This time the Ming army suffered a crushing defeat, and his old opponent Su Jiakang was already defeated, and it is unlikely that he will be able to gather enough strength to attack his own Tang Dynasty.

Even if he didn't ask for help, it was difficult to hide the fiasco from those high-ranking officials above, and they didn't need to stab the Jingshi, as long as the governor of the provincial capital got the news, he could casually send tens of thousands of troops to attack.

The governor of the Ming court is a real feudal official, with actual military power, and a single order can gather the Ming army in the whole province to attack his own Tang Dynasty.

Maybe seeing the melancholy on Li Xuan's face, Zeng Ziwen next to him walked over: "Your Majesty, are you worried about the follow-up impact of this battle?" ”

is worthy of being a former Ming official, and his political consciousness is high, and he guessed what Li Xuan was worried about when he looked at Li Xuan's face.

Li Xuan didn't hide it, nodded slightly: "The Ming army was defeated in this battle, I'm afraid it won't be long before a large number of Ming troops come to Zhengtai County!" ”

Zeng Ziwen raised his voice slightly at this time and said: "Su Jiakang's entire army was defeated in this battle, and we also broke through Zhengtai County before, I'm afraid Su Jiakang can't hold it down this time, and this matter is very likely to attract a large number of Ming troops!" ”

When he spoke, his face became more and more serious: "However, this matter is also a rare opportunity for my Tang Dynasty, the Ming army is newly defeated, its more than 1,000 main forces are lost here, and the fleeing rout is also difficult to collect, and now the huge Zhengtai County has no soldiers to stop our army's front, it is the best time to seize Longhua and Zhengtai, as long as you control these two cities, you can collect the land of Zhengtai for 100 miles, 100,000 people, and lay the foundation of my Datang in one fell swoop." ”

When he spoke, he suddenly knelt down and said: "Chen, please send troops to capture the two cities of Zhengtai and Longhua!" ”

Suddenly hearing Zeng Ziwen say this, Li Xuan looked at him with a hint of hesitation, what happened to this Zeng Ziwen today, why did he suddenly make such a radical suggestion.

It's not like him!

According to Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen's contact for more than half a year, Li Xuan thinks that he still knows something about this person, and there are military theory exercises, otherwise Li Xuan would not have bothered to recruit him, but this person's personality is a bit strange!

On the one hand, he will adhere to certain principles in a righteous manner, but this insistence has a bottom line, and once it exceeds this bottom line, he will not hesitate to give up this bottom line.

Well, to put it bluntly, it's greedy for life and afraid of death!

Many of the military suggestions he made before were also carried with his character, and many of them were relatively stable, and could even be said to be conservative.

But today, how could this person say that he was going to attack Zhengtai County?

Is it difficult to attack Zhengtai County? At this time, it is definitely not difficult, Su Jiakang's army is defeated and can no longer be defeated, and now if they turn around and attack Zhengtai County, there is a chance that they can easily take Zhengtai County.

But what about after taking the county seat of Zhengtai? How to face the swarming Ming army?

If there are 1,000 Ming troops, he asks himself if he can hold it, and if he comes to 2,000, he can barely hold it, but what about 3,000 or 5,000? Or even 12,000?

Hell if you can hold it!

As for saying that after you occupy Zhengtai County, you expect the Ming army not to attack you, and let you slowly recruit and train, build weapons, farm and accumulate food, and develop slowly, which is like covering your ears and stealing bells.

You're stupid, and the Ming Army isn't stupid!

If you want to encircle and suppress a bandit gang like the Tang Dynasty, you don't need to report to the imperial court at all, and then go back and forth for several months before you can get ready, and you can send troops if you really want to fight for ten days and half a month.

It shows that the mobilization of the army to counter-insurgency is slow, and it will take several months to be ready, please ask King Ning and King Anhua, who played rebellion decades ago, and they will definitely have to spit on you.

A few days after King Anhua raised his army, it was counterattacked by the army organized by local officials, and then it was finished after only holding out for eighteen days.

King Ning also just started a few days after the army, the local officials of the Ming court began to organize troops to launch a counteroffensive, Wang Shouren organized an army of 80,000 in just over half a month, conquered Nanchang in less than a month, and it didn't take long to defeat King Ning's tens of thousands of troops, from King Ning's army to the defeat and death, only 43 days!

How could He De of the Tang Dynasty delay the Ming court for several months before sending troops to quell the rebellion after capturing Zhengtai County and causing the Ming court to shake the rebellion?

Li Xuan dared to guarantee that once he completely occupied Zhengtai County, in three or five days at most, Song Zhiwen of Xingquan Mansion would personally run to Zhengtai County with an army of at least several thousand.

Attacking and plundering Zhengtai County, at most, is to get through the hornet's nest, and if you run fast, you will be stung a few times, the pain is certain, but it will not kill anyone.

But if you completely occupy Zhengtai County, it is like you not only stabbing the hornet's nest, but also stupidly standing on the edge of the hornet's nest and not escaping, and the swarming hornets can sting you to death.

So Li Xuan didn't understand why Zeng Ziwen suddenly suggested that he attack and occupy Zhengtai County, didn't he know the crisis after occupying Zhengtai County?

That's a dead end!

