After Huang Guangmao finished speaking his opinion, everyone began to think deeply.
After a long time, Blind Wang took the lead and said, "So no matter what we do next, officers and soldiers will come, and they will come within three months. This is not a good thing."
Anyongduo also frowned and said: "What Deputy Director Huang said makes sense. Those bandits are fighting fiercely now, but if they really fight with the officers and soldiers, they will not fight without fighting. The reason why they can make such a big fuss , purely because they are constantly fleeing and the officers and soldiers cannot contain them."
"If they really want to occupy one place and fight head-on with the officers and soldiers, they will most likely be doomed."
"Although those rogue thieves in the north have captured a few cities and caused some trouble to the officers and soldiers, they still have to wait until the officers and soldiers really react, especially when the main force of the Ming army officers and soldiers in Shaanxi pursues them eastward. They ran away, after all, they can't be that stupid and don't know how to stay where they are and wait for the officers and soldiers to encircle them."
"In this way, it won't be long before the bandits leave the Central Plains. Once these bandits leave, the officers and soldiers will definitely turn their attention to our Funiu Mountain."
The old farmer Xu He said: "In this case, why don't you worry about it? Let's go out to grab a wave first. As long as we get enough food, iron and other materials, we can pull out another one or two thousand people in a short time. Even if the army comes to encircle and suppress us, we will still be able to protect ourselves."
Huang Dingquan, an honest man, also spoke at this time: "I don't know much about other things, but I know that as long as our fists are big enough, we won't be afraid even if the officers and soldiers come!"
Zhang Malin said: "I also think this is the case. The officers and soldiers are outnumbered, but if we can have two to three thousand troops, plus enough artillery, and the terrain of Funiu Mountain as a basis, we can block thousands of people." The officers, soldiers and soldiers can still do it.”
At this time, Huang Guangmao spoke again: "If we can block the three thousand officers and soldiers, then we will have more choices. After all, there are not many soldiers in the officers and soldiers. They have to pursue the bandits." The main force needs to be stationed in various places, so it is impossible to send too many soldiers to attack us."
The soldiers Zhang Malin and Huang Guangmao talked about did not refer to the ordinary Ming army, but specifically to professional soldiers who mainly recruited soldiers and received pay.
Although these soldiers have not yet reached the elite level of the generals' personal soldiers and servants, they still constitute the backbone of the contemporary Ming army, and are far beyond the comparison of ordinary guardsmen.
Naturally, there cannot be too many such soldiers. Zuo Liangyu, Chen Zhibang, and Chen Yongfu, the Ming army generals stationed in Henan, actually only have a few thousand soldiers on hand, which is relatively powerful.
The worse generals, deputy generals, etc. only have a few hundred soldiers on hand.
For example, Cao Wenzhao, a more capable general in the Ming army, did not have many soldiers under his command, even though he often chased and fought bandits.
This time he was ordered to reinforce Henan from the south of Shanxi to suppress the bandits, and the direct troops he brought were less than 3,000. With the addition of several friendly troops also under his command, the total number was 6,000.
Hong Chengchou attached great importance to Cao Wenzhao's department.
To what extent does it matter?
Hong Chengchou asked Cao Wenzhao to lead a mere 6,000 troops and more than 100,000 or 200,000 thieves to fight to the death. He also boasted that I have no reinforcements to support you, but I will personally wave the flag and cheer for you...
But no matter how powerful Cao Wenzhao was, there was no way he could fight against hundreds of thousands of thieves with just a few thousand people.
Historically, Cao Wenzhao was surrounded within a few months of leading his army south. When he was deeply encircled, he tried to rescue nearby friendly forces several times, but none of the surrounding friendly forces came to rescue him...
In the end, Cao Wenzhao, who was trapped in a tight siege, was defeated and committed suicide. It is not known what he was thinking before he died.
Maybe, I will burst into tears...
Except for a few new recruits from the Funiu Mountains, most of the backbones in the Baoxiang camp were all officers and soldiers. They naturally knew the situation of the officers and soldiers quite well, and naturally knew that there were not many recruits among the officers and soldiers.
The second sentry officer Wang Dazhuang said at this time: "If we can expand to 2,000 people, after two or three months of training, we should be able to block 3,000 soldiers, even if we can't defeat us outside the mountain. We can also retreat to the mountains, which gives us more room for maneuver.”
Listening to everyone's words, Luo Zhixue was also thinking in his heart.
Today's military discussion yielded greater results than he expected. Although he had already decided to send troops in his heart, his reasons for sending troops were different from those of his generals.
In the military meeting, the generals were talking about the threat from officers and soldiers, but Luo Zhixue was more concerned about the development of Baoxiang Camp itself.
He wanted to take advantage of the main force of officers and soldiers being attracted by the bandits to expand externally to strengthen the Baoxiang Battalion to deal with greater threats in the future and lay the foundation of the Baoxiang Battalion.
After all, the foundation of Funiu Mountain is too poor. After all, this is just a remote mountainous area. Based on the situation in Funiu Mountain, he has already controlled the entire Funiu Mountain area, including the two outer areas of eastern and southern Funiu Mountain. The hilly areas are already semi-controlled, and some strategic resources such as food have been obtained from them.
