Hao Bonian thought that the 8,000 Ming army would be divided into multiple batches and go to Liuzhou, so that even if he was exhausted, he would not be able to intercept much, and he also thought that the Ming army would turn around and run.

I even thought that these Ming troops would take the initiative to attack like the Ming troops in Rongxian County before, and they wanted to fight a field battle with themselves.

But he never thought that these Ming troops would stop, dare nothing, and be stationed on the spot.

When he heard that the Ming army had shrunk and began to build camps, he was a little confused, what did these Ming troops want to do?

Do you want to wait for reinforcements?

Or do you want to work at ease?

Hao Bonian couldn't understand why the Ming army made such a choice, after all, he was not an official of the Ming Dynasty, so naturally he couldn't understand the difficulties of Zhu Zhihai, Song Zhiwen, and Wei Yan.

It's not easy for them to be officials, there are people staring at them, and if they don't do it well, they will take their heads, and many of the officials below are also disobedient, and not many people will really carry out their orders.

Of the ten things that are under this command, it is very nice that one of two or three can be truly implemented!

Therefore, Hao Bonian, he did not understand that these Ming troops would make choices that were obviously not in line with military strategy.

Looking at him, if he can't be defeated, he will either divide his troops and advance, or retreat strategically, no matter what, it is much better than staying and waiting for death.

However, he is not a general of the Ming army, and he doesn't like to think about many other things that the generals of the Ming army need to consider, not for example, if he retreats without a fight, will he be beheaded in a fit of anger.

After all, the two sides haven't started fighting yet, and Wei Yan and they don't know how many pseudo-Tang thieves are coming, or stay where they are, so as to respond to Wancheng as well.

After all, they have an army of 8,000, and they are not stupid to go out to meet the battle, and it is expected that there will not be much of a problem.

If you stay where you are, you will have a camp to protect them, and you will have plenty of boats on the riverside ready for them to retreat from the waterway!

If you think about it this way, then you will understand why Wei Yan did this, this is a helpless choice after comprehensive consideration.

If there is a choice, Wei Yan will definitely choose to run away as soon as possible, but can he?

No!

So, the Tang Army came in a panic, for fear that the Ming army would run away!

Why?

Because they estimated the advance route of the Ming army, and then formulated the advance route, they should have stopped them about ten miles away from Liuzhou.

But the Ming army didn't come, so it was naturally impossible for them to intercept the Ming army, and it became natural for them to pounce.

Since the Ming army is not coming, then Hao Bonian naturally wants to lead the army to find them!

His purpose was always very clear and simple, that is, to gather and annihilate most of the Ming army in Guangxi with Liuzhou as the center.

The current 8,000 Ming army is just the beginning of this series of plans!

It is impossible for him to let these 8,000 Ming troops Pangu be in Xiangzhou, because in this way, the Ming army that will come with subsequent reinforcements will continue to join them, and in this way, their number will be more and more, and the number of enemy troops will be too large, and it will be difficult to fight.

Not to mention, there are still tens of thousands of Ming troops in Liuzhou City, although they don't come out now, but who knows if they will appear to attack back and forth.

Hao Bonian led the army south, which is not very fast, but it is not slow, because this army was originally going to run from a distance, so when it set off from Liping Mansion, the southbound troops were to gather most of the livestock in the Tang Army.

The Second Artillery Battalion and the Second Baggage Regiment, to which the southbound troops belonged, had more horses, mules, donkeys, and other livestock than the First Artillery Battalion and the First Baggage Regiment combined.

In addition, after entering Guangxi, the southbound detachment naturally did not patronize the war consumption, but would still do everything possible to supplement or even strengthen its own strength.

For example, the Ming soldiers captured in Huaiyuan County and Rong County were basically replenished into the Third Garrison Brigade on the spot after a simple reorganization, which was used to supplement the relatively large losses of the Third Garrison Brigade after entering Guangxi.

Captured and conscripted horses, donkeys and other livestock were then replenished to the troops on the spot, especially for the Second Artillery Battalion and the Second Baggage Battalion.

With a large number of livestock, the mobility of the southbound detachment was relatively good in the era of foot, and there was no problem at all in walking twenty or thirty miles a day, and if it was a forced march in a hurry, it could barely walk fifty miles a day.

The southbound army said that they were in a hurry, and they said that they were not in a hurry, because several other units of the Ming army were also gradually thinking about advancing in the direction of Xiangzhou and Liuzhou, but they came slowly, and when they arrived, they were afraid that it would be half a month smaller.

In other words, the time left for Hao Bonian is about ten days, to say the least.

Ten days, no more, no less!

If he is little, it would be very difficult to completely annihilate the 8,000-strong troops in ten days in this normal battle.

But you say that he is many, naturally he is not, Zhu Zhihai's army of more than 30,000 was completely defeated in just two days.

