After the autumn harvest, the peace in Huangzhushan did not last long, because soon Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan successively proposed plans to form a standing army.
Although his intuition told Li Xuan that this plan was unusual and that there was a struggle for power between Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren behind it, and it would affect Li Xuan's future arrangements for the Guards, he still approved it.
The formation and training of a standing army will definitely affect the future status of the Guards. Previously, Li Xuan had always regarded the Guards as the regular army of the Tang Dynasty and at the same time trained it as his private army. Now it has been trained by Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren.
Doing this will inevitably occupy the resources of the Guards.
After all, the expenses required by the regular army are very high. Even for the young militiamen like the Guards, who do not need to pay wages and even bring their own rations, the expenses are not small. At least a meal at noon, weapons and so on.
Uniformly equipped.
However, even though Li Xuan knew that the formation and training of the standing army would restrict the development of the Guards, he still did not object.
Because the combat effectiveness of the bandits in Huangzhushan has increased, it is also a good thing for Li Xuan. When he resists the attacks of the officers and soldiers in the future, he will be more confident in repelling the officers and soldiers.
Besides, even if Li Xuan wanted to object, he couldn't. Although he was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he was just a puppet emperor. The power of Huang Zhushan was in the hands of Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan. Even Liu Bagou
It can only take care of civil affairs, but cannot get involved in military affairs.
When Li Xuan approved the plan to organize and train a standing army, he issued an imperial edict to prepare for the establishment of a standing army on the left and a standing army on the right, with Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren in charge respectively.
Anyway, Li Xuan knew that he couldn't get involved, so he simply ignored it completely.
While Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren were scrambling to train their respective standing armies, Li Xuan himself quietly increased the training of the Guards.
While increasing the training intensity of the Guards, it also increased the supply of resources to the Guards, especially in terms of food.
Anyway, everyone can eat the food in the 'Treasury', so it might as well be given to his Guards.
As a result, there was a wave of army training up and down Huangzhu Mountain, with more than a hundred young and strong bandits training on the playground every day.
However, although Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan organized their own standing armies, the training methods were no different from the spontaneous training of bandits in the past. They were all about wielding swords and guns, and focusing on the practice of personal martial arts.
This made Li Xuan see it, and he was both happy and worried. What was happy was that Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren were still clinging to the same old ways as bandits. Even if they were given a name to organize and train regular troops, it was just another name. In fact,
There is no difference from the past. In this way, after his Guards are formed, he will be able to rely on the Guards to seize the real power of the Tang Dynasty.
What is worrying is that their actions have not improved the actual combat effectiveness of a group of bandits in Huangzhushan. When faced with an attack by officers and soldiers in the future, they may not be able to stop the attacks of officers and soldiers.
Now it seems that if you want to survive, you still have to rely on your own guards.
No matter what Li Xuan thought about it, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren still happily built their own standing armies.
After practicing in such a mess for more than ten days, Huang Xueren said in the court meeting that his standing army right army had been training for many days, and its morale was high, and it could be drawn out to encircle and suppress other bandit groups around it.
"Our army has been training hard for half a month, and the combat effectiveness of our soldiers has been greatly improved. Now it is time to declare war on those stubborn rebels!" Huang Xueren continued: "In the past few days,
Here, the prestige of our Tang Dynasty has spread throughout a hundred miles, and five villages have successively surrendered and are willing to join our country.
However, there are still Jiguan Mountain, Huanggui Mountain, and Black Tiger Village that refuse to obey the king and surrender to the Tang Dynasty to serve His Majesty. The immortality of these rebels is not enough to demonstrate the grace and power of the Tang Dynasty!"
When Huang Xueren spoke, his tone was extremely firm, as if he wanted to swallow up all three villages.
At this time, Fang Dongquan stood up and said: "Jiguanshan and other three villages refused to accept Wang Hua. This is naturally intolerable. But now our Tang Dynasty is facing a huge crisis from the Ming army. We need to prepare strength and the Ming army."
When we are fighting to the death, attacking Jiguanshan and other three villages at this time will undoubtedly distract our strength. In this case, if the officers and soldiers come to attack, we will be in danger!"
Fang Dongquan has always been a representative figure who supports the preparation of the army for war and a decisive battle with the officers and soldiers, so he is very opposed to Huang Xueren's insistence on attacking other villages regardless of the threats from the officers and soldiers.
As soon as Fang Dongquan objected, the court was immediately divided into two distinct factions, and each of them started to quarrel.
Listening to their argument, Li Xuan closed his eyes slightly.
He has no interest in interfering in the dispute between Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren. At this time, all he needs to do is to sit quietly and wait for them to come up with a result, or simply not reach an agreement, and then
The meeting is over, let's go and do whatever we are supposed to do.
However, although he did not intend to intervene in the dispute between Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, this did not prevent him from carefully considering the possibility of attacking Jiguanshan and other three villages.
After the autumn harvest, based on Liu Bagou's suggestion, the Tang Dynasty sent envoys to issue summons and surrender orders to eight bandit gangs, large and small, within a hundred miles around Huangzhu Mountain.
The edict was drafted by Liu Bagou himself and polished by Wang Wenhua. The literary talent was naturally so good that the bandits could not understand or even understand it.
But it doesn't matter, because the meaning of these edicts is very simple, and most of the text is about how awesome the Tang Dynasty is.
To use the blunt words relayed by those envoys: We have three powerful generals in the Tang Dynasty, and any one of them can blow your village into pieces.
We also have three awesome prime ministers, one by one, and Prime Minister Liu Bagou among them is the reincarnation of Zhuge Liang.
As for our Emperor Li Xuan of the Tang Dynasty, his awesomeness cannot be described in words, because his awesomeness has exceeded the sky and the entire universe cannot tolerate it.
After bragging about how awesome the Tang Dynasty was, the rest of the article was about giving both kindness and power, saying that we, the Tang Dynasty, felt that you didn’t have enough food and clothing, so we came here to take you back to Huangzhushan so that you could enjoy the emperor’s grace.
, eat well and drink well, this means grace.
Then comes the threat: If you are unwilling to surrender, you will also be allowed to enjoy the following imperial favor, but this imperial favor will mean that the Tang Dynasty will send an army to attack you.
In this way, the powerful Tang Dynasty recruited five surrounding villages in one go, with the number of people ranging from dozens to more than a hundred.
However, in the face of such a powerful Tang Dynasty, there were still three bandit villages that refused to surrender. One of the envoys who went to Jiguan Mountain even had an ear cut off by the bandits from Jiguan Mountain.
This made Liu Bagou and Huang Xueren very angry, especially Huang Xueren, who had been clamoring for the past two days to attack Jiguan Mountain so that the people of Jiguan Mountain could enjoy the thunder, rain and dew. Thank you for your kindness!