Li Xuan looked at Zeng Ziwen with puzzled eyes, he didn't speak out against it at the first time, but asked rhetorically: "Zeng Aiqing knows that once our army occupies Zhengtai County, it won't take three or five days for thousands of Ming soldiers to come to the city."

Zeng Ziwen nodded!

"Since Aiqing knows, why do you still say that you want to occupy Zhengtai?" Li Xuan couldn't understand this person's thoughts, stupid, knowing that he would die or go?

Zeng Ziwen said: "After our army occupies Zhengtai, it is naturally a dead end to wait for the Ming army to fight, but if our army takes the initiative to attack, it can turn death into life."

After capturing Zhengtai, our army immediately wrapped the surrounding young and strong troops to march eastward to meet the enemy at the Lanjiang ferry, as long as the enemy army in Xingquanfu was stopped at the Lanjiang ferry, the land of Zhengtai Baili could be safed for several months! ”

Lanjiang ferry?

Suddenly hearing this term, Li Xuan recalled slightly, that is, from the memory of the original body found the memory of the Lanjiang River, this is a river across Xingquan Mansion, flowing from south to north from the mountains, this Lanjiang River is not a big river, but this section of Xingquan Mansion is because of the terrain, the water flow is quite rapid, and it is barely a moat.

However, Li Xuan still continued to ask: "Even if the enemy who relies on the Lanjiang River to block Xingquan is outside Zhengtai, but the Lanjiang River can only hold the east, what if the Ming army attacks from other directions?" ”

Zeng Ziwen said: "My Zhengtai County is located in the southwest of Xingquan Mansion, and my Xingquan Mansion is located in the southeast of Guizhou, bordering Huguang in the east and Guangxi in the south. The south of my Zhengtai is a big mountain, even if the soldiers and horses of Liuzhou Mansion in Guangxi in the south get the news and want to come over, but it is impossible to cross the mountains so quickly, not to mention that the soldiers and horses of the province want to enter this province, and the trouble here will not be less than the direct transfer of border soldiers by the imperial court.

To the west and north of my Zhengtai are Liping Mansion, which is not stationed in the guard, and in the past, the bandits were all sent by the guard of my Xingquan Mansion, and the two sides are also difficult to travel on the mountain road hundreds of miles away! ”

Zeng Ziwen is talking about the geographical environment around Zhengtai Mansion, and Li Xuan also knew a little about these situations before, but it is not as detailed as Zeng Ziwen knows.

However, these geographical advantages cannot guarantee the absolute safety of Zhengtai County, the safety of the Tang Dynasty, and the safety of his Li Xuan's life.

Because the Ming army will definitely come, and it will come quickly, a lot!

A mere Lanjiang River and the surrounding mountains can't stop these Ming troops, they can't stop them for a month, they can't stop them for two months, they can't stop them for half a year, and sooner or later it's a dead word.

So Li Xuan shook his head slightly: "Zhengtai is a dead place, and it can't be broken!" ”

At this time, Zeng Ziwen said: "Your Majesty, as long as our army blocks the Ming army from Xingquan Mansion at the Lanjiang Ferry, then we can at least buy our army a month's time, and we will be able to train more than 5,000 soldiers and make 1,000 muskets.

Hand control the land of several provinces, in March can train 100,000 soldiers, make 10,000 guns, with this army can go east to Huguang or south to Guangxi, in one fell swoop to lay the foundation of the Tang Dynasty! ”

The more Zeng Ziwen spoke, the more excited he became, as if he had already seen the command of 100,000 troops to attack the city!

When Li Xuan saw this person, he was speechless: Are you too optimistic or I am too pessimistic?

After capturing a county, you can train 5,000 troops in just one month? Let's not talk about whether he can recruit 5,000 qualified soldiers, even if he recruits people, where will he Li Xuan find so many weapons, armor, muskets and equip them?

Even if you have weapons, in just one month, at most you can complete some of the most basic formation training, and you can't train 5,000 elite soldiers at all.

Musketeers are the easiest to train, and any peasant can be pulled into battle after three months of training, but this also takes three months!

Will the Ming army give him three months to train his troops?

What are you kidding, it's absolutely impossible, unless the generals in the Ming army are all fools!

Not to mention that he will train 100,000 troops in a month, that's 100,000 people, even if Li Xuan is dropped from the sky with 100,000 elite soldiers who are fully manned, he can't find so many qualified officers to command this army!

The core of an army is not soldiers, but officers, and without many qualified officers, the combat effectiveness of 100,000 elite soldiers will not be much stronger than 100,000 pigs!

It may even be faster than 100,000 pigs, after all, it is not so easy to catch or kill 100,000 pigs, but it is much easier to get 100,000 people to surrender!

Based on these worries, Li Xuan would never go to occupy Zhengtai County again at this time to find death.

However, Zeng Ziwen is right, after Su Jiakang's fiasco today, there is really no large-scale Ming army that can stop his Tang Dynasty division in the hundred-mile land of Zhengtai County.

It's okay to take advantage of this time to collect some benefits, but it's better to talk about looting people and food or something, which is much better than occupying Zhengtai County.

More than 8,000 people died in Zhengtai County, and Zhengtai County has just been robbed by them, and now there is no benefit at all to capture Zhengtai County.

But there are 70,000 or 80,000 people in the vast countryside of Zhengtai County, so many people are in the countryside, it should not be a problem to recruit thousands of young people from them and grab enough food for thousands of people to eat for half a year! 21010