Valley Emperor

When the pseudo-Tang thief army goes south to Guangxi, the local Ming Dynasty officials will naturally react accordingly!

When Hao Bainian and the others captured Huaiyuan and Rongxian, in fact the entire border of Guangxi, and even the Ming army in some parts of Guangdong had already begun to move.

The first is naturally the local officers and soldiers of Liuzhou. They gathered to prepare to defend Liuzhou City, while the Ming army in other directions rushed towards Liuzhou one after another, and finally gathered the army to defeat the pseudo-Tang bandit army.

However, due to the backwardness of communication methods, the contacts among these Ming troops were not frequent and timely, and this gave Hao Bainian a chance!

"Let's leave Liuzhou City alone for now, the Fifth Guard Regiment is watching over there, and I don't think there will be any major problems! Now our top priority is to defeat the eight thousand Ming army, and then defeat the others. Army, we must not let them converge, let alone reach Liuzhou smoothly!"

Hao Bainian, who was already in Xiangzhou, wanted to destroy the Ming army troops coming from Wuzhou and other directions, but Li Xuan in Xingquan Mansion was naturally unable to know Hao Bainian's many arrangements in time.

Although it is said that the transmission of military newspapers is done with fast horses, this will still be delayed for a few days!

So now Li Xuan still doesn't know that Hao Bainian has decided not to attack Liuzhou first, but to use Liuzhou as bait, and then attack various roads to aid the Ming army.

On this day, his focus was not the south, but the province of Guizhou.

The 2nd Infantry Brigade and the two garrison brigades moved northwards and westwards long before the 1st Infantry Brigade and the 3rd Garrison Brigade went south.

Most of the troops in Guizhou Province had been brought to Liping House by Zhu Zhihai, and they were all defeated before and after the puppet pirates.

Whether it is the Northbound Detachment or the Westward Detachment, they did not encounter any actual resistance along the way. The Northbound Detachment has successfully captured Zhenyuan Prefecture, Sizhou Prefecture and other prefectures and counties, and almost the entire northeastern part of Guizhou is income. in the bag.

The Westward Detachment has also successfully captured Liguzhou and Duyun Prefecture all the way, and is marching towards Guiyang Prefecture. It is estimated that the next time they receive news from the Westward Detachment, they will have already arrived in Guiyang City.

The military operations in Guizhou Province were quite smooth. This is of course because the Ming Dynasty in Guizhou has suffered heavy losses, but it is also related to the fear of the Ming army in Guizhou Province being beaten.

When the Beishang Detachment attacked Zhenyuan Mansion, there were still more than 3,000 officers and soldiers and thousands of young men in the mansion. As a result, after only two days of attacking, the generals of the Ming army who were defending the city escaped without permission, leaving behind a lot of hardship. Forced civil servants. The same goes for the Westward Detachment. There were thousands of Ming troops who had fled back to Liguzhou, but faced with the King of the Tang Dynasty who was chasing after them, they didn't even resist and kept retreating all the way. Hand over Liguzhou and Duyun Prefecture.

According to rumors, these defeated soldiers have fled Guiyang City, and it is estimated that they want to rely on Guiyang City to do the last resistance.

The Ming army retreated without a fight, which also made the military operations of the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi in Guizhou Province more like an armed parade, and no enemy was encountered at all.

If they had to say they had enemies, it was terrain!

Guizhou is located in the southwestern part of the country, and there are not many other things than mountains. In these days, the army cannot travel by train or plane, and can only walk on two legs.

Li Xuan estimated that even if the troops at the back did not encounter de facto military resistance in Guizhou, but with this marching speed, it would take two months or even longer to win the entire Guizhou!

But this kind of thing can't be rushed!

It is impossible to take the entire Guizhou and establish effective control in a short period of time, but the rule of several nearby prefectures and counties must be established quickly.

Why?

Because of taxes and conscription!

With the growing scale of the Tang Dynasty, the expenses in all aspects are also increasing!

No matter what era it is, a penny beats a hero!

In today's Datang Dynasty, there are more and more officials, and this salary can't be owed all the time. It has to be paid, it needs money!

More importantly, the size of the Datang Army is getting bigger and bigger, and the cost of this army is also getting bigger and bigger!

Among them, it is not a small amount just to supply tens of thousands of people with food!

Secondly, many people and institutions in the Tang Dynasty served the military directly or indirectly, such as the many workshops on the Ministry of Industry.

Thousands of workers inside are serving the army!

Even an awesome organization like the tax inspection team, in the final analysis, is still only raising military expenses!

In order to maintain the daily expenses of this army, in order to continue to expand the number of regular troops, in order to enable these troops to maintain their combat effectiveness, many officials of the Tang Dynasty tried their best to do this!

The Ministry of Industry is trying to increase production every day, and the Ministry of Taxation is thinking about how to get more money every day!

But Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion were poor. Even if they searched the bottom, they couldn't support so many troops, so the only way was to expand.

Use the population and taxes of the newly occupied territories to maintain the needs of your troops!

