The puppet Tang thief army went south to Guangxi, and the local Ming Dynasty officials would naturally react relatively!

When Hao Bonian and the others took Huaiyuan and Rongxian, in fact, the entire Guangxi territory, and even some parts of Guangdong, the Ming army had already begun to move.

First of all, of course, the local officers and soldiers in Liuzhou, they gathered together to defend Liuzhou City, while the Ming troops in other directions rushed towards Liuzhou one after another, and finally gathered a large army to defeat the puppet Tang thief army.

However, due to the backwardness of communication methods, the contact between these Ming troops was not frequent and timely, and this gave Hao Bonian a chance!

"Don't worry about Liuzhou City for now, the Fifth Garrison Regiment is watching over there, and I don't think there will be any big problems! Now our top priority is to defeat these 8,000 Ming troops, and then defeat the other Ming armies, and we must not let them converge, let alone let them reach Liuzhou smoothly! ”

Hao Bonian, who was already in Xiangzhou, wanted to defeat the Ming army troops coming from Wuzhou and other directions, but on the side of Xingquan Mansion, Li Xuan naturally couldn't know Hao Bonian's many arrangements in time.

Although it is said that the delivery of military newspapers is done on fast horses, this will still be delayed for a few days!

So now Li Xuan doesn't know that Hao Bonian has decided not to attack Liuzhou first, but to use Liuzhou as bait, and then attack all ways to aid the Ming army.

On this day, the focus of his attention was not on the south, but on Guizhou Province.

The 2nd Infantry Brigade and the 2nd Garrison Brigade had already divided their forces to the north and west long before the 1st Infantry Brigade and the 3rd Garrison Brigade moved south.

Most of the troops in Guizhou Province had been brought to Liping Mansion by Zhu Zhihai, and finally all of them were defeated before and after the puppet Tang thief army, and the defensive strength of the Ming army in other places in Guizhou was already very small.

Whether it was the northbound detachment or the westward detachment, they did not encounter any practical resistance along the way, and the northbound detachment had successfully captured Zhenyuanfu, Sizhou Prefecture and other prefectures and counties, and almost the entire northeastern part of Guizhou was in the bag.

The westward detachment also successfully captured Ligu Prefecture and Duyun Mansion all the way, and is marching towards Guiyang Mansion, and it is estimated that the next time they receive news from the westward detachment, it is estimated that they have already arrived in Guiyang City.

The military operations in Guizhou Province were quite smooth, which was of course the reason why Guizhou Ming had suffered heavy losses, but it was also related to the fact that the Ming army in Guizhou Province was frightened.

When the northbound detachment attacked Zhenyuan Mansion, there were more than 3,000 officers and soldiers in the city and thousands of young and strong people, but only two days after the attack, the Ming army generals who defended the city led their troops to flee without permission, leaving behind a bitter civil official. The westward detachment was similar, there were still thousands of Ming troops who fled back to Liguzhou, but in the face of the Tang Dynasty Wangshi who was pursuing behind, they didn't even resist, and kept retreating all the way, giving up Liguzhou and Duyun Mansion.

It is rumored that these routs have fled to Guiyang City, and it is estimated that they want to rely on Guiyang City to make a final resistance.

The Ming army retreated without a fight, which also made the military operation of the Tang Dynasty division in Guizhou Province more like an armed parade, and did not encounter the enemy at all.

If they have an enemy, it's terrain!

Guizhou is located in the southwest, and there are many other than mountains, and the army in these years cannot take trains and planes or anything, but can only walk on two legs.

Li Xuan estimated that even if the rear troops did not encounter de facto military resistance in Guizhou, with this speed of marching, it was estimated that it would take two months or even longer to take the entire Guizhou!

But this kind of thing can't be rushed!

It was impossible to take the whole of Guizhou and establish effective control in a short period of time, but the rule in several nearby prefectures and counties still had to be established quickly.

Why?

Because there are taxes and conscriptions!

As the scale of the Tang Dynasty grows larger and larger, the expenses in all aspects are also getting bigger and bigger!

No matter what era it is, a penny is hard to beat a hero!

In today's Tang Dynasty, there are more and more officials, and this Yulu can't always owe it, it has to be paid, this costs money!

What's more, the scale of the Datang Army is also getting bigger and bigger, and the cost of this army is also getting bigger and bigger!

That's not a small amount of food just enough to feed tens of thousands of people!

Secondly, many people and institutions in the Tang Dynasty directly or indirectly served the army, such as the many workshops on the side of the Ministry of Industry.

There are thousands of workers in the service of the army!

Even a bullish organization like the tax inspection team is, in the final analysis, just to raise military spending!

In order to maintain the daily expenses of this army, in order to continue to expand the number of regular troops, and in order to enable these troops to maintain combat effectiveness, many officials in the Tang Dynasty have tried everything to do so!

The Ministry of Industry is trying to increase production every day, and the Ministry of Taxation is thinking about how to collect more money every day!

But Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion are poor, even if they loot the bottom of the world, they can't afford to raise so many troops, so the only way is to expand externally.

Use the population and taxes of the newly occupied territories to sustain the needs of the troops!

