For the officials in the Ming Dynasty, they had a lot of scruples about the Tang Dynasty, not only because the traditional idea of loyalty to the monarch bound them at the moral level, but more importantly, once they surrendered to the thieves, their families and teachers and friends would be implicated.

This situation is especially obvious among civilian officials, so far, although there are many high-ranking officials of the Ming army, and even Zhong Guangjun, who have commanded the Tang Dynasty, they all have one thing in common, that is, most of them are military generals.

And civil officials, especially those who are born in the Eight Classics, are only a very few, and they are only limited to middle and low-level officials.

There were a few captives, but most of these people were stinky and hard old stubborns, and although they were afraid of death and did not dare to commit suicide, they still did not have the courage to join the thieves.

If Li Xuan forced them to do it anyway with a knife and gun, it was okay, but it was not necessary, since Li Xuan didn't pay much attention to their ability to be officials, and at the same time, their official position was low, and they didn't have any important political influence, so it didn't make much sense to force them to surrender.

But if it is a high-ranking civil official such as a provincial political envoy or even a governor, I am afraid that Li Xuan will try his best to get them to surrender, and coercion and inducement will be used.

It's a pity that so far, the Tang Dynasty has still not been able to capture such high-ranking officials, and the corpses have been harvested several, but the corpses are of little use, which has achieved the loyalty and righteousness of these high-ranking officials who committed suicide.

It's not easy to demote officials, but ordinary soldiers are much easier, anyway, for these ordinary soldiers, they are all soldiers to eat food, and it is a life to work for the Zhu family, and it is also a life to work for the Li family!

And a very important point is that they are guards and soldiers, and the guards are basically Tuntian soldiers, that is to say, their families are in Guizhou or the Liangguang region, and if they are thieves, they don't have to worry about their families being persecuted by the Ming Dynasty.

Even if the families of these soldiers are still in the area controlled by the Ming Dynasty, the safety of their families can be guaranteed, even if the Ming Dynasty is crazy, it is impossible to say that the families of these thieves are slaughtered, it is not tens of thousands of people, but more than 100,000 or even more people.

Besides, the Ming Dynasty can't tell who died in battle and who is a thief!

In addition to the above two conditions, the temptation given by the pseudo-Tang thief army is too great, and it is promised that as long as he joins the garrison army to serve the Tang Dynasty anyway, then he is guaranteed three meals a day, and at least two meals are guaranteed to be dry rice, although it is still coarse grain, but it can definitely fill his stomach.

At the same time, there is also a salary to get, although the salary is not much, but it can also be subsidized for the family!

In addition, if there is a skill, such as cavalry, gunners, archers, sword and shield bearers, etc., and after selection, you can still join the regular army of the Tang Dynasty, and the treatment of the regular army of the Tang Dynasty is nothing.

Food is just two words: full! As long as you can eat as much as you want, and it's still the best white rice, you can still eat a meal of meat and a tooth sacrifice every three or five days.

This food alone is enough to attract countless Ming army soldiers to drool, and this food standard is to put it mildly, it has surpassed the average level of contemporary small landlords!

In other words, even those small landlords in the countryside don't eat as well as the regular army soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

For these food standards, these Ming army soldiers said that there was only one word: service!

Even the officials on the side of the Ming Dynasty heard about the food standards of the puppet Tang thief army, most of them thought that the puppet Tang thief army was bragging, and a few knew that this was true, but they also wondered, this puppet Tang thief army's brains were funny, why should they give those soldiers such a good meal, just give some food to starve to death, if these grains are sold, how good it is for the big guy to divide the silver!

But no one wonders where the Tang Dynasty got so much food, it's not simple, it's all snatched from the Ming army!

In the first battle of Wuzhou, the captured grain was piled up in several large warehouses, which was enough for the existing scale of the Tang Dynasty to eat with an open belly, as for what to do after eating, continue to rob it, anyway, don't expect the Tang Dynasty's own territory to produce so much grain.

What if you can't grab it! If you're hungry, what else can you do, is it possible that you still want food to fall from the sky!

In short, if you have food, you will eat it, if you don't have food, you will grab it, and if you can't grab it, you will endure it!

In addition to food, joining the regular army can also divide the land, you don't have to do anything, as long as you can join the regular army, you will be able to get a share of the land immediately, well, as long as the Tang Dynasty does not fall, this land will always be yours, it can be passed on to future generations, and it will never be taken back.

Li Xuan's words count, and he will give you points when he says that he will give you a share of the field!

What kind of person is Li Xuan, he is a saint of the ages, he has no jokes, he says that he will divide the fields, and he will definitely not do the things that will be nationalized after the fields are divided, and he still wants this face.

But if the Ming Dynasty fights and this field is snatched back by the Ming Dynasty, there is no way to do it!

The combination of the two policies of high standard food and land division is extremely lethal in this year!

Not to mention the great attraction to the Ming army's surrenderers, those children from poor families also rushed to these two to sign up for the army.

Otherwise, the Tang Dynasty has gone through several wars, and the casualties are not small, but why can it maintain the replenishment of existing troops and continuously expand new troops, it is because there are many people who come to serve as soldiers!

