After Huang Guangmao finished speaking his views, everyone began to ponder.

After a long time, Wang Xiaozi took the lead and said, "So no matter what we do in the future, 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, "What Deputy Director Huang said makes sense. Those thieves now seem to be fighting very hard, but if they really fight with the officers and soldiers, they will be ineffective. The reason why they can make such a big fuss is purely because they are constantly wandering around and the officers and soldiers cannot surround them."

"If they really want to fight the officers and soldiers hard, they will most likely be done."

"Although the bandits in the north have also captured several cities and brought some trouble to 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 chased the eastward, they still had to run away. After all, they could not be so stupid. They stayed there and didn't know how to wait for the officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress them."

"In this way, the bandits will leave the Central Plains soon. Once these bandits leave, the officers and soldiers will inevitably look at us Funiu Mountain."

Old farmer Xu Hedao: "Since that's the case, you're still worried. Go out to the mountains and grab them first. As long as we get enough food, iron and other supplies, we can pull out one or two thousand people in a short time. Even if the official army comes to encircle and suppress it, we can still protect ourselves."

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

Zhang Malin said: "I think that's the case. The officers and soldiers are crowded, but if we can have two or three thousand troops, plus enough artillery, and the terrain of Funiu Mountain as a support, it is still OK to block the military soldiers of thousands of people."

At this time, Huang Guangmao spoke again: "If we can block the three thousand official soldiers, then we will have more choices. After all, there are not many soldiers in the official army. They have to pursue the main force of the bandits and station in various places. It is impossible to draw too many soldiers to attack us."

The war soldiers mentioned by Zhang Malin and Huang Guangmao did not refer to ordinary Ming troops, but to professional war soldiers who mainly recruit soldiers and receive money.

Although these soldiers have not yet reached the level of elite soldiers and servants under the command of the generals, they are also composed of the backbone of the contemporary Ming army, and are far from comparable to ordinary guards.

Of course, there are not too many such soldiers. Zuo Liangyu, Chen Zhibang, and Chen Yongfu, the Ming generals stationed in Henan, actually had only a few thousand soldiers on their hands, which was quite powerful.

The less-than-general, the deputy-general, etc., are only a few hundred warriors on hand.

For example, Cao Wenzhao, a general who was more capable in the Ming army, did not see that he often chased the bandits and attacked him, but there were actually not many soldiers under his command.

This time, he was ordered to go south of Shanxi to reinforce Henan to suppress the bandits. Their direct troops were less than 3,000. Together with a few friendly troops under his command, he collected 6,000.

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

To what extent do you pay attention to?

Hong Chengchou asked Cao Wenzhao to fight to the death with only 6,000 troops and more than 200,000 thieves. He even said arrogantly that I did not have reinforcements to support you, but I will personally wave the flag and shout for you...

But no matter how awesome Cao Wenzhao is, he can't fight against more than 100,000 thieves with just a few thousand people.

In history, Cao Wenzhao was surrounded after a few months of leading his army south. When he was deeply trapped in the siege, he rescued nearby friendly forces several times, but none of the surrounding friendly forces came to rescue them...

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

Maybe, I will burst into tears...

Except for a few of the backbones in Baoxiang Camp who were newly joined in Funiu Mountain, the rest were basically from officers and soldiers. They naturally knew quite well about the situation of the official army, and naturally knew that there were not many recruiting soldiers among the officers and soldiers.

The second whistle officer Wang Dazhuang said at this time: "If we can expand to a scale of two thousand people and after two or three months of training, we should be able to block the officers and soldiers of three thousand people. Even if we can't beat outside the mountain, we can retreat to the mountains, so that we will have more room for maneuver."

Listening to everyone's words, Luo Zhixue was also thinking in his heart.

Today's military discussions were even bigger than he expected. Although he had already determined to send troops in his heart, his reasons for sending troops were different from those of the generals under his command.

In the military discussion, the generals were talking about the threat from officers and soldiers, but Luo Zhixue considered the development of Baoxiangying itself more.

He wanted to take advantage of the fact that the main force of officers and soldiers was attracted by the bandits to expand to strengthen the strength of Baoxiangying, so as to deal with greater threats in the future and lay the foundation for Baoxiangying.

After all, Funiu Mountain has a poor foundation. No matter how you say it is, it is just a remote mountainous area. Even if he has controlled the entire Funiu Mountain area, he has also been semi-controlled in the eastern and southern Funiu Mountain, and has obtained some strategic resources such as grain from it.

However, if the resources in the Funiu Mountain area are exhausted, they will only maintain a large number of troops.

