Butcher Chen's invitation to fight Li Xuan is not unexpected, this kind of situation that requires people to fight with real knives and guns, except for Butcher Chen, there is no one else who can bear it, not only Butcher Chen's own bravery, but also because of the more than 20 bandits under his hands!

In this kind of small-scale fighting, a small number of ordinary bandits are unreliable, and if too many people go, it is easy to attract the attention of the Ming army, so they can only send a small number of elites to go.

And the only people in the Tang Dynasty who can be called elite are Butcher Chen and the more than 20 bandits under his command!

Immediately, he nodded: "General Chen is loyal and brave, I am accurate, in addition, you bring ten more archers!" ”

Since it is an ambush, it is best to shoot a wave with archers first, maybe a wave of arrows will shoot out, and those people in Fengjiazhuang will be finished, and there is no need for Butcher Chen to risk them to fight closely.

Since the court decided on this matter, Butcher Chen did not delay, in order to prevent any accidents, he began to gather people to prepare on the same day, so that he could set off early tomorrow morning to find a necessary place to return to Fengjiazhuang for ambush.

At the same time, in order to prevent the other two roads of Fengjiazhuang from playing cards not according to common sense, and changing the direction while walking, more people will be arranged to monitor all the small roads within a radius of ten miles of Huangzhu Mountain.

Early the next morning, Butcher Chen set off with thirty bandits, and at the same time, those peripheral sentinels also arranged to go out, but even so, it didn't make Li Xuan feel much at ease, because even if everything went well, it could only buy two or three months for Huangzhushan, and after two or three months passed, the Ming army would definitely still enter the mountain, and when the Ming army entered the mountain on a large scale, it would be impossible for Huangzhushan to hide.

A big war cannot be avoided no matter what!

Now, what Li Xuan has to do is to improve the combat effectiveness of this group of bandits in Huangzhushan as much as possible before this big battle comes!

It is not only the Guards side that must strengthen training, but even the Standing Army side cannot relax.

Considering that the bandits in the standing army were all old oilers, and they were tired and bitter when they were trained one by one, Li Xuan also adopted an unconventional method this time.

During these two months, soldiers of the Standing Army who have completed their training in accordance with the requirements every day will be provided with one meal directly from the public middle school, and only those who have excellent training can be appointed as captains.

For this reason, Li Xuan ignored Fang Dongquan's opposition and forcibly demanded that all the positions at the rank of army commander be vacant, and then announced to all the soldiers of the standing army that the future army commander would be selected from among them with the best training performance.

This is to give them a competitive upward channel!

If you want to be a captain, then you have to train well.

If you cheat and cheat, don't be funny, you still have to be your big soldier!

Even if it is a bandit, the bandits all want to be promoted and make a fortune, being an ordinary bandit and being a small boss are completely different concepts.

This treatment is naturally not reflected in the salary and the like, because the Tang Dynasty never pays salaries!

Regardless of whether it is an ordinary soldier or Fang Dongquan, these generals, or even Liu Bagou, the first assistant, are all free coolies, and they don't have a penny of salary!

The reason is also very simple, the Tang Dynasty has no money, so the few hundred taels of silver that were stolen have to be taken outside to buy necessities.

Especially salt and iron, not to mention salt, people can't live without this seemingly cheap and ordinary thing, and iron tools are equally important, not only to create knives, guns and armor need to use iron, even normal agricultural production also needs to use iron farming tools.

The silver looted by the Tang Dynasty was basically used to secretly purchase salt, iron and other necessities from outside the mountains, and it was impossible to use it to pay salaries.

And even if they take the money, they don't have any land to spend it, Huangzhu Mountain is a small ravine, and you can't buy anything if you have money.

Since the gap between the leader bandits and ordinary bandits cannot be reflected in silver, how is it reflected?

Now the Tang Dynasty has continued the spoils distribution system that has been passed down from generation to generation in the mountains, that is, the higher the status, the more you can fight, and the more loot you get!

The bandits have grabbed things to distribute, how to distribute them, naturally the higher the status of the more they take, the lower the status of the less they take, the lowest ordinary bandits can only take the most basic loot.

In addition, in order to strengthen the transformation of these army commanders into professional soldiers, Li Xuan specially issued instructions to issue a military uniform to each army commander and a certain amount of food every month.

But correspondingly, it is also a stricter requirement for the commander and the above, that is, daily training must not be absent without reason, and no retreat in case of battle.

After all, Li Xuan paid such a big price, not to cultivate a few bandit leaders, but to train the first batch of professional soldiers.

This year, the cost of raising a professional soldier is not small, even if Li Xuan does not give money, but food must be given, this food is not only eaten by the soldiers themselves, but also let them feed their families.

After all, a professional soldier must be young and strong, and one less young man in their family as a labor force will definitely have a great impact, and if one is not good, he will starve to death, if you don't give food to let the professional soldier support his family, his brain will burn out before he will give you a soldier's life!

In Li Xuan's plan, the salary system was a necessary measure to reorganize the standing army of the Tang Dynasty from bandits to a regular professional army, and it was also a better measure than the establishment, dedication, and the like.

Originally, Li Xuan wanted to distribute food to all the soldiers, but the Tang Dynasty's family background was too weak, and there was not much food in the public school at all, and the guards needed a lot of food expenses every month.

Therefore, for the time being, the scope can only be narrowed down to a few dozen people, and as for most of the ordinary bandits, they still do not give a grain of food, not a penny, and even need them to bring their own weapons and dry food when fighting.

However, these ordinary soldiers will also be rewarded, because after winning the battle, the spoils of war can be distributed, and as for the defeat, it would be good for everyone to save their lives, not to mention the spoils of war or something.

In later generations, it is a typical *** or self-dried cent, and it is also a particularly noble kind, so there is no difference between self-done XX and bandits who bring their own dry food.

Of course, the former will only talk about it online, while the latter will really go into battle, from this point of view, self-done XX is far inferior to bandits who bring their own dry food.

Especially the bandits of Huangzhushan, not to mention the mouths of later generations can be compared, they used fearless dedication, for the rise of the Tang Dynasty, for Li Xuan's hegemony, resolutely did not use a grain of grain and a penny, brought their own dry food and weapons to fight.

Even if they encounter defeat by chance, they are trying to protect themselves and leave a spark for the revival of the Tang Dynasty!

What kind of spirit is this?

This is great selfless dedication!