The Tang Dynasty expanded its army every day when it had nothing to do, which brought great difficulties to the overall operation of the Tang Dynasty, especially the Ministry of Taxation, which provided food and salary support for the entire army, and Alexander.

As the only institution in the Tang Dynasty that had the legal or illegal right to collect taxes, the Ministry of Taxation was under the financial pressure needed to keep the entire Tang Dynasty running.

And what makes people hurt is that this kind of financial pressure is not just about silver, in fact, silver has no direct effect on the operation of the Tang Dynasty, and the role of silver is to purchase strategic materials from the outside world and pay officials and soldiers.

In addition to silver, food and all kinds of messy materials are needed, among which food is the most important.

To be honest, it is difficult to buy a large quantity of grain through merchants, because the unit value of grain is not high, the transportation cost is extremely large, and the scale of transportation will be very large, and it is very easy to be seized by the Ming army.

In contrast, the merchants of Old Man Sun, who took great risks to trade with the Tang Dynasty, were more willing to transport some goods that were easy to transport, had a higher unit price, and were also more profitable, such as saltpeter and sulfur, even copper and iron were more convenient to transport than grain, and the profits were higher.

Because although Xingquan Mansion is barren, there is still food, and the Datang New Army does not have a big gap in food, but the copper and iron used to build ordnance, and the saltpeter, sulfur, lead and other materials used to make ammunition are very large.

In addition, food is a thing, and it can also be 'eaten by the enemy', so in the past more than a year of fighting with the Ming army, although the Datang New Army has encountered food crises several times, they have been successfully resolved one by one, and they are all solved by the method of 'eating the enemy', so the Ministry of Taxation has purchased food for outside businessmen, although there are also such items as grain, but the purchase price is not high, but it is slightly higher than the ordinary market price of the outside world.

In order to solve the food problem once again, especially the military food problem, Li Xuan's latest will to Hao Bonian and Li Chunjing has made it clear that he hopes that the front-line troops can be self-reliant and eat the enemy as much as possible, and do not expect how much grain can be transported by the rear.

After receiving Li Xuan's holy decree, Hao Bonian was not too surprised, as a senior general of the Datang New Army, and he is also the current highest-ranking general, he knows very well that the Datang New Army has a fine tradition of 'eating the enemy'.

Even if there is grain in the rear, it is a great trouble to transport it across hundreds of miles, and the loss is very great.

There were still thousands of troops on the Xingquan Mansion, and it was impossible to transport the only grain to Liping Mansion at such a great cost.

In fact, without Li Xuan's clear instructions, the first regiment and the second infantry regiment on the front line had already launched the policy of 'eating the enemy'.

Along the way, they also captured a lot of granaries of the Ming army and obtained some grain.

At the same time, because the tax inspection team of the Ministry of Taxation was busy with business and had not yet extended its business to the newly occupied area of the eastern part of Li Binh Province, the military would also be very cooperative in sending troops to accompany the officials of the Ministry of Taxation to collect military rations in the eastern part of Li Binh Province, which had already been captured.

There are many names for levying military rations, in addition to the regular 'autumn tax', there are other messy names, such as borrowing grain, directly sending troops to a landlord's grain warehouse to pull away the grain, and then leaving an IOU, the above-mentioned year and day, the Tang New Army borrowed a certain amount of grain from someone, and a certain can go to the tax department of the Tang Dynasty with an IOU to get back the grain.

Sometimes, they would go directly to the door and point their swords at the big landlords who had hoarded a large amount of grain, saying that the army was in difficulty, and hoped that they would give full play to the patriotic spirit of supporting the army and donate some grain.

This is relatively civilized, if the other party does not cooperate, the officers who lead the team will shout: "Bold thief, dare to harbor false and spies!" ”

"Search for this official!"

"What, you still dare to resist, all of them, aim, shoot!"

With a burst of gunshots, in the end, most of these landlords will choose to give in, some will give in when they are alive, and some will give in after they die!

No matter what, they will always be able to get back a large amount of military rations in the end, and they will also grab it back by the way, no, it is to levy some copper, iron, gold, silver, and soft things.

Every time the troops go out to collect food, they will return full of debts, and at the same time leave a bloody storm!

In less than five or six days, the sentence of the Datang New Army: "Fellow open the door, we are the Datang New Army!" The famous saying was transmitted from Xingquan Province to Liping Province and was widely praised.

After many years, there will be such a drama: several Datang New Army politely knocked on the door of a big landlord, saying that we are the Datang New Army, and then the big landlord happily took out food, wine and food to entertain the soldiers of the Datang New Army, and maybe would take the initiative to help the Datang New Army evade the pursuit of the Ming Army, but the big landlord died tragically under the sword of the Ming Army, and shouted Long live Datang before he died.

The Tang soldiers watched the landlord die tragically at the hands of these villains of the Ming army, and finally came back with the new army of the Tang Dynasty to take revenge, completely annihilating the Ming army that was angry and resentful, and avenging the tragic death of the villagers, the fat dragon flag of the new army of the Tang Dynasty was planted on the hill of this small village.

What, do you suspect that what is said in this drama is false, the dead landlord was not killed by the Ming army, but by the new army of the Tang Dynasty?

Bold, the enemy spies who came out of there dared to slander the soldiers of the empire and shake the foundation of the empire!

"All of them!"

"Aim!" “

"Shoot!"

After the gunshots, the whole world was silent for several seconds, and then the cheers of 'Long live Datang' resounded in the crowd!

What will be said in the future drama, the current Datang New Army naturally doesn't know, now they only know that the military food is not enough, the ordnance is not enough, and Nima doesn't even have enough toilet paper to go to the toilet.

This does not send a grain collection team to raise food, and they don't need the Ming army to fight, they themselves can starve to death.

While the grain conscription team was working hard for the supply of military rations for the new army of the Tang Dynasty, the Second Infantry Regiment finally arrived at the city of Lipingfu.

On the same day, Hao Bonian and Li Chunjing, as well as more than a dozen other middle- and high-ranking military officers, held a two-hour discussion on how to successfully conquer the city of Lipingfu.

To be honest, it is not too difficult to conquer Liping Mansion, because at this time, the Datang New Army outside the city of Liping Mansion already has two main infantry regiments, plus other auxiliary troops, and the total strength has reached more than 4,000 people.

These more than 4,000 people almost surrounded the entire city of Lipingfu, and how many Ming troops were in the city of Lipingfu?

After the tentative attack of the first corps the day before yesterday, it was preliminarily judged that there were about 3,000 Ming troops in the city, but most of them were young and strong people who did not wear military uniforms, and even if they were regular troops wearing military uniforms, many of them were old and young and weak, and their combat effectiveness was quite limited.

To put it mildly, even if it relied on the first step of the corps itself, it was fully capable of taking Liping Mansion City, but the reason why Hao Bonian did not launch a general offensive in advance was because it was to avoid large-scale casualties.

When the advantage of troops is not large enough, although it can also take the city of Lipingfu, it is inevitable that there will be certain casualties, especially this kind of attacking task.

The strength of the new army of the Tang Dynasty is scarce, and it is still more concerned about the casualties of the soldiers, and the more casualties will be very unfavorable to the follow-up operations.