I want to be emperor

Chapter 78 Sending troops outside the mountain (the first chapter is on the shelf for subscription)

After Huang Guangmao finished speaking his opinion, everyone became thoughtful.

After a long time, Blind Wang was the first to speak: "So no matter what we do next, the officers and soldiers will come, and they will come within three months. This is not a good thing."

An Yongduo also frowned and said: "Deputy Director Huang is right. Those thieves seem to be fighting fiercely now, but if they really fight with officers and soldiers, they don't have to fight. The reason why they can make such a big fuss is , it is purely because they are constantly fleeing, and the officers and soldiers cannot contain them."

"If they really want to occupy a place and fight recklessly with the officers and soldiers, they will die in all likelihood."

"Although the rogues in the north have taken down a few cities and caused some troubles for the officers and soldiers, they really made the officers and soldiers react, especially when the main force of the Ming army officers and soldiers in Shaanxi chases eastward, they still have to Run away, after all, they can't be so stupid, they don't know how to wait for the officers and soldiers to stay where they are."

"In this way, it won't be long before the rogues leave the Central Plains. Once these rogues leave, the officers and soldiers will definitely focus on our Funiu Mountain."

The old farmer Xu Hedao: "Since this is the case, why don't you be so scrupled? Let's go out and grab a wave first. As long as we get enough food, iron and other materials, we can pull another 2000 people out in a short time. By then Even if the government army comes to encircle and suppress, we can still protect ourselves."

Huang Dingquan, an honest man, also said at this time: "I don't know much about the others, but I know that as long as our fists are big enough, even officers and soldiers will not be afraid if they come!"

Zhang Malin said: "I also think this is the case. There are many officers and soldiers, but if we can have two or three thousand troops, plus enough artillery, and rely on the terrain of Funiu Mountain, we can block thousands of people." The officers and soldiers can still do it.”

At this time, Huang Guangmao spoke again: "If we can block the 3000 soldiers of the army, then we have more choices. After all, there are not many soldiers in the army. They have to chase the main force of the bandits. , but also stationed in various places, it is impossible to deploy too many soldiers to attack us."

The soldiers Zhang Malin and Huang Guangmao mentioned did not refer to the ordinary Ming army, but specifically to professional soldiers who mainly recruited soldiers and received payment.

Although these soldiers have not yet reached the elite level of the personal soldiers and servants under the generals, they are still the backbone of the contemporary Ming army, which is far from what ordinary guard soldiers can match.

Naturally, it is impossible to have too many soldiers like this. Zuo Liangyu, Chen Zhibang, and Chen Yongfu, the generals of the Ming army stationed in Henan, actually have only a few thousand soldiers on hand, which is relatively strong.

There are only a few hundred soldiers on hand for the inferior generals, deputy chiefs and so on.

For example, Cao Wenzhao, a more capable general in the Ming army, although he often chased and fought bandits, he actually didn't have many soldiers under his command.

This time, he was ordered to go south from Shanxi to reinforce Henan to suppress bandits, and he brought less than 3000 troops directly under his command. With the addition of a few friendly troops also under his command, the total number was [-].

Hong Chengchou attached great importance to Cao Wenzhao's troops.

To what extent?
Hong Chengchou asked Cao Wenzhao to take a mere 20 troops and a dozen or [-] thieves to fight to the death, and said that I have no reinforcements to support you, but I will personally wave the flag for you...

But no matter how powerful Cao Wenzhao is, there is no way to fight against 10,000+ thieves with just a few thousand people.

In history, Cao Wenzhao led his troops south and was surrounded within a few months. When he was in deep siege, he rescued the nearby friendly troops several times, but none of the surrounding friendly troops came to rescue...

In the end, Cao Wenzhao, who was trapped in a heavy siege, was defeated and committed suicide. He didn't know what he would think before he died.

Maybe, tears will flow down my face...

Except for a few new recruits from Funiu Mountain, the backbone of the Baoxiang camp are basically officers and soldiers. They are quite familiar with the situation of the officers and soldiers, and naturally know that there are not many recruits among the officers and soldiers.

The second sentry officer Wang Dazhuang said at this time: "If we can expand to 2000 people, after two or three months of training, we should be able to block 3000 officers and soldiers. If we retreat to the mountains, we will have more room for maneuver."

Listening to everyone's words, Luo Zhixue was also thinking about it.

Today's military discussion was even more rewarding than he expected. Although he had already decided in his heart that he would send troops, his reasons for sending troops were different from those of the generals under his command.

The generals in the military discussion were talking about the threat from officers and soldiers, but Luo Zhixue was more concerned with the development of the Rural Protection Battalion itself.

He wanted to take advantage of the time when the main force of the officers and soldiers was attracted by the thieves, expand outward to strengthen the strength of the Rural Protection Camp, in order to deal with greater threats in the future, and lay the foundation for the Rural Protection Camp.

After all, the background of Funiu Mountain is too poor, no matter what, it is just a remote mountainous area. Given the situation in Funiu Mountain, even if he has already controlled the entire Funiu Mountain area, including the two outskirts of Funiu Mountain in the east and south. The hilly areas are already semi-controlled, and some strategic resources such as food have been obtained from them.

However, if the resources in the Funiu Mountain area are exhausted, it will only maintain a force of thousands of people.

If you want to continue to expand your army, you must control more territory and obtain more food, so further expansion is necessary.

Although Luo Zhixue's motives for dispatching troops were different from those of his generals at the beginning, they both lead to the same goal.

