Jinling City, the royal palace.

Bai Yunqi is sitting in front of the Empress Dowager Bai, although the two are sisters and brothers, but now the identities of the two are very different, the Empress Dowager Bai has become the empress dowager of the Tang Dynasty, so even Bai Yunqi does not dare to be too presumptuous in private occasions, and behaves very respectfully.

At this time, he said respectfully: "The turmoil in Taiping Mansion has been calmed down, according to the news reported by the people below, this time the turmoil is the union of several local gentry, and these gentry are all family members who are officials in the Ming Dynasty, and some of them have been killed and injured in the hands of our army before, and they have great resentment towards our Tang Dynasty. ”

"After the incident, the local militia immediately organized troops to intercept, but the number of local militia is too small, and it is relatively scattered, it is difficult to control the situation, but the 15th mixed regiment quickly sent a battalion to suppress it, after two days of fierce fighting, successfully suppressed the local rebellion, killed hundreds of rebels on the spot, and arrested about 300 people!"

After hearing this, Empress Dowager Bai moved her fat body and stood up: "These days are killed, good days are just rebellions, and they must be severely punished to set an example!" ”

"Now that the emperor is marching north, leading more than 100,000 troops to fight with the puppet Ming army, at such a critical juncture, we must not let them mess around!"

Empress Dowager Bai continued: "After the emperor's northern expedition, many people were ready to move, thinking that they had seized the opportunity, but just because they wanted to shake the foundation of my Tang Dynasty, it was simply wishful thinking, you must let the people below take strict precautions, and there must not be the slightest mess!" ”

After Bai Yunqi left the palace, he immediately sent an official letter to the troops and militias in Jiangnan and Jiangbei in the name of the commander of the Zhili garrison, asking them to strictly guard against turmoil in various places and implement martial law policies in strategic places.

When Bai Yunqi was bombarding various places in the rear, Li Xuan also received the news of the rebellion from Taiping Mansion, and after reading it, he didn't think it was strange, but it was just a rebellion of hundreds of people, which was not worthy of Li Xuan's attention.

The Tang Dynasty has suppressed not a hundred but eighty rebellions of this scale over the years, and at its peak, it could receive more than a dozen reports of rebellions in various places a month.

After the rise of the Tang Dynasty, and the fierce battle with the puppet Ming, many careerists thought that the opportunity had come, and tried every means to play rebellion, of course, more of them were rebellions carried out by people who were dissatisfied with the Tang Dynasty, and armed resistance to taxes was endless.

Although he Li Xuan went north to conquer in person, he still had a large number of troops in Nanzhili, and the 10th Infantry Division and several mixed regiments were all over Jiangnan and Jiangbei, but the rest of the provinces also had at least one mixed regiment stationed.

These are still regular armies, and in addition to the regular army, there will be militias everywhere.

Small and medium-sized rebellions, that can't make a lot of waves.

Unless there is a second traverser like himself in this world, otherwise, the rear is as stable as Mount Tai.

Not to mention the rebellion, even if the ministers in the rear want to play a coup d'état or something, it will not work, but he, Li Xuan, personally led an army of more than 100,000 people, and if there is a change in the rear, he will kill him immediately.

And if officials want to play a coup d'état, it is unlikely to pull down the support of the army, the army has always been Li Xuan's basic plate, almost all the officers are graduates of the martial arts academy, almost all the middle and senior officers are graduates of the imperial academy, and it is impossible for others to win over the army to defect.

And only by seizing the army, then Li Xuan will not have to worry about any instability in the rear.

Otherwise, Li Xuan would not be at ease with the northern expedition.

But although there is no big problem, in order to avoid this kind of thing from happening in the future, and it is getting worse and worse, it must be severely punished, and an example must be made.

Immediately, Li Xuan was approving the rebellion in Taiping Mansion and severely punished.

Dealing with rebellion, the Tang Dynasty, like the Ming Dynasty and all dynasties, is very severe, and basically will be given the heaviest punishment, every time it is a river of blood, raiding the family and exterminating the clan is the lightest treatment, and the serious one will punish the nine clans.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to carry out effective deterrence!

After all, in the land of China, the view that 'Hou Ning, the prime minister of the king, has a kind of' is very marketable, and there has never been a shortage of careerists of all kinds, so it must be suppressed and punished by thunderous means.

After approving the matter, Li Xuan returned his attention to the local war.

The ordinary government affairs in the rear are handled by Liu Bagou and them, and militarily, there is also Bai Yunqi bullet pressure, and there is also a white empress dowager in charge, and other idlers can't set off the wind and waves at all, but the war in the north is now making Li Xuan a little worried.

He had been leading his army north for several days, but because of his caution, the pace of the march was not fast, and he was still about twenty kilometers away from Anping Town.

These twenty kilometers are not far away, but they are not close, this distance really requires an all-out march, and it will be a day, but if it is slow, it is possible to walk this distance for several days.

Especially when there was a large number of enemy cavalry threats next to him, Li Xuan repeatedly ordered the troops to be cautious and restrained, and never fight in the face of enemy cavalry.

