When another morning sun rose, Li Xuan got the news from Fang Dongquan and the others from the envoy. The envoy who came back from Huangzhushan said that Fang Dongquan and the others had evacuated Jiguan Mountain, but after evacuating Jiguan Mountain, they did not return to Huangzhushan, but were preparing to leave on the way.
Ambush the Ming army.
After learning the news, Li Xuan was a little angry, because the order he gave to Fang Dongquan and the others was to let them come back, and after they came back, they would discuss how to resist the Ming army's attack, or how to escape.
But now Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren, Chen Tufu, and Qian Mengjiu bypassed Li Xuan and Liu Bagou and decided on their own to ambush the Ming army halfway.
Regardless of whether they could succeed in doing this, this matter once again sounded the alarm for Li Xuan.
That is: He, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, cannot effectively control Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren.
In normal times, they maintained a superficial respect for themselves, but at this critical moment, they directly forgot about themselves, without even saying hello, and directly led people to ambush the Ming army.
Looking at the frown on Li Xuan's face, Liu Bagou guessed why Li Xuan frowned, even though he usually spoke in a nonchalant manner.
He immediately said: "Your Majesty, you will be punished outside. Moreover, the situation is urgent, and General Fang and the others will not have time to come back and report it face to face."
Having said this, he glanced at Li Xuan with a worried expression, fearing that Li Xuan would not understand the actual situation and cause a lot of things, such as sending an imperial edict to reprimand Fang Dongquan and the others, or even forcing them to come back to Huangzhu Mountain. In this case,
Things are getting serious.
After all, Li Xuan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, is not a real emperor. You have angered Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, the two real bandit leaders. Even if Liu Bagou desperately shouts in the name of monarch and minister, he may not be able to calm Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan.
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What if these two people think that Li Xuan, the emperor, is not very good and the Tang Dynasty has not managed anything, and want to disband directly?
So he continued to help Fang Dongquan and the others explain: "General Fang and the others are right. If we wait for the Ming army to come to our Huangzhu Mountain, our Huangzhu Mountain will have no geographical advantage and it will be difficult to defend. By then, the country will be in danger. The only way is to ambush halfway.
, Only in this way can we have a chance to win!"
Having said that, Liu Bagou did not think that Fang Dongquan and the others could successfully ambush the Ming army halfway, causing heavy damage to the Ming army and repelling the Ming army's attack.
He had seen the fighting power of the Ming army twice with his own eyes. Every time he fought with the Ming army, his side was defeated cleanly and without any suspense.
The Imperial Army of the Tang Dynasty fought against the Ming army several times, and they still gloriously and proudly maintained a zero chance of victory!
What's more, this time Fang Dongquan and his men only had a little over 200 troops, but the invading Ming army numbered nearly 500. Even if Fang Dongquan and his men ambushed the Ming army, it was still unknown whether they could defeat them.
Therefore, Liu Bagou didn't have much hope that Fang Dongquan and the others could ambush the Ming army, but he still supported Fang Dongquan and the others to do so, because in this way, Fang Dongquan and the others would be able to attract the attention of the Ming army, and it would be very likely to happen again.
The previous two situations.
That is, Fang Dongquan and the others led the officers and soldiers in circles in the mountains until the officers and soldiers were exhausted or something else happened and they voluntarily quit the mountain.
In the past, Huang Zhushan relied on this hand to successfully escape the Ming army's pursuit and successfully plunder Fengjiazhuang.
Li Xuan was not an idiot. When Liu Bagou said this, he finally woke up. At this time, he was indeed not qualified to accuse Fang Dongquan and the others.
Because he, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, is just a puppet!
However, this only strengthened his idea: to control as much real power as possible.
Even if he wants to be a Shangou Emperor, he must also be a Shangou Emperor with real power, instead of being just a puppet emperor who is held high by everyone but has no actual power at all.
After Liu Bagou went out, Li Xuan did not return to the backyard immediately, nor did he go to the playground to check on the Guards who were stepping up emergency training.
Instead, a man climbed onto the balcony on the second floor of the meeting hall, leaning on the railing and looking into the distance.
What was in sight was a large field that had been harvested, as well as many newly opened or even half-opened fields. In the middle of these fields, there were several streams passing through, and then these streams merged with a small river in the distance.
On the edge of the fields, there are scattered houses. Most of them have fruits and vegetables in front and back of the houses, and chickens and ducks are raised.
In the past, when Li Xuan saw these, he would only regard them as ordinary pastoral scenes, but when he saw them today, he had a different feeling.
This place is my country, and those working people are my people!
For the first time in history, he had a sense of belonging to this place, although this sense of belonging was very absurd from a rational perspective. No normal person would regard a bandit den in a ravine as his own country.
A group of bandits as their own subjects.
However, after staying here for a long time, Liu Bagou and the others called him "Your Majesty, Your Majesty" every day, and he gradually got used to calling himself me.
Now he had this ridiculous weird feeling.
Maybe, you should do something yourself!
Maybe, I can do something for the Tang Dynasty!
It has been more than half a year since he came to this era. Most of the time, Li Xuan has the mentality of being a monk for a day and hitting the clock for a day. Apart from training the Guards, he has done nothing.
Because in his mind, this ghost place is just a poor ravine, and no matter how hard he tries, he will never get anywhere. Sooner or later, he will have to leave here and start a new life outside.
Therefore, I have never taken the Tang Dynasty seriously, and naturally I don't care about the development and growth of the Tang Dynasty, let alone the life and death of the people of the Tang Dynasty.
He has always only considered how to survive on his own, and no one else, including Madam Bai and Dong Yunyun, has been considered by him.
But now, he wants to make some changes!
Li Xuan was looking far away from the balcony on the second floor. Liu Bagou, who had already gone out, turned around and saw Li's figure, and then he showed a thoughtful expression.
After sighing, he walked out again.
Liu Bagou is very busy now. He has to organize manpower to build the stronghold wall and prepare for defensive operations.
In the evening of the same day, Fang Dongquan and his men were about thirty miles away from Jiguan Mountain, and the direction they were heading was exactly the direction in which the Ming army entered the mountain.
Of course, Fang Dongquan and the others did not know that the Ming troops entering the mountains were not heading towards Huangzhu Mountain, but were preparing to go to Jiguan Mountain first.
Therefore, Fang Dongquan and the others also did not know that at this moment, the Ming army led by Su Jiakang was five miles away from them.
Following the generals in the night, the night covered the traces of both sides like mist, causing both sides to camp for the night five miles apart without knowing the other's existence!