1. Song Zhiwen regarded the recruitment of up to 1,500 people as an ordinary people, and he really couldn't find fault with him! Because the identities of these recruits are only young and strong.

Nowadays, there are not many recruits in the Ming Dynasty, only the coastal places where the Japanese raids are more serious and the inland bandits are more serious, the local officials will train these recruits, and the total number is not much, and there is no nationwide formation of a trend of training and recruitment, and it has not affected the northern border army, the northern border army is still based on the guards as the core, and the combat effectiveness is not bad, their combat effectiveness is much stronger than the inland local guards.

Therefore, the recruits in this period could not be counted into the official army of the Ming Dynasty strictly speaking, so these recruits naturally did not have the establishment officially recognized by the imperial court, and could only be regarded as a garrison army organized by the local government itself.

At this time, the regular army of the Ming army was still those guards, although these recruits wore the military uniforms of the Ming army, but in essence, they were still young men recruited from the people, and the ordinary coolies were different from the young men who were cannon fodder, these recruits were better treated, better equipped, and stronger in combat effectiveness, even more than the local guards, well, there would generally be several years of service, unlike ordinary young men who were drafted for war and dismissed after the war.

Therefore, the local officials felt that it was necessary to recruit soldiers, so he would recruit them himself, at most he would report to the imperial court, of course, when they reported, they would not use the name of recruiting soldiers, but still in the name of recruiting young people.

And the matter of local officials recruiting young and strong bandits is too normal for the huge Ming Dynasty, if this kind of thing is taken care of by the central court, it will have to deal with hundreds of cases a year.

When the people above saw his report, they would think that the three or five hundred Ming army was attacked by a large number of daring thieves when they crossed the river, and the soldiers fought hard to resist the enemy.

This is just a sesame big thing for those bigwigs above, and this kind of thing is written and reported to the Jingshi, and no one will look at it.

Of course, if Song Zhiwen stupidly said that he had sent an army of 3,000 people, but was defeated by a bandit led by a rural fool, and lost more than 2,000 people, then it would not be a trivial matter, but would have become a matter reported to the desk of Emperor Zhengde.

But if Song Zhiwen did this, the first unlucky person would not be Li Xuan, the rebel leader, but Song Zhiwen, followed by Su Jiakang, and then a large number of officials in Xingquan Mansion, and even the governors in the provincial capital would have to bear the crime of negligence.

In the end, it was the Tang Dynasty and Li Xuan who were unlucky, and this had to be the premise that the Ming army sent a large army to attack and defeat the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

According to the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in these places in the inland areas, if you don't send 18,000, you really can't help the Datang New Army, let alone expand the army and train it, and the Datang New Army is fully armed.

The combat effectiveness of the Datang New Army, others don't know, but the generals of the Ming Army in Xingquan Mansion, who have experienced the war, do, even if they don't want to believe in the combat effectiveness of the Datang New Army, but Su Jiakang definitely understands or even knows it very well. Otherwise, he would not have confronted the Ming Army and the Tang New Army in Fucheng on the Lanjiang River, and even when he crossed the river, he would not have been able to get out of the county.

He really didn't have the confidence to defeat the new army of the Tang Dynasty with the six or seven hundred remnants of the soldiers in his hands.

Even if the troops deployed by the Datang New Army outside Zhengtai County at that time were more than 100 people, even these more than 100 people frightened Su Jiakang.

It's not that he is not bold enough, but there are really not many available soldiers in his hands, and the guards and recruits of the regular army add up to three or four hundred, how poor the quality of these soldiers is, Su Jiakang already has a deep feeling, and pulls them out to fight with the pseudo-Tang thief army, and it is estimated that they will have to break up before the war starts.

The remaining 400 or so people are all young and strong people who have been temporarily conscripted, not to mention their combat effectiveness.

But it's not a matter of slowing down all the time, especially after knowing that the puppet Tang thief army has obtained a large number of strategic materials, Su Jiakang thought, can he send some troops out of the city secretly at night to play an ambush?

Su Jiakang is also a courageous person, if you let him take hundreds of people under his command to fight the idea of the main force of the Datang New Army, he naturally does not have the confidence and courage.

But just attacking a heavy force of the Tang New Army, he still has the courage, and he has always dared to think and do, so he decided on the same day to send two hundred soldiers out of the city tonight to attack.

Su Jiakang, although he is only a civilian official, but in terms of blood and courage, he is definitely better than most of the generals of the Ming army, otherwise, he will not have been defeated again and again in more than a year, and he has been defeated again and again, carefully calculated, he has suffered a lot of defeats under the hands of the Datang New Army, but he is still bent on exterminating the Datang New Army, even if it is this time to attack the baggage team of the Datang New Army, his purpose is also for the sake of the overall situation, destroy these materials, and curb the rapid expansion of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

Without these materials, it is impossible to make weapons, and without those firearms, how can those pseudo-Tang thieves expand their army?

However, Su Jiakang has this courage, it does not mean that the generals of the Ming army under him also have this courage, Diao Leixun heard that Su Jiakang was going to send himself to lead a team to attack the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and the whole person suddenly became panicked, and he dared to go to Su Jiakang, wanting him to give up this extremely dangerous idea, no matter how bad it is, he will let Su Jiakang change generals, he is not willing to go out at night to find death.

However, when he found Su Jiakang, he looked at Su Jiakang's serious appearance and was encouraged, saying that everything was left to him.

Diao Leixun could have guessed at that time that if he dared to say a word, this Su Jiakang would really dare to kill someone.

He is an ordinary thousand households, and he really doesn't have the courage to say that word to a genuine Jinshi seven-grade civil official like Su Jiakang.

In the end, they could only take people out of the city with a desperate heart, and when they sneaked out at night, they also said that they had escaped the Tang New Army outside the city to monitor the movements of the Ming army.

The next day, they set up an ambush in a place, and they waited for the Datang New Army baggage team that came from the brigade in the ambush place smoothly.

But when he saw the scale of the baggage team, Diao Leixun waited until the baggage team of the Datang New Army walked out of the ambush, but he didn't have the courage to give the order to attack, and the two hundred Ming troops just watched the baggage team of the Datang New Army pass safely under their noses.

And when the baggage team of the Tang New Army left, many Ming army officers and soldiers, including Diao Leixun, showed expressions like they had escaped death.

Nima, it was so scary just now!

The total number of this baggage team of the Datang New Army turned out to be almost 500 people, and all of them were fully armed, and more than 200 of them knew at a glance that they were the main force in the Datang New Army, because there were hundreds of musketeers among them.

To eat this baggage team of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, Diao Leixun estimated that at least more than 1,000 people would be needed, and these 1,000 people must also be elite recruits, not even the guards, and this must be in the case of a smooth ambush.

Relying on the two hundred of them, it is estimated that before they can rush up, they will have to be beaten by the musketeers of the people, and if they rush forward forcibly, it will definitely be the end of the total annihilation.

These Ming soldiers didn't want to die, and Diao Leixun didn't want to die, so they chose forbearance!

After the new army of the Tang Dynasty went away, these Ming troops began to leave the ambush place and prepare to return to Zhengtai County, on the way Diao Leixun looked at his subordinates were a little depressed, and immediately said to everyone: "Revenge, ten years is not too late, sooner or later we will get the field back, and when the time comes, those thieves will look good, but ...... Not today! ”

These words can be roughly understood as self-comfort!

The Ming army that was ready to ambush went back dejectedly, but the soldiers of the Datang New Army who transported the materials did not know that there was a Ming army that had wanted to ambush them, and even concealed them, if it were not for Diao Leixun's timidity and fear of death, even if Diao Leixun could not completely defeat the Datang New Army, but it was certain that it would cause some trouble to the Datang New Army, and maybe it could really kill and injure the Datang New Army in large quantities in the chaos.

Diao Leixun didn't do this, and the Datang New Army naturally didn't know that he was facing a great crisis for a while.

A few days later, the goods finally arrived in Xikou Village, and the blacksmith Shangshushi of the Ministry of Works, who had returned with the goods, was very happy, because the arrival of these goods was enough for the workshop of the Ministry of Industry to start working at full capacity for more than a month.

And can use these materials to make a large number of muskets, bayonets, spears and other weapons, and at the same time, plus the previous copper reserves, it is enough to make three copper cannons of 500 catties.

However, these materials may be a lot for the current Tang Dynasty, but if they are placed outside, they are actually not a lot of money.

The output of the government-run iron workshop in the Ming Dynasty can reach hundreds of thousands of catties in a year, and the output of the people can also reach hundreds of thousands of catties, and this does not include the iron that is secretly mined and smelted, and the iron, salt, and copper sold by Old Man Sun to the Tang Dynasty are all secretly mined, as for the black households among the black households.

Therefore, even if the Tang Dynasty has 100,000 people, a land of 100 miles, and thousands of troops, it is still just a small trouble for the Ming Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty now only occupies a Zhengtai County, and even the county town does not have the courage to occupy it, if it develops according to the normal situation, the Tang Dynasty will leave at most one or two sentences of records in the history books, and it may be written: In a certain year, the Zhengtai bandit leader Li and his son coerced the foolish people into a certain chaos, trapped Zhengtai, and in a certain month, the official army restored Zhengtai, and Li reversed his death.

It is estimated that the number of words used will not exceed 100 words.

However, this is just an ordinary rebellion, and is the Tang Dynasty ordinary?

Not ordinary, why?

Because the emperor of the Tang Dynasty is called Li Xuan!