That is to say, the regular army has relatively high requirements for the quality of soldiers, and if the requirements are lowered, the source of recruits in the Tang Dynasty can increase several times on the existing basis.

Therefore, the recruitment and surrender of the 20,000 surrendered troops in Wuzhou went very smoothly, and I dare not say all of them, but more than half of the surrendered troops expressed their willingness to take the initiative to join the Tang Dynasty Wang Division, and serve the great and glorious Emperor His Majesty Li Xuan, the Holy Monarch of the Ages, and some of the elites from these people will be selected to join the regular army.

The rest of them were still a little hesitant at first, but after hearing that if they didn't join the Tang Dynasty, they would have to go to mining and repair the city to do coolies, and some people were willing to say that their previous decision was wrong, and they were unwilling to join the Tang Dynasty.

There are still a few people who would rather work as coolies than go to the battlefield again, and they can't be too forced to do this, just arrange them to go to mining to do coolies, anyway, the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty has a great demand for free labor.

After such a toss, the strength of the existing several garrison brigades has been replenished, and the strength of the newly built Sixth Garrison Brigade and the Seventh Garrison Brigade has also been added, and there are even almost 2,000 more people.

Finally, there was a temporary garrison regiment first.

And when Li Xuan was tossing Wuzhou City in the rear, tossing the demotion of officials and soldiers, a new round of war was also launched on the side of Guilin Mansion.

Although the Fourth Army has not yet arrived in Guilin, the previous provisional first regiment has also been supplemented by a group of equipment and soldiers, although the current provisional first regiment is not as strong as the regular army infantry regiment, but it can be regarded as strong, and it also has bowl cannons and a small force of cavalry.

By accepting the surrender of the Ming army along the way, plus a number of new recruits supplemented by the Operations Division, the first provisional regiment now has two battalions of reserve battalions, three garrison battalions, in addition to a bunch of artillery teams, a cavalry team, a baggage battalion, and a bunch of other chaotic auxiliary troops, with a total strength of about 3,000 people.

Although it was still too difficult to take Guilin with this amount of troops, the provisional 1st Regiment had successfully swept away other prefectures and counties in Guilin Prefecture, especially many prefectures and counties in the west and south.

Therefore, when the Fourth Army went north, it was stunned that it did not encounter a single Ming army, but met the response of some local thieves and thieves.

In Guilin Mansion, it is natural that the establishment of a thief hunt camp is the same as in other places, but now the scale of the hunt and theft camp in the Tang Dynasty has been greatly reduced compared with the past.

Because the pressure on military spending is extremely great, and there is no need for the garrison to participate in the second-line operation with the garrison as an auxiliary force, so except for important areas, other ordinary places have greatly reduced the scale of the robbery camp!

According to the consultations of the Patrol Police Department, the Military Department, the Privy Council and other departments of the Tang Dynasty, it has been stipulated that the scale of the robbery arrest camp should be vigorously reduced in accordance with the principle of setting up a thief arrest team in the county, setting up a thief hunting camp in the government, setting up a brigade in a large county, setting up a squad in a small county, setting up a large camp in a large prefecture, and setting up a small battalion in a small prefecture.

Nowadays, the size of an ordinary county has only 100 people, and if it is a county with a large population, it will be increased to 150 people, and if it is a strategic place, it is necessary to coordinate the government to send a number of teams to defend the county, and in a county with a small population, it will be further reduced to 80 or even 50 people.

If it is a county where the prefecture is stationed, the county does not have a theft team, and the county is directly supervised by the county security camp, and the standard number of the county is rated at 350 people, which is the size of three teams.

If it is a special area such as a large populous government, a large commercial government, or a strategic location, one or two teams will be added as appropriate, but in principle, the size of the team will not exceed five.

If it is a small house, it will be reduced by one team and two teams will be under its jurisdiction.

After such a downsizing, the scale of the raiding camp was successfully controlled, so that it could truly become a local security force, and it would not cause too much pressure on military spending.

Although the number of poaching camps has been reduced, it is still enough to control the locality, because in these years, many counties have a total population of only tens of thousands, and the county usually has only a few thousand people living in the county, and the number of 100 pirate brigades is enough to deter the local area.

Not only has the scale of the robbery camp shrunk, but as the control area of the Tang Dynasty gradually increased, another armed force of the Tang Dynasty: the tax inspection team. Its size has also begun to become smaller, and there may have been hundreds of people in a single county, but although this situation still exists, it is basically confined to the newly occupied areas.

Normally, there are many anti-tax incidents in the newly occupied areas, so a strong tax inspection team is needed to carry out strong taxation.

When the Tang Dynasty controlled the occupied areas more thoroughly, the size of the tax inspection team generally began to decrease, of course, people were naturally not reduced, but transferred to other newly occupied areas, and the scum of the tax inspection team was also extremely welcome to this method, because in this way, they can enter a place that has not been looted from a place that has been cleaned, what does that mean? It represents oil and water!

Therefore, the battle of the tax inspection team has always been to keep up with the pace of the Tang Army, and they can proudly say: We are fighting shoulder to shoulder with the army and have never flinched!