The 370th chapter is magnificent! I am the Tang Dynasty
If it were another dynasty, if the emperor of a country wanted to lead an army to personally conquer the country, a bunch of people would definitely come out and say that as an eternal sage and the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, His Majesty must not personally take risks, especially
Liu Bagou would definitely say think twice and think again.
But on the Tang Dynasty side, especially Li Xuan, no one came out to dissuade him. Even when Empress Dowager Bai learned about this, she just frowned slightly and muttered, 'They are all a bunch of trash'.
The nonsense that Empress Dowager Bai said was of course referring to Liu Bagou, Hao Bainian and other civil and military ministers. If they were not too scumbag and defeated the Ming army, why would the emperor have to lead the entire army to conquer the country at every turn?
But Queen Mother Bai didn’t say much else!
Because he knew that at this juncture, Li Xuan's personal expedition was very necessary.
On the one hand, the emperor's personal expedition can effectively boost morale and command the entire army more efficiently. Instead of having to pass military orders back and forth through messengers like now, which will delay the military situation.
On the other hand, and more importantly, to fight against the Ming army, the entire army must be deployed, and all the troops were sent out, leaving only a few hundred personal guards around Li Xuan. To be honest, Li Xuan
worried.
If the Ming army from Huguang came and killed him at this moment, Li Xuan, who only had a few hundred people around him, would be doomed.
Moreover, after the army is exhausted, Li Xuan, as the emperor, will inevitably have less control over the troops. If the generals outside have any rebellious intentions, Li Xuan will not cry to death.
Many reasons prompted Li Xuan to decide to lead the army to fight in person, not because Li Xuan liked to command the army to fight, let alone to go to the battlefield.
In fact, Li Xuan was afraid of death. If possible, he would also like to hide in the rear and enjoy himself, just sit back and watch the soldiers on the front line fight to death.
However, the Tang Dynasty's family had a small business, and he was not yet able to enjoy himself in the rear.
After deciding to fight in person, Li Xuan followed the past practice and took away the civil and military ministers related to the war, such as Qian Mengjiu, the Minister of War, and most of the Privy Council personnel, including Zeng Ziwen. These personnel will surround Li Xuan
Around you, continue to form a central decision-making center.
In addition to these important personnel, although the Third Infantry Regiment has not yet fully formed an army, it still needs to be brought along. In addition, Li Xuan's personal guard battalion naturally also needs to be brought along, but he still stayed here in Xingquan Mansion.
A team of personal guards is used to protect Empress Dowager Bai, Dong Yunyun, Ye Shi and others. If there is an attack by the Ming army or someone rebels, the people from these guards can take Empress Dowager Bai and others in time.
People evacuate.
Hao Bainian and others on the front line did not show much surprise when they learned that their Majesty was about to go on a personal expedition again, because they knew very well that their Emperor had already done so many times.
Basically, in every large-scale battle of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan personally led his troops and went to the front lines to command the battles.
The subordinate generals were actually used to Li Xuan's style.
However, the arrival of Li Xuan still made the subordinate generals a little more cautious. When making various tactical choices, they often considered more things, instead of playing according to their temper as before, or even thinking about it.
As soon as it comes out, it comes out.
Just when Li Xuan led the Chinese army to start his own expedition, hundreds of miles away, Zhu Zhihai, who was located on the east side of Guiyang Mansion in Longliwei, had just arrived with 6,000 people from Fubiao under his direct command.
Their marching speed was not too slow, and they had covered dozens of miles in a few days. However, the marching speed of the army was not that fast to begin with, and the mountainous terrain in Guizhou made the already slow marching speed even faster.
slow.
After arriving at Longliwei, Zhu Zhihai hurriedly summoned local officials, and then prepared to take Longliwei's troops and provisions to continue eastward.
But at this time, he had already received the latest intelligence, saying that Liping City had been captured by the puppet Tang bandit army!
When he first heard the news, he couldn't help but flew into a rage, and then yelled: It's all Song Zhiwen's fault, that bastard. If he hadn't deceived his superiors and allowed Li Ni to rise to power, how could a mere traitor of the Tang Dynasty have broken the government twice in a row?
Mansion.
"Quick, we must speed up. The sooner we arrive, the sooner we will destroy the puppet Tang traitor army!" Zhu Zhihai kept urging the people below to speed up.
Such an anxious look also surprised the people below. When he set off from Guiyang Provincial City two days ago, Zhu Zhihai was full of confidence. He told the officials and gentry all over the city that he could do it within a few months.
Fuxing captured Li Ni completely.
How come it only took two days for my confidence to disappear, replaced by a look of anxiety.
Could it be that he is worried about something?
Is the governor really worried that those clowns in the puppet Tang bandit army will really become big?
But how is this possible? This time they have gathered at least 50,000 troops. It is not easy to annihilate a group of rebels.
