Valley Emperor

With such a large group of people approaching Huangzhu Mountain, it is naturally impossible to hide this news for too long. It was fine when Li Zhaizhu and his party were still dozens of miles away, but when they approached the range of 30 miles Later, it was discovered by the outposts arranged by the Tang Dynasty in the periphery.

Although the mountains are vast and boundless, most of them are deep mountains and old forests, and the dangerous peaks and mountains are impossible for a group of people to pass.

If you want to let the group of people pass, you can only pass through those formed roads, even if these roads are not big roads to some extent, but trails in the deep mountains.

However, there are actually not many trails of this kind. As long as Huang Zhushan arranges sentries on these trails, they can monitor the activities of large groups within a radius of dozens of miles.

Of course, if the opponent is only a small-scale army of less than a dozen or 20 people, they can easily bypass the sentry of Huangzhu Mountain.

It is a pity that Li Zhaizhu and his party have more than 400 people, and most of them are old and weak women and children. It is impossible for them to bypass the outer sentry of Huangzhu Mountain.

Therefore, when they approached Huangzhu Mountain for 30 miles, Huang Zhushan spotted them immediately at the outer guard post, and then the two outer guard posts quickly ran back to the rear to report the news.

When Li Xuan learned that there were a large group of unidentified people on the periphery, he immediately summoned the ministers to discuss the matter.

In the discussion hall, Liu Bagou, Fang Dongquan, Wang Danxu and the others gathered together again to discuss this sudden incident.

"According to our spies' report, there are more than 400 people in this group coming towards our Huangzhu Mountain. The exact number is not clear, but it should not exceed 500 people." Fang Dongquan explained the situation to everyone:

"Among the four hundred people, more than half of them are old and weak, women and children, and there are about one hundred young adults. After close observation, these young adults are all armed!"

"From their situation, it can be basically judged that this is a gang of thieves who came to us from outside!"

At this time, Liu Bagou said, "Can you be sure that they only have more than 400 people? Could this be just their vanguard, and there are more people behind?"

At this time, Huang Xueren said: "This is unlikely. If they are only the vanguard, then they must all be young and strong, and it is impossible to take the old and weak women and children together as a forward!"

After listening, Liu Bagou nodded slightly: "If there are only more than 400 people, and there are only more than 100 young people, then the threat to us is not great!"

Qian Mengjiu also said: "With our strength, it is completely possible to defeat a thief of this strength!"

Wang Danxu said: "Yes, even when we were training our new army last year, it was easy to defeat a rogue of this strength, not to mention that our new army has just formed, even if there is only one musketeer for the time being. Team, but the strength of other arms is enough to defeat them!"

Listening to the discussion of the people below, Li Xuan began to think of another possibility, so he said: "It is not a problem to defeat them, but since they have come to the door by themselves, they can just let our new army train. , In addition, with the addition of these 400 people, the population of my Tang Dynasty will be able to exceed 4,000!"

At this time, Li Xuan continued: "Before our raids were limited to a radius of 100 miles, but from today's situation, there will definitely be more gangs of thieves a hundred miles away, and we can just harvest in the summer. Let's do a large-scale sweep before to increase the population of our Datang!"

Hearing Li Xuan's words, several people below looked surprised!

They are still discussing how to defeat these bandit gangs who don't know where they came from, but the emperor of his own has already begun to think about taking them all captive.

This is not enough, he even set his sights a hundred miles away!

I didn't expect this young emperor of my own to be so courageous and ambitious.

After Li Xuan said this, Liu Bagou, who has always been the most active in expanding the population of the Tang Dynasty, immediately smiled and said, "Your Majesty is wise, this is a chance, and it gave us a population of 400 in the Tang Dynasty!"

Li Xuan smiled slightly: "In this battle, we must not only win, but also try to control the casualties so that we can accept the prisoners. What strategies do you Ai Qing have for this?"

Unless it is something that Li Xuan thinks is absolutely necessary, Li Xuan will generally not intervene in the implementation of some specific affairs.

He is very clear about his position in this Tang Dynasty, that is, a high-ranking ruler, their emperor, what he has to do is to decide the general direction, and what to do after setting the general direction, that is Liu Bagou, Fang Dong is all about them.

Even if he has a detailed plan, he usually communicates it through Bai Yunqi, borrowing Bai Yunqi's words to get the unanimous approval of the ministers.

Over the past year, he has been able to count all the things he has done without authorization. In the early stage, he established a guard army, and in the later stage, he led the army to attack Longhua Town in person.