Whether it is to deal with the threat of officers and soldiers in a few months, or for the development of the Rural Battalion itself, they must send troops to obtain more resources for military expansion.

After thinking for a while, Luo Zhixue stood up. He looked around and said slowly, "I'm very glad that you can look at the problem from different angles."

"It's good to find the problem, face it and fix it."

"I hope you will maintain this attitude in the future."

"Based on the current external situation, my Baoxiang camp seems to be stable now, but the crisis is imminent, and there is no extra time for us to slowly cultivate our health and build up strength in Funiu Mountain."

"So, I decided to expand the army by another thousand people. In order to meet the needs of the army expansion, I should send troops out to collect food and grass."

"Here, let me set a tone first. The purpose of sending troops this time is not to kill or injure many enemy troops, not to conquer many cities, but to collect enough strategic materials such as grain and iron."

"The Staff Office should come up with a specific action plan as soon as possible, the Logistics Department should start to prepare for the transportation of logistics and supplies, and the Ordnance Department should properly prepare the armaments for the expedition and subsequent supply."

"As for the production of ordnance in the rear and the supply of food, you don't have to worry about it. I will make preparations for the internal affairs. What you have to do is to make a battle plan and keep the troops in the best condition to be dispatched at any time! "

Luo Zhixue's words set the general direction for today's military agreement, that is, to send troops!

However, how to fight, or even where to fight, has to be discussed again, but this is no longer the content of today's strategic military meeting.

Today's content is to finalize the strategic plan for the rural protection camp in the future based on internal and external environmental changes.

As for how to implement it under the strategic plan, that is a follow-up matter.

After Luo Zhixue personally set the general strategic direction, instead of staying with Xiazi Wang and the others, he got up and left to prepare for his other meeting today.

After setting the general direction of dispatching troops, the Baoxiang Battalion still needs to do a lot of preparatory work, and these preparatory work also require the cooperation of various internal affairs departments.

Therefore, Luo Zhixue subsequently convened a meeting of personnel from the grain collection office, food and payment office, industry office, trade office, and camp affairs office to formulate an overall plan for raising food, fodder, and armaments.

No matter how the military in front decides to fight, they must prepare food, grass and ordnance in advance.

Before the soldiers and horses move the food and grass, let's go first!
Luo Zhixue went to preside over the meetings of various internal affairs departments, but Wang Xiazi and the other military generals did not leave. Instead, under the auspices of Er Yongduo, the Chief of Staff, they began to discuss specific battle plans.

Ernst Young's first sentence was: "According to the general's instructions, our most important task in the next three months is to expand the army by [-] people."

"During the expansion of the army, it is very important to send troops to collect supplies, but what is more important is to recruit troops in advance. After all, we don't have much time."

"Training recruits takes time. We can't start recruiting after two or three months after collecting all the supplies. Recruiting must be ahead of the collection of supplies!"

"In order to ensure that the newly recruited soldiers can be successfully formed into the army after three months, I think that soldiers should be recruited from the villages in the southern and eastern outskirts, or from the neighboring villages outside the mountains. Don't care about other things, the soldiers should be selected first for training. Say it again."

After An Yongduo finished speaking, Wang Xiazi said: "That's right, the recruitment of recruits must be at the forefront, so as to ensure that these recruits will have a certain combat effectiveness after three months."

The other people naturally had no opinion, so they quickly finalized the matter.

After finalizing the plan to recruit recruits immediately, Ernst Yongdo said again: "According to the general's instructions, our troop dispatch plan in the next three months is to provide sufficient material support for the expansion of the army. Therefore, the primary goal of the troop dispatch plan is to recruit enough troops. Strategic materials such as grain and iron materials can be used to meet the needs of military expansion, and there is no need to care about the gains and losses of the city and the number of enemy troops killed or wounded."

"Based on this, my opinion is to attack Lushan and the countryside around Nanzhao, and then consider whether to attack Lushan City or Nanzhao City depending on whether the harvest is sufficient."

"Considering the way out of the mountain, the distance, the difficulty of the attack and the potential gains, I personally think that the target of the early attack should be the countryside of Lushan County, especially Songjiazhuang, and strive for a good start."

Huang Guangmao stood up immediately after hearing this, and said to the crowd: "Songjiazhuang has a mountain of grain and a cellar full of gold and silver. It is indeed a good place to go."

The corners of Huang Guangmao's mouth curled up slightly, and he said with a smile: "Huang just went to the Song Family Manor before he entered the mountain. He knows the terrain around the Song Family and the layout of the manor, but he does know something."

"If you attack the Song Family Manor, Huang is willing to be the vanguard!"

While speaking, Huang Guangmao remembered the scene when he passed the Song Family Manor to ask for military supplies before leading the army directly into the mountain.

At that time, Song Pinghe, the patriarch of the Song family, was so penny-pinching. Huang Guangmao took out the letters from Chen Zhibang and the prefect of Ruzhou, but it didn't work. In the end, he only gave a few hundred catties of grain...

Better not give it!

Because people with discerning eyes knew that Song Pinghe did it on purpose. As the saying goes, there was not much food, and the insult was great. Huang Guangmao was so angry at that time that he even wondered if he was pretending to be a thief and ransacked Songjiazhuang.

Now hearing that Ernst & Young has set the first target at Songjiazhuang, Huang Guangmao is a little excited.

You, Song Pinghe, don't pluck your hair, this time, Huang Guangmao won't pluck his hair, he will directly stew Song Ping and this iron cock!
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