Even if more than half of their 50,000 troops are young men and civilians recruited temporarily, there are still more than 50,000 people anyway, and as time goes by, when the troops from western Guizhou also come over
Later, the total strength of the troops will further increase.
With such a huge force, it is not easy to capture a mere puppet Tang rebel army.
How could there be an accident?
How could it be possible for the governor to look so nervous?
Naturally, Li Xuan and the others didn't know about the situation at Zhu Zhihai's side. Now, the various departments of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty have begun to prepare for the war according to the latest combat plan.
The First Infantry Regiment and the Second Infantry Regiment left Liping City directly, leaving the huge Liping City to civil servants like Sun Yawei. The security and even defense tasks in the city could only be left to the city, which had only been under construction for a few days.
A bandit camp with a population of just over 300 people.
As the first prefect in the Tang Dynasty, Sun Yawei's status in the Tang Dynasty can be said to be on par with senior cabinet officials, so he knew about the change in military strategy at the first time, and even more knew that His Majesty had personally
He led his army to conquer it himself.
By then, the main force of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty will all move north. At least in the next half month, the western part of Liping Prefecture and even the city of Liping Prefecture itself cannot expect to receive support from the regular troops of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
The western part of Liping Prefecture and even the city of Liping Prefecture have been temporarily abandoned by the military!
During this period of time, if the Ming Dynasty army came from the west of Liping Prefecture and even fought all the way to Liping Prefecture City, then Liping Prefecture City would not have the slightest ability to resist.
Based on this, Li Xuan had already issued an order to Sun Yawei in advance, asking Sun Yawei to implement the transfer plan and evacuate all the population and all strategic materials in the city to the east of Liping Prefecture and even to Xingquan Prefecture.
So as soon as the army left, Sun Yawei couldn't wait to start the transfer plan!
First of all, none of the various craftsmen most valued by the Tang Dynasty could be left. Regardless of whether they were willing or not, they were all packed up and taken away.
Then there are all kinds of supplies, whether they are grain, cloth, gold, silver, copper and iron, take away everything you can.
As for the city's population of more than 20,000 people, all the young and middle-aged people were packed up and taken away, while the old, young, women and children were allowed to stay!
In short, Sun Yawei's strategy is that the city of Liping can be given to the Ming army, and those who are unwilling to leave, especially the wealthy gentry, can also stay, and the old, weak, women and children can also stay, but various strategic materials, especially those related to people's livelihood, can also stay.
All grain, cloth, gold, silver, soft materials, copper and iron strategic materials must be taken away.
The young and strong population is also a strategic material. They can work and become soldiers, so they cannot be left behind and must be taken away to avoid being used by the Ming army.
The Ming army always likes to temporarily recruit a large number of young men when fighting. The new army of the Tang Dynasty knows this. If there are thousands of young men left in the city, when the Ming army comes, these young men will be forcibly taken by the Ming army.
If you recruit them, it's better to recruit them now and take them away.
For a time, the whole city of Liping Mansion was boiling. Many people were willing to evacuate with the new army of the Tang Dynasty. However, they took their belongings with them, then merged with the crowd and walked out of the city gate, and then headed towards
Advance east.
In this process, cries and screams are naturally inevitable!
The streets of Liping City were once again soaked in blood. This blood was caused by conflicts that broke out during the recruitment of various strategic materials and young men.
Of course, this would not be said in a public notice. Sun Yawei shamelessly posted such a notice: People are welcome to transfer!
What is written on the notice is as obscure as many official documents, and it goes round and round to make it difficult to understand. However, if it is translated and explained, it can be roughly seen as follows: the people in the city highly support the Tang Dynasty and enthusiastically follow the Tang Dynasty.
The great cause of rejuvenation. The wealthy gentry took the initiative to donate their property, and promising young people joined the army one after another. In this process, some passionate young people even asked to join the army because their own conditions were not enough to recruit soldiers, and they even harmed themselves to join the army.
Magnificent! Our Tang Dynasty!
Long live our emperor!
The emergency evacuation operation lasted for three days in total. After three days, more than 8,000 people of the city's original population of more than 20,000 were forcibly relocated. Most of them were young men and women, but there were also old and weak, but they were all skilled.
craftsmen and their families.
A small number of the large gentry families also joined the migration. These large gentry families who migrated all had children or simply the heads of their families were officials in the Tang Dynasty. Regardless of whether they were forced or voluntarily went to the Tang Dynasty.
They were officials of the dynasty, but when the Ming army came over, they would all die, so they evacuated with the army in a hurry.
Naturally, more wealthy gentry families would not follow them to evacuate. Even if the new army of the Tang Dynasty took away all their gold and silver, the wealth of these wealthy gentry families was naturally not limited to gold and silver. They had many properties.
, it’s nothing to be robbed of some cash for a while.
Therefore, most of the gentry and wealthy families stayed and dreamed of welcoming the King.