The Datang Dynasty, although it was only made funny by Lear at the beginning, but since Lear Bi, a fool, was cut down by Su Jiakang, everything has changed.

Although Li Xuan was unwilling, he was still supported by Liu Bagou and them to ascend the throne and inherit the emperor's throne, thus leading hundreds of bandits of the Tang Dynasty to begin to deal with the Ming army.

And fighting, I don't know if the Ming army is too weak or the new army of the Tang Dynasty is too strong, or God is on Li Xuan's side, so that although the process is extremely difficult, facing the crisis of annihilation several times, Li Xuan has survived, and while keeping his own life, he is also expanding with the Tang Dynasty.

From hundreds of people to thousands, and now occupy almost all the rural areas of Zhengtai County, the number of people under his rule has reached 80,000.

This kind of thing, even if it is placed in the long river of history, can be regarded as extremely rare.

Most of these child's play-like rebellions were suppressed by the government at the first time, and even the government did not need to mobilize the regular army, and only a little village courage could be successfully suppressed.

Lear's death before him amply proves this.

However, Li Xuan took Liu Bagou and Fang Dongquan to expand step by step, and finally occupied Zhengtai County.

Now, even if the Tang Dynasty is wiped out by the Ming army tomorrow, it will be 100% able to leave a record in the history books, even if it is only a few sentences, but it is extremely rare to be able to leave a record in the official history.

Throughout the ages, countless people have dreamed of leaving a name in history, even if they can't leave a name in history, they will leave a thousand-year notoriety.

Of course, even if Li Xuan was unlucky, it would not really take a few days to be defeated by the Ming army.

Now Li Xuan is still in the mood to slowly train and expand the army, because he knows that he still has at least a month or more, or even two or three months of safe time.

In the battle of Lanjiang Ferry, the new army of the Tang Dynasty had already defeated the Ming army in Fucheng, and the three thousand Ming army only went back with a few hundred people in the end, plus Li Xuan had already severely damaged the thousands of Ming troops led by Su Jiakang several times before.

Therefore, the regular Ming army in Xingquan Mansion can be said to have been exhausted, with three regular troops of 1,000 households, plus 1,500 recruits in Fucheng.

Although these armies still retain their previous reputation, they are no longer elite, and now whether it is Su Jiakang or Song Zhiwen, all they can rely on is the remnants of the defeated generals and the young men who were temporarily conscripted.

And these forces are no longer a real threat to the Datang New Army.

If the Ming army wants to invade Zhengtai County to exterminate the Tang Dynasty, it is conservatively estimated that more than 5,000 people are needed, and these 5,000 people must be regular troops, not those young and strong people who are used to make up the numbers.

However, is there still 5,000 regular troops in Xingquan Mansion today?

No!

Because relying on Xingquan Mansion's own strength, it was no longer possible to suppress this rebellion led by Li Xuan.

If the Ming army wants to exterminate Li Xuan, it must transfer troops from outside.

However, it was not so easy to mobilize troops from other places to Xingquan Province to suppress bandits.

It is necessary to report to the governor of Guiyang, the provincial capital, if there is no order from the governor, the troops from other places will not run to Xingquan Mansion at all, which is not a question of whether they are willing or not, but there is no order to fight across the government, which is not in line with the rules, and it is easy to be 'unauthorized to transfer troops'.

In the end, even if the puppet Tang thief army was exterminated, the generals who led the army to participate in the suppression of bandits without permission could not end up well, and it would be light to lose their official positions and remove their posts.

According to Li Xuan's own estimate, it will take a month or two for the Ming Dynasty government to complete the transfer procedure, and then it will take time for the governor to mobilize the troops, and after the mobilization of troops, it will also take time for these Ming troops to run to Zhengtai County.

You have to know that Guizhou is not a plain, most of it is mountainous terrain, and the marching speed of a large army is quite slow.

Based on the above, Li Xuan judged that the Ming army would not be able to arrive until two months later at the earliest!

At that time, the expansion of the Datang New Army was almost completed, and the soldiers basically completed the most basic training, and they could get hundreds of muskets and several artillery pieces.

At that time, the 3,800 Tang New Army under his command will be able to face the Ming Army with a full force!

At that time, if the Ming army sent about 5,000 regular troops, he would have great confidence to fight a battle, even if the Ming army came with tens of thousands of people, as long as these 10,000 people were not all that kind of elite recruitment, then he would have half the confidence to fight a battle.

As for the Ming army coming more people, such as twenty or thirty thousand people or something, well, whoever fights who is stupid, Li Xuan will flee with his thousands of troops to the south or west as soon as possible, and it is a big deal to learn from the countless rogues in history, and expand while running.

If he can't occupy a place and expand steadily, then Li Xuan doesn't mind directly leading the army to the path of bandits, and have a Ming Dynasty version of the Long March.

Only with thousands of troops in his hands, there is always a place for Li Xuan to find a place to stay.

However, this is only the worst plan Li Xuan has made, according to his prediction, the Ming army will definitely come, and the time may be early or late, but the Ming army should not come too much.

After all, he, Li Xuan, knew that he hadn't conquered Zhengtai County yet, and even Longhua Town was kept by the Ming army.

Not to mention Xingquan Mansion City.

Today's Datang New Army, to put it mildly, controls a hundred miles of land and 100,000 people, but it doesn't sound good, that is, bandits who are still in the ravines and can't get on the stage.

Su Jiakang may pay attention to it, and Song Zhiquan may also pay attention to it, because they have all fought with the Datang New Army and know that the actual combat effectiveness of the Datang New Army is not weak.

But would the higher-level Ming army officials believe that these mountain village fools are a great threat, so they will send tens of thousands of troops from the surrounding provinces to attack Zhengtai County?

It is unlikely, the biggest possibility is that they will mobilize some officers and soldiers in Guizhou itself to attack, and the number may range from 5,000 to 10,000.

When Li Xuan thought so, he didn't expect that Song Zhiwen didn't report the fiasco of the Lanjiang Ferry at all, but said that a fiasco that had lost more than 2,000 elites was just a small defeat.

Now the adults in the provincial capital know that the puppet Tang thief army has suffered a defeat, but they don't know that the puppet Tang thief army has taken control of Zhengtai and has successively defeated thousands of regular troops in Xingquan Mansion.