In order for the Tang Dynasty to have an heir, in order not to make the Li family extinct, Li Xuan is ready to be a monk for a few months, whether it is Dong Yunyun or Ye or Zhu'er, he is not ready to touch anyone.

And in order to avoid letting these three delicate women dangle in front of him and shake his determination, he returned to the Lanjiang ferry with his guards early the next morning.

Today's Lanjiang ferry has completely turned into a huge military camp, and the new army of the Tang Dynasty has stationed 3,000 people here, because it is preparing to be stationed here for a while, so while building many river beach fortifications, it is also building many relatively simple barracks, which looks like they want to take root here.

Not only fortifications and barracks, but also the Tang New Army was busy and built a lot of rafts and even ships.

These ships are naturally not needed now, but not being used now does not mean that they will not be used in the future, in Li Xuan's plan, within three months after the battle of the Lanjiang Ferry, the Tang Dynasty will focus on internal cultivation, and the Ming army is estimated to come after three months, and then to defend the attack, and strive to leave the Ming army at the bottom of the Lanjiang River again.

When the time comes, it will be time for his new army of the Tang Dynasty to send troops to Xingquanfu City!

At that time, it was not only because they defeated the Ming army, but also because the poor and remote land of Zhengtai County could no longer meet the development needs of the Tang Dynasty, and they needed a broader territory to obtain troops and various strategic resources.

The boats and rafts that were built in advance now were used to cross the river when the time came to attack the capital city.

The Tang Dynasty can't always nest in the small Zhengtai County!

There are only two of its ends, either it will be wiped out by more and more Ming troops, or it will grow and develop all the way upstream, how to develop and grow in the countercurrent, this is what Li Xuan needs to consider.

And occupying the entire Xingquan Mansion is Li Xuan's next strategic plan!

Of course, before launching the next strategy of capturing Xingquan Mansion, you have to control the entire Zhengtai County in your hands, and you must first annihilate the Ming army that will attack in the next few months, otherwise, it is easy for Xingquan Mansion not to be taken, and your own Datang New Army will be swallowed up by the huge Ming army.

Annihilation of the Ming army, this is a matter of the future, Li Xuan can't control it now, but in recent months, he is preparing to further strengthen his control over Zhengtai County.

To this end, he set up a number of towns and as many as 60 villages, and these villages and towns are set up to catch fast, in addition, he also set up a thief hunting camp, three teams of the thief hunting camp, two are stationed in Xikou Village, and one is stationed in Yangjia Village in the northwest of Zhengtai County.

With the capture of thieves and the fast arrest of various towns and villages, these semi-military armed forces are barely able to help the Tang Dynasty control the towns.

However, Longhua Town and Zhengtai County are more special, Longhua Town is fine, Su Jiakang obviously gave up Longhua Town, and transferred the regular troops stationed in Longhua Town to Zhengtai County, leaving only dozens of young people.

But even so, the Datang New Army did not occupy Longhua Town, but only left dozens of soldiers outside the town to guard it.

After such a long time, those young and ordinary people in Longhua Town are already accustomed to the existence of these dozens of Datang New Army soldiers outside, and it is no wonder that the soldiers of the Datang New Army outside the town run around every morning and shout during training, and even some children who live relatively close to them occasionally go to watch the training of the Datang New Army.

On the other side of Zhengtai County, because there are seven or eight hundred Ming troops and young people in the city, plus Su Jiakang is in charge, so he has not relaxed his vigilance.

The Datang New Army did not dare to relax the monitoring of Zhengtai County, and the four gates of Zhengtai County were arranged with manpower for monitoring, and a team of soldiers was stationed as a backup in a slightly farther place.

With the expansion of the strength of the Datang New Army, the Datang New Army, which monitors or surrounds Zhengtai County, has been enriched from more than 100 people before to more than 200 people today, and more than 200 people are the second mixed battalion in the Datang New Army.

The task of this second mixed battalion is to monitor the Ming army in Zhengtai County, and to conquer and occupy Longhua Town and Zhengtai County as soon as necessary when needed.

The nearly 4,000 troops of the Datang New Army naturally could not be placed at the Lanjiang Ferry in one go, but the main force of more than 3,000 people arranged the second mixed battalion at the Lanjiang Ferry and Zhengtai County and Longhua Town.

The 1st Mixed Battalion is deployed as a mobile force located about 15 miles northwest of the Lanjiang Ferry, and there is another section of the river that is more suitable for the large army to cross the river, if the Ming army crosses the river from here, the 1st Mixed Battalion will have to shoulder the burden of blocking the Ming army from crossing the river and delaying time to wait for reinforcements from the main force.

In addition, in several other places where the Ming army might cross the river, Li Xuan also deployed part of his troops as appropriate.

As for the Lanjiang ferry, the main force has a full 3,000 people.

If the Ming army attacked on a large scale and prepared to cross the river from the Lanjiang ferry again, Li Xuan would definitely transfer the first mixed battalion and the troops deployed at several other ferries to the Lanjiang ferry to fight to the death with the Ming army.

When the situation is critical, the second mixed battalion and the robbery battalion in the rear will also be drawn to reinforce the main force.

Li Xuan actively prepared for war and spent all his time dealing with government affairs and training the army, while Song Zhiwen on the other side of the river was obviously not idle.

