Xingquan Mansion, the former prefect of Song Zhiwen's yamen, is now in the Tang Palace.

The core high-level civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty gathered again, and the civilian officials were naturally cabinet members headed by Liu Bagou, Qian Mengjiu, Wang Wenhua, Ma Wei, Yang Xiucai and even Old Man Xie and others were all there, while the generals on the military side were much fewer.

The only ones that have weight are Zeng Ziwen, director of the Operations Department, Fang Xitong, commander of the Third Infantry Regiment, Xie Ziwei, commander of the artillery battalion, and some middle-level officers.

As for other senior generals of the military, such as Hao Bonian, commander of the First Infantry Corps, Li Chunjing, commander of the Second Infantry Regiment, Wang Danxu of the Fourth Infantry Regiment, Zhou Yibao, commander of the Fifth Infantry Regiment, Huang Xueren, deputy commander of the First Infantry Corps and commander of the First Infantry Battalion, and Fang Dongquan, deputy commander of the Second Infantry Regiment and commander of the Fourth Infantry Battalion, all led the army to fight abroad at this time.

But today, everyone gathered here, although the generals of the military are few, they are still the main ones, Zeng Ziwen is surrounded by everyone, Liu Bagou and Qian Mengjiu are asking Zeng Ziwen what the situation is.

And Zeng Ziwen did not show any impatience in the face of these gossiping civil officials, but explained in detail as much as possible.

Just when everyone was talking, a guard outside the door suddenly shouted: "Your Majesty has arrived!" ”

Suddenly, everyone in the strategy room closed their mouths in unison, and then turned their eyes to the door.

In everyone's sight, I saw a young man wearing a Confucian robe embroidered with a golden dragon pattern on the neckline walking in, this person is naturally the supreme existence of the Tang Dynasty, the eternal saint in Liu Bagou's mouth, their emperor: Li Xuan!

Li Xuan's footsteps did not stop at the door, but walked in after a few consecutive steps, and then sat directly on the top dragon chair.

At this time, the ministers saluted under the leadership of Liu Bagou and shouted long live.

At this time, Li Xuan's right hand was slightly raised, and he said softly: "Flat!" ”

At this time, all the ministers stood up, but today is not an official early dynasty, so naturally there is no need to pay too much attention to things like station ordering, and Li Xuan is too lazy to wait for them to say anything nonsense such as something to start.

Instead, he directly spoke: "Just now Zeng Aiqing sent a military intelligence report from the frontline Commander Hao, saying that the Ming army's vanguard has arrived at the northern border of Liping Mansion, and it will attack Tongguwei in the near future. ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Huo Shouqi, who was standing beside him.

At this time, Huo Shouqi, a scholar of Hanlin Academy, who was holding a small briefcase and standing behind Li Xuan, immediately took out a letter from the small leather bag in his hand, which was the letter sent back by Hao Bonian.

Everyone had only heard Zeng Ziwen say that there was a situation before, but I heard that they naturally didn't read Hao Bonian's letter in person.

Hao Bonian's military newspaper wrote very clearly, and it can be confirmed from many sources that the Ming army in Guizhou had been mobilized under the order of the governor of Guizhou, and that more than 20,000 people had gathered in the northeastern and northern regions of Guizhou, and that the Ming army in the western and central regions of Guizhou, especially in the direction of the provincial capital, had a combined population of more than 30,000 people.

In the next half month, 50,000 people will arrive in Ri Binh Province one after another!

In other words, in the last few days, the Ming army has arrived, and half a month later, all 50,000 Ming troops will be able to arrive.

And this time is at least a month earlier than the time expected by the Tang monarchs, or even more.

Soon, Hao Bonian's military report was circulated by everyone, and at this time, Li Xuan spoke again: "What do you think about this?" ”

As the head of the ministers, Liu Bagou was naturally the first to speak: "Back to Your Majesty, since the puppet Ming thief army dares to offend my Tang Dynasty land, it should be attacked, and the minister thinks that he should immediately dispatch a large army to attack the attacking puppet thief army." ”

However, after Liu Bagou said that he should beat the puppet Ming thief army, he consciously closed his mouth, because if he said how to fight and where to fight, it would be obviously overstepping his authority, even if he was the head of the civilian ranks, he did not have the slightest power to meddle in military affairs.

War, that's the Privy Council's business!

So Zeng Ziwen also spoke, as the director of the Operations Division, all the large-scale military operations of the Tang New Army in the near future, the details of which were basically planned by him with people, and now when the Ming army is attacking, his Operations Division naturally needs to come up with a response plan.

Zeng Ziwen said: "Your Majesty, the minister has summoned all the staff officers of the Operations Department to start formulating the battle plan. Later, the Operations Division will come up with a perfect battle plan! ”

The Ming army's early attack was almost a blitzkrieg attack on Liping Mansion before the Ming Army had yet to react, and then go south to Guangxi, capture Guilin, Liuzhou and other places as quickly as possible, plunder soldiers, food and other resources to expand the troops, and then turn back to Liping Mansion in the north, gather the expanded troops and defeat the main force of more than 50,000 or even 100,000 people in Guizhou Province in one fell swoop, so as to completely lay the victory of the separatist side.

