Chapter 54: The Great Tang Heavenly Soldiers Are Brave and Invincible
Jiguan Mountain is one of the few bandit gangs with a name within a hundred miles. The gang's name is because the mountain where it is located resembles a chicken comb, so it is called Jiguan Mountain.
However, the gangsters in Jiguan Mountain are different from the original Huangzhushan and Shuilong Village. Their predecessors were not farmers who could not survive outside and fled to the mountains.
Its predecessor was a gang that was rumored to commit crimes, also commonly known as bandits. Later, it was broken up by the government. The few people who escaped ran into the mountains and gathered more than a dozen other desperadoes to continue robbing homes. Because they acted ruthlessly
, they killed everyone and looted everyone wherever they went, and this area grew to more than 200 people in just a few years.
Moreover, among the more than 300 people, except for most of the young women who were robbed, the rest are desperadoes.
Unlike Huangzhushan, there are still a large number of old, weak, women and children.
Although the number of bandits in Jiguan Mountain is small, due to the large number of desperadoes, their actual combat effectiveness can be considered among the top three within a radius of a hundred miles.
After all, to be honest, the people in Jiguan Mountain are the real bandits, while the people in Huangzhu Mountain and Shuilong Village are only half-timers, part-time at most.
However, although Jiguanshan was strong, it dared to resist the Tang Dynasty, which made Huang Xueren and others quite unhappy.
In particular, Huang Xueren wanted to send troops to clean up the bandit dens that refused to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. Now Jiguan Mountain cut off the ears of the Tang Dynasty's envoys to persuade them to surrender. This made Huang Xueren furious, but he also saw it.
hope.
An opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to send troops to Jiguan Mountain to expand his influence within the Tang Dynasty.
In recent times, the conflict between Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren has almost become public. The two are competing to train a standing army. One said he wanted to attack other bandit nests, and the other said he wanted to fight decisively with the officers and soldiers.
Moreover, these two people were both powerful in the Tang Dynasty. Fang Dongquan was the leader of more than 500 bandits in Huangzhushan. Although Huang Xueren later joined the Tang Dynasty, he also brought the original water dragon number 400 to 500.
People from the village came to Huangzhushan.
Now in the Tang Dynasty, the people of the original Huangzhu Mountain and the people of the original Shuilong Village are divided into two factions, with clear distinctions, supporting their respective bosses in their struggle for power.
Today's court meeting was about attacking Jiguan Mountain, but in fact it was still a dispute between Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren.
Li Xuan has always turned a blind eye to the disputes between the two of them. On the one hand, even if he wanted to intervene, he actually couldn't. On the other hand, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren were at odds. For him, a puppet emperor,
It has great benefits, as it allows him to expand his strength in the middle of the dispute between the two, such as increasing his support for the Guards.
Li Xuan sat on the 'Dragon Chair' and thought about how to get the maximum benefit from the dispute between Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren.
At the same time, the dispute between Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren continued.
"Is Jiguan Mountain so easy to attack? Although their number is smaller, everyone knows that their dozens of people are desperadoes, ruthless people who dare to rob even large caravans. If they want to attack
Of them, we must send at least two hundred troops, so that we can have some confidence!" Fang Dongquan continued:
"Although our Heavenly Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are brave and invincible, how many people does our Tang Dynasty's standing army have in total? The total number of the left and right armies is only 120 people. Even if the Guards are added, there are only about 170 people. First of all,
Regardless of whether these people are enough to attack Jiguan Mountain, if we all pull people over to attack Jiguan Mountain, what if the officers and soldiers enter the mountain?"
"Also, it's not just the Jiguanshan family that refuses to surrender, there are also Huangguishan and Black Tiger Village!"
"Huang Guishan is okay, their strength is not very strong, but the strength of Black Tiger Village is not much worse than ours before, with a population of more than 400, and this Black Tiger Village has always advanced and retreated with Jiguan Mountain, and has done so many times
If we join forces to attack large caravans, if Black Tiger Village comes to help Jiguanshan, things will become troublesome!"
Fang Dongquan stated his reasons for opposing the attack on Jiguan Mountain, and they were very fatal reasons.
As soon as he said this, even Liu Bagou nodded slightly, obviously agreeing with Fang Dongquan's words.
Just attacking Jiguan Mountain is nothing, but now their Tang Dynasty has more than one Jiguan Mountain enemy. The nearby Black Tiger Village and Huang Guishan are still watching. If they are not careful, they will unite with Jiguan Mountain.
Shan came to fight against the Tang Dynasty together.
And more importantly, the real enemies of the Tang Dynasty are the officers and soldiers of the imperial court. The more than a thousand officers and soldiers outside the mountain are like a giant sword, always hanging on their heads. This one might be chopped off
Come down.
At this time, Huang Xueren said: "I don't know the people in Black Tiger Village yet. Although they are large in number, there are not many who can fight. In the past, they could only fish in troubled waters behind Jiguan Mountain. Now we, the subjects of the Tang Dynasty, are here
Thousands and hundreds of heavenly soldiers are still afraid of this mere Black Tiger Village?
Although the desperadoes in Jiguan Mountain are strong, their numbers are too small after all. Our strength is two or three times theirs. Furthermore, we also have the Guards trained by His Majesty himself. If we attack Jiguan Mountain, we can easily capture them.
thing.
Furthermore, we have to defeat Jiguan Mountain to successfully regain Huanggui Mountain and Black Tiger Village. Otherwise, these two families will definitely not surrender to the Tang Dynasty easily!"
"In addition, it is precisely because the Ming army is our biggest threat and will enter the mountains in the near future that we need to expand our strength in a short period of time so that we can resist the Ming army in the future!
The five mountain villages that previously submitted to our Datang Dynasty have a combined population of more than 300, with dozens of young people. If we can recover the three villages of Jiguan Mountain, Huanggui Mountain, and Black Tiger Village, our Datang Kingdom will be within a hundred miles.
The dynasty is the largest family, and the scattered mountain people nearby will also follow suit. By then, our population will be able to exceed 3,000 or more, and at least 500 young men will be able to mobilize to resist the Ming army's attack!
And this is our hope of being able to block the Ming army’s attack in the future!”
In the face of Fang Dongquan's opposition, Huang Xueren did not show any weakness. What he said was well-founded and well-structured. It was obvious that he had planned it in advance.
Huang Xueren's words also aroused the approval of many people. Qian Mengjiu, Wang Wenhua and even Butcher Chen all nodded slightly.
Because just like what he said, the officers and soldiers of the imperial court are their life and death enemies, and in the foreseeable future, the officers and soldiers will definitely go into the mountains to encircle and suppress them, because no imperial court will sit back and watch a rebel regime grow under its own nose.
It's all alive and kicking under the bed.
The officers and soldiers will come sooner or later, but it's hard to say whether they will be alive or dead.