Although he wrote brilliantly and fooled the defeat of the battle of Lanjiang Ferry, he could not sit back and watch the puppet Tang thief army develop and grow in Zhengtai County.

When the time comes, let alone exterminate these pseudo-Tang thief army, maybe Xingquan Mansion will not be able to defend it.

In order to exterminate the puppet Tang thief army, and even more so to prevent these puppet Tang thief army from reading the Lanjiang River, Song Zhiwen has recently recruited young people on a large scale, wanting to rebuild his recruiting troops, and at the same time, he also used his connections to persuade the governor to send guards from several nearby state capitals to help suppress the bandits.

As soon as the governor made a move, the four thousand households located around Xingquan Mansion received an order to prepare to send troops to Xingquan Mansion.

Now these guards who came to help are already on the way, with a total of about 2,000 people, plus the 1,000 soldiers newly recruited by several thousand households in Xingquan Mansion itself, it is not a problem to make up a total of 3,000 guards.

And Song Zhiwen also understood that it was unreliable to rely on these 3,000 guards, these guards couldn't even beat bandits, and if they wanted to fight, they had to rely on those recruits!

So he recruited 2,000 recruits in one go, and now he is training day and night.

In addition, there were more than 1,000 Ming troops on the side of the Lanjiang Ferry, and after the defeat of the Lanjiang Ferry in the first battle, he collected nearly 1,000 troops from all over the country to urgently reinforce the Lanjiang Ferry, and these troops have been stationed at the Lanjiang Ferry in the future, with a total of about 1,500 people.

Three thousand plus two thousand plus one thousand five hundred, that is to say, in the next one or two months, Song Zhiwen's troops will be able to reach six thousand five hundred.

These 6,500 people do not include the people, but the simple combat strength!

Even if the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the guard post is very weak, even if his recruits have just been recruited in the past month, these soldiers are regular troops anyway, and they are still fundamentally different from the people.

When the time comes to the war, Song Zhiwen will continue to recruit thousands of people to be responsible for logistics transportation and auxiliary tasks, and it is possible to make up tens of thousands of people at that time.

As for how he can feed these tens of thousands of people in Xingquan Mansion, he doesn't have to worry about this kind of thing, the two thousand guards who came in reinforced by him brought their own dry food, and at most he just gave a little bit of food, and let them solve the grain and grass by themselves.

And how to solve the grain and grass of the more than 1,000 guards in Xingquan Mansion itself? Or bring your own dry food!

What is called a guard soldier, that is, he usually farms and accumulates military rations, and when he fights, he takes the military rations he grows and sets off to fight.

This is why some people say that the Ming Dynasty's guard system made the imperial court have no money to support the army.

Of course, if you want these guards to fight hard, you still need to come up with extra real money to reward, and at the same time, those border troops who often experience wars need to be subsidized by the imperial court because of their huge expenses, which is the so-called 'annual silver'.

These silvers now need him Song Zhiwen to find a way to borrow them, this is just to suppress bandits, plus Song Zhiwen deliberately concealed the news for the sake of his official hat, so the imperial court naturally will not pull out any military expenses, and Song Zhiwen can only borrow it himself.

The guards need to give a little military money, so those recruits will cost even more money, these recruits are paid for military salaries, and they have no money and no food, so don't expect them to give you Song Zhiwen his life.

Even those temporarily conscripted people, although they were not given money, and even let them bring their own dry food, the necessary expenses were still needed.

In this way, the cost of tens of thousands of people is not a small amount, and the local government of the Ming Dynasty has always been poor, and the finance of Xingquan Mansion cannot come up with such a large amount of silver.

But Song Zhiwen didn't care about this problem?

There is no military money to feed the army? This is simple? He is the leader of the government, and he directly ordered the distribution of silver grain to the big households.

A dignified prefect, is it possible that he can still be stumped by this bit of silver?

Of course, it's okay to apportionment this kind of thing once or twice, but the more times there are, those big households will have opinions.

But this kind of thing can't last many times, and the army of tens of thousands of people will either wipe out the puppet Tang thief army or be defeated by the puppet Tang thief army in the next three months.

Song Zhiwen: It is impossible for him to raise tens of thousands of people to play idle for a year and a half.

And now Li Xuan doesn't know that Song Zhiwen is already preparing to transfer and train a regular army with a total of 6,500 people, plus thousands of people, ready to gather an army of tens of thousands of people, ready to give him a big killing move!

But it doesn't matter if you know it or not, even if the Ming army that Li Xuan expected was a few thousand or tens of thousands of people sent by the provincial capital, and the fact is that these Ming troops were made by Song Zhiwen himself, but the difference between the two forces is not big.

Anyway, there are so many Ming troops, it's the same to fight anyone!

With the Mid-Autumn Festival, the frost and other solar terms have passed, and the weather is gradually getting cooler.

And the Ming army on the other side of the river is also more and more, and finally one day, the spies of the new army of the Tang Dynasty found that there are 5,000 Ming troops coming from the direction of Fucheng towards the Lanjiang crossing, and when they arrive, add the original 5,000 Ming troops, then the total strength of the Ming army on the other side of the river will exceed 10,000 people.

After Li Xuan got the news, he took a deep breath, and then said to a group of generals: "After waiting for so long, they are finally here!" ”