How the next battle will proceed depends on the choice of the generals on both sides and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers.

But what is certain is that in Xiangzhou, a big war is about to break out!

And when the war was about to break out, in the Yamen of Huaiyuan County, which had just been incorporated under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, Mei Pingdong sat on the main seat of the county yamen with a satisfied face, looking at the many landlords and businessmen below!

Mei Pingdong is different from most civil officials in the Tang Dynasty, he is not a down-and-out reader, although he can recognize words and can write first-hand articles, he has absolutely nothing to do with readers, he was an account office before.

Well, that is, the settler of the abacus, everywhere he goes, he carries the copper-clad abacus that has been passed down from his father's father.

At the beginning of this year, when he took it with him in his hometown, he was captured by the pseudo-Tang thief army because he knew arithmetic, oh, no, he should have taken the initiative to surrender to the great Tang Dynasty.

After becoming a member of the Tang Dynasty, for the revival of the Tang Dynasty, in order to be loyal to His Majesty, and also to ensure that he and his family can have enough to eat, he works hard every day!

But how to calculate, I don't know that I was slowly promoted, from the beginning from the ninth grade clerk, to the deputy section chief of the ninth grade, and then to the section chief of the eighth grade, this way can be regarded as slowly integrated into the big family of the Tang Dynasty.

Waiting until last month, the Ministry sent someone to talk to him and asked him if he was willing to contribute more strength to Li Xuan, the Holy Monarch of the Ages, and to the revival of the Tang Dynasty.

As soon as he heard this, he knew that he was going to be promoted, because the last time he was promoted to section chief, he also said the same thing.

Promotion, this is a good thing, I must be willing, immediately he nodded hurriedly, expressing his willingness to contribute all his strength to the revival of the Tang Dynasty, and begging the organization to give him a chance.

Then, then he became the county magistrate of Huaiyuan County in Guangxi, and he was promoted two levels in a row! Jumped from the seventh product to the county order of the seventh product.

This made him very excited, their old Mei family rummaged through the family tree and counted up to eight generations, all of them were all accounts, but when he arrived at Mei Pingdong, he was mixed with an official body, which was hard not to be happy!

After receiving the appointment, Mei Pingdong took a few of his trusted henchmen with him, and he temporarily found a few friends' sons and nephews from outside to take up the post together.

When he first arrived in Huaiyuan County, he still had a big guy like Ma Wei and many bigwigs in the military, and his small Qipin County Commander naturally had no sense of existence.

But as soon as the army left, and Ma Wei and many officials also went south to Rong County, this Huaiyuan County became his side.

Looking around, Huaiyuan County is dozens of miles away, he is the most awesome existence, countless people have to rely on his snort to live, especially those big landlords and gentry who couldn't even look at themselves a year ago, now they are looking at themselves with a flattering face.

This feeling, how to say it, just one word: cool!

"Weren't you very awesome before, all of them said that they were scholars, why are they all soft, haha, the tax inspection team doesn't taste good!" 'Looking at the look of a group of gentry and landlords who looked like dead parents, he was so happy!

Haha, let you not pay taxes, now it's okay, you are targeted by the tax inspection team, you are targeted by them, you have to be stripped of a layer of skin if you don't die!

Hmph, the most powerful in our Tang Dynasty is not the Tang Dynasty, but the tax inspection team!

Even if we officials make a fortune, they dare to come to the door to ask for personal income tax, Nima, from ancient times to the present, he Mei Pingdong has never heard of this kind of tax!

As soon as he remembered that he had just taken office as the county magistrate, this month's salary had not yet arrived, but he was deducted at least two and a half percent of the tax by the group of Zhou Peel from the tax department, which made him very painful.

The Tang Dynasty does not want to let the horses run like the Ming Dynasty, and does not give the horses grazing, although the wealth of these hundred officials is not very rich, but it can definitely maintain the dignity of its official status.

In addition, there are several kinds of subsidies, such as the war zone subsidy, which is for officials serving in the war zone, such as ice charcoal subsidy, which is issued in winter or summer.

In addition, in order to reduce the burden on the officials, their various retinues, including the master, had a fixed quota, and then the imperial court issued the money, so that they did not have to ask for their own pockets.

Taking an inferior county like Rong County as an example, he can get more than 80 taels of silver a month with the sum of the county decree and various subsidies, but when he pays taxes like this, he pays 2 and a half percent, which is equivalent to cutting every month, and he spends almost more than 10 taels of silver in vain.

You don't pay? If you want to be beautiful, you don't need the tax inspection team to take action, and the tax department will directly deduct this so-called personal income tax in your money!

You won't be given the chance to evade taxes at all!

This kind of behavior of deducting personal income tax from officials in the Tang Dynasty is considered to be: take off your pants and fart, which is a redundant move.