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 motive for sending troops was different from the motive for sending troops under his command at the beginning, he also had the same destination.

Whether in order to deal with the threat of officers and soldiers a few months later or to protect the township camp itself, they must send troops to obtain more resources to expand their troops.

After some thought, Luo Zhixue stood up and saw him looking around and slowly spoke: "I am very happy that you can look at the problem from many aspects and from different angles."

“It’s good to find the problem, face it and solve it.”

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

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

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

"I will set a tone here first. The purpose of sending troops this time is not to kill many enemy troops, nor to capture many cities, but to collect enough grain, iron and other strategic materials."

"The Advisory Office should come up with a specific action plan as soon as possible. The Logistics Office will start preparing for logistics and supplies transportation issues. The Ordnance Office should properly prepare the military service and the subsequent supply of the ordnance."

"As for the issues such as the production of ordnance and food supply in the rear, you don't have to worry about it. I will make the internal affairs department prepare accordingly. All you need 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 agreed on a general direction for today's army, that is, to send troops!

However, we have to discuss how to fight, or even where to fight, but this is no longer the content of today's strategic military conference.

Today’s content is to finalize the strategic plan for Baoxiangying in the future based on internal and external environmental changes.

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

After Luo Zhixue personally set the strategic direction, he did not continue to stay with Wang Xiaozi and others, but got up and left to prepare for another meeting of his day.

After deciding the general direction of sending troops, Baoxiang Camp still needs a lot of preparations, which also require cooperation from all departments in the internal affairs.

Therefore, Luo Zhixue then convened personnel from various internal affairs departments such as the Grain Collection Department, the Grain and Pay Department, the Industry Department, the Commerce Department, and the Camp Affairs Department to formulate an overall plan to raise food, grass and weapons.

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

Before the troops move, food and grass should go first!

Luo Zhixue went to preside over the meetings of various departments of the Interior Affairs Department, but the military generals such as Wang Xiaozi and others did not leave. Instead, under the leadership of EYINGDO, the director of the Staff Office, they began to discuss specific combat plans.

The first sentence of EYD said was: "According to the instructions of the General, our most important task in the next three months is to expand the army, a thousand people."

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

"The training of recruits takes time. We cannot recruit soldiers after two or three months. Recruiting soldiers must be ahead of the collection of materials!"

"In order to ensure that the newly recruited troops will be successfully formed in three months, I think we should immediately recruit soldiers from neighboring villages outside the mountains in the south and east. Regardless of the others, we will first select the soldiers for training."

After EYong said more, Wang Xiaozi said: "Yes, recruiting recruits must be ahead of the front, so that these recruits can have certain combat effectiveness in three months."

Of course, the others had no objection, so they quickly concluded the matter.

After finalizing the plan to recruit new recruits immediately, EYD said again: "According to the general's instructions, our plan to send troops in the next three months is to provide sufficient material support for the expansion of the army. Therefore, the primary goal of the plan to send troops is to collect sufficient food, iron and other strategic materials to meet the needs of expanding the army, without having to worry about the gains and losses of the city and the number of enemy troops killed or injured."

"Based on this, my opinion is to capture Lushan and the countryside in Nanzhao. We will consider whether the harvest is sufficient and whether to attack Lushan City or Nanzhao City."

"Considering the distance, distance, difficulty and potential gains from the mountain, I personally think that the target of the early attack should be placed on the townships of Lushan County, especially Songjiazhuang, to strive to make a good start."

After hearing this, Huang Guangmao stood up and said to everyone: "Songjiazhuang has accumulated grain like mountains and gold and silver, which is indeed a good place to go."

Huang Guangmao's lips bent slightly, and he smiled and said, "I happened to have been to the Song Family Manor before entering the mountain. I don't know much about the terrain near the Song Family and the layout of the manor, but I also have some understanding of it."

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

When he was talking, Huang Guangmao remembered the scene when he asked for military supplies after passing the Song Family Manor before he led his army directly into the mountain.

At that time, Song Pinghe, the head of the Song family, was silent. Huang Guangmao took out the letters from Chen Zhibang and Ruzhou magistrate and did not work. In the end, he only gave only a few hundred kilograms of grain...

It’s better not to give it to me!

Because a discerning person could tell at a glance that Song Pinghe did it on purpose, as the saying goes, there was not much food, and it was extremely insulting, which made Huang Guangmao very angry at that time, and even thought about whether he would pretend to be a thief and wiped out Songjiazhuang.

Now that Huang Guangmao was a little excited when he heard that EYD set his first goal in Songjiazhuang.
Chapter completed!