However, the resources in the Funiu Mountain area can only maintain a force of a thousand men if they are exhausted.
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 motivations for sending troops and those of his generals were different at first, they ended up with the same goal.
Whether it is to deal with the threat of officers and soldiers in a few months, or to protect the development of the rural camp itself, they must send troops to obtain more resources for military expansion.
After some thought, Luo Zhixue stood up. He looked around and then slowly said: "I am very happy that you can look at the problem from many aspects and 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, the Wo Baoxiang Camp seems to be stable now, but the crisis is imminent. There is no extra time for us to slowly cultivate our health and accumulate 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 will send troops out to collect food and grass."
"Let me set a tone here. The purpose of sending troops this time is not to kill or injure many enemy troops, nor to conquer many cities, but to collect enough food, iron and other strategic materials."
"The Staff Office should come up with a specific action plan as soon as possible, the Logistics Office should start preparing for logistics and heavy transportation issues, and the Ordnance Office should properly prepare the ordnance for the expedition and subsequent supply."
"As for the ordnance production and food supply in the rear, you don't have to worry about it. I will let all the internal affairs departments make corresponding preparations. All you have to do is to formulate a combat 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 meeting, which is to send troops!
However, the specific method of fighting and even where to fight still need to be discussed, but this is no longer the content of today's strategic military meeting.
Today’s content is to finalize the strategic plan for the Baoxiang Camp in the future based on internal and external environmental changes.
As for the specific implementation under the strategic plan, that is a follow-up matter.
After Luo Zhixue personally set the strategic direction, he did not stay with Wang Xiazi and the others, but got up and left to prepare for another meeting he had today.
After deciding on the general direction of dispatching troops, the Baoxiang Camp still needs to do a lot of preparation work, and these preparations also require the cooperation of all internal affairs departments.
Therefore, Luo Zhixue then convened a meeting with staff from various internal affairs departments such as the Grain Recruitment Department, Grain and Rating Department, Industry Department, Commerce and Trade Department, and Camp Affairs Department to formulate an overall plan for raising grain, grass, and ordnance.
No matter how the military at the front decides to fight, they must prepare food, grass and ordnance in advance.
Go ahead before the soldiers and horses use food and grass!
Luo Zhixue went to preside over the internal affairs meeting, but Wang Xiazi and other military generals did not leave. Instead, under the auspices of Anyongduo, the director of the staff department, they began to discuss specific combat plans.
The first sentence Anyondo said was: "According to the instructions of the general, our most important task in the next three months is to expand the army by 1,000 people."
"During the expansion of the army, it is 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 new recruits takes time. We cannot recruit all the supplies after two or three months. Recruitment must precede the collection of supplies!"
"In order to ensure that the newly recruited soldiers will successfully form an army in three months, I think we should immediately recruit soldiers from the southern and eastern peripheral villages, and also from the neighboring villages outside the mountains. Regardless of other matters, we should first select the soldiers for training. Say it again."
After Anyongduo finished speaking, Wang Xiazi said: "Yes, we have to take the lead in recruiting new soldiers. Only in this way can we ensure that these new soldiers will have a certain combat effectiveness in three months."
Naturally, everyone else had no objections, so the matter was quickly finalized.
After finalizing the plan to immediately start recruiting new soldiers, Anyondo once again said: "According to the instructions of the general, 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 Grain, iron materials and other strategic materials are needed to meet the needs of army expansion, and there is no need to worry about the gains and losses of the city or the number of enemy troops killed."
"Based on this, my opinion is to mainly attack the countryside around Lushan and Nanzhao, and then consider whether to attack Lushan City or Nanzhao City depending on whether the harvest is sufficient."
"Considering the road out of the mountain, the distance, the difficulty of the attack, and the potential gains, I personally believe that the early attack targets should be placed in the countryside of Lushan County, especially Songjiazhuang, to try to get a good start."
After hearing this, Huang Guangmao stood up immediately and said to everyone: "Songjiazhuang has mountains of grain and cellars full of gold and silver. It is indeed a good place."
The corners of Huang Guangmao's mouth curved slightly, revealing a smile and said: "Huang happened to have been to the Song family manor before entering the mountain. He doesn't know the terrain near the Song family and the layout of the manor well, but he also has some understanding."
"If we attack the Song family manor, Huang is willing to be the vanguard!"
While talking, Huang Guangmao recalled the scene when he passed by the Song family manor to ask for military supplies before leading his army directly into the mountains.
At that time, the head of the Song family, Song Pinghe, had no money. Huang Guangmao took out the letters from Chen Zhibang and the magistrate of Ruzhou, but to no avail. In the end, he only gave a few hundred kilograms of grain...
It’s better not to give it!
Because anyone with a discerning eye could tell at a glance that Song Pinghe did it on purpose. As the saying goes, there was not much food, and the insult was huge. Huang Guangmao was so angry at that time that he even thought about pretending to be a bandit and looting the Song family village.
Now that he heard that Anyongduo had set Songjiazhuang as his first target, Huang Guangmao was a little excited.
You Song Pinghe doesn't pluck out his hair, but this time Huang Guangmao doesn't pluck out his hair anymore. He wants to stew Song Pinghe and this iron rooster directly!
