The people of the Zeng family will have such a psychological change, and they will completely fall to the Tang Dynasty more simply than other big families, definitely not because they are willing, but because they are forced to be helpless.

The head of the Zeng family's long house is the Privy Council of the Tang Dynasty, and those who know a little about the military system of the Tang Dynasty know that the organization of the War Department is almost the institution responsible for the training and combat of the whole army, and this Zeng Ziwen almost single-handedly planned the detailed plans of all the recent large-scale battles of the Tang Dynasty.

After Li Xuan improved the strategic plan, it was the Operations Department that improved the plan, or Zeng Ziwen led a group of staff officers to do it.

The status of the Operations Division is so special in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty is not a fool, even through some rumors on the market, the general situation of the military system of the Tang Dynasty can be judged.

Such Zeng Ziwen, in the hearts of many officials of the Ming Dynasty, his ranking in the puppet Tang Dynasty thief army, even higher than that of Hao Bonian, Wang Danxu and other major generals, is a must-kill, and it must be the level of the Zhujiu clan.

Since there is no way out, the Zeng family can only grit their teeth and get on the thief ship of Datang, and then row hard, trying to let the broken ship dock before it completely sinks, and from then on on the road to the road.

Even Zeng Ziwen's younger brother, Zeng Zisong, after some psychological changes of anger, lovelessness, and helplessness, had to accept the reality, and now he is a battalion commander in the Third Infantry Regiment, and he still goes to the Imperial Academy every day to attend classes.

It's just that most of the time, this Zeng Zisong has a stinky face, and he is not happy with anyone, and he is even more unhappy with many colleagues in the army.

After all, in the final analysis, like the Zeng family, many people who were officials in the Tang Dynasty were actually unwilling, but they had no other choice but to go all the way to the end.

This also fully shows that being an official in the Tang Dynasty is actually not a very good choice, and most scholars can't hide from it, let alone take the initiative to apply.

After a few days of recruiting scholars, Li Pingfu did not find a dozen people, and finally had to resort to some less glamorous means.

This method is very simple, just like when Li Xuan took away the descendants of many landlord families and forcibly put an official hat on them, the Tang Dynasty once again did the means of forcibly distributing official hats in Liping Mansion.

Sun Yawei took a group of officials and soldiers to go door-to-door to the homes of those gentry families, and then when he saw their descendants, he said: "This official pities your talent, in this way, we still lack a section chief in Datang, come here!" ”

Whether you want to or not, you will forcibly take people away!

If you don't have talent, you can catch it yourself!

The Tang Dynasty's means of solving problems have always been rough and efficient, so it didn't take long for the gentry and landlord families in the city of Liping Mansion and even in the countryside to have children in every family to be taken away, and then became the officials of the glorious Tang Dynasty!

Well, it's the same as the one over there in Xingquan Mansion!

Of course, these people who were forcibly brought in would not be willing to do things at first, and at the same time, the Tang Dynasty was not at ease to let these people be in charge of too important affairs, and most of them did some clerical work.

What, dare to be lazy and not do things, believe it or not, tomorrow there will be a arrest to go to your house and detain your family with a crime of harboring false and spies!

When these people stay in the Tang Dynasty for a long time and accept their fate, they will naturally slowly become the real officials of the Tang Dynasty, well, just like many scholars brought by Li Xuan in a semi-forced way, now several people have become middle-level officials, and the first county commander of Lianhe County is the descendant of a large family who was forced to bring at the beginning, and now he is also very happy to be a county commander.

Not to mention Sun Yawei, they used all means and methods to establish effective rule on the side of Liping Mansion, and said that Hao Bonian and them, since they handed over many trivial matters in the city to Sun Yawei, Hao Bonian and they are too lazy to pay attention to these things.

They have more important things to do, since they continue to maintain the military presence in the entire Liping Mansion, continue to clear out the big families in the countryside who openly rebel against the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and then have to replenish more than 100 recruits from the new barracks, so that the two infantry regiments and the affiliated troops can be restored to a full state.

At the same time, they had to assist the officers of the Patrol Police Department in forming a robbery camp in Le Binh province, and with the presence of a semi-military security force, the regular army could withdraw and return to their real mission.

While doing these things, Hao Bonian and the others were also waiting for the arrival of the Fourth Infantry Regiment and the Fifth Infantry Regiment, and after the arrival of these two infantry regiments, they had a certain combat effectiveness.

According to the original plan, Hao Bonian and Li Chunjing will lead the First Infantry Corps and the Second Infantry Regiment to continue south to Guangxi, and go straight to Guilin, Liuzhou, and other important cities in Guangxi, and continue to carry out the plan to go south.

But they didn't wait for the Fourth Infantry Regiment to arrive in Liping Mansion City, that is, they got news from caravans and other channels that Zhu Zhihai had already gathered at least 30,000 troops from the provincial capital to march eastward, and at the same time, thousands of Ming troops from Duyun Province, Ligu Prefecture and other places would converge along the way, and it was expected that they would be able to enter the territory of Liping Mansion in half a month.

