Valley Emperor

In the early morning of the next day, Huang Zhushan became noisy. After hurriedly eating breakfast at home, many young people gathered on the playground with dry food and weapons.

Although Huang Zhushan just experienced a major defeat not long ago, resulting in a total of 32 people who did not come back alive, but when it was said that they attacked Shuilongzhai, everyone did not object or neglect, but all of them were silent. start making preparations.

Even those old and weak women and children began to prepare dry food, clothing, etc. for the men who were about to go out to attack the Shuilong Village.

Why? Because they all know that Huangzhu Mountain is short of food, if they can't get enough food, then the villagers will face a food crisis, and they don't know how many people will starve to death by then.

So even though the last fiasco was still circling in their minds, they all knew that they had no choice.

If you don't want to starve to death, there are only two options. One is to go out to the mountains to 'harvest grain' and loot, and the other is to attack Shuilongzhai to grab food.

The method of going out to 'harvest grain' is also what they used in previous years, but this year the situation has changed, because now there are officers and soldiers outside the mountains.

I don't know whether it was because Li Xuan and his son's successive proclamations stimulated the government, causing the government to dispatch a large number of officers and soldiers to hoard outside the mountains, or whether the bandits this year was particularly serious, and the government paid more attention to encircling and suppressing the bandits in the mountains.

In short, there was a troublesome situation that Huang Zhushan's bandits were unwilling to face, that is, there were a lot of officers and soldiers outside the mountain.

According to the situation of several spies secretly dispatched by Huang Zhushan, officers and soldiers have set up checkpoints in several major traffic routes entering and leaving the mountain, and a large number of officers and soldiers are stationed in several large villages and towns near the mountain.

Under this circumstance, the main bandits in Huangzhu Mountain dared to go out and loot, and they basically sought death on their own.

Being blocked in the mountains and unable to get out, the only way to solve the food crisis is to find another way.

If it is after the autumn harvest, then there is no problem, because in the busy summer, Huangzhu Mountain has reclaimed a lot of land and planted grains, and the land at the foot of Huangzhu Mountain is balanced and fertile, and several streams passing by are enough to irrigate the fields. So after the autumn harvest, they will be able to harvest enough food.

But the problem now is that their existing grain reserves cannot support the autumn harvest!

To solve this problem, when it was impossible to go out to harvest food, the only option left for them was to attack Shuilongzhai.

Because according to Wang Wenhua, there is a large amount of grain, goods and other reserves in Shuilong Village, and these are the wealth accumulated by Shuilong Village after more than ten years of looting.

Another point is that Shuilongzhai just looted a farm, robbed a landlord's granary, and got back a lot of grain.

Whether it is money such as silver or food, it has a fatal attraction to many bandits in Huangzhu Mountain.

It's just that these are the thoughts of ordinary bandits, and Li Xuan still has his own thoughts, that is, he wants to take this opportunity to gather the people of Shuilongzhai under his command.

Now there are officers and soldiers gathered outside Dashan, although the exact number of officers and soldiers is still unknown, but there must be thousands of troops. Saying it was just a coincidence, Li Xuan would never believe it.

Li Xuan was at least 80% sure that these officers and soldiers came for him.

Perhaps in the near future, these officers and soldiers will enter the mountain on a large scale, and then search for the whereabouts of the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain and the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Once they find themselves, a battle is inevitable.

In order to have greater confidence in the future when confronting officers and soldiers, Li Xuan urgently needs to expand the strength of his subordinates.

Nowadays, the most suitable place to expand and supplement the strength of the 'Datang' is naturally the Water Dragon Village, which is dozens of miles away.

If this operation can be successful, then the number of subjects under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty is expected to break through the thousand mark, and the young and strong can reach more than two hundred.

This means that Li Xuan has more power to fight against officers and soldiers!

After the sun rose, Li Xuan also appeared on the playground with Liu Bagou and the others.

Looking at the densely packed young men in front of him, Li Xuan couldn't help but sigh, this time, the emperor himself will command the expedition.

Because Li Xuan was on the expedition in person, Liu Bagou would never let Li Xuan go alone, so he also followed along with him, and Wang Wenhua, who was in charge of leading the way.

Almost all the young and strong 'army' of Huangzhushan gathered on the playground. Among them, there were nearly 100 ordinary bandits. They were divided into two armies, about 50 people in each army. The army was led by the hussar general Chen Tufu.

The 24 guards and the 12 archers drawn separately form the central army, commanded by the guard general Wang Danxu.

In this expedition, not only the senior members of Huangzhu Mountain have left most of them, only Bai Yunqi, Qian Mengjiu and others are left behind. In fact, almost all the young people of Huangzhu Mountain are in the ranks of the army. Men between the ages of forty and forty are all on the expedition.

To put it bluntly, the crusade against Shuilongzhai was an all-out war for the Tang Dynasty!

If the plan goes well~www.wuxiax.com~ it's easy to say if you win anything. If you lose, and all the elites of Huangzhu Mountain fall into the Water Dragon Village, the consequences will be unimaginable.

It was precisely because he knew that this expedition was of great importance, and even related to his own life, so Li Xuan had always been very cautious. Before the expedition, he personally brought Liu Bagou and Fang Dongquan to check the preparations of the soldiers, from rations to weapons. Check them all to make sure nothing goes wrong.

When Li Xuan and everyone checked it out and found that there was nothing missing, he got on a short and bad horse, then pulled out the saber from his waist and pointed to the north: "Let's go!"

Following Li Xuan's order, the bandits began to walk out one after another.

Just looking at the chaotic appearance of these bandits, Li Xuan could not help frowning. The left army led by Fang Dongquan was the first to set out, followed by Chen Tufu's right army, and the bandits under these two men were all He was an ordinary young man, and he didn't have the concept of marching in a line at all, so walking was as messy as an outing. Many people were joking and laughing while walking, and they could be heard laughing from time to time.

Fortunately, the neat formation of the guards at the back made Li Xuan a lot more relieved. After more than two months of training, the guards already had the appearance of an army.

Although the soldiers in the Guards are all fifteen or sixteen-year-old half-old children, their physical fitness is not as good as the strong men in their 20s and 30s, but these people are lined up in neat formations, carrying weapons such as spears, swords and shields when they advance. , it still made Li Xuan a lot relieved.

He knew very well that whether it was the attack on Shuilongzhai this time or the subsequent resistance to the officers and soldiers, what he could really rely on was the guards composed of these half-old children, not the chaotic young bandits.

And today, the neat formation of these children when they marched, let Li Xuan see the hope of victory and the hope of surviving!