Valley Emperor

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

The same is true for the pseudo-ministers. Their army is all guard soldiers. The guards are usually serfs who farm and work hard for two meals a day.

If you go to war when the farming is busy, the family's fields can only be cultivated by the old and the weak. If it is not good, the planting will not be completed in time for the season, and when the summer harvest does not have enough food, they will be planted in the second half of the year. Gotta starve!

Not to mention ordinary military households, even the generals in the guards do not want their serfs to go out to fight when the farming is busy. After all the serfs went to fight, who would farm the land for them? If this harvest is less, they have to lose a lot!

Therefore, unless it is a very special situation, it is generally impossible for a country with a farming civilization to fight a war when the farming is busy. Of course, this is only an ordinary situation.

If the two sides are really angry, naturally they can't control that much. They can start wars all year round, but when the enemy is defeated, they will almost starve to death!

As for why the Tang Dynasty and the Puppet Ming continued to fight in the winter, instead of fighting only after the autumn harvest, as in many books, they went back to their respective homes to hibernate regardless of whether they won or lost.

That's because Datang is located in the south. Except for a very small period of time in winter here, the temperature during the day is around ten degrees most of the time, and the weather can even be more than ten degrees in good weather. ten degrees.

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

If the people of the Tang Dynasty were able to open up wasteland in winter, they would naturally be able to fight in winter!

If the Ming army entered the mountain after the spring ploughing, it would not only become rainy and muddy, which would be beneficial for the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain to fight, but more importantly, with this buffer time, the newly restructured Datang Standing Army You can have at least two months of integration and training time.

This is very beneficial for the Tang Standing Army. After all, after the organization has been changed, many things have to be restarted. Not to mention how good the training is, at least let the bandits recognize their corps leader and team leader, and be able to listen accurately. Know how to command.

Li Xuan didn't ask much. He only hoped that after two months, this standing army would need to look like an army on the surface.

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

So even if the chances are slim, there is still a glimmer of hope, but if the Ming army arrives before the integration is complete, then it is estimated that this slim chance will be gone.

While Li Xuan was contemplating, Fang Dongquan and the others were still discussing, but the direction of the discussion had shifted to secondary importance.

Because the general direction has been determined, that is to prevent the Ming army from entering the mountain within a month, so that they must ensure that the location of their Huangzhu Mountain is not exposed.

According to the two prisoners Shanpao and Zhang Laosan, there were more than ten people in the Feng family who entered the mountain in black, and they were divided into three groups, and they were only one of them.

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

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

But there is a problem here. When the people of the Feng family find out that Shanpao and their group have not been able to go back on time, they will definitely be suspicious. After all, it is impossible for five living strong men who are proficient in martial arts to miss out in the mountains. All disappeared for no reason.

When people think about it for a while, they suspect that they may have encountered the people of Huangzhu Mountain and were 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 they entered the mountain. Even if the people on the Huangzhu Mountain side can intercept it again, but this is undoubtedly telling the enemy directly, along the way. On this road, you will definitely find Huangzhu Mountain.

Huang Xueren said: "It is definitely not allowed to wait for them to send people, otherwise, we will be exposed sooner or later, even if we stop all the people who come to find them, they can guess the approximate direction of our Huangzhu Mountain. , when the time comes, they will either send spies to sneak over, or they will simply send a large team to investigate, and our position will be completely exposed!"

Fang Dongquan said: "It goes without saying that we definitely can't let the other two groups of Feng's family run back, and we find them and arrest them, and the three groups of people can't go back, even if they know that we did it, But it's impossible to guess where we are going!"

Butcher Chen said at this time: "But how do we find the other two groups of Feng family members? Although we know their route into the mountain, it is only a rough route into the mountain, and they may not necessarily follow the route when they go back. The direction of the mountain, in this case, we may not be able to stop them!"

At this time, Qian Mengjiu said: "Everyone has been thinking too much~www.wuxiaspot.com~ We don't need to find them in the mountains at all, no matter which direction they go out of the mountain, but they always have to go back to Fengjiazhuang, we only need to find them when they return to Fengjiazhuang. The only way to go is to ambushed people and horses, and keep them from going back to Fengjiazhuang alone!"

Hearing what Qian Mengjiu said, Fang Dongquan said: "This is a good way. Anyway, we only need to stop them. We don't have to stop them in the mountains, but we can stop them outside the mountains!"

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

"Don't worry about this!" Butcher Chen said at this time: "There are so many roads into the mountains, it is impossible for the Ming army to block every small road. They only block the main road checkpoints, and they can't see some small roads at all. We can only send 20 or 30 people out of the mountain to ambush from the small road, and stop the two groups of Fengjiazhuang people and return immediately!"

Having said that, Butcher Chen turned to Li Xuan and said, "Your Majesty, I would like to lead a team to intercept Fengjiazhuang's spies!"

"This 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 he didn't take the Feng family's people to heart.

But also, butcher Chen has experienced too many large-scale armed fights, oh, no, he is a person in large-scale wars. He has taken the bandits under his command to kill hundreds of troops. It is also understandable to be placed in his eyes.

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

Although Liu Bagou didn't speak, he nodded slightly, apparently agreeing to Butcher Chen's proposal to fight!