If the spring ploughing is delayed on the Huangzhushan side, at least half of the more than 2,000 people in the Tang Dynasty will starve to death next year.

The same is true of the puppet Ming's side, their army is all guards, and these guards are all serfs who farm the fields on weekdays, working for two meals a day.

If they go to war when the farm is busy, the family's fields can only be cultivated by the old and weak, and if they don't do it well, they will not be able to complete the sowing in time, and if they don't harvest enough grain by the time of the summer harvest, they will starve to death in the second half of the year!

Not to mention ordinary military households, even the generals in the guards are not willing to go out to fight when the farmers are busy, their serfs have gone to war, who will farm and cultivate the land for them? If the harvest is missing, they will not lose much!

Therefore, unless it is an extremely special situation, it is generally impossible for a country with an agrarian civilization to fight a war when the farming is busy, of course, this is just an ordinary situation.

If the two sides really fight the fire, naturally they can't control so much, they can go to war all year round, but when they defeat the enemy, they will almost starve to death!

As for why the Tang Dynasty and the Pseudo-Ming continue to fight in winter, instead of fighting only after the autumn harvest as said in many books, they go back to hibernate after winning or losing.

That's because Datang is located in the south, except for a few periods of time in winter, the temperature during the day is about 10 degrees most of the time, and the weather can even be more than 10 degrees, not as cold as in the northern winter, often more than 10 degrees below zero.

In the mountains where the Tang Dynasty was located, although it was cold when winter came, it did not affect people's normal activities.

The people of the Tang Dynasty can open up the wasteland in winter, and naturally they can fight in winter!

If the Ming army enters the mountains after spring ploughing, not only will the weather become rainy and the roads will be muddy, which will be conducive to the bandits in Huangzhushan to fight, but more importantly, with this buffer time, the newly restructured Datang Standing Army will be able to have at least two months of integration and training time.

This is very beneficial for the Datang Standing Army, after all, after the establishment is changed, many things have to start again, not to mention how good the training is, at least let the bandits recognize their captains and team leaders, and be able to accurately understand the command.

Li Xuan didn't have much to ask for, he just hoped that in two months, this standing army would need to look like an army on the surface.

Even if it's just a showcase, it's better than the current mess!

In this way, even if the chance is slim, there is still a glimmer of hope, but if the Ming army is not integrated and comes, then it is estimated that this slim chance is gone.

While Li Xuan was pondering, Fang Dongquan and the others were still discussing, but the direction of the discussion had already shifted to a secondary level.

Because the general direction has been determined, that is, to avoid letting the Ming army enter the mountain within a month, so that it is necessary to ensure that the location of their Huangzhu Mountain is not exposed.

According to the two captives of Mountain Cannon and Zhang Laosan, there were more than ten black-clothed people from the Feng family who entered the mountain, divided into three groups, and they were just one of them.

This also shows that there are still two groups of people looking for them in the mountains!

However, they were all divided into three different routes into the mountains to search, and the direction they were looking for was only one group of them, and the other two groups were in other directions, so it was impossible to find Huangzhu Mountain.

But there is a problem here, that is, when the people of the Feng family find out that the mountain artillery and their group of people have not been able to go back on time, they will definitely be suspicious, after all, it is impossible for five strong men who are alive and proficient in martial arts to disappear in the mountains for no reason.

People will suspect that they may have encountered the men and horses of Huangzhushan and were intercepted and killed.

At that time, I am afraid that the people of the Feng family will once again send people to look for them along the route of the mountain artillery into the mountain, and even if the people on the side of Huangzhu Mountain can intercept it again, this is undoubtedly a direct telling the enemy that along this road, Huangzhu Mountain will definitely be found.

Huang Xueren said: "We must not let those who wait for them to send someone to come again, otherwise, we will be exposed sooner or later, even if we stop all the people who come to look for it, they can guess the general direction of our Huangzhu Mountain, and when the time comes, they will either send spies to sneak over, or simply send a large team of people to investigate, and our location will be completely exposed!" ”

Fang Dongquan said: "Needless to say, we must not let the other two groups of people from the Feng family run back, we will also arrest them when we find them, and the three people can't go back, even if the people of their Feng family know that we did it, it is impossible to guess our specific direction!" ”

Butcher Chen said at this time: "But how did we find the other two groups of people from the Feng family?" Although we know the route they took into the mountain, it was only a rough route, and they didn't necessarily follow the direction of the mountain when they returned, so we might not be able to stop them! ”

At this time, Qian Mengjiu said: "You guys are too worried, we don't need to find them in the mountains at all, no matter which direction they go out of the mountain, but they have to go back to Fengjiazhuang after all, we only need to ambush the people on the way they must return to Fengjiazhuang, and they can't go back to Fengjiazhuang alone!" ”

Hearing Qian Mengjiu say this, Fang Dongquan said: "This is a good way, anyway, we only need to stop them, we don't have to intercept them in the mountains, we can intercept them outside the mountains!" ”

At this time, Liu Bagou said: "Now that the Ming army has closed the mountain, a large number of our people and horses have gone out of the mountain, I am afraid that it will attract the attention of the Ming army!" ”

"Don't worry about this!" At this time, Butcher Chen said: "There are so many roads into the mountain, it is impossible for the Ming army to seal every path, they are only blocking the main road checkpoints, and they can't watch some small roads at all, we can only send twenty or thirty people out of the mountain to ambush from the small road, and stop the two groups of Fengjiazhuang people and return immediately!" ”

Saying that, Butcher Chen turned to Li Xuan and said, "Your Majesty, I am willing to lead my men and horses to intercept Fengjiazhuang's spies!" ”

"The minister will definitely come back with the heads of the thieves of the Feng family!" Butcher Chen was full of confidence when he spoke, obviously not taking those people of the Feng family to heart.

But also, Butcher Chen, how long he has experienced large-scale armed battles, oh, no, he is a person of large-scale warfare, and he has led his bandits to kill hundreds of military formations, and it is understandable that a few courtyards have not been taken into his eyes.

At this time, Fang Dongquan also nodded and said: "General Chen is brave and invincible, and the heavily armored sword and shield soldiers under his command are also the elite of our army, so he will definitely be able to slash the thieves of the Feng family!" ”

Although Liu Bagou didn't speak, he also nodded slightly, obviously agreeing to Butcher Chen's proposal to ask for battle!