Chapter 239: Expanding the army and setting up camps
Li Xuan has seen many people, and has seen many people angry or even resentful, but he has never seen someone as resentful as Ma Wei, who can clearly feel it even if he just speaks in a calm tone.
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But Li Xuan can somewhat understand why he has so much resentment!
Forgetting that he offended the powerful and was stripped of his title and banned from participating in the imperial examinations, he was actually exterminated to death and his family was destroyed. He himself was also hunted down by the government to the point where he didn't look like a human or a ghost.
This situation is no longer ordinary hatred, but an unrelenting hatred to destroy the family!
With such hatred, if there was no resentment shown, Li Xuan would have to suspect that he was lying.
Only then did Li Xuan understand why he came to join the Tang Dynasty!
This person carries a lot of resentment, not only hatred for the powerful, but also hatred for the government. I am afraid that he wants to take revenge even in his dreams.
But he himself is just a weak scholar, and he would not be able to assassinate him even if he risked his life. Such a scholar who is full of hatred and has no hope of revenge, and is even more driven to a dead end, when he sees
What would he do when there was a rebel army recruiting troops in front of him?
Nine times out of ten, he will choose to join the rebel army and then carry out a vigorous rebellion!
Seeing him, Li Xuan inexplicably thought of those scholars who had taken refuge with foreign races, and then thought: Maybe this Ma Wei can become his Fan Wencheng?
But as soon as he thought of this, he secretly cursed himself: Bah, bah, bah, I am not a foreigner. I am an upright Chinese citizen with Yanhuang blood. How can I compare myself with wild boar skin? I am really ashamed of my ancestors!
You should think like this: Can this Ma Wei become his own Li Shanchang and Liu Ji?
Li Xuan didn't know if Ma Wei would become his Li Shanchang and Liu Ji, but he knew that having a serious scholar come to him today would be a great thing, and he missed it.
I regretted it for months.
So he immediately nodded slightly: "Since Mr. Ma has come to our army of the Tang Dynasty, I will accept this enmity for you. The day when our army of the Tang Dynasty sends troops to Liuzhou will be the time for Mr. Ma to take revenge!"
After saying that, he looked at Ma Wei and said, "Our Tang Dynasty is still short of a left minister of the Ministry of War. I wonder if Mr. Ma is willing to give in?"
Hearing what Li Xuan said, Ma Wei finally couldn't maintain the arrogance and indifference of a scholar. He immediately took a deep breath, lifted up his tattered robe and knelt down directly: "Thank you, my emperor, for your grace!"
The title of a minister can be regarded as establishing the identity of a monarch and a minister!
At this time, Li Xuan also tolerated Ma Wei's dirty and smelly body, and stepped forward directly to help him up: "Ai Qing, please get up quickly!"
The status of king and minister was determined very quickly, because Ma Wei must have considered it in detail before surrendering. It was not necessary for a long time for Li Xuan to persuade him, which was much more convenient than persuading Yang Xiucai and others before.
As a scholar and a former scholar, Ma Wei knew much more about the etiquette between kings and ministers than Liu Bagou and the others. He dared to ask Li Xuan to help him up personally. As soon as Li Xuan reached out his hand, he stood up.
This made Li Xuan feel a lot more comfortable. Ma Wei was so dirty and smelled so bad that Li Xuan put his hand on him to help him. He was afraid that he would think it was vomiting.
At this time, Qian Mengjiu said: "Congratulations to Your Majesty on your gift of talent and beauty!"
Zeng Ziwen, a well-educated military general, also said in a docile manner: "I congratulate Your Majesty, now that Lord Ma is assisting my emperor, I, the Tang Dynasty, will launch an army to the north and sweep across all nine states."
Li Xuan smiled and said nothing, looking as if he was in control, as if he could use his army to kill Emperor Zhengde tomorrow.
After Ma Wei got up, he took two steps forward and walked to Li Xuan. At this time, Li Xuan finally couldn't help it and said directly: "Come here, take Ma Aiqing to freshen up and change clothes!"
Then he said to Ma Wei: "Ma Aiqing, go freshen up first, and I will have a long talk with you later!"
Li Xuan asked him to wash up because he couldn't stand the stench on his body, but he had already developed the habit of burying his thoughts in his heart and not easily letting his officials see his true thoughts, even when the Ming army rushed to Zhengtai County. When he went to the top of the city and was extremely nervous, he still acted like the Ming army was all scum.
Li Xuan thought to himself that he was already scratching the surface of this pretentiousness!
And Ma Wei had just met Li Xuan once and didn't know Li Xuan well enough. At this time, he thought that Li Xuan really cared about him, so he asked him to wash up and change clothes. He immediately showed a touched look and his tone He solemnly said: "I obey your decree!"
Immediately, he turned around and followed one of Li Xuan's guards towards the back. Someone would naturally arrange toiletries and change of clothes for him!
After Ma Wei left, Li Xuan took a few steps forward with the others, and then took a few deep breaths. Without Ma Wei, the air became much fresher.
After watching at the recruitment point for another quarter of an hour and looking through the roster of newly recruited soldiers in the past two days, he led everyone back to his Chinese army camp.
Because Liushazhuang is a relatively large village, although it is relatively large and has a large population, it is relatively scattered. They are not concentrated in a walled village like Fengjiazhuang. Each household in Liushazhuang is scattered. live.
Due to the characteristics of Liusha Village, it was impossible for Li Xuan to bring all the troops within the wall, because there was no wall at all.
In this case, in order to deploy the troops to escape or meet the enemy in a timely and smooth manner, the main force of the troops was stationed in an open space outside the village. However, for personal safety, Li Xuan never left the troops when outside. Living alone.
So he abandoned the houses of the big families in the village and lived in a mountain temple next to his residence.
Although the accommodation conditions are not very good, safety comes first. He does not want to bring a small number of guards to live in the homes of wealthy families just to make his stay more comfortable. At the same time, he will not bring a large army just to make his stay more comfortable. They arrived at Liusha Village, which was scattered and unsuitable for a large army to deploy.
After returning to the station, Li Xuan continued today's work and discussed with the generals the organization and training issues after the army expansion.
But it was said that they were discussing with the generals, but in fact it was Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen who were discussing. As for Fang Dongquan and Chen Tufu, you can let them lead the charge, but let them do these complicated things and involve The evolution of tactics is very reluctant.
However, they are also very self-conscious. At this time, they usually only listen rather than speak, and they listen very carefully!
Because after the army expands, it will definitely not continue to the current situation where Li Xuan directly controls each team. Thousands of troops can no longer be effectively commanded using this method. Li Xuan personally proposed it a few days ago.
, a camp will be set up above the team.
The focus of Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen's discussion was how to organize a battalion so that it can exert its greatest combat effectiveness and be most suitable for today's new army of the Tang Dynasty!
But what Fang Dongquan and the others are concerned about is how many battalions there will be and who will be the battalion commander!