But Zhu Zhihai didn't give them this time, not to mention that after they took Guangxi and plundered the population and wealth, now they haven't left Liping Mansion and went south to Guangxi, Zhu Zhihai's army can't wait to kill it.

In fact, whether it was Li Xuan or Zeng Ziwen, they all despised the Ming Dynasty, or how much Zhu Zhihai attached importance to them.

Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen always thought that they were making a small fuss, even if the Ming army would send a large army to suppress it, but they would not say that they would attach too much importance to it.

But they forgot that they were no longer a bunch of small bandits, but a separatist regime with 10,000 troops, who had conquered an entire prefecture and had begun to expand into the surrounding prefectures.

What's more critical is that the Tang Dynasty is still the kind of rebel regime that officially claims to be the emperor, if this kind of thing was put a year ago, everyone would just be a joke, but a year later this year, the puppet Tang Dynasty thief army has tens of thousands of soldiers, and the government has been divided, do you still treat them as a joke?

Then it's not that the Tang Dynasty is a joke, but that the Ming Dynasty is a joke.

There is no doubt that the Tang Dynasty after the capture of Xingquan Mansion has been really valued by the Ming Dynasty, especially in the hearts of local officials in Guizhou Province, the puppet Tang thief army has actually become a big problem.

Otherwise, how could Zhu Zhihai be furious, and then mobilize the troops of the whole of Guizhou to try to encircle and suppress the puppet Tang thief army!

Now Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen don't know that the name of their Tang Dynasty has been spread to the Beijing division in the north with Zhu Zhihai's play, and it is said that in a certain early dynasty, the matter of the puppet Tang thief army was discussed very formally.

In the end, the wise and holy Emperor Zhengde issued a holy decree, what did the holy decree say?

It's very simple, let Guizhou Governor Zhu Zhihai suppress the thieves as soon as possible!

As for the rest, I'm sorry, no!

It can also be seen from this that the Ming Dynasty's rebellion against the Tang Dynasty had different reactions from various strata, and the officials of Xingquan Mansion, Liping Mansion and other surrounding prefectures and counties were afraid of the pseudo-Tang thief army like a tiger.

The officials in the provincial capital are worried and angry, such as Zhu Zhihai, he must have seen the danger of the puppet Tang thief army, the puppet Tang thief army that can wipe out Song Zhiwen's tens of thousands of troops, if anyone dares to say that they are just a group of bandits in the ravines, Zhu Zhihai dares to slap him with a big mouth, have you seen bandits who annihilated tens of thousands of officers and soldiers?

Therefore, Zhu Zhihai was ready to send a large army from the whole province to suppress the puppet Tang thief army.

And the bigwigs in the Beijing division were only a little surprised when they heard this, and then they might sigh: "Eventful, this is the first rebellion this year, the seventh or the eighth time?" ”

That's right, for the Ming Dynasty, which has to suppress N+1 rebellions every year, a small-scale rebellion in a remote place can't move those cabinet bigwigs, if they want to really feel the pain, the Tang Dynasty still occupied the whole of Guizhou first, exterminated hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, and now I want the bigwigs of the Ming Dynasty to make a fuss and dream.

What's more, the court situation has been unstable in the past two years, Your Majesty's dragon body is getting worse and worse, from beginning to end of the year, the decoction has not stopped, and the prince of the East Palace has made a mistake when he was in charge of the country the year before last, and it has been two years since His Majesty ordered him to think about it behind closed doors.

The crown prince was ordered to think about it behind closed doors for more than two years, so that several other princes were eyeing the position of the prince, plus His Majesty was old and the dragon's body was worried, so it was difficult to change Ming'er and die.

At such a critical juncture, many bigwigs in the DPRK are cautious one by one, and they can't be more careful.

In the past few years, if you are lucky, you will go to the next level, but if you are not careful, you will provoke the disaster of raiding the family and exterminating the family.

Compared with the chaotic situation between the DPRK and China, the dispute between the country and the capital, a small rebellion in a remote place in the southwest is a fart, and it is not too late to wait for the thief named Li Xuan to enter the prosperous land of Huguang and even Jiangnan and grab the top card of the Qinhuai River.

The patriotic women on the Qinhuai River have not been snatched away, so they are in a hurry!

What is the situation on the side of the Ming Dynasty, Li Xuan, the rebel leader in a remote place, naturally does not know, but there is not much difference between knowing and not knowing.

Not to mention whether the Beijing masters in the Ming Dynasty attach importance to it or not, just Guizhou Governor Zhu Zhihai is enough for Li Xuan to drink a pot!

That's 50,000 people, and when he thinks of 50,000, he feels Alexander!

Liu Bagou and Zeng Ziwen and several other people spoke one after another, saying what they said, they must fight, beat the Ming army to the ground, capture Zhu Zhihai alive and the like, but the detailed strategic arrangements will naturally not be discussed on this occasion.

The purpose of the Cabinet participating in this meeting today is very simple, that is, to let them solve the logistical problems of the army.

Therefore, halfway through the meeting, when Zeng Ziwen said: "The war is coming, and the soldiers in the army are short of food, salary, and ordnance!" ".

Li Xuan set his sights on Liu Bagou and the scholars of various cabinet departments.