At the same time, in order to avoid being cut off by the enemy's cavalry and causing a shortage of food and ammunition, the army led by Li Xuan carried half a month's worth of food and enough ammunition for a large-scale decisive battle.

And the more materials I carry, the more troublesome it will be.

But Li Xuan was not in a hurry, because the Ming army was in Anping Town, and Emperor Zhengde was there!

So when to launch an attack, the initiative still lies with himself, in this case, Li Xuan is naturally unwilling to rush over, and then lose because of insufficient preparation.

"Now it has been ascertained, on the side of the Tatars, it is Altan Khan himself commanded, a total of more than 50,000 cavalry, at present, its main force is stationed in the area from Anping Town to Shouzhang, and there are about 10,000 cavalry south, although they don't know their specific goals, but they should want to go south to attack the rear of our army and cut off the supply line of our army!"

Lieutenant General Lei Wan pointed at a topographic map of the nearby area and said: "The Ming army in the direction of Anping Town is stationed around Anping Town, and a total of three large battalions have been established, but their cavalry is not in the main camp, but on the west side of the main camp!" ”

Li Xuan stared at the map, and then said: "It seems that Zhengde is trying to use Anping Town as a bait to attract our army to attack, and then use cavalry to attack the rear of our army left and right?" ”

Lieutenant General Lei Wan said: "Although it is not yet certain, judging from the current movements of the Ming army and the Tatars, it is very likely!" ”

At this time, Li Xuan looked at Bao Yifen on the side: "If the enemy attacks the rear of our army, can the navy ensure that the supply line of the canal continues?" ”

Bao Yifen said with confidence at this time: "The Navy's canal fleet has prepared more than 50 river warships, divided into three sub-fleets to be on standby at any time, from Anping Town to Jining Prefecture, the fleet can arrive and launch artillery bombardment on the same day!" As long as the enemy forces do not occupy a certain coastal point with heavy troops, then it is impossible for them to cut off our river supply line! ”

At this time, Lieutenant General Lei Wan also added: "Even if the enemy uses cavalry to occupy a certain key node, the army has already arranged the core main force of the Fifth Infantry Division in the rear, and it can quickly go to various places along the coast at any time by river transportation, with the combat power of the Fifth Infantry Division, in the positional battle, the enemy cavalry will definitely not be able to resist the attack of the Fifth Infantry Division!" ”

In order to plan to go north, the navy has dispatched a large number of inland river warships, and even the inland river warships in the Yangtze River valley have been transferred, and in addition to the Yellow River and Huaihe River valleys, more than 80 inland river warships have been concentrated in the Shandong Canal basin alone.

These 80 inland river warships are not the kind of armed merchant ships converted from civilian ships in the early days, but they are all specially built inland river warships such as A, B and C, and they are also equipped with a large number of howitzers in advance, just to be able to support the army in combat.

The 48-pound howitzer is very troublesome for the army, and it can only be used during siege or positional warfare, but in the navy, the battleship can be mobile at any time, as long as the battleship can go to the place, the 48-pound grenade can be hit.

In addition to the navy, the army on the northward side directly transferred the Fifth Infantry Division, which had the most powerful combat effectiveness in the whole army, and then used it to defend the transport and supply lines in the rear.

In addition, in Jining Prefecture, the logistics supply depot closest to the front line, sufficient troops were also left for defense, and the Fifth Mixed Regiment, as well as an artillery battalion of the Eighth Baggage Regiment and the Eighth Artillery Regiment belonging to the Eighth Infantry Division, were all stationed in Jining.

Needless to say, the Fifth Mixed Regiment is one of the few mixed regiments in the Datang Army whose combat effectiveness can be comparable to that of the main force, and its strength is considerable.

And the Eighth Baggage Regiment, don't look at the words "Baggage Regiment" in it, but the Baggage Regiment in the Datang Army is not the transport regiment in the Logistics Department, and the baggage troops at all levels of the Datang Army are all combat units, and they can be directly pulled onto the battle line as combat infantry at critical moments.

Because in the system of the Tang Army, except for the transportation tasks close to the front line, the rest are basically undertaken by the transport regiment of the logistics department, while the baggage regiment is only responsible for the supply transportation of this distance of about twenty or thirty kilometers near the front line.

And the superiors will not send the main force to cover the baggage troops, but the baggage troops themselves to protect themselves, so in the baggage troops, all the soldiers are actually combat soldiers, although the combat effectiveness is slightly inferior to the regular infantry regiment, but it is not too bad.

In order to protect the logistics supply line, the Tang Army has invested a lot of money, but can this dispel the intention of Emperor Zhengde and Altan Khan to attack their logistics supply line?

Not likely!

Because the Tang Army's frontal combat capability is strong, that is well known, the Tang Army itself knows very well, and the Ming Army on the opposite side also knows that even the Tatars who have not fought with the Tang Army have heard of it.

And to fight, you have to play to your strengths and avoid your weaknesses!

What were the advantages of the Ming army and the Tatars? It's cavalry!

As long as they are not stupid, they will use the mobility of the cavalry to attack the supply lines of the Tang army and attack the rear of the Tang army!