Early the next morning, Huangzhushan was in a commotion, and many young people gathered on the playground with dry food and weapons after having breakfast in a hurry at home.

Although Huang Zhushan had just experienced a big defeat not long ago, resulting in a full thirty-two people not coming back alive, when it came to attacking Shuilong Village, everyone did not oppose or slacken their mentality, but silently began to make various preparations one by one.

Even those old and weak women and children began to prepare dry food, clothing, etc. for the men who were about to go out to crusade against Shuilong Village.

Why? Because they all know very well that Huangzhushan is short of food, and if they can't get enough food, then the cottage will face a food crisis, and it is not known how many people will starve to death by then.

So even though the last fiasco was still hovering in their minds, they all knew that they had no choice.

If you don't want to starve to death, there are only two options, one is to go out of the mountains to 'collect grain' and loot, and the other is to attack Shuilongzhai to grab grain.

The method of going out to 'collect grain' was also commonly used by them in previous years, but this year the situation has changed, because now there are many officers and soldiers outside the mountain.

I don't know if it was because Li Xuan's father and son successively proclaimed themselves emperor and stimulated the government, causing the government to send a large number of officers and soldiers to hoard outside the mountains, or whether this year's bandit problem was particularly serious, and the government paid more attention to the encirclement and suppression of bandits in the mountains.

In short, there was a troublesome situation that the bandits in Huangzhushan were unwilling to face, that is, there were a lot of officers and soldiers outside the mountain.

According to the situation of several spies secretly dispatched by Huang Zhushan, officers and men have now set up checkpoints on several major transportation routes in and out of the mountain, and a large number of officers and men have been stationed in several large villages and towns near the mountain.

In this case, the bandits of the main Huangzhu Mountain dared to swagger out of the mountain to loot, and basically sought death on their own.

If you are blocked in the mountains and can't get out, then you can only find another way to solve the food crisis.

If it is after the autumn harvest, then there is no problem, because in the summer busyness that has just ended, Huangzhu Mountain has cultivated a large amount of land and planted grain, and the land at the foot of Huangzhu Mountain is balanced and fertile, and several streams pass through it to irrigate the fields, so after the autumn harvest, they can harvest enough grain.

But the problem now is that their existing grain reserves cannot support the autumn harvest!

In order to solve this problem, when it is not feasible to go out to collect food, the only option left for them is to attack Shuilong Village.

Because according to Wang Wenhua, there is a large amount of grain, goods and other reserves on the side of the Water Dragon Village, and these are the wealth accumulated by the Water Dragon Village after more than ten years of looting.

Another point is that Shuilongzhai had just looted a grange before, robbed a landlord's granary, and got a large amount of grain back.

Whether it is silver and other goods or food, it has a fatal attraction to the many bandits in Huangzhu Mountain.

It's just that these are the thoughts of ordinary bandits, and Li Xuan still has his own thoughts, that is, he wants to take this opportunity to gather the people and horses of Shuilong Village under his command.

Now there are many officers and soldiers outside the mountains, although the specific number of officers and soldiers is not known, but there must be thousands of people and horses, so many officers and soldiers will not come sooner or later, but they appeared after Li Xuan's father and son rebelled as emperors, if it is just a coincidence, Li Xuan will not believe it.

Li Xuan was at least eighty percent sure that these officers and soldiers were coming for him.

Perhaps in the near future, these officers and soldiers will enter the mountains on a large scale, and then search for the whereabouts of the bandits in Huangzhushan and themselves, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, once they find themselves, a battle is inevitable.

In order to have a greater certainty in the future when resisting the attack of officers and soldiers, the current Li Xuan urgently needs to expand the troops under his command.

Now the most suitable for expanding and supplementing the strength of 'Datang' is naturally the Water Dragon Village dozens of miles away.

If this operation can be successful, then the number of subjects under the jurisdiction of Datang is expected to exceed the 1,000 mark, and the number of young people can reach more than 200.

This means that Li Xuan has more strength to fight against the officers and soldiers!

After the sun rose, Li Xuan also appeared in the playground with Liu Bagou and others.

Looking at the large area of dense youth in front of him, Li Xuan couldn't help but sigh, this time the expedition was personally commanded by him, the emperor.

Because Li Xuan drove the expedition in person, Liu Bagou said that he would not let Li Xuan travel alone, and he also followed, and Wang Wenhua, who was responsible for leading the way, also came with him.

The playground gathered almost all the young and strong 'army' of Huangzhushan, among which there were nearly 100 ordinary bandits, divided into two armies, the left and right armies, each with about 50 people, the left army was commanded by the general of the cavalry Fang Dongquan, and the right army was led by the hussar general Chen Butcher.

The twenty-four guards and the twelve archers who were drawn separately were combined into the Chinese army, commanded by the general of the guards, Wang Danxu.

In this expedition, not only did most of the high-level leaders of Huangzhushan go, only Bai Yunqi, Qian Mengjiu and others remained, in fact, almost all the young and strong people in Huangzhushan were in the ranks of the expedition, and the men in Huangzhushan from fifteen to forty years old were all on the expedition.

To put it mildly, the crusade against Shuilongzhai is a battle for the Tang Dynasty!

If the plan goes well, it's easy to say anything if you win, but if you lose, the elite of Huangzhushan will fall into Shuilongzhai, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

It was precisely because he knew that this expedition was very important, and even related to his own life, so Li Xuan had always been very cautious, and personally took Liu Bagou and Fang Dongquan to check the preparations of the soldiers before the expedition, from dry food to weapons, to ensure that nothing went wrong.

When Li Xuan led everyone to check it and found that there was nothing missing, he stepped on a short inferior horse, then pulled out the saber on his waist and pointed to the north: "Let's go!" ”

With Li Xuan's order, the bandits began to walk out one after another.

Just looking at the chaotic appearance of these bandits, Li Xuan couldn't help frowning, the first to set off was the left army led by Fang Dongquan, followed by the right army of Butcher Chen, and the bandits under the command of these two people are all ordinary young and strong, and there is no concept of marching in line at all, so walking is as messy as an outing, many people are talking and laughing while walking, and they can be heard laughing from time to time.

Fortunately, the neat queue of the guards at the back made Li Xuan feel a lot more relieved, after more than two months of training, this guard army already has the appearance of an army.

Although the soldiers in the Guards were all fifteen or sixteen half-grown children, and their physical fitness was not as good as that of the middle-aged men in their twenties and thirties, these people were in a neat formation, carrying spears, swords and shields and other weapons, which still made Li Xuan feel a lot more relieved.

He knew very well that whether it was the attack on Shuilongzhai this time or the follow-up resistance to the officers and soldiers, what he could really rely on was the guards composed of these half-grown children, rather than those young and strong bandits who were messing around.

And today, the neat queue of these children when they marched made Li Xuan see the hope of victory and the hope of living!