This is also because the civil officials of the Tang Dynasty always follow behind the army, every time the army conquers a city, there will be a cabinet of civil officials to take over, and then other institutions and people's livelihood affairs can be ignored first, but the recruitment station of the military department and the tax agency of the tax department must be established in the shortest possible time and carry out work quickly.

Just like Huaiyuan County, not long after the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi laid down this county, the people of the tax inspection team had already begun to collect autumn taxes one by one according to the roster.

Immediately looting money and recruiting troops is an important part of the current expansion of the Tang Dynasty!

Now in other parts of Guizhou, the same is being done!

However, Guizhou is barren, and many prefectures and counties do not have many people, and they can't collect much tax, so they can only accumulate a lot.

It's only a matter of time before he takes the whole of Guizhou, and Li Xuan is not in a hurry, so he still has the mood and time to frolic with the women in the harem.

Especially the newly entered concubine Bai, En, that is, the former Cui'er girl, is worthy of being a professionally trained expert, and her attainments in the matter of the bottom of the bed are quite profound, and all kinds of difficult postures can be changed, so that Li Xuan stayed in her courtyard for many days in a row.

This also caused the dissatisfaction of Ye and Dong Yunyun, and it is rumored that Dong Yunyun has already given Concubine Li several small shoes to wear.

However, Li Xuan is too lazy to take care of the careful thinking between several of them, as long as it doesn't hinder his enjoyment, he is too lazy to care about the rest, besides, there is a white empress dowager on top!

What kind of character is the Empress Dowager Bai, in the court, no one except her dares to spray at Liu Bagou, the first assistant of the cabinet, every time Liu Bagou annoys her, she will scold Liu Bagou bloody.

With such a ruthless character sitting in the harem, Li Xuan thought to himself that those women would not be able to turn the sky upside down!

On this morning, after Li Xuan came out of Concubine Li's place again, he said before leaving: "I don't need to send it, it's cold outside, well, I'll come back in the evening and try ......."

Then he lowered his voice and said, "Try new tricks!" ”

Li Concubine suddenly made an arrogant appearance, and then put her small hand on Li Xuan and said, "Your Majesty, you are so bad!" ”

"That has to be bad!" Li Xuan laughed, and then went out with a few of his personal maids.

In addition to the scope of the harem, after coming to the front yard, Huo Shouqi, a scholar, was already waiting with a few Hanlin.

"Greetings to the emperor!"

Li Xuan's footsteps didn't stop, and he directly raised his hand slightly: "No need to be polite, let's go!" ”

After that, he didn't go in the direction of the office, but towards the gate outside the palace, and as he walked, he also said to Huo Shouqi: "Are you ready?" ”

Huo Shouqi said: "Your Majesty, this school parade has been prepared!" ”

Li Xuan said: "That's good, it's not too early, let's go directly!" ”

On the way, Li Xuan directly turned over and got on his horse, and then began to leave the palace under the escort of dozens of horsemen from the guard battalion, at the same time, Zeng Ziwen and other senior military generals and civil officials also followed behind, military generals rode horses, civil officials sat in sedan chairs, and there were more than 100 people.

The destination of their trip was the Daxiao Field outside the city, that is, the station of the 5th Infantry Regiment, the 1st Artillery Battalion, the 1st Cavalry Battalion and other troops!

Li Xuan naturally wouldn't come to this big campus to participate in any military parade for no reason, but because the Fifth Infantry Regiment was officially full a few days ago!

Although there is still a lot of equipment that has not expired, it can barely be declared an army after the personnel are full, so a review was organized.

Of course, the review is actually only incidental, and more importantly, Li Xuan is ready to watch the actual drill of the thousand-pound heavy artillery!

That's right, after many days, the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty finally produced the first 1,300 catties of heavy cannon after many efforts, which was roughly similar to the previous sample cannon.

There are thousands of pounds of artillery, and at the same time there are infantry, so if you practice like this, it will be a typical infantry and artillery coordination.

By the time Li Xuan led a group of people to the large campus outside the city, the entire large campus was already ready, and the troops who were ready to participate in the drill had already been assembled in formation.

Looking down from the highest point of the hill, I saw several phalanxes lying below!

At this time, Zeng Ziwen said on the side: "In order to better simulate the puppet Ming thief army, the Seventh Garrison Regiment specially transferred many Ming army generals as staff officers, and at the same time, in order to better restore the number of Ming troops, the strength of the Seventh Infantry Regiment will be calculated according to twice the strength!" ”

"This drill will be an encounter in the field between a Ming army of 12,000 people, a step corps of our army and a number of auxiliary troops!"

After finishing speaking, Zeng Ziwen said: "In addition, in this battle, the 1st Cavalry Battalion will play the role of the Ming Army's border army!" ”

Li Xuan said: "And what about the Fifth Infantry Regiment?" What other configurations are there besides their inherent infantry? ”

"According to the plan, the Fifth Infantry Regiment will be a unit reinforced by artillery, cavalry, and baggage at the brigade headquarters, in addition to the original three main infantry battalions and two reserve battalions, it will also have a cavalry team of 100 cavalry, a battalion artillery team with six battalion guns, a heavy artillery team with two 800-pound guns, and a baggage battalion!

Li Xuan listened and watched, and then didn't say too much, and soon nodded and said, "Since it's all ready, let's start!" ”

Zeng Ziwen immediately said: "The minister obeys the order!" ”