This is also because the civilian officials of the Tang Dynasty always followed behind the army. Every time the army conquered a city, the civilian officials of the cabinet would immediately take over. Recruitment stations and tax agencies of the Ministry of Taxation must be established in the shortest possible time and work quickly.

Just like in Huaiyuan County, it wasn't long before Master Wang of the Tang Dynasty laid down the county seat, and the tax inspection team began to come to the door one by one according to the roster to collect the autumn tax.

The first place to immediately search for money and recruit troops is an important part of the current expansion of the Tang Dynasty!

Now in other parts of Guizhou, the same is done!

However, Guizhou is barren, and many prefectures and counties have not many people, and they cannot collect much tax. They can only accumulate more.

It's only a matter of time before he wins the whole of Guizhou, and Li Xuan is not in a hurry, so he still has the mood and time to play with the women in the harem.

Especially the newly entered concubine Bai Shi, En, the former girl Cui Er, is indeed a connoisseur who has received professional training. In exchange, Li Xuan stayed in her yard for many days in a row.

This also caused the dissatisfaction of Ye Shi and Dong Yunyun. According to rumors, Dong Yunyun has already worn Libi's small shoes several times.

However, Li Xuan is too lazy to take care of the careful thoughts between the women. As long as it doesn't interfere with his enjoyment, he is too lazy to care about the rest. Besides, there is still a white queen above her!

What kind of person is Empress Dowager Bai? In the dynasty, no one except her dared to rant against Liu Bagou, the chief assistant of the cabinet. Every time Liu Bagou annoyed her, she would scold Liu Bagou. .

With such a ruthless character sitting in the harem, Li Xuan thought that those women would not be able to make a difference!

This morning, after Li Xuan came out of Li Concubine's place again, before leaving, he said, "You don't need to send Concubine Ai, it's cold outside, um, I'll come back tonight and try..."

Then he lowered his voice and said, "Try new tricks!"

Li Concubine suddenly made a arrogant look, and then slapped Li Xuan with her small hand: "Your Majesty, how are you?"

"That must be bad!" Li Xuan laughed, and then went out with a few of his personal maids.

In addition to the scope of the harem, after arriving in the front yard, the academician Huo Shouqi was already waiting with a few Hanlins.

"I respectfully welcome the emperor!"

Li Xuan kept walking, and slightly raised his hand: "Don't be too polite, let's go!"

After all, he did not head towards the office, but towards the gate outside the palace. While walking, he said to Huo Shouqi, "Are you all ready?"

Huo Shouqi said: "Report to Your Majesty, the military parade on the school grounds is all ready!"

Li Xuan said: "That's good, it's not too early, let's go directly!"

On the way, Li Xuan got on his horse and started to leave the palace under the **** of dozens of horsemen from the guard camp. At the same time, Zeng Ziwen and other senior military generals and civil officials also followed behind. A group of more than a hundred people.

The destination of their trip is the Colony Field outside the city, which is where the 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Artillery Battalion, 1st Cavalry Battalion and other troops are stationed!

Naturally, Li Xuan would not come to this military parade for no reason, but because the 5th Infantry Regiment was officially full a few days ago!

Although there is still a lot of equipment that has not expired, but when the personnel are full, it is barely able to declare an army, so a review is organized.

Of course, the review is actually just incidental, and more importantly, Li Xuan is ready to watch the actual drill of the heavy artillery!

That's right, after many days, the craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty's Ministry of Industry finally produced the first 1,300-pound heavy artillery after a lot of hard work. This artillery is roughly similar to the previous one.

There are thousands of heavy artillery and infantry at the same time. If it is drilled like this, it is a typical infantry and artillery coordination.

When Li Xuan brought a group of people to the campus outside the city, the entire campus was already prepared, and the troops who were going to participate in the exercise had already lined up and assembled.

Looking down from the hillside of the highest point, I saw several square arrays placed below!

At this time ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Zeng Ziwen said on the side: "In order to better simulate the pseudo-Ming Ming thief army, the Seventh Guard Regiment specially selected many Ming army descendants as staff officers, and at the same time, in order to better restore the Ming Dynasty The number of corps, the strength of the Seventh Infantry Regiment will be doubled!"

"This exercise will be an encounter between a 12,000-strong Ming army, our infantry regiment and a number of auxiliary troops in the field!"

After finishing speaking, Zeng Ziwen said again: "In addition, in this battle, the first cavalry battalion will play the role of the Ming army's elite cavalry thousand cavalry!"

Li Xuandao: "And what about the Fifth Infantry Regiment? Besides their inherent infantry, what other configuration is there?"

"According to the plan, the 5th Infantry Regiment will be a troop that will be strengthened by the artillery, cavalry, and baggage of the brigade headquarters. In addition to the original three main infantry battalions and two reserve battalions, there will also be a cavalry team of 100 cavalrymen. A battalion artillery team has six battalion artillery pieces, a heavy artillery team has two 800-jin heavy artillery pieces, and a cargo battalion!

Li Xuan listened and watched, and then didn't say much, and quickly nodded: "Since everything is ready, let's start!"

Zeng Ziwen immediately said: "The minister obeys the order!"