But this is nothing, the real key is that several prefectures and counties in the northeastern region of Guizhou have already gathered at least 20,000 troops under the order of Zhu Zhihai to go south, and their forwards, that is, more than 1,000 people who set off from Zhenyuan Mansion, have already entered the territory of Liping Mansion, and their troops are directly aimed at Tongguwei.

After this news reached Hao Bonian's ears, he couldn't help frowning!

Li Chunjing's face was also not good-looking: "They came early, at least a month earlier than expected!" ”

According to their previous predictions, it would take at least more than a month for Zhu Zhihai, the governor of Guizhou in the provincial capital, to raise food and salaries and gather troops.

Therefore, most of the Ming troops in Guizhou Province were scattered in various state capitals, which required them to assemble, and it took a lot of official documents to exchange documents alone.

In addition, if you want these Ming troops to fight, you have to prepare food and grass, and you have to temporarily recruit young and strong, and you can't just bring the guards to fight.

In the combat sequence of the inland Ming army in recent years, there has never been only only guards, and if the guards were alone, those toasts would have rebelled a long time ago.

Like Song Zhiwen before, Zhu Zhihai and even the chief officials of his subordinate state capitals, most of them will have direct recruits under their hands, although the combat effectiveness is strong and weak, the number is more or less, but it is also stronger than the guards, and to let the recruits fight, this food and salary is indispensable, before the pull-out does not send out grain, grass and silver, you must let these big-headed soldiers go to the front line to fight, believe it or not, those recruits mutiniate to you every minute.

It takes time for the Ming army to raise food and salaries, it takes time to recruit temporary young people and even people with heavy transportation and logistics, and it also takes time to transfer troops and send generals back and forth.

It is impossible to say that the transfer of troops to Liping Mansion will come to Liping Mansion, and this process, according to Zeng Ziwen's experience, will take at least a month.

Then counting the time when they marched to Liping Mansion, the Ming army that was close to the distance might arrive in two months, and the Ming army that was farther away, even the Ming army in western Guizhou, was estimated to not be able to reach it in three months.

But now, it has only been more than a month since they conquered Xingquan Mansion, but the Ming army's troops have already arrived in Liping Mansion and are about to arrive at Tongguwei.

This surprised Hao Bonian and them, and at the same time, they were also a little hesitant.

According to the original plan, they should go to Guangxi, and the follow-up combat tasks on the side of Liping Mansion will be handed over to the Fourth and Fifth Infantry Regiments, as well as the follow-up Third Infantry Regiment and even the reserve battalion that His Majesty is preparing to build.

The first corps and the second infantry regiment are to take advantage of this time difference to quickly take the northern part of Guangxi and even the central region, expand the ruling area of the Tang Dynasty, and obtain more resources, so that they can expand several infantry regiments on the Guangxi side. When the time comes, he will turn around and concentrate his forces to completely defeat Zhu Zhihai's soldiers and horses and lay the foundation for victory.

But now, if the First Infantry Regiment and the Second Infantry Regiment are gone, it will be too difficult to hold Liping and Xingquan with the Fifth Infantry Regiment, which still has no recruits, ten reserve battalions, and the Third Infantry Regiment, which is still in Xingquan Province and does not have several hundred soldiers.

What to do?

This is the question in front of Hao Bonian and Li Chunjing!

And this problem was already beyond the scope of what they could decide, so soon, there were fast horses who kept heading towards Xingquan Mansion City day and night, reporting the relevant news to Li Xuan.

At the same time, Hao Bonian also made a more conservative strategy, on the one hand, he continued to prepare for the south, and on the other hand, he also sent an infantry battalion to the north to defend the Tonggu.

Anyway, the Ming army that has arrived at Tongguwei now is only a thousand people, and the number is not much, and the real threat is the 20,000 troops from the northeast of Guizhou and the 30,000 troops from the west, and the Ming army in these two directions combined has at least 50,000 people.

Fortunately, only a thousand forwards are coming now, and it will take almost half a month for the main force of the Ming army to enter the territory of Liping Province.

They still have plenty of time!

Hao Bonian sent several envoys day and night, and soon arrived at Xingquanfu City, and even when they entered the city, they did not stop their horses, and continued to gallop their horses, so that they had regained their popularity, and there was chaos on the streets where people walked, and many people wanted to scold, who the galloped on the streets, see if Lao Tzu didn't kill you.

But as soon as he saw several knights on horseback wearing a Tang Army uniform, and a small flag was planted on their backs, after the above word 'newspaper', they obediently closed their mouths.

In order to avoid delaying the military situation in a hurry, they galloped all the way without changing horses and people, and they would not stop even in downtown areas, and they would not stop their pace if they were hit by their horses, and they would not only die in vain if they were hit by their horses, but they would also be charged with obstructing the military newspaper.

The envoys rushed all the way to the yamen of the Privy Council, and then handed over the sealed letter to Zeng Ziwen by Hao Bonian.

Zeng Ziwen opened it and looked at it, without the slightest hesitation, and immediately ordered his entourage: "Prepare a sedan chair and enter the palace!" ”

In less than half an hour, the core high-level civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty already knew that 50,000 Ming troops were coming!