this situation, Li Xuan felt it was necessary to take the initiative into his own hands!
Taking the initiative to attack the Ming army on his own initiative, and waiting for the Ming army to attack in the mountains, are two completely different concepts.
The former can take the initiative and attack wherever and whenever they want, while the latter can only passively defend.
The actions Li Xuan planned in the past few days were not just to go out to grab food, but to completely change the current situation of being passively beaten.
Of course, even if everything goes well and he leads his army to defeat the Ming army, he can't go too far. At least Longhua Town and Zhengtai County cannot be conquered, and he can't completely kill the Ming army.
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If by chance, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty laid an ambush and wiped out the two thousand households, the main force of the Ming army, no matter how courageous the local Ming court officials were, they would not be able to defeat the two thousand households.
We dare not hide our destruction.
In this way, the upper echelons of the Ming court will definitely be alarmed, and something will happen that the emperors and ministers of the Tang Dynasty have tried their best to avoid: countless Ming troops from surrounding counties and even provinces will come to encircle and suppress the Tang Dynasty!
What Li Xuan wanted was to contain the two Ming troops from Qianhusuo and confine them firmly outside the mountain. As long as they could not enter the mountain, that would be enough.
In this process, it would be better if we could win a small victory and annihilate dozens or hundreds of Ming troops.
When Li Xuan said this, the people below were stunned. Want to contain the Ming army? There are more than a thousand regular guardsmen, and there are hundreds of county warriors in the Ming army who can even be recruited at any time.
Where are the civilian husbands who came?
The new army of the Tang Dynasty only had a few people, and the full establishment was only 341 people. What's more, the current establishment was not full. It was necessary to rely on more than 300 people to contain the Ming army, which totaled more than 2,000 people. The risk was huge.