Chapter 250: Mountain Rain is Coming
The next morning, Li Xuan walked out of Dong Yunyun's room with black eyes and weak legs!
Last night, he was a doppelganger, Dong Yunyun and Zhu'er took turns to fight, the three of them tossed for two hours, this was finally over, after Dong Yunyun and Zhu'er fell asleep, he got up and came out secretly, and went to Ye's room next door, and after another toss, after Ye fell asleep with a satisfied smile, he returned to Dong Yunyun's room.
As a result, Dong Yunyun found out that he ran away, but Dong Yunyun woke up Zhu'er, and the two girls launched a new round of revenge against him.
This toss was not over until almost dawn.
He hadn't slept for two hours, and he just had to get up.
Even if he was tired last night, he couldn't sleep lazy today, because today was the day when the army marched out of Xikou Village in front.
According to the plan they made yesterday, today the army will all be mobilized, and all the civil and military officials, as well as many craftsmen and young people, will go to Xikou Village.
And yesterday, Wang Danxu had already taken a part of the forward troops to Xikou Village to prepare, and got the news early this morning that Wang Danxu and they had successfully arrived in Xikou Village, and controlled and sealed off hundreds of villagers in the village to ensure that no one escaped and reported to the Ming Military Mansion.
Since yesterday, Liu Bagou and Fang Dongquan have also begun to prepare, and when Li Xuan arrives at the tent of the Chinese army with weak legs, everything has been prepared and can set off at any time.
Li Xuan asked if he would be prepared, and there was no extra nonsense, so he directly ordered it to be pulled out!
With the issuance of Li Xuan's order, the transfer of the Tang Dynasty officially began, and the army set off in a neat line, and in the middle of the army, there was a large number of baggage with the baggage battalion as the core, which not only had a large amount of food, but also some other messy things, including many weapons and so on.
As for the gold and silver, it was carried by Li Xuan's guards in person according to the custom!
And the Empress Dowager Bai also took the radiant Dong Yunyun, Zhu'er, and Ye's three daughters to sit in the carriage together, and the Empress Dowager Bai looked at the three radiant women, and then looked at her son who was obviously blackened, his face was not very good-looking, and he said to the three women on the spot: "Even if you are young, you must know how to be temperate!" ”
This unkind sentence made Dong Yunyun and the three daughters instantly put away the smile on their faces, and then obediently lowered their heads.
They still don't know that Empress Dowager Bai is indeed very unhappy, but the main reason why she is unhappy is not because they tossed Li Xuan all night, but because it has been so long since last year, when Li Xuan was still in Huangzhushan before, he basically slept with them every night, but he didn't see an egg come out.
Now it makes Empress Dowager Bai wonder if her son has a physical problem, a woman's lack of pregnancy can be said to be a woman's problem, but none of the three women are pregnant, which is obviously unlikely to be a woman's problem.
At this time, she had secretly made a decision in her heart, now that she was out of the mountain, she had to find a doctor to take a good look at Li Xuan.
The Tang Dynasty can have no heir to the throne, but their Li family can't cut off the incense!
Li Xuan naturally couldn't know what Empress Dowager Bai was thinking, and now he was still busy.
It's not so easy to pull out this army, it's not just a matter of leaving, and there will always be a lot of messy things happening in the middle.
The total number of people in this transfer of the Tang Dynasty exceeded 1,500 people, and the team of 1,500 people was not so easy to lead, because these 1,500 people were not all troops.
If they were all armies, it would be simple, and each of them could march according to orders, but out of these 1,500 people, only nearly 1,000 were troops, and the remaining 500 or so were officials, craftsmen, and young men.
Ordinary people are as accustomed to obeying orders as soldiers, and they will always do some messy things.
But fortunately, Xikou Village is not too far from Liushazhuang, but it is only more than twenty miles, one day is enough, and Wang Danxu has already prepared in advance to meet the army in Xikou Village.
After running around for most of the day, they finally arrived at Xikou Village in the afternoon.
After arriving at Xikou Village, Fang Dongquan and Liu Bagou were busy settling down the people, while Li Xuan himself took Zeng Ziwen and several officers to a mountain in Xikou Village, condescending to observe the situation in the entire Xikou Village.
As he had seen on the map yesterday, the entire village of Xikou was located on the edge of a small river that had turned a bend as it passed through the village, so that it was surrounded by the river to the north and east.
To the north and east of Xikou Village, there are apparently small plains formed by the alluvium of the river for thousands of years, and the fields are covered with green crops.
However, the area of this small plain is not large, and it is not even as large as the plain at the foot of Huangzhu Mountain, according to the area of this small plain and the grain production of this era, I am afraid that it is enough to feed about 1,000 people at most.
However, on the other side of the creek is a series of rolling hills, and near the river, there are many narrow flat wilderness, and if they can be cleared, it will not be a problem to feed tens of thousands of people.
But it is not easy to open up the wasteland, not only to get rid of weeds, but also to build water conservancy facilities such as flood control, otherwise, in the rainy season, these flat wilderness can instantly turn into floods.
The amount of work involved in the construction of flood control is not small, and it is estimated that it is precisely because of this that this narrow flat wilderness on the other side of the river has never been cleared.
To the west and south of Xikou Village is a small undulating hill, and the villagers' houses are built between the hills, and like many villages, the villagers' houses are scattered among them, and there are a lot of dry lands that have been cleared out of the hills between the houses, and some crops are also planted on these dry lands.
Farther west of the village, the terrain is still the same small hills, but in the south, the hills are getting higher and higher, and finally connect with the mountains.
Strictly speaking, the location of Xikou Village can barely be regarded as the edge of a mountain.
After observing the terrain, Li Xuan nodded with satisfaction, this place is still quite suitable as a place for training and raising the army, more suitable than Huangzhu Mountain.
You can attack, you can retreat, and when things are not good, you can run back to the mountains directly!
Although there is not much arable land, there is a lot of wasteland that can be developed, and as long as it takes some effort, it will not be a problem to develop the wasteland on the other side of the river.
The construction of water conservancy facilities may be an unassumable task for the hundreds of villagers in Xikou Village, but it is nothing for the Tang Dynasty.
The total population of Xikou Village is only a few hundred people, and there are only more than 100 young and strong, and there is no way to allocate enough manpower to build the flood control on the other side of the river, but the Tang Dynasty is different, almost all of them are young and strong among the 1,500 people, all of them are set labor, and they really want to start building the flood control project, which is a matter of a month.
It's just that Li Xuan wants to use Xikou Village as a base to operate, but the Ming army doesn't give him this time.
Less than three days after the new army of the Tang Dynasty moved to Xikou Village, the spies who were sent to Fucheng half a month ago to monitor the movements of the Ming army suddenly returned to Xikou Village, and brought back a news that shocked Li Xuan and others: Many Ming troops gathered in the direction of Fucheng, and they were about to go to Zhengtai to suppress bandits in the near future!
What kind of bandits?
Naturally, it's the Tang Dynasty!
For a while, the mountain rain is coming!