But even so, he only made decisions in the general direction, and he generally did not intervene in how to do it.

After Li Xuan determined the general direction of capturing these foreign thieves, the next thing was Fang Dongquan and them.

How to fight in the future, how to arrange the troops are relatively detailed and complicated matters, and whenever this happens, Li Xuan will be high above and just listen to it, Liu Bagou and Qian Mengjiu and other civil servants are also irrelevant He hung up high, and let Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren, Wang Danxu and several other generals compete there.

And this kind of debate often lasts for a long time, because almost every general will have his own opinion on this kind of thing, and then think his own opinion is correct.

For example, this time, Fang Dong all set up an ambush in a small valley 12 miles away, but Wang Danxu thought that the terrain of the small valley was not suitable for the deployment of the troops, and he could only rely on traditional fighting, which would not work. Come out, the various formations that Master Wang of the Tang Dynasty has worked so hard to train in the past month.

In other words, if you follow Fang Dongquan's method to ambush, then the fight will be no different from the previous battles in the bandit era.

Therefore, Wang Danxu's suggestion is to put those thieves in and conduct interception operations on a gentle hillside eight miles away, so that the formation tactics of the new army's hard training can be maximized, and the musket team and spearmen can also play a role. Fight the biggest battle.

However, Fang Dongquan and Chen Tufu also have opinions on this plan, because in this case, it is impossible to adopt the mode of ambush to fight. The terrain there is flat, and the other party will definitely find their troops several miles away. Master Wang's neat and tidy formation made it impossible for people to turn around and run away.

And this can be said to be 100%!

When any bandit gang sees the enemy lined up in a neat formation in front of them, their first reaction is to run away, and they will run faster than rabbits.

The biggest example is Huang Zhushan himself. When they attacked the Ming army's grain road, they encountered a disguised grain team led by Diao Leixun. What did these bandits in Huang Zhushan do at that time? They didn't even have the guts to test the attack, they just turned around and ran away.

As the saying goes, saving others by oneself, Huang Zhushan, the bandit gang, is so unbearable, so naturally they cannot expect bandit gangs from other families to rise to the challenge.

It is their normal reaction to turn around and run for the first time, and it is also the most likely thing they do.

The unbelievers sent people to test the attack, but after the test, they found that it was inappropriate to turn around and run away. This kind of thing is relatively unlikely, but it can happen.

However, knowing that there is a strong enemy ahead, and stubbornly fighting, this kind of thing is absolutely impossible to happen. If this kind of thing happens, it must be that the big bosses on the other side down to the ordinary minions all have their brains short-circuited.

Fang Dongquan wanted to choose a complex terrain for an ambush, using the previous model to surround and completely capture the opponent, while Wang Danxu wanted a flat terrain for a decisive battle.

Both plans have their own advantages and disadvantages, which is why the generals are at odds.

In the end, it was Qian Mengjiu, a civil official who was also a minister of the Ministry of War, who came out and said that we can do both plans together, and also ambushed and formed an array to take advantage of the formation.

After Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu listened, they also felt that they couldn't convince the other party anyway, so it was better to adopt a compromise solution, so they agreed.

In the end, they chose to intercept the battle in front of a small valley ten miles away. In front of the valley was a forest that was not too dense, and the terrain was undulating, allowing people to ambush. At the same time, the undulating terrain is barely flat, and it is also possible to organize a queue that is not too strict.

The reason why this small valley can be accepted by both parties as a preset battlefield is that although the terrain there is not suitable for ambush, it can barely hide troops for ambush.

Although the terrain is not too flat~www.wuxiaspot.com~, it is barely able to allow the troops to form a battle.

This kind of terrain that can take into account ambush and line combat will lead to unsuccessful ambush and affect the efficiency of line combat, but there is no perfect thing in this world. If you want to take care of more ideas and possibilities, Then you can only choose to balance all aspects.

And balance, often represents mediocrity!

It's just that at this time, balance and mediocrity also mean less risk. Li Xuan also doesn't want to take risks. After all, the new professional army of the Great Tang Emperor has been formed last month, and it has only been a month now.

It can be said that the new army of the Tang Dynasty is still in the groping stage. Now this kind of expected resistance will not be too fierce, and it is the most suitable for training.

And training, of course, the less risk the better.

Li Xuan didn't expect any accidents to happen at that time. Whether it caused a large number of casualties on his own side, or let the other side escape, this was not the result he wanted.

After the general plan was finalized at the meeting, the Tang Dynasty quickly turned into a war machine, turning at high speed!