When another round of the morning sun rose, Li Xuan got the news of Fang Dongquan from the messenger, and the messenger who came back to Huangzhu Mountain said that Fang Dongquan and they had evacuated Jiguan Mountain, but after evacuating Jiguan Mountain, they did not return to Huangzhu Mountain, but prepared to ambush the Ming army halfway.

After learning this news, Li Xuan was a little angry, because the order he gave to Fang Dongquan and them was to let them come back, and then discuss how to resist the attack of the Ming army after they returned, or simply how to escape.

But now Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren, Chen Butcher, and Qian Mengjiu have bypassed Li Xuan and Liu Bagou, and decided to ambush the Ming army on the way.

Let's not mention whether they can succeed in doing this, but this incident once again sounded the alarm for Li Xuan.

That is: he, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, could not effectively control Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren.

In normal times, they maintained superficial respect for themselves, but at this critical moment, they directly left themselves behind, didn't even say hello, and directly led people to ambush the Ming army.

Looking at the frown on Li Xuan's face, although Liu Bagou usually spoke in a bad tone, he could guess why Li Xuan frowned.

He immediately said: "Your Majesty, there will be something to be affected outside, and now that the situation is urgent, General Fang and they will not have time to come back and tell them in person." ”

Speaking of this, he glanced at Li Xuan worriedly, for fear that Li Xuan would not be able to figure out the actual situation, and then come up with a lot of things, such as sending a holy decree to reprimand Fang Dongquan and them, and even forcing them to come back to Huangzhu Mountain, in this case, the matter would be a big deal.

After all, Li Xuan, you, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, are not the emperor with real power, and you have annoyed Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, the two bandit leaders with real power, even if he Liu Bagou desperately shouts in the name of the monarch and minister, I am afraid it will be difficult for Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan to dissipate their anger.

What if these two people think that Li Xuan, the emperor, is not good, and the Tang Dynasty is not doing anything, what if they want to break up directly?

So he continued to help Fang Dongquan and them explain: "General Fang, what they said is also right, if we wait for the Ming army to come to our Huangzhu Mountain, our Huangzhu Mountain will have no geographical advantages and it will be difficult to defend, and the dynasty will be in danger at that time." Only by ambushing halfway can you have a chance to win! ”

However, having said that, Liu Bagou did not think that Fang Dongquan and the others could successfully ambush the Ming army on the way, inflict heavy casualties on the Ming army, and then repel the attack of the Ming army.

He has seen the combat effectiveness of the Ming army twice, and every time he fights with the Ming army, his side is defeated cleanly, without the slightest suspense.

The Tang Dynasty and the Ming army fought several times, and they still gloriously and proudly maintained a chance of zero victory!

What's more, this time Fang Dongquan's strength was only a little more than two hundred, and the attacking Ming army was nearly five hundred, even if Fang Dongquan and they ambushed the Ming army, it was still unknown whether they could beat it.

Therefore, Liu Bagou did not have much hope that Fang Dongquan would be able to ambush the Ming army, but he still supported Fang Dongquan and them to do so, because in this way, Fang Dongquan and they would be able to attract the attention of the Ming army, and it was very likely that the previous two situations would be repeated at that time.

That is, Fang Dongquan and they took the officers and soldiers to go around in circles in the mountains, until the officers and soldiers were exhausted or something else happened and took the initiative to withdraw from the mountain.

It was by this hand that Huang Zhushan successfully escaped the pursuit of the Ming army and successfully plundered Fengjiazhuang.

Li Xuan is not a stupid person, as soon as Liu Bagou said this, he also came to his senses, at this time, he really did not have the qualifications to accuse Fang Dongquan of them.

Because he, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, is just a puppet!

However, this only strengthened his idea of controlling the real power as much as possible.

Even if he wants to be a ravine emperor, he also wants to be a ravine emperor with real power, not just a puppet emperor who is held high by everyone but has no actual power.

After Liu Bagou went out, Li Xuan did not immediately return to the backyard, nor did he go to the playground to check on the guards who were stepping up emergency training.

Instead, he climbed to the balcony on the second floor of the council hall and looked out over the railing.

The eye was on a large field that had already been harvested, and there were many fields that had been newly cleared or even halfway cleared, and in the middle of these fields, several streams crossed it, and then these streams and a small river in the distance converged.

At the edge of the field, there are scattered houses, with many kinds of fruits and vegetables in front of and behind the houses, and chickens and ducks.

In the past, when Li Xuan saw this, he would only regard these as ordinary pastoral scenes, but when he looked at it today, he had a different feeling.

This place is my country, and the people who are working are my people!

For the first time in history, he felt a sense of belonging to this place, although this sense of belonging was very absurd to the eyes of reason, and no normal person would regard a den of bandits in a ravine as his own country, and a group of bandits as his own people.

However, after staying here for a long time, he was called His Majesty and the Emperor by Liu Bagou every day, and he gradually got used to calling himself me.

Now he had this ridiculously weird feeling.

Perhaps, I should do something about it!

Perhaps, I can do something for this Tang Dynasty!

It has been more than half a year since he came to this era, and Li Xuan has most of the time with the mentality of being a monk for a day and hitting the clock for a day, except for organizing and training the guards, he can say that he has not done anything.

Because in his mind, this ghost place is a poor ravine, no matter how much he does it, he will have to leave here to live outside again sooner or later.

Therefore, he has never taken the Tang Dynasty seriously, so naturally he does not 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 thought about how to survive, and others, including Madame Bai and Dong Yunyun, have not been taken into account by him.

But now, he wants to make something different!

Li Xuan was looking out from the balcony on the second floor, and Liu Bagou, who had already gone out, turned around and happened to see Li's figure, and then he showed a thoughtful expression.

With a sigh, he resumed his steps and walked out.

Now Liu Bagou is very busy, and he has to organize people to step up the construction of the walled wall and prepare for defensive operations.

In the evening of the same day, Fang Dongquan and his people had been about thirty miles away from Jiguan Mountain, and the direction in which they were advancing was the direction in which the Ming army had entered the mountain.

Of course, Fang Dongquan didn't know that these Ming troops who entered the mountain were not heading in the direction of Huangzhu Mountain, but were preparing to go to Jiguan Mountain first.

So Fang Dongquan and they didn't know that at this moment, the Ming army led by Su Jiakang was five miles away from them.

With the generals of the night, the night covered the traces of both sides like a fog, so that both sides camped five miles away for the night without knowing the existence of the other!