Chapter Seventy-Nine: Zeng Ziyun's Pride and Disdain
Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren took people to attack Black Tiger Village and Huang Guishan, although Li Xuan also made arrangements to sow discord, but after being mentioned by Mrs. Bai, he temporarily put down the follow-up plan to continue to mix sand with Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren and others.
Instead, he set his sights on the affairs of Huangzhu Mountain.
However, many other civil affairs are handled by Liu Bagou and Wang Wenhua, the Tang Dynasty is a little bigger, and there are no major events on weekdays, and Li Xuan will let Liu Bagou and them deal with some trivial matters.
His own focus was on the Guards.
However, he did not say that he ran over every day to train the soldiers in person, but maintained the previous situation, he went twice a day, and usually asked a few of his guards to help train.
Anyway, the training of the Guards has formed a whole set of processes in the past six months, and every day is to play the formation, discipline and physical training of the soldiers themselves.
Originally, tactical training was also arranged, but the huge Huangzhushan couldn't find a talent who knew how to play tactics, and all those bandits knew was that they rushed forward to fight, and they didn't know anything about formation at all.
As for Li Xuan himself, you let him talk about the coordination of the infantry artillery, the coordination of the infantry and the like, after all, he has also watched some film and television dramas and knows some about those things.
But you have to ask him how the ancient armies fought?
To be honest, he himself doesn't know anything, the only thing he can do is to make the Guards form strict discipline and neat formation, as for how to fight, I will slowly study it later.
When the envoy reported a few days ago, Li Xuan also focused on inquiring about the performance of the more than 20 guards brought by Wang Danxu, and the result made him quite disappointed, because although Wang Danxu went with more than 20 guards, Fang Dongquan obviously couldn't believe these half-grown children who were only in their teens.
So most of the time, these guards are carried in the back, and the name is to press the formation, but in fact, Fang Dongquan and Butcher Chen just think that these little children are in the way, and they are thrown behind without seeing or worrying.
So far, the Guards have not really fought, how the Guards fight, Li Xuan doesn't know, and Wang Danxu doesn't understand.
But it doesn't matter, because now there is a real general in Huangzhu Mountain: Zeng Ziyun.
After Zeng Ziyun rejected the Tang Dynasty's solicitation a few days ago, Li Xuan did not give up his plan to recruit this person, but planned to continue to soak and grind.
No, it's okay to be idle today, Li Xuan brought Zeng Ziyun over again!
When Zeng Ziyun saw Li Xuan again, his expression was still firm, and even his eyes occasionally showed disdain.
During this time, Zeng Ziyun also understood that this puppet emperor Li Xuan really wanted to recruit himself, otherwise he would not have entertained himself with good food and drink, even if he rejected him before, he was not angry.
This gave Zeng Ziyun confidence!
Seeing Zeng Ziyun's arrogant appearance of a big bird facing the sky, Bai Yunqi, who was already very unhappy with him, immediately snorted coldly and cast a threatening expression.
Zeng Ziyun, who was still showing a disdainful expression, saw Bai Yunqi glaring at him angrily, and immediately trembled, and then involuntarily withdrew his disdainful gaze, but he remembered very well that this Bai Yunqi was not very friendly to him.
If you annoy this stunned young man, maybe you will cut yourself with a knife.
Li Xuan didn't care about the eye contact between these two people, but took them to the playground.
Huangzhushan is a very small place, and it didn't take long for them to arrive at the playground, at this time Li Xuan pointed to a large group of bandits who were training on the playground and said, "General Zeng, what do you think of my soldiers?" ”
Zeng Ziyun had already seen a large group of soldiers training on the playground, but he didn't know that Li Xuan was referring to those soldiers.
Because there are two groups of people training on the playground, one group is half-sized, and they are standing in a rigid formation at this moment, while the other group is young and strong, wielding swords one by one.
Even Zeng Ziyu saw the figure of his own soldiers from the group of sword-wielding young men.
He had known a few days ago that many of the soldiers who had been captured with him had defected to the Huangzhu Mountain Bandits, but he didn't care, and he wasn't even surprised.
After all, those are just ordinary soldiers, even if they all surrender, it will have no practical impact, and they don't know the concept of allegiance to the imperial court at all, for them, there is no difference between being a soldier for the Tang Dynasty and being a soldier for the Daimyo.
It is not surprising that he defected after being captured.
The two groups of people in front of him, those young and strong bandits were messy, they didn't look like an army at all, but the dozens of half-sized people who were lining up made him very interested.
Although these soldiers looked to be only in their teens, their bodies were not fully grown, and their swords and guns were obviously out of tune.
However, these half-sized men are highly disciplined and able to make consistent movements at the orders of several leaders.
And this is not an easy matter!
Zeng Ziyun, who was born in Jiangmen and personally led soldiers for two years, could see at a glance that if the two sides fought in line, those young and strong bandits would look fierce, but they would definitely not be the opponents of those half-grown children.
Slightly tilted his head to look at Li Xuan, he remembered the rumors he had occasionally heard in the past few days, I heard that these half-grown children were personally compiled by the young puppet emperor Li Xuan in front of him, it seems that this puppet emperor Li Xuan is not simple.
However, although he admired it a little in his heart, he would never show it, on the contrary, he still had to maintain the pride of the imperial court officials, and immediately showed a disdainful expression and said: "The chaotic and disorderly thief army is just a vulnerable attack in front of my great soldiers!" ”
Hearing Zeng Ziyun's words, Bai Yunqi immediately smiled: "It seems that it was your Ming army who fled in the Falling Tiger Valley at the beginning!" ”
Hearing this, Zeng Ziyun's face stiffened, and then said: "Hmph, the battle of Luohu Valley is not a crime of war!" ”
Li Xuan heard it, okay, this can be said to be a crime of non-war after losing the battle, but God is not strong, according to what you say, so many armies that have been defeated from ancient times to the present, all of them have to blame God?
However, Li Xuan did not refute him, but continued: "Between General Zeng, how are your guards of the Guards? ”
Zeng Ziyun didn't answer this time, although he wanted to forcibly say that his guard army was more awesome, but as an insightful general, he didn't want to open his eyes and tell nonsense, he knew that the guards in front of him were really not bad, even a little stronger than his own guard.
Well, it's just a little bit stronger, but definitely not much stronger!
Seeing that Zeng Ziyun didn't speak, Li Xuan smiled and continued: "If I let these guards be equipped with handcuffs on a large scale, what does General Zeng think?" ”