The Tang repelled the Ming army in Fucheng, and the benefit to the Tang Dynasty was not how many Ming troops were killed or wounded, or even how many Ming troops were captured, how many swords and weapons were captured, and the most important thing was to buy time for the Tang Dynasty.

For the Tang Dynasty, for Li Xuan, what they lacked most was time, especially in the face of the huge threat of the Ming army, there was nothing more precious than time.

In this case, the first and most important thing that Li Xuan wanted to repel the Ming army was naturally to integrate the forces of the entire Zhengtai County to expand the army.

There are 100,000 people in Zhengtai County, and at least about 10,000 people can be pulled out of the young and strong people of appropriate age, which means that if Li Xuan is reckless of all the consequences, he can forcibly recruit 10,000 people into the army.

But this kind of thing can only be just talked, if you really want to do this, the Tang Dynasty will be finished without the Ming army attacking itself.

Because it is impossible for all these young men to be willing to join the army, even if they are willing to do so in the Tang Dynasty, otherwise, who will plant so many fields?

If there are no young and strong people who only rely on some old and weak women and children to farm, it is foreseeable that the grain output will be greatly reduced, so that it will not be long before there will be a large-scale famine in the entire Zhengtai County.

Under the condition of ensuring normal agricultural production, it is also necessary to ensure that the soldiers recruited are qualified soldiers, so that in fact, the soldiers that the Datang New Army can recruit in Zhengtai County are only a few thousand at most, and this is not taking into account whether the Datang Dynasty can afford to raise such a full-time professional army.

Now in order to support such an army of more than 1,000 people, the Tang Dynasty relies on grain collection teams and grain collection teams to haunt everywhere, but to be honest, this situation cannot last, because collecting grain and collecting grain is just a beautifying word within the Tang Dynasty, and to put it bluntly, it is plunder.

But if you did this before, you can still eat the enemy, but now the entire Zhengtai County except for Longhua Town and Zhengtai County, the two small places, there is no military presence of the Ming army in other places, and the follow-up Tang Dynasty will successively bring the vast rural areas into the rule, and it is extremely rapid to enter the rule.

And this also means that you can't continue to do the 'collection of grain', and you have to pay taxes to raise the army.

However, the current tax system of the Tang Dynasty is still in an extremely primitive stage, and even the tax collection has not yet begun, just collecting some protection fees and the like by some abnormal means.

At present, the tax system of the Tang Dynasty is absolutely unable to support an army of thousands of people, not to mention the weapons used, just the military food is not enough.

There is too much work that needs to be done to bring the entire Zhengtai County under rule and expand the army.

This can be seen from the more than a dozen letters sent by Liu Bagou every day, there are too many things in the rear that need to be solved, and then it is something that Liu Bagou can't decide on their own and needs to let Li Xuan decide personally.

According to normal circumstances, Li Xuan should have returned to Xikou Village to preside over the overall situation, but it was impossible for Li Xuan to leave the army and run back to Xikou Village when the army was outside.

The new army of the Tang Dynasty is not only the cornerstone of the Tang Dynasty, but also the foundation of his Li Xuan, he can ignore anything, but the army cannot be ignored.

Now at the Lanjiang Ferry, although the fighting has stopped for a while, who knows when the Ming army will organize men and horses to kill again.

What's more, if he is not here to personally watch the army, what if these front-line generals engage in an independent rebellion?

Now the officer system in his mind has not been fully established, only Hao Bonian has been promoted, Fang Dongquan, Wang Danxu, Huang Xueren, Chen Butcher, Cai Erhu They are still in power, he doesn't personally stare at it, to be honest, he doesn't worry about these bandit leaders.

In this case, it would only be hard for those messengers to travel between Xikou Village and the Lanjiang River Ferry every day.

At the Lanjiang ferry, in the tent of the Chinese army camp behind the hillside, Li Xuan had just finished processing the folds sent by the messenger this morning, and was about to squint for a while, but the guards outside walked in: "Your Majesty, General Chen asks to see you!" ”

When Li Xuan heard this, he couldn't help frowning, this Chen butcher has been running to his side every day for the past few days, and he didn't say anything else when he came over, just said one thing and asked to serve in the artillery team.

Li Xuan is a little annoyed!

After Butcher Chen came in, he saw the frown on Li Xuan's face at first sight, but he didn't seem to see it, and after saluting, he said: "Your Majesty, that guy Xie Ziwei is too disagreeable, the minister just wants to make a shot, he always stops the minister from fighting!" ”

When he said this, Butcher Chen made an extremely aggrieved expression, and Li Xuan was speechless for a while.

You are a strong man, making such a aggrieved expression, which is obviously not in line with your appearance and personality Okay, who doesn't know that your giant eyes can make Wang Wenhua's legs weak and scared to pee.

Now make an expression of a child being robbed of candy, which makes people very unaccustomed to it.

Li Xuan sighed, and then said: "Chen Aiqing, this artillery is a militaristic weapon, Xie Ziwei is normal for him to be cautious, and you can't shoot artillery, if something happens, it won't be easy!" ”

Butcher Chen said: "Your Majesty Mingjian, the minister has been studying hard day and night recently, and he doesn't dare to say that he is proficient in artillery skills, but it is not a problem to shoot a cannon!" ”

Looking at Butcher Chen's insistent expression, Li Xuan said, "Are you really determined to go to this artillery team?" ”

The aggrieved look on Butcher Chen's face disappeared instantly at this time, and then he changed to a serious expression and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister fell in love with artillery at first sight, even if he was willing to be an ordinary artilleryman!" ”

It's love at first sight, why don't you say that you fell in love with artillery, without which you would be martyred!

Li Xuan pressed his hand slightly, and signaled Butcher Chen not to say too sensational, he Li Xuan is a normal person and can't stand this.

Immediately said: "Since Chen Aiqing insists on this, then go to the artillery team, but I can say in advance, you can only be Xie Ziwei's deputy when you go, and Xie Ziwei is responsible for all the artillery combat training, I will give you three months, if you can't learn it, then go back to your sword and shield team!" ”

Hearing Li Xuan's words, Butcher Chen immediately turned overjoyed, and immediately knelt down and said, "Minister, thank you to my emperor Longen!" ”

"Get out!" Now Li Xuan is too lazy to see Butcher Chen dangling in front of him, since he is determined to play artillery, he will go, and if he learns for a few months, he will find that artillery is not something that he, a super illiterate, can play.

When the time comes, he will naturally come back obediently to be his charging general!

But Li Xuan did this to temporarily clear up, but he threw all the trouble to Xie Ziwei, and the arrival of Butcher Chen gave Xie Ziwei a headache!

A super hunk says he wants to